Archangel1313
@Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Why is "I was born this way" and other "genetic predisposition" defenses almost common place? I get the physical stuff like loss of limbs but not the I was born to hate, or rape, and so forth? 6 days ago:
This is called “mental diarrhea”, and apparently it just never stops.
- Comment on Do you think all billionaires deserve to die? 1 week ago:
Best answer here.
- Comment on stony tony 1 week ago:
Ummm…should we tell him, or just leave him to his bliss?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
If Einstein were to answer this, he would say that every point in spacetime is its very own “crosspoint of time and space”.
In other words…wherever you find yourself, there you are. Everything else is located relative to this.
- Comment on If people hate Trump so much they try to assassinate him don't they know it will have the opposite effect and turn him into a Martyr? 2 weeks ago:
That’s why the only people trying to kill him are his own disgruntled supporters.
- Comment on Do you think defense attorneys who defend cops who unjustly killed people are ‘good’ people? 3 weeks ago:
Word, brother. This is the way.
- Comment on It's actually that simple. 3 weeks ago:
No, no. This is accurate.
- Comment on Kennedy Is Driving a Vast Inquiry Into Vaccines, Despite His Public Silence 4 weeks ago:
I would say, “Great. All this is going to do is expand the body of research concluding that vaccines are both safe and effective.”
(…but, we all know that he’s never going to accept any results that contradict his opinion that they are not…so this whole thing will just be a colossal waste of time and money.)
- Comment on Travel fare 5 weeks ago:
You too can become homeless in a foreign country, if only you had the courage.
- Comment on Who's in the wrong here? 5 weeks ago:
Yep. Just leave them on read, and let that shit simmer.
- Comment on If refusing to see your dying parent "wrong"? 5 weeks ago:
If the parent was “non-abusive”(?), why would the child refuse to see them? If the implication is that the parent did nothing to warrant this refusal, then yes…the child is a special kind of asshole for “celebrating their death”.
- Comment on Explain Stalking to me. I have ex gf's I run into different times at the same stores. Some I keep running into store after store. Just coincidence. At what point is it stalking or something? 5 weeks ago:
Do you think they are stalking you, or do they think you are stalking them?
- Comment on what's the secret 5 weeks ago:
This is what thetans do to your body, and why Scientology is necessary to help get rid of them.
- Comment on Why did the Crocodile Hunter die? Was he aggervating sting rays. I watched and messed with them in the gulf. But not one has ever try to sting me. Was he piising them off that much? 5 weeks ago:
One of his most famous lines was, “Oh, crikey! Look at how mad he is!”, while poking an animal with a stick.
- Comment on Why did the Crocodile Hunter die? Was he aggervating sting rays. I watched and messed with them in the gulf. But not one has ever try to sting me. Was he piising them off that much? 5 weeks ago:
Knowing his track record with poking wild animals…yes. It wouldn’t surprise me if he was pulling its tail to prevent it from escaping, and it had enough.
- Comment on Mermaid 1 month ago:
I would imagine that the ones cupping her titties are “more than just friends”.
- Comment on Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears 1 month ago:
Where’s James Bond when you need him?
- Comment on Anon needs a good response 1 month ago:
Not as far as I could tell. I was just adding my two cents to your two cents. It wasn’t meant as criticism, just embellishment. I have no idea why you’re getting any downvotes. The internet is a weird place sometimes.
- Comment on What they took from us 1 month ago:
Hahaha! The 90’s were absolute shit compared to the 80’s. Saturday morning was EPIC!!
- Comment on Anon needs a good response 1 month ago:
The difference between mansplaining and helping is all about the level of condescension attached to your “help”. If you are genuinely trying to relay information that you feel may help someone…you’re good. If you’re talking down to someone that you feel would already have this information, if only they had been born with a penis…you’re being a misogynistic asshole.
- Comment on Green Party: The two-party system is failing us. Trump escalates nuclear threats against Iran, Dems leadership refuses to take action. 2 months ago:
What would that accomplish? At least in terms of electing a 3rd party president, that is? Without a single representative in Congress or the Senate, how would they get their legislative agenda passed? Electing a 3rd party as president, would result in a lame duck administration. Whoever actually controlled Congress would simply ignore the wishes of the president, and enact their own legislation…and the president would have no power to do anything but veto all of it. Literally nothing would get done for the next 4 years. How does that prove to the public that 3rd parties are even effective? If anything, it would prove the opposite.
If a 3rd party wants to even have a chance, they need to fill more seats starting at the bottom, and work their way up to the highest office…not start at the top, and work their way down.
This isn’t even a matter of principle, either. Without 3rd party support at the state level, there’s no guarantee that they’ll be given fair treatment in local elections. All the shenanigans that the two main parties get up to, to keep 3rd party candidates out of the race, are because those elections are controlled by the two main parties at the State level. Until there are more 3rd party representatives in State legislatures, they will always be locked out of certain races.
- Comment on Green Party: The two-party system is failing us. Trump escalates nuclear threats against Iran, Dems leadership refuses to take action. 2 months ago:
Whelp. I guess all we can do is make sure Trump wins then, amiright folks? I mean, if you gotta pick one, you may as well make sure as many people as possible get killed.
- Comment on The blue light from your phone isn't ruining your sleep 2 months ago:
Lol! Wut? Is this person stupid? Since when is the color of the light, the problem? It’s the fact that you scroll when you should be winding down for the night, and then keep scrolling well past the point when you should be sleeping.
- Comment on Some cheeses are luminescent. 2 months ago:
Is this satire, or is she genuinely confused?
- Comment on SNL Cast Member Chloe Fineman Is Under Fire For Admitting She Pantsed A Little Boy 2 months ago:
Lol! Good on her!
- Comment on How would you rate your country's constitution? 2 months ago:
True, but…it can be used to negate all of your personal freedoms and legal rights, so…close enough.
- Comment on How would you rate your country's constitution? 2 months ago:
Ok, to be additionally specific…it takes 2/3rds in bother the House and Senate or it takes a Constitutional convention, where 2/3rds of the state legislatures are needed to propose an amendment, and 3/4 of them need to ratify it. So, you are correct on the 3/4, if they go the convention route. I was really only thinking about Congress when I wrote that.
- Comment on How would you rate your country's constitution? 2 months ago:
Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms would get a zero. There’s the “Notwithstanding Clause” that effectively nullifies the entire document at the discretion of any provincial government that wants to violate the Charter. The entire thing is basically meaningless with that loophole in place.
- Comment on How would you rate your country's constitution? 2 months ago:
Lowering the threshold for amendments would actually weaken the Constitution, not make it stronger.
Imagine if they just kept flip-flopping back and forth on abortion or citizenship status every 8 years, at a Constitutional level. Every federal rule and regulation that Congress tried to implement based on current law, would have to be renegotiated every time an amendment was altered. The federal government would be locked into a permanent state of revisement, and literally nothing else would get done, as long as those basic issues remained permanently unsettled. Not to mention, people’s lives would be constantly fluctuating between opposing statuses.
The harder it is to make amendments to the law, the more stable the society becomes. Once something is codified into the Constitution, it should be extremely difficult to reverse. 2/3rds is actually a very reasonable majority under the circumstances. Less would be too easy…and more would be virtually unachievable.
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 2 months ago:
I don’t think you fully appreciate what it’s like to grow up with boomers for parents. Your generation can basically ignore them, without any direct interaction. All you lose, is a birthday card. We grew up with them in our face, every single day. You can’t argue with these people. All you can do, is stare at them like they’re fucking idiots…because they are. Confronting them, is next to impossible, unless you are prepared to go to war over the stupidest shit imaginable.
This isn’t our "social deficiency. It’s theirs. We grew up with no way of communicating with a generation of Karens, other than deliberate non-engagement.