stembolts @ stembolts @programming.dev

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"No one should stand up for new rights. Don't rock the boat bro."

Your mindset is the road to a dictatorship.

What does the Mafia do? Show up, "Wow you got a lot of valuable things here Be a shame if someone broke them. Best listen to us."

The Mafia leverages potential of damage to existing value to extract cooperation.

I see very little difference here between the Mafia and the plaintiff.

"Because what is legal is always right.
And what is right is always legal."

No?

In a fascist state, your mindset is welcome, "Well they broke the rule, they must pay," but do you never abstract one more level? Is the rule itself breaking something?

Those who downvote you say yes. Nuance is important. The rule has two main affects that I see.

1. Direct effect (the goal) :Publishers maintain a monopoly on bookselling low value books, the structure of their business preventing any competition.

Okay lets think about #1. Is that good or bad?

2. Indirect effect : the members of that society now have a restricted access to knowledge.

Okay lets think about #2. Is that good or bad?

Being critical in thought enough to recognize the flaws of the first quote is key.

Which is also something the president had control to protect prisoners from.

But instead went, "It's gonna go big in cities, kill lots of democrats, let it run loose!"

Then that plan backfired and it went rampant in republican areas as democrats masked up and got vaccinated..

The president at the time made zero effort to do anything other than hide behind a curtain and go, "The virus isn't real! Trust me I tell the truth!", then spent months saying insane things with no evidence to substantiate any of it. Tens of thousands of rural citizens trusted him and died following his advice.

One final note, this was less than a few years after dismantling and defunding Obama's virus response task force which had been assembled so that the US would be prepared for virulant events.

I want to point out that your reasoning is irrational which makes your conclusion nonsense.

You didn't root cause or analyze anything, then declared yourself to be right "because".

Here I'll show you, let me use your method to "prove" something.

"The Potato Party has always been in charge in Tombo County, the hungry kids in schools are not the fault of The Potato Party because kids here have been hungry before."

We can "prove" so many things this way!

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In my news podcasts, "Crime has reached a fifty year low."

(Go outside to my peaceful quiet neighborhood)

My pro-Trump neighbor, "Crime is out of this world!"

I sometimes just pause and consider what their life must be like.. constant paranoia, fear, worry.. all over things that aren't occurring.

Your comment is the same.

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Idk wtf that cat is but I'm on team cat.
Fuck lemmings, worst thing to happen to Lemmy!

You have to swallow the rock for the cure.

Do it, eat the rock. It will make things better.

Now that is pod racing.

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That question is not worth pursuing. Remember you are using rational thought processes and you don't have an emotional investment in the outcome. You're talking to people who have made it part of their personality so when you attack that idea, they perceive that you are attacking them personally. They don't understand the powerful indifference of science. Science doesn't give a shit who is right, but they are too sensitive for that, they need a safe space.

And as a matter of fact after the damage is caused, the people who are currently paying to produce and distribute climate misinformation are most certainly positioned to profit from the resulting devastation in whatever way they can.

Spread disinformation that there is no change, meanwhile pivoting your investments around the coming change. Some people truly will say or do anything for power and influence.

Conservatives aren't interested in pulling this thread, or as many conservatives have said.. "If given the choice of knowing the truth or staying conservative I'll stay conservative."

I knew you dirty science people would be in here!! Damn satanists!! Stop finding information and relaying it!! If temperature was real the Bible would tell us what it is.

Yoo moe gwei gwai fai ding sow.
Yoo moe gwei gwai fai ding sow.
Yoo moe gwei gwai fai ding sow.
Yoo moe gwei gwai fai ding sow.

Heed my ancient chant and be gone demon!!

(I couldn't resist, and yes that is uncle's chant from Jackie Chan Adventures)

They're just doing this because it's in line with fake climate change predictions. God damn scientists changing the world to be in line with climate change because they are mad they were wrong about climate change!!

If you wanna stop climate change, do some real science like burning a wicker idol of Greta Tubaberg!! A sacrifice to appease the one true God!! Donald Trump!!

(Dumb shit like this was what /r/TheDonald originally was and people are so stupid that posts like this actually garnered an audience, smh)

The court was respected when I was a kid.

The court no longer has respect.

What right wing institutions are trying to do (and in many cases achieving) with governing bodies is transparent.

The court is as corrupt as the Congress and the Senate. A government of lobbyists, for the corporation, by the corporation. Fuck the people.

Be grateful to be a slave. A slave is alive. You could be dead. Remember that you exist to create labor but it is someone else's job to claim the value of that labor.

Sorry, you were born into the wrong family, now please accept the status quo and do not revolt, rebel, or look into history and how the lower classes have handled power imbalances in the past.

Mos def, thanks for the link.

Cast aside alcohol, yearn for the mines.

The size of the chess board is not related to the inability of some pieces to be on some colors.. that only depends on the starting positions.
Thus downvotes.
Are you loggerheaded?