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  • tankfox@midwest.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldLandlords are parasites
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    2 months ago

    And yet it not very long ago it was feasible for a single income earner on minimum wage to not only be able to afford a home, but do so while supporting a family.

    Could they be anything other than a white male? Was that by any chance directly after a major war that significantly reduced the male population? Were the houses often extremely low quality and built without any modern safety codes? Historical context matters, if you weren’t in the privileged group this scenario was just as much of a fantasy then as it is today.



  • tankfox@midwest.socialtoUkraine@sopuli.xyz*Permanently Deleted*
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    I think this will come down to us defining ‘intelligence’ in fundamentally different ways, so arguing over that term won’t get us anywhere. Smart isn’t a monolith, in that someone who is ‘intelligent’ will automatically make intelligent choices in all aspects of their life, instead intelligence tends to be siloed into particular areas. Sometimes intelligence just lets one rationalize themselves into incredibly self destructive positions. Those are the one I would consider ‘dumb’ in this scenario, not through lack of raw intelligence but in the embrace of stupid behaviors such as, as we say, staying inside the burning house while rationalizing that the fire might go out before it gets to them and burns them up.

    Critically those self deluding people will argue themselves into behaviors that closely mimic those who simply cannot comprehend the situation at all, and as such their kindness and intelligence becomes a distinction without a difference.




  • It makes more sense if you accept that one of the fundamental goals of the war is to reduce specific demographics of the Russian population. If the smart ones flee and the dumb ones are conscripted and marched into the ocean you’re left with a docile middle of the road cattle population with no will to struggle against the elite.




  • There are no other options to choose from if we want aggressive responses that the bullies in charge will respect and respond to. Newstrom is it. Perfect being the enemy of good is the typical democrat excuse to sit on hands and do nothing.

    Maybe the democratic party can realize what makes the people jump and put a better person in charge of that particular weapon, but that’s not going to happen because the democratic party has no leader at all. I’ve worked in departments that didn’t have a manager and there was a long gap before one was appointed, people tend to just continue doing what they were doing while they had a manager, and if anything changes it isn’t their problem and eventually the entire process breaks down to a bunch of people drinking coffee and arguing about who should be doing what.



  • Hey, you know what? It worked. Kids stopped being shot. Isn’t that the goal? Any means necessary? It was effective. Extremely small class sizes, distributed learning, it works and people don’t die anymore.

    Instead of making any positive changes the school system just said, ‘glad that’s over, get back to the old system immediately you little scamps!’ Gotta save money after all!

    There is a solution, y’all don’t like it. Gun owners know there’s another solution now, one that doesn’t make them give up their investment to solve a problem they will never be involved in.

    I will not be affected by whining about this problem when a proven alternative solution exists. Especially since the proven effective solution only burdens the actual people involved in the actual problem; all of us terrible parents and all of our horrible little children.




  • You know what fully ended school shootings? The pandemic lockdown. We know what causes school shootings; schools are an underfunded nightmare pressure cooker half a step away from the prison system. We know how to fix it, change the system. Since we rushed back to the system that causes the shootings as quickly as we could, I guess you could absolutely say they died for nothing and will continue to die for nothing, probably until there are no more humans left to die for nothing.