It worked for !nonpolitical_comics@piefed.social . A search for nonpolitical communities yields a few hits. @Blaze@piefed.zip , do let your friend know that there is space for them here. Not a lot, we need to cultivate it. But it exists, there are people tending to that garden.

“I swear, Omar, I literally time warped from the bottom to the top of the hill! Anyways, that’s why I was late, I had to climb down 3/4 of the hill back to your place.”

AFAIK it’s not a bot. Just a very peculiar individual with a lot of free time.

I think it’s prettier but harder to glean information from.

I didn’t see you making that point earlier. I disagree with it and I don’t think there’s anything left to gain from discussing this further.

You keep going back to an unexisting ideological divide. I’m a communist. Most of Lemmy everywhere is socialist. That was never the issue.

“Non communists are toxic too” is not a defense. It’s an admission. Of course you’ll find toxic examples in any sufficient large group of people. It’s when the group culture fosters that behavior (or at least fails to curb it) that it becomes a problem.

You’re fighting hard to deny this, but think earnestly about why so many staunchly left wingers couldn’t stand them anymore. It’s not because they want “from each according to their means, to each according to their needs”. The (stated) ideology is exactly the point of agreement.

Ideological differences don’t explain the brigading, dogpiling, constant trolling, bad faith arguments. There are only so many times an instance admin is willing to ban single users from a place until they get fed up with a culture of abuse and cut ties with the whole lot.

I’m sure they’re all patting each other’s backs there. But I’ve interacted with them elsewhere and when they are exposed to anything but straight tankie bootlicking they turn vicious. Not a single decent interaction, and I’ve had several.

Ha! Haha! Hahahahaha! Good one!

You misspelled Chichen.

That explains so much about everything surrounding this “competition”! Thank you.

How do they manipulate the votes?

I knew it was this, but I’ve never met anyone that has ever even seen such a box. And I’ve been around awhile and about.

Consonant-vowel-consonant letter duplication rule, I think.

Nah. I mean, yes, but framing their actions as purely financial based will raise several inconsistencies. Whereas white supremacism and fascism explain everything. Money is just a means to power, not their end goal.

“Except when the invaded country is brown. We’re OK with neocolonial invasions.”

People are allowed to be mean and hold mean opinions of publicly shared artworks. I think the vast majority of works in Eurovision is soulless and entirely forgettable. The exceptions are so few and far between that it’s not worth it for me to watch the show.

Sure buddy, you know the point I was making better than me.

The point is that a machine that doesn’t compensate for melanin content will work for no one. How black are we talking about? Kamala Harris or Lupita Nyong’o? Who are you going to calibrate for?

I beg you to do something about this aversion to learning you have.