I will absolutely judge him anyway because literally everyone with a license should be able to scrounge up enough of a clue to fucking stop instead of driving down a damn staircase!
This was part of an overall plan to get American hostages released.
It was part of an overall plan to commit treason in order to sabotage Carter by preventing the hostages from being released before the election so that Reagan would win.
Not really, no. There is one toxic asshole peddling hate and misinformation that I reported multiple times and would very much like to see banned, but that is not a good reason for me to be given mod powers. I was just in the thread where I encountered him from browsing 'all,' not because I have any particular interest in that community.
“Ideological” pretty much covers everything else. A threat to kill is an act of terrorism.
"Ideological" does not cover:
threatening to kill someone while robbing them
threatening to kill someone because you're high off your gourd and hallucinating that they're a space alien
threatening to kill someone because they fucked your wife
threatening to kill someone because they're threatening you and you're acting in retaliation or self defense.
There are lots of situations in which a threat to kill is not terrorism. Quit trying to dilute the definition of terrorism.
Oh, and she sung a song in Spanish, and was threatened with death for not singing in American English. That screams political to me…
Okay, and...? I never disputed that this situation counted as terrorism; I only took issue with your overly-broad definition. In fact, it's doubly weird that you're choosing to die on this hill because you didn't even need to go overboard making the definition wider than it is when the situation easily meets the real definition of it anyway! The guy you initially replied to was wrong and you would have been correct, except that you overstated your argument for no good reason.
Words have meanings and you're using one of them wrong. That's all.
Jim Varney's character --- with "knowwhatImean, Vern?" as his catchphrase --- was so successful that he went from doing cheap commercials for local TV to become a legitimate movie star.
I think he's just taking the opportunity to point out that Amazon is committing tax evasion by fraudulently misclassifying those employees as contractors.
In other words, they deliberately learned exactly the wrong thing from that: they could have taken it as a lesson to not have a fucking transceiver in the damn thing so it couldn't receive remote messages in the first place, but instead they used it as an self-serving excuse to implement anti-consumer and anti-third-party-repair bullshit.
Lemmy markdown --- which is better than Reddit markdown in some ways, but worse in others --- will automatically do a similar conversion, except it takes three hyphens instead of two (two hyphens gets you an en dash). It's nice, but also unfortunate because it messes up people's muscle memory since using only two for it mimics what was customary when writing in ASCII, on mechanical typewriters, etc.
You're the one who posted misinformation, got called out, asked for more info, and then dismissed it when given. That's your shitty behavior, not mine.
Do you think even all the charities put together come close to fixing the problem? 'Cause they don't, which you would understand if you'd actually bothered to avail yourself of the info you asked for beyond your "short wikipedia scan."
It's a "you need to remake the meme with a closing double-quote after 'person'" timeloop.