minnow

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[–] minnow 32 points 10 hours ago

This isn't the same as The Boy Cried Wolf.

Unless you're talking about a version of the story where there really were wolves every time he cried wolf and nobody believed him until the wolves were eating people.

Still not a perfect analogy but much closer.

[–] minnow 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

LGBTQ people who support Trump must have a reason. IMO that reason probably boils down to a lack of empathy and/or lack of critical thinking skills.

So now the question for you is: do you want to be in a long term relationship with somebody lacking one or both of those things?

You're unlikely to change her, the only person you can control is yourself.

[–] minnow 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Great question! Thankfully somebody is already working on that, and it's pretty neat.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_Park

[–] minnow -1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah, hypothetically anyway. I technically count as being "in the thousands" because I own my home and car but I have no savings, no retirement, and have only 3 digits in my bank account which will go down to 2 digits soon enough.

That's the tricky thing about "net worth." It can be a very ~~descriptive~~ deceptive way of measuring things.

Edit: is the autocorrect error why I was getting down votes? I can't figure out what else people would be objecting to :(

[–] minnow 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Agree 100%

The biggest reason we (the USA) are losing to fascists is because half of Americans are fascists, whether they realize it or not. And it's been that way for a hundred years (and they were proto fascists, aka Confederates, before that)

[–] minnow 20 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Hence "with all due acknowledgement" because I understand that 10 mil is nothing, comparatively.

But I also understand that, to the Amazon warehouse worker with a net worth of a few thousand, or the disabled person who isn't allowed to have a net worth greater than 2 thousand, 10 mil is a a fuck ton of money. You know, comparatively.

[–] minnow 5 points 5 days ago

That's nepotism, totally different thing

/s

[–] minnow 31 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (12 children)

Man worth 10 million dollars warns of rule by the rich.

I guess he would know.

(With all due acknowledgement that 10 million is chump change for the likes of Elan and Musky)

[–] minnow 7 points 6 days ago

I'm sure it doesn't apply to only the 1st amendment! They'll apply it to all the other amendments too (unless they don't want to)

[–] minnow 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So what they're saying is that times have changed and things that used to be considered rights guaranteed by the Constitution need to change with the times.

I'm sure this logic can be applied to other rights as well, as long as those rights aren't laid out in any amendments that come after 1 and before 3.

[–] minnow 27 points 6 days ago (4 children)

The cold war was against the Soviets. We're losing to fascists.

Which is much worse (imo)

[–] minnow 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm not claiming otherwise, so I'm not sure what your point is

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