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@HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world
- Comment on Paid Time Off Hypocrisy 1 day ago:
I used to beat this drum pretty hard until I learned/realized just this week that ostensibly this is so representatives can spend time amongst the people they represent.
Obviously there’s no strict laws governing what they do with their time and they are only accountable to re-elections for that, so the potential for slacking off is tremendous, especially in the age of R vs. D being virtually the only thing worth mentioning come election time.
“Sure, I’m never in DC working for you and I’m never back home listening to you, but at least I’m not a filthy [other party]!” is a convincing argument for a staggering percentage of American voters.
- Comment on Disgusted 6 days ago:
This is a great ragebait comment, but everyone’s missing the obvious response:
So?
- Comment on Park benches don't "open" until 10am 1 week ago:
That’s more illegal than I can openly suggest.
- Comment on Park benches don't "open" until 10am 1 week ago:
Fair enough. My hackles are usually up thanks to how people treat me.
- Comment on Park benches don't "open" until 10am 1 week ago:
I’m aware.
- Comment on Park benches don't "open" until 10am 1 week ago:
Because people are more comfortable letting homeless people starve or freeze to death than they are with shooting them.
Same reason people are happy to buy ham from the grocery store but would feel uncomfortable slitting a pig’s throat.
- Comment on Park benches don't "open" until 10am 1 week ago:
Ooh, free lock-picking practice!
I don’t think it would be illegal to non-destructively unlock that lock.
- Ex-cop
- Comment on Is there an easy way to check to see if a post was removed? 1 week ago:
Yeah.
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- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, fear is a very potent emotion that can be directed by manipulators.
Always be skeptical of someone who appears to be feeding you fear fuel.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
A very good point that differs from your previous.
Goal-post moved and scored.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 3 weeks ago:
Then that’s a you-empathy problem.
As I said, most of humanity does not rise to the occasion when their number comes up. Biden was no different.
You didn’t stop Trump either. I hope you don’t get cancer, and if you do, I will extend my empathy your way.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 3 weeks ago:
Nah, I still extend empathy to people who didn’t do enough. That’s like 99% of humanity.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darializa_Avila_Chevalier#U…
In a 2026 interview, she said she believed Ukraine was a victim of Russia’s violation of its sovereignty, and that diplomacy with Russia should be pursued.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
I’ve only seen people use “chud” as in “person I don’t like,” so I think you’re just advocating for everyone to kill each other.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
Because scapegoating to appeal to the confused and angry masses is highly effective.
Humans are tribal first, rational second.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
endorsing some almost ML/tankie people who don’t support Ukraine and essentially think the US could never and has never done any good ever.
Who?
- Comment on law enforcement partners 3 weeks ago:
The point is parking close to rapidly respond to calls for service.
At least that’s my interpretation, anyway. I never considered people might want to park there off-duty just to shop.
- Comment on law enforcement partners 3 weeks ago:
Wal-Mart is kinda the Mecca of shoplifting; it’s turbo-corporate oligarch despotism so nobody feels guilty about shoplifting from them, they’re usually located central to low income areas, and everyone assumes they don’t have the budget to have a robust loss prevention department (they do; it’s one of the most robust I’ve ever seen).
- Comment on law enforcement partners 3 weeks ago:
Wal-Mart was a huge generator of calls for service in my patrol area, so much so that our county government had hash things out over multiple meetings and eventually write an MOU with them to stop calling us over $20 shoplifting cases.
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 4 weeks ago:
That’s the meme, but I think it’s more that insurance companies spend fortunes to
bribelobby for politicians to vote against it, not to mention fortunes in propaganda to push the narrative that universal healthcare is more expensive. - Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Imagine being left out of the sexual predator club and being upset about it.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I admit my comment didn’t get into the nuance of “pedophile” versus “child sex predator” and thus has gaps to fill, but one can only spend so much time on the internet.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I admit my comment didn’t get into the nuance of “pedophile” versus “child sex predator” and thus has gaps to fill, but one can only spend so much time on the internet.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
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I suspect the exclusivity is part of why they enjoy it.
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The Epstein class would much rather stay out of the reach of the law even if it means some of their cohorts get away with rape.
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- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
A certain unknowable % of the population is afflicted with pedophilia.
If you give someone enough power (money/authority/prestige/etc.) to take advantage of children, there is approximately that same % chance of them exploiting that power, minus whatever fear they have of consequences.
Parents, please monitor your children’s social media. If you’re too busy, don’t let them be on social media. They might face a bit of social stigma for not being on the latest brainrot app, but it’s better than them being in the DMs of their favorite video game creators.
- Comment on How to move a sofa 4 weeks ago:
Men are fine. Masculinity in 2026 as an ideology or a cultural institution is a problem.
Is this more or less stating “Men are fine as long as they aren’t masculine?”
You’re going to have to define what “man” “woman” “masculine” and “feminine” are in your mind then, because that statement doesn’t logic with any of those definitions that I agree with; it’s like saying “water is fine as long as it contains no H2O.”
- Comment on How to move a sofa 4 weeks ago:
You’ll have no disagreement from me that there’s far more profit - and a resulting niche of people capitalizing on that - in teaching kids how to be masculine in a toxic way.
My point is it simply doesn’t follow that all forms of masculinity are toxic any more than all art is AI because AI art is on the massive rise.
- Comment on how to cut aluminum pipe with hardly any comments about flock cameras 4 weeks ago:
same poster too
source?!?!?!?!
- Comment on When do we riot? 4 weeks ago:
This topic is well covered in The Alt-Right Playbook: The South Bank of the Rubicon: