This Kent State?

The Vatican is #1, but we’re the only other “Western Democracy” that is having a major resurgence of fundies in power. There’s always been a problem, but never have they had so much sway. And we’re not better off for it.

I’ll be so happy when I get it down to sometimes.

There are a lot of people on lemmy I disagree with, and have not blocked. I believe his opinions aren’t just wrong, but immoral. I will not continue to engage with people I find immoral. Will engage with people that don’t agree to me that aren’t immoral. My reply was descriptive, not prescriptive. No one should, or probably would, do something because I say so, just reminding folks it’s an option.

I don’t like Beep’s opinions, or stealing, so have blocked him/her, problem solved

Very frustrating article. Glad she was found, but ‘biggest fear, with no insight into prevention’ doesn’t seem great.

Harvey Dent… can we trust him?

Why’d they make a statue of Aang?

That was my first thought, and then someone in this thread did in fact find an earlier post by someone else. Though I don’t know if that was the original.

I feel like children would be the paint, in this… metaphor? Maybe the Jack can be the muse.

At 100% infill, it’s all wall. Though the better bet is probably using the printed part to make a mold.

Most of the current immigration laws are due to racist intent. In the 80s they didn’t like how many Mexicans were coming across the border each year to do farm work. The workers would come, stay while there was work to be had, and then return home. When new laws were enacted making it harder for workers to get across the border, there came a class of people that would sneak the workers across. And this came with a fee from the workers. Now it costs them more to get here, so they need to stay longer to make up the money. It became easier to just find a place to live in the US all year round.

The US needs the Mexican workers. To simultaneously demand help, and punish them for showing up to help is dumb, and I suspect fueled by racist thoughts. The immigrants boost our economy, help feed our population, and are less likely to break laws that citizens. There’s a whole (probably many) book about it, and it’s even in comic form. https://www.amazon.com/Open-Borders-Science-Ethics-Immigration/dp/1250316960

While we need to know who is coming across our border to prevent spys and terrorists, the current laws make those entrants easier to hide, as there is now a whole industry to sneak people across.

Friendly censorship of an inoffensive word. With the threat of being banned for flavor. SO friendly.

guarantees a regression to centrist parties

The US’s whole political system has been drifting rightward. Our center is more to the right than 20 years ago. So it does not matter if regression to center is happening as the center drifts into the fascist event horizon. Every possible “this is why it could never happen here” is possibly a single event away from being breached, then discarded. The US has had so many of our safety checks blown through, and the only people who can now prevent it have no desire to do so, because they’re on the same team.

I’m sure you will be vigilant, but it takes the whole country. And a person may be smart, but people are dumb, panicky animals.

Yoink!

This is neither a Russian or Soviet prosecutor. He didn’t ask about US prosecutors (which has a lot of terrible ones I’m sure).

https://www.amazon.com/Spartan-Mosquito-Pro-Tech-Acre/dp/B09B1BP1JH

Not sure how well it works, buy my sister in law has them around her house.

I saw you hadn’t been asked in a while, had to give you the opportunity.

What’s updog?

The last season of GoT invalidated all of the growth that was witnessed in all the previous seasons, ruining the story.

How I Met Your Mother’s last season broke a spell that was over me, thinking that any of the characters were decent people. And allowed me to look at the whole thing without any of the nostalgia that carried me throughout the show. Was a young adult with questionable opinions that got better as I got older. The show seems to have never done so. And so I can say that the bad season did ruin the rest of the show, as I may have never given it a critcal eye if they had written it better.