[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago

Doms stay winning 😎

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 10 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

There's a slight difference in nuance between both sentences, but both essentially come out to mean "everyone's heavily influenced by their inherited social context", which is basically a Social Sciences 101 take (it was more ground-breaking during Marx's time tho).

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago

Looks like the Republican party has been taken over by the Taliban. You guys should invade their headquarters and bring them freedom.

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 35 points 13 hours ago

The fact that we keep seeing these kinds of news (including the report that "he's at his best from 10AM to 4PM") means it's highly likely that there's people with high positions in the Democratic hierarchy who think they should switch their candidate (in opposition to whoever is calling the shots), and they're trying to rock the boat earlier rather than latter by leaking these headlines so that the second option actually has a chance to build their candidacy.

If you think they shouldn't, I ask you: do you prefer this to be published now, in a controlled demolition by people who want someone other than Biden, or weeks before the election, by people trying to make Trump win?

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No, not like that!!! (sh.itjust.works)
[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago

So you're now posting images of people being mocked for having mental illnesses. Yeah, sure dude, you're an exemplary pillar of morality. Perhaps hold on from having these discussions until you grow up.

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 3 points 14 hours ago

The ruling party in Spain is socially progressive, so they're shooting themselves on the foot with this one.

No one wants to tell the government they’re watching porn, especially in a Catholic country like Spain.

Spain is majority Catholic, but in terms of people having mostly secular lives, it's very similar to France. If anything, religion has more weight in institutions in relation to its social significance than it should as a leftover from our fascist dictatorship from 50 years ago.

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago

A donkey will keep on banging its head against the wall no matter how may warnings you give it, huh?

My whole argument is: "We have been doing surgeries on kids without their consent just because society wanted them to conform. If you're against trans teens receiving surgery after they ask for it after ignoring non consensual surgeries on intersex babies, you probably don't actually care about the well-being of children, but rather, have a bias against what you don't consider to be normal". Instead, you failed to understand what kind of argument I was even making and assumed you had a fight to pick. Again: work on your reading comprehension.

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago

We may be talking about someone who handled logistics, or cooking, or maintenance; they might have been punished by life enough in the 30 years have followed; they may be someone who didn't know what they were getting into, but once they were on the ground, tried to minimize the harm they brought upon others; they may be someone who realized what the army was doing was wrong too late, and was branded a traitor for refusing orders or revealing evil shit that was going on behind the curtains.

All in all, you're either defending that once a person does one bad thing, regardless of their context, they have become essentially tarnished forever, and no matter their growth or already suffered punishment they should continue to suffer forever; or else you're just rationalizing the fact that you want to throw fireworks no matter the harm you bring upon others. Think about this all for two minutes before you say something stupid.

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 31 points 16 hours ago

They support it performatively because it gives them clout, and often are dumb enough to follow along. Most of them hate it once they experience it for long enough, though. Look at Lauren Southern suddenly denouncing her "trad partner" having been abusive for years even while she was promoting it.

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago

If you have any kind of anxiety disorder, sensory hypersensitivity or heart issues, the sudden noise of fireworks will at least startle you. The constant barrage of noise that takes place in some places through some celebrations or through the year provoke people to develop even more serious health issues. Ah, but don't you dare to suggest that the health of vulnerable people should take priority over some brief dumbfuck fun, or that there exist less harmful ways to celebrate, or that constant fireworks in places with certain population density means annoying a lot of people for the sake of very few, because then it turns out that you just "hate freedom".

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 5 points 17 hours ago

Project 2025 already involved implicit violence even if people didn't challenge it. So thanks for taking the mask even further off, I guess?

Any bets on how long until he makes it to Qatar?

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When they send their golpists, they're not sending their best, folks. Terrible coup, actually. Top 10 worst coups, even.

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List of the coalition's members on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Popular_Front#Members

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So Sumar's (Spanish party) politicians will apparently be distributed across both The Left and the Greens European parties. Presumably an image maneuver, since joining an European party usually doesn't bind your vote, and Spanish green parties usually get integrated in leftist electoral options anyway.

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"Notably, Chang's report claims that biological females develop earlier than males do, so requiring girls to enter school at younger ages will create classes in which the two sexes are of more equal maturity as they age. This, the author posits, makes it more likely that those classmates will be attracted to each other, and marry and have children further down the line."

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"The report does not include evidence of any correlation between female students' early enrollment and the success rate of their romantic relationships with men. The author also does not detail specific mechanisms by which his proposed policy would increase romantic attraction or birthrates."

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not agree to end the war in Gaza in exchange for the release of hostages unless opinion polls show it is politically advantageous for him, a top Israeli security official told the families of those held captive, a person in the closed-door meeting and an advocacy group said Friday. (...) “The Israeli government made a conscious and deliberate decision to sacrifice the hostages,” the Hostage Family Forum said in a statement Friday. “The hostages, and the entire State of Israel, have been taken captive by those who chose political interests over their national and governmental duty.”

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They aren't trying very hard tho.

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Is this discrimination? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works to c/adhd@lemmy.world

Hi everyone. I don't have ADHD, but someone who joined my family some time ago does (we'll call him T), and is currently going through some trouble which I find quite perplexing.

Some background: T has two daughters (8yo and 6yo) under shared custody with his ex-wife (they spend roughly the same time with each of them during the week). T has had some serious difficulties through his life, some of which are structural and will likely stay with him forever, such as difficulty to hold onto a job or keeping his house tidy (even less so when his kids are home), and others of which are temporary by nature, such as the recent death of his mother.

His daughters had been having some issues for quite some time, including school performance and very frequent misbehaving. I don't particularly dislike kids, but holy shit, the very moment they got used to me, they became imps, almost constant screaming, fighting each other, not attending to reason, and so on. And I've barely seen them a handful of times. Anyhow, T decided to seek the root of these issues, discussed with his ex-wife the possibility of getting them evaluated for ADHD, and the ex-wife refused. T went forwards anyway, and the girls are now diagnosed with ADHD, and assigned to a psychologist who should theoretically have a session with them each month, but in practice, they're given less than 5 appointments a year. In general, T's complaints that he wanted more guidance on what to do with them have fallen on deaf ears.

A few weeks ago, social services knock into T's home, and naturally, they find that the house is a mess, because it always is. They take note of it all, and recently summoned him for a meeting.

T's current partner recently told me how the meeting went: social services claimed that the kids are sometimes late to class and they sometimes don't go at all, attributed all the responsibility to him, and he refuted that, while he's sometimes late when it's his turn to take them to school, they only completely miss class when they're staying with their mother. Social services disregarded this (shouldn't they have the means to corroborate it?), and proceeded to explain that, as a person with ADHD who cannot keep his life in order, he doesn't seem to have the competencies to raise the kids, so they want to impose a change in custody where they would stay with him less than 33% of the time.

What I'm getting from this is that the only thing the administration will take into account when determining whether you should be raising your kids or not is your medical conditions and how disorganized is your house. The kids have some issues, sure (I'm not arguing that they being late to class or missing at all is ok), but if there are two separated parents, and one has an ADHD diagnosis and the other doesn't, is it ok to attribute all issues on the diagnosed parent rather than checking where the problems are coming from? Shouldn't the fact that the kids have ADHD a reason to want to make sure and the parent who does also have it to be more involved in their upbringing, since the one who doesn't will have less experience with it and its difficulties?

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