In her mind her husband was probably awful and abusive for not bailing out her 1.5million in debt.
I've dated women like this. Had a few break ups where I was told how awful horrible man I was for not paying off her debts for her. The irony was I had no money... but she thought I did... god I had one lady I was dating a month who started asking me to pay off her car loan and when I said no she threatened to beat me up.
And the scary part is lots of people who are like this are out there, and people like them because they are so superficially charming and sociable. It's only once you have a legitimate relationship with them that the crazy starts to show, and for some people, they can't walk away and can't see the red flags due to the charm.
Causality is hard at work; as certain as death and taxes.
What's baffling is I meet people my own age, who make like 200K a year who also think this exact same way. They think their life right now is impoverished and they deserve to be a billionaire one day. Half my first dates the past couple of years tell me how 'difficult' their life is because they can't afford first class plane tickets.
because everyone thinks they are middle-class, and everyone aspires to be rich.
very few people think improving the conditions of the working class is a worthwhile goal... the goal is to get out of the working class and feel superior to them.
i grew up a white working class town. Everyone in my town played the lottery and complained about immigrants. They did very little to actually try and improve their town lives... they thought doing so was 'gay'. They wanted to send their kids to college, but then complained how college 'corrupted' us all and turned us into homos, especially when we moved away and got good jobs and had better lives.
They are designed to give people what they want. People want division and hate. It fuels their attention.
In the 1980s the people who had the longest listening times to Howard Stern were the people who claimed to hate him. The outraged fueled their attention such that they could not turn away because they wanted to see if he got more outrageous and offensive.
People are like kids in an candy store when it comes to negative content. They cannot get enough. They get addicted to the intense feelings the outrageous content provides.
Before algos things were random and they had to try really hard to go find that stuff. The algos spoonfed it to them and they lapped it up eagerly. Back when IG was just my friends, I saw one angry rant every few weeks, today it's 20 angry rants and 20 ads, and my friends content about their kid or cat being cute is buried by 50 other posts which I can't get rid of.
Democratic establishment is too far up their own asshole huffing their own farts to every listen to us lowly members of the American electorate. They see as ignorant whiny losers for daring to be upset about a horrible economy where the bottom 90% of the population is losing ground.
And all their financial donors agree with them. Kamala is the DEI candidate of their social justice wet dreams. If only she was trans she'd be a Triple Hat diversity hire! They don't care that American public doesn't care about any of that and just wants a likable candidate that actually addresses their concerns about the economy.
Trump lied but he told people he would fix shit, and they voted him in for it. It's not hard, but Democrats simple refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of the American electorates grievances that fuel who their vote for. But Kamala refused to acknowledge things were shit because it would be 'disloyal' to Joe Biden... and let's not forget his dipshittery in saying he would not run again and then he wasted half the campaign year doing so...
also gives them a totally arbitrary goal so they can keep going or withdraw whenever. we don't know if this will be 6 days, 6 weeks, or 6 months because there are no clear objectives to accomplish
having a disproportionately small/large organ of any size can be a medical issue that can lead to diminished life quality or expectancy without management or care.
That's guilt by association. It's a fallacy. Lots of national leaders and founders were racists and horrible people in various factors. That doesn't mean the states necessarily were or are or forever will be.
I don't claim to be anything. You are making all the claims here about who is what. Where I stand agonizing about genocide and dividing everyone up into pro and anti is simply stupid. My understanding is that the current Israeli government and its hardliner supporters are are engaged in a unnecessary escalated conflict, largely motivated by their own beliefs. However, that has not always been the case and various parties in the government do not agree. The conflict in Gaza is part of a much larger history that goes back centuries and isn't 'Zionism'.
But I'm interested in history and reality, not moralizing catchphrases and moral grandstanding over issues for which my views have zero political relevance or impact. I'm not a citizen of the state of Israel.
These type of wealth disparities existing before capitalism. In ancient grand societies the wealth was controlled by a small elite almost always and class mobility was non-existent.
The issue isn't capitalism, it's just that the history of our specifies across various society tends to ebb and flow in various directions in response to historical events and contexts. Go read Piketty's work on this.
Nuanced thinking doesn't win popularity contests. At best, it only really exists in academia, and even then not that often.
Tired thoughtless ragebait talking points does. Nuanced thinking is the opposite of a 'rallying cry' that so many on the left, and the right, use to motivate their constituencies.
I mean, that's how human beings work. The boss isn't going to hold himself accountable to his own policies... how many bosses have you had that don't make exceptions to the rule for themselves?
The good ones are the ones who make exceptions for other people, and the bad ones are the ones who only do it for themselves.
Well I don't think Nazism is one single thing dude. Not all Nazis are the same and think the same things. Every ideology has internal debates and various camps. It all depends on the specifics, which is why I would rather deal with it user by user and judge users for their actions, not their ideologies/beliefs. I also understand the concept of context. Is a community that is making fun of Nazis by using their slogans, promoting Nazism? A lot of people certainly could not draw the distinction. What about a community that wants to talk about Nazism in a historical context? Is that promoting genocide?
You call it 'deflection' I called it being reasonable and not making massive generalizations. Nazism and Zionism are not One Big Thing That is Evil. Lots of people, yourself include, probably have beliefs that are in agreement with several aspects of them, and disagree with others. My beef isn't with an ideology, it's with calls to violence, no matter what ideology they are coming from. And lots and lots of people from various ideologies call for violence and perpetuate hate and rage. I see a buttload of it coming from lemmy leftists of various self-identified flavors. If I am going to assume Nazis are evil and bad them for their violent ideology, then I've got to basically ban communists/socialists/anarchists too, because by your logic both are equivalently evil.
But the main disagreement we have here is that you think ideologies are the problem. I don't. I think people are the problem. If a particular insane of 'Nazis' has self identified and organized itself around violence and hate, sure I'd ban them. But there are tons of contexts in which discussion of Nazis and their beliefs would be totally permissible and admirable. I myself have done various history projects on the KKK and supremacy and papers on the ideology in my academic career. Am I therefore promoting or believing in Nazi ideology?
In a professional context, like say legit hate groups being investigated by FBI or the press, what is targeted is the actions of the group and the individuals therein. That's what I'm interested in policing, not thought or discussion.
They don't think anything is their fault.
In her mind her husband was probably awful and abusive for not bailing out her 1.5million in debt.
I've dated women like this. Had a few break ups where I was told how awful horrible man I was for not paying off her debts for her. The irony was I had no money... but she thought I did... god I had one lady I was dating a month who started asking me to pay off her car loan and when I said no she threatened to beat me up.
And the scary part is lots of people who are like this are out there, and people like them because they are so superficially charming and sociable. It's only once you have a legitimate relationship with them that the crazy starts to show, and for some people, they can't walk away and can't see the red flags due to the charm.