spirinolas @ spirinolas @lemmy.world

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I have to respect the confidence.

No. Racism is prejudice on the basis of race. Being part of a group that is generally a target doesn't excuse your own behavior and give a blank card for your own prejudices.

We are ALL grown-ups. Act like it. Asking someone to be aware of their own privilege is not the same as telling someone they're inherently guilty to the genitals or skin color they were born with, regardless of their own actions. That is NOT "being asked to self-reflect" as you put it. That is simply prejudice and you will be called out on it. The same way I will call-out a cat-calling man, a man-hating woman or a raging racist, because to me you are all the same.

You have the right to say sexist shit. And we have the right to call you out for it.

Look, you want to vent because there are problematic men, go ahead. You have to complain because there are aspects of male culture that enable such men, go ahead.

But the moment you attack a whole group for the actions of a few, just because of physical similarities you are no better than a racist and I will call you for it.

I can't comprehend how people can make such a statement when the same logic applied to race instead of gender would make them (righteously) scream bloody racism.

I'm not responsible for the actions of someone who has the same genitals as me, no more than someone with the same skin color.

Same, but I skipped manjaro and popOS. And I used slackware at the college computers. Debian still wins for me, it came a long way.

I was sitting in the closet dressed as Superman.

I even upgraded the system without a clean installation and everything worked perfectly and I have huge customization in my pc.

Sons of Anarchy

It's basically a soap opera. Over the top and with no real direction. The writers were pretty much making it as they go using all the old tricks to keep you hooked.

I watched it until season 2. Before I started watching the season finale I realized I didn't care how it ended and just dump it.

If this can't produce the brown note, nothing will!

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Oops, I did a switcheroo on the question. But I used my real CC number, swear on my eyes.

My rule of thumb is, if he doesn't give you the solution right off the bat he won't give you one. If that happens either fix it yourself or start a new chat and reformulate the question completely.

Is there any other way to communicate? Peeing in someone's face is a very effective way to send a message.

Trump isn't stupid, at least not that stupid. Your analogy would work better if instead of shooting his own foot he's shooting Uncle Sam's foot. You act confused because you think he works for Uncle Sam. He does not. He's a Russian asset: his job is to make sure Uncle Sam never walks again, while pretending he's not doing it on purpose so he can keep doing it.

When you look at it that way, all his actions make perfect sense. He works for Putin and he's doing a good job. Until people realize this he'll keep sabotaging the US.

"we'll get wid of the taxes and waise the tawiffs. Beautiful tawiffs, the best ones... some people - good people - say. We'll call it tawiff season, uhuhuh!"

Because people are downright ignoring who he's working for. His actions make absolute sense as a Russian asset. And no, he's not trying to screw the US allies, at least that is not his main objective.

EU, Canada, UK, they're just collateral damage. They'll hurt but they'll recover because while loosing the US they still have each other and China. And in their recovery they'll help isolating the US. After they learn to live without the US it's game over.

His main target is the US itself. He's trying to collapse the US economy and isolate them to prevent from rising up again. He's trying to destroy the US reputation in the international community. He tried it once but now he's making sure it sticks. With a broken economy and no allies the US will loose its capacity to project military power. Even if a Democrat is elected nobody will ever trust the US again.

Trump works for Putin, it's completely obvious. His job is to sabotage the US. And he's doing a great job. And by the time Americans face the facts it will be too late. Maybe it already is.

I read Ken's book and it seems he always painted himself in the best of lights. At the same time, even from his own POV, he always came off as screwing his workers.

Americans: doing jokes about our lack of a very important food product is very inappropriate and immoral!

Irish: you want some potatoes with those eggs?

They are eating the dogs and now they are tariffing the penguins.

Uh? Of course he isn't. Why would Putin tell him to put tariffs on himself? That makes no sense.

Because I wouldn't insult my mother (or father) with ANY swear word.