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- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 19 hours ago:
Anti-immigrant sentiment is nearly universal across human cultures. It’s a form of tribalism/fear of “the other”. Just look at the backlash against arab refugees in Germany and Sweden, or the relatively recent tightening of Canada’s immigration policy which used to be one of the most liberal in the world, for modern examples. Historic examples are even easier to find.
In general, we see more anti-immigrant sentiment in a country due to (a) the general population feeling insecure for some reason, (b) the perception that immigrants are immigrating faster than they are integrating.
When times are good and people feel secure, they look back at the past and say to themselves “look at how great our society is - we welcome people from all over the world, and now we have korean-mexican fusion. Yay, us!” But then when times get harder and people feel less secure, they say “these goddamned Nigerians keep coming here and taking all our video-editing and corporate accounting jobs! And they chew with their mouths open and have annoying laughs. And on top of that, their food isn’t even that good. They’re the worst, stop letting them in!”
Immigration is part of the mythologizing of the United States, but that doesn’t except it from the great overarching trends of humanity.
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 21 hours ago:
Yeah, burning bridges refers to, like, telling all your coworkers to go fuck themselves when you leave a job.
- Comment on Will Lemmy instances be forced to verify users' ~~ages~~ identities? 21 hours ago:
Oh certainly. But this is a lot less work than trying to extradite someone
- Comment on Will Lemmy instances be forced to verify users' ~~ages~~ identities? 1 day ago:
Right, but realistically this would be far too much work. Like, they would need to do the same for every digital sex worker who has ever spun up their own website. It’s just not feasible.
- Comment on Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle? 2 days ago:
Oh right, I forgot. Don’t have kids. Worse than buying a boat, I’ve heard.
- Comment on Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle? 2 days ago:
Right. As I noted in a previous comment, you could spend an additional 12k per year on a studio, and still come in well under 40k.
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 2 days ago:
I feel like this is a reasonable counterargument. My response is that you can reasonably and ethically seek a profit with real estate investment because pieces of land are not people. And any harm you do to people is going to be extremely distributed across the population. Like, if you went around to everyone in your city and whistled an annoyingly saccharine tune next to them while they walked to work on a Monday morning, maybe the total negative utils would add up to a single human life of slavery - but I still think distributed harm is far more justifiable.
- Comment on Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle? 2 days ago:
This year I spent 3 months rock climbing in mexico, then travelled to Utah to hang out with friends in the desert and go canyoneering, then went to Yosemite. Now I am back home in Denver. I travel to beautiful places, cook tasty and healthy meals for myself (eggs for breakfast, pork burritos for dinner), occasionally go out to bars or restaurants or to concerts, have fun riding my motorcycle, and engage in quite a few DIY projects.
I honestly don’t understand where people spend all their money. I have an awesome life on $20k. I assume they are spending it on self-medicating or something.
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 2 days ago:
No, not at all.
A parallel analogy I see here all the time: driving cars is bad for the planet. It contributes to climate change. So should you give up your car for the sake of the climate? No - because if you live in an auto-dependent area (which is a lot of affordable areas), then you need a car to effectively live your life. To have a job, go to the grocery store, spend time with friends, etc. The problem is the structures and incentives which don’t appropriately dissuade people from driving and provide alternatives. You as an individual giving up your ability to transport yourself will have an entirely negligible impact on the climate while severely hampering your life. It makes total sense to continue driving a car while advocating for better climate policy.
Similarly, owning a handful of rental properties has no impact on the housing market, but choosing to eschew this potential source of revenue could severely hamper your future finances. If you don’t buy these properties as rentals, odds are, someone else will. Your noble intentions will lead to exactly the same result, except you are worse off. On the other hand, if you do take action and buy these rental properties and rent them out at a fair market rate, you can be a good landlord - someone who is communicative about issues and prompt about fixing things when they break. And you are stopping a corporate buyer from owning the property and being a shitty landlord. While you do this, you can also advocate for better housing policy, which is the lever to pull to actually solve the problem.
- Comment on Anon has a problem with Bioshock 2 days ago:
Those two games use ideology as set pieces, but when you combine the two games together the final message is “extremeism bad, centrism good”. I don’t think every game needs to be a doctorate-level poli-sci dissertation, but I do think these two games deserve criticism for being pretty weak there.
Imo, they get the hype for being “deep” because they are pretty deep as far as popular games go. They are certainly deeper than COD’s “Look, terrorists, shoot them!” or Mario’s “Dragon stole my princess”.
- Comment on Anon has a problem with Bioshock 2 days ago:
Open the door.
Get on the floor.
- Comment on Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle? 2 days ago:
Why not? I lived on about 20k last year. I live in a camper van most of the time, so no rent for me. But even paying (imo, a rather exorbitant) $1000/mo for a studio, you are still only at 32k per year.
- Comment on Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle? 2 days ago:
Theory and practice are the same in theory, but in practice, they are different.
- Comment on Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle? 2 days ago:
1 million is commonly agreed upon in the FIRE community as the number to hit to have a confortable retirement in perpetuity. Following the 4% rule, you could withdrawal $40k each year to live off of and would almost certainly not run out of money before you die, even accounting for inflation.
- Comment on Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle? 2 days ago:
Chill out, dude. Somebody’s gotta fund your revolution.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Being beefy doesnt imply good cardio.
- Comment on Is streetwear a joke? 6 days ago:
I guess it isn’t an “I lost a bet outfit”. But leopard print jacket + jorts is like combining two different kinds of trashy that clash synergistically. And this wasn’t an outfit that was just thrown together to buy milk. Guy intentionally put together the outfit, took a picture, posted it on the internet, and listed the articles of clothing he is wearing so others could replicate the look.
- Comment on Is streetwear a joke? 6 days ago:
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- Comment on Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company? 6 days ago:
I once had a semi kick up a piece if asphalt the size of a baseball. Dunno how much the mud flaps helped. Bit scary seeing it come straight for my head at 80mph.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 6 days ago:
But not all of them get whacked.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 1 week ago:
I mean, it kind of works, right? With tons of small instances, the government is playing whack-a-mole
- Comment on Is playing horror games a good way to get desensitized to fear, or it gonna backfire and make my anxiety worse? 1 week ago:
Maybe. If that is all you can do, then sure, there will probably be some bleed over into real life.
But remember SAID - Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demands. Long term, horror games will not do a whole lot to really alleviate other fears in your life that are holding you back. In order to overcome those fears, you must face those fears.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It’s kind of funny. The writers probably thought traffic pattern analysis is boring because everyone hates traffic. Actually traffic pattern analysis is interesting because everyone hates traffic.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Often they do this because their car is barely limping along and they are trying to make it to the next exit.
- Comment on WhatsApp rolls out 'Writing Help' AI feature to help you adjust how your messages sound 1 week ago:
I upvoted this because it is information others should know.
But god I wanted to downvote this.
- Comment on This one 1 week ago:
I think I did this duting Bidens term. I think people just dont know they need to treat the ends
- Comment on This one 1 week ago:
Its weird it is so hard to find the treatment in the hardware store. Last time I bought some, I had to drive to the home depot on the other side of town.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 week ago:
Yeah? I mean, this is factually true, but I’m not sure why you are bringing it up.