Clearly, they could benefit from a robust public transit system. As could we all.

Fuck cars

Fair enough

How horrific

Edit: so many Zionist Nazis here… fuck nazi Israel

Downvote if you love genocide and like sucking Trump’s dick

Or, instead of wasting ridiculous amount of money on car shit, perhaps they could build more housing?

Fuck cars

Aww, lol

“Not only am I tiny, so is my dick!”

Yes, but also, fuck cars

I’m sorry to hear of your troubles. Best wishes!

This seems like a comment that was made from a toilet.

Don’t wipe until you bleed!

I suggest you get a dictionary and look up the word “nuance”

Edit: apparently, Europeans are just as capable of xenophobia and bigotry as Americans are. We have so much in common!

I’m sorry for your troubles

I think the EU is a beautiful thing, and sometimes I forget that not all of Europe agrees with me.

Oh really? You think if cars didn’t exist, people would still be sleeping in parking lots?

Edit: of course, the only response to this is a childish insult

Edit: so many Zionist Nazis here… fuck nazi Israel

Downvote if you love genocide and like sucking Trump’s dick

It’s never the wrong place for this take.

Fuck cars

I feel that you may be correlating untreated mental illness with a lack of education, and those are not the same things.

Fuck cars, OMG

Edit: downvote if you love homelessness, and like sucking the cum out of Trump’s dick

Cars are the cause of this problem, and cars are never the solution to anything unless you want more climate change, parking lot, and the housing shortages those things come with

I was thinking of the population of all of Europe, not just the EU. And I tend to use Europe and EU interchangeably. I probably shouldn’t do that.

The difference between the US and Europe in this regard is that Europeans are a bit more discreet with their crazy people. EU have 3 times the population as the United States does, obviously they’re gonna have ~3 times more crazy people than we do. They just don’t talk much about it, while, in the US, the crazy people refuse to shut the fuck up

Edit: I mistakingly used EU instead of Europe when referring to a population of around 750 million. The EU does not have that population, but Europe, generally speaking, it does. That was my mistake.

Edit: yikes, a lot of crazy people disagree with me

It’s my philosophy that going around, uninformed and uninitiated, and even getting burned a few times is a great way, and possibly the best way, to discover where you really belong on Lemmy. I believe it to be a formative and even a necessary experience.

That’s really my advice for how to find the “correct instance for you”. Everyone here got there by trial and error, and I believe it is a formative enough experience that everyone should go through it. Once it became extremely easy to join Reddit, that’s when it started to go to shit.

It is (nearly) impossible to join and participate in Lemmy if you are a tech-illiterate moron. By the very fact that anyone is here means that everyone at least has a middling level of tech literacy and is somewhat intelligent, or else they would not only never have heard of Lemmy, and would not have been able to figure out how to join. Reddit used to be like that, once upon a time.

OK, I apologize for my tone. I’m not here to criticize you. I am legitimately interested in helping:

All of those things you mentioned? Do all of that. Focus on your local feed, check out comments that originate from your instance. That’s how you will get a good feel for those who subscribed to your instance.

And, as others have mentioned, you can sign up to any instance and still interact, however, you are still beholden to the rules of rest of Lemmy. Follow the rules of whatever community you’re commenting or posting in, sure, but, aside from the instances that are defederated, you can interact, post, comment, vote, whatever, regardless of your home instance. It’s just that a lot of people take particular care in choosing their home instance, and they choose a home instance that sociopolitically aligns with their own views.

This is neither necessary, nor demanded from the vast majority of Lemmy users, but it is good practice. It’s just how Lemmy was designed, and if you’re not interested in doing that, fine.

Like any other online interaction forum, what really matters is the quality of your posts and or comments.

Edited: spells and grams