Yes. You are going crazy.

Your comparison with Karen and CVS fails on numerous accounts and lemme spell them out for you.

1. CVS is an established megacorporation. A bunch of Karens saying that they wont get business from them anymore is meaningless to something that brings in billions of profit.

2. Karens are not connected beyond vague occasional facebook groups and other types of groups.

3. Lemmy.world is not established as the be-all and end-all of the fediverse. In fact, it's shown that it's badly managed in the sense that the site is non-functional more often than not. Various features just do not work here, show context as example, and the admins are more focused on the fallout over a troll post than working on the site.

4. Users of this website are the only thing that lemmy.world has. Due to it's lack of stability on numerous counts, if there's a mass exodus of users it no longer becomes financially viable to keep the site running the way that it is or even at all. Due to the relatively small amount of users, a mass leaving incident so early in it's life cycle could kill the site.

5. Lemmy users are organized on the very site that they are leaving. Comments can be left to point out why the person is leaving. This isn't being screamed at a single cashier, this would be visible to numerous people in the product they're using.

First off, lemme just say that I left reddit because I was sick of the site bowing more to a corporate end than listening to the people and being somewhat reasonable. Lemmy.world is now guilty of that. I genuinely dunno how much longer I'll stay around this instance if this is the type of administration we see at the start.

Second, there is no situation in which lemmy.world could be considered legally responsible for that of another instance, allowing access to them or not. Merely blocking the instance in its entirety shows a disgusting amount of overreach on behalf of the administrators. The whole point of the fediverse is to NOT cut oneself off from everything, but lemmy.world keeps showing that it is willing to do so time and time again.

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You're being downvoted but you are completely correct. By American standards the democrats are left wing but by the rest of the world they're incredibly conservative.

If you were to honestly compare the American Democratic party to the Canadian Conservative Party you would have a shockingly close fit.

In America it's not right vs left. It's, at best, right vs centrist.

No. The US is 50 states that are masquerading as countries. Moreover, I didn't say that it should split into 50 countries, now did I?

The thing your missing is everything I fucking said.

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I feel like you have a poor understanding of a lot that you talk about.

No, I understand pretty well.

This issue isn’t a east coast vs west coast thing. This is a rural vs urban issue.

I never said that it was an east vs west thing. I used east vs west as one of a couple of examples. The issue is that the country is catastrophically divided between numerous sides who see their point as being 'right'. In doing so, they are destroying the lives of EVERYONE by constantly pulling the chain. The country is so large that this constant pulling of the chain is fragmenting every state. No one is getting what they want or what they need. Shit I've already said and I'm tired of re-explaining myself.

Rural vs Urban is a problem, and one that needs to be talked about, but it has no place in response to the comment that I've made. Your entire point falls flat when other countries have similar issues but to a far less extreme extent. The push and pull of Urban and Rural isn't what's causing your country to invade the foreign democracies of others. It isn't what's pushing your country to disavow it's own citizens so heavily that they literally rot away in prisons, eaten by bed bugs. The push and pull of Urban/Rural isn't what's allowing gun rights to run on an extremist route where you have one side saying "Please reduce access to guns so my children don't die" and the other side then responding with increasing the amount of firearms in/near/around schools. The push and pull of Urban/Rural isn't what's having one side say "We welcome Immigration" and the other side installing circular saw blades and nets in rivers to saw immigrants in half or for arresting people who dare to give food/water to immigrants.

I'm not entertaining your nonsense any further.

Everywhere in your essay you say America you can sub in NATO, Japan and the rest of the Five Eyes

Literally no. I am talking about one specific country. If you want to talk military, that's something else, but nothing that I said applies to any other country in that regard. The rest of your comment is predicated off of a catastrophic misunderstanding of what I've said. I have little interest in re-explaining myself after I was already pretty clear. Re-read it or leave me alone.

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First off, I'm not American.

Second, your comment is invalid. This isn't an "us vs them" situation. It was up until very recently, but the Republicans decided to breach the wall. During the leadup from 2000 to 2016, American elections became far more entrenched. Newt Gingrich and Fox are mostly to blame for this, successfully turning republicans from a political group to essentially a lifestyle. The Democrats did this in kind, to an extent, but on a much later game. That wasn't turned up until 2016. However during the 2016 election, the leader of the Republican Party and a slew of other Republican party officials conspired with a foreign power to influence the election and then committed numerous federal crimes to do so. They also committed numerous federal crimes after doing so.

This isn't "us vs them". This is literally "Democracy vs Fascism".

So I'd kindly suggest shutting the fuck up and not downplaying literal fucking fascism as being 'the other side'.

The psychotic thing to me is that this isn't really news. We've known that they've been meddling in American Democracy for YEARS. Remember when we found out about the meeting between the Russians and the campaign at Trump Tower during the 2016 election? The Trump Campaign, and all republicans by extension, are traitors to democracy. I'm done tiptoeing. I'm done saying it like it's anything than what it is.

Fucking treason.

And yes. All republicans. If you call yourself a republican you have decided to align yourself with traitors. Bitch, whine and moan all you want. You are a traitor.

What even is this article? When was he ever with anyone to begin with?

He has never done a single thing in his pitiful life that has revolved around anyone but himself. Everything was about him and his wounded ego.

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Cool. Has nothing to do with what I said about commenting on stuff to help others be interested in posts and show engagement, but cool.

Same applied to reddit too. Posts with no real engagement don't interest people in general. The more random ass comments the better.

No.

Maybe you should ask your moderators to have their behavior in check instead of asking everyone else to stop being annoyed with your inability to keep things straight.

I do not care what you want. I care about how I'm being represented. If your little fediverse thing is going to be this incredibly toxic with your moderators from the get go then you are actively as bad as reddit. I'm not editing my comment for you or your other cunt moderators. I'll just leave the entire community first than bow down to you patting yourself on the back for a failure in leadership.

You're just as bad.

This feels less uplifting and more depressing that it ever got to this place to begin with...

You seem to be complaining that Picard wasn't there several months ago

No. I am saying that it is disingenuous to say that it's available when a SINGLE season is despite three being released.

You seem to misunderstand that, as well - all it means is that CTV Sci-Fi will continue airing the new series on TV. They will all stream on Paramount+.

No, I quite literally do not. I put the quote in directly pointing to what I said. So if you could try your best to not just make shit up and stuff words down my throat, that would be utterly fantastic.

While streaming for Star Trek has moved from Crave to Paramount+, CTV Sci-Fi will continue to be the broadcast home of Star Trek in Canada. The Star Trek shows will also continue to be available on CTV.ca and the CTV app for subscribers.

One of the homes. If the shows are still available on another streaming service, then Paramount+ cannot claim to be the singular home of Star Trek. That is my point.

I have zero interest in continuing this "conversation" with you when you're going to misrepresent what I've said and then act snide due to your own failure to comprehend. I have far better things to do than waste my time having to explain myself ad nauseam.

Edit: Your bitchy cunt response really proves my point. You misunderstand and then lash out at that person, assuming what they meant. You presume that it's confusing to everyone else when my comment has been upvoted and no one else needed clarification. You should go back to reddit.

Okay so this article is just straight up lying or being extremely scumbaggy with it's wording.

The service already includes all available seasons of Discovery, Lower Decks, and Picard.

Yeah... Discovery and Lower Decks was there but Picard wasn't. Me and a friend, both Canadian, couldn't watch it on Paramount+ and I said fuck it and ended up torrenting it. We didn't know that it was on Crave until a couple of weeks ago and by then it was already phasing out. We had both signed up for Paramount+ to watch Season 3 of Picard and just outright couldn't. Couldn't even watch Season 2. Only Season 1 was available.

Also

While streaming for Star Trek has moved from Crave to Paramount+, CTV Sci-Fi will continue to be the broadcast home of Star Trek in Canada. The Star Trek shows will also continue to be available on CTV.ca and the CTV app for subscribers.

So... Paramount+ is just one of the homes for Star Trek then.

The rights to streaming Star Trek is a fucking disaster here.