halcyoncmdr @ halcyoncmdr @lemmy.world

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You are internally ignoring my point, notably that the racial aspect you want to focus on may not be related AT ALL to the usage of the phrase.

You are assuming that race is related, and it might be, but the phrase is used all the time without actual terrorism being involved, so blindly assuming it is means you instantly discount alternative scenarios without considering them. Just because there appears to be a link on the sirface, that doesn't mean there actually is.

No point in trying to discuss it further since you clearly aren't actually trying to have a real conversation about it.

Depends, are we using the same phrase that's been separated from its origin in colloquial use? Because that's the distinction I'm making. That the phrase usage itself being tied to the racial aspect here is flimsy specifically because the phrase is widely used outside of that racial context.

So if we remove the specific thing that links the phrase here to be so bad, the racial link, would the situation be viewed differently? I don't think it would be nearly the same. The usage in the context of teacher/student is obviously bad, it's not an appropriate location for the phrase in any context, but that has nothing to do with the race of the student. Without more context to show it should be related, like previous racist comments from the teacher, simply assuming it is related just taints objective analysis of the situation.

Not gonna really bother reading past the first couple sentences, it's the same shit people post all the time that relies on flawed assumptions of the average person. It assumes that most people have the time to learn facts and properly weigh them for conclusions. And that's assuming they even want to pay attention to anything remotely related to politics.

Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Many work multiple jobs. They do not have the time to spend educating themselves about these topics. Most people scroll social media and maybe watch an hour of news before bed. They are 100% reliant on messaging from social media, friends, and news organizations to do most of the analysis for them and tell them what the takeaway is for complicated situations.

Now combine that lack of both desire and time to research, with 40+ years of targeted propaganda from the likes of Fox News distorting basic definitions about words like fascism, socialism, etc. and outright lying about the facts to push a narrative with the exact opposite explanation of reality. Right wing media has been saying the exact thing Democrats started warning people about, but they have been doing it for decades and saying it was the Dems. So those words are meaningless to the average person now, because they've been getting disinformation shoved down their throat for so long that the effect has been diluted and defined incorrectly.

It's obviously not appropriate to say to a student, but it also happens to be a colloquial expression used quite often as a generic joke response to exactly those types of requests.

That phrase alone means almost nothing since it's used much more widely than it appears on the surface. The context is inappropriate, but that doesn't mean the phrase was at all intended that way.

If the child were white would we be having this same conversation as it is? If the teacher was saying it to a friend outside work instead, would it be different?

First rule, always have backups. Especially with an older drive, make sure anything you might need is duplicated somewhere else. Ideally off-site to prevent loss in case of things like burglary or a fire. Even something as simple as Google Drive or OneDrive.

Personally, I'd take a look at replacing it with an SSD if you can afford to, not only because of the age, but better performance. You may not notice slowness, but making the jump from a HDD to an SSD is still at least a little noticeable even on secondary drives from my experience.

To be fair, that did require a $42 billion initial investment a couple years prior to enable.

No it wasn't racial. At least not at that scale on the Dem side. It's even simpler.

The candidates this round were all terrible options, from beginning to end. Trump was always going to be the Republican nominee, and Biden/Harris for the Dems. No one else was ever going to even be considered.

The Rep messaging was "shit is fucked, we'll fix it". That's a lie of course, they have no plan to actually fix anything, their plans are to make it all and help the oligarchs as usual. But their messaging at least acknowledged the issues most people were feeling.

The Dem messaging boiled down to "it's not that bad". Which is objectively correct, but not what 90% of people felt. They ignored what real people were feeling entirely, so why should they vote for a party that won't even acknowledge that fundamental issues exist?

Seriously? I can understand not in most contexts if you're nowhere near Micronesia, but they've been in every Summer Olympics since 2000, so they've been included in every opening ceremony with their own flag bearer, plus the events. They're not exactly an unknown nation when they're able to compete on a global scale.

Is it though, I always figured it more to be a human centipede type situation.

In this moment impeachment is a waste of time.

Any time he's focusing on that is time he's not actively fucking shit up. Being obstructionist is what's gotten the Republicans to the place they are now.

I never mentioned Trump. There are plenty of other department heads and managers that will implement these things, they're just as culpable all the way down the line.

Besides, Trump's already had 1.5 attempts, and those show the Secret Service were/are utterly incompetent at active protection now. We saw what they could do, not prevent a sniper from taking multiple shots from a clear rooftop. And letting a guy sit in a bush at the edge of Mar-A-Lago for nearly 12 hours. Not exactly the best protection there, and that's what you get when the primary requirement is loyalty over anything else, the real professionals don't stick around.

Because corporations are super powerful, but they don't have their own giant military and security forces like the U.S. government does.

There are plenty of heavily armed private security/private military contractors for hire. Fuck, Boeing clearly has at least one hitman on retainer given their recent whistleblowers. You honestly think billionaires of all people would have any problem hiring whoever they wanted to? Hell, most of those companies hire directly from the military anyway, so they have the exact same training, but get paid way better in the private sector to give some fucks.

Ah yes... copying United Healthcare is exactly what the official government position should be. It's not like that has resulted in ANYTHING happening to the guy in charge.

Pretty sure California sends more funds to the federal government than they receive every year... Would be a shame if they just didn't do the back and forth and kept their funds to use as they see for instead.

I'm sure States like Alabama wouldn't miss that California tax revenue making it's way to them at all.

They're going after the kids to get the parents. Parents aren't going to just let their kids go.

it’s senior board members that are the real problem, the ones making the actual decisions and putting profits over anything and everything else.

Most of the board members at these companies are CEOs of other, often related and even partnered companies. While the CEO at a given company isn't the only one to blame, CEOs in general covers the vast majority of the fuckers.

Not really. The website stuff happened to every federal department site, it wasn't a targeted campaign, but burn it all and rebuild so they don't miss a page somewhere.

Don't act like Canada hasn't been seeing it's own share of right wing extremists making their way into government.

Good fucking luck with that hurdle.

They need a two-thirds vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate; or a conventio called by Congress at the request of two-thirds of the state legislatures. Then it has to be ratified by the legislatures of three-quarters of the states.

Even if they managed a super majority on both sides of Congress for Trumplefuck, there's no way they're getting 38 States to agree to that.

EVs don't use the brakes nearly as much as regular ICE vehicles. Regenerative braking can provide nearly every bit of braking necessary for everyday driving.

And half the time it's not even that fast anymore either.

Might as well order a burger from an actual restaurant, to go, for the same amount and pick it up on the way. Half the time they'll even bring it to you curbside.