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Canada has a lot of immgration that has brought about increasing inequality.

The only reason their society is that way is because it’s not diverse.

all the scandavaian counrties are having issues because of increasing immigration is destroying their social harmony. the natives don’t want to give the new immigrants the benefits they get, and the immigrants dont’ want to assimilate to the scandavian values/lifestyle.

None of them.

Pretty much all high quality of life countries have large economic inequality, and life is great if you’re in the top quarter of the economic strata, and everyone else is often struggling.

Also if you want to emigrate, you better have a high paying specialist career.

this made me laugh. That’s precisely what I deal with all the time. Everyone is weirdly superficial and the second you try to go any deeper they freak the fuck out. Apparently everyone is operating on a level of immediacy and impulsiveness that I can’t comprehend. I ask people all the time, why they like something and they look at me like I’m a freak and reply with ‘i just like it’. Then I tell them why I like something they look at me like I’m mentally ill for actually giving reasons or explaining the context that informs my interest.

I used to go on dates in the 2000s and 2010s and have cool conversations and feel like I was getting to know the person on a deeper level… that basically disappeared about 8 years ago. Every date I had from 2018 onwards was just endless shallow bullshit or the other person complaining about politics or money. Zero substance, zero curiousity, zero depth. It makes socializing/dating feel totally pointless.

It just feels like people have collectively mentally regressed to toddler-like thinking and communicating any hint of adult conversation is terrifying and bizarre to them.

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I’ve been independent since 18. I don’t maintain my independence… it’s never been an option for me to be a dependent on anyone else.

I actually don’t bring my phone when I leave the house. Especially if it’s for a short trip under an hour or 2.

It blows people’s minds and they immediately start lecturing me how stupid, rude and irresponsible it is. What if someone texts me and I can’t reply for a few hours? THE HORROR.

that’s not how sex works though. people dont’ want to be friends with people they want to fuck, and they dont’ want to fuck people they are friends with.

and a romantic relationship requires the desire to fuck. so that’s why people focus on that first and foremost.

yes, i’m stupid because i won’t tell you what you want to hear…

must be nice living in your bubble where anyone who disagrees with you is a bad faith actor. weird how that automatically innoculates you from any possibility of admitting fault or incompleteness of your own narrative.

honestly, i have had the SAME experience. the trans people are way more chill than the non-trans people who think they are ‘fighting’ on behalf of trans people. they are drunk on self-righteousness. i got more shit about BLM from white women who had zero black friends, than i ever did from a black person. multiple times I got screamed at for not attending a BLM protest… by a woman who didn’t herself attend and would say ‘i woudln’t feel safe attending a blm protest as a white woman’. totally ignorant of her own racism inherent in that statement.

the interface. of which there are many, and many are quite poorly designed.

they need an enemy to cohere around. so leaving it open for men to comment and vilify helps them build group solidarity.

ironically i can post there and nobody calls me out. because my comments pass as a woman. i am too feminine to be a threat or something.

my experience of lemmy is groups 1 and 2 just attack and insult group 3.

at best they try to ‘educate’ you about how stupid you are for not being a communist or anarchist.

groups 1 and 2 don’t seem to have much tolerance for anyone who doesn’t believe in their ideologically rigid world view

80% of the comments i get screaming at me how i am a fascist pig are .ml users.

the major benefit is there isn’t enough of a dipshit brigade to drown out the genuine smart people who are saying insightful things… yet

but i’ve been here over a year, and the dipshit brigade is growing rapidly. soon enough they will become mods and start banning anyone who doesn’t agree with their dipshit agenda. but at least their power will be limited to only banning you on their particular instance.

reddit used to have lots of cool diverse voices, and that all ended once it became popular enough that your parents new what it was and corporations were desperate to use it to shrill and advertise.

personally i felt like anytime i sub went over 100,000 subscribers it rapidly went to shit. if it was under 100K it was usually a pretty cool place that allowed productive and interesting disagreement and various POV. then once the userbase grew the mods would always become ban happy for anyone they didn’t like who didn’t agree with their agenda/beliefs, and would hypocritically start lecturing users on tolerance and diversity and non abusive behaviour, while banning people over personal disagreements they had with users. i remember i once got banned in cycling subreddit because is said I thought Doritos were gross and the mod basically told me to go f myself for not like the same snack food as he did. lol