I don't see the relevancy of what you've chosen to quote from this article. Unless you're comparing Sanders campaign donors to Saudi Arabia?
States do not have unrestricted rights and cannot negate human rights.
I wish this was true but sadly it is not. Anti-choice candidates have continued to be elected and pass laws since June 2022.
Intent is irrelevant. Humans don't work that way and will continue to downvote what they don't like/agree with and upvote what they do like/agree with. Creating a system that ignores how people work and asking them to please use it how you want will never work.
Everyone should just embrace how it's actually used and move on.
In case you didn't know and for everyone else that prefers the old UI there is a clone for lemmy.
https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym
lemmy.world has it installed at https://old.lemmy.world. The creator has it running at https://mlmym.org/ for other instances that don't have it installed.
For this specific case, yes to the first question, no to the second question.
Admin refusing to do anything about a kid with a gun after being told a kid has a gun isn't a funding problem.
They did the opposite and shoved a pointless shorts section in the middle of your subscription page so you can't see what you actually want to look at.
They aren't removing opposing comments. They are removing comments from other instances as it's a meta post about their instance. Opposing comments from their own instance have not been removed.
If you aren't on their instance your opinions aren't relevant and this doesn't affect you.
To expand, one of his early businesses was X.com which was a payment processor and sold to paypal and eventually shutdown. He bought the domain again back in 2017 and it now redirects to twitter.
archive is failing to properly archive lemmy pages. It has a blank sidebar but will update to the current one.
The mod themselves said it was true and you've been given links to it multiple times.
To be clear, some of the comments you removed were from the person you are now replying to.
If you're in the US you haven't lost yet. Still federally illegal, so you're still breaking federal law in legal States.