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  • Ignoring them is easy, but there are prerequisites. To remain unaffected, you and everyone you know and love will need to NOT be:

    • Black
    • Caribbean
    • African
    • Latino
    • Native American
    • South Asian
    • East Asian
    • Filipino
    • Ukrainian
    • European
    • Jewish
    • Arabic
    • Muslim
    • transgender
    • gay
    • nonbinary
    • someone with a uterus
    • queer
    • in the military
    • poor
    • middle-class
    • empathetic
    • employed by the federal government
    • employed by a corporation
    • holding investments
    • holding a bank account
    • dependent on buying or selling products or services
    • looking to live in an apartment or house
    • hungry
    • breathing clean air
    • drinking clean water
    • wanting to fly in US airspace
    • sick
    • injured
    • susceptible to pathogens
    • concerned with financial corruption
    • a voter
    • etc.*

    *Note that list is not comprehensive, up to and including whoever Trump and Musk decide to disenfranchise tomorrow, in order to distract everyone from whoever they disenfranchised yesterday.


  • Oh great, another Putinbot spouting reams of misinformation.

    Trying to clean up the whole mess from your firehose of bullshit is a fool’s errand, but here are a couple counterpoints for the benefit of anyone not already familiar with the relevant history:

    1. The war in Ukraine was not “civil.” It was being waged by Russian troops acting as “separatists,” a disguise so thin that the only ones to buy it were on Russian state TV.

    2. Every single escalation in the conflict was by Russia, ever since the hostile takeover of Crimea.

    3. The military strength of Russia compared to NATO is so ridiculously lopsided that the only way Russia could possibly “win” is if they’re able to sabotage NATO from the inside, for instance by manipulating foreign elections enough to put a Russian puppet in charge.








  • DEI is basically “you know that thing we do where we only hire from the old boys club at our favorite ivy league university? Let’s hold off on that.”

    Companies benefit from DEI policies because they expand their hiring pool, so the company ends up with better talent. They’re still aiming to hire the best out of that pool, of course. Companies are motivated by profit, not by reparations.

    I know its effect won’t be more equality.

    Its effect will be more equality. Unfortunately that is not a good thing for the old boys club, which is what motivates the FUD and disinformation you’ve heard regarding DEI as a buzzword.







  • CitricBase@lemmy.worldtoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldLondon Bridge
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    3 months ago

    We are all normal people and realize that blowing up a bridge with cars or people on it is not allowed

    This is the internet. Everyone is here, even the not-normal people. Even the not-normal people inclined to actually blow up bridges, who will interpret your “cars kill hundreds of people” statement as some kind of twisted casus belli. Everyone is here, even the carbrains looking for reasons to discredit urbanists.

    I don’t think posting “art” like this is constructive, to put it mildly.