Viking_Hippie
@Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Can't prove environmental issues if you don't have the data 18 hours ago:
No SNAP == more crime"? 🤬 That’s some self-hate prop BS
On the contrary. The vast majority of crime is the result of poverty and social desperation.
“Criminals” aren’t a separate breed of contemptible human. They’re mostly regular people doing what they feel they have to in order to make it through the day/week/month/year/life.
It stands to reason that crimes of desperation such as shoplifting groceries, petty enrichment crimes, and drug use will happen more often when people lose their lifelines to barely being able to feed themselves and their families.
That’s not a “poor people are criminal scum” thing.
It’s a “the vast majority of crime is a result of poverty and other social issues putting regular people into difficult situations where they’re more likely to have to/think they have to break the law to get by” thing.
- Comment on Grammar school kid who is a realist 1 day ago:
Worst. Cropping. Decision. Ever.
- Comment on Grammar school kid who is a realist 1 day ago:
I prefer the original (?) where one of the other kids answer “Mike” 😁
- Comment on Statistics are showing a decline in moth numbers. Can you spot the moths in the picture? 1 day ago:
Sure. Hope this is satisfactory
- Comment on Damn straight! 1 day ago:
- Comment on Damn straight! 1 day ago:
Or probably my favorite political quote ever for its combination of both ideology, practicality, AND brevity:
We all do well when we ALL do well
(Paul Wellstone, emphasis mine)
- Comment on I want my MTV 1 day ago:
That’s how it was in the 80s: due to Reagan’s policies, only the 1% could afford in sync hair.
- Comment on I want my MTV 1 day ago:
Also: if Kurt Cobain hadn’t been murdered by a hitman hired by Courtney Love, he’d turn 60 next year!
- Comment on Fuck 1 day ago:
a bunch of captive animals
That’s not a nice way to talk about farm workers!
Kidding aside, I’m pretty sure that some farmers only do crops, eschewing animal husbandry 🤷🏻
- Comment on Conservative values 1 day ago:
- Comment on Conservative values 1 day ago:
Are those host specific configuration files in your root partition or are you just happy to see me?
- Comment on Cuba Libre 🇨🇺 1 day ago:
This is fucking medical science, not politics.
Everything is politics. Especially when everything you try to do is hampered by stupid and/or abusive politics, such as the embargo.
You’re right that coming up with the drug is in itself commendable, but you’re wrong in implying that coming up with it while under the embargo doesn’t make it even MORE impressive.
- Comment on Its simple 1 day ago:
I thought it was Dorer the Explorer?
- Comment on Damn straight! 2 days ago:
yes that includes cops
Except cop “unions” aren’t labor unions.
Labor unions exist to advocate for fair pay and treatment for workers.
Cop “unions” exist to make sure that cops consistently get away with crimes up to and including murder.
The former is the foundation required for a more just society, whereas the latter is a cancer killing any possibility of it.
- Comment on Damn straight! 2 days ago:
rAmen, comrade! ✊🏼
- Comment on Mr Fraser, if you're nasty 3 days ago:
Yes, but Andrea refuses to.
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- Comment on At least I'm not shooting myself right? 3 days ago:
Maybe even a “yikes” or a “holy moly!”
- Comment on Water trying to cut water 3 days ago:
Anthony Jeselnik said it best in his show Thoughts And Prayers:
This is who I’m making fun of when I make a joke on Twitter the day of a tragedy.
The people who see something horrible happen in the world and they run to the Internet. And they run to their social media, Facebook, Twitter, whatever they got. And they all write down the exact same thing: “My thoughts and prayers…” “My thoughts and prayers with the people in Aurora.” “My thoughts and prayers with the families in Boston.”
Do you know what that’s worth? Fucking nothing. Fucking less than nothing. Less than nothing. You are not giving any of your time, your money or even your compassion. All you are doing, all you are doing, is saying, “Don’t forget about me today.” “Don’t forget about me.” “Lots of crazy distractions in the news, but don’t forget how sad I am.”
Those people are worthless and they deserve to be made fun of. They’re like a wedding photographer who only takes selfies.
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- Comment on 007 First Light review – a triumphant James Bond game made by obsessive fans 3 days ago:
Good thing that you can now sail the seas wearing a snazzy new hypervisor, then 😁
- Comment on 007 First Light review – a triumphant James Bond game made by obsessive fans 3 days ago:
The first time I heard that line in Skyrim was, in fact, in an underground tomb.
You wouldn’t think there would be a lot of wind in Bleak Falls Barrow 😄
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
It’s like a regular lote, but with an electric motor.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Monday is the first day of the week all over Europe
I know.
Blame Americans not christians, at least this time.
I blame American (or possibly English) Christians, since the belief that Sundays are holy is the reason for the Christians in charge at the time implementing that standard.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
True, but the fact that it does so on Sundays rather than Mondays is the reason why I didn’t retrieve my data in time by checking today.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
And why is it a US thing? Because of Christianity.
Btw, I live in a European country and the watch is by a Korean company, so following US standards is doubly ridiculous IMO…
- Comment on Finally—my XL pack of fragile crushable poison arrived. 4 days ago:
I bought it mainly for the danger.
Spoken like a guy defending his mid life crisis purchase of a motorcycle or fast car 😄
- Comment on The Matrix 4 days ago:
Nothing at all 🤷🏻
- Comment on The Matrix 4 days ago:
Does he know when we’re awake, though?
- Comment on The Matrix 4 days ago:
Do we, now?
