themeatbridge @ themeatbridge @lemmy.world

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This might have already happened. We don't actually know for sure.

I always feel like kids who cannot explore and discover themselves are painted into a corner, and the natural curiosities become forbidden obsessions. That's not to say conservative parents have more gay or trans kids, but that when their kids are gay or trans, it becomes a much larger part of their personality, either in rebellion on in self-loathing. Everybody exists on a spectrum, and nobody is just one thing, but people who pretend the world is binary and demand conformity leave no room for nuance or ambiguity.

It was still illegal to detain him in the first place.

ICE ILLEGALLY detains US citizen.

We need some precision in our language.

So "tragic" in the literary sense, not the colloquial.

I have kids. I love them. They are my hope for the future, and I have never once regretted the decision to have them.

I completely understand why people don't want kids. I wouldn't try to talk anyone into it.

So much of the design is proprietary nonsense, it makes me wonder how much of the trucks can be reused for something people actually want.

Let's all remember that this is part of the theater. Mike Lindell is not broke, and has access to all the money he needs. Mike Lindell won't miss a meal, or sacrifice any comfort. He doesn't want to pay the money he owes, and crying before thd judge is a calculated disinformation campaign to make it seem like the reasonable people have scored a victory. You'll recognize victory when you're viewing it through the bars of a prison cell.

Huh, I didn't know that the dodo was not hunted to extinction. Apparently the meat was considered tasteless and inedible. They died out due to invasive species hunting their eggs.

All of them were wrongly deported.

If only we hadn't done everything possible to get us here!

Americans fucked around. We took our democracy for granted. We were too polite to challenge the bigots in our lives. We were too afraid of being called elitist or communist or soft, so we sat on the sidelines with furrowed brows and clutched pearls while shitty people steamrolled our freedoms to pave the road to their own successes.

We're all to blame. The Conservative shitbags, the opportunistic centrists, the ineffectual progressives, and the shiftless appliticals who never bothered to try. Trump didn't happen to America. Trump is the inexorable conclusion of America.

So basically Republicans want to end protectiona for endangered species.

Evidence? That's one of them fancy treasonous words. You want to end up in El Salvador, too?

I think "selfish" is a better word for it in all instances, because some people are just selfish. Like, if you can't be bothered to return your shopping cart or pick up your dog's shit, then that's selfish. It's not anywhere near the same category as being too burnt out to do the dishes after a double shift, or wanting to sleep in on a day off.

Calling all of it "lazy" creates some imaginary obligation to the universe that simply does not exist. You don't owe the universe clean dishes or your time in the morning. If you have roommates and you left dishes in the sink, you are being selfish. If your kids have an early baseball game, and you are too hungover to show up, then you're being selfish. You are always obliged to return your cart and pick up after your dog.

It isn't easy, but it's worth it. I find I'm calling a lot of local stores lately, because I hate shopping in person, and selections are limited. I find I am spending about 10% more per item on average, but I'm also buying fewer things in general. I'm still shopping at chains, like Microcenter, Staples, Dick's, and Lowes, but I'm trying to be intentional about going to local or thrift stores first.

I also shop on AliExpress more now, when I need some cheap garbage, but I'm trying to stop that, too.

No, that's.... it's like the whole story. He's in a concentration camp in El Salvador for no legal reason. None of them can leave because it's a prison, and they may be dead. They can't come back from Venezuela because that's not where they were taken after being abducted.

Not arrested. Abducted. We need to use clear language. He was here legally and violated no laws. He was detained without charges or due process.

There's more living bacteria inside of you than you, and it will eat your decomposing corpse if you let it. Embalming or creamation will kill what remains of you after your brain dies.

Literally zero victims sent to El Salvador received a trial or due process of any kind. None of them. They were identified by ICE and summarily deported. This one guy is a test case because it was proven to be a mistake, but dozens of others don't even have enough of a paper trail to examine. 90% had no criminal record. Even if he is returned, the administration has proven that they are willing and capable of eliminating anyone.