What a reductive and thought-terminating argument that also simultaneously devalues the very phrase and idea you are invoking.

I think some self-crit could come in handy here. People, comrades, are engaging with you in good faith and you are sending poop and middle finger emojis, and making ad hominem attacks because surely you must be right on everything all the time and we are all just jealous you have a girlfriend.

Nobody is saying the cyclist wasn’t an asshole to escalate like that. However, you still haven’t stated if you crossed at a designated crossing. By your own admission it sounds like you didn’t look before crossing and forced the cyclist to make an emergency stop. Cycle paths are designed for cyclists to cycle fast. Courtesy goes both ways.

I don’t want this to come off as harassment and therefore will disengage. I just hope this can be an opportunity for reflection rather than conflict.

It’s clear they’ve made their choice on where they stand. The time and need for a multipolar Lemmy has long since arrived.

Some general suggestions from recent experience:

• Get documents in order. File change-of-address with your old state’s DMV.
• If you own a vehicle, let your insurance company know, and register it with new state’s DMV as soon as possible. This avoids harassment from locals and paperwork pain+fees later on.
• Change-of-address everything. Banks, credit cards, insurance agency, Vanguard/401k, mobile phone telcoms, brainstorm everything. Remember this will change your billing address on the credit card, so update any online payments/subscriptions too.
• Sign up for USPS mail forwarding so it catches any shit you forget, it’s like $2 for a year and a little more to extend multiple years but it’s worth it.
• Before it expires, transfer your driver’s license to the new state. It is much easier and cheaper when still valid.
• Same thing for any benefits - look up for your specific state what you need to do to re-apply for any low income benefits you may qualify for. Make sure you end any claims from the old state when you’re supposed to. Not because I believe in that bootlicker shit, but because fraud accusations will make your life annoying.
• Voter registration, if that’s your thing. Keep opsec in mind as voter rolls are public.

Just a brainstorm list, hopefully at least one of them saves you some trouble! If you’re able and looking for work, I like the LinkedIn jobs section more than craigslist/indeed/etc as employers there are generally more legit (as legit as it can be under capitalsim…). This may not apply to very rural areas though.

Nah you’re right for this. It’s becoming a bit of a trend to rely purely on vibes to analyze things, because leftist vibes are correct more often than not.

However, not utilizing material analysis, research, and critical thought is a very dangerous habit to get into.

Absolutely. It would be crazy if entire platoons of Ukrainian soldiers took photos performing Roman salutes with giant Nazi flags. Or if the official military press kept posting propaganda where their soldiers have a strange admiration for Nazi patches on their uniforms. Or if the soldiers training literal minors to shoot had Nazi tattoos. They don’t represent Ukraine at all!

If you’re actually interested in learning why leftists conveniently always have reality on their side while liberal-fascist-capitalists can always be proven wrong, I unironically encourage you to stick around this side of Lemmy and ask more questions.

It’s honestly so disheartening watching people here throw out the Millennium challenge as some kind of end-all gotcha to own the libs.

The Millennium challenge result was only achieved by Red side forces assuming motorcycles could travel cross country at the speed of light unbothered by enemy actions (they can’t), tiny speedboats could carry 4 giant ridiculously heavy anti ship missiles (they can’t), the entire Blue fleet would place themselves on the shoreline (they wouldn’t), and that it is possible to use a world ending amount of chemical and biological weapons to render your entire country’s landmass uninhabitable and therefore impervious to ground invasion.

Like, yes we get it. The US “sucks” at war. However people here are acting like the US military industrial complex is some kind of paper mache figure to blow over when in reality, it produces weapons of unimaginable destructive capability en masse. The same weapons that are killing Palestinians today, right now.

This is the opposite of material analysis and is, frankly, reactionary - a mindset I’ve seen a disturbing number of times here lately.

Interestingly, the Americans did get size shamed by the LHC into tossing billions of dollars into a giant hole in Texas (where, notably, no supercollider exists today). The Superconducting Super Collider.

This accomplished fuck-all except defunding almost all domestic American science to divert funds into digging said hole and killing the smaller colliders the US already had running. These colliders had viable plans to use themselves as accelerators to a larger loop for much cheaper costs.

This was arguably the incident that caused the collapse of US science which has not recovered to this day, in addition to pursuing a field of science that has possibly the lowest real world yield per dollar spent than any other branch, and not even building the collider as the cherry on top.

Particle physicists thought themselves to be rockstars, and the one time academia could size shame Republicans into funding something, they fucking blew it.

And because Americans are just comically fucking incompetent self sabotage addicts:

The LHC at CERN was the proposed project that the EU wanted to collaborate with US funding on, with the LHC having additional unfinished loops built into the design to allow for future upgrades, with additional potential to incorporate the entire LHC as an accelerator to a much larger collider in the future as shown in this picture. This was the plan the US rejected in favor of building their Supercollider in Texas (which again, does not exist).

America is truly a stain on humanity.

Yeah I was only in favor of refedding lemmygrad but I respect the decision of the community. If nothing else, it has brought a ton more activity to the site.