Yep, my reaction to all of this has been: why is it permissible for the 3 oil companies in a trench coat running and polluting the world and causing uncountable deaths and harm to humanity a "cost of doing business" - but two people throwing soup at a painting to raise awareness of that cartel is a "category 1 harm to society" that deserves years of prison time?

I know it's because of how modern legal systems are set up and the whole concept of corporations having personhood without a corporeal body to be imprisoned - but I still don't understand how people (even leftists on lemmy) see this is a personal moral failing of the protestors and not a systematic issue with the way we organize our state laws..

You know I've been thinking about loss and it's usage on the internet and at this point I think we've jumped the shark - what started as a way to express dissatisfaction with the way an issue was handled - has now turned into a "haha loss funny" meme - which kinda takes the piss out miscarriage - a very real issue that affects a lot of people. Maybe I'm just getting old but I feel we should bring this meme to greener pastures..

1 year exposure period is too low - wake me up when they do a study on 10-20 year exposure.

gross.

I mean the whole 1972 rape fantasy essay he wrote was potentially progressive at the the time but feels quite tone-deaf and ham fisted nowadays..

Ah yes, the holy father trump goes to heaven by molesting children - how can we religious heathens bask in the same glory if our morals and care for other people prevent us from doing the same 😢

damn the free market works! it came up with commie blocks just based on space and energy efficiency! if only we could apply this on a larger scale 🙈

"Women are you still not sure if you want to be a woman" egg_irl much..

Is this the most fuckcars poster ever? NGL I lowkey love the implication that the only purpose for cars is to kill people 🥰

As per the graph - that IQ score goes above 150 so it doesn't directly correlate to % of population

Interesting - as the article notes the first amendment was specifically implemented to protect unpopular view points - which is tricky because it does mean that white supremacists have the same right to voice their ideas as critical race theorists - but how do we balance that hate speech should have the same footing as voicing concerns around oppression?

even more so when those that are oppressed will have a harder time of being heard in the first place? should the law (as the 1st amendment specifically says that a view not held by society is still protected) tolerate hate and bigotry? it appears the nazi bar is guarded by the first amendment :/

Under MMT taxation is just a tool to reduce inflation - why not introduce a yearly maximum income and collect everything else above as tax to manage inflation?

Does trapping Palestinians in Gaza, advocating for the war crime of collective punishment by stopping their water and food supply in favour of bombing civilians ("not a gram of humanitarian aid, but hundreds of tons of explosives from the Air Force") a mistake as well? What about Ben-Ari's comments that Palestinian children have brought this upon themselves? What about when Israel directly funded Hamas to undermine more peace oriented groups like the PLO (even after they recognized Israel's sovereignty), was that a mistake too? At what point do these "mistakes" become genocidal intent in your opinion?

you have to cook plant based proteins - unlike animal based ones that people consume raw? I feel a doctor shouldn't be encouraging people to eat raw meat yet here we are...

Slorpo you say it and see how people react... What's right wingers obsession with slurs anyways?

too much simping for one's own wife - may you praise Ishtar more and maybe then she'll bless your wife to take your seed (and not just after a bountiful harvest)

So people can just downvote it instead right? That's literal direct democracy at play - if there's more people that like the bot they'll upvote it and it will have a positive score - saying "just bury your head in the sand if you don't agree with this message" is the reason we're in this political mess in the first place..

Which is why the bot is not useful - it literally tries to standardize political stances when that's actually impossible.

Same reason I don't trust it - imagine rating fking BBC (the literal pro-state violence, austerity supporting, anti-immigration governmental mouth piece as "left-center")

It just distorts people's perception of what political biases are and makes them complacent by relying on an automated bot to do the important work of using your own judgment for what constitutes as moral or justified.

By letting it platform itself on lemmy, it's basically inserting itself as the de facto expert on the topic - so for example, people overseas might see BBC rated as left-center and highly factual and start believing that wanting to "secure your borders" is a thing that UK leftist want. Well excuse me if I don't want a privately owned (even if open source) US company deciding what political views others should have.