HenchmanNumber3

@HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was the supreme court wrong to assess that because america is a capitalist society money is a form of speach?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The law would work differently if they, as designated interpreters of the law, interpreted the law differently. If they said you can’t have infinite dark money running campaigns because that violates the rights of poor voters, then things would be very different. Plenty of SCOTUS cases have made significant changes to how the law is interpreted and enforced. Congress also seems to very rarely pass laws to counter SCOTUS decisions. So yeah, if we had fewer federalists and conservatives on SCOTUS and more progressives, I think it would have been decided differently, as well as other significant cases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was the supreme court wrong to assess that because america is a capitalist society money is a form of speach?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If money is free speech then anyone with more money gets more free speech, which isn’t how rights work. You have the same freedoms and limitations to those freedoms that I do, regardless of who has more money. We’re supposed to be equal under the law, but SCOTUS thinks $ome are more equal than others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is good. It will drive more people away from Reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could Trump's "Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation" order defund vasectomies?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I read it as creating a mandate for the government to reduce microplastics that get into the human body because those reduce fertility and sperm count. Except in these kinds of bills, there’s always an unwritten addendum that says that the bill doesn’t apply if a perceived obligation affects a company’s bottom line

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ADL defends Nazi salute⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Guys, guys. Since Musk isn’t from Germany, he’s not a Nazi! It’s just sparkling fascism! Totally different!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I hated it when older people said this to me, so you probably won’t appreciate my perspective now, but you have a vast amount of life ahead of you with a lot more information you can encounter that will contradict what you think you know for certain right now. And you’ll encounter newer information after that that will contradict the previous new truths you felt so enlightened to recognize. You don’t have to listen to me at all of course, but if you think you already know what you believe, you don’t need to make a post here to discuss it. If you’re not open to the thoughts of others, I wouldn’t recommend wasting your time soliciting them. If you’re just looking for affirmations of your pre-existing perspectives, a chatbot might be a better outlet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d recommend taking some sociology, anthropology, and political science courses in college if you’d like to delve deeper into these topics. There’s a lot of scholarship out there on these issues to explore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The original meanings of words change over time with usage. Though they have some overlap and some differences (Brazilians are considered Latino but not Hispanic and Spaniards are considered Hispanic but not Latino), the term Latino is generally replacing previous usage of Hispanic, though Latino is likely used more in urban and coastal regions of the US and Hispanic is likely used more in rural and landlocked regions. The usage of either term won’t always be accurate and it will be an exonym used for people who don’t call themselves by that term.

  You’re free to say, “I don’t identify as Latino. I’m Mexican.” Or “I’m Mexican American.” if you’re in the US. There will be surveys and polls and forms that won’t have Mexican as a choice though since they use pan-ethnic or continental terms for wide groups of people for categorization purposes. Similar to the fact that white isn’t an ethnicity or a scientific taxonomy. It’s an arbitrary designation with historical, social and political baggage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a name for downplaying your suffering because other people have bigger problems?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have to coin a phrase for it, I’d say something like comparative minimization rationalization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neighbour deliberately blocking OP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  #sapphoandherparkingjob