What, they’re enjoying the outdoors? And that’s somehow bad? If that offends you, maybe you should avert your eyes.
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Semester3383@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you believe that the people should be able to have guns to protect themselves, or should the police have the sole authority to own and posess guns to protect the people?English31·17 hours agoThen I came to my senses.
Except you didn’t. You rationalized, and thought that someone else would save you, instead of you and the people you care about saving yourself. The floodwaters are rising, and you’re on the roof; you either have to get your own ass to safety, or drown, because FEMA’s been defunded, and no one is coming.
Semester3383@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you believe that the people should be able to have guns to protect themselves, or should the police have the sole authority to own and posess guns to protect the people?English1·17 hours agoI think that the left should absofuckinglylutely be getting strapped.
The good news is that leftists have been strapped for years. The bad news is that, 1) they’re mostly using Mosin-Nagants and Makarovs because they’re red fudds, and 2) most people that are politically left of center are not leftists. (I’m a leftist; I do have a Mosin-Nagant, but it was a gift, and I hate shooting it. I prefer my AR-15 and AR-10.)
Semester3383@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you believe that the people should be able to have guns to protect themselves, or should the police have the sole authority to own and posess guns to protect the people?English72·18 hours agoUS here.
I think that if the police are allowed to have it, everyone should be allowed to have it. Police are not the military; they’re civilians. So all other civilians should have the same access cops get, or cops should get the same access that everyone else does.
Yeah, that’s actually kind of true. When you’re working, you can shut off a lot of that stuff for a while, and power through. Then that’s nine hours that you don’t have to think about X, Y, or Z. It gives you space, so that emotions aren’t as raw, and it gives you a structure. I would never suggest work instead of therapy, but I know a lot of people that went to work the day after their spouse died because they couldn’t stand to be alone with just their thoughts.
Getting fired for being in a ‘bad mood’ when my ex-spouse told me that they wanted to separate took me from deeply depressed to suicidal, and I got to spend the next four days, three nights in a hospital. If I hadn’t been fired, I would have… Coped. Not well, but I wouldn’t have tried to taste-test a shotgun.
Semester3383@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•I've been told that I "bottle things up and then explode". How do you not "explode"?English11·2 days agoHave you tried just not exploding? Like, maybe turn your emotions off so that instead of exploding in rage you just feel a vague annoyance? It’s called alexythymia, and I highly recommend it; it makes shitty things much easier to deal with.
Semester3383@lemmy.worldto Reddit@lemmy.world•r/worldnews leaves out a few words.English141·2 days agoOne really, really important caveat here is that, The report said that “despite concerted efforts to encourage” victims to come forward, the team was unable to interview any of them. The UN mission was able to review reports, photos, and videos all provided by the Israeli gov’t, but couldn’t find a single victim willing to go on the record.
That’s really, really fuckin’ suspicious. If the sexual violence was systematic, the way that the Israeli gov’t claims, how is it that not even one person is willing to personally talk about it with a UN team?
That’s so wonderfully tacky. I kind of love it. It needs to be in a room that has a circular bed that slowly rotates, and has mirrors on the ceiling. Oh, and a hot tub, right next to the bed.
Semester3383@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Seems like the perfect day to ask: Muricans, what's your dream country to expatriate to? Non-Muricans, what's the thought on accepting US refugees?English25·6 days agoFinland first, New Zealand second. Both have gun rights. Finland has a lot of empty space in the north, and Finns are, in general, not super interested in being highly social, despite historically having pretty solid social safety nets (although I hear the right is rising there, and that may not last). The largest barrier is that Suomi is a very difficult language to learn.
Semester3383@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's a really popular TV show you just couldn't get into?English1·6 days agoAny sitcom or comedy.
By that ‘logic’ everyone needs a taste of white supremacy, Christian nationalism, Nazis, and so on.
Certain opinions aren’t worth giving any consideration to because they’re so stupidly, pig-headedly wrong. The street corner preacher frothing at the mouth over LGBTQ people is one, .ml and the former hexbear (world’s smallest violin plays a sad song for their passing) instances being prime examples.
Semester3383@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Looking for work? Need a job with good pay and benefits? Have any sense of ethics? ICE is hiring and has low standards. Sign up for ICE and be the most incompetent agent in history.English8·6 days agoArrive to raids […] out of uniform.
…This is already happening.
Semester3383@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•US Congressmen praying inside the House of RepresentativesEnglish31·6 days agoI’ve read history books that aren’t full-blown propaganda. If you had read any, you would know that oppression and violence is the foundation of ALL western countries, and most non-western ones as well. The difference being that countries in the EU are more comfortable forgetting that their wealth was built on things like the exploitation of the Congo, the British East India Company, et al.
The founding document of the US though, which is what I was clearly referring to, established certain civil rights that the gov’t isn’t supposed to infringe. Religious liberty is one of those. This is notably not a right in most non-US countries; many EU countries have state-funded religions, and citizens are often taxes by the gov’ts to pay for those religions.
Semester3383@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•US Congressmen praying inside the House of RepresentativesEnglish2·6 days agoI’m an atheist and a Satanist. I agree that these people are, by the measure of what the Jesus Christ of the Christian Bible is claimed to have said, hypocrites. At best. And yes, Jesus said that you should pray in private, and that people who pray in public so that they can be seen to pray have already received their reward. (Matthew 6:5 - “And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.”)
But it’s still a foundational civil right.
Semester3383@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•US Congressmen praying inside the House of RepresentativesEnglish21·6 days agoYeah, no. That was never the intent of 1A. Individuals, or groups, are more than welcome to pray in government buildings, as long as they aren’t forcing that religious expression on unwilling people, using it as a religious test, or something similar that would amount to the establishment of a state-sponsored religion.
Students can pray in schools; teachers can pray in schools. Teachers can not compel students to participate in prayers, nor are teachers supposed to lead students in prayer (as that’s implied compulsion).
Semester3383@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•US Congressmen praying inside the House of RepresentativesEnglish52·6 days agoConstitutional freedoms–including religion–are a foundation for our country. If that’s not what you want, feel free to repeal the constitution, or move to a country that has a state religion instead.
Semester3383@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Even conservatives use to boast the virtue of achieving higher education. In MAGA times what is the pathway to success?English71·6 days agoCruelty and sociopathy.
Semester3383@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•US Congressmen praying inside the House of RepresentativesEnglish49·6 days agoUh. This is absolutely a constitutional freedom. Would y’all be incensed if it was a Muslim congressperson (say, Rashida Tlaib) that was praying? Yeah, they’re hypocrites, but get angry about the hypocrisy and the Christian nationalism, not the expressions of religion.
Semester3383@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a perfectly bad name for a cat?English4·9 days agoI named a black cat Svartur. I also had a cat named Potet. (“Black” and “Potato” respectively.)
They are absolutely civilians, although they no longer believe they are. Technically the military is supposed to be under civilian control as well (e.g., the governor is supposed to have control of the national guard in their state, the president is supposed to control the six branches of the military).
Look at it this way: the military is not supposed to be used for civilian law enforcement. That very, very strongly implies that police are not military, and are hence civilian.