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  • "The FTC depositions so far have targeted "former employees because nearly every employee who has been identified as a point person for privacy or data security either resigned or was terminated before the FTC could talk to them," the government said. "

    That is an amazing sentence. I don't know how this company still exists. Also I'm glad we all collectively decided to give Twitter the Prince treatment and it is now just the company formerly known as Twitter.

  • I like to watch videos of media critiques. Somehow all the ones that I keep getting recommended are anti woke d bags that blame every bad movie choice on the company/producer/director/etc going woke. I've pretty much had to stop watching those types of videos and try to rebalance the algorithm by watching literally anything that seems remotely left leaning. It's been 2 months and it's barely better.

  • Not schadenfreude, ambivalence. And if there is nothing else you want to add then we are just strangers arguing each other's morals, morals which we really have no idea about. And there is no point or value in arguing the perceived morals of people you don't and never will know.

  • Cold, sure. Awful, for these women yes. But this is explicitly the consequences of the vote of the overwhelming majority of this states population. In no way have I said that women deserve sub standard health care. I have said this is the exact outcome that the voting population was warned of, ie consequences. You have been talking about morality, but just my morality not the morality of the situation. So again, what's your argument? That we shouldn't call this the consequences of the state of idaho voting for this? That the state shouldn't be allowed to enact or enforce these laws? That doctors should be forced to stay?what are you trying to add to the conversation other than to say that my comment is mean because not everyone wanted to ban abortion and prosecute doctors?

  • I mean, that is how a representative democracy works. I'm a two party system you get 50%+1 and you win. Getting more than 52-53% of the vote is very hard. Idaho is voting 60-70% + for this. Obviously individuals are individual but what is your argument? That there is nothing to be said about voting blocks because you have to consider each individual persons thoughts on a vacuum? Either you're being obtuse or naive.

  • Yes and no. Yes Trump won the election in 2016 but he lost both popular votes in 2016 & 2020. The supreme court is not voted on and at least one seat should have been a liberal justice. Nationally the US is dictated by the minority opinion at the moment with how our government is structured. Saying Idaho is representative of the US as a whole is kind of like saying Bulgaria is representative of the EU as a whole. They've got their opinions and their places of influence but I don't think anyone would say they are at the top of the pecking order.

  • In the last 3 elections a super majority vote for candidates that supported restrictive abortion policies.

    https://www.cnn.com/election/2022/results/idaho https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/results/state/idaho https://www.politico.com/election-results/2018/idaho/

    You may think it's cold to say that they made choices that are having negative consequences that they have to deal with. I say it's realistic that 40 years of states like Idaho pushing further right means they have to deal with it on their own terms. It is, after all, what they voted for.

  • That doesn't prevent him from being the nominee. He's also got some of the best Healthcare in the world that already knows he's fat, old, and unhealthy and I'm sure they are doing what they can to keep him alive as long as possible.

  • I think you got the big misunderstanding stated well. This will not happen everywhere. This will only happen in red states. This is what all these started voted for over and over. Doctors warned that they would leave for non hostile states and that the people most impacted would be rural and red communities. These stories are unfortunate but trend to leave out context, did these people get what they voted for? Most likely, in Idaho, they did. They just dint like the side effects they were warned of are now impacting them personally.

  • I said it before too but:

    Gotta take the statement in context of the thread. I am sure there are a lot of people in environments that they have to continuously assert themselves just to be heard let alone recognized. The cis white men who typically embody this toxic masculinity are not in an oppressive environment, they are creating the oppressive environment.

  • I'm going to be honest, I don't care. This is what WV voted for. And not some 51-55% of people. It's like 60-70%+of the view that the politicians putting in these policies received. WV has nothing going for it now that global warming is going to get rid of the coal industry eventually. They (the politicians and corporations) haven't looked to diversify the economy. The state is bottom 10 at least in terms of education, poverty, and standard of living. The state is going to die slowly and painfully just like so many deep red states.