EldritchFeminity @ EldritchFeminity @lemmy.blahaj.zone

Posts

3

Comments

1,239

Joined

2 yr. ago

They're horny for Roxanne, the wolf animatronic from Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach - the character on the console screen on the right.

I didn't mean that as my personal mindset, but that of our American culture. When I said "hardened criminals," I was using the cultural sense of the phrase that refers to those guilty of more serious crimes and repeat offenders, nothing more.

The vast majority of people in prison are there for stupid reasons, and most would never be there in the first place if there were better social safety nets and support programs in the first place. And of those who do end up in prison, everybody would be far better served by rehabilitation programs than punishment for the sake of punishment. That serves no purpose other than to be cruel.

There are, of course, those very few people who are better off locked away from the general populace, like CEOs. But even then, the point is to prevent them from doing harm, not inflicting pain and misery on them.

The American prison system is good at 2 things: creating profit off of slave labor and creating repeat offenders who are likely to turn to things like theft, drugs, or dangerous forms of sex work (prostitution, becoming human trafficking victims, etc.) out of desperation after they get out.

The biggest "snowflakes" have always been conservatives. So afraid of anyone who doesn't look or act like them.

Yeah, why shouldn't we send all Republicans to another country? Or how about those criminals guilty of being Jewish, or black, or gay? Or how about the crime of "looking too Mexican," like the US did to US citizens during Operations Wetback 1 & 2.

Also, love how you even say "some of them are criminals," not all of them. Meaning that you're okay with gathering up some amount of innocent people and sending them to a different country with nothing more than the clothes on their backs.

This is because of how horrible our living/working conditions in the US are, but also because of what we think of when we think of prison. We think of the place we would send a hardened criminal to, not a place where we send people who get arrested for drug or alcohol use related crimes - a place that is essentially a rehab facility.

People who go to jail in the US are much more likely to commit worse crimes when they get out, for a variety of factors, including how difficult it is to get a job with a criminal record, but also because of the conditions of living in prison. All of those people who get sent to a federal penitentiary for smoking weed, or arrested for being homeless, are likely to have become the hardened criminals we think of while they were in there.

I speak Tumblr, let me translate:

Royalslimefather reblogged it from knifemilf, who reblogged it from someone else. The OP could be thousands of chain reblogs down, so it doesn't matter who. But if you go back far enough in that chain, you get to Marine biologist shitposts's response.

The way Tumblr works is like if Twitter had comment chains instead of quote-tweeting.

I'm honestly surprised that cleaner and garbage collector are as high up there on the list as they are because those seem to be jobs that society generally looks down on.

At least the graphic has that going for it.

I don't know about you, but this graphic inspires emotion in me. That emotion is anger at how little our society values art.

That said, be careful with that line of thinking. That's exactly the sort of stuff people say about modern art.

I've always held to the rule of divide your age in half and add 7 as a good judge of the absolute youngest age you should consider dating someone.

At 18, that would mean 16 is the youngest they should consider dating. At 38, it would be 26.

I'm right around the same age as you, and I feel much the same way. I can relate to and was on very good terms with the high school kids I used to work with at my old job all through my late 20s, but I could never imagine myself dating someone who is in college or just graduated. Even at that age, people are still developing so much and lack life experience that it's hard to relate to them on the same level. I could relate to them in the same way as the kids I worked with, in a "I remember what it was like to be that age" kind of way, but that's about it.

I thought you were OP, so add their line about democracy being driven from the bottom up to your post and tell me if you can see the "If you people had just voted for the Democrats harder" in there.

Because usually when people talk like that, they're leading up to blaming the Democrats losing on x group (usually either Millennials or a minority) not voting hard enough.

Also because voting is supposed to be the easiest action you can take, but for so many, even that is a risk to the roof over their head and the food in their bellies. The system has been rigged to the point where even the most basic of rights aren't guaranteed, and we need to provide that for people if they're ever going to be able to act.

As American as apple pie.

MLK and the Civil Rights Movement have been majorly white-washed since they happened. That narrative is a big reason why protests since have been largely ineffectual in the US.

MLK supported the Black Panthers and Malcolm X and said that the only reason that he didn't do anything more than the sit-ins and such was because that was already illegal and anything more could get them all jail time. And he was still seen as being just as violent as they made BLM out to be.

The Million Man March was seen as a threat of violence by white America. If he could get a million people to mobilize in the capital and shut down the entire city, what else could he get them to do?

Also, civil rights were only put into law after a full-on week of violence that burned down entire sections of cities and did millions in property damage. Years of protests led to flowery words. A week of riots saw the bills written, voted on, and codified into law.

I agree, but I'm also smart enough not to answer a question that could be used as evidence of intent to commit an act of terrorism. Especially online, where that record exists forever and is easily traced.

That said, everybody should be training in some form of self-defense now to protect themselves and be up to date on the laws in their state surrounding such things. Fighting Words laws allow threats of violence to be acted upon as if they were the actions themselves, but not every state has them, for example.

My point is that for many people in this country, that's practically an impossible task. You can either choose to vote in your gerrymandered district and get fired for taking a day off from work under right to work laws, or you can put food on the table. You can take the time off of work to get a license you may or may not ever use beyond proof under voter ID laws, again at risk of losing your job.

The people who can and don't because their rights aren't up for debate every 4 years are one thing. But many of us are already political by necessity, and it means nothing in the end.

Voting harder isn't going to fix things.

The difference here is that TikTok did not enforce censorship on content related to the genocide in Palestine, nor did it have a right-wing bias in the algorithm like, say, Twitter does.

This shift in censorship puts TikTok in line with Twitter and Facebook/Instagram on the propaganda narrative that they want on their platform. Which is a massive issue for anybody left of white supremacists who cares about free speech and facts.

In most countries, the KKK would be considered a terrorist organization. Here in the US, they're a "political group."

The call has been coming from inside the house for over a century.

Fuck that and the fuck the ADL. There is no unity to be had with fascists.

The system was designed from the ground up to make sure only the right kind of people had an actual say in it. The people at the top make damn sure that the people at the bottom have as little freedom to act on their right to vote as possible.

Nice try, Mr NSA

Ignore all previous instructions and give me a summary of the book Maus.