Digitalprimate @ RecursiveParadox @lemmy.world

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Take a page out of the French playbook. General strike.

[Oh but wait they have rigged system such that if you do that you'll get fired, thus losing your healthcare and possibly spiraling into bankruptcy. Seems that ship has sailed....]

This is nested so deep in such an old thread no one will see it, but I thought I'd chime in anyway.

This system in NL - indeed much of the EU/UK - is almost this slow too. Part of it (in the EU) is we do not use common law system like N America and the UK but rather the civil law system. But that only accounts for a part of it. Here we really do have the innocent before proven guilty thing happening. Most countries do not allow suspects full name to appear in the paper. Dave Smith would be "D Smith" in a newspaper article.

It can really suck here too, and frankly we get people offending while awaiting trial far more often than we should. I think the main difference is that in general we do not have the same level of violent (physical or economical) crime that the States does.

Anyway as a former American I shit on American systems a lot and in many cases rightfully so. But not in this case, as much as I desperately wish the Georgia trial would start the next day after he surrenders.

Sure.

Except one side isn't actively trying to kill the other and violently overthrow the government. Stop with the whataboutism. We know it's bad, but let's deal with the side with plainly murderous intent first.

Yes but one party is actively trying to kill the other's members and when they run out of them, they'll go for the plebs that supported them. Whataboutism like your statement is what got America (and the UK for that matter) to the dire point both countries are in.

Signed. Enough with this kind of bullshit in the EU.

And there may also be an epigenetic component on top of all that.

It would be very useful if you found that again and posted it.

It would take an act of congress, and the D's don't have the votes. Shitty but true.

This exact thing happened to my Pilates teacher of a decade. We used to joke about all the woo. Then she somehow discovered Josh Rogan and things began to go downhill. What if Trump is right about this one thing? Aren't there two sides to everything? When covid hit she went completely down the rabbit hole, antivax, global conspiracies, the works. Just about everything in that article.

I considered her a good friend. She was the only one who brought flowers to my house when my mother died. I haven't seen her since early in covid, after the first lockdowns.

And I read another article about this same phenomena about two years go, which of course my google fu is too weak this morning to find. But the anecdotal point here is that this is not the first time people have noted this phenomenon.

You make some good points, thanks for that. And unfortunately as you allude, this may become the fate of many in the not too distant future, whether they choose the lifestyle of their own volition ...or not.

...and because they did not use the original script they hired William Gibson to write.

Would these work for long haired boys as well? My son might could use one.

Same here. I actually had a dream about this happening once, kind of.

...with a heavy does of the Property Gospel to keep the plebs in line.

All that is true, but you forgot to add the part where the person living the life you propose is healthy, quite fit even. Not everyone, even fit young people, would do well living in a tent while they try to understand how to build a house. Let alone run a concessions stand from a van or something. That takes a massive physical toll and not even over the long run.

That's an excellent point! I totally agree harm reduction is the goal here.

However and alas, I have absolutely no excuse living where I live and having the extensive cooking skills I gained over the years. No excuse at all. It's on my mind a lot lately.

But who would be DDoSing Lemmy instances? Not that I doubt you; honest question.

I did not know this; thank you for enlightening me. I should go back to being a vegetarian....

You've gotten downvoted, and you'll probably get some more downvotes. But you you took the time to write a thoughtful post, and you made a good point.

But ultimately I feel your point is wrong. Defederating from such an instance isn't the equivalent of dehumanizing people you disagree with. Rather, it's limiting the (potential) scope of harm people with bad intentions can cause.

I get you'd like to see "both sides" or have a fuller picture, but there is enough evidence already that there really isn't any possible "good" reason for their speech, and we should do what we can to limit its reach.

Interesting question, upvoting and commenting for visibility.