No doubt. Propaganda is just wild. Kindness and Unity are woke afterall.

Their crimes aren’t comparable, but the regimes’ actions are.

Nidal may not be being executed for blasphemy/speaking out, but people in the US are absolutely being targeted for their beliefs and political leanings (on top of the classic skin color based arrests). Some are jailed, some are charged and released but still have to deal with the process, illegal deportations, and others are just disappeared outright.

That part is hardly an exaggeration.

Fair enough. Point stands that people don’t understand these terms, have different understandings of them, and are therefore almost never on the same page.

Just like ‘liberal’ means very different things to different people. Conservatives say its like they’re far left revolutionaries. Actual Leftists view them as Conservative lite. And a lot of in-between.

I think there is a big discrepancy between what Captialism is defined as, what Capitalism actually is, and the ‘Spirit of Capitalism’ that a lot of folks buy into.

‘The Spirit’ is the idealistic bit. Competition breeding innovation. The better the service/product, the more successful you can be. Classic American Dream stuff.

In reality, its a race to the bottom where all principles and values are eschewed for profit.

Kinda like Communism where what it Should be or what it Could be are different than what we get in practice. And any given person is going to be thinking about it from a different lens, so you get delusional, idealistic, cynical, and occasionally reasonable takes all talking about the ‘same but entirely different’ thing.

Capitalism just had better PR.

Yeah force users all got like low grade Spidey Sense.

I was told to do the ‘1 car length per 10mph’ rule of thumb when learning and I still try to whenever I can. Its not perfect, but its always in the back of my mind so I am usually aware of I’m getting too up on anyone.

Not sure why OP is balking at the warning on vehicles. Legality aside, sometimes its good to have a heads up. People need to chill the hell out on highways in general.

Team Bonesaws is definitely worse than the Ellisons, but they’re both in the Blight Against Humanity Hall of Fame.

Lol my wife works in a clinic with some folks that are a little messy, with messier SOs.

I get so much goodwill for just laying in the cut. Sending a meme instead of a mean text is apparently a hard hurdle to clear for some folks.

There is absolutely merit to joining the army to acquire skills/knowledge/discipline, but they should be the ones to sell it as such. US just has commercials with cool tech and jerking off about being a warrior right now. I think they’d probably do a lot better if they focused on what can be learned or gained.

I don’t see why UBI has to remove the rest of social services. Feels like that would fit in the “More social welfare” bin.

I don’t need Bernie to fully understand AI before he continues advocating for the people. He also has enough of a track record to trust that he does not blindly believe the AI rhetoric, which is primarily pushed by the same Corpo types he usually rails against. I’d wager he’s also for adding guard rails and protections.

Its good to keep pushing for good things, despite whatever noise is going on. Perfect being the enemy of good has sidetracked many an effort. Like conservatives have had no problem taking their little victories over the years chipping away at rights before going full out fascist. We need little victories do push back too.

Ahh thanks for the clarification

Could be thousands of obituaries, but that can’t be the middle of every comment on the subject

Its mostly semantics. Dude is saying guns don’t just go off because of X, Y, and Z. And people are pointing out that X, Y, and Z are the result of negligence.

People neglecting gun safety is the cause. The gun goes off because of the negligence.

1. You can know things aren’t totally private and should still be able to make dumb jokes without the FBI getting involved.

2. Does a dumb joke about a bad experience really merit a ‘reality check’?

3. Social Media company reporting suspicious stuff is a good thing. What isn’t good is the zero due diligence. Just right to the FBI.

4. It is the fault of the social media for auto-flagging things then automatically forwarding to the FBI. I’d like more due diligence from the FBI too, but we don’t know how urgent they thought it was. Again, no due diligence and they auto-forwarded something to the FBI that must have made it seem like an imminent threat.

None of these are good things. Privacy should still be private. If we’re going to tacitly accept that nothing is private on the Internet for ‘safety’, then it should absolutely be called out when that privacy is violated for little to no reason. And again, some due diligence from someone. All of these things being done without anyone looking into it until the FBI is on someone’s door step is not good. Let’s also note that law enforcement jumping hard on bad information has led to plenty of wrongful deaths and injuries.