What if I told you there’s room to do the things you deem masculine, things you deem feminine, and still identify as yourself? People like Zuckerburg speaking like he has everything figured out when he can’t even deconstruct a false dichotomy is some peak pseudo-intellectualism.

Of course he hates it. Narcissists can only ever cooperate in the short term.

Trump allies argue he’s transitioning from campaign rhetoric to governing realities.

“No, you don’t get it. Now that he’s done campaigning he doesn’t have to lie anymore, so he’s just telling the truth instead.”

I’ve recently met someone who made me reconsider line between the institution of religious Christianity and what it means to practice the Christian faith. I won’t repurpose anything in this article, as it alludes to much of what I’ve considered, but I want to add a thought to it.

The fundamental problem with the modern Christian faith is that they have no intention of following the ethics and philosophies of Jesus Christ, and instead worship the man himself. They place the man before the teachings, and then define the man however they choose, filled to the brim with their own personal bias’, and use their cherry picked and context free Bible passages to justify it.

Motherfuckers need philosophy in their lives. Too bad right-wing politicians have worked hard to gut any form of free-thinking arts.

Hi-Fi Rush.

I was so distraught when the studio was closed despite selling extremely well and working on a sequel. I am beyond excited now that the studio has been picked up by Zenimax Krafton. There’s no confirmation, but you don’t go from planning a sequel to a breakout hit, to being closed down, to being picked up by another parent company just to scrap said sequel.

EDIT: Fixed the company buy-up. Forgot the order of things.

I don’t always find time to proofread when I am sitting on the toilet, trying to finish my thought and get back to my life. Nor do I concern myself with my old posts enough to go backwards over them later.

When I see them, I fix them, but the time and energy necessary to correctly proofread my posts just… Isn’t worth it. We misspeak in real life all the time. We correct ourselves when we can and move on when we can’t. It just isn’t a big deal.

Hot take: the difference between 17 and 18 doesn’t actually matter, and the real problem is Matt Gaetz abused his position of power to coerce young, relatively powerless women into sex with him. Crossing the line of 17 vs 18 is so unimportant in this particular case. Matt Gaetz fights to maintain a system where young women have no power, and utilizes his socio-economic position in that system to sexually abuse those women. Whether she’s just finishing up high school, or in her first year of university, we’re still talking about a young women who feels like she needs that money to step forward in her life, and Matt Gaetz, and many others like him, are responsible for creating that need. To then use that need to get sexual gratification from those same young women is fucking disgusting, whether or not she’s crossed the socially dictated line of “adulthood.”

“The act must be committed with the intent to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion.”

I have no issue with the state correctly identifying this act as terrorism. I take great issue with the fact that this act is being defined as terrorism, while using a definition that clearly defines many things that get a pass as terrorism. Remember last Trump presidency, when his white house published an old-school violent videogames scare video to garner support for his policies while distracting from discussion on gun laws? An act committed with the intent to coerce a civilian population is terrorism.

And let’s be real, I picked a low-stakes, innoculous example just to make a point: the state does a LOT to terrorize it’s citizens. But when they do it, it’s “law and order.” When Luigi fights back in self defense? “Terrorism”.

There should be nothing normal about an 84 year old man serving in congress. But it is normal.

In the world we live in, Sanders should be there.

Cowards.

What am I expected to be inferring from this? Why is this news? That’s a horrible tragedy, and says nothing about the character of the woman. If anything, I’d assume it means she’s likely to be on the side of firearm restrictions, and likely to agree with her predecessor on gun violence as a public health crisis. But the summary, at least, tries to frame it in the opposite manner?

I played Dauntless a little bit in the early days. It was extremely simplified Monster Hunter with little of the charm.

Denying and delaying health care is wrong. And while I think that murder shouldn’t be a desired solution to the problem as it is also wrong, at this point we have to accept that we’ve reached systematic self-defense.

Something needs to change, and there are currently no motivating factors encouraging those with the power to make change. I don’t want the answer to be violence, but, genuinely, what other options do we have at this point? The courts, the Democratic process, the police and the economy all work together to protect the massive wealth of the few, and we live in a world run by that wealth. I don’t want to hurt anyone, but more than that, I don’t want anyone to be hurt. When the few in power choose to hurt the many without, tolerance for the gaps in power, wealth, and quality of life give way.

and I wouldn’t necessarily be against the state holding to account executives who have produced systems and policies that result in the harm or death of the state’s citizens

Right, except if everything went exactly correctly as per the current justice system, the company would be found at fault, fined an absurd amount of money and closed. The wealthy executives who made the decisions that actually resulted in country-wide deaths would get sizable severance packages, take a short vacation, and 6 months to a year later open up the same business under a new name that imposes the same policies. It’ll be right back to throwing poors into a furnace to fuel their lamborgini’s until the next slap on the wrist.

We have no system to hold people accountable for their decisions as part of a company. We blame the company and then trust the company to police their staff accordingly. I’d love a widespread rework of the justice system to actually target the people responsibly for a companies actions, but we won’t get one, so instead, someone has been shot.

Sorry to hear about your father. There’s maybe nothing more horrific in Western society than the way we fund the lavish lifestyles of mass murderers like Brian Thompson.

Yes, but, see everyone else’s statements.

Also, lemmy.ml is widely seen as a very radical instance. The polarization and downvoting for contrary opinions is far worse around here.

The most blatant act of “rules for thee, but not for me.” My brother in Christ, you wrote the act.

His threat was directed at countries in the so-called BRIC alliance

What is meant by this? “so-called” is a qualifier we like to use to infer that something is using a name that doesn’t actually define it well. Is this not actually an “alliance,” or is this just unapologetic journalist bias trying to use negative language to speak about this group?

Genuine question. I can’t think of a third option, but if there is one, please, chime in.

Critize all you want, but the majority of Americans willing to go out and vote believe both that Trump is going to improve their buying power AND levy massive tariffs on imported goods. When common sense isn’t so common, it’s time to start stating the obvious loudly.

Why is it not bigger news that MTG is openly stating that the only reason any of these people are in power is because they have paid off all their victims and buried all the bodies. This is a verbal admission that she knows the entire GOP is filled with sex offenders, and the only reason they aren’t in jail is that they all cover for each other.

Fucking do it. Release it all. Don’t just threaten me with a good time. The people deserve to know exactly how morally bankrupt their representatives are. Not that you even need to see the evidence to know, with these blatant admissions, that they are morally bankrupt.