• Maya S. Trojan@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    18 hours ago

    Similar to this, I’m always saying that if people with kids are only concerned about their own children’s future, then their own children’s future will suffer. If they are worried about all children’s futures, their own children will have brighter futures collectively.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      11 hours ago

      You mean the cis straight Christians?

      You mean the cis straight able Christians?

      You mean the cis straight able male Christians?

      You mean the cis straight able male Christians who can afford to own capital?

      You mean the cis straight able male Christians who own capital and agree to the specific official theological doctrine set by the state? (This is going to filter out a lot.)

      You mean the cis straight able male, state-religion-compliant Christians who own a whole lot of capital?

      See how it works? The face eating leopards come for everyone until only Elon Musk is left.

  • dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    ‘First They Came’ isn’t just got barely apologetic Nazis and literal war criminals (as Niehmöller unapologetically was).

    Even those of us who don’t suck should look to the most vulnerable among us and say “why don’t they deserve to be safe, happy and free?”

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 day ago

      This is why I keep track of furry hate.

      A Maryland renaissance fair set a policy prohibiting furry costumes on the grounds that they spoil immersion but then they allow for other non-period costumes such as Imperial Stormtroopers.

      This was news right around the time Tuberville went on his rant about furries in the commercial airline industry, calling on furries to be institutionalized.

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        First they ban furries from ren fairies, then what’s next. No starfleet officers? What about cranky archaeologists just looking for the right grail?

        I always wondered why the dumbest politician in the US (which is an amazing feat in a world where Trump draws breath) was so worked up about furries. It seemed… odd.

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            18 hours ago

            Oh, I’m not truly surprised. Though in Tuberville’s case, I think he’s honestly the dumbest motherfucker in every room he’s in. Possibly any continent he’s currently on.

            I’m wrapping up the second part of Behind the Batards on Dennis Hastert, and the number of ‘gut the welfare state because of corruption’ while getting tons of lobby bribery or check kiting in their own bank is… not even remotely surprising. Not to mention the legion of hyper moralists who want jeebus in everything while cheating on their mistress.

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      2 days ago

      Yeah I have always said that you can tell a nation by how it treats it’s weakest, most vulnerable people.

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            The human condition.

            We survived through the most insane adversity through shared struggle and empathy. But once we’re “comfortable”, enough of us are free to show just how awful we can be.

            I still view humanity as mostly good enough. But we aren’t able to handle large enough groupings that allow sociopaths to have free reign.

  • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    only caring about my own rights is why I care for everyone’s rights.

    It’s both altruistic and selfish to care for everyone’s.

    Being selfish is not for your own good, it’s for your own stupidity

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    Except gun rights. Lemmy doesn’t care about those and wants everyone except the police and military to lose them.

    • Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Just go to the right places and you will see that many people are pro gun ownership.

      “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun” Mao Zedong

      It is currently almost impossible for me to legally own a weapon in my country due to me being diagnosed with depression but if I was mentally more stable and didn’t have those legal issues I would probably already have my licence.

    • Another Catgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      The community of Fuck Gun Control seems to be present and I don’t see a way to exclude them, but their ability to make/get guns is different from their right to have and use them.

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    2 days ago

    3 Zionists have already told me to “affectuate real change” by denying transgenocide in septicland.