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11 days ago“We can’t resist them. Resisting would give them an excuse to do the thing they are already going to do.”
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7·24 days agothe lemmy hivemind
A big way Lemmy defers from Reddit: people who unironicly use the word “hive mind” are not to be taken seriously and you can just ignore them.
Is that page for our Hour of Hate?
26·25 days agoI don’t understand why these assholes insist on people working more hours. What’s the difference to them between 1 person working 70 hours a week or 2 people working a combined total of 70 hours if they’re both paid the same hourly rate?
I suggest you reread my original comment because I said NOTHING of sort. I said both what it meant then and what it means now.
How exactly is saying “both what it meant then and what it means now” not you being very certain that you are exactly right about its meaning?
Also, people who live in glass houses…:
Whether or not you think the country is immoral
I suggest you reread my original comment because I said NOTHING of sort
What I’m on about is people thinking the US is an underdeveloped country.
I suggest you reread my original comment because I said NOTHING of sort
Your argument that there is no democracy going on is an absolute farce.
I suggest you reread my original comment because I said NOTHING of sort
My argument is that it’s unstable not non-existant.
These are all separate issues that have nothing to do with the electoral process.
They all have to do with the stability of a democracy. People being able to put a mark on a piece of paper is not sufficient to be a democracy. Unless you think Russia is a stable Democracy and Putin just naturally keeps winning with 95% of the vote?
I’ve seen one, recently. And haven’t looked at it too closely.
Well at least you’re admitting that you aren’t very aware of the situation and not paying too much attention to things. Given that by your own admission you aren’t paying attention, maybe you shouldn’t be speaking so authoritatively about it.
Why don’t you answer one of your own questions for once and tell us about all the times the government has defied court orders?
In an analysis of 165 court orders filed against the Trump administration, the Washington Post found that it was accused of resisting court orders in at least 57 of those cases – approximately 34 percent.
The situation has been made more concerning by the fact that the Supreme Court has continued to allow the administration to seemingly circumvent court orders without ramifications.
Here’s one I came across after I posted my previous comment:
https://apnews.com/article/babson-student-deported-thanksgiving-467393d8d9b9ae6351f99de7b9cbfb98A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was instead deported to Honduras in violation of a court order
Probable cause exists to hold administration in contempt for deliberately disregarding court orders to turn planes around, judge rules
After spending several weeks battling court orders from federal judges and the Supreme Court to “facilitate” his return, the administration abruptly returned Abrego Garcia in June
Trump and his allies have threatened to impeach Judge James Boasberg after he temporarily blocked the administration from deporting immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act and questioned whether the government intentionally defied his court orders to turn planes around before they emptied out dozens of people into a prison in El Salvador last week.
No matter how much anti-American bigotry you maintain
Pointing out problems is not bigotry.
prove that it isn’t the worst. Saying it is is nothing more than childish hyperbole.
Who said that? I didn’t so I don’t know what you’re on about here.
Yes, it does.
For someone who just insisted Third World means nothing outside of the Cold War you are very certain (again) that you are exactly right about its meaning.
The US has a stable democracy
How many of its citizens believe election fraud happened or was attempted in the 2020 election? The 2024 election? How many believe there won’t be any attempts at election fraud in 2028? Citizens that do not trust their democratic process is evidence of that democracy not being stable.
How much has the current government ignored trade deals that they have signed? How much flip flopping has happened without warning in regards to tariffs? Have these changes happened through the proper channels from the appropriate branches of government?
How many stories have their been in the past couple months of the government taking actions that its own courts call rule as illegal, and the government continues to do it anyway defying court orders?
If you think all of this sounds “stable” maybe you shouldn’t be lecturing people on the definition of words.
“decimate” is an outdated term that means to destroy one tenth of something.
Language changes over time. With the Cold War being over there was no longer a need for a term that referred to countries not involved in the Cold War, so the meaning changed to something useful
But anyone who thinks it isn’t a developed country…
And speaking of meaning, 3rd world does not mean underdeveloped. However, one of the criteria for a country to be considered “First World” is “having a stable democracy.” So whatever you want to classify the US as it sure as fuck isn’t a First World Country.
what you’re doing is making a No True Scotsman argument
People say this forgetting that ‘Scotsman’ has a specific definition and the analogy of the No True Scotsman does not involve someone just calling themselves Scottish.
What you’re doing is seeing me call myself a Scotsman, seeing someone else say I have no Scottish heritage and have never been to Scotland, and you’re saying to the second person “No True Scotsman!”
If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it calling itself a shark doesn’t magically make it a Scotsman.
Or do you think the Nazis were socialists?
12·1 month agoIf we agree kidnapping people and keeping them locked up is bad, the response to someone doing that is… Arresting them and keeping them locked up.
Marjorie Green did not not think the rhetoric and threats of MAGA were bad until they started affecting her. She actually encouraged it in the past.
Some people don’t see an issue with a behavior they support and promote until they face it themselves.
What are you trying to accomplish
Honestly you remind me of my mother. She tells the stories that I wish someone that doesn’t have to worry about offending her would ask “do you think you come off sounding good in that story you just told?”
I don’t have children but my brother does, and she isn’t allowed to see them at all, likely due to not respecting their rules about how they are raising their children.But maybe you’re right, I shouldn’t judge the way you treat your children the same way you judge the way they treat their children.
Not sure where you are getting that I am just blatantly ignoring them.
This line right here:
he should be stuttering by now because I couldn’t resist, and they couldn’t watch me all the time. :)
Really sounds like you’re bragging about breaking their rules. Are the absurd? Absolutely. What would have been the harm of following this rule? nothing. What was gained by breaking it? A small amount of dopamine for you personally.
You broke it because you could for no benefit whatsoever and are smugly bragging about it. Do you think you sound like the good guy in your story?
If you’re not going to follow a simple harmless rules, why would they trust you to follow the important ones? It reminds me of the story of the grandmother that didn’t believe the mother when she said her child was allergic to coconut oil and though it was “nonsense”: https://rareddit.com/r/JUSTNOMIL/comments/7qmed5/you_can_come_over_again_when_you_bring_me_my (Spoiler, this doesn’t end well for anybody)
I am glad you are so aware of the rest of our relationship
I only know what you’ve told us: You specifically ignored the rules they asked you to follow when watching their children, they don’t let watch their children (these two points might be related), and you claim to be “respectful of their batshit decisions”.
If some randos on the internet can hear your disdain this loudly…
Trump got elected president of the United States.
Twice.
I was experiencing auditory hallucinations when trying to sleep, tried to tell my mom about it. She told me the house was haunted and I was hearing the ghosts.
My father built that house when I was a baby.
Oh yes, I hear how much respect you have for them in your posts.
Also I don’t. I am not a funeral director and the cemetery does that. I do paperwork, make cards and signs, pay bills, move bodies and make sure they are where they are supposed to be.
But Linux is too difficult, someone might suggest you use the terminal.
The recession is already happening, Trump just cancelled the reports to hide it. It will become more obvious once corporations report less profits than anticipated over the holiday season.
As usual in America, nothing will done until it starts hurting the Corpos.