Some of the very first people that the Brownshirts went after was transpeople, even completely destroying an institute that was studying gender in the 30’s.
It’s not like the people involved in that lynching felt bad about it or regretted it. And then they passed that hate to their children who passed it on to their own children. Those people were the grandparents and great-grandparents of these kids. Some of them are still alive and still preaching their hate to the kid. Some of them were alive long enough to do it before they died.
To someone from Europe like me, the US very much feels like a dystopian hellhole whenever I read stories like these. How can a government hate its people so much?
I was just feeling this yesterday, picking through the damaged can/box section of our super market, walking down the street and seeing how alienated and alone we are and how normalized that is, being sent two hours of paperwork that is the exact same questions I spent two hours on the phone answering in spring as I try to access our public safety nets.
The feeling in the U.S. of A. is like living on a well polished turd that no one wants to admit still smells like a turd. At least, not in public.
I’d agree to have a conversation on the details. It’s nuanced. But the median salary in us is 90k. That’s enough to live comfortably compared to most of the world.
Top half of the median salary is 95k a year. Nearly all of them will have decent health care. They’d be making less than in Europe in many cases and that includes cost of healthcare.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t improve, especially for low earners, but much of this country is very well off compared to our European counterparts.
I spent many months in Europe. From Spain to Kosovo and pretty much every where in-between
As if any of that matters at all in the least bit because your complaint is just a massive strawman but I’ve been all over including the pesky countries you all like to forget even comparing quality of life in the States.
Not a straw man. Personal experience. I’ve spent most of my life in Europe, in several different countries. And spent more than a decade in the US.
I can comfortably say that most Europeans, especially those in the middle and on the lower end of the income scale live vastly more comfortable lives than most Americans with similar incomes without having to worry about medical bankruptcy and crushing student debt. Not to mention having the time off to travel and parental leave to form families without all the financial stress Americans experience.
It is a viscous loop where the ppl are told to hate their gov so they elect Republicans who want to dismantle it. The Republicans do and then gov sucks so ppl hate it more.
And this isn’t even a theoretical or metaphoric description.
We have candidates now already laying out plans for massive workforce reduction in the already overworked, short staffed federal government, which will make them even less productive, which will prompt these people to point out that lowered productivity as evidence for why they should take even more resources away.
They’re literally pushing to eliminate jobs, not create jobs, and to bring unemployment to veterans (who are a big demographic in the federal workforce).
The same people who set up public education to be measured on standardized testing, in which your students falling short on their test scores means your funding gets cut, not increased.
Most people here are brain dead idiots that don’t know that a politician’s job is to create policy. They think it’s a team sport and if you cheer louder for your guy, they’ll punch the other guy in the nuts. This is why we don’t have nice things like attractive cities, public transportation that actually works, or actual culture.
I used to take my dog into Lowe’s just to help socialize him, but during the pandemic absolutely everyone did that and it was a nightmare of lunging animals.
I feel like the biggest issue here is that Publix is a grocery store and having dogs around food ain’t really a good idea. Lowes has big “dogs allowed” signs on the front door
Good point, my sister is one of those people. She has to take medicine before she plans to hang out with dogs or her throat closes. I didn’t even think of allergic reactions at first, but that would be terrible.
People who do this don’t give a shit about signs or admit making people uncomfortable. People who bring their non service dogs to stores are just assholes and a sign won’t fix it
Maybe it's time to move on from using SSNs for security? We have someting similar in Sweden - "person numbers". If I call the tax authority and ask for someone's "person number" they will tell me. They're not secret in any way, and thus not used as some form of authentication either.
But how exactly does it work when applying for something like a credit card or going to a doctors office and filling out a form? Because here in the US those ask for SSN
They ask for SSN because there is no other form of national ID in the US (by design). SSNs were not introduced with this use in mind in fact they were explicitly meant to not be used this way, but society has slowly twisted it into a de facto national ID.
Military, sure, but driver’s licenses are state-level, not federal. Health care has been using birthdate like a password (one that is largely publicly available) for way too long now. At least financial institutions can use account numbers and financial history and code words, but even all that isn’t great.
It’s a messy patchwork, but I think at the time of the creation of the SSA, the US may have still thought of itself as a land of second chances. IBM numbering Holocaust victims probably didn’t help the idea of a national ID, nor did the victim narrative of groups like the NRA.
I’m not sure if it’s possible not to have a national ID anymore, so denial of it just forces a terribly kludgy implementation from whatever is around.
My state still offers non-RealID compliant licenses. And the down side isn’t all federal buildings only certain ones plus domestic flights. But a passport will also work for those if you don’t have one.
We really are kinda fuckin dumb in the US. It’s like we’re equally deeply suspicious of our government but too dumb to understand how it works so we ends up with blind, ignorant cynicism
Nordics have resolved this by having the strong digital authentication. Services like banks and tele operators work as identity providers for individuals/companies.either through mobile network or app on your phone, and these is a central service that links these together.
This way third parties can safely identify you, and also it follows same OpenID/OAuth2.0/MFA principles, which are industry standards.
This. It is so shocking that they just get used as a harder ID than actual ID. Someone didn’t get the memo. And by “someone”, I mean corporations who haven’t had real consequences in 50 years.
They were never actually meant for identification, just got pigeonholed into that role because the government couldn’t get support for a national citizen ID or the equivalent. We absolutely need something, but every republican will scream that, “it’s a way for the government to track us and limit out freedoms!” and it will be shot down.
the whole math of “stole $500 million” is stupid. That is hypothetical money. It is just not true that all people would have purchased instead without megaupload.
“Which generated $175 million for the site” that’s more like it. Making money with other people’s content is shitty and Kim knew it was happening.
I don’t think he should be extradited but that is at least a decent reason.
Completely agree, if you’re going in search of a movie online, even if you can’t find it, you’re not guaranteed to go out and buy it full price, it’s often a matter of both convenience & price. It’s hard to compete with a free download.
Can confirm, since I have almost every streaming service I rarely consider pirating at all, now I don’t pay for any but 1, so if password crackdowns or location based logins become widespread I’ll be motivated to raise the flag again
Except that when you post to Reddit, you grant them “a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, distribute, store, perform, and display Your Content and any name, username, voice, or likeness provided in connection with Your Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed anywhere in the world. This license includes the right for us to make Your Content available for syndication, broadcast, distribution, or publication by other companies, organizations, or individuals who partner with Reddit.”
Yeah seriously. The whole idea that people can be fucked by fine print in some one sided agreement specifically designed to discourage people from reading is one of the dumbest things our species collectively goes along with.
I think it only makes sense to criminally charge the CEO’s of AI companies if the same thing is being done to Kim Dotcom
—Regardless, my initial post was meant to be satire
—Personally speaking I don’t think all laws on the books are ethical, nor do I think everything that’s unethical is against the law. With that in mind, I don’t care if Kim Dotcom was an asshole because I can’t earnestly argue on behalf of our Intellectual Property laws in the first place. I think they create a framework that is so far beyond reasonable, that my only response is to condone piracy as I have done since long before they raided his mansion.
How many monsters have been put away where after they are convicted, we hear about the years and years of countless reports? Creating a “record” punishes the victim more than the criminal, and victims can be blacklisted if they are “difficult to work with.”
I’m with you that it’s better to report it, but we shouldn’t be blaming victims when they would rather not. We should be creating an environment with minimal barriers to reporting in order to protect victims from shame and retaliation.
Only time it really worked when it was #metoo season and dozens of celebrities came out with accusations to point where there was sufficient evidence to convict some of these pests.
I guess time will tell but I bet we won't hear about it again
That involves persuading their parents they should care. Note I said persuading, not teaching. They know damn well it’s wrong and they don’t care as long as they can get away with it.
I am not directly familiar with the UK system but from everything I have seen, it has the same problems:
The defense against rape accusations is “she was a slut”. And when things are this institutionalized? You can get plenty of people who will gladly attest that the plaintiff came onto them too because they know that if the dominoes start toppling…
And in the off chance she gets justice AND comes out with any dignity? She is not officially on the industry shitlist because that would be wrong… But her career is more or less over. Because the rapists don’t want to hire her for obvious reasons. But even the “normal” people will be wary of “What if she decides something we do is bad?”.
No. The key to shit like this is to get the public shining a light on this first. Rather than going into a dark room and randomly spraying a bit of bug spray.
I remember coworkers talking about metoo and saying things like that or “what if she decides to report me for something <insert mundane action>”.
I always responded with “if you ever have to wonder if an action could be reported to the police, than maybe you should not do that, and if you are worried that a woman will report you, don’t hang out with that person”.
I never understood how this ever could be a worry.
Well, there’s a huge difference between assassinating Trump and assassinating Biden: If Trump dies the GOP has no equivalent. Trump is the party platform. It’s all they stand for at this point. Their entire funding apparatus is dependent on Trump!
If Biden is assassinated Democrats will be sad but there’s like 500 other people that could replace him and everything would continue on, business as usual.
This is very specifically how Oklahoma’s AG sold their case against the religious charter school.
[Oklahoma AG Gentner Drummond] said allowing a school like St. Isidore would open the door for state-funded schools to teach other religious beliefs, such as Sharia law or Satanism.
“While I understand that the Governor and other politicians are disappointed with this outcome, I hope that the people of Oklahoma can rejoice that they will not be compelled to fund radical religious schools that violate their faith,” Drummond said.
Probably the same group that flipped a shit when they started doing yoga in schools because they were “trying to indoctrinate kids into hinduism/buddhism”
No, this how you get the maggots to have religion more "defined and “classified.”
Remember the church of Satan tried this in Florida and desantis just plainly said “No nuh uh. Not yours. You’re not an actual religion. You don’t count.”
Hinduism is not an actual religion? They would have a harder time getting anyone to agree with a straight face
I do hope this is a form of protest, simply because he’s going to run into all sorts of racism and bigotry that we should have long since outgrown. If he makes those politicians understand their inconsistency, that’s a win.
On the other hand, he’s right about the historical importance of such a major religion and we would all do well to learn more about that. If religion belongs anywhere in public schooling, it would be as a survey or comparative religion course, maybe influence on history. …… it’s tough to learn a survey of major religions or compare major relig in a if you limit yourself to one sect of one religion
That’s only if they feel like they have to care about being “fair”. Or attempting to have ethics or agree on having a social contract.
They no longer care.
It is already well-known that requiring the Ten Commandments in the classroom is unconstitutional. They don’t think it matters or welcome the fight on it.
“…, and then saw his knob gobbling support Israel during this conflict.”
I’m not sure what you mean here. He has been opposing support of Israel for quite some time now.
I’m not sure if anybody DIDN’T support Israel immediately following Hamas’ terror attack, but Israel’s conduct quickly changed some hearts and minds.
I don’t know what his stance was at the beginning of the conflict, but I’m not going to fault him him if he was supporting the victim of a terror attack.
No. You don’t get frame a statement like that and then walk away from it. You said he gobbled Israel’s knob and now he has to walk back his vile statements.
And now you just doubled down on it. So tell us, how did he “gobble the knob”, and what was Bernie’s vile statement, that he is now walking back?
32,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed and almost 75,000 injured, two-thirds of whom are women and children. Some 60% of the housing units have been damaged or destroyed, and almost all medical facilities have been made inoperable. Today, hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children are facing starvation because Netanyahu won’t let in sufficient humanitarian aid, while thousands of trucks are waiting to get into Gaza. To pretend that Israel is not violating international law or interfering with U.S. humanitarian aid is absurd on its face. The State Department’s position makes a mockery of U.S. law and assurances provided to Congress.
Cause that doesn’t seem like knob gobbling.
Maybe it was when he went on Face the Nation and said:
what we are seeing in Gaza today is literally an unprecedented crisis. It’s not just that 30,000 people, two thirds of them are women and children have already been killed. We are looking at the possibility of hundreds of thousands of children starving to death. The United States of America cannot be complicit in this mass slaughter of children. So it is one thing to talk to Netanyahu to pressure Netanyahu. But here is the bottom line. Year after year, we have provided billions of dollars in military aid to the Government of Israel. Right now, you have a right wing extremist government under Netanyahu. There are plans to provide him with another $10 billion in unfettered military aid. What you can say to Netanyahu, stop the slaughter, allow the massive amounts of humanitarian aid that we need to come in to feed the children. Please, please, please. Oh, but by the way, if you don’t do it, here’s another $10 billion to continue the war. Now we have written a letter to the president, it turns out that Israel is in violation of the law, stopping American humanitarian aid is in violation of the law. That should be clear, no more money to Netanyahu’s war machine to kill Palestinian children.
Cause that doesn’t seem very vile either.
Oh maybe the other commenter is just full of shit and doesn’t even listen to any news sources of do even the most basic reading. Maybe they’re just some bitter little troll sitting in a basement somewhere.
edit: Maybe it was in July of 2023, even before the October 7th attack, when he boycotted Israels Presidential speech to a session of congress, saying:
It is no great secret that I strongly oppose the policies of Israel’s right wing, anti-Palestinian government. We provide them with $3.8 billion in aid. We have a right to demand they respect human rights.
My dude, your passion and zeal for all things truth liberty and justice are being distorted by your use of the medium.
If one of the most progressive and liberal politicians in one of the highest offices in the land isn’t liberal or progressive enough for you - I get it. But you need to understand you’re not going to get the world you want by commenting. Or making videos. Or marching in the street.
You’ll hopefully move it in the right direction, yes. But actual change - actual decisions and signatures that make heavy loads move and people get things are all done in boring flourescent-lit office buildings that don’t pay much money at all. And you’re not doing that, we’re guessing.
Besides, Bernie’s one of The Good Ones. He’s got a whole career you can check out. Attacking his office is So Not Cool, that your defending-the-attack-by-inference is also not cool. That’s why people are mad.
If that was your point, well, then you did wrong again. But if it wasn’t and you’re just trying to get us there as fast as possible through any means necessary, you might think about re-phrasing or retracting some of that.
Didn’t someone have a picture of a Tesla in the wild with a bumper sticker that read something like: “I bought this before I knew Elon was a complete idiot.”
Debranded? Nice. I dislike that modern cars are covered in logos and tacky chrome symbols and words. Give me a nice plain car with nothing but paint on the outside.
And then you get people who not only have the premium badges but also a license plate that say the cars make or model AND a frame around the plate that also says it lul. I see it all the time in Cali. I want to de badge my car, mostly cause if they want me to advertise for them they should be paying me. It’s just that the front and back badges are indented Into the car and I haven’t found any replacements I like. I also haven’t found any custom maker online, maybe I just need to commission a 3d printer to try something for me.
Didn’t realize that. Purely anecdotally, I don’t recall seeing any debadged cars other than Teslas out on the road, but it’s not like I’ve been looking for them.
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