AMuscelid 11mo ago • 75%
It's worth mourning that someone in the custody of the state isn't being protected from attack. For every evil cop getting stabbed there's a ton more people (some of whom are innocent) who are subject to the same negligence and cruelty in the system.
AMuscelid 11mo ago • 85%
The right is way more hooked into the culture war, but plenty of leftist communities cannibalize each other via "no true Scots"-ing each other with intersectionality. I see very little patience or compassionate education on intersectionality, and instead see a competition about how quickly one can scold. Regardless of whether that's valid, it sure as hell makes it difficult to build bonds with other groups or onboard new folks to leftist ideas.
AMuscelid 11mo ago • 100%
The diversion is the idea of rainbow capitalism. For example: fighting for the right for people of any identity to own slaves is not a valid goal and also won't "free the slaves." Ending slavery is the goal. Rainbow capitalism acts as a shell game to divert energy toward token concessions and labels them victories. Anti-racism and feminism should be (and I would say, are) at the core of any coherent flavor of leftism, but diverse oppression is still oppression and a rainbow flag on a Raytheon missile is not a win.
Edit: should have read the comment further down. Said what I meant but with gooder words.
AMuscelid 11mo ago • 100%
Nah that's common to leftism in general.
AMuscelid 12mo ago • 95%
No, that's explicitly the reason for it, and it's been shown to reduce the severity of crashes because people drive the speed limit when they feel it's risky to go faster.
AMuscelid 1y ago • 87%
I mean, the description of shitty misinformed pontification describes a pretty good chunk of Greek and roman philosophy. Have you read a lot of Aristotle?
AMuscelid 1y ago • 100%
Yep. Did a bunch on it. Graduated in 2009ish in a small, rural town.
AMuscelid 1y ago • 100%
I understand what you're saying, and agree it's impossible to live on minimum wage in a big chunk of the country. However, tips are already pegged to inflation. If food gets twice as expensive, your 20% also doubles. For folks like Teachers, they might be lucky to get a 1 or 2% cost of living adjustment each year. That's waaaaaaaaaay below inflation, and just falls further and further behind, like the base minimum wage.
AMuscelid 1y ago • 40%
Also fashy over and mid -tones
AMuscelid 1y ago • 100%
I'm astounded he tried cpr. As a rule, most of them won't do any CPR or first aid just in case "someone gets the jump on them." Literally told in an active shooter training that responsibility for first aid or CPR is on me, just in case.
AMuscelid 1y ago • 66%
I mean, they do care. It's a fundamental part of how fascism works, so they can't leave hypocrisy out.
AMuscelid 1y ago • 100%
The only thing modern Russia has in common with the USSR is territorial ambition. They don't have the life expectancy, the culture, the art, the principles, or improving quality of life. They don't even have the opposition to fascism. It's the result of capitalism's victory over and looting of the Soviet Union. MAGAT's will never have based flags.
AMuscelid 1y ago • 100%
I see where you're coming from. But for Westworld the gratuity is sort of fundamental to the theme and plot of the show.
AMuscelid 1y ago • 100%
I have literally built a dungeons and dragons campaign to learn statistics, and had some students on their phones. I'm not a dancing bear, and having a dopamine panic-button makes it near impossible to engage with anything challenging (I struggle with it too and know it's an anxiety crutch, but it's super maladaptive).
AMuscelid 1y ago • 88%
There's quite a bit about American law (at least in practice if not theory) that's essentially "we all know he did it." Civil asset forfeiture, releasing mugshots to publicly shame people that haven't been convicted, etc. It's wrong but taking the high road doesn't work against fascism and doesn't stop those things from happening to the poor.
AMuscelid 1y ago • 100%
This is the hidden most based take in the thread.
AMuscelid 1y ago • 100%
Most people are not armed in the US. And cop isn't even in the top ten most dangerous job. They act like everyone is armed because they're indoctrinated to see everyone as an enemy (and get off on violence).
AMuscelid 1y ago • 100%
In his defense, amphetamines make it hard to sleep. Except instead of lesson planning or reading, he just purchases $50,000,000 companies to own the libz.
AMuscelid 1y ago • 100%
It's an issue of time and scalability. Going from 100 employees to 200 employees wont make the game in half the time. And corporate accounting would rather have 2 mediocre games per year than 1 extremely good game every 2 years, even if it sold 4 times as well since revenue is analyzed within fiscal years and financing isn't free. Capitalism sucks.
Posting some old memes on my phone since Lemmy needs content. Unfortunately I don't have the info for attribution.