JuBe

Good point and totally agree!

Okay, thanks!

I don’t know what the original title was, but it looks like they’ve fixed it, so I’m going to dismiss the report.

“Illegal immigration” actually isn’t a crime, it’s a civil infraction — like a speeding ticket.

I’m not disagreeing with the fact that the Democratic Party shouldn’t be cozying up with billionaires, but I’m not convinced that the most significant reason for the Harris’ loss. I think misogyny played a role.

I think Democrats don't know how to create a zeitgeist of high-brow, uplifting pugnacity that punches through bullshit. "Oh you think 'boys' should be able to play in women's sports?" "It's a game!" "You sound pretty privileged to not have to think about scholarships for students to go to college!" "Shut the fuck up about peoples' genitals, and let's do something about people going to school. Let's prepare children for the real world in school while they're growing up, and if they want to go off to college after that, let's make that affordable."

The "Green New Deal" — do want to grow the economy with new industries? Do you know how much more expensive living with the consequences of climate change will be — do you like the cost of housing now?

"Poor people should have to work to receive help." — (1) They already do, and (2) shut the fuck up and stop calling yourself a Christian unless you want to at least pretend to know the tenets of your religion. You would have been whipped in the temple.

Stop giving Republicans so many opportunities to go on bullshitting without checking them. That won't immediately manifest the world we want to see, but it will at least shift the momentum.

… and cue the facial Equal Protection problems.

They’ll ask to have it “sent it back to the states.”

I guess my idea was that locking the comment thread wouldn’t censor the viewpoints, and everyone could still read the differing views while tamping down on toxicity.

If a conversation isn’t productive and people are just becoming mean and ugly toward each other, then all we’re left with is people being mean and ugly toward each other. That doesn’t promote community, it creates rage bait. And not that it necessarily means a conversation can’t be productive, I would assume — although maybe incorrectly — that the reason people are on Lemmy is because they’ve seen what happens when rage is monetized on social media platforms, and they came here to get away from that.

Mod here: We’ve received several reports from this comment thread. If I had the power to lock just this thread, I would because I can see how this conversation has some seeds for productive discourse, but that doesn’t seem to be the direction that things are headed toward right now.

I would encourage people to reread what each other has said, and rather than immediately thinking of a rebuttal, read it a second or third time until you can interpret what the other person said a different way than you initially read it.

Mod here: We’ve received several reports from this comment thread. If I had the power to lock just this thread, I would because I can see how this conversation has some seeds for productive discourse, but that doesn’t seem to be the direction that things are headed toward right now.

I would encourage people to reread what each other has said, and rather than immediately thinking of a rebuttal, read it a second or third time until you can interpret what the other person said a different way than you initially read it.

A report was received about this breaching rule 1. In this case, the title used to submit the link provides more context than the original title, and will be allowed to remain.