If you're implying there's not a fundamental difference between a Republican president and a Democrat president, at this point, that's absolutely hilarious. Delusional.
As a lifelong Iowan I am ashamed that we continue to employ this woman. Paying her a salary is not sustainable for Iowa, she is holding back this great state from so much potential it's enraging.
Yeah, point taken there, I was of course being a bit facetious in how I represented it, the $40/month is really a supplemental amount to what the legal guardian can already provide. It's just such a sad reality that there are kids with few options of their own in this world, and one of those options is being taken away because it's perceived as imperfect by the people in charge of it, with no regard for those that rely on it for things like staying alive and such.
$40 is a lot of money to stretch across 30 days, but it's peanuts for the state of Iowa to afford, compared to something like the Governor's salary, which I'm sure she thinks she deserves more than the poorest children of her state deserve a full tummy.
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Yep, same path I took 2 years ago. Therapist started working with me on my anxiety, she quickly realized I had ADHD and it was a major driver of my anxiety, referred me to a psychiatrist who got me on Adderall and completely changed my life.
Yeah, my job went remote in 2020 and this year I moved out of the city and just bought my first house in my home state where the cost of living is almost 1/2 of my former city. I could've would've never bought a place where I was before. I'm sure someone would have loaned me the money but that felt like a death sentence for my small amount of disposable income.
I make $150k and learned to manage a very strict budget living in the city. Now I have some disposable income and my own house with a yard.
So you do care about up votes then, or you wouldn't be using it to claim you "came out on top". You called me a coward for downvoting you so I responded and called you out for being thin skinned, and you've done nothing but prove me right since. But if that feels like a win to you then that is just super cool man.
Man I'm allowed to downvote shit I don't want to see at the top of every post. Like that's why they put that functionality on this site, I am allowed to use it to vote on what's the most relevant comment. You're not the ruler of Lemmy.
It was a redundant, pointless, low effort comment that repeated the one at the top of the thread so I downvoted it and I did scroll past it and move on without saying anything. Then the dude whined and labeled everyone downvoting him as a coward, presumably because he assumed they supported Trump (remember how you feel about people being mislabeled and denigrated?) so I corrected him about my reasoning. What the fuck is wrong with that?
The irony of you not scrolling past my comment and instead chastising me is palpable.
It triggered you enough to edit your post to whine about 'cowards'. You're the one that asked for an explanation from your downvoters, I was just standing up and explaining myself to be counted by you like you demanded.
Wikipedia: A rhetorical question is a question asked for a purpose other than to obtain information. In many cases it may be intended to start a discourse, or as a means of displaying or emphasizing the speaker's or author's opinion on a topic
The question wasn't asked to obtain information. It was asked to emphasize the point of the post, and there was already another comment from an hour earlier asking the exact same question (scroll up in this thread.)
Or do people really not know why Donald Trump is getting special treatment at this point? It's the most obvious answer in America politics right now. It's been clear that America has 2 criminal justice systems for centuries now, and Trump is clearly in the one where you don't go to real jail, ever.
The complaint that he deserves to be in jail is valid. I'm saying I prefer a thread where we talk about the topic of the article (what he did) and not a thread where every other comment is some variation of "this is ridiculous!" "Why isn't he in jail!" "Call me when he's actually in jail and I'll listen!!!"
It just gets old so I downvote the comments that I don't want to see in every single thread, so other people that actually add to the conversation can get seen. But here I am wasting words on that exact thread, so I guess I learned to not take the bait and reply to a downvote whiner next time at all.
Some people down vote because they want comments that actually add to the discussion to be at the top, and comments that ask the same rhetorical questions ad nauseum to be at the bottom, so they don't have to scroll as far to find meaningful discussion. At least that's why I downvoted you
May I ask what expertise you have on this that makes you know more than doctors and psychologists who use the term intrusive thoughts, and specifically use that term to diagnose people with mental illness or neuro-divergence? Or are you just pontificating to feel smarter than everyone else? We don't need a new word for something everyone (except you) clearly already understands and uses properly.
Twitter is a software, he's been saying stupid stuff about how it works for the last year+