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[+] 14 points 1 year ago (18 children)
  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    I'm sure many members of our government frequent lemmy and will see your definitely off topic and not annoying at all comment that is achieving fuck all.

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  • [+] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yes I'm sure my annoyance at comments on a small, niche social media platform is significantly contributing to governmental corruption.

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  • [+] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "pedo apologist"? Really? Go touch some grass.

    Spamming the same comment repeatedly across every thread achieves literally nothing. Lemmy is small enough that it just fills the comment section with pointless off-topic comments. At best, all they're doing is stroking their own ego by showing how morally superior they are, just like you.

    Feel free to speak out against anything you want, but do so where it matters.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    The statement isn't just aimed a members of government.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Then who? You think there are any people at all among the very, very few lemmy users who could force the release of those files?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    You think too small. In order to reach a Tipping Point, you have to mobilize 3.5% of the population. To do that, they must be informed, and motivated.

    Spreading the word, and reaching the 3.5% is more useful than disparaging people for doing it. Unless you don't want them to reach the Tipping Point, in which case, you're the problem.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    My friend, this place has less than 100,000 users active monthly, according to this tool.

    For comparison sake, the town I live in has 170,000 people. Xitter claims to have 300 million daily users, or about 3000 times more users, daily, than lemmy has active in a month. 3% of the US population is around 12 million people, which is more than 120x more people than exist on this platform.

    Do you truly think every person reading this comment even knows 120 people? They use lemmy, of course they don't.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Why do you think they believe this is the only action that's needed?

    Big things potentially require lots of people doing lots of little things in lots of ways.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Go out and scream into your back yard every night and see if that changes anything. Same thing.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The story of the grasshopper and the ant.

    The influence of lots of small, diverse events accumulate, and accelerate, with time. You would accomplish much more by spending your efforts with small events versus disparaging those that do.

    Unless, of course, your intention is to discourage resistance.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Search engines reach far more people, and Lemmy has, from what I've heard, started making a presence on search results. Couple that with search results now including LLM-generated summaries of the results means that comments like OP's have a slightly higher chance to show up in that section.

    Something like "people agree that this is a rare example of good policy choice, but feel it is a distraction against demands to release the Epstein files"

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