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I hate these takes, I’m sorry, downvote me if you want, but I think the comment was shady.

You know these people and you’re best equipped to know their intent. If you got homophobic vibes based on your experience with them, trust your gut.

Writing as a gay man (and ex-vangelical), if I was talking about my crush and someone said that to me, I’d take that as shade. Not earth shattering hate or anything to get super mad about, but yeah I’d be like 😒

One can avoid these situations by avoiding crazy ass “devout” religious folks :)

“Doing nothing isn’t right either” aka, you are cool with trump kidnapping world leaders he doesn’t like and bombing world capitals without any congressional approval/oversight?

Yeah, fuck this comment so hard. Trump’s more of a tyrant than maduro is: he’s a convicted felon and literal pedophile, so what gives him the right to invade another country?

This shit makes my blood boil. I am giving NO ROOM to any jerk giving trump a pass to shit on international law and the Constitution.

Mainly trade. Port cities are major economic hubs. Risky? Sure, but the access is (usually) worth it. And fwiw, most countries don’t anticipate being bombed at random by senile billionaire pedos.

Also, kinda hard to just up and move a capital. Just ask Patrick Star after he dealt with that Alaskan Bull Worm (which I’d prefer over trump btw).

Literally not the rule in the US. Tips are an expectation.

And if your cooking is “better than most restaurants,” why the fuck are you paying someone else for food that you think is lesser quality than what you can make at home?

Tell me you’re a self-centered zoomer without telling me you’re a self-centered zoomer 🤣

Propaganda and all that, yes.

It’s also largely about the fact that—in theory—these are two jobs that involve ‘putting your life on the line’ to protect and defend innocent civilians, and usually in dire circumstances involving dangerous weapons/violent people. (NOT defending cops/US military, but just pointing out why those jobs can be publicly revered.)

Also, in many/most(?) other countries, shooting two people absolutely would register nationally because civilian gun violence is a big deal and not normal around the world. You happen to live in the one country on the planet where guns vastly outnumber people and mass shootings are a daily regular occurrence.

But yeah. Propaganda. Mostly that.

Sasha Baron Cohen dressed up as a redneck and sang at a far right militia gathering once to troll them. Not sure if that counts lol

Huh? That has nothing to do with the definition of an assassination??? Where are you getting that from? Sometimes the goal really is just to kill the king…

The difference between homicide and assassination is who is being killed. For it to be an “assassination,” it just needs to be a planned attack on an important figure. You could definitely call yesterday’s killing an assassination if that’s what you’re getting at… Doesn’t need to be a ‘good’ person, just an important/prominent person.

Not sure why the above comment is getting so many upvotes considering it’s literally just wrong. Has nothing to do with “ends/means” or whatever the fuck.

Ragebait, go away, come again another day

Can we please ban minors from this site/instance? OP has made multiple posts about teenaged relationships and it makes me super uncomfortable. I don’t want to be using a platform like this with children, and I really really don’t want to hear about teen drama.

Not sure why you’re being downvoted. I think this is a fair question.

My ignorant two cents: the internet. As always. It’s the internet polluting people’s minds. The far right used their billions to essentially purchase most media outlets. A stupid population is one easily controlled. Welcome to populism.

Step one: control content on the internet and media generally Step two: control the minds of folks perpetually online/consuming media Step three: control everything

When it comes to higher ed—you’re absolutely right. It remains true that folks with degrees on average earn more than folks without. Especially if you don’t have to sink yourself into student loan debt, a college degree is a phenomenal investment.

The problem is that literal 19 yr olds, who have never worked a fulltime job in their lives and have no assets and no financial literacy, take out $100,000 in loans to pursue a degree they know nothing about. And the parents are just like, “sure teenage son! Take out thousands—you’ll pay it back in no time!” Then the next thing you know, you’re 32 and you owe MORE on student loans than you did at 19 and feel hopelessly fucked. I get why some people—who go through shit like that—recommend avoiding college. But that’s a different motivation than what I see more on the far right which simply wants people less educated so that the population is generally stupider and easier to manipulate.

I fucking love this energy. Such a hilariously cranky reply to an article I thought was interesting. Bless chonkyninja 🤣

You should repost and actually remove the names, I can see both…

Also, ignore the letter. That person is unhinged—you don’t owe them shit. Wait for the state DOL to get back to you for next steps, and keep calling them if you don’t hear back.

Very much that. Didn’t answer you at all.

To actually answer your question, people who don’t believe in the Male Loneliness Epidemic (MLE) think a lot of the “epidemic” is just shitty men complaining that nobody wants to be around them instead of doing any self-reflecting and changing their own shittiness. It’s tied to the incel movement (which is why you’re getting a lot of very snippy responses imo lol).

Plus, a lot of the champions of the MLE are insufferable dudes who maybe are lonely not because of some societal epidemic but maybe because they’re just fucking assholes?

Personally, I have no idea if there’s truly a MLE. I think a lot of it really could be asshole men online complaining that nobody likes them without recognizing that it’s their own actions causing their own loneliness. I also think it could just be the internet is ruining any sense of community and togetherness, and men are being vocal about it and tying this loss of community to men specifically, but idk, I feel like there isn’t some special issue of loneliness targeting men rn.

Yalls are insane: $1/drink tip. For a sit-down restaurant, 20% minimum because that’s the expectation in 2025. There’s a special place in hell for people who decrease a server’s tip bc service wasn’t up to par. Either tip the full amount or eat at home, this ain’t 1952.

Disagree. In my lived experience, the kindest person in the room is often the smartest.

Man, israeli jews really are out here destroying the goodwill they’ve accumulated for the past 80 years. Crazy watching jews take up literal nazi tactics. Religious people are fucking nuts.

As a gay man, fuck this comment. Nothing about him reads gay. He says he’s straight. He has a wife. He has kids. He’s said so much anti-LGBTQ shit. He’s straight.

So fucking sick of people making homophobes out to be closet gays. Every time you say that a homophobe is secretly just a self-hating gay, you’re literally saying that gay people are the reason behind their own homophobia. If behind every homophobe is a self-hating gay man, then you’re saying that gay men are causing all the hate within their own community.

And guess what! It’s bullshit! 99.999999999% of homophobic men who identify as straight are straight. They’re not secretly self-hating gays—they’re just straight dudes who hate gays. And that’s who JD Vance is. He’s a run-of-the-mill homophobic straight man who fucks couches. Call it for what it is, goddammit.

THIS is why I’m on Lemmy. This comment, right here. This shit never gets said on reddit, and if it did, it gets ignored or downvoted.

As a gay man, I could not have put it better myself. They’re literally saying “Lol isn’t JD’s music super gay? Haha must mean he is too…. HAHAHAHA I’m not homophobic but it’s giving limp wrist…lol”

They’re trying to make being gay or gay ‘things’ into the butt of the joke. This is homophobia, people. It’s not that deep. Do better.