I think the only reason states have not truly waged war on each other is that we are part of a union. That’s just my opinion, but many states would simply begin to fail without the feds redistributing wages from states that have good industry and gdp.
Once they don’t get, they will start to try to take, and that fire would spread faster than it could be put out. Again all imo. But us Americans are “a bit shit” to eachother already, to borrow a British phrase.
I think you have a super healthy view of this dilemma through your experience. As a person who has experienced the worst Down’s has to offer with a very close relative, i can’t imagine a happier thing they could have told my mother than, “your child doesn’t have to be born with down’s syndrome”.
Due to religion, terminating the pregnancy was never an option, so a set of cosmic dice was spun in how positive or negative this experience would be. Let me tell you right now, I wouldn’t wish my family’s experience on anyone, and that breaks me apart to say more than I’m willing to admit.
Naw, they shitty, horrible kids with bad opinions, but if I felt as strongly as you, and had a much free time, (my god i wish i had your time), I’d spend the same time repping this place and less time trying to gentrify it into another political war zone. But by all means dehumanize these stupid kids until you only see an enemy to safer defeat.
I choose quarantine over spending yours days documenting internet morons.
Edit: I’m so stupid, I just realized that’s the problem. I only have time to be annoyed by this shit to the point where I post about it cause I have all this time on a vacation. Whereas this is what you spend ALL your time doing. I’ll be gone from needling you in a few days, you’ll remain here as a super goofy and chill dude!
Thank you for the context so you can see how chill and goofy you are in your “fight against fascism” aka the kids who built and populated this platform initially.
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A user in that thread actually made points i 100% agree with about the hypocrisy of using this platform in general with your opinions on it.
https://lemmy.world/comment/16860916
Correct me if I’m wrong, a piefed developer specifically called you out for the same reason.
Really, is that the vibe you think you bring to the table? I would have said a steady stream of argument bait. You usually don’t see chill goofy people maintaining entire threads of personal callouts. That’s just an imo tho!
I was and am in a situation where WFM became voluntary because we outgrew the space while everyone was at home.
We have no limit of volunteers to work in the office, we have multiple people who never left the office, they continued to commute and went in every day.
So my anecdotal experience is the exact opposite of yours, which is why we don’t put a ton of stock in them and look at aggregates in studies. Making sense?
Pretty sure I saw multiple reports that during the first retaliatory bombing, American troops were on the ground operating SAMs, so we didn’t sit anything out at any time.
I don’t think anyone who mentions that honor killings are a thing is saying that. Honor killings have been recognized by amnesty international as being a distinct threat to women worldwide that is present in America as well specific to Muslim majority countries in the Middle East and Asia.
I think any child has the potential of being killed by their angry parents, it’s happened very frequently from people of all backgrounds, but it’s ok to admit that a Muslim girl who doesn’t want to introduce you to her parents could be motivated by the fear of death or abuse in a very specific way. And i think it’s ok to tell this kid that this is a possible additional pressure based on her culture.
But it’s fair to say this has happened like a half dozen times in the US in two decades. That might feel like a lot, but considering the sheer number of Muslims who live in this country, that might as not happen at all.
I can keep both of these ideas in my head at the same time and not have a weird, knee-jerk meltdown in the comments!
Trucking is so funny. There is an adversarial relationship between the drivers and the office, which you can see in this comment.
The industry is trying to solve safety issues caused by the nature of long haul driving and maintenance of profit in logistics by companies that use their services.
Trucking used to be a way a person could provide for their family, remain independent, and feel in control. Now, trucking is an industry where you are trapped in a moving computer designed primarily to reduce the insurance rates of the company that employs them, because their business practices and demands were so dangerous, individuals truckers had to drive more hours, get paid less for those hours, and literally drive themselves, and other motorists around them when they crashed, to death.
Then they blame the truckers as they race to bottom in hiring. Don’t even get me started on nafta. Your industry sucks for the employees who are necessary to keep the economy moving.
This seems so dumb, like people have simply put names to the typical tropes of online conversation, it’s a very typical meta discussion that you don’t seem to want to engage in, so why waste the time?
Your solution doesn’t make sense, just take things less seriously! Are you the fucking Joker, this is serious shit. It only works if there are more likeminded people who share your “logical” opinion. If your solution is to always just overshout, you are agreeing to the will of the majority, which we call the tyranny of the majority in the United States. What happens when the majority you picture yourself as flips to the minority in the argument.
Congrats, you’ve just lost everything! Welcome to 2025. A zero sum game where if someone asks a genuine question with good discussion, people are going to come in to try to flip the table.
This is an excellent example of moving the goalposts, thank you!
Who’s gatekeeper and purity testing this method of targeted censorship you’ve dreamed up?
It’s the democratic agenda. Chuck Schumer and Hakim Jeffries already gave up the ghost. Do nothing, and when the Republicans prove that they can’t govern, collect votes like acorns falling off trees in fall.
That way you only have to do performative shit, like 24 hour speeches for no actual gain, or printing a big banner.
The ratcheting doesn’t matter, the terrible primary system doesn’t matter, don’t look at David Hogg, we’ll sweep him under the rug to ensure no real developing of ideas or actual principles. Just cowardice.
This is my opinion, most people think nothing about not spending on a business that has right wing opinions, because they see them as harmful.
The developers of Lemmy and .ml are packaging arguably (for many, this is just an opinion) harmful rhetoric into their free platform at base with their moderation. The one developer that has tried to distance themselves from thar rhetoric, can’t help but engage in it when pressed.
Frankly that’s a fucking propoganda tool, and if throwing away .ml is throwing away Lemmy, then I hope someone forks the project and continues development without the baggage.
I’m not responsible for the developers shooting themselves in the foot with their opinions, that’s on them!
Yeah, fair point.
The level of hyperbole in this thread is incredible. I can’t imagine getting this geeked over something this trivial. People are still talking about horse armor in this thread, it’s like referencing Leroy Jenkins, I can tell when you stopped paying attention to games. Like, it’s OK to move on too, but major “Stop having fun!” energy here.
Sealarious! Paint me in any outgroup you want. Sea lions always try to prove they aren’t with more sea lioning.
You sneaky little dumpling, you won’t get me with that!
My favorite part about watching you talk to people is how you just ignore the parts you don’t wanna talk about, I honestly love it!
He doesn’t need to imo, these things have plenty of inertia right now. It wouldn’t take a lot to get Americans fighting even harder against eachother than we are now even.