Sarmyth @ Sarmyth @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Just because you're too narrowly focused on 1 issue in 1 place in the world, to see the difference doesn't mean there isn't one.

It's also pretty obvious that voting from your choices doesn't make you a 100% supporter of their beliefs or actions. We aren't electing our clones.

It's the trolly problem and always has been.

Still genocide for Palestine, but also Ukraine and Taiwan, maybe? Also, untold deaths in the US resulting from a further degradation of our rights. Maybe even a full flip to a dictatorship running the world's largest military.

Pretty bad.

Oh well. There is nothing I can do about being born and living here. Since I don't think my fellow Americans' reproductive rights should be taken from them, I'll happily wash my hands in Palestinian blood to do that.

I mean, I don't think that's the actual choice... but if crazy people online say it is, I'll make that choice. I guess the people actually involved in the conflict will just have to be disappointed.

The problem with this rhetoric is that it just reinforces an echo chamber.

If anything, I've got no reason not to vote for him since I already have blood on my hands. And if I voted for someone else and they also end up not stopping another country from doing disagreeable things, then I get blood on my hands there. There's blood on everything. I don't care anymore. I'll vote for Dem because they cause me the least problems and sometimes even do good.

If you say I've got blood on my hands for that, I guess that's too bad.

I would still rather just see the price ahead of time and not have a range of tipping % applied. It's similar to how I think taxes should be included in all prices.

The alternative definitely won't become the profit sharing it is now, though.

I actively deduct service fees applied to my cheque from the tip at restaurants when they say it's to pay for increasing labor costs. I also never go back and tell the lead why on my way out, though. It's too much. They say they do in in lue of raising prices, but they are just obscuring the raised prices again! And it hasn't stopped any place from raising the listed menu price as well.

Consequently, I rarely go out anymore.

They aren't exempted from minimum wage in California, one of the larger populations in the US. Are you sure you aren't attributing incorrect assumptions to one of us?

Look in the mirror.

Tesla almost always works. Electrify America is like 90% operable every time I've used one. Charge Point is a literal 50/50 (last station I visited 2/3 were broken) I've never even seen a Blink charger.

The charger at my house has been working great for 7 years, and it's installed outside and gets weather, but it's California weather, so it never long-term extremes. It also where I charge 99% of the time.

The one that came with the car was a 120 volt, and I think I've used it once, but it was too slow.

Because that's how honesty works. My two phrases were similar, but the headline wasn't accurate to the truth.

Correct. That's what I said.

Yeah, that's what makes her brave. We just don't say she was arrested for "speaking truth to power" or any other sensational nonsense. We say she was arrested for the crime she committed because it makes you think about why that's even a crime.

Honestly, I believe the vast majority of effective and meaningful protests will involve a crime. Usually, some form of vandalism/trespassing all the way up to theft. We hope not violence against people but sometimes counter protests force hands.

I just think it's important to own it (I mean, dont confess and get yourself arrested needlessly LOL) because that's part of the deal. Things rarely happen when everyone is nice and cordial.

I'm not subject to a gag law... I don't even know what the statement means. I'm also not a journalist, or the subject of a court case, so it's unlikely to have any impact to post comments on Lemmy.

Yes, I actually agree that there are laws worth breaking for protest. I just dislike sensational headlines.

It's the fact that you are willing to face those charges that makes the act powerful. But phrasing it in a way that makes it look like you are in a totalitarian state, and being punished for speech instead of the crime actually committed does the movement a disservice, as you start erecting your own strawman for people to knock down.

Are they getting away with it? Or are we just mad that their base doesn't give a shit and are wrongly believing that if they only knew the truth, they wouldn't be voted for?

It hasn't been worth it for me since GoT. I didn't pay for it directly back then, either, though. It's always been included with some other service I was already paying for. There were brief gaps when I didn't have it through something else, but it was never worth paying for in those moments.

Are they going to prison for exposing animal cruelty, or is it just committing crimes in service of the goal of exposing animal cruelty? I bet I know which.

Regular pony tail. Both sides are usually buzzed.

It only matters in so much as understanding a person's motivations. Motivations matter because it's an indicator of whether a person might be open to change by education or if it's something rooted more deeply.

As for what impact that should have on a person's legal right to be a bigot? None.

It's a haircut that retains traditional views of feminity but incorporates the functionality of a military buzz cut. It makes a lot of sense for anyone who might have to wear a helmet but doesn't want to chop it all because of their own aesthetics of just the time investment of having grown long hair. The maid of honor at my wedding had this haircut, and a few women I work with rock it as well.

Uh, they're poor and probably rough hygenically, which means swing shift is their primary option. Your advice might as well be "be better!". The point is that these aren't all crackheads and crazy people. Also I don't think late jobs are as uncommon as you think they are. I personally wish they had daytime shelters to better serve what I really believe to be the most rehabitable members of the homeless population.

When I worked nights, there were always multiple people who lived out of their cars working with me.

I'm not religious, and I don't agree with the sentiment, but their hate stems from them believing it's evil. They may see it just as evil as a nazi. I think they're wrong, but that's the nature of opinions and assholes. Everybody has one.

I think the difference to me is that sexual orientation is a protected class where political affiliation is not, in our government. Apparently, the courts disagree with me...