Yes, I absolutely did miss that part somehow. I still think you’re being too hard on the guy, but the tone of my comment was out of line given that context. I apologize.

That’s just like Lemmy, ignoring years of hard work in pursuit of positive change because someone doesn’t pass the right ideological purity test.

How many millions of people have you reached about the importance of consumer rights?

I also thought Louis’s choice of Clippy was a bit odd, but the fact that there is a symbol people can rally around at all is more important than the symbol itself in many ways.

Words mean what people use them to mean. That is what factoid means.

Fun fact about the Greeks thinking Prometheus’s name meant “forethought” - that’s actually a folk etymology. The pro is a much older use of the prefix that meant “away”, not “before”, and the root is actually meth-, “to steal”. Prometheus is “the one who steals away, the thief”, and seems to go back to a Proto-Indo-European thief/trickster myth.

Pro-meth- also has a perfect cognate in Sanskrit pra-math- “to steal”.

It’s just hilarious to me that the Greeks built an entire mythology around Prometheus being the foresighted one, to the extent that they even made up a brother for him meaning “afterthought”, all based on a folk etymology!

There isn’t “feminist dogma”

I think we’re done here.

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Lots of good comments here pointing out problems with feminism, but one that I think hasn’t been mentioned enough in this thread that’s also directly relevant to the OP is the harmful idea that “if you believe in gender equality, then you’re a feminist by definition”.

While the term “feminist” does signify a person who, at least ostensibly, is in favor of equal rights among genders, using that term also, necessarily, implies belief in the core dogma that is inseparable from the term itself (patriarchy theory, etc.). This creates a false dichotomy in which people feel that in order to support equal rights they must also buy into feminist dogma, and that’s not at all the case.

Luckily, though, feminism doesn’t have a monopoly on gender equality, and it’s important to let people know that fact, both because of how incredibly misleading “feminism just means gender equality” is and because there are more useful, more egalitarian frameworks through which to view the push for equality.

Newclams can’t triforce

Oh man, this comment just brought back a memory from decades ago of watching a Warthog-launching trick compliation video from the original Halo set to Song2. I haven’t thought about that video in probably fifteen years.

Edit: Here’s the video lol. Wow that was a blast from the past.

Why are you making this up when you can literally go back and reread our conversation? I’d do it myself just to copy/paste the whole conversation here, but it was on my lemm.ee account and in the lemmy.ee “Lemmy needs more donations” thread so I can’t access it anymore. Feel free to do so - I have nothing to hide.

Being this disingenuous isn’t winning you any points.

Edit: Hell, I’m the one who gave ground here. My original stance was that you needed to give up all association with .ml entirely, and I backed off of that position when I heard how necessary it was as a dev instance.

I’m practically bending over backward here to give you money, and you just won’t let me.

I’m honestly looking for any reasonable excuse I can to donate. I had a conversation with the devs back when they were begging across Lemmy a few months ago, and I told them that even if they just committed to stop moderating on .ml (while still running it as admins as their test instance), I’d set up a recurring donation.

But as we can clearly see from their ridiculous behavior recently as recorded on the various tankiejerk communities, they have not done so, and so I am not morally comfortable with sending them any money.

The ball’s in their court.

Edit: Remember, folks, that when baited by someone from lemmygrad or hexbear, the only correct response is to not engage.

No money for tankie devs!