• rekabis@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    And this is why capitalism utterly sucks at providing public services.

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      It’s not really capitalism anymore if the CEO runs the government too.

      Idk what else the USA has to do to show the obvious oligarchy y’all have.

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        Even if the politicos unironically started referring to themselves as oligarchs, a significant population of US citizens would likely either take it as a joke and hand-wave it away, or take it as further proof that that’s just what you do to get ahead.

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          “Radical feminists” on tumblr are calling themselves fascists because they are happy with the porn ban.

          Masks are off, “radical feminism” was always a front.

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            Masks are off, “radical feminism” was always a front.

            You want to see rampant anti-male gender bigotry in play? Bring up - and be in favour of - “paper abortions”, and watch the hate flow.

            Don’t get me wrong, I am absolutely in favour of giving women abortion rights. But giving rights to only one gender and blatantly denying those exact same rights to the other is the dictionary definition of gender bigotry.

            And while I may not want porn and smut to be trivially accessible to non-adults - and have absolutely no use for it, myself - I also wholeheartedly support the right of any legal adult to consume that content.

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              I think this anti-porn movement is just really Elon and billionaire funded Christian organizations covert woke attempt to keep the people breeding. He wants them desperate, bare-footed and pregnant. I’m all for the paper abortion. I’m adopted. The person that cares for you is the one that is your parent. In this day and age it requires a lot of mental strength to be a parent, especially on a shoestring budget. Some people with their magical thinking, their lack of mathematics and their hormones might poke a hole in the condom or stuff some of that cum right back into their body. There’s traps everywhere and it’s not just in relationships. I come from the crowd who would rather deal with feminism through the lens of gender studies where both sides are taken into account with the like a sprinkling of some sociology. Also, you know, America’s full of many cultures, so what I’m really looking for is just Government staying where government should be. Definitely a separation of church and state. I think Americans are not realizing that the powers at the top are doing what they did in other countries with religious extremism right back to their own Country, the USA. This is called the Imperial Boomerang.i feel like I’m running through the labyrinth as the minotaur is chasing me. What is down is up and what is up is down. People caught in faux paradoxes because they live in a vacuum. The billionaire is looking down on the unholy garden… People are not paying attention close enough to our social ills. One thing leads to another. There is a reason why things are the way they are.

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              You want to see rampant anti-male gender bigotry in play? Bring up - and be in favour of - “paper abortions”, and watch the hate flow.

              Oh, wow… That’s some alpha bro shit right there. You deserve whatever hate comes your way for that.

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                Oh, wow.… That’s some alpha bro shit right there. You deserve whatever hate comes your way for that.

                Ah, another gender bigot, I see.

                So tell me, why should one gender be absolutely denied what the other gender is fully allowed to do? Especially when - aside from the current lack of artificial wombs - BOTH genders could have the exact same rights?

                Explain it to me in a way that doesn’t have you come across as a supremely bigoted female supremacist.

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                    Aren’t we entitled? No. Go away.

                    You challenged the premise. Either put up or shut up, bigot.

                    But you have nothing, don’t you. You just want to be mad, and refuse to accept that true equality means giving both genders the same rights. Otherwise why call it “equality”?

                    You don’t want equality. You want revenge. To nail men to the wall and make them suffer, even if they had zero fault in what happened or were actively lied to. That’s why you hate true equality. That’s why you cannot stomach both genders having full abortion rights, even if the man’s are only legal rights and do not include surgical rights.

            • I’m very sorry to hear about your aneurysm and how it’s impacted your ability to say anything that’s even vaguely related to the group you’re posting to. I’m also very sorry to hear about your getting hit in the head by a shovel as an infant, thus causing you to say really stupid things as well.

              Thoughts and prayers and healing vibes your way.

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                I’m very sorry to hear about your aneurysm and how it’s impacted your ability *to say anything that’s even vaguely related to the group you’re posting to*. I’m also very sorry to hear about your getting hit in the head by a shovel as an infant, thus causing you to say really stupid things as well.

                Thoughts and prayers and healing vibes your way.

                Imagine being someone so bereft of any viable counter-argument, that the only possible response is an ad hominem.

                And receiving ad hominems is a great way to identify intellectual bankruptcies in others. When the puerile and solipsistic insults come out, you know you’ve gotten under their skin in ways they have no rational or logical adult-level responses for.

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      Capitalism is antithetical to public services, at least according to Milton Friedman.

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      monopolism* utterly sucks at providing public services (except for some governmental monopolies because those can be democratically controlled)

      once the starlink monopoly is broken this will happen less and less because if they raise prices the customers can switch to a different system from another company and spacex will lose money.