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It's a fool's errand to try to make sense of the US justice system. One of the main problems is that there are so many laws, each with their own individual sentencing guidelines or suggested financial penalties for breaking them. The police are in charge of enforcing the laws (and ruining random people's lives as a little treat), the courts are occasionally in charge of making sure that the laws comport with the constitution, and the legislators in a given area make laws for their area. But nobody is in charge of sorting everything and making sure that all of the laws on the books make sense with each other. Or that the sentencing guidelines are sane and reflect a certain set of values. It's a fucking mess.

So, when you have a case like serial rapist Danny Masterson, you can't really compare it with a case for anti-masturbation, brown white supremacist Enrique Tarrio. Different sets of people with different goals and beliefs wrote the laws against rape and sedition, and nobody has ever taken the time to make sure they are in the right places on the punishment scale.

WTF is up with all the NSFW tags, and the massive ChatGPT-like spam?

You have a very limited set of data available to you to come to that conclusion. It is possible that I believe that everybody who doesn't share my beliefs is a terrible person. But it is also possible that you are a special case. You have one data point to go on. It's telling that you choose to believe the former rather than do the tiniest bit of introspection. Probably why you're a TERF piece of shit, and everybody in your life should be disappointed in you.

Well, if they aren't disappointed in you, I'm sorry to say that everybody you've ever met in your life including your parents, teachers, religious authorities (if you swing that way), etc, are all awful people. It's pretty sad, really. You never had a chance to be a good person, given the terrible role models around you.

Well, I'm glad that you're happy being a disappointment to every major influential figure in your life. That's nice, at least.

Yeah. You're a terrible excuse for a person. I wish your parents did a better job. Unfortunately, they made you.

So are you just reposting your shitty memes to both Reddit and Lemmy, then?

Except you kind of have to be stupid and cruel to think that the mere existence of people is a joke.

Y'all really only have the one joke, huh?

Maybe it's just a software lockup. We should stick a paperclip in his ear and trigger a factory reset.

I think that, in the moment, online arguments can feel extremely real and heated. But, then you go out and do other things, and it becomes less and less important over time.

Of course, then you come back and find a notification from one of those morons you've been arguing with, and then you're right back in it. So I guess just practice? Like, just keep reminding yourself that it doesn't actually matter, even if it feels like it does.

Also, shrooms help. I remember I got into a heated snit with some idiot online an hour or so before eating a bunch of caps. Then, when I was trying to explain what the argument was about to one of my friends, I couldn't finish because hearing myself explain it became apparent just how ridiculous the entire thing was. I think psychedelics just give you perspective that you're lacking in your normal day-to-day life.

I saw a loaf of Rosemary Focaccia on sale the other day, and it occurred to me that "Rosemary Focaccia" is a great drag name.

The two main benefits I see are:

• A dedicated L2 switch is probably going to be faster when transferring between two connected clients
• You could set up VLANs, if you have a desire to. Not sure if your wifi router has that option.

Hey - maybe they shouldn't have been fucking traitors if they didn't want to be hated. It's a pretty simple solution, you know.

Hey - you'll get no argument from me that the Democratic party sucks, or that it's owned by the same lobbyists that own Republicans. That being said, the differences you outlined when saying that there's very little difference are big fucking differences.

I love that there's no skip button lol

Little difference, except their inept economic policies, and their absolutely shit social policies and refusal to accept climate change...

I don't know, man. Sounds like some pretty fucking big differences to me.

Yeah. I was thoroughly disillusioned by what the DNC did to Bernie. Really pissed me off. Still voted for Hillary, though, because her opponent is a literal monster. I hate having to make that kind of choice every 4 years: "vote for the shitty candidate who will do very little, or vote for an actual piece of shit who will do everything in their power to strip all of the progress we've made in the 20th century". It's awful.

I can’t say one single fucking word about how the trials related to trump are a complete out of control purely political witchhunt

I mean, you can say that all you'd like. Just don't be surprised when people judge you to be not very intelligent because of it. It is a profoundly dumb take, after all.

It's funny to consider "love of country" to mean "the food, certain people, and beautiful landmarks", while simultaneously condemning the actions of its government, and like half of the citizens who live there.

Not that I'm criticizing, mind. I struggled with this myself for a long time before finally coming to the realization that this country is like a problematic family. You're told that you should love it even if you don't like lots of aspects of it very much. Like an abusive parent.

I'm in my 40s now, and I've finally realized that that's bullshit. I don't love this country. I used to, but I've realized that I only ever loved the idea of this country while the reality has been a profound disappointment.

The barbecue is good, though. So that's nice.