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

weird you ask for people to have empathy for poor and struggling people but then hate on smokers when those people are almost always smokers themselves - genuinely you'll be hard pressed to find a struggling person that doesn't smoke

maybe there's something more to knowingly poising oneself for the fleeting feeling of control and comfort that doesn't have anything to do with "people who choose hurting others for their own convenience"?

[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (26 children)

“I killed him laughing,” she said. “Oh, well. I’ll piss on his grave.”

“I did spit on him because he called me a f—-t,” Cruz’s confession reads. “I called him a dirty monkey. You said hurtful words, so I said hurtful words to you.”

As their dispute escalated, Cruz claimed that Hodges struck her three times before she pulled a knife and stabbed him in self-defense, according to court documents. “I told him, ‘You come to me and I’ll kill you,'” Cruz told investigators. “No motherf—-rs are going to put their hands on me no more.”

Hodges, who lived in the Bronx, reacted to the stabbing with astonishment, saying, “You really stabbed me?” to which Cruz replied, “Yes I did,” court documents state.

“I got in between them — twice,” said Janet Rich, who was in the deli buying coffee when the fight broke out. “There was another woman with dreadlocks [who] said, ‘Don’t do this. You have a good job. Let this go.’”

It's interesting to see how women generally react using reasoning and deescalation - which is commendable - but also knowing crime statistics against women maybe it wouldn't be the worst thing if men feared that assaulting a woman could end up getting you stabbed.

Too bad she seem quite evil with the whole "killing him laughing" thing - but I'm sure this isn't going to get twisted into all trans women are dangerous criminals and should be locked up in men's prisons...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Hard Out Here brought to you by Lily Allen

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

huh? food companies put addictive sugar/fat/salt combinations in everything now. our brains didn't evolve for this - like nobody thinks that a cup of granola + milk is like half your daily calorie intake - that's why people are obese - not because they can't "choose" to be healthy..

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

“‘Female’ and ‘woman’ mean an individual whose biological reproductive system is developed to produce ova,” the text of the bill continues, adding “‘Male’ and ‘man’ mean an individual whose biological reproductive system is developed to fertilize the ova of a female.”

I mean what are people apart from ova producing and fertilizing machines - I'm sure this will solve all your underpopulation fears...

“There are legitimate reasons to distinguish between the sexes with respect to athletics, prisons and other correctional facilities, domestic violence shelters, rape crisis centers, locker rooms, restrooms, and other areas where biology, safety, or privacy are implicated,” the bill reads.

Genuine gestapo shit - what's next ID facial recognition when you go to a public bathroom?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

folk defending this as "just an image of a child" and not seeing it as a minor being softcore sexualized should really revaluate your perception.

this is not a good look for anime fans in general and I don't like that I have to ban every anime sub so I can browse lemmy on the bus.

please realize that this will only end up hurting the community in the long term when everyday people join and see stuff like this and assume that all anime content is of this nature.

don't get me wrong I like anime but there's a difference between a pic of Anya as a cute kid and the image in the OP.

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

this is my last resort...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Ok, let me propose a theory:

In this context the timing was perfect for everyone's domestic problems. Israel's massive protests vanished overnight. US defense spending got bipartisan support for the first time in years. Every incumbent got their foreign crisis distraction while defense contractors cashed in.

The world's eyes switched from Ukraine, domestic failures, and economic problems to picking sides in Gaza. Defense budgets exploded, energy markets destabilized profitably, and populations rallied around their governments while ignoring corruption at home.

And that totally is the playbook of disaster capitalism. Don't be a useful idiot for the war profiteers. Demand your government oppose blank-check military spending, and support peace negotiations over arms deals.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I hadn't noticed how pro-cop some feddit.org users are but a cursory glance at people taking police reporting at face value and then openly defending cops punching people in the face with "it's out of context" reasoning is just surreal.

It reeks to me of living in a bubble your whole life and never having experienced police repression - so your only response is "it can't be the police, they've never done anything against me, it must be the protestors that are wrong"

Usually I'm one that hates leftist infighting but defacto trying to suppress a genocide because the "law says so" is rather weak. Still I totally understand wanting to protect yourself from repression but surely if you cared about both justice and your well being you would just hand over the community to someone else? Unless of course you actually agree with the "law"...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ah yes the classic "you made me repeatedly punch you in the face because I was afraid in my full body riot armor" - good to know the brave solders defending a genocide have loyal supporters on lemmy as well 🫶

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