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I have some conservative in-laws that live in Northern Minnesota. When we drove up to visit, they were like "You stopped in MINNEAPOLIS on your way up here?!? How did you survive all the crime??"

Like seriously, Fox News has convinced these people that the world outside their immediate bubbles is an absolute hellhole overrun with immigrants, homeless people, and gang members.

on That's kidnapping! · c/Mirror · 44 pts · 353d

From an article about it:

The majority of the Democrats complied with the law enforcement escort, showing reporters what they called “permission slips” they received to leave the House floor and pointing to the officers escorting them around the Capitol.

WTF. How have Democrats still not learned that complying gets you nothing.

Yeah there's definitely a problem that's more than just a few hours delay. It's got 50 votes and 10 comments when viewed from a non-lemmy.world account.

on I feel so old. · c/lemmyshitpost · 7 pts · 2y

And just to clarify, it is my understanding that "pretty bussin' bruh" is quite different than "pretty bussy, bruh". Correct?

Yeah I made a post for my instance admins and they mentioned they're seeing a huge queue build up for post/comments to and from the lemmy.world instance, but not other instances. My guess is that something is going on with lemmy.world. I posted something to their support community but haven't seen anything yet from them.

I'm guessing you'll get this comment (from my lemmy.world) account well before you get my other reply (from my sh.itjust.works) account. Even though I made this comment later.

I'm guessing you'll get this comment (from my lemmy.world) account well before you get my other reply (from my sh.itjust.works) account. Even though I made this comment later.

When logged into a lemmy.world account, I couldn't see the post above on the Helldivers community until actually clicking that link. Even still, I can't see comments or anything on the post when following the link.

Jesus, that good air / bad air quote was hard to read. If I'm following him, and I might have too many braincells to do this correctly, he's arguing that we shouldn't have clean air because then someone else might benefit from our clean air? So we should just pollute the shit out of our air, because then at least the Chinese won't have a shot at getting any of our sweet, sweet clean air?

That's like saying you're not going to put indoor plumbing in your house, because your neighbor might not put indoor plumbing in their house. And if they're going to live up to their necks in shit, you'll be god-damned if you're not gonna live neck-deep in your own shit too! Otherwise, if you weren't absolutely drowning in your own shit, there's a chance that you might catch a whiff of your neighbor's shit, and ain't no way are you gonna let that happen.

Their problem is that they've been making abortion a wedge issue for so long, that it's now impossible for them to back down. They've been catering to the religious right, pushing a message that life begins at conception and any form of abortion (and some birth control) is literally the same as murdering babies. And their base ate that shit up.

Now they're trying to backtrack, which leads to their hilarious message of basically "look, we're going to have to kill a few babies to get into power, because power is more important." Good luck trying to sell that.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/politics · 23 pts · 2y

Lmao, Trump got fined $10,000 on the spot for violating his gag order about shit talking the court staff. A small slap on the wrist, but I love the immediate consequence.

Members of the class will receive as much as 75 percent of the fees returned to them, though the payout may be lower depending on how many people claim refunds from the suit.

A fine that allows a company to profit off shitty business practices is not a deterrent, it's just the cost of doing business. If people were receiving twice what they were charged in fees, then there might be actual change.