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@ChikeCamara @ChrisCamillo Compared to whom?

@ChrisCamillo unless you're talking strictly about offsite stuff, you must not be aware of how they treat their sellers. :)

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@CatchyUser4 @BrentToderian Wearing a life jacket and helmet in the shower/tub is 1000X safer than being naked too. Stats are like 1 death to 100 million miles driven. It’s actually pretty safe too. And with full self drive it’ll get even safer. Compare benefits not just deaths.

@MarkMoneyCoach @BrentToderian Transit is 20-60x safer per mile traveled than driving. 150 people are killed on public transit a year in the US, while 40,000 people are killed driving.

One of the biggest disinformation campaigns ever applied to cities involves the constant claims that “driving pays its way.” It’s actually MASSIVELY subsidized, while things like walking, biking, public transit & supportive housing for the unhoused actually SAVE PUBLIC MONEY. HT to the classic Andy Singer cartoon. #UrbanTruth

@notthatdumbbtch @yvessirae May God bless you and have mercy on you. I know you weren’t always like this.

@MarkMoneyCoach @yvessirae Except a man wants to subvert his own resposbilities and plant them on a woman, so no it's not the same you lame losr pos with no life, I hope your mother sucks cocks in hell with you and your daddy.

A man who cooks, cleans, and washes the dishes is just a functional adult, not a special being.

@nyaraVT Aren’t most ppl enlisting are people of color. How does that change the narrative in your head?

Anyone who willingly enlists in the US military right now is contributing to the imperialism and genocide that is going on.. The US is bombing hospitals and schools.. this is not the time for patriotism

@itsnwts Ironically “Most women aren’t funny” applies to this same story perfectly.

Actually, Out of ten men, one makes a sexual joke at a woman, two laugh, three fake a chuckle to fit in, and four stay silent. None of them speak up. Later, nine of them still believe they're the "good guys." But from the woman's perspective, the laughter, the silence, the looking away, it all creates the same environment. So when women say"most men are the same," this is what they mean: not that every man harasses women, but that most men help protect the system that does.

@nxt888 @redacted_j No such thing as good guys in history.

You just spent four paragraphs explaining why killing civilians is actually smart tactics, then ended with "we'd wipe out 25% of your population if we felt like it" and thinks this is a rebuttal. It's a confession. You didn't collapse the framework. You confirmed it. You just told us that American violence is strategy, and everyone else's is a crime. That's exactly the two-tier moral universe I described. And you proved you can't even see it. Also, Dresden, Hiroshima, Gaza, Vietnam, your entire defense of American conduct is "war is brutal and always has been." Cool. Then stop acting shocked when people call it what it is. You don't get "it's just war" AND "we're the good guys." Pick one. You chose honestly for once. I'll give you that.

Ask an American about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A substantial portion will tell you it was necessary. Tragic, but necessary. It ended the war. It saved lives. Hard choices in impossible circumstances. Now ask them how they would feel if another country had done it to an American city. Watch the framework collapse in real time. Suddenly "necessary" is not a category that applies. Suddenly there are no hard choices and impossible circumstances. Suddenly it is simply: a crime. An act of war. An atrocity. This is not hypocrisy in the ordinary sense. This is a two-tiered moral universe so deeply internalized that most people living inside it cannot see the structure at all. Violence done to Americans is atrocity by definition. Violence done by Americans requires context. Requires understanding. Requires a discussion of the strategic situation. This is the psychological furniture. This is what empire builds inside the people who benefit from it. And it is almost invisible from the inside.

@nxt888 @joesanders33 “Let’s judge only wartime conduct against the entirety of a civilizations history” Fair comparison! And one could argue basically everything Japan did in those few years was worse btw 😂

Okay. Let's take that seriously. Japan's wartime conduct was catastrophic. Nanjing. The comfort women system. Unit 731. Biological weapons testing on prisoners. Documented atrocities across Asia. Now let's look at what the United States had done by 1945. The near-total extermination of the indigenous population of North America. The enslavement of millions of Africans across centuries. The firebombing of Tokyo in March 1945, which killed more civilians in a single night than either atomic bomb. The conquest of the Philippines, which involved concentration camps and the killing of civilians characterized by American commanders as a "racial war." By your logic, judge the country by its prior conduct, the United States had an extensive record of its own before anyone decided it had earned the moral authority to atomize two cities. You want to apply a conduct standard. Fine. Apply it consistently. Or admit you only apply it in one direction.

@nxt888 Ask Japanese if it was necessary. They’ll probably say no they were already losing. Ask a football fan if their team deserved to lose. Ask a mother if her child deserved a bad grade… You’re stating obvious facts of human nature as if they are profound..

@HistoryBoomer We saw what happens when you randomly give ppl money in Covid. None of those things happened. Everyone just bought more shit. Giving everyone 17k one time wouldn’t solve anyone’s lives. Prices of goods would rise and in a year it would be gone and we’d lose great companies.

The US has 989 billionaires with a net worth of at least 5.7 trillion dollars hording our resources. If we distributed that $$$ equitably, regular Americans could leave their jobs and explore lives of creativity and self-growth, with food, clothing, and shelter provided for free.

@Pink_92rose @nitrous9976 @rirokpik Africa had black people selling other black people to white and Arab people to be used as slaves. Also sub optimal. Pretty sure there was evil on every continent so long as humans were on it. The Roman’s just happened to write their evils down.

@nitrous9976 @rirokpik Rome had demons like Caligula and Nero. Stop comparing demonic medieval Europe to the precious original land people of Africa

BLUES CAME FROM BLACK CULTURE JAZZ CAME FROM BLACK CULTURE. I ROLL CAME FROM BLACK CULTURE FUNK CAME FROM BLACK CULTURE SOUL CAME FROM BLACK CULTURE HIP-HOP CAME FROM BLACK CULTURE DISCO CAME FROM BLACK CULTURE HOUSE CAME FROM BLACK CULTURE TECHNO CAME FROM BLACK CULTURE

@RBReich Yeah let’s do that so we can spend another 100b on not building a train. Great idea. I’m sure they’ll use the 5% tax really well. They may even plan another train they don’t build! Just what we need

Billionaires are crying foul about California's proposed wealth tax. Don't fall for their fearmongering. A one-time, 5% tax on their excessive wealth is essential to funding what millions of Californians need — and to preserving our democracy.

@JamesTate121 Elon, a now republican, has done more for green energy than our entire government ever has in its entirety. The government just sucks at this shit. I’d be with you if the government said “we’re buying 10m panels. If you want 30 for your house apply here” but they don’t.

I’ve never forgotten this, or trickle down economics. He and the GOP set us back generations.

@marci_shore You’re cosplaying. War is different than holocaust.

I've taught European history for 30 years. Americans have always asked me how the Holocaust was possible, how Germans could have enabled a madman reveling in mass murder to carry out his plans. Now we can see in real time how this is enabled; now we have front-row seats.

@theSurlyBiker Freedom of movement is kinda a big deal. Not everyone lives in major cities like rats. New Yorkers literally behave like rats in a cage. Not like us country rats who are kind 😂

People who equate car ownership with freedom are hilarious. They forget all the costs associated w/ cars: insurance, maintenance, repairs, registration, personal property taxes… But don’t equate the freedom to chose your method of mobility (bike, car, bus, train) with “freedom”

@dogwaiter Jesus told us if we even THINK about lusting over someone who isn’t our wife it’s just as bad as cheating. He told us if your eyes wanted better to cut out your eyes. Just because you can be forgiven of a sin doesn’t mean you should sin.

Lmfao I did not expect this to get so much attn. alls I’m saying is maybe cheating on your partner is not the worst thing in the world u can do to them. And we should have less shame and more forgiveness in our hearts, as Jesus would want us to

straight ppl really need to get more ok w their partners fooling around w them there cause there’s no reason this family should fall apart over a blowjob lmfao

@dogwaiter Maybe Gays need to be less hedonistic. You guys wiped out a large chunk of your population with HIV because of this shit bro 😂

@katieporterca Go yell at an intern and leave business to the grown ups. You add progressive tax and more companies will leave dumb dumb

California currently has a flat 8.84% corporate tax. Whether a company makes $100 or $1 billion in profit, the rate is the same. It’s time for a tax code that recognizes the difference between a local shop and a global giant.

@dqveed What does helping people have to do with lord farquaat?

If you are born into a family with financial security I actually think dedicating your life to actively trying to help people is probably the best you could do.

@jacksonhinklle 2008-2020 China wasn’t communist. See 1950-1998ish. After that it’s a hybrid.

🇨🇳 China is direct proof that Communism works.