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Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe in the recent espionage case, the person didn’t originally take the position with the intent to spy. Rather, they were contacted by the CCP after they were already in that role and were blackmailed into spying - using their family in China as leverage.

You can debate that in court. But if you steal a bucket of my dirt, the police will come, take it from you, and give it back to me. I’d call that ownership.

Do you own the dirt under your feet?

The house around me, and the dirt under it, yes.

Toupee fallacy. Just because you can recognize some of the propaganda, it doesn't mean you can recognize all of it. You're not aware of what flies under the radar while still influencing you.

The potential benefits are astronomical - essentially an utopia. However I still agree with the potential harms being even greater since that would be the end of human civilication - or worse.

I’d be willing to bet anything that if she’s the nominee, we’re getting President Vance - or a third Trump term. It would be the political equivalent of not even wanting to win. To win elections, you need a nominee who can appeal to at least some of the people who voted for Trump. AOC is the exact opposite of that. This wouldn't be shooting oneself in the foot - but to head.

I'm still waiting for the day my "buffer account" is large enough that I don't need to stress about finances. Now, it would last me about 2.5 years and that's apparently still not enough.

Money sitting in accounts making interest does not contribute to GDP.

What I have sitting in my bank account that I'm getting interest payments for is not money but stocks. I've spent that money to buy those stocks. That money has been back in the circulation this whole time.

This does not even begin to answer my question.

but weed is alright.

..is what I tell myself.

I remember hearing someone say the same thing on a podcast: physically they feel pretty normal - they just don't recognize their reflection in the mirror. This guy was around 70 though.

Mid thirties. Not really, though I'm not feeling younger either.

What does "abolish landlords" look like in practise? What is that slogan suggesting exactly?

I'd rather live as a dirt poor person in a modern western country than as someone whose filthy rich in the middle ages. Our lives nowdays are better on pretty much every measureable metric.

However, we’re dealing with people who are denying our right to exist and don’t engage in good faith. Until they can take those basic steps affirming the social contract, I see no reason debate with such people needs to take place with words.

What you’re talking about here is certain individuals - and I take no issue with that. There absolutely are people who are too far gone and probably can’t be pulled back. But those aren’t the people I’ve been referring to.

My issue is with lumping tens of millions of people into the same group based solely on their political leaning and then speaking about them as if they all share the same beliefs. That’s virtually never true, no matter what group we’re talking about. The differences within a group are often greater than the differences between groups. In other words, there’s more variation between individual Republicans than there is between the average Republican and the average Democrat. My point is: they’re not all the same, and they shouldn’t be treated as such.

These kinds of topics are like plutonium on here if you even hint that you're not 100% onboard with the mainstream Lemmy narrative. A community like this is badly needed, but in my view, it would have to be pretty heavily moderated - people who show up just to throw personal attacks instead of engaging with the actual topic should be shown the door right away.

What is a “real account” anyway? I’ve been here for over two years, and this is probably my eighth account. Whenever I hit around 1000 comments, I make a new one - so I’ll be ditching this one soon, too. Which of those would even count as my “real” account?

Lemmy is such a small platform that if I’d stuck with my first account, tons of people would recognize me by now. I don’t want internet fame, and I’d rather make it as hard as possible for any potential stalker to follow me around. Not tying your entire post history to a single username just seems like the smart move - and honestly, it surprises me how often a privacy-minded platform like Lemmy feels hostile toward people who do this.

I'd say that 4chan is among the main reasons for many of my "weird" kinks and femboys absolutely are among those. Seems to align with my assumed political leanings too.

Depends what he means by that. Are some right-wingers fetishizing femboys? Yeah. Can we generalize this to apply to all right-wingers as people have tendency to do with this sort of things? No. Turns out that people are individuals and they have different preferences. Shocker.

I disagree with the premise that most of our financial decisions are algorithmically driven. The majority of my spending goes toward necessities that I have little to no control over - mortgage, groceries, utility bills, insurance, fuel, maintenance, and so on. I'd imagine it's the same for most people. Very few of my purchases are something I've actively decided to buy.