AllonzeeLV @ AllonzeeLV @lemmy.world

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We were warned, too.

Our God here in the US is Mammon, even though he usually goes by other names; rational self-interest, the invisible hand, etc.

Mammon would never let genocide get in the way of glorious profit.

Oh wow, nice to meet you.

Always been meaning to ask, why is your craftsmanship shite?

I am the son of God.

The problem is, the women who have been in his corner are proudly against their own interests.

They seem to derive identity from being against their own gender's acquisition of rights and status.

They're akin to the sizable women's anti suffrage movement that came with the suffrage movement, patronizingly acting like they know better than to give people like themselves equal status to men.

Hopefully this pushes away the no-low information independent women, but the only way for Trump to lose Republican votes he currently has would be to suddenly find civility, tact, and demonstrate basic respect towards his opponent, which would never happen.

It's extremely disingenuous and intentionally misleading that our introduction of the Native Americans to young children is portrayed as peaceful and kind when the headline of European immigrant relations with Native Americans is genocide. It would be better to say nothing about them than to leave the opposite impression of what actually happened until they're older.

It would be akin to young German Children being taught about Adolf Hitler: Staunch Animal Rights activist until they're older. Sure, I guess he was, but it would be obvious what the goal of leading with that factoid is.

The goal of early social study books highlighting that is to instill "America Yay" ideas in kids heads, a vestige of the whole manifest destiny we did nothing wrong narrative. We are a nation built on foundations of genocide and slavery. That is overwhelming reality. But many, particularly conservative Americans, would prefer that be expunged from our national identity so they can feel better about our history, which is the basis of their war on CRT.

Good job telling your own words off.

you seem to be assuming that children have the same logical reasoning faculties that adults do. this is not the case.

Critical thinking and reasoning must be taught, and in the US largely doesn't until the college level unfortunately. Many adults, many parents have no logical reasoning faculties and never will. Some are very proud of this, declaring the whims and opinions that pop into their heads "common sense." I refer you to my fellow Americans who see salvation in a slumlord game show host nepo baby. There's a reason humanity spent 180+ thousand years wandering in the dirt before stumbling upon a less brutal way to live 10-20 thousand years ago.

Again, some like myself may seek out such information if they are starved of it at home, if they have access. If anything, getting multiple conflicting opinions tends to make a new mind seek out ways to parse the true from the false, and that chance is better than no chance at all.

There's no cure all solution. I consider homeschooled children taught to live their lives by regressive religious texts to be just as broken as the cult of Tate.

If any intervention will still yield roughly equivalent mixed results, I always err on the side of more access to information. A child can gravitate to Andrew Tate's toxicity, or they can look up facts about the confederacy their parents told them fought for "states rights and freedumb!"

In a perfect world, loving parents should be available to provide opinions and context, but I'd rather that child have the opportunity to seek out a rational, benevolent path if the parents attempt to indoctrinate them to their worldview with no other options.

The parents most interested in dominating all information their child receives tend to be the same ones that get mad at the schools for teaching children that genitals exist, the universe is billions of years old, and their country wasn't always perfect, stuff they need to know for life whether their parents like it or not.

No, children deserve to be able to fact check their parent's biased narrative, too.

It's a conservative mindset to demand you get to monopolize the information your child receives until they're 18.

Its fun to reminisce about all the blatant lies we were fed in grade school.

Who remembers that pretty cartoon in their textbooks of the pilgrims and their new friends the Native Americans enjoying a Thanksgiving feast together?

I'm voting blue to keep the water pumps on a sinking ship going to buy a little time and delay some suffering. The ship is dead.

We need a new constitution with a focus on punishing people that try to buy more influence than their single vote permits with the same severity as murderers. I don't believe in capital punishment, but if murderers are getting it I'm fine with would be antisocial profiteers getting the same treatment, but would prefer life in prison all around.

You might say that's impossible, but capitalist created, climate change induced collapse makes all things possible long term, and there's no real interest by people with power/capital in mitigating that.

Even our fallible, slave owning and raping founders who floated voting rights be tied to land ownership acknowledged their document was not divine and would eventually need to be replaced... a quarter millenium ago.

I didn't think the US would survive Citizens United.

In the ways that matter, like still being a representative democracy and not a functional oligarchy, I was correct.

They're the biggest reason assisted dying would be so popular, regardless of how it was run.

This is their world, and they must benefit to permit something merciful for the people to happen. Their malice is already everywhere, for this to even have a chance of ever existing, they must get their cut, or they wouldn't let their middle managers in governments pass it. Just the reality.

I was just suggesting a potential offering to the rule makers to make it achievable. They have no kindness or mercy to appeal to, only money.

With a waiting period, I think assisted dying should be available for adults in general, regardless of terminal illness.

No one opted in, and at least in my society where we are belligerently unwilling to tangibly help one another, where most are expected to endlessly produce regardless of our wellbeing under threat of homelessness and gruesome death by exposure, and where struggling people are often condemned for being lazy or making bad decisions when they're already down, it would be a small, efficient mercy to allow a quiet, painless opt out.

We could even have the capitalists run it and charge a small fee since they need to turn everything into a for profit endeavor. Everyone wins.

The trick is to stop caring,

I don't mean be an asshole for kicks, I just mean stop giving weight to what others think of you. It's your life. Time teaches this lesson to many, but many refuse to accept it.

...And nothing of value was lost.

Candace Owens is an opportunistic sociopath. She found her niche as a paid, enthusiastic token for people that openly hate her demographic but want someone to point to to go "nuh-uh" when confronted. I doubt she believes a word she says or writes in this role, as it would mean she openly hates herself, but the fact that she is willing to for prominence and the pay prominence comes with makes her an opportunistic sociopath.

Want fewer opportunistic sociopaths in society? Rebuild our economic framework to stop rewarding and empowering opportunistic sociopaths, and start rewarding pro-social vocations.

Exactly, the people that conflate legality with morality have the poorest of moral compasses. It's sad how many people just stop at this stage of moral development.

In these times, with what is being made legal(child labor) and illegal(abortion) that should be more obvious than ever.

Coffee and Chocolate will again be luxuries of the rich in the coming decades. The rest will learn to use cancer causing, cheap to produce imitations. The owners don't care, so long as the right people can get as much as they want and more.

As ever, thanks greedy capitalists, wish we weren't too chickenshit and/or deluded into worshipping you to stop you.