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- Comment on Hypothetically, if a Black Millionaire had their home broken into by a poor White person, how much danger is there of the Black Millionaire getting shot by cops "by mistake"? 10 hours ago:
Victims getting shot by the police happens regularly to non-rich people in regular homes. I would say the risk is at least less than normal, because rich neighborhoods can afford better police services. However, it’s still definitely not zero and is definitely much higher than for white people.
- Comment on In the age of electronics, when is go to vote can I request a paper ballot instead of a machine? 13 hours ago:
this will depend on where you are from. you should look up how to request it in your local area, and if your country doesn’t put that information online, go to your local government office and ask
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
It’s true. I’ve noticed a lot of British people have no idea what a multicultural country is like. It’s the same reason they ask things like, “Why do Americans say they’re Irish?” Yeah, it’s because people are treated differently based on a class system assigned at birth.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
That’s because the US is not just classist but also racist. The hatred is coded through the language of racial hatred, but you’ll notice these oppressed/hated minorities are also kept excluded and impoverished. UK doesn’t have as much racial diversity, so it’s only classism for them.
- Comment on How are criminals apprehended by vigilantes able to go to prison? 2 days ago:
In the US there’s a concept called citizens arrest where in some states you’re able to detain people after they committed a crime. That’s it though. It’s also not recommended that anyone ever do it, because it can very easily cross the line into false imprisonment, kidnapping, or some other crime.
- Comment on If I were to go out steal 34 cars. And charged with 34 felonies. One per each car. Could I not use the presidents case in defense of my own? Why or why not? 4 days ago:
Sure, you can say whatever you want. The US conviction rate is in the high 90s, though. Actually innocent people go to jail all the time. It makes the rich richer.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 4 days ago:
now that the DOJ doesn’t prosecute for it anymore, we’re way better at corruption. the rich take so much more of our taxes.
- Comment on Are all rich peoples clothes designer? 4 days ago:
They don’t have any reason to ever go to somewhere like Target or Forever 21. They only go into high end stores. Now they may occasionally see something in the high end stores that isn’t $400, but what anything costs is literally irrelevant to them. That’s assume it’s the kind of wealthy person that even bothers to pick their own clothes versus having someone else do it.
- Comment on What is your take on organ donation? 4 days ago:
Experts generally agree that requiring to people to opt-out significantly increases participation. Most people don’t care either way.
- Comment on Am I right to be afraid of germs / is my family disgusting or am I overreacting and this is germaphobia? (read post) 5 days ago:
You absolutely have to wash your hands with soap after using the bathroom. Although keep in mind that men are able to urinate without touching anything unclean. But it’s not a big deal if the trash can is touching something. It’s not like infectious disease is in it. There are normal germs, and there are harmful germs. You need to be concerned about the harmful ones, not necessarily the normal ones.
- Comment on Why is AI so bad at coming up with dialogue? 6 days ago:
It’s a random text generator. It doesn’t know what it’s spitting out any more than a calculator understands the meaning of the number it’s calculating. You put in text, it outputs texts its algorithm tells it are associated. That’s it.
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 6 days ago:
Republicans need to go blue. They’re going to target purple areas for election fraud- deep red states need to go “That’s it, we’re done. You won’t do anything, so we’re changing parties.”
- Comment on With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake? 1 week ago:
Do you also cut bites of it with the chopsticks?
- Comment on Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US? 1 week ago:
In the US, public schools are funded by the local tax base. If the local tax base is broke as fuck, their services will be broke as fuck. That means you’ve got crumbling sewer systems to worry about more than having well paid teachers.
- Comment on Would it be possible to have a successful career as a lawyer and never lie? 1 week ago:
“Due to my ethical obligations to my client, I am unable to answer that question. If your honor insists on an answer, I will need to withdraw.”
You will lose out on a lot of money though. Remember that there are two sides to every story, and it’s not the lawyer’s job to judge what the truth is. The lawyer advocates. The judge and jury decide.
- Comment on Is there any reason we were taught in school that blood is blue in the body until it reaches oxygen and then it turns red other than our veins look blue? 1 week ago:
You were taught by a science teacher with no science background who didn’t read the book. That often happens in districts that underfund their schools.
- Comment on My mom really love NBC Good News tonight. How come there isn't a show where they report on the good news of the day instead of all the bad crap all the time? 2 weeks ago:
because that would feel really tone deaf in the current environment
- Comment on Can one use someone's previous argument against themselves in a different legal case? 2 weeks ago:
Can the other party retort with something akin to “ah but that’s not what you said about pirated books three years ago, you only complain if it’s unfavorable to you”?
The opposing party certainly would bring that into evidence to be one of the many things the judge considers. It wouldn’t be dispositive by itself.
- Comment on Can to many hits to the head make a person the R word in animals? My bc loves to run around the house and hits his head constantly but shakes it off. He acts normal and everything exceept4 zoomies? 2 weeks ago:
All animals that have a brain can experience brain damage.
- Comment on Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it? 2 weeks ago:
The reason is that doctors and pharmaceutical companies are also for profit, meaning they make money selling you treatments. This puts them in a position to use your condition to exploit both you and the company. The insurance company is balancing the cost of your preferred treatment versus the cost of other treatment and the benefits. You can work with your doctor to build a documented record of attempting to lose weight- see a nutritionist, start seeing a therapist for your food addiction, start going to weight loss meetings, exercise therapy for the morbidly obese, etc. These will also be helpful by themselves, because those drugs are only temporary. Like weight loss surgery, people regain the weight when they don’t do the work to address the underlying issue.
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 2 weeks ago:
kids in their 20s can literally rent a room in a furnished house with a bunch of other 20 year olds. there are jobs in tourism that will give housing and let you experience amazing destinations that our grandparents would’ve had to save their whole lives to be able to see. like yes, it will require grit, compromise, hard work- but the rewards are so much better than sitting around your hometown thinking you have no way to get out. You do! You just have to be willing to try, willing to learn, and willing to fail.
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 2 weeks ago:
the stakes of moving will never be lower than in your early 20s. one of my regrets is definitely not taking more risks, because worst case scenario I literally would’ve just moved back home without any judgement. obviously that’s not everyone’s situation, but it is the average American in their early 20’s situation.
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 2 weeks ago:
Well, I don’t live in a place like that, so there’s that. Consider moving to a better city for young people for a few years.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
higher barrier of entry = a higher % of the posts are made by intelligent people.
obviously it’s still massively outweighed by the stupid shit, I’m just saying I see it more than I saw it on reddit.
- Comment on What should Israel have done in response to October 7th? 3 weeks ago:
You know what you do? You go “Oh, hating each other has wrought nothing but suffering on both of our people, so we’re going to try to commit to working together now.” Together. Both sides. To create a joint vision of peace and prosperity. And that would mean Israel will have to return some property, address Palestinian poverty, desegregate the schools, etc.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 3 weeks ago:
His mental health declined until he murdered someone. It’s not that he is “batshit”- he had a very serious issue that he could not manage on his own. When you isolate from others, can’t work, and only focus on your own pain and violently hurting others until you do it- you are not a healthy person who can mange your own affairs. To me, it’s no different from saying someone “deliberately” slammed their head into the wall, so they don’t “need” a room with cushioned walls.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 3 weeks ago:
yeah, I know so many mentally healthy people who murder all of the time.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 3 weeks ago:
he’ll probably kill someone again. the judge was wrong to not allow a MH conviction to go forward, but ultimately that puts the jury in the position to let out a seriously mental ill murderer with no consequences or not.
- Comment on Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates? 3 weeks ago:
yeah, hasn’t every administration fired the entire federal government for refusing to tell the president no, coordinated an election fraud campaign, and then pardoned the people who participated? that’s totally normal.
- Comment on Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates? 3 weeks ago:
I prefer to try to primary a candidate within my party, because no offnese people not voting in the primaries is how we got joe biden.