assassin_aragorn @ assassin_aragorn @lemmy.world

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Poor reading comprehension. Typical lib.

Once more, overcompensating way too hard and needlessly throwing around terms to try and make yourself look like an actual leftist. You know what the clearest sign of this is, liberal? Other than you basically going "no u"?

I never said a thing about the USSR lacking compassion to animals. Nor did I ever mention NASA nor make a judgment on which group was morally superior. That all came from you, because you felt the need to bolster your leftist "credentials". But I see through it.

It's not terribly surprising that both NASA and the USSR space program did awful things to animals. They were racing each other, moving quickly and breaking things. It would be too risky to test humans in incredibly novel technology like that, but they wanted data and results. So they tortured poor animals instead of taking the time to go more slowly and do safer tests. And let me be explicitly clear, both space programs are guilty of this and damnable for it.

What's your next reply going to be, I wonder? Ignoring basically everything I said, and talking about more of NASA's fuck ups, like "well we don't know it doesn't work" with Challenger? Sprinkling in some leftist terms to convince yourself you aren't a liberal? Or will you totally pivot to something else and call me Clyde again?

Please, mix it up a bit this time. The formula is getting rather dull. There's better ways to try and convince us you aren't a liberal.

I think there's something to be said for medium sized companies. I work for one that's trying to grow and become much larger, but it's decidedly not big. Our execs though actually seem like pretty cool people, and the CEO seems to be a legitimately good person. He's generally been open and honest, and he's told stories that make me think he does actually value employees as people.

He was talking about gay rights and the value of diversity during our weekly company forum the other day, and I asked him about our company's support for DEI given the political pressure from conservatives to abandon it. He said he didn't give a damn about them, and doing the right thing was more important. I don't agree with everything he's done -- we've had layoffs, and morale isn't great, and we're totally broke -- but I respect that he actually seems to mean what he says. And even when we had layoffs, executives and management weren't safe either.

I think a lot of what it comes down to is the genuineness of leadership and how closely tied they are to rank and file employees. That's easier at small and medium companies. Large companies also tend to attract greedy robber barons.

Yeah they're pretty much the only group that seems to understand this. They have other struggles though with having greater appeal -- mainly from what I can tell, there's a lot of discord between different chapters.

That said, there actually is one socialist who did win a state legislature election, in Virginia. And they were able to get an insulin cap bill passed because they worked cooperatively with democrats.

This is the model that people need to follow if they want to move beyond Democrats and Republicans. This single socialist legislator in one state has done more than the entire green party combined.

That's fair. The way I look at it is that executives curb what the employees actually believe and want to work on. I saw this at a petrochemical company that was part of a big oil company. Everyone was excited about sustainability projects and cutting emissions and renewable technology. The execs just didn't give a shit and continued to push for oil and drilling. If workplaces were democracies, we'd see so much more wonderful things.

It takes a strong and wise person to admit they were wrong and change their mind for the better. I applaud you for that. Given how prevalent calling things gay was when I was a teenager, I think a lot of people changed their minds for the better when they realized their friends and family were gay. And then some realized they were also gay, funny enough.

I agree that we need more time before we institute any sort of policy or mandating, but I do think we should eventually do that.

It's interesting, I think a lot of conservative beliefs come down to the idea that children cannot be autonomous people with their own beliefs. They don't believe that a child can have an independent thought, and that whatever they say is indoctrination from parents or school. It says a lot about their worldview.

If someone fully believes in the independence of children to form their own thoughts and beliefs and opinions, I don't see how they could support any sort of anti LGBT ban.

It's well known that horrible things happened to animals during the Russian space program.

You sound like a liberal trying way too hard to pretend they aren't one by coming up with absolutely shit takes which are demonstrably incorrect. I'm actually surprised I didn't realize this until now. You're so over the top that overcompensation is the most charitable explanation.

Third parties rarely run for Congress. This is actually how you can tell that the US has no serious third parties. None of them make Congress even a remote priority. If they somehow won the presidency, they wouldn't be able to do anything because they have no Congressional support.

You've inadvertently highlighted why your only options are to vote Democrat or Republican. No other party is serious about trying to win. If they were, they'd be building up a local presence in all 50 states and winning local elections. Then they'd look at state legislatures and governors. Then Congress for the House and Senate, and then the presidency.

That's a lot of work though, so they'd rather run presidential candidates and grift for donations. The argument typically goes that they're trying to bring awareness to their party through the presidential election -- but how exactly is that going for them? It's readily apparent that strategy doesn't work, and they'd be better off putting in the hard work to become actual political contenders.

If you don't like how Congress represents you, support your desired representatives and senators in primaries, and then vote for the person you dislike least in the general election. Or, encourage a third party candidate to run who has statewide recognition and plenty of political experience.

Democrats and Republicans are the only options because all the other choices are batshit insane or just want to steal your donations.

One thing I quite like about Lemmy is that it's very easy to recognize individual users and the type of comments they usually leave.

You don't understand how the US government works. This comment makes that incredibly obvious.

The filibuster is in the Senate. Not the House. That should be obvious to anyone who pays attention to politics.

This isn’t a disease - many of the things you listed are psychological and the result of how family and friends treat that person.

The DSM entry on Gender Dysphoria disagrees.

That's what I can't fathom. This is such a big boost for children's mental health. It heavily reduces their depression and suicide risk. They're happier.

Maybe this is controversial, but if a parent isn't willing to do that for their kid, I believe it's neglect and endangerment. They aren't fit to be a parent, and the state should intervene. We don't let parents with batshit religious beliefs deny their children lifesaving treatment. We shouldn't let parents deny their children treatment that would vastly improve their mental health and reduce their suicide risk.

We have been using puberty blockers for a long time. They were around when I was prepubescent. They're established medicine, and doctors deem whatever the side effects are to be worth helping the children's mental and physical health.

All medicine is like this. Very little medication has no side effects at all. Yet we give children medicine all the time. Because it does more good than harm.

Who decides if it does more good than harm? Medical professionals. Not laymen on the Internet.

In an ideal world, yes. But most people aren't willing to lose their jobs and healthcare, potentially putting their family's financial situation in dire straits, over protesting this.

Don't blame the workers. Blame the executives.

If there is a legitimate reason for a draft, a draft may not be necessary anyway. Unless the enemy is offering a peaceful arrangement to everyone they meet, or there's no way to get your family to safety, I think most people would willingly fight.

It would be disastrous for Republicans. Independents and moderates would be furious

The old saying goes that Russian history can be summarized as "And then it got worse." The Russians are victims of their own history, and they are the first group that Putin terrorized (quite literally with the known false flag operation).

They have such a rich culture and truly bright minds. There could be wonderful scientific collaboration and cultural exchange. I'd love to see a technological rivalry reminiscent of the cold war (without all the proxy fights and nuclear threats and animosity).

I hope that it'll be in my lifetime where we're able to sit down and drink beer and vodka together and be on friendly terms as countries.

That's not disappearing. That's blatant killing.

Disappearing is sudden government abduction with no paper trail. You criticize the government and then all a sudden, your colleagues and friends don't know what happened to you and can't contact you.

It's an important difference. Disappearing is more ominous and has a greater chilling effect. The government isn't putting you in a comfortable hotel, and they aren't killing you silently. They're torturing you for punishment and for information, and threatening your family. It's far more sinister.

And it doesn't matter what reason they have for doing nothing. At the end of the day, they still do nothing

Time is unfortunately the best medicine. Just take it one day at a time. Don't stay in contact with them. Reach out to your friends and try to fill your time spending time with them.

Main thing is to keep yourself distracted. The ruminating will come, but right now you need to heal. I wasn't able to clearly reflect on my ex and our relationship for easily over a year or so later.