orioler25
@orioler25@lemmy.world
- Comment on Innit 2 days ago:
Yeah, a mom from London Ontario would tell their kid this is cool.
- Comment on Innit 2 days ago:
Guess it depends on your favourite strip mall.
- Comment on Innit 2 days ago:
I wish, there’s always some dickhead whose liable to make you tbone them if you try because they think they’re more important.
- Comment on Innit 2 days ago:
But, correct about London Ontario’s horrible infrastructure and city planning.
- Comment on Innit 2 days ago:
He’s quite gracious, all things considered.
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 2 days ago:
I think this is a really good start here. Lemmy is mostly populated by early- to late-middle-aged men in STEM fields, so it makes sense why many of the comments are focused on asserting how much better they are at parenting than actually talking about what the main topic is, which is how do we process this kind of situation. It’s true that the reality of our society means that people who are legally adults are expected and, really, forced to be responsible for themselves whether or not they are prepared even if just by merit that nobody is guaranteed the material security to take care of all their kids after that point. Many of us find a way and find more lessond of use to ourselves for having done so, so it isn’t very reasonable to only focus on these parents, though they do indeed seem like bad parents.
What you and most other people here have missed is the ableism element in this. This is very possibly an autistic person, and our society is extremely hostile even to well-equipped autistic people who have a reliable support network. Everyone here seems agreed that this ought not happen, but many if not most of you have chosen to go the route of finding individualized moral liability rather than identifying how this fits into a system where anyone is in this situation against their will.
Even if the guy was merely parented poorly, or is just a lazy bum, or disabled to the point of needing this kind of care, we should always be thinking about the fact that nobody should be fearing for their life because they don’t know how to get a job or take care of themselves.
- Comment on The Obama wing of the Democratic Party is declaring “war” on progressives. Why don’t they ever bring this energy against Trump? Why do they hate working class people even more? 1 week ago:
I’m sure.
- Comment on The Obama wing of the Democratic Party is declaring “war” on progressives. Why don’t they ever bring this energy against Trump? Why do they hate working class people even more? 1 week ago:
lol, I think you misread the original comment and can’t admit it.
- Comment on The Obama wing of the Democratic Party is declaring “war” on progressives. Why don’t they ever bring this energy against Trump? Why do they hate working class people even more? 1 week ago:
I see, and you’re someone who thinks about what you say, are you?
- Comment on The Obama wing of the Democratic Party is declaring “war” on progressives. Why don’t they ever bring this energy against Trump? Why do they hate working class people even more? 1 week ago:
…it’s text. Be clear about your problem is with this, you think there is in fact a better explanation in the notion that these just happen to be exceptionally incompetent and evil people, not this this something systemic?
- Comment on The Obama wing of the Democratic Party is declaring “war” on progressives. Why don’t they ever bring this energy against Trump? Why do they hate working class people even more? 1 week ago:
I do love that you jumped to secret intentions or blackmail before class solidarity. These are not people who benefit from a restriction on capital, and so they do not support restricting capital.
Liberals have always appropriated rhetoric that is oriented around social justice or popular change, there is no reason to believe any of them when they say they don’t believe in the exact policies they have always supported unless forced otherwise. Yes, they want a “red wave,” before they want anything having to do with socialism or honestly, even welfare liberalism at this point. I don’t doubt a few have some secrets, but nobody would have to threaten them with exposure to get them to do this.
- Comment on New level of capitalist hell unlocked: Companies are relying on AI to pinpoint exactly how desperate job seekers are in the hopes they can pay them as little as possible. 2 weeks ago:
I was seriously just about to make a comment if anyone read the article because like, what data would even be usable in this way? Like, Indeed has you input what your desired salary is, and maybe my credit card company sells my spending habits, what else would they use?
The article references the typical data collection practices that companies have been using for about a decade now, just with AI tools instead of manually or other kinds of bot collection. So, your social media presence (whether you’ll be a unionization risk), spending habits via companies that you should already not be buying from if you can help it (like Amazon or Walmart), and any other kind of public information on income level and previous employment. The bigger thing is for gig workers (which most liberals on here don’t give a shit about) whose wages can be much more easily altered since their employers can control their hourly rates depending on how many jobs that are available or that any given worker has taken on as well as how many potential workers can take on these jobs. For most people, this is nothing new, but yeah the highly adaptable nature of AI tools means that groups of people whose jobs are literally facilitated through these systems are at high risk of exploitation (as per usual).
- Comment on The cashier said "hello" instead of "hi" 😳 2 weeks ago:
Damn, hard to think that just over a decade ago, we had groups of incels who were at least convinced politeness was a viable coercion tactic. Now they think giving women any chance to feel good about themselves is losing ground.
- Comment on How polite 3 weeks ago:
See, I get you’re joking, but I’m not clear if it’s because you’re a hobbyist who saw an opportunity to info dump a bit for hyperbole, or if you’re using that hyperbole to suggest that it is an unrealistic expectation for dick pics to look sexy in any way possible (rather than just a dimly lit, unclear shot of someone’s unmaintained and unwashed patchy pubes and greasy dick)
- Comment on How polite 3 weeks ago:
Of course not, that’s why it’s a problem. Don’t act like you are unaware of the conception I’m talking about. I’m saying that the fact that it can be evoked and accepted so easily is a problem given that Canadians are hardly more polite than anyone else, and many if not most of them are bigoted in some major way.
- Comment on How polite 3 weeks ago:
Really tired of the association between “Canadian” and “polite.” Canadian men are terrible at taking pictures of their dicks too, and they share those pics incessantly. Don’t let some of them read this and then think to themselves, “I’m polite about my grainy, unfocused, dick pics even if I don’t always ask, because I’m Canadian.”
- Comment on Alternative medicine 4 weeks ago:
Ma’am, she was talking 'bout burgers.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 4 weeks ago:
Wow, someone who eats bricks really would talk like that. Well done.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Alternative medicine 4 weeks ago:
Go look up Herbert Spencer bud.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 4 weeks ago:
Y’all always love eugenics jokes. And like always, before you get pissed about me telling you that this is a eugenics joke, yes, equating evolution with intelligence is reliant on eugenicist notions of natural human ability and evolution as a process that picks out the “bad” or “weak” elements of a species.
Darwinism is a concept that only refers to how traits are passed on, not what normative values those traits have. What you’re referring to is more akin to social-Darwinism, which was a pseudoscientific concept that emerged as a catch-all rationalization of social inequities along the lines of arbitrary social values like industriousness, naturalized class, racism, ableism, etc.
Unsurprisingly, it was popular among Nazis. I hope you understand the irony in applying it here to make fun of a person who subscries to an anti-science concept promoted by fascists.
- Comment on Ladybugs 5 weeks ago:
The ol’bot excuse. As though you could get those things to actually criticize shit like you say. Don’t comment if you don’t want to eat shit.
- Comment on Ladybugs 5 weeks ago:
Yeah sure dude, you’re so chill.
- Comment on Ladybugs 5 weeks ago:
I can say 100% that the avoidant way you just responded is exactly what I’d expect from a Canadian who wants to pretend that you dont support genocide “as badly” as the US. Spineless.
- Comment on Ladybugs 5 weeks ago:
Yup, that is what the whooooole comment is about.
- Comment on Ladybugs 5 weeks ago:
Jesus fucking christ dude, the amount of liberals on this site who feel no shame in saying the most racist shit to feel progressive is insane.
What the fuck does that mean, that Canada is five years behind? They exist on the same fucking planet, in the same system, on the same continent. There is no “well, France is Germany from the 1980s you see, on account of there being differences in rhetoric,” because it’s fucking stupid to act like that is what differentiates states. The only purpose in making the distinction you’re trying to make is to obscure the commonality between these states and therefore the specificity of their tactics based on the groups they target. No, Canada is not some “gentler” version of the United States, its tactics of racism and genocide differ due to its population and political conditions, to act like it is because they’re “nicer” is fucking racist.
You just fucking did that when you said starlight tours were inflicted on “marginalized people,” when no, they were specifically directed at indigenous people. It is racist to suggest that this and lynchings against black men in the US south are equivalent, as the circumstances under which they happened were distinct despite both groups being racialized. And guess what, Chattel slavery existed in Canada too, Canadians attended minstrel shows, Canadians segregated businesses, and Canadians continue to be racist against African American and other black groups in the country. Just because plantations and a slave-based economy did not emerge in Canada, that does not mean Canadians are magically inocculated from those racist perceptions, which means you should not take the absence of lynching as a sign of some sort of value in social justice. When you act like racism targets all groups equally, you’re reducing it to “when you’re bad to non-white people,” which functions to obscure the actual purpose that this system uses racism for.
Besides that, Alaska is also fucking cold and Leamington Ontario is not, that does not mean Americans are fucking cold Canadians, even if that was the reason why I said that explanation was stupid.
- Comment on Ladybugs 5 weeks ago:
No, stop trying to minimize it. Canada is a settler-colonial state, which means it is fundamentally genocidal. The state has supported US imperialism for the better part of a century now, and quite literally finances genocide all over the goddamn world.
Stop with the fucking millennial-core bullshit about the sorry moose syrup or whatever the fuck, no, they’re not just “colder Americans,” they’re Americans. Canada and the US are two white settler states that span the continent with unprotected borders, they’re culturally and politically aligned by merit of their shared interest in white supremacy and capitalistic extraction. Canadians differ only regionally in the same way there’s differences between fucking Texas and Minnesota. The notion that there is somehow only two cultures across this expanse of differing material conditions accepts the imperialist assertion that the settler state can dictate the national identities and cultural norms of the spaces they dominate. These states do not fucking own the space they violently enforce their will over.
I know these people, Canadians are not fucking polite, they’re privileged rule followers. I fucking hate Canada the way I hate the United States, both need to end as all imperialist systems do.
- Comment on Ladybugs 5 weeks ago:
justice-project.org/the-canada-brand-violence-and…
en.wikipedia.org/…/Canada_in_the_War_in_Afghanist…
Or are you going to say that Canada’s continued occupation of indigenous and First Nations land is also not genocidal? Downplaying Canada’s imperialism to own the Americans is about as low as you can get before you start directly hurting people. Don’t be a genocidal bootlicker for self satisfaction, it’s disgusting.
- Comment on He was no friend to the middle class 5 weeks ago:
Why did OP specify “middle class?”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yeah exactly, memes like this suggest that women’s sexual fantasies are inherently more depraved because they appeal to their own tastes instead of to men’s.