This is the new capitalist MO. To say the right words while doing the exact opposite.
Everything is just optics now.
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The idea is just to get there first. If you make it one quarter before your competition then you get a a really good quarter.
Long terms plans don't matter to CEOs. Long term stability is not rewarded by capitalism.
I'm not going to sit here and pretend that 2a means shit to the future of any leftist movement in the US. They certainly won't be used to overthrow any tyrants but they may slow them down a bit.
FWIW I would have to disagree that guns are not efficient resistance against SWAT.
There are plenty of cases to point to where the feds had quite a hard time because of a couple dudes with rifles. Sure the feds usually end up "winning" but it would have taken a lot less time and energy to do what they did at Waco or Ruby Ridge if the only people who were armed were the feds.
On that note, you don't really ever hear about ICE going after actual armed cartel members and I wonder if that's just because they are chicken shit little babies that only want to bully people they can outgun?
Seems like just the idea that they might lose one or two "good men" in the process goes a long way in preventing bullies (chicken shit little babies) from bullying.
The Penn and Teller episode is what originally gave me this idea. Im not sure if this is really true and it's not hard to just do the bare minimum to recycle things correctly so I just do it. But I try not to let the idea of recycling justify over consumption or excessive waste.
That's a good question. I can only answer this question hypothetically because it's always been something I was reasonably sure of.
With my best friend, I didn't want to believe it but the accusation was damning. I ended up becoming close to a girl he raped and she told me herself that it happened. When confronted, my friends story basically amounted to admitting to date rape. The reality was likely worse but that's immaterial to the end of our friendship.
The other time a good friend of mine essentially told me his plans to date rape a young girl. We were about 18 and he planned to do MDMA with a 14 year old girl alone at his house.
So in both cases the guy essentially told me themselves and just didn't realize that I wouldn't see it the same way they did.
I take these kinds of accusations very seriously. I will always believe victims but at the same time it's demonstrably true that people make false allegations of sexual assault and it ruins lives.
I think we have to be hyper critical of these kinds of accusations. By getting this wrong we run the risk of causing these accusations to lose weight and meaning. That being said we need to be hyper critical in a way that doesn't cause real victims to feel like they can't come forward. I won't say I know what that looks like exactly.
If I found out that I had removed someone from my life due to a false accusation like this I would be very upset. I would feel used and manipulated and I would be actually more upset at the false accusations than I ever was as the alleged rapist. In my view the false accuser has hurt not only the accused and myself, but they have hurt every single legitimate rape survivor.
I really don't have the answer to this myself but I think the best people to ask would be rape survivors and people who have been falsely accused.
Isn't recycling basically bullshit fed to us to make us feel more comfortable with over consumption and waste products?
From what I understand, very few things are actually recyclable in a profitable way and are thus not actually recycled but sent off to SEA to be "recycled" in their landfills instead of ours.
Hang out more in leftist/anarchist circles. Any community which supports trans rights very likely also supports the idea that males get sad and need help as much as any other gender.
Based on the English my best guess is the 4chan op is German.
Why they used a dollar sign instead of euro sign idk, probably just 4chan stuff.
Math nerds are going to have a field day with this statement haha.
FWIW I have had to excommunicate multiple people from my life based on credible accusations of sexual assault. One of them was my best friend.
Anecdotally I pay over 200% the cost of my father's mortgage to rent a home in a lower cost of living area.
Imagine a meeting between Trump and Stallman haha