[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 hours ago

Strictly for those that don't need it. Just like most of what the likes of Hochum and Adams prioritize.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 16 hours ago

Yes, just like the legal term for a predatory debt spiral disguised as a short term loan used to be "payday loan" (now called something else to avoid regulation imposed on the previous euphemism).

The more innocent-sounding but deceptive term that a predatory industry prefers doesn't become correct just because they successfully bribe politicians to make it become/remain the official one.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 17 hours ago

Fair enough heh. You have yourself a nice day 🙂

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 17 hours ago

Yes, it was. Now leave me alone before you start your nonsense on me again.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 18 hours ago

Not really, no. Read my subsequent response to their poorly thought out reply for more information.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 18 hours ago

It's going to affect immunocompromised people every day of the year regardless, whether it's supposed to or not.

Infectious disease doesn't take a break because the cops "need" to identify "troublemakers" with their Orwellian spying on blameless people.

Besides, making it unsafe for everyone who ever participates in a protest to be around anyone who's immunocompromised is a whole new level of oppression!

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 19 hours ago

At least that one seems to be targeted at protests

You're celebrating that, rather than accidentally targeting immunocompromised people, it deliberately targets people exercising their constitutional right to dissent?

Btw, like with abortion, any exemptions a GOP ban has will just be a fig leaf for the complicit media that's not going to be in effect in the vast majority of cases.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

you're supposed to make an argument, and try to change things that way

He says, fully aware that all the arguments have been made for decades if not centuries only to be met with "no. We don't wanna and you can't make us" from those who hold the reins of "legitimate" power.

Like every other despot before him, he wants his victims to keep flailing ineffectually so that nothing changes.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 23 hours ago

Seems that they only counted slaves from the South. I bet that including New England slave owners would take it from "many" to "most", if not even "almost all".

While not on an industrial scale like in the South, there was still a lot of slavery in the original colonies and their successor states, which played a big part in enabling generational wealth for any family rich enough to buy a slave at the time.

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LMAO bro never heard about Caligula.

You mean the Caligula who was assassinated after a reign shorter than a modern US presidential term? Is that the Caligula that you claim OP is ignorant of and you're not?

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I nominate this NYT opinion piece for shittiest take of 2024!

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