Of course the NRA has been quiet. They always do this, because they’re not about to people. Do you remember when California passed stricter gun laws? Because black people were buying guns? That happened like 50 years ago. The NRA was silent then and they are silent now.
Of course it’s always good to point out the hypocrisy. But let’s also remember the historical context, that this is consistent with the organization’s values and it always has been and it always will be.
No, you often cannot replace the rights of marriage with other paperwork. But even if you could, does not that already answer your question? I think so…
If you want that legal framework and marriage provides it in a simple package, then maybe that’s the way to go.
The tag is a lie – he says he’s dialing down on DOGE but we all know it is untrue – but fortunately the authors clearly call bullshit on that claim in the middle of the article.
Economic protests are important, but they are only one tool. On their own, they fail to stop anything.
Your rhetoric set you up, my friend. The answer to what? It certainly solves some problems.
How absurd. It’s not about creating fear. It never was.
Um, subreddits remain because they still have subscribers. That’s all.
Right. And the fines will continue, lol.
That’s true, but they got fined for their violations which they want to continue, and future fines are likely.
The problem is not the actions. The problem is your mentality. If you’re trying to train a human being, that sounds pretty f****** terrible. On the other hand, if you’re trying to support for and care for them, it doesn’t sound terrible.
Based on the wording, it sounds like the former, but perhaps you’re just trying to make your post dramatic for the internet and the actual situation is more like the latter. We don’t know, but you do, so act accordingly.
I didn’t see it, I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Oh, I think Tesla is scared to try. They know that their cars won’t work. They know that it will be a living and dying disaster, and everyone will be posting videos on TikTok. The reason they haven’t seriously tried to create such a city is because they’re trying to ride the AI hype, not because they actually think it’s a good idea to implement.
Even when they had the slogan, it was, don’t be evil. That’s a very low bar, because it’s relative to other tech companies. As long as they were less evil than Microsoft, they could pat themselves on the back.
If the goal were actually not to do evil, they would have to look at each individual action and consider whether it’s ethical. That’s something they have never done and of course they’re not going to start doing it in the future.
Many Ohioan voters wanted to change the law to get rid of qualified immunity. So they crafted proposals, and eight different times, the attorney general ruled that their proposed law was technically disqualified and couldn’t be considered at all. After each of those times, the authors went back and changed the wording to try to make it fit what the attorney general said. But he kept ruling against them, no matter what they did, so they had to file a lawsuit arguing that he was disqualifying the proposals because he didn’t like the idea, and not because the proposals were technically deficient.
The attorney general lost, they won, so now they can move forward in the lawmaking process.
The attorney general loved qualified immunity, he did not want to see it disappear, and he worked very hard to protect it. Now that he lost, there is reasonable chance that qualified immunity in Ohio will be taken away, as we have seen in several other states in recent years.
Ignoring people with power does not negate their power. Don’t confuse powerless online trolls with powerful societal figures. Please, please don’t.
The system was already rigged, of course. Electoral college, absentee cancelations, felons disqualified. It was broken before so even if things stayed the same (which they won’t) it’ll still be broken.
I do expect elections to continue. Just much less honestly.
Not really though. He’s lying about leaving, of course.
We all know Musk is lying. He doesn’t plan on leaving. There’s too much power.
What’s kind of amazing is that so many articles don’t point this out in the title or the first sentence. I really wonder why. When you know the person is a liar and they are in a situation like this, with a strong motive to lie, why in heck would you not make that the subject line?
Or, if you want to be polite about it, you could write a headline that says something like “Musk supposedly considering retiring, but actions speak louder than words”.
Exactly. There’s no way he would leave, there’s too much power.
The words have meaning. Of that. We can be certain. But I think you’re asking about people’s values, and doesn’t that always depend on the people in question?
Of course everything depends on the situation, but I see people supporting their family and community on a regular basis. It’s so obvious that many people really do want to make life better for people around them. It’s not like they do that 24/7. On the other hand, there are a lot of selfish assholes who only think about themselves out there, too. And some people will talk about community for selfish reasons, too.
It’s been like this my entire life. I don’t see things degenerating. But I don’t live where you live, I don’t know the people you know.
You mentioned the word country, but I have no idea what sort of background you have. Were you raised to be hyper patriotic? I think patriotism is generally evil because it frequently leads to nationalism and therefore racism and xenophobia. So if you’re suggesting that there is less patriotism in the world, then I think it’s a good thing.