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We’re not but it’s nice to take a break from the constant reminders of my country falling apart to post something silly. It kinda helps. Thanks for saying something that was nice of you
agent_nycto@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump Wants Nations to Pay $1 Billion to Stay on His Peace Board
6·5 days agoThat’s cool, where’s the Epstein files?
agent_nycto@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•We’re Nearing the Day When ICE Thugs Just Open Fire on Crowds
2·6 days agoOk but hear me out, most of those tens of millions of voters don’t think the Democrats will save them, it’s just if you have any political stance other than white nationalist, they are the only viable alternative.
You a lefty or a centrist? What are you gonna do, vote green party in the nationals?
“Blue no matter who” isn’t a rallying cry of solidarity, it’s really saying “We’re the best you’ve got, so vote for us even if we suck”
agent_nycto@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump admin ends protected status for Somalis amid Minneapolis crackdown
1·9 days agoI don’t think, because I don’t think getting people to accept other people is anything like rape.
So you say that you get that bigotry can cut both ways, basically people can be bigoted towards anyone, and can happen pretty much anywhere. So one of the only things we can do is make it so bigots can’t use their power to hurt people they hate, regardless of who they hate. That’s why we have laws against things like, hitting each other and murder. We also have other laws to keep people from discriminating when doing business and hiring people. I think that those are laws that you are in favor of, because you don’t want people to discriminate against you.
agent_nycto@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump admin ends protected status for Somalis amid Minneapolis crackdown
1·9 days agoThe problem with that logic is that you’re assuming you’ll just find another job. What if you lived in a city that was super crazy liberal, and no one was hiring you because you were straight. Unfortunately you still need a job to get by, and you can’t afford to move if you don’t have a job.
But hey, about mistreating you? There’s laws about that, too, all part of the package deal that comes with not hiring you based on race. With strict enough penalties companies would rather their employees not be bigots because they don’t want to go to court.
A side effect of all this is that bigotry dies in people’s hearts when they are exposed to the people they are bigoted against. If there was someone who hated Americans, but then got to actually meet and talk to one and work with one, they would realize Americans aren’t all bad and can be pretty nice and chill. So making sure people don’t hire based on race helps eliminate racism and keeps things fair for everyone, which helps business innovate by giving people a chance.
agent_nycto@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump admin ends protected status for Somalis amid Minneapolis crackdown
1·10 days agoWell the problem with that is that there’s some businesses that wouldn’t fail and go out of business even if there were instances of bigotry in hiring. So that’s why people had to step in.
Like, if you tried to get a job at Starbucks and weren’t hired because you were white, that one store isn’t going to fail, much less the company. And it wouldn’t be fair to hire or not hire people based on your race, right?
So people set up rules so that hiring people based on race is illegal, which works out better for businesses and people overall.
agent_nycto@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump admin ends protected status for Somalis amid Minneapolis crackdown
4·11 days agoSo you’re saying that making it so people hire based on how qualified they are rather than, say, race, is actually good for business. Because there are flawed and bigoted people out there, and even though a capitalist business is about making a profit, there’s people out there who would rather screw up the system over petty differences than have business be better and innovate more.
agent_nycto@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump admin ends protected status for Somalis amid Minneapolis crackdown
15·11 days agoMan it’s like, people are bigoted or something to the point where they had to make laws specifically saying that you have to hire the most competent person, and people still whine about it.
We both know there’s racist people out there, towards blacks and whites and Asians or anyone else. Or people who hate gays. Or people who hate straight people. So if you really believe in meritocracy, where people naturally rise from their own effort and the better people get the jobs, you should be in favor of laws that keep things fair. Then the better people will get hired.
agent_nycto@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Americans think Republicans are too obsessed with trans people
81·12 days agoConservative mindset is that everything is in a hierarchy, the hierarchy is a Good and Natural thing to exist, and therefore even if you’re not at the top, there Must be someone beneath you. And then trying to make their lives better puts the wrong people in the hierarchy, so they must be stopped. It’s miserably sad I assume.
agent_nycto@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Trump declares himself president of Venezuela — and sends 'wake-up call' to worldEnglish
14·12 days agoBruv they aren’t committing more crime. That’s one of the reasons people are mad. Immigrants literally commit less crimes than nationals. Your argument for minorities committing more crimes is flawed because the only reason you think they commit more crimes is because police arrest them more, whether they were doing something illegal or not. “We target these people because we’ve targeted these people before”
How tf did this maga ass Kool aid get over to Australia? You have no idea how shit it is here or how shit works here.
agent_nycto@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Trump declares himself president of Venezuela — and sends 'wake-up call' to worldEnglish
17·12 days agoYou sound so stupid you may as well become American and be done with it.
agent_nycto@lemmy.worldto
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Footage from 2020 in Australia shows a firetruck being overrun by a bushfire
7·13 days agoNot much of a shit post
agent_nycto@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump admin reportedly considers paying each Greenland resident up to $100K amid US takeover talks
8·14 days ago“we can’t afford healthcare for all” but can try this stunt
HE’LL YEAH BROTHER
That’s definitely AI, but I plundered these from the high seas of the Internet and didn’t generate it. Because being a pirate is cool and AI is just sad.
agent_nycto@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•United States immediatly withdraws from international organizations and conventionsEnglish
582·16 days agoYeah, about 80 people have said that to us online just today. We know. We don’t like this either.
Shiver me timbers yer the safest pirate in the fleet!
agent_nycto@lemmy.worldto
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•What I feel like every fucking time I wake up and read this morning's news of a superpower becoming its worst.
123·20 days agoThen why are you posting about it in a shitposting instance?! I get that things are bad right now. Really bad. But can’t we have one corner of Lemmy, just one, where we can just post silly shit? A wee break? It’s all over everyone’s feed everywhere else.
agent_nycto@lemmy.worldto
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•I expect to hear nothing from the right when the US goes all out celebrating Trumps inevitable departure from the realm of the living.
24·21 days agoIf it posts news in the shit post it gets the corn again
Dickbutt is the peak of artistic creation.
Every since the dawn of drawing, we drew dicks and thought, “peepee funni”. The oldest known painting is of a guy fucking a donkey. The oldest sculpture is a dildo that was used for, to quote scientists, “generations”.
And then K.C. Green went and, somehow, found a way to make dicks FUNNIER.
And the irony of this being the peak of human art and the context of the comic is not lost on me.
When humans die out and aliens come to see what was up, I genuinely hope that the only thing they find is Dickbutt. It would be perfect and hilarious.