VikingHippie @ VikingHippie @lemmy.wtf

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Was hoping there would be more to it but thanks nonetheless lol

Me neither! I wonder which one it'll be!

I've been meaning to ask.. what's the deal with frogs and Wednesdays?

I am indeed honored and will give this girl and her sister pets in yours 😁❤️

First of all, she's magnificent! 😍

Second of all, I'm very sorry but I can't stop myself from asking: if she's your main coon, do you have a secondary one as well? 😛

It's PC using an Xbox controller, which is the best way of playing any game that lets you IMO.

But the game has no idea what kind of button I'm gonna push since the keyboard and mouse are connected too and I've yet to press any key or other button at this point 🤷

🎵 You used the serif! but you didn't use no deputy!

Same here 😄

Guess you've never played the game I'm currently playing, then 🤷

I'm just gonna quote Grammarist as they explain such things for a living and as such do it better than I could:

To speak truth to power means to demand a moral response to a problem, rather than an expedient, easy or selfish response. The phrase speak truth to power carries a connotation of bravery, of risking either the status quo, one's reputation or livelihood, or the wrath of the person one is confronting.

Are you unfamiliar with the expression, pretending that AIPAC aren't powerful or pretending that anything AOC said about them isn't true?

You're goddamn right, they should! Especially since Texan fossil fuel companies alone kill thousands of people a year!

When your local charity that advocates for better mental health sends someone to speak

That's worlds apart from profit-based corporations and rich people sending money, hosting high dollar fundraisers and bundling hundreds if not thousands of maximum "individual" donations. Not even the same UNIVERSE as unlimited dark money.

three course meal experience as the cost of having that talk with the lobbyist(..)Sure, we could make that sort of lobbying illegal

That it isn't already is extremely embarrassing to anyone who claims that corruption isn't rampant in American politics. It already IS illegal for doctors to do that and, while there's a lot of people exploiting loopholes, it's nothing compared to the number of politicians doing it like it's the most natural thing in the world.

The IRS is already getting the shaft

Mainly BECAUSE of the rich and powerful being the de facto deciders of most laws

Do you think congress will ever agree to pay money to set up something to investigate themselves?

They will if they're forced to. I'm thinking a general strike and just 1/1000 of the people dissatisfied with the corruption protesting in front of their offices every day for a few weeks or months ought to do it. Could even do it in shifts so no one person has to go more than a couple times a month and still have plenty enough to make the status quo that's needlessly killing hundreds of thousands of people people unbearable to the corrupt demagogues maintaining it too.

The same place that most other democracies do: bribery.

Colossal SCOTUS mistake/intentional fraud aside, money isn't speech and corporations aren't people.

Somewhere around Eindhoven in the early 90s, you say? 🤔

Was Romário cleared before fleeing to Catalonia?😛

So what exactly is it that you object to?

Nah, as far as I remember from the last time I accidentally paid attention to him, he's more like one of those "homesteader libertarians" who believe everyone should just mind their own business in whatever situation their own family can afford for them and neither workers, minorities nor people with disabilities should ever receive any assistance that wealthy white people wouldn't need.

A real "guns don't kill people, but letting government stop disadvantaged people from needlessly dying kills my boner" type of guy.

And now that it's easy to do so, they're banding together to form entire metropoli of only idiots.

Or an Iron Maiden?

I hope you're not a prisoner but a free (wo)man and your blood is your own now!

I did that once, wasn't so bad. The people at the embassy just politely referred me to the Red Light District 🤷