I tried to get mine to join, but my girlfriend spent a few hours here on a Saturday morning. She looked up my username, saw how much grief I got just for advocating third-party voting, and decided everyone here is way too extreme and hateful.

Which might be true, but she also played Grow a Garden on roblox while we watched the super awesome Charlie Sheen documentary on Netflix last night, so I can’t take her judgment too seriously.

I won’t be editing it, because I’m still of the same personal opinion that I offered. I can have my own personal opinion, without receipts, even if you don’t agree with my opinions.

I didn’t start the thread, I’m not a subject of OP’s complaint, and again, the mere fact that OP had to come here in the first place, backs up my personal opinion.

You don’t agree. Ok, cool. I haven’t changed my mind. Let’s move on.

Everyone complains that Lemmy doesn’t have enough content. So you’re mad when people post content?

IMHO, the more posts, the better as long as it’s not advertising.

Follow the rules of the community. YDI

I’m glad the ban got reverted. But it wasn’t reversed until it was posted here. I don’t have to give receipts on my personal opinions since I didn’t start the thread.

Let’s move on to other things since the ban was reversed.

This worked, I found a local club. :)

thank you! This is SUPER helpful!

Yep, I’m US-based, so I’ll do that. I live in a mid-sized city, so we should have some radio clubs.

Good points. I should do that first rather than way. I’ll look on amazon today for a smaller one so I just get on air right now!

Probably because he isas the latest big figure media person to talk about third party.

Thanks. There is so much stuff to know. Just jumping into this today, I’ve been down so many rabbit holes!

And as for my radio shack, actually I do want it to be stand alone structure in my backyard. So it’ll be my mancave since my gf already hates how much stuff I have around everywhere.

I just wish it wasn’t so expensive to get in. Hopefully I can find everything decently priced as I find my way.

IDK, maybe it gets boring if you have the mod controls and it’s a little exciting event whenever you get to jump up and start using them, I don’t really know.

Dude, you had your own instance, I think you have a pretty good idea of what it’s like. lol

I see lemmy.world and I just say “PTB!” and I skip the details. :)

PTB!

I actually ran my own crooked little pirate station back when acne and hormones were still my main drama. My command center was my grandfather’s “radio shack,” and yes, that’s what people called HAM radio set-ups.

It smelled like dust, old wires, and pipe tobacco. I’d sneak in, crank up punk records, and talk all kinds of shit about my high school like I was Wolfman Jack! lmao

There was some some movie that came out about that time, about a teen running a pirate radio station that his high school listened to, and I thought it was awesome. Christian Slater was in it. “Pump Up The Volume.”

For six glorious months, I broadcasted into the void as a one-man revolution pumping static and anger into the uni. Then my gramps got a letter that threatened a fine so monstrous it could have bought ten lifetimes of gas station burritos. Ten thousand motherfuckin dollars or some shit!! He was pissed.

My audience was basically one guy, and that one guy never helped me get laid. So that was the end of my pirate radio empire.

I miss that shack tho, so I’m looking to get back into it. Building a radio shack in my backyard. Getting equipment locally sourced and from eBay.

Legal this time, cuz I’m gonna take my radio operators test and get certified. Only preppers really care about shortwave radio these days. But those are my peeps, so…

Wish I’d inherited my gramps’ radio equipment. Shit’s expensive now.

Germany – The Bundestag has multiple major parties: Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU), Social Democrats (SPD), Greens, Free Democrats (FDP), Left Party, and the far-right AfD. Governments are almost always coalitions.

India – Dozens of regional and national parties compete. While the BJP and Congress are the biggest, smaller parties like Trinamool Congress, DMK, and Shiv Sena hold real power, especially in states.

Brazil – Extremely fragmented system with more than 20 parties in Congress. Coalitions are mandatory for governing.

Netherlands – No single party ever wins a majority, so coalitions of three or more parties are the norm. Parties like VVD, D66, Labour, Greens, and Christian Democrats all share governance.

Sweden and other Nordic countries – Multiple parties on the left and right; coalition governments are standard.

Looks like most Massachusetts Democrats stick closely to their speaker while Republicans are more split. So just another sign that party loyalty often outweighs real independent thinking in politics. Kinda like always.

Doubt it. I agree with the points you’re making here, but I don’t think policymakers in either party are brave enough to really look at themselves and ask how they contributed to this mess.

It’s easier to point fingers at the obvious cartoonish villains than to actually reflect on their own failures. Until that changes, the same shit will keep repeating. As it always has, as it always will. lol

Hmmm, Xi may be more capable and def less clownish compared to Trump or Kim, but the system he enforces is still way too repressive. And that’s not something I can ignore just because he’s effective at some things.

As for if he’s better or worse than Trump…um, that’s a good question!

Thanks for the update. Glad you stood up for yourself and glad that the people involved did the right thing. That’s what’s so awesome about this community!

The primary reason we decided you weren’t a good fit for SLRPNK wasn’t your ideas, but your chronic pattern of toxic behavior in advocating them.

Ok, that makes more sense. Obviously I, and the admin of this instance and other instances I’m on, don’t feel I’m toxic, but you are certainly welcome to think that.

online bullying can make people disengage from a conversation in spite of arguing good points.

Agreed. And people bullied me a lot and told me to leave Lemmy. I stood up to them and didn’t back down. So yeah, as a result, I can totally agree that I’m not great at de-escalating arguments. I give as much as I get. Which I feel has me wrongly labeled as a troll, but meh, if someone starts something with me, I don’t back off. But you have a valid point.

you stand from the rightward-sliding political median.

Just to be clear: I’m not rightward politics. I’m a socialist. Voted socialist. (Which by the way is what caused all the controversy, because I voted 3rd party in the election) I also created and I mod socialist communities, and I’ve the majority of my posts are pro-socialist and pro third-party articles.

especially since you were transparent about your identity in your application, which I respect and appreciate.

Thank you. My “alts” aren’t really alts as for ban evasion. I use my same name on all my instances. So ban evasion isn’t really a goal since I don’t hide my identity. If I truly wanted to ban evade and have an alt, I’d just come up with a different user name and sign up wherever I wanted.

But there have been multiple times when someone signed up in bad faith, using my name to create drama, and I’ve written to plenty of admins to let them know it wasn’t me and asked them to delete those accounts. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t. I have no control over that.

But I DO appreciate your explanation, so thank you for going into details. Even tho I don’t agree with some of your points, at least now I understand where you are coming from.

I respect you for not ignoring my questions or my gripes.

So thank you and best of luck to your instance. I still love the idea of your instance, even tho I’m no longer a part of it.