I literally don’t even understand what you’re trying to accuse me of.

The term is no longer used as such. Antisemite means a person who hates Jews, and many of the “pro-Palestine” people are such - including a huge number of Palestinians and Muslims in general. It’s not a propaganda narrative - it’s a fact. The destruction of Israel and Jews is Hamas’s stated goal.

The Hour will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews, and the Muslims will kill them, until the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say: O Muslim, O servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him—except the gharqad tree, for it is one of the trees of the Jews.

Sahih Muslim, Book 41, Hadith 6985

by falsely claiming they are antisemitic.

A significant number of them are true antisemites. Not all ofcourse, probably not even the majority but there’s plenty of them.

Lemmy is worse than reddit in almost every measureable way. The reason I haven’t gone back to reddit is purely out of principle and it’s not a principle if it’s not costing you anything.

Longest continuous edging streak. Hell, I might already hold that record anyway.

The fact that the trail exists there in the first place means that there’s enough people walking on it that the grass dies and doesn’t grow bag. I’ve started a trail from scratch and I doubt there’s more than a handful of people walking there every week but the trail just keeps getting more carved in.

The average business in the U.S. employs about four people, and roughly half employ even fewer than that. I run a business that employs one person - me. So I’m not sure whose way I’m supposed to be getting out of, or how exactly I’m making anyone’s life worse.

Loneliness is the tax we have to pay to atone for a certain complexity of mind

Given the current level of “intelligence” in AI models, I’m pretty tempted to say that if a job can be done by AI without any significant drop in quality, then it probably wasn’t a great job to begin with - and having a machine do it is likely the better path in the long run.

Referring to men in general as “wife beaters” is exactly the kind of rhetoric that fuels Tate’s popularity.

It’s also pretty dishonest to lump his followers in with incels. Tate openly despises incels - he sees them as quitters. His whole message is about power, self-discipline, and taking control of your life. Incels, on the other hand, are rooted in despair and nihilism. They believe the game is rigged, that the problem is in their genes, and that there’s nothing they can do to change it. It’s a fundamentally different mindset.

Young men are struggling badly, and almost no one seems to take it seriously. A lot of them want to man up - but the message they get from much of the media is to man down. I saw a Reddit thread asking who young boys could look up to as a role model, and the top answer was Aragorn. You literally have to turn to fictional characters to find someone broadly seen as decent.

They gravitate toward people like Andrew Tate (and Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Jocko Willink, David Goggins, etc.) because those are some of the only public voices telling them it’s okay to be a man - and to embrace masculine traits - without apology.

I’ve gotten this only a handful of times and simply refreshing my VPN has solved it every time.

I think this is great. One of the main reasons I’ve been paying for the subscription is the limited memory of the free version. Now, the more I use it, the more it remembers about me and references things I’ve mentioned in past conversations. Sure, there are potential privacy concerns, but the same goes for commenting on Lemmy - I don’t tell ChatGPT anything I wouldn’t be comfortable sharing here.

Word of mouth works for someone with an already established customer base but I can’t even imagine how I could have gotten my business going when I started a year ago without ads. That’s how 99% of my customers found out about me. This is physical flyers though - I don’t do online advertising except for maintaining a some kind of social media presence for my business.