Aidinthel

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[–] Aidinthel@reddthat.com 29 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, but he also killed the guy who killed Hitler, so it balances out.

[–] Aidinthel@reddthat.com 42 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Source? Some googling turned up nothing like this.

[–] Aidinthel@reddthat.com 11 points 2 weeks ago

Also the Onion. They're supposed to be satirical, of course, but reality is so insane right now that they're basically just reporting on the actual news in a comedic way.

[–] Aidinthel@reddthat.com 17 points 2 weeks ago

Women can get pregnant so there is the possibility of an affair pregnancy, STDs work differently for men and women social and emotional standards are different.

Except for the social part to an extent, none of that is inherently true. Trans people obviously complicate a lot of those assumptions, but also cis people can have their personal issues that diverge from the commonassumptions. I would guess the idea is to encourage treating people as unique individuals rather than as stereotypes.

[–] Aidinthel@reddthat.com 36 points 3 weeks ago

The fundamental basis of conservatism is that freedom means having power over other people. Therefore they believe that any attempt to extend freedom to others means taking it away from them.

[–] Aidinthel@reddthat.com 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Eradication =/= extermination. The latter means zero left alive on the whole planet. The fact that the US stopped at clearing screworms from only North America while leaving them alive in the south (and Cuba) always left the possibility of this happening.

[–] Aidinthel@reddthat.com 19 points 1 month ago (4 children)

This is really bad. The US should have put in the funds to exterminate this thing while we still had a functioning government. I dislike the article's focus on prices as the main consequence here. Screwworms are fucking horrifying, and they can affect humans, too.

[–] Aidinthel@reddthat.com 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sorry, Harvard is a stronghold of the left now? What do words even mean?

[–] Aidinthel@reddthat.com 42 points 1 month ago

Imagine if the US invaded Mexico and three years later Mexican drones were threatening Washington, DC. I'd call it a joke but it isn't really funny with a real war.

[–] Aidinthel@reddthat.com 16 points 1 month ago

"You can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride." This has been a police intimidation and harassment tool for a long time, now being openly deployed by the US president against his political opponents.

[–] Aidinthel@reddthat.com 41 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is something that will probably be lost in the churn of the news cycle because most people don't understand it, but it's actually really bad for the US government. The reason this country has been able to get by with such a large debt until now was that the interest was kept low by the fact that lending money to the US was seen as very safe. A change in that status quo could bring the whole house of cards crashing down with calamitous results.

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