JuxtaposedJaguar @ JuxtaposedJaguar @lemmy.ml

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I don’t understand why any family member of a controversial public figure (good or bad) would want to insert themselves into that space. Like, being the kid of Trump or Musk doesn’t give you special insight about society or foreign affairs, so why would you comment on them like some kind of authority? And even if you thought you had some valuable insight, wouldn’t you want it to stand on its own merits? Tom Fischbach is a great example of that, IMO.

"Some of you guys are alright, don't go to the US on Sunday."

I thought Trump would have to declare martial law to blatantly violate constitutional rights...

(Formerly American) Conservatives in CECOT: You can't detain me, I have a rights!

Trump administration: Do you feel like you have rights?

Literally just having a tattoo--even without having any criminal history--is enough to be sent to the gulag.

The highly-skilled, educated, and non-crazy ones of working age are actually great for other countries' economies. If you work at a gas station or are crazy, not so much.

The human brain is a biological machine comprised of a very large number of simple components that follow the laws of physics. Some combinations of those components interacting in a certain way results in what we consider to be consciousness, but it’s still just a chemical reaction based on purely physical processes. When a brain’s components stop interacting in that way, its consciousness ceases to exist.

You're entitled to your own personal beliefs, but you should know that your belief is inconsistent with the current scientific understanding of biology and consciousness.

It's not ethical to irresponsibly create children, but it's also not ethical to prevent people from doing so. The most you can do is make that information easily available to people and encourage them to act responsibly.

One of the biggest problems would be enforcement of that license. With driving, cops are everywhere and regularly pull people over to check their license. With hunting, there are game wardens that patrol hunting areas and check the licenses of hunters.

With procreation, people can have unprotected sex anywhere and typically in private. You'd either need to give some group of people permanent access to enter any private space at any time (to randomly check for unlicensed sex), or force everyone without a license to take birth control or be sterilized. Unfortunately, none of those options are ethical.

There will be more, but most of them are too cowardly to be the first. Trump's supporters literally tried to hang Pence, but I don't think they'd try to hang 20+ Republicans if they made a joint statement.

I meant outed as being queer. OP said that if you do queerphobic things as a way to hide that you're queer, you deserve to be outed. I'm asking if a queer person who does queerphobic things--not with the intention of hiding that they're queer, but because they genuinely believe that god gave everyone "queer desires" as a morality test--should be outed as queer.

For example, I've seen the argument that some gay priests are homophobic because they have "gay desires" and they assume that everyone else has them too. One of those priests said something to the effect of "all men want to have sex with other men, but it's our job not to". Of course, most men actually don't want to have sex with other men--if you do, you're just gay--but those priests might now know that. I'm conflicted as to whether that's a reasonable justification for homophobia, but I'm curious what OP thinks about it.

It's "losers", but yes. I'd phrase it as "not every poor and uneducated person deserves sympathy; it's not necessarily victim-blaming to refuse to accommodate such a person."

Disabled people should have to ask for a seat on public transit if one isn't available; other people shouldn't immediately get up when a clearly disabled person boards, nor should anyone expect them to without being asked. Similarly, you have no right to criticize someone (who doesn't appear to be disabled) if they're sitting in a seat designated for disabled people and they don't get up when a visibly disabled person gets on.

First of all, the disabled person might not even want the seat. If they do, it's reasonable to expect them (as an adult) to advocate for their own needs (i.e. ask). It's actually more offensive to assume that every elderly or otherwise visibly-disabled person is incapable of that.

Second of all, not all disabilities are easily visible. I'm a mid-twenties guy and I was born with an auto-immune disorder that sometimes makes it very difficult or painful to stand/walk. It's happened multiple times that strangers on the bus have chewed me out for not giving up my seat, even though (statistically) there were probably other people sitting in disability-designated seats that needed that seat less than me and the visibly disable person who just boarded. I can't fucking believe I have arthritis in my twenties, either. I'm just trying to cope with the shitty circumstances I was given and the last thing I need is to constantly have to justify myself to ignorantly self-righteous strangers.

That's mostly because men, on average, negotiate for higher wages; if the women in such positions asked for higher wages, the disparity would be much lower.

Do you think that people who act queerphobic for reasons other than hiding their true identity also deserve to be outed?

OP is saying that of the people who are poor and uneducated, there is a small percentage that are fuckwits. Your description could be true for 95% of such people and it still wouldn't be inconsistent with OP's comment.

The original was better

Trump is overplaying his hand, IMO. Going after 2 law firms for things specifically related to him was probably pretty effective, but going after 6+ firms just encourages them to band together. Also, while some firms could have avoided pursuing Trump, it’s not practical to avoid any organization that Trump might like.

TL;DR: If I’m a law firm, at this point I’m thinking that it’s only a matter of time until Trump goes after me, so there’s no point in trying to avoid it.

Thank you daddy Trump for temporarily slowing down the financial disaster you caused. I barely even remember that the economic wars you started were completely unnecessary and counter-productive.