and to dare the Dems to come out against him
He knows that he’d die before anyone got around to censuring him. He doesn’t have to give a shit, because we live in a world which allows hatred to be an acceptable political position that too many will happily vote for.
The tail is wagging the dog. Not a good position for US to be in. Makes us look weak.
The US tries to look strong? From where I am, it looks like a nation with a surplus of terrible infrastructure, an education system which produces a surprising amount of failure, and overall waning relevance on the world stage.
A fascinating, but flawed, attempt to be relevant. I’ll take your comment with me to the educational institution I teach at, which is an older age group than High School, and consider it in the light of the maturity of my students. I’m pretty sure we both know what I will find!
When we both die, will it be in a world which humans have made better? Or a world where humans oppress each other for personal gain? Because I know which world I live in right now, and it includes you being rude to people in order to feel better about yourself. As I said: you tend towards the small harm, and you keep harming people, and the world gets worse. I’m not interested, and I won’t miss humanity when it ends.
The reason there are still hungry children is not that there is not enough food, because there is. It’s that people just don’t care enough about feeding them.
The convenience is the point, the ease is the point, the preference is the point. And this man had a preference to hit a wolf with a snowmobile to show it off in a bar. The opportunity was present, it was easy to do. It was a convenient way to do something memorable amongst peers.
It is not convenient to feed children. It is not easy. It is not enough of a human preference to be done.
Unrelated to the content, how does a self respecting journalist
The fact you lack respect for other living beings does not indicate that they necessarily lack respect for themselves.
The death count is terrible. And, from what I’ve read, it’s going to become more common, which is doubly terrible.
Yes, I agree. What is wrong with the quality of trolls? Their posts are so low-effort, and also reveal so much about their fragile mental state. On the plus side, it makes it easier to diagnose, block, and move on.
I’d prefer to not use the internet if people like Henry@lemmy.ca were the only posters left.
Shit If even one scrap of what Jesus taught connected, you’d feel different
“Jesus said that I’m right, that’s it. So do what I say!” Continues to act in ways entirely contrary to what is presented as the words of Jesus.
And yet millions who should know better won’t care.
They are motivated to know better by the belief that governmental failure will hurt others more than them, giving them an elevated sense of social status when compared against a vast misery that will befall the Other:
If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you. — Lyndon Johnson
Human society fails because enough people will swap treating others with decency for being told they’re ‘special’ because they’re not (currently) going to be rounded up and sent to a re-education camp.
True, languages change through use.
Willy Wonka smiled as Harold Hezbollah came from behind the curtain.
“You! You started all this!” shouted Charlie.
“Calm down, Charlie,” said Wonka. “He’s working for me.”
“Yes,” said Hezbollah. “If we kill a few innocent people, the war goes on forever, and we get more and more money.”
Wonka held Charlie by the shoulders. “Young man,” he said, “this fantastical arms factory will be yours as long as you promise to blame everyone else but yourself, and you keep trying to invent more ways to kill innocent people.”
Charlie thought about it for a moment. He did love killing innocent people. Frankly, when he blew up that hospital in Gaza it made him happy for as much as a whole minute, a whole minute of pleasure lighting up the dark cavern of his hateful heart.
[text omitted]
“Yes!” Wonka screamed, as Charlie plunged the dagger into the defenceless Oompa Loompah’s chest [text omitted]
THE END
Between Trump and Harris who do you think will result in the most harm?
If humanity keeps having the choice of big harm or small harm, and tends towards the small harm, living beings will keep being harmed, on purpose and by conscious choice.
This is why I don’t feel emotionally connected to being human. Humans are machines for making their human world worse, and sadly they bring along the other living beings they share the planet with as they do it.
Big “Putting murderers in prison doesn’t stop murders from happening, so there’s no point” energy.
I don’t disagree. However, the same would be true for those in Israel who ask for the bombing of civilians. If we pursue killings in order to appease victims, there will be a lot of people to kill.
Get some maga signs made up that wash off in the rain and reveal Kamala signs underneath.
Like a clown’s greasepaint disappearing in the rain, revealing the middle-aged drunk beneath.
When desires can be fulfilled through violence, it will be hard to teach people who crave their desires to abandon violence.
Too many men want a ‘hard world’ which produces ‘strong men’, which really means ‘a failing society which disenfranchises women and children’ so that ‘men can do what they want and say they deserve it because they worked so hard getting drunk together’.
I am all for giving women training and weapons so they can tell men to fuck off using language and also action, when necessary.
Yes. Seriously, those who believe that society exists to entrench power overwhelmingly think men > children, and that this dominion extends naturally, and that law is a servant of that natural dominion.
The commenter with the mis-spelled username? They’re not worth listening to.
Hatred doesn’t face consequences because hatred is a mainstream and perfectly acceptable political position.