You make an excellent point about the fediverse with which I wholeheartedly agree, but the point still stands that OP’s experience on lemmy.world in this particular situation was a result of their own unnecessary aggression towards someone asking a sincere question, not because it’s a “queerphobic shithole.”

Not at all. You were just being a gaping asshole over there.

Probably about as much as you.

a tragedy awaiting the overconfident a fun destination for billionaire excursions!

We’ll let them work out the kinks first, you just gotta know how to sell it.

Evidence that marginalized individuals are just as capable of asshol-ish behavior as the majority.

Ah, so they’ll be leaving soon! Gotta find those silver linings.

Further reading if anyone is interested in details.

I too enjoy going off my meds for the weekend.

And Dr Ruth. That lady was such a charming little horn dog.

“May you live in interesting times” generally isn’t said with good intentions; interesting can be bad.

Facts, rather. Factoids are things commonly believed to be true, but are not.

What’s your dew temp?

Oh man, this game! No problems getting through the story line and defeating the final boss, but I never could kill those horsemen dudes you may meet in a random encounter on the map. The lack of autosave led to many rage quits.

I’m aware he didn’t storm the island by force - I didn’t use those words. The implication was that he went where it was made abundantly clear he wasn’t wanted - more than once - and suffered the consequences.

Is that what you appreciate about me, Squirrely Dan?

I really wish more people were comfortable with admitting this. Props to you for being self aware.

At least one idiot tried, and he got what he fucking deserved.

Roasted/grilled.

Other sources were already posted in the comments showing that “redneck” referring to farmers predates its usage to refer to coal miners/communists. Definitely agree there’s a lot of stuff conveniently left out of our history books, though.

Right? I don’t think anyone ever even told me that was the origin, it just sort of made sense intuitively.