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"Someday, you'll be rich" is the lie that's told to us.

I think the prerequisite lie to that one is much bigger and more fundamental.

That lie is "you should want to be rich. Rich people are happy people. Rich people are good people. Being rich is the secret to happiness."

Well, that's probably more than one lie but you get the idea.

If the united states randomly decided to hit every square kilometer of Liechtenstein with its own hydrogen bomb in the middle of the night, would you call that a war?

Are you letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, though?

I get that you think Bernie and Mamdani > AOC and I'm not even going to argue with you on that. But your comment a few levels up made it sound like AOC was a genuinely bad politician to support/mention.

Yeah that's typically how it works. People default to complaining and seeing everything as getting worse all the time.

I wonder if the "feral child" phenomenon has actually increased though (I don't think there would be stats) and if that has something to do with the lower crime rate.

Not that it's good to let your child be a feral nuisance. But if a child has shitty parents maybe that's better for their development than whatever abuse the parents would choose to control it.

Yes! B5 is awesome!

What seems to start as a cheesy Star Trek monster of the week ripoff turns into amazing character development and years-long plot developments from an era where that's not what TV was.

It's not the funniest one, I don't have an account, and I don't live near one. But if I ever see the option to log in with Jollibee on any legit service I am already using I am switching over to that ASAP.

I'm a parent of one child who is the opposite of feral and never gets hit.

And while yes obviously we should not teach our children that physical abuse is how we keep people in line, this conversation needs to go far beyond the level if disciplinary tactics. What's the whole overall parenting strategy?

I submit that actually having a strategy leads to less abuse, and that those who are the quickest to abuse are also the ones who do not take the time to reflect on themselves, their parenting, life, etc. At least not in a way that could potentially make them feel bad or change their ways.

And I'm not even trying to position myself as a perfect parent above physical intervention. Especially when safety is involved. But you have to leave room for escalation. If everything is met with the same reaction of losing your shit, then no bad behaviors seem any worse than others.

I don't know if modern people are truly any worse at parenting than past generations, or if it's yet another example of humanity's shittiness being exposed by our explosion in communications technology.

oh, you mean like lynch lynch?

that reference might be pretty stale, idk

(eg slurs written on the body)

What if, written on the body, was a drawing of that same body hanging from a tree in the style of an old lynching?

This is absolutely true, and the craziest part is that half of them don't even know they're supporting bad stuff (they think they are good people, but they are hopelessly ignorant and passively racist with no desire to change) while almost none of them seem to realize that they are the ones making themselves miserable all the damn time. (speaking from my personal experiences/acquaintances)

Hate and negativity in every little nook and cranny of life. The kind of thing that makes people into dangerous and aggressive drivers when they are in no hurry to get anywhere.

some didn’t agree with Kirk but didn’t believe he should die for his views.

I just need to call this part out because it keeps getting repeated. I don't think hardly anybody thinks he deserved to die for his views. His actions, on the other hand, really get people's attention.

Oh yeah, "criminal" is conservative dehumanization 101 and has been for a long time. That and the whole race/class thing. Combine the two and the horrors you will overlook are endless!