Yeah, we have one-choice FPTP where I live, and it sucks.

Given the context, I feel the need to mention that starting an organisation is super, super hard to start with, and Lemmy is niche on top of that. There’s organisations IRL that are always looking for volunteers.

Well, I left during the whole API thing, so I’m not sure I’d say I’m new. But anyway, glad to hear it!

so it’s not at all a stretch to be conservative, religious, and democrat all at the same time.

Yes. That’s a lot of older African-Americans, from what I’ve heard. Church every Sunday, but they’d chew off their own leg before they vote Trump.

My impression is that the average .world user is a progressive. Some stray towards centrism, some are communist. The Pol-Pot post I saw was on Hexbear.

IRL, well, you know.

The .ml mod history is full of people getting banned for whatever, and shoehorned into rule 1. I know, because every time my posts don’t get votes for a while I go and check it, just in case.

Man, that must be tough for them. Lemmings run between solidly Democrat and contemplating critical support for Pol-Pot.

Honestly, it’s been better than Reddit so far, probably because of who’s self-selected into being here. In the long run, I expect it will be the same.

Like someone else said, there’s prominent Marxist-Leninist instances, including this one to a degree, so this probably isn’t the place if you want to talk about your cool new landlord sidehustle (for one example). Most of Lemmy (like everywhere I’ve been, probably even NCD) leans left of the IRL center, but it sounds like that won’t slip you up.

I mean, yes. In reality it might well be that there’s not many good black CEO candidates because they’re still stuck in poverty somewhere. Really, DEI would have to start in early childhood education if you want to keep it fair at every stage.

There’s no way I’m diving immediately into nuance with a guy like we’re talking about, though. Lol!

Either OOP has somehow missed all the statistics about non-white people being underrepresented in anything desirable (media bubble?), or they think white people are naturally more qualified on average, somehow.

I will relish the day someone like this gives me the opportunity to point that out to them.

For one thing, Musk’s offer was thought to be very generous. He was also a lone actor who didn’t need to worry about it blowing back on him somehow if the deal fell through, as opposed to a CEO who’s actually accountable to someone.

Another billionaire could have done it, I guess, but there’s like ten guys who were rich enough and only one was Elon Musk.

Yeah, more uncommon than complicated.

By what measure is India less peripheral than Mongolia or the goddamn Baltics?