vvilld @ vvilld @lemmy.dbzer0.com Posts 0Comments 55Joined 6 days ago
Is this the showdown we've been waiting for that will finally definitively prove we're no longer a Constitutional Republic?
I guarantee you there's going to be a fuck ton of obnoxious fascists on Reddit and Twitter quoting the fuck out of Jackson today.
It all needs to get a lot less complex and confusing. I know the complexity is a byproduct of the defederated nature of the whole thing, but it's also the primary thing limiting growth. The fediverse is never going to grow to anything other than a tiny niche if it isn't immediately understandable to people who have 0 background in tech.
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I've been voting for 12 years longer than you and that's the same for me in general elections. The way I see American electoral politics, you vote for who you want in the primary. They end up losing to some shitty as corporate stooge. Then you vote against the fascist in the general election.
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2004 Primary Elections (it was a presidential year, but there were more elections than just for president). I was actually 17 at the time and still a high school senior, but the law in my state was that if you were going to be 18 for the general election you could vote in the primary. I've voted in every primary and general election since.
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Yes, of course it is.
Like any privilege, having 'pretty privilege' doesn't mean your life isn't difficult or that you don't have problems. It just means that your looks aren't one of the things contributing to those problems/difficulties.
Well, whatever it is, when I was a toddler my parents mentioned to my pediatrician that I loved eating hot peppers (apparently I would just grab them off the shelf in the grocery store and chow down. It was a bit of a problem for my mom because I wouldn't wait for her to pay, or so goes the story she likes to tell). The doctor told my parents that I don't have receptors to detect capsacin. I haven't had it independently checked as an adult. Maybe they were mistaken or my parents mis-remembered what they were told.
Regardless, I don't think I've ever experienced what you refer to as feeling like getting maced while sneezing or laughing. I haven't been directly maced before, but I have been in a crowd that got pepper sprayed. It burned the fuck out of my eyes and lungs, but I didn't notice it anywhere else.
I'd argue the hate come after the "practical" reasoning. They target a group for various reasons (as a scapegoat, to create the illusion of progress, to steal resources, etc) then create an intellectual framework to justify their targeting of the group. The hatred comes out of that justification.
Rather than "god damn" I usually say "gods damn". I'm not religious at all, but I'd rather someone mistake me for a polytheistic pagan than a Christian.
My mouth doesn't have the receptors to detect capsacin, the chemical that makes spicy food burn/hot. I can eat the spiciest food imaginable and it will not burn my mouth at all.
That said, those receptors exist in other parts of my body. Very often while I'm sitting on the toilet I'll realize my dinner the previous night was particularly spicy.
Also, after more than 1/3 of a century of eating spicy food indiscriminately, my stomach lining has taken quite the beating.
There were MASSIVE anti-Vietnam war protests at the time. Far more massive than anything we've seen since. And they did recognize the hypocrisy in calling it a "police action" when it was obviously a war.
You do not understand anarchism in the slightest. You are imagining some Hobbsian hellscape out of a disaster movie, which is completely counter to human nature.
So your argument is that the only way to get people to live together is under the constant threat of violence from the state?
That's a different situation considering the Irish language was created before there even was a united Ireland. We can trace the history of how English came to America, and it came from the English people. We can't trace the history of how the Irish language spread across Ireland because it predates history.
I don't know what that means, but I don't think you do either.
The coffee certainly makes me need to poop!
What's the circle A supposed to be here, then?
Yes, it's 100% immature, which is exactly why you should do it.
Eating a banana while drinking coffee. Perfectly complimentary flavors.
Like I said, while semantically imprecise, yes, we did get the English language from the English.