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[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Joe Pera

Todd Barry

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Good idea, link the community and post here, too, thanks.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

I think you may have to start a new community for this, I'm genuinely not sure where a story like this might go. Excellent, though. Very interested to find out more.

The "Casual conservation" community is probably too casual for this. Maybe creating something like /c/WildPersonalStories ?

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Agreed, of course. Was just pointing out that such a thing did exist. Charities are not the most effective way to handle such issues, absolutely.

Charities absolutely rely on things like public relations and advertising campaigns to raise awareness that they exist and/or need funding. It leaves everyone at the mercy of which charity is "most popular" and if yours isn't very popular, you could see it disappear. It also means a significant portion of the budget is spent on things that don't actually address the real problem, which is hunger.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

...and you're treated as culturally insensitive if you point out that it's partially motivated because of two bullshit ass religions, and the reason they won't stop is because they've each just got to prove their God has the bigger dick, even though they're technically the same God.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wake me when a third party is viable in the US. Unfortunately, as it stands, with First Past the Post voting, third parties currently do nothing but split the vote. That's purposeful, too.

There's unfortunately just so much that has to change for this country to move forward. There isn't going to be a revolution, I agree with that, but it's also not going to get better by trying to work within the status quo.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I didn't say I wasn't going to vote. I was simply pointing out that telling people to "vote harder" isn't working, and for very real and visceral reasons such as risking employment and ability to care for oneself. You can't act like real reasons that prevent people from being able to participate aren't part of the conversation.

Democrats are still the better choice, but I really don't like people who could do more choosing not to because it's easier to rake in money and sit on their hands while the Republicans act the fool, and then acting like it's the voting public's fault. That's some kind of abuse. "I know we don't treat you very well, but the other guys will actually really hurt you." It feels like a threat. "We'll let them hurt you if you don't do enough for us."

We need a real leftist party in the US. Yet the top Democrats think we need a Republican party. They think we need a lunatic far right fringe always pushing us to the brink of authoritarianism. Why the fuck would they think we need that instead of a true leftist party? Because they like how much money they can make off how the game currently works. It is a game to them.

"I will say this—you'll be shocked, probably—I think the country needs a strong Republican Party [like] we need a strong Democratic Party...but this is not it," Pelosi said. "It isn't our judgment about what it should be. It's their judgment, but it's a missed opportunity for America."

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 62 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

I dunno, I always thought it was meant to mimic organics.

"Cable management" inside the human body is horrendous. So it felt like in the mixing of machine and biology, the machines had to become more biological in the way they worked to function properly in tandem with the Borg biology.

 

EDIT: Downvotes with no comments. Shocker. Guess it's hard to back up your opinions, huh? I guess some people are totes fine with war criminals walking free?


What it says on the tin:

Obama told the nation that we "needed to look forward, not backward" when it came to prosecuting war criminals George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

He would end up legalizing and codifying a lot of the worst excesses of the Bush administration.

His actions of letting war criminals walk without any consideration of what they had done literally set the stage for Donald Trump being treated with kid gloves. I don't see how the two aren't connected.

Both of them dealt with the question of "Can we successfully prosecute a former President?" Obama kicked the can down the road to ignore the question entirely, because it might appear "partisan" or something.

As evidenced by Trump's national security documents case, they really wanted to kick the can down the road again. They gave Trump every opportunity to just return the documents with nothing but a slap on the wrist. They only started bringing criminal charges when it became clear that he never had any intent of returning anything.

Obama is viewed so favorably by so many, but it's hard for me to do so when I think about this. Obama's unwillingness to address this question in his administration is outright why we are facing the governments inability to reign in Trump at all. He's done so many things that would have shown regular people the endless inside of a jail cell, but they just let him keep running around free.

When you allow criminals to walk free, other criminals see it as way to get away with whatever they want. That's pretty much how Trump treated the Presidency, a "get out of jail for fucking everything for free" card. He still views it as such. It's hard to imagine he didn't get this idea by watching previous Presidents get away with tons of shit that would see the rest of us behind bars.

Anyway, long story short: Thanks, Obama.

 

I'm so sorry for this. I'm not creative.

Forgive me Q, for I have sinned.

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The website isn't worthless so much as the watermark on memes.

 

Would an advertising executive

Understand where the homeless live?

Would he know about the bubbles in his glass?

Would the bubbles in his glass

Understand what the man's golf cart is?

Do they know you can die frozen underneath an overpass?

 
 

YTMND is dead. Long live YTMND.

 

This is how it felt.

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