lets_get_off_lemmy

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Texas school district agrees to remove ‘Anne Frank’s Diary,’ ‘Maus’ and 670 other books after right-wing group’s complaint ( forward.com )

Conservative activists, led by a local pastor and outspoken Israel advocate, pushed the district, Mission CISD, to excise books mostly about gender, sexuality and race. Their demands represented an extreme version of a nationwide culture war over books that has played out in recent years — and ensnared a number of books with...

lets_get_off_lemmy ,

I'm definitely not for banning books, but couldn't you say the same thing about news media? Or Facebook memes? Those "get you to think".

lets_get_off_lemmy ,

I'm not surprised. Alito is straight up huffing Newsmax like it's paint but trying to hide it, Clarence Thomas is outwardly corrupt and unabashedly fascist, and the other conservatives are, weirdly, not as extreme and still attempt to maintain this air of professionalism and integrity in their profession. Don't get me wrong, they don't actually and in them we have a religious nut, an idiot frat boy, an egoist, and at the head, a conniving political operator. All of which are driving us closer to fascism in their own style.

But I get the feeling like John Roberts is embarrassed by Clarence Thomas and his clinically insane QAnon conspiracy wife or Alito and his "election was stolen" flag antics. So they're going to see things differently.

lets_get_off_lemmy ,

People should have "the right to not be pregnant."

lets_get_off_lemmy ,

Nah, if it's in the city (or in a small town with 4 lane roads and low speed limits), you'll see semis use the left lane for the same reason I do: the right lane stops a lot due to right turns.

lets_get_off_lemmy ,

Huh, I've never thought of this before... I like your example of chit-chat. Because for some instances, you could say that one engages in it to manipulate the other person into relieving their own anxiety from being silent around others. Or forcing the other person to give up their personal interests, or, more cynically, making the other person think you are interested.

I've never thought of communication like this before but now I'm going to manipulate everyone in real life into thinking I'm a know it all by telling them this lol

lets_get_off_lemmy ,

See this is a sensible response to people getting unreasonably PO'd about this. You drive in "the left" (whatever that means to your relative position) until someone faster comes along and they can't move more left than you.

I get upset when some fuckwit is going 15+ over the flow of traffic and then that fuckwit gets pissed when he runs up on someone's ass expecting them to be aware of every dangerous fuckwit out there.

lets_get_off_lemmy ,

I find this scenario extremely rare as in most cases I'm envisioning, there is a middle turn lane separating the two opposite lanes. Either from a light or just as a buffer between the flows of traffic.

This is all to say, there aren't any hard and fast rules and there are too many scenarios to cover with a blanket statement like "The left lane is for passing. If you're not passing somebody, move over to the right lane. It's not that hard people" (comment above).

victorz said it more succinctly below.

lets_get_off_lemmy ,

I don't think it's lane surfing if you're not changing lanes. Anyway, this comment section has made me realize that it always just depends. Drive aware, keep safe distance, don't unnecessarily change lanes, let people pass (on the left) if they're going faster than you, etc.

The best advice I ever got about driving was "be predictable." I think if anyone really takes that to heart empathetically then it would be safer.

lets_get_off_lemmy ,

I just do not understand how anyone is on the fence about DJT... Like, they see this conviction and that's what changes their mind? After everything else?

lets_get_off_lemmy ,

Nope, doesn't matter why, I'm just flabbergasted that people would still be like "hmmm I dunno, maybe this Trump guy is alright" after everything else. And I'm trying to imagine the psychology of a person that's on the fence about him for this long.

It's easier for me to understand the rabid fans and fascists than it is for me to understand those that are up in the air until now, so I was just throwing that out there.

lets_get_off_lemmy ,

Yeah, that's a good point. I was trying to be too agreeable with the last guy but I think understanding the psychology of everyone that votes for trump, is enthusiastic about Biden, is on the fence for either of them is important. So we can potentially counteract that

How the Recycling Symbol Duped People into Buying More Plastic ( www.scientificamerican.com )

Plastic wrap tangles around sorting equipment at recycling facilities, shutting down operations as employees try to cut it out of the equipment. Huge bales of paper shipped overseas can contain as much as 30 percent plastic waste. “Contamination is one of the biggest challenges facing the recycling industry,” the EPA said in...

lets_get_off_lemmy ,

Is this not deployed already? If it isn't, what the heck are we doing?

lets_get_off_lemmy ,

I know cardboard and especially aluminum is much easier to recycle, so doesn't just have to be plastic.

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    lets_get_off_lemmy ,

    He's my hero! I hope he's still getting something out of life as he's in Brazil with his wife. A true heartache knowing that his time here is coming to an end, because for as long as he could, he was still commenting on international affairs. A warrior for the truth, and I'm going to miss his commentary.

    lets_get_off_lemmy ,

    I agree with him. You have to take measures to protect the populace, like with traffic laws. If people can't abide by those rules and the science is sound (which it is in this case and in the case of traffic laws), then measures have to be taken to protect the community from those that refuse to abide by the verifiably safer option without due cause.

    What those measures are can be deliberated amongst the community. Could be fines, could be jail time. I don't know what would compel someone to get a vaccine, but that could be determined over time.

    lets_get_off_lemmy ,

    !remindme

    lets_get_off_lemmy ,

    Using this.

    lets_get_off_lemmy ,

    Join the club.

    lets_get_off_lemmy ,

    Conservatives are just projectors. Everything they are guilty of they blame on political opponents or demonize: pedophilia, gay sexual relationships, corruption, and not caring about the average worker. That's not to say Democrats don't sometimes fall into these categories, but it's definitely to a lesser extent.

    lets_get_off_lemmy ,

    I would argue that "the right to vote is fundamental to a democracy" has never been an American conservative ideal. Conservatives have always tried to limit the number and kind of people that can vote and still do: non land owners, ex-slaves, black people, women, ex-felons, and all minorities now. Conservatives have also made a very successful effort to limit the relative power of people's votes when it doesn't suit their agenda through gerrymandering and unequal representation.

    Also, really not sure what "the Senate should represent the states and not the people" means. Like it should represent the land? Not the people inside the state?

    lets_get_off_lemmy ,

    The people of Wyoming don't have the same representation as the people of California. They have way more relative representation. That's saying that rural votes mean more than urban. A Wyoming resident has 3.6 times more voting power than one in California.

    lets_get_off_lemmy ,

    This is a similar argument for accelerationism in Marxism. That we should make the world as capitalist as possible because the system will fail quicker and get replaced by something more just.

    It's hard for me to believe that this would actually work in either case. The destruction in the meantime would be too great and it may reach a point where we can't climb back. In the case of Trump, he wants to be a dictator, and he may push voting rights so far in one direction that the people won't have a say at all.

    lets_get_off_lemmy ,

    Just to be clear: you're saying your solution is to vote for Trump though?

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