Don’t threaten me with a good time!

I’m so excited I wet my plants!

Its not “haha!” funny, but rather “aha!” funny.

Sounds like your turn to step up to the plate then huh?

Very true, but I assume you don’t mean “then why bother at all” right?

And if I’m correct in that assumption, then I figure we can agree that mitigating what you can is still a worthwhile endeavor?

https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/how-to-shop-ethically

We as in me? Didn’t think I was. Even specified that I didn’t care about the specific “who”.

We as in the royal we? I reckon because the post was making a point about not romanticizing past presidents in the face of our current super awful kiddy diddler and you took offense to the specificity?

Well, it was literally mentioned in the post. Unlike… Kamala and Israel.

And you responded to my comment regarding it with random facts trying to soften how terrible it is, historically speaking.

So if we are talking obsessive behavior… Not sure it’s mine that qualifies.

Lol, omfg, Lemmy is nuts sometimes.

No, I dont think we are better off with the known child rapist Donald Trump. I actually also think it’s quite unlikely that Kamala has raped children or owned slaves.

But I do stand by my claim that child rape and slavery are worse enemies of good than “perfection”. And if your response to that is “child rape is still a relative concept”, then I’m sorry to say you can piss up a rope.

I voted for harm reduction like a sensible person, now can I please be offended over children getting raped or do I need to pass another purity test?

Don’t recall saying that child rape or slavery are unique to anyone, just that they are a worse affront to “good” than “perfection”. I’m against them in all their manifestations. Don’t really care who specifically tbh.

But I’d also go so far as to say that just because “America bad” is trendy, doesn’t mean these child raping slavers are being unfairly targeted. Cuz you know, they did have slaves and diddled kids.

Perhaps, and I didn’t get a philosophy degree so take this with a grain of salt, but slavery and child rape seem to be even greater enemies of good.

It’s crazy right? I guess they hope that blaming the “DEI Boogyman” enough will draw attention away from their actual comic book evil levels of corruption.

Well, if you want to take it from the horses mouth , its supporting DEI and LGBTQ+ rights internationally. Which sounds less like “corruption” and more like “the point”, but what do I know?

And to save everyone a click, here is the link I posted’s full list of “corruption” :

Here are only a few examples of the WASTE and ABUSE:

• $1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”
• $70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland
• $2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam
• $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia
• $32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru
• $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
• $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt
• Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations — even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation
• Millions to EcoHealth Alliance — which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab
• “Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria”
• Funding to print “personalized” contraceptives birth control devices in developing countries
• Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund “irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,” benefiting the Taliban

The list literally goes on and on — and it has all been happening for decades.

Under President Trump, the waste, fraud, and abuse ENDS NOW.

edit: they say the list goes “on and on”, but I couldn’t find anything. Presumably stuff not added to the aforementioned post were even less convincing, and as such didn’t make the cut.

Considering how you thought they weren’t joking, I’d say yes.

It certainly is. Unfortunately for all of us, it’s more complicated than the Dems and “lesser of two evil” voters (of which I was one) have been lead to believe as well.

Or they would have… you know… Won.

But hey, if we want to learn the wrong lesson from this again, far be it from me to stop us.

Technically it is

You are not wrong, but I don’t really think abusing the disenfranchised to the extent that they aren’t getting paid at all while food rots away is what I would call a “good path” to living wages.

First off, no one is getting living wages for the work yet, and we have no evidence to suggest they will.

Secondly, even if this does lead to that, maybe we could have found a path forward without all the unnecessary added suffering?

I dunno, it just feels really fucked up to be spinning this like the only outcome is “living wages” when all it has actually done so far is cause additional harm.

The point was obvious…

Chinese censorship is planned and targeted, with the intent to control and suppress dissent. It works hard to maintain a narrative and prevent excessive and rapid shifts so as to achieve a long term goal of control.

The billionaires running American social media (with a special shout to Musk) are mercurial and subject to the petty whims and feelings of the owner.

So while yes, obviously both change and the heads of the CCP are also occasionally subject to emotional responses, the differences between the two are stark and obvious. So no, “everything technically changes” is not a valid counter to the significant differences in intent and volatility.

Claiming you don’t understand the point they were making is just being intentionally obtuse.

“Kinda sorta” is definitely the best way to put it.

On the incredibly infinitesimally insignificantly microscopically small chance that Trump somehow accidentally but actually stops the genocide, I won’t bother looking that gift horse in the mouth. I’ll just be thankful and move on to the litany of other problems.