PhilipTheBucket

Up ahead, a sudden flash of yellow light flared, then vanished, like a door had been cracked open and slammed shut in an instant. The man froze, a wave of panic clawing at him. He could turn back now, leave this cursed place behind, head home where everything was safe and familiar. Back to his room in his mom’s house. Back to his A.I. girlfriend. Back to his keyboard.

No! He hadn’t come this far to turn in this tracks and run like a kid trapped in a cemetery at night. There was no turning back. That fucking troll, Universal Monk must pay for his treachery!

Let me guess: He was thwarted in his quest like a Scooby-Doo villain, and the cool Universal Monk showed him up, and everyone clapped.

I'm impolite to you because you are trolling. Why would I be friendly to that? You reacted to the community's disapproval and requests for you to stop what you were doing by doubling down and adopting a gleeful serial-killer energy in all your interactions with them, while still posting 10-15 copies a day of more or less the exact same unwanted story. People aren't being mean to you because they dislike you, they're reacting to you being toxic and disrespectful directly to their face, and ignoring what they in all kinds of fashions have been telling you they would like the community to be.

I'm completely serious that I'm concerned about you. Excluding sleep and working, you've been averaging posting something on Lemmy every 9 minutes, every single hour of every single day for 2 months. You could have been accomplishing any number of projects with that, something you could be really proud of. Instead you've made it your mission to turn as many people as you possibly can, in this one weird little corner of the internet, into enemies for yourself. I don't know what would make you do that.

Nobody here set out to be unfriendly to you on purpose, because of who you are, or anything like that. They're reacting to what you are doing to them. Working hard to make everyone turn against you is going to turn people against you.

Curiosity got the best of me, and I skimmed one of them. This is psychotic. Who in God's name writes a publication-length short story about their "enemies" on Lemmy, investing this much gleeful energy into portraying them as these weird little gremlins who are out to get them but can't quite manage it because they are losers?

I only looked at one of them. I am, completely for serious, a little bit afraid to open up the others to see if they are all the same length as the one I looked at.

I'm looking at this guy in a whole new light at this point. I don't block him because every so often I like to drop into his comments and say something to move the conversation in the politics arena back towards what I think is productive politics arena things, but at this point I am concerned for him. I'm not joking.

Did you actually read the story though? I think you’ll recognize some of the things said in it! lol

What? No. Why would I do that?

Can I use your name for the next story I’m writing? Not exactly inspired by you, but from others in that community who’ve had some stuff to say. It’s fun too!

I started it last night and am finishing it up today, but I need a name!

What the fuck?

Oh sweet!

/u/UniversalMonk

Oh. Never mind.

My first story for this new community is “The Man Who Hunted Sea Lions on Lemmy.”

My god, I thought for a second I was just being cynical, and this was this person branching out and trying to do something other than making everyone mad, and here I was criticizing it. Nope.

Textbank for Democrats: https://www.mobilize.us/ft6/?show_all_events=true&tag_ids=22573

Textbank for Ranked Choice Voting: https://represent.us/

There have been sections of the border which enacted tough enough policies and technology to actually keep out illegal immigrants. Over time, it cratered the local economies, to the point that politicians got involved and fixed the border patrols back to the insecure way, so that everyone could have a big pool of desperate, vulnerable farm workers again.

That too.

It's not too difficult, they're just saying that because it interferes with their power and gives some measure of it back to the voters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWNko6ZSAzg

It's not wrong, but it's missing the level of danger involved by several orders of magnitude.

It confuses me when people who argue “both sides” claim to support all those left policies when they don’t appear to have empathy or awareness of the marginalized.

They don't even really seem to support left policies that go much of anywhere outside the scope of not voting for Democrats.

They're not advocating for RCV, supporting protest movements or local races with prominent lefty candidates, or harping on critical climate issues or actions that fall outside the scope of electoral politics completely let alone the specific action of who you're going to vote for in November. They care a lot about politics. But mostly, what they want you to do is not vote for Democrats.

A very cynical person could draw a particular conclusion from that, but I'm not that person, so I won't.

That makes perfect sense. I'll finish up the pile I have today, and I also signed up for text banking. Thanks for the link! This is wonderful.

I've done some letters from Vote Forward. I'm not sure it's the way. For one, you have to hand-write messages, which is time consuming at scale. For another thing, personally, I would like to be partisan. I want Trump to lose, and I'd like to send my get out the vote letters to Democrats.

I'm not saying they're doing any kind of bad thing, but I did think about finding addresses for Democratically registered people in swing states, and just doing my own thing batch-printing letters encouraging them to vote with handwritten signature and addresses on the envelopes. I think I might be able to have a serious impact that way.

Also, what happened to text banking? I thought about trying to do that but I haven't been able to find where to sign up.