[-] Dkcecil91@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

He's not wrong. It pays much more to be on the political right because it affords more of soieties' resources to large corporations and/or their CEOs, which is of course who pays lobbyists. Being more left means trying to get more money distributed to the poorest echelons of society, which is of course not very lucrative for everyone else.

[-] Dkcecil91@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Bernie was ultimately defeated by superdelegates, not by people voting in the primaries.

[-] Dkcecil91@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

ITT: Dave Chapelle, man who left his hit show abruptly because he was concerned about the audience he had cultivated comes back to America to live with old white people and cultivate a new audience that's much worse.

[-] Dkcecil91@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Bringing up participation trophies is a great way to sound like a clueless old person who accidentally ended up here from Facebook.

[-] Dkcecil91@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Personal responsibility has been an excellent tool for large corporations who make deliberate business decisions causing their manufacturing process to be worse for workers and the environment. Belief in personal responsibility as a serious value is what allowed a scam like recycling to be knowingly pushed by polluters for decades as a consumer-driven solution that requires little to no work from producers even though most products can't be recycled anyway and recycling is, in fact, not a solution to anything in and of itself.

[-] Dkcecil91@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's really hard to tell what's sarcasm in this comment and what, if anything, isn't.

Edit: never mind, reread it and realized you're just a crazy person.

[-] Dkcecil91@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Who let the boomers in here? Why are we talking about communists?

[-] Dkcecil91@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Dude, the US was grown out of the blood of the people who were already living in whatever place they wanted to be at the time. Every president has done something horrible to people who were just trying to live their lives. Kennedy did an exceptional amount for the average worker despite that and if other presidents had followed in his footsteps, we would probably have a more egalitarian society today. Being a hard edged absolutist and unable to see in shades of gray and take into account the prejudices and circumstamces of the time period does not make you correct. Especially as all of your posts (apart from quickly googling a definition) have been very low effort and provided no candidate for who you would say is better, even though the other poster asked you for one several posts ago. Try being constructive instead of destructive, if you even know how.

[-] Dkcecil91@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't say it's necessarily that too many people shouldn't have a voice. Just that too many of the people who shouldn't have much of a voice or any at all are the ones who really want to have one, often times.

[-] Dkcecil91@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

There's no drag queen church to protect them from their crimes and shuffle them around to another diocese so that they can continue hurting children. I would say that's the most glaring difference here.

[-] Dkcecil91@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I've only responded to you one other time here and let most of this go but this comment is absolutely heinous. "Runs equally"? That's just disgusting. Drag queens walk around with a target on their back for this kind of thing nowadays partially because of people playing devil's advocate or whatever this is that you're doing here. All three of the people in your stories were charged and fired, if employed. The church protects these clergymen from the consequences of their crimes and they're held in high regard, generally. The worst they have to worry about is kids cracking jokes they probably won't hear anyway. I don't care if you're an engineer or what your deal is but this comment is just problematic and your whole attitude isn't convincing me that you would be much better in a different context.

[-] Dkcecil91@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

It isn't misinformation, you're simply making inferences that aren't inherent to the post you've read. Exactly what the post title and text says is true. You're either unable to cope with something like OCD (and therefore unable to accept the post as anything other than what you personally would consider ideal) or you're being obtuse in order to derail the post as much as you can. But really it just seems like you just need to maybe chill out a bit, have a chuckle or don't, and then move on.

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