VerdantSporeSeasoning @ VerdantSporeSeasoning @lemmy.ca

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I have an older family member who is severely mentally disabled and always has been. His medical records diagnosed him as r*tarded. The adults diagnosing him at the time didn't understand enough about mental conditions and their differences when he was a child. So kids like him were diagnosed with that. It did have more 'legitimate' uses than it does in our current context. Doesn't make it good or right, doesn't mean they shouldn't have tried to be more specific either. That legacy leads to now where we have the nuance and resources to do better. I am glad it's more and more relagated to the past as it's consistently been used to dehumanize people.

'normalizing kids being part of their parents lives' bullshit

Most jobs I've had would fire you if you brought your kid to work.

How is he going to be running a department on efficiency with a lil kid running around? A lot of people remember working from home with their kids at home...

Crocheting is an inexpensive, versatile hobby that could absolutely result in art that you could sell online. Seriously, with a bit of string and a funny stick, and you can make lil stuffies, hats, scarves, etc. You can make cute ones, nerdy stuff, appeal to different fandoms/online communities. If you create a decent inventory, perhaps a local place by you would also feature your products for a cut.

I've seen cool button making machines for relatively inexpensive ($60~), but then you would need to have access to a printer and ink, so overall that's a more expensive project. But that's another option to think about as well.

I've seen that gunman --he has an absolutely dazzling smile. $50k pls 🫱💰

I love Bernie too! We have that in common.

But you're take is only part of the point he's making though. The government is failing people in large part because such a small segment of the population has enormous sway over who gets to be in government.

I had a much longer response that got deleted when the app force closed on me 😮‍💨

I really did want to weigh in from your original post, though, how you argue that billionaires make jobs, make products, make the world better. Like, sure, some do, but the ones at the top? Big corporations? No, they don't. Literally, Walmart workers have relied on government assistance programs due to poor pay for decades. Companies like Toys R Us get bought up by billionaires and liquidated for more money as employees lose their jobs. Or billionaires buy things that shouldn't be profit driven--where is that return on investment going to come from? These are billionaires choices, not Congress or City Council or whatever, that directly shape society negatively. Sure, governments allow it--especially governments that billionaires have bought.

I used to be against limits to billionaires (I still kind of am, I'd prefer minimum/maximum earning ratios), but actually watching them work and change in the world, I have seen that they have too much power with too few checks. I mean, hell, from a global warming perspective, it's hard to find what I, as a little person, do matters at all. I could die tomorrow and produce no more carbon emissions (beyond my body's offgassing), and it wouldn't change anything. Meanwhile, some small percentage of people, just like in Bernie's tweet, contribute much more each day than I will in my whole life. Fuck, man.

The billionaires aren't the problem?

I do get your point. It's bad to take joy in the pain of other people. That it is bad as a society that we celebrate the deaths of our fellows. I don't really want vigilante justice to become our norm--that's how gangs and cartels come to prominence. I'd much rather have institutions that do their damn jobs so the common person doesn't believe justice can only be found at the end of a gun. The billionaires keep voting/promoting to break those institutions though!

KillKeo means plan

While their goonies work to outlaw abortion and birth control and divorce. What a neat combo pack.

That's so retro tho

Exploitation of the religious liberties clause of the first amendment.

I wish one of those steps ahead had been a successful prosecution.

Or his cadre of evil clowns.

women can't marry older than 25? What kind of bass ackwards handmaid's tale bullshit is that?

Japanese instructors in college would tell us how older unmarried women would be referred to as 'Christmas Cakes'--no one wanted one after the 25th. Although they were happy that had been a changing attitude.

Why do you think they want everyone uneducated and saddled with more kids than they want/can afford?

I'm willing to bet there's millions of women who didn't vote/voted for the male candidate in part due to internalized misogyny.

Also, even if they can get into Canada, where will they live? Canada's real estate market started getting hot before the US market did. This sucks.

The people who will be in power around him might well get rid of him themselves for all the use they want. He's getting them to power. Vance and Musk and Thiel and whoever the fuck else don't care about Trump. They want power.

Book recommendation: Persepolis. It's a graphic novel autobiography of a girl who lived through the Iranian revolution and eventually moved to Paris. It's a very accessible read.

We went to one of the several trunk or treats in our town. I chose one of the less busy ones so my kid could understand what the massive downtown one would be like if she wanted to do that. We waited in line from trunk to trunk for a whole hour, got meh candy, got to get inside emergency vehicles (that was cool), got to see a lot of other people's costumes (also really fun), but mostly it was waiting. Standing mostly still. And then the advertised time came for it to be over, even as people were still waiting in line, tables and cars all broke down and started leaving us in a sad, barren lot. We went trick or treating for the main event after all, and got excellent candy, saw all kinds of cool houses as we actively walked with a friend for as long as we wanted.

For a brief recap of just the Soviet Union part, this is a fun little song.