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A lot of them are also desperate. Plenty of people find their way to sovcit stuff because they're in legal trouble of some kind that they don't know how to handle, and everyone tells them they just need to face the consequences. Sovcits tell them actually, the government is wrong, they shouldn't be in trouble at all, and if they just file these papers and say these words, it'll all go away. I can see how people who aren't great critical thinkers can get sucked into that.

Many years ago, I worked in a call center. I was sitting with someone who was new helping them take calls and both of our headsets were plugged into the phone. The trainee was helping a store employee and she was just being awful to him. While she went to get something from the customer, I muted the line and said, "God, what a bitch!" except my finger was hovering over the button and I hit it just in time for her to hear me say bitch. I fully panicked and hung up on her. Nobody ever said anything to either of us and this was back when landlines would occasionally cross, so hopefully she thought that's what happened since she hadn't heard my voice up until then.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure that's the origin of why I still don't trust mute or hold to this day. I'm not talking shit until I know that call is disconnected.

I don't know that they really threaten the rule of law, since none of their bullshit ever actually works (especially as people become more aware of their specific brand of nonsense). I think the bigger issue is that quite a few of them will resort to violence, so they're more of a threat to other people.

Are you shitting me that you think changing a word with an association most people have never even heard is more important than hundreds of thousands of people in this instance and others having their lives measurably improved? Having a criminal record can literally ruin someone's life. It impacts the jobs they can get and where they can live. Pardoning them for some shit that never should've been a crime to start with is a huge deal.

But for sure, tell all those people you'd pick changing the word for the drug over pardons. That's a good call.

Same. I stopped eating meat in the mid 90s, was pescatarian until 2019, and have been vegan since. I don't miss meat at all. I'll eat an impossible or a beyond burger occasionally because it's sometimes my only option, but I could just as easily skip them.

I wouldn't judge anyone else for eating lab meat, though. I don't have any moral issue with it, it just isn't something I'm personally interested in.

In most cases that I'm aware of, that officer has ended up leaving the police force. Sometimes they realize it's a futile effort and quit, sometimes they're basically forced off, and sometimes they end up dead under totally not suspicious circumstances. Non-bastard cops just don't usually stay cops.

No offense, but that's some real thanksimcured material. If people could just say they're not going to care about the opinions of others and have that switch actually flip, society would need like, 50% fewer therapists, but it doesn't work like that.

The pants were hideous, but she was a size 4 in that picture. People called her fat when she was a size 2, though, because she wasn't as bone-thin as Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.

I can't speak to everyone, but for a lot of women my age, it's because we grew up being bombarded with images of objectively thin women and being told that they were fat. You couldn't go to the grocery store without seeing magazines talking about celebrities with cellulite and the tone was always, "can you believe she went out like that?" I remember Jessica Simpson wearing this outfit and being called awful names for how "big" she looked. It's hard to get past literal decades of that shit.

The kind that has a vested interest in an ignorant populace.

If you're there but no one can tell, you may as well not go. The point is to speak up.

Minor correction - Trump didn't win CO in 2016. Not overly important in the grand scheme of things, I'm just from there and I'd have been ashamed if he had.

The rest of it still stands. I'm involved in local politics and I consistently vote for more progressive candidates, and we've had some victories. In a recent example, a homophobic asshat of a city council member gave up his seat to run for mayor. Not only did he lose that race, the woman who won his former seat is a progressive lesbian.

But you know who I almost never see at council meetings or at events for state level positions? The kind of terminally online leftists who constantly complain about the Democrats being too conservative. Apparently it's more important to put other people's rights and lives at risk to make some kind of stand than it is to try to make any real difference in the ways we can. Maybe someday we'll have an electoral system that allows for more than 2 parties, but we sure as shit won't if people can't be bothered to pay attention to anything but the presidential race.