EldritchFeminity @ EldritchFeminity @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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"Mr. President, why do you hate Cahtolics?"

Not quite accurate. If you leave an instance, you do lose any posts or comments you had. Not a big loss, but there is that sense of investment in an account and reputation.

Agreed, fuck 'em.

If the users of feddit.uk want to engage with us, they're totally welcome to do so on our terms by making an account somewhere that holds their users to a better standard. I hope they do. As far as I'm concerned, the users are cool, but we don't have to coddle somebody else's bigotry or put up with hatred.

The best part about it IMO is that they're the ones who started calling themselves that, but once it gained a negative reputation (for obvious reasons), they started claiming that it's a slur.

Honestly? They are. America is so right-wing that "The Left" encompasses a wide spectrum of ideologies that would all have their own political parties in Europe. Socialists have as much in common with liberals as liberals do with centrists, yet the Dems expect the first two to vote for them while they try to court the conservative leaning side of the centrists.

Don't forget that time he wore a tan suit! Or when he didn't wear an American flag pin that one time. What a commie.

Same as it ever was.

No worries, my point was that this is actually not a generalization, but about a very specific type of person. People, especially those who work in restaurants in the US, would see this and know exactly the person that this is about. They've all seen at least a few of them and could probably call them out by name.

I can only speak from my own experiences, so I don't know if this happens in other countries, but in the US, this is a very specific kind of Christian.

I used to work retail with a very religious old lady who was excommunicated from the Catholic church because her husband divorced her (he divorced her, not the other way around, and she was the one who was punished, but that's a different absurd topic) and this meme would describe her brother, who she talked about with absolute vitriol.

She would describe him as acting like he was a saint despite partaking in every vice you can imagine and being a complete asshole to everybody around him during the week, all because he went to church every Sunday and therefore that made him a good Christian.

These are a particular kind of holier-than-thou person who expect the world to bend to their whim because of the number of times that they've circled the sun on this rock we call Earth and believe that they have the right to treat service staff like trash in the way that royalty treated their servants.

This is a real thing, though. Most mixed use in the US falls into one of two categories: either it was built before zoning codes (like most of the small apartments over businesses) or it's large apartment/condo buildings. Mixed use has become a more popular concept in the past decade or so, but most residential zoning prevents the building of commercial buildings within the area and largely limits the size of dwellings to single family homes.

It's also why 2 and 3 unit housing is a rarity as well. You mostly see either single family housing or large apartment buildings/condo complexes because it's hard to get approved to build anything else - either through zoning laws themselves or NIMBYs killing any project.

You can thank Euclidian Zoning for that.

The US army has a hit ratio of about 50%. Cops have about a 30% average. The average stormtrooper probably has better accuracy than the average cop.

Because that would be "protesting the wrong way." The left is obsessed with decorum, and most people seem to think that if we get enough people holding signs on street corners, then they'll have to stop the slide into fascism.

Try Etsy. There's a whole community about making these things, and I bet they're on Etsy.

Also not safe from being assaulted by a Republican politician in a women's bathroom, which has happened tons more than by trans women - especially since there's no recorded incidents of a trans woman assaulting anybody in a women's bathroom and the group behind the claim openly said that they made it up in an interview 15 years ago.

We do have evidence of the way this is almost guaranteed to go, however. There have been 2 other times in US history where the government has enacted massive tariffs on international trade: in 1828 and in 1930. The results of both times were the worst economic depressions the country has ever faced, and the world in the second case. The economy only recovered the second time thanks to the planned wartime economy, lend-lease program, and post-war rebuilding which cemented the dollar as the international currency, and the consequences of the tariffs were that the party responsible for them didn't hold power again for 60 years.

One is holding ground that you already own vs. taking ground by force. From a military standpoint, there's a massive difference.

Not that I disagree that it's violence either way, mind you. It's just a different scale and situation.

The two heads representing the east and west coasts, obviously (please let us join you, California, when you go).

For one, because the way that the government is set up means that you would need the cooperation of at least 26 states to ensure control of the legislative and executive branches, and even then, the Supreme Court justices are lifetime appointments, so you'd have to wait a long time to get the judicial branch on board. So you'd have to wage a war of conquest to secure the entire country. For another, much of the country is a burden on California's economy. They're the 5th or 6th largest economy in the world on their own, and many of the states are dependent on their tax money and produce.

I think if you're seriously talking about seceding, the most practical/logical plan would be a coalition of like-minded states seceding to form their own nation or EU style group of nation-states. The most likely to consider it would probably be the west coast and the northern end of the east coast (New England specifically), which would be a logistical nightmare for everyone involved - both for the US having hostile nations on all sides as well as any seceding states trying to trade across a hostile country between them. Though aid from friendly countries would be easily available, as both coasts border Canada (and Mexico on the west) and have plenty of infrastructure for trade internationally.

This is greed, pure and simple. At $60, the industry was more profitable than Hollywood, and they raised the base price of games to $70 just a few years ago before immediately talking about raising prices again.

Tear out the lawn and re-wild the yard? Wild flowers, clover, etc. Less watering and mowing, and not just bees will love it - all kinds of insects and wildlife from birds to deer.