They sent a recruiter to my place of employment back when I was in retail. They asked me if I ever thought of joining the armed forces, and I gave them a polite but firm no.

So then they asked "are you happy with where your life is going?", trying to take advantage of me being a teenager stuck in retail.

Even if they werent asking you to throw your life away in some oil war to protect corporate interests, even if they weren't asking you to sell your morals away, they're aggressive assholes. So fuck them they're getting the treatment they deserve.

And then you piss somebody off for not doing anything.

But the cost of that would far exceed anything remotely reasonable. I say fuck it, let the birthrate drop for a few decades. The planet could use the break.

No ads or delays > No ads with delays >>>>>> ads

Ngl it's also just because femboys are hot.

At work, I am currently dealing with a table that has no primary key, no foreign key, duplicate (almost) serial numbers, booleans stored as strings, and so on. It's a nightmare of a table.

Entity framework is acting like I'm on meth for using such a table.

A few weeks ago, on 7 February, the bullying allegedly erupted in violence when Nex suffered severe head injuries during a “physical altercation” at Owasso High School, according to the Owasso Police Department.

Sue Benedict told The Independent she was called to the school that day to find Nex badly beaten with bruises over their face and eyes, and with scratches on the back of their head.

Nex told her that they and another transgender student at Owasso High School had been in a fight with three older girls in a girls bathroom. Nex was knocked to the ground during the fight and hit their head on the floor, according to their mother.

Ms Benedict said she was furious that the school had failed to call an ambulance or the police. She said the school then informed her Nex was being suspended for two weeks.

She took Nex to the Bailey Medical Center in Owasso for treatment. They spoke to a police school resource officer at the medical facility and were discharged.

That night, Nex went to bed with a sore head and eventually fell asleep while listening to music, Ms Benedict said.

On the afternoon of 8 February, Nex was getting ready to go to Tulsa with Ms Benedict for an appointment when they collapsed in the family living room.

Ms Benedict called an ambulance, and Owasso Fire Department medics arrived to find Nex had stopped breathing. Nex was taken to the St. Francis Pediatric Emergency Room where they were later declared dead.

This child's blood is on their hands. Not just the kids who did the physical beating, but also the conservatives who set up a culture where this is acceptable.

Try to join the rest of us in reality when you can.

nothing will change for vast majority of people.

Historically that has proven to be false. The majority of Germans, whether targets of the nazis or not, had their lives upended.

just not as bad as you think.

Genocide is extremely bad

The chance of any bill passing is about 30% regardless of what level of public support it has.

The same is not true when you compare the chances to the support the rich have for a bill. When the rich support a bill its far more likely to pass. When the rich oppose a bill, it is far more likely to fail.

So it will be no surprise when this bill unfortunately fails.

Or to put it another way:

And the biggest polluters are corporations/industry, and the rich.

Well, if Nex’s sexual identity indeed was the reason they are dead, and all this had taken place, say, 20 years ago, nobody would’ve died because nobody would’ve asserted their sexual identity in public.

Not only is that not true, people have been coming out since humans existed, it's also wrong. You're confusing sexual identity with gender identity.

Regardless, all you are doing is victim blaming. Nobody should get beaten to death for how they express themselves. This is supposed to be the land of the free, not the land of the beatings for people society deems weird.

You may very well argue that something is wrong that when it has consequences, but that argument doesn’t yet remove the consequences.

The consequences for self expression should not be death, much less vigilante beatings that result in death. And your appathy is frankly disgusting, and a part of the problem.

Better source showing the rich don't pay their fair share:

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/new-york-post/

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/propublica/

The solution is to gut the existing tax system, and replace it with a land and carbon tax.

I'll be honest, I followed you here/noticed this thread because I was checking to see if you were ignoring the reports or just weren't around. But now that I am here, I'm giving you my two cents.

You are getting a ridiculous amount of reports because you are failing to do anything effective about TJD and Momo, who make up the most of the civility issues outside of random dissenters that occasionally see the posts from your sub.

or the very least not report each other? If you don’t report it, I can at least pretend I didn’t see it and be on my merry way with plausible deniability. Fucking tattle tales.

The lack of moderation response to Momo is the exact reason why I clapped back at Momo that last time. Your options are:

1. Deal with the problem makers (TJD & Momo), either by banning them or removing their comments (waiting around for them to edit their comments is not enough).

2. Don't do anything and allow your sub to descend into a 4chan-esc world of slurs and insults, probably getting your sub banned in the process.

Like does that really warrant a ban? Not really.

An individual bad comment/insult/name calling may not warrant a ban. I agree with you on that. But when a user consistently does it, when they have a history of doing so, it is time to show them the door. If they want to use slurs and insults in every comment then they can go to 4chan.

with the (stereo)typical “immigrants bad, jesus good, gays evil” speech.

That middle part has all but vanished here. We can't have compassion for migrants because we have "limited resources" and clearly they're all just bad people (totally unrelated to their skin color they'll tell you). They gladly elect politicians that destroy the social safety net for the poor.

The only thing even remotely related to Jesus being here is supply side Jesus.

Thank you for your take.

Completely unrelated to what you said, I appreciate seeing so many star trek fans around here. It really makes lemmy feel like a home.

Only the last article has anything to do with politicians or the government.

And on top of that, that particular post misrepresented the actual article. So the conversation on that one was ~90% calling out the post for misrepresenting the article instead of the policy itself.

You must really like crime, because what you're advocating for is the worsening of economic outcomes for Americans and therefore crime.

I'd rather vote for Biden’s dead corpse and hear fox news bitch about him being sleepy for 4 years than have a dictator.

When the left does a boycott, it is to fight for people's rights (just as in this case), and it gets labeled by the right as cancel culture, as no action of the left can be without pejorative labeling by the right.

When the right does a boycott, it is for the latest culture war thing that will never help the average american (such as panicking over a trans person being in an ad).