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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

What if climate change was caused mostly by this guy cursing the wind...

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 weeks ago

Is it weird to make a "historians erase gay people in history" joke by erasing where some historian wrote "same sex couple" and changing it to "roommates"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It really took you 10 paragraphs to not get a joke? Damn, dude.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Prostate orgasms are similar. As a bonus, it's a lot less work than surgery.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Cultural hegemony is the dominance of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class who shape the culture of that society—the beliefs and explanations, perceptions, values, and mores—so that the worldview of the ruling class becomes the accepted cultural norm.[1] As the universal dominant ideology, the ruling-class worldview misrepresents the social, political, and economic status quo as natural and inevitable, and that it perpetuates social conditions that benefit every social class, rather than as artificial social constructs that benefit only the ruling class.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_hegemony

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

Guys, can we please not bully the unstable lunatic into creating a global depression?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I'm just saying that bath water is not discharged from the body. Biowaste might be a better word. Sorry, I know this is not an important point.

I hope you enjoy your autograph collection. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

So that's a no. You spent a lot of words to avoid saying the word no, but you seem to understand we cannot fix that problem in the short term.

So why do you insist on acting as if we have an informed electorate that will weigh their options and come to an informed decision? At what point do Democrats have to stop the wishful thinking and join us in reality?

If it helps, I'd like the same thing. But what we want doesn't matter. Winning elections does.

And for the record, I and a lot of other people read the article. Pretending 'everyone who comes to a different conclusion than you did is uninformed' is condescending. We simply choose to give credence to the activists that work for consumers over another corporate backed Democrat. "There are too many regulations on the books" is a right wing talking point and a nonsense excuse.

“This veto sends the devastating message that corporate landlords can keep using secret price-fixing algorithms to take extra rent from people who have the least,”

Edit: Open Secrets says the Real Estate industry is #2 in donations to Gov. Polis at $12,000.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Campaigning for a cushy job after he leaves office is also called "lobbying" because "bribery" is only when you hand a politician a bag with a big dollar sign on it and explicitly say "This is a bribe to do a crime for me".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Do you think we can fix "headline only reactions" amongst voters, or do you think we should do things that make good headlines regardless of if it increases the number of laws, a metric absolutely nobody cares about?

It's almost as if voters are human and we should care about what they think, rather than expect every voter to think like you do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Correlation is not causation, friend. Okay, I admit I had to jump at the chance to use that in the opposite direction as normal.

In any group of furries, tech workers are incredibly overrepresented. Furries are a tiny amount of tech workers, to be sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

How many trans people do you know? Has a trans person gotten mad at you for something?

Charitably, it seems like people who have never met trans people seem to think they're balls of tinder, waiting to explode at any imagined slight. There is a lot of misinformation and propaganda out there and trans people are a punching bag.

Yes, words change a lot, and maybe someone might ask you to use a different word. That's not an attack on you.

Yeah, you might meet someone on a bad day or there could be a misunderstanding, but, in general, treating people with kindness and respect works out pretty well.

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