Mace is a Republican, so I can understand why she might assume all members of congress as sex predators. Think about the people she surrounds herself with. She must be terrified, poor thing.
Doesn’t excuse bigotry at all. The bill is hatred on paper.
The bigger problem is that lose should rhyme with pose or close. Loose is fine.
What you’ve got there is a graph of testing. The slopes are all the same, because that’s when each country received tests, and that’s how quickly they ramped up testing. Covid 19 wasn’t even sequenced until 40 people were extremely ill from the virus. We know now that it is spread through the air, and carriers of the virus can be contagious without being symptomatic. Zero countries were wasting precious tests on deceased people who died in the previous weeks.
China made for a convenient target for xenophobes and racists to blame. It spread quickly through dense populations, and their government was using (ineffective) draconian methods to contain the spread. Westerners spread the image of indigent communists eating bats and civets, ignoring the growing number of anomalous respiratory illnesses at home.
Maybe it started in China. Maybe it didn’t. We cannot know for sure, because we deliberately did not collect the data. And anyone trying to convince you differently has an agenda.
:::I don’t know the guy, and had no idea he was a Trumper. If you had asked me yesterday to guess if Adam Sandler was a douchebag, I probably would have bet he was. I’ve listened to his comedy albums, seen most of his movies, and watched Leo, so I’m not at all surprised to learn that he’s a piece of shit.
But harassing a guy while he’s out eating with his kids is not a political statement. It’s not a deterrent to being a piece of shit, it’s not an argument in favor of progressive policies, it’s just shitty behavior. Like I tell my kids, there’s a difference between respect and decency. If someone is a bad person, you don’t have to respect them. But being a decent person is about you, not them. The way you treat people is a decision you make about who you are. Adam Sandler gets to choose who he wants to be and the effect he has on the world. If you want to fight it, I got your back because the world needs less of him.
But this ain’t that. This is not productive. It’s invasive and cruel, and it’s exponentially worse because there are kids involved. The person who took this photo is also a douchebag.
I don’t like the idea of comparing the relative struggles of various groups. Everyone is dealing with something, and somebody always has it worse. That doesn’t invalidate the struggle.
In fact, I’d say that’s one of the struggles men deal with. We’re often expected to soldier on, man up, tough it out, walk it off, etc etc. Men who talk about vulnerability or pain are met with derision and scorn. But stress, anxiety, trauma, isolation, physical and emotional pain, everyone should feel worthy of asking for help. We do deal with discrimination in some forms, and talking about those issues shouldn’t be intended to compare to social injustices women have been dealing with.
Where it veers into toxicity is when we compare our struggles, and use our issues to dimish the issues of other groups.
So if it’s a day of positivity and support, I’m all in. If we made a day just because we felt left out of all the other days of recognition and support, then that’s the wrong message.
I’m all in favor of talking about men’s issues, but those are always overrun by troglodytes angry about women somehow.
How is that sexist?
There’s strong evidence it was in the USA well before the first cases were reported in China.
That’s not to say that anything RFK says makes any damn sense. But it’s also not clear that it started in China.
For people asking for evidence, check the statistics for respiratory-related illnesses and pneumonia in late 2019.
There was an unexplained spike in respiratory illness across all age groups, and a spike in pneumonia deaths starting in September. Google also tracked a spike in searches related to pneumonia. We didn’t even have COVID tests until January of 2020, which is when the first diagnoses started coming in. None of the deaths in 2019 attributed to pneumonia were tested for COVID.
That doesn’t mean it was definitely COVID, but it is enough to make me doubt the Trump narrative that China started it.
You’ll also notice the incidence of scented candle complaints began in the latter quarter of 2019.
https://www.reviewpartydotcom.com/blog/reviews-as-data-points-yankee-candle-covid-cases
Swamps are vibrant ecosystems critical to the health of the planet and the survival of humans. Draining them is something capitalists do to turn human suffering into profit.
Pack the fucking courts now
Dude has earned a bad day.
But how can this be, when all the world leaders got together and decided to ? And then all the corporations made sure that ? Surely the plan to was enough to slow climate change!
This argument reveals that she thinks both sides are playing the same game. Progressives don’t support corrupt leaders. MTG does.
What are we celebrating? Is it like toxic incel shit or raising awareness for men’s health issues?
Yeah, but if they made it completely different, then people would complain about that.
Even the smallest meme can change the course of the future.
Lemmy will make memes of us all.
I wonder if we’ll ever be put into memes or gifs…
Not all who meme are lost.
Give them a foot, they’ll take the shoe.
If we’re going to get pedandic, blood infiltration of the heart is a medical condition, usually called infiltrative cardiomyopathy. So you’re correct that the metaphor is better, but the literal meaning could be confusing.
I like the cereal bowl analogy because cereal is ostensibly its own thing. But practically speaking, you’d be silly to assume it won’t be consumed with milk. Like it could be, but the box advertises it with milk, and the commercials suggest adding milk, and everything about the cereal implies you’re going to add milk. Adding water would make you the weirdo, and assuming other people would add water would be absurd. Like suggesting Trump would make an attempt to build a bipartisan coalition. If that’s what you’re expecting, you’re not in touch with the reality we all share.
Water to a sponge? That might have the same issue since infiltration is still a thing, so maybe we avoid fluids for the analogy. Fans infiltrating the stadium? Clothes infiltrating a laundry basket? Now I’m just saying things I see around me. Let’s workshop it independently and come back in a week with ideas. No rush, we will have four years of this bullshit.
Low information voters are easily confused, but also consider that polling doesn’t capture cross sections very well. If 6 out of 10 can vote for the GOP, and 6 out of 10 support the right to abortion, then only 2 out of 10 need to be completely oblivious. It would still be true to say that a majority voted for Trump, and a majority support abortion rights. That doesn’t mean it’s the same majority.
I haven’t looked at the data, but it wouldn’t surprise me that 20% of people in any category are confused or out of touch.
The goal is to make it illegal for trans folks to exist at all. Next, they’ll come for the entire LGBTQ+ community. Then probably the atheists.