djsoren19 @ djsoren19 @lemmy.blahaj.zone Posts 0Comments 320Joined 1 mo. ago
Yeah unfortunately the gun crazies fully support what's happening, and it's a PITA to get a registered firearm if you aren't already a gun nut.
Hey if anyone has a line on unregistered Kalashnikovs, hit me up. I just want it for "display purposes."
Yes, I'd say that's a pretty extreme view. I'm also not sure what you mean by controllable? I'd argue most of the uniqueness of humans comes as a product of the environment they were raised in, which isn't really something we have control over.
Also I have real bad news if you're worried about things you're not conscious of affecting your behaviors.
There's nothing wrong with having preferences. Discrimination gets a bad rap because of it's association with racism, homophobia, etc, but everybody discriminates all the time, every day, typically about incredibly simple stuff. At the end of the day, it's just recognizing differences in people and making decisions based on those differences. Yeah, you shouldn't let something like race or gender impact a decision to hire someone, but you're already discriminating against one gender when selecting romantic partners. (unless you're bisexual and have exactly a 50/50 preference) If you're only attracted to people with athletic builds, you'll be discriminating against tons of people with health conditions. If you're looking for a goth partner, you're discriminating against all the people with happy families. I don't really think discriminating over pheremones is any different.
I'm a male bottom and also can occasionally go crazy for musk.
in 4 years, the Heritage Foundation put together a plan to dismantle the U.S. government.
In those same 4 years, the Democrats sat on their hands with the expectation that the 2024 election was in the bag.
I'm not even sure if Dems can prepare for what's coming. Certainly not to the level the Republicans have prepared for this moment.
Yes, and we knew this would be the outcome the second he won the election. I'm staying in the U.S. because my life is worthless anyway and I'd prefer death in glorious revolution than survival, but anyone who values their life should have started their plans to leave in August 2024 when it became obvious he was going to sieze control.
Also, a non-insignificant amount of the conflict has to do with Ariel having royal responsibilities, which absolutely still works with 18 yr olds.
This is such a gross oversimplification, and the fact it keeps getting repeated is the reason I have no faith in the American people getting out of this. This coup has been in the making for decades, but everyone points to the last 5 minutes as the key point we fucked up.
Now this is science I can get behind! Let's get someone behind me!
Oh like 0%, IMO a civil war and the collapse of the United States is the best case scenario. A third of Americans are blackshirts, a third have been yelling about the blackshirts for decades, and the other third are asking people to keep their voices down. That just isn't a recipe for a legal reversal of what's happening. Either a civil war happens and the fascists lose, or we'll become like Russia without any serious opposition.
In other words, revolvers are popular, which is why they showed up in movies, whereas katana showing up in movies is what made them popular?
Of course they saw this coming, and genuinely fuck the Democratic Party for being controlled opposition, but a pretty large chunk of the blame falls on the United States public who just watched as civics education in this country collapsed. An unqualified electorate electing unqualified leaders isn't a surprise, and we spent most of the last 50 years trying to make sure the average American was as dumb and misinformed as possible. Hell, maybe if Americans were actually taught how fragile the U.S. system of government is, we'd have made serious reforms of it before now.
I would argue that a narcissist also has an incredibly skewed and warped sense of reality, and I would point out that their desperate need for attention can cause them to lash out in a manner consistent with schizoid-typal disorder.
Its not really fair to excuse Kanye over his schizoid-typal disorders, but then argue Musk's mental illnesses are irrelevant. Either their mental health had nothing to do with them developing their hateful ideology, or it had everything to do with it. You can't pick and choose. I'd point to the large swathes of people suffering from mental illness who haven't become Nazis as evidence that it's not as relevant as the choices these men have made are.
Musk is almost certainly also mentally ill.
Most Americans are starting to learn for the very first time how grossly undemocratic the U.S. government actually is. People have had absolute faith in an institution that was held together by bubblegum and hope. Hell, most of what he's doing isn't even illegal. We just hoped that presidents would have enough tact not to abuse their privilege, and never imagined our courts could be captured as well.
You can make an argument for it mattering in the first film as well, but that starts examining the film from a lense of Ash, Weyland Yutani, and the Xenomorph being metaphors for the patriarchy.
Nonsense, clothes can't be too cute for you, they're clothes and lack the ability to determine any worthiness of a given wearer. The only thing you have to fear is looking so cute that other people try to give you compliments and talk to you.
So does this mean Barron is going to kill his brothers to ascend the throne?
I mean, we can only hope...
I mean, the electorate is definitely unqualified to pick their own leaders, but that's what decades of gutting education funding with absolutely no public pushback gets you. An unqualified electorate elects unqualified representatives.
It's hard to really blame them, public education in the U.S. has been a nightmare for decades now. How can people be expected to learn from history if they're not even being taught to read?