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  • Tips to vet whether a person you are dating or know might be working for ICE?

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  • Tons of joke answers and few actual answers, so here's the opinion of an ex-cop:

    What's your aim? If it's to identify ICE via speed dating or something to collect a list of local ICE agents, it'll take weeks, months, or even years years to uncover what they do. ICE agents know quite a few people hate them, so they're not going to wear their job on their sleeve. In that line of work it's known as OPSEC. In my personal life, very few people know I was a cop. ICE is even less popular, so they'll be even more tight about it. Best advice on this front is just keep your ears open for claims of being "taxi drivers," "garbage collectors," or other jokes cops often make to describe what they do.

    If it's to avoid dating/befriending ICE agents, all you need to do is let it be known that you hate ICE. Obviously your HR is going to come into the fray if you're passing out "FUCK ICE" pamphlets, but feel free to get tattoos, bumper stickers, T-shirts, and whatever else you can get your hands on to express yourself, and I promise you ICE agents will avoid you like the plague, though they won't outwardly state their reasons why.

    I don't want to hang out with people who hate me, you don't want to hang out with people who hate you, and ICE agents don't want to hang out with people who hate them. Not only is it unsafe, but it's simply unpleasant.

  • US Democrats: proud of deportations

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  • Which one is the guy who announced we're going to pave over Palestine to open a resort?

    Did you think he was going to give the Palestinians American visas and comp their moving fees?

  • I totally agree, too much is too much.

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  • Somehow putting uncomfortable conversations into tiny boxes everyone avoids doesn't feel like the way to stop the rise of the far right.

    Enjoy the sand around your head, though.

  • I totally agree, too much is too much.

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  • Evidently the sentiment isn't having a wide enough reach, as people are crawling into their echo chambers to avoid not having to deal with the fallout of their apathy, handing elections over to the nasties.

    Not everyone was German/Italian/Japanese in the 1930s-40s either. Pretty sure those countries still affected others, though.

  • Is there a way to "self-post" on Lemmy like there is on Reddit?

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  • Sadly not relevant to my specific post, but I appreciate you spreading the word.

  • I totally agree, too much is too much.

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  • "No politics please" sounds like a great rule until the results of politics kick down your door and black bag you.

  • I totally agree, too much is too much.

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  • Fighting to remove as many posts as possible on Lemmy when we barely get any posts at all doesn't make sense; ignore the people requesting you take a popular post down for some potential technicality.

  • US Democrats: proud of deportations

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  • You're thinking of the world in naive binary Good vs. Evil, handing elections over to the people who, instead of doing a shitty job of fighting genocide (Dem.), would enthusiastically perpetuate it (Rep.).

    TL;DR:

    https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/dccd0d0b-9624-43a4-af69-c71d4839b19c.png

    Not to mention that isn't even the discussion we're having. You missed (or pretended to miss) the part where we're talking about comparison.

    Which is hotter, tea that is 55C or 60C? If your answer is "They are both hot," you are being obtuse and I hope you at least realize that, even if you can't stop yourself.

  • US Democrats: proud of deportations

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  • I still don't buy it.

    You two are saying Bernie Sanders, famously pictured getting arrested for marching with MLK, is as racist as people like Strom Thurmond, who filibustered the Civil Rights Act, Tim Scott who said welfare is worse for black people than slavery, or Vivek Ramaswamy who said white supremacy doesn't exist?

    Ain't no way.

  • Is there a way to "self-post" on Lemmy like there is on Reddit?

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  • I think making a personal community, throwing it at lemmy-federate, and then posting it there really works best in this case.

    iknowsomeofthesewords.goodburger

    I guess I have some homework to endlessly procrastinate do.

  • US Democrats: proud of deportations

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  • Democrats are just as racist as the Republicans

    No way.

    There's a massive difference between being proud of being actively racist (MAGA), defiantly believing it's not possible to be racist in 2026 because MLK ended racism (garden variety Republicans), forgetting about certain invasions and genocides based on (social) media coverage (which is based on expected viewership for ad revenue, which is based on skin color) (garden variety Democrats), and someone who I would describe as generally "not racist," i.e. you, I assume if for no other reason than expedience of this discussion.

    Pretending all three of the other groups are identical is not productive, intellectually dishonest, and makes fighting or educating them harder.

  • Is there a way to "self-post" on Lemmy like there is on Reddit?

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  • I reserve the right to feel guilty, embarrassed, sad, etc. for inappropriate reasons in much the same way I reserve the right to feel positive emotions for similarly nonsensical reasons, but I appreciate the logic of it and you for dispensing it.

  • Is there a way to "self-post" on Lemmy like there is on Reddit?

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  • Thank you.

    In their defense, a feature that's not known by everyone isn't really the fault of the people who don't know about it.

    Thanks to you, now they and I know about it.

  • Is there a way to "self-post" on Lemmy like there is on Reddit?

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  • Unrelated but is there a way to convert someone else's instance+community link to your own?

    Obviously not faulting you for this, but when I click on your link I get taken to lemmy.zip, where I do not have an account so I cannot participate. I spent some time manually searching for that community on my own instance, which of course is a bit annoying for newbies and I would think there is a way around that I haven't found yet.

  • Is there a way to "self-post" on Lemmy like there is on Reddit?

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  • Until now I honestly thought I'd have to host an Instance to create a Community, for some reason. Now I'm a bit embarrassed.

    Thank you.

    Edit for visibility:

    This answer is the direction I chose to go in, mainly for simplicity's sake.

    If the fediverse gods are watching, it might be worth considering automatically making communities associated with people's usernames. Maybe reserved automatically, but invisible unless you opt-in? That way nobody can create harassment communities targeting your username on your home instance. Just a thought.

  • Is there a way to "self-post" on Lemmy like there is on Reddit?

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  • Seems like a good community but sadly doesn't fit my use-case for reasons I haven't yet stated.

    Thank you for the referral , though.

    After poking around it does actually seem relevant, though it's always against my nature to try to grab someone else's limelight.

  • Can you touch type?

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  • Yes, but definitely not proper form, as my left hand rests on WASD+CTRL/Shift+Space.

    I'm around 100 wpm, so maybe it doesn't matter.

    While I completely understand people who can't get to 100 wpm (much like people at 110+ completely understand me), I cannot fathom young adults who cannot touch-type (barring disability, obviously).

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  • I don't think I insulted your intelligence other than to imply you are not omniscient, and I immediately acknowledged I'm in a similar boat, just not in this very specific topic.

    If implying you're not perfect is an insult, sure, you're welcome to throw in the towel and put that wall up by pretending I'm arguing in bad faith. Ironically, that actually does diminish your intelligence - actively fighting the opportunity to learn.

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  • ’ll bet my left nut that if we both tested our English skills, I’d have a larger vocabulary and better syntax. More than ten years ago I surpassed the average native speaker in vocabulary size.

    Real talk? I don't care. Good on you if you're right, but I'm almost certain you're wrong. I do understand why you made your assumption based on the average internet user, though. Literacy rates are dropping in the US and it's equally embarrassing and dangerous.

    My point by pointing out your terrible writing was that if you're going to argue in such bad faith, you should at least put some effort into it. Put some pants on before you go scream at your neighbors that their grass is giving you migraines. By pointing out your penis was exposed, I'm not actually upset that I saw a penis, I just was hoping it'd embarrass you enough to shut up and go away.

    No, you’re just a dummy.

    Seeing this part and glancing at your many more paragraphs finally gave me the kick in the head that I needed to make me realize what a colossal waste of time talking to you is. Congratulations, you're about to be the first person I've ever blocked on Lemmy.

    ... that said, before I hit the block button, I did notice this bit which tempted me to respond because it's an all too common trope that I'd happily enter an in-depth discussion with you about my lived experience counter-anecdote if you weren't such a prick:

    There are laws in place which allow cops — just like soldiers, to not do what they’re commanded to do. They’re called “illegal orders”.

    There are also laws that prevent Donald Trump from serving a second term. Does that comfort you, resting assured in the knowledge that your logic means he must not be President again? Definitely doesn't comfort me; I'd prefer to live in reality and advocate for his removal. Backing away from my metaphor, I promise you there are cops who have been fired for failing to follow illegal orders, you just didn't know about any of them because you never bothered to put in any effort to find out they exist. Ironically for the cause you pretend to care about enough to virtue signal on the internet, that pressures more cops to follow illegal orders (because they know they're completely screwed if they do the right thing). I would know, I sit in the former camp and know many who sit in the latter. Enjoy the illusion, though!