Unironically the answer is “shop less.”

Prices on goods rise when demand for goods stays sufficient to support the price going up. The less everyone buys, the less things will cost.

Prices for goods have almost nothing to do with the price of rent, but the mechanisms there are the same - it’s just that you have to encourage building rather than “live somewhere less” because the second option really isn’t tenable, for obvious reasons.

If you want rent to come down, campaign for, vote for, or even run for office to be the candidate that will change zoning laws and encourage building multifamily housing.

You can move within your country and your experience will be entirely different. You can’t in China, because it’s an authoritarian hellstate.

I agree that Republicans are authoritarians, and that sucks. I also acknowledge that you likely view hierarchies as inherently authoritarian and that we’ll likely not see eye to eye on where to draw lines. Also fine - that’s what liberal ideologies want, is that disagreement.

But to compare China positively with the US in terms of authoritarianism is, frankly, a bit silly.

My guy, I’m living in a state that tried to arrest a woman for removing an ectopic pregnancy.

Yep, and your state voted for that. My state amended it’s constitution to prevent this situation, also through voting.

In China, you don’t get that option, because China is an authoritarian state.

Authoritarian doesn’t simply mean “bad” even though authoritarianism is bad.

You know what’s not a sign of an authoritarian state? An appeals court overturning a bad verdict.

Crystal Mason’s contentious illegal voting conviction must be reconsidered, criminal appeals court says

You should really click the links you use as evidence.

That might be relevant if my point wasn’t the hostility, rather than the disagreement. I don’t give a shit if you disagree with me - you’re allowed to believe whatever you want.

The hostility costs this place users, and this is a thread about advertising for more users.

Perhaps consider reading the entire comment before posting.

Maybe you should try jumping on Truth Social and suggesting they’d have a larger userbase if they’re were more tolerant of left wing views?

Does Truth Social have threads about wanting more people to join Truth Social? Because this is a thread about advertising for lemmy.

Why is it always “leftists” who are supposed to welcome any and all political views with a warm mouth?

Hexbear exists and you can join it.

What exactly are you offering in return

Growth. The thing this thread is about.

If you care about downvotes, then I could see your point about the Fediverse being hostile to some more mainstream opinions.

I don’t - that’s why I’m still here. Most people do.

I regularly get called a Nazi just for saying Israel is demonstrably either not committing genocide or is so laughably bad at genocide that the claim is irrelevant.

30k people dying is bad, and the war is especially brutal, but the US killed nearly that many civilians in Mosul, and that wasn’t genocide - the topic was never even broached. Modern war is horrific for civilians. That’s why war is not seen as a good thing.

That take will absolutely get you called a Nazi if you post it in Politics or News/World News. This is a very normal position to have, and a significant majority of people will agree with everything above in the real world - these people aren’t going to hang out here.

I think what it comes down to though is that the fediverse experience requires some curation and restraint compared to other larger platforms

Yes, this is why it will stay small and insular until changes are made, which is what I’m advocating for.

China wants people to move from rural areas to cities, which is why they forcibly move them from rural areas to cities.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/world/asia/chinas-great-uprooting-moving-250-million-into-cities.html

China is an authoritarian state that had a literal one-child policy until recently

I’m defending that person’s joke.

Read the screen names involved. It’s a decent hip-fire joke, but people took it the wrong way and downvote-spammed him

Dude made a simple joke in the same vein as the other joke and was downvoted because it didn’t “toe the line” so yes it’s exactly what I wanted to link.

If you can’t shitpost, there’s another huge chunk of people gone.

It’s such a hilariously leftist trope to fuck up your own community’s growth with purity tests

The reason you don’t get many “normal” people here is that the community is absurdly hostile to anyone on the “normal person” spectrum.

If you’re not a software-pirating techbro obsessed with “privacy,” a leftist, or a furry, this place generally shits on you.

I very frequently post incredibly lukewarm takes for any mainstream community, and literally get called a Nazi. I have stalkers lol.

I, personally, tend to have “normal” views but significantly more resilience to online communities than “normal” people - which is why I still come here. Most normal people left back before this place even defederated from Hexbear. They ain’t coming back.

Until mods of what are essentially “default” communities get serious about growth instead of wanting “their” spaces, Lemmy is never going to grow. Most people don’t find getting blasted with piss-takes by Marxists funny the way I do.

Case-in-point from this thread

https://lemmy.world/comment/6400270

Oh and one directed at me, right on schedule.

Posted the bigot using the device created and coded by nerds. Do you fail to realize that “nerd” is what idiots call the smart kids? Of course you do.

Hamas should surrender unconditionally because there is a 0% chance of them winning this war and a negligible chance of them surviving this war.

That’s when you surrender.

There will never be a time in which your children are cool with you telling them that you wished they’d never been born

Don’t ever tell your children that.

And yet your take here has nothing to do with the reality of Epstein’s crimes nor his suicide. It has nothing to do with the actual suicides passed off as conspiracies.

I also responded to your “points”

The downvotes are just “rich people bad” shit, same as ever.

He doesn’t need to name names, because they have his computers, documents, etc. This conspiracy theory is as full of holes as QAnon shit.

The Panama Papers weren’t swept under a rug, you just didn’t follow news on them.

https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/five-years-later-panama-papers-still-having-a-big-impact/

Also Epstein 100% killed himself, and unsealing this info won’t tell you anything meaningful, because predators who hide among the rich don’t fucking tell every person they meet that they’re a predator.

Conspiracy theories are never a good look on anyone.

Interstellar is a terrible movie that doesn’t say or do anything special and I still don’t understand why anyone thinks it’s so amazing.

I did really like the robot guy though.