Do you really actually believe that republicans really actually have a sinister plan to breed more slaves ?

It just seems kind of absurd to me. I'm sure there's a few nutters that do want to breed slaves but not as a generally held premise.

I also think there are already sufficient slaves for whatever nefarious plan one might have.

In a bleak dystopian future where you have some kind of over-class that lives in fancy domes and the rest of us toil away in the wasteland, how many slaves or under-class do you need? Fewer than currently exist I imagine.

Lorena Biassotti, who campaigned as a member of the MAGA-aligned Moms for Liberty, sported an anti-trans shirt from an athletic wear brand that's entire marketing strategy is transphobia, with fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines as their spokesperson.

I love that "fifth place swimmer" has become Gaines tag line.

It's so shit.

I've spent most of my life wishing for a Labor government with a strong mandate. That finally arrives with the opportunity for real progressive social policy and suddenly they decide they want to be centrist.

Fuckwits. This is not what I voted for and it's unlikely I will vote Labor again.

Not really, the case was finalised last year. This is the predictable appeal, which can almost be seen as a final step where you don't review the evidence necessarily, but rather review the process followed in the case to ensure everything was fair.

Cognitive attrition.

Turns out you need to practice doing things. Who knew.

This debate is completely lost on me.

Someone was trying to explain that the reason she sends her kids to a private school is because she doesn't want them to learn about sex when they're too young.

I don't get it.

I genuinely don't see the problem with kids knowing everything their curious minds want to know about reproduction.

She said they're too young to process it. I think she means they're too young to process the weird moral overlay she wants them to adopt.

In these threads we're not really speaking to those people who have e seen the light though. We are collectively mourning what has been lost, and "we told you so" is a somewhat satisfying outlet.

Letting the guy sit around doing nothing for the last 15 years was the abuse.

All jokes and snarky witticisms aside, the correlation between sex crimes and conservative politics is remarkable.

I think that part is just the authoritarian power structure. Everyone depends on him for their own slice, so keeping him in control is in their own interests.

Its not "cold turkey", because hes had 15 years to work on it. If he hasn't, then it's kind of left over Turkey from last weeks thanks giving which has already been re-heated several times.

The best time to kick him out was 15 years ago. The second best time is now.

Actually I think it's simply that Kim Jong Un says nice things to Trump and is Trump's kind of guy, while his counterpart in SK Lee Jae Myung is a kind of bad ass progressive.

Perhaps someone will be along in a moment to tell me how wrong I am but from wikipedia Myung seems to have a pretty amazing story:

Lee grew up in poverty and often missed social activities because his family lacked the funds, relying on school faculty's support to join field trips and community events. He cited fishing along the creek with friends as one of his favorite pastimes

Like other children from poor families, Lee worked in a handmade necklace factory instead of attending middle school. When the necklace factory went bankrupt, he found work at Dongma Rubber. Because he was underage, he worked under various aliases. While working there, Lee injured his finger

After the first accident, Lee left Dongma Rubber and worked for Daeyang Industry. There, an industrial press crushed his wrist joint in a second injury. The wound went untreated and resulted in a permanent arm disability.

Lee has stated his own experience with severe poverty inspired his political philosophy of "suppressing the strong, helping the weak" (억강부약; 抑強扶弱; eokgangbuyak), which seeks to curb the privileges and excesses of the powerful and support society's poorest members

... [becomes lawyer] ...

After opening his own lawyer's office, Lee organized for labour and human rights with the lawyers' organization Minbyun, working with the heads of labour counselling centers in Incheon and Gwangju. In 1995, he started a civic movement as a founding member of the 'Seongnam Citizens' Association'. He gained fame as a lawyer and social activist in relation to the "Park View" preferential sale case, where an investigation suggested corruption in the awarding of building permits and preferential sales of property in Bundang to government officials.

On 2 January 2024, Lee was stabbed in the left side of his neck while holding a question and answer session with reporters after touring the construction site of a planned new airport located on Gadeokdo in Busan.

Lee gained international attention in 2024 when, after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law and attempted to stop the National Assembly from convening using the military, he continued to go to the Assembly building anyway. Lee started a livestream on his YouTube channel, recording himself in a car driving to the National Assembly and climbing the National Assembly building fence to bypass the military personnel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Jae_Myung

What a guy. I suspect that he is one of the few national leaders who has refused to felate Trump's ego.

IDK how much parents "modelling" things really helps.

My parents fell for every scheme they encountered their entire lives.

Watching them taught me to be very critical of that kind of thing. I guess they did model what not to do.

LOL. You do you but this sounds like a nightmare to me.

edit: it's not just "becoming tech support person", but becoming the default person to blame for everything.

Sure, bit even in his prime, as a fit and able young man, Trump would not have lifted a finger to assist someone else in need.

I think you can kind of fork this path:

• blame parents
• realise they did what they thought was best
• still be messed up
• wallow in misery continually making the same mistakes every day
• accept your mediocrity

It has costs, not negative value.

No. That's not how the law works.

Are you really suggesting that the addition of a urinal to a non-gender specific toilet would make it smell better ?

If that's FOMO then pretty much every decision could be considered FOMO. I decided to put my shoes on this morning because I was worried everyone else wearing shoes would enjoy the advantages there-of and I would miss out.