While the full list of demands is still being added to, discussed, edited and submitted to a legal expert, some of our basic demands are as follows:

Protection and permanent guarantee of civil rights for all

Total government reform

Publicly funded health care

Adequate and accessible disability support and services

A permanent solution to Homelessness, hunger and the housing crisis

Respect and support for tribal Sovereignty and involvement with indigenous leadership for environmental action

Enhanced enforcement of constitutional rights

More power to american voters

I hope they get their full demands sorted out. A protest without immediate actionable legal demands is pretty doomed from the start. Especially one that encourages it’s protestors to give something up. Unless we can have a moment where we can see a politician sign something into law the end of the protest will be vague and mired in “negotiations” until people have had enough and decide they need to start making money again without anything of consequence being accomplished.

Inconclusive inconclusive

Fire and brimstone follow my feet

Because I am a dark Lord who slayeth demons and angels.

No I think it’s the insufferable purity comparisons and the collection of self-righteous dogma like Pokemon cards in lieu of any coherent plan or consistent ideology.

Are we calling children “content” now?

Yeah, I don’t want to give him too much credit but it’s been clear that he is at least capable enough to actually lie to his audience while doing something else.

People believing he imposed these tariffs thinking that there would be no retaliation are also being lied to in the exact same way.

Trump has said that he’s very pleased with how the negotiations went. That means he thinks he got something out of his super epic tariff strat.

Believing that Trump wanted to impose tariffs with no expectation of retaliation and then being blindsided by the counter tariffs so he backed down is just naive. The plan was always to “negotiate”.

Literally me atm. Had some coffee left in the pot. 3:30 is way too late for lunch though.

Nostalgic for 2014 only because if I was out there with what I know now I would own life.

Not gonna listen to my 2034 self though, I don’t even know that guy.

All of gender? It would be funny if we inadvertently got a discussion about the difference between sex and gender out of this with people acknowledging that discussing gender at all is patiently different from discussing sex.

I mean, you still “cussed”. Switching two letters around doesn’t change the meaning and the original word doesn’t hold any special powers.

I agree it’s not much to make a reply about.

I think the attitude stems from the view that using placeholder words for swear words is often associated with religious/puritanical attitudes since there’s not really a reason to do it so the user reacts as they would to puritanical people invading their community i.e. hostile.

I think that’s not as true today but that’s where the backlash comes from.

Ah yes, the tragedy of any federation, most people don’t want to pay attention to every little thing in their lives so when one central node becomes “good enough” it’s easiest to relinquish control for as long as it works.

I can think of one very large federation experiment in the world that went the same way.

Hell, lemmy.world is already the defacto way to engage here.

Yeah, but what’s the point? Technically you can avoid all murder if you stay at home in your bathtub all day and never leave the house.

I mean the honest reaction is if someone wants to stay home to not get murdered. Fine, I couldn’t care less and it’s stupid for me to have an opinion on that, you live your life.

But it’s a sort of catch 22 that you’ll only go outside if you can be sure the figures won’t change significantly and the only way to see if the figures change is to try going outside.

No? He’s acquiring capital (land, shrimp farm equipment, shromps) and using his labor to create something (more shromps) and selling his product for a profit.

He owns the property, takes the investment risk, and keeps the profits. In theory he’s competing in a market with other shrimp sellers but like I said from the sound of it the market is pretty thin so he gets to sell for a huge profit.

I don’t think you know how laws work, and I think you missed my point. And you even re-stated it. The laws exist, they just dont get enforced for myriad reasons. High-priced lawyers, complicated enforcement, burden of proof etc.

And at the end of the day, all laws are made up. Often, as you mentioned, the laws are in place with an intent that doesn’t get met. There isn’t anything from stopping a president from just upending the law and it’s up to the people in charge of upholding the laws the correct whatever shit gets thrown at the wall which we agree is often very laborious and often has bad actors working against it.

There’s very little difference (in the way that the actions function in the real world) between a written law and declaring another set of rules through sheer willpower and bullying except that hopefully over a relatively long time the rules get corrected back to the written law.

Anon discovers basic capitalism and lucked into an underserved market.

It depends on how much you like sex and how much you can separate sex and relationships. It’s not for everyone.

Plastic lasts thousands of years, most of it lasts tens of thousands of years but blue plastic singlehandedly brings down the average.