Salamendacious @ Salamendacious @lemmy.world

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You can make the argument that it maybe hasn't worked enough but it's just intellectually dishonest to say it hasn't worked at all. If it didn't work at all then we would have made zero progress - EVER. Yesterday this article was published about how a school board was flipped after Republicans started banning books. The only reason voting doesn't work is because not enough people are doing it.

I try to not get angry because I don't think it solves anything and while there are a lot of things wrong with the world there are good trends. Global rates of extreme poverty were close to 70% in the early 80s and are now below 47% and continuing down. source. Global birth rates have been steadily declining source, which is a factor in global poverty as well as reducing world hunger (this trended down for years but recently he has unfortunately increased). Global education has improved now only 1 in five adults have never received any education source. Anger didn't improve any of these situations. Ask a professional or amateur fighter (I've personally talked with boxers about this) going into a fight angry almost guarantees you'll lose.

I can sympathize. Here's a video that I found useful. I work on this daily. Some days I excel and other days I fall short. I think of myself as a rage addict and when I fall off the wagon. I try to reflect, not get angry with myself (because that's just feeding the addiction), and get back on track. It's a constant struggle.

So I'm just curious. You know you don't vote for the FBI right?

Voting is a better means of enacting change than protesting. If ethnonationalists control government and you try to actively resist then you get crushed. If liberal-progressives control government and they resist then they get crushed. Defend yourself to the fullest extent if the law but voting is more important than protesting. If the excrement hits the rotating assembly of air moving blades then you want those sympathetic to your ideals at the wheel not those hostile to your ideals. The three most important things in real estate is location, location, location and the three most important things in representative government is vote, vote, vote.

"War is the continuation of policy with other means."

-Carl von Clausewitz

If you ever want to get out of jury duty just tell them you believe in jury nullification and they'll dismiss you immediately. I'd ask you to consider serving because you could be the only voice of reason on the jury.

More than 200 victims of sex trafficking were rescued during a nationwide enforcement campaign last month that also included the identification or arrest of more than five dozen suspected human traffickers and 126 individuals accused of child sexual exploitation and trafficking offenses. Source

The FBI does do important work too. If you Google "Operation Cross Country" you can find tons of local news articles showing local arrests in this operation.

expected RATM?

Okay... so your username. Is that referring to an additive that tastes like butt hair? Or is it something to make your butt hair more palatable? Either way I'm willing to bet there's a market out there somewhere for your product.

I kind of want a Netflix drama series about this guy now.

Well this is obviously fake news and it's Biden and the cannibalistic deep state lizard people framing a good Christian Republican.

That's called a shibboleth

A Franklin County case in which Wiechmann was charged with indecent exposure and assault with intent to commit sexual abuse was dismissed by prosecutors.

Literally. I feel like if the government made the mistake then they should bite the bullet.

A warm oil massage of 35 charges.

There just aren't enough details to say right now. What you're saying is possible definitely but it's impossible to be sure if anything other than a child was killed. Anger is the worst human emotion in my opinion. Seneca calls it a form of temporary madness.

I really hope she pisses a really bored and very good attorney who fights her bullcrap just because he or she wants something to do.

I'm at work so I can't watch it now but I'll post it here too remind me to watch it later

https://youtu.be/FwHMDjc7qJ8?si=Z_hikobll6djQ8PC

Sometimes all you can do is reach out to see if they're okay and let them know that they're in your thoughts