no. the problem is this massive pile of limp-wristed softies who need mods to protect them from the harsh reality of our modern predicament.

it is very much possible to be the only sane person in the crowd.

they ban me wherever i go, so fuck em both.

this lemmy gold earned my upvote.

this post seems kinda bourgeoisie to me. i literally don’t give a fuck because we have way bigger problems. if you’re here to bitch about the amenities on an airline flight, well, i guess that must be a nice problem to have.

correct. i see UK references all the time and i don’t complain about it

go find your euro trash server then. i’m sick of you brats bitching about it. we’re here to talk about america.

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i’m guessing you’re too young or foreign to remember what the economic landscape looked like in the 70’s/80’s early post civil rights era. there was rampant poverty in black communities, especially in the south where i’m from. affirmative action helped bring those people up from that (but didn’t finish the job - there is still rampant generational poverty). those were good government programs aimed at a more egalitarian society. sorry if that sounds ‘sketch’.

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

so then you don’t support affirmative actions laws?

could it? i mean, women have been fighting for equality since at least the turn of the 20th century and we’re still not there.

i’m going to make it both. we really do need to advance women’s equality before we let men take their identities in order to dilute the few offsets women have had legislated for them.

just like how many affirmative action band-aids are being ripped off before poc have actually gotten equal footing in society, we are pushing women’s advances backwards by pretending that we live in an equal society and allowing men to take advantage of the mechanisms meant to promote equality.

because laws like this were made to offset the patriarchal dominance of a society shaped by men for centuries. it’s unfair to women to let men just take those offsets away from them and it’s the elephant in the room that nobody wants to address as they cheer for trans-women’s rights.

i almost agree 100% with the flying squid on almost everything, except one thing… government isn’t going to fix itself from within the system. at some point, the people have to take matters into their own hands. voting isn’t enough. protest accomplishes nothing. at some point, the powers that be have to be scared of us.