LovingHippieCat

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[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 13 points 8 hours ago

Oh 100%, they don't want minorities to benefit from it so they'd rather fuck themselves over than allow everyone to have a better standard of living.

[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 33 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Also the New York Times: "We have to represent both sides so we are fair, it doesn't matter if one side are fascists, they're still deserving of being represented."

[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 21 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

This is something I see a lot with the houses that have Trump signs in my area. They always have a multitude of run down cars, a house that is falling apart, a bunch of stuff in their yard that are not lawn ornaments, and occasionally are fenced in. It's pretty consistent and they always have Trump signs and flags even though voting for Harris would likely help them afford to fix up their cars or house.

But it's not a situation ripe for abuse. You can't just call yourself a girl and get on girl sports, there's requirements. And should we be limiting the very very few trans girls in sports because someone COULD abuse it? By that same logic we shouldn't have social security because someone COULD abuse it.

Also sports will always attract people who have advantages based on who they are. Michael Phelps is a great example but so is anyone who plays basketball who's over 6ft. Cis women can be super tall, should they be kept from playing because they're so much taller than the other players?

And also, trans girls are girls, you saying that she shouldn't get opportunities set aside for girls is misgendering her even if you use the right pronouns. Why shouldn't she get the same opportunities when she puts in the work just like the other girls?

[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 44 points 4 days ago (7 children)

I hope this leads to being able to have a Proton sheets or whatever name the Google sheets equivalent will be.

[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The bill definitely has far more bad than good. I just didn't appreciate Truthout cutting out the context to the quote from Harris. Taking quotes out of context or, like Truthout is doing here, introducing your own context to it by cutting out large parts of the sentence and joining two sentences together to make something appear different than it actually is, is not good journalism.

[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 32 points 4 days ago (3 children)

There's definitely more than should be done but let's examine how the article is framing what Harris said at the debate. "Harris noted that she supported a bipartisan border bill, which would have “put 1,500 more border agents on the border” to help “stem the flow of fentanyl coming into the United States.” She added, “I know there are so many families watching tonight who have been personally affected by the surge of fentanyl in our country.”" is what the article says. This makes it seem like she was saying that the new border agents would have stopped the fentanyl and that without them it would flow across.

But here's what she actually said about the border bill "And that bill would have put 1,500 more border agents on the border to help those folks who are working there right now over time trying to do their job. It would have allowed us to stem the flow of fentanyl coming into the United States. I know there are so many families watching tonight who have been personally affected by the surge of fentanyl in our country. That bill would have put more resources to allow us to prosecute transnational criminal organizations for trafficking." This is her saying not that the border agents would have stemmed the fentanyl coming across the border, like the article frames, but that the border bill itself would have done that which makes sense since it includes money for investment of tech that makes it easier to detect fentanyl at legal border crossings.

Should she be better on this and be talking more about how fentanyl comes in almost exclusively through legal border crossings and through US citizens? Yes. But she was NOT saying that the border agents themselves would have done it. The framing of the article on her words is just wrong.

[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

And best of all, almost all of them (the posts) are on communities that they made themselves.

[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago (2 children)

He should fucking resign 100% although I have no idea who would replace him in the last 4 months of the administration especially since the secretary of state is a senate approved position.

[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I've started blogging about videogames. So I'm just enjoying writing about stuff and looking forward to my posts on Wednesdays. No one reads it but it's nice to write my thoughts down about games that I play.

[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or it gives the current congress the possibility of trying to fuck with the next congress if democrats flip the house and keep the senate.

[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It looks like that's toped with some kind of minced garlic, is that all you did to make them garlic knots or did you do more? I've started experimenting with breadsticks with my leftover pizza dough but have wanted to try garlic knots.

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