This!

(upvotes are to the left FYI)

Sugar addiction and convenience culture AKA laziness.

No, I was saying a lot of people talk about violence and nearly none of them do it.

You responded by saying yes they do, they protest.

The “shit” you and I both were talking about was exactly that, not protests.

You’re the one that moved the goal posts and declared me incorrect.

Great idea, cry wolf so that people who really can’t breathe are ignored.

Then I don’t understand your confusion.

My comment referring to a very specific “something” was in direct reply to someone very specifically not talking about protests.

Well then you’re supporting what I said, not proving it’s a lie.

If you fire someone you remove their ability to access bread and circus.

Less than perfectly, due to the constraints of the system they are forced to operate within.*

You are, of course, free to start up a news agency that fulfills every ideal you hold close, just know that you’ll have to have a lot of funding if you’re going to be spending as much time in court defending against libel lawsuits as you spend on reporting.

Oh my god, same! I’ve been using it for a week or so thanks to Lemmy and it stopped working yesterday.

You mean remove the bread and circus? Definitely. But that’s not going to happen.

Otherwise I don’t know what you’re getting at.

I have reported you to the FBI’s Pro Life MAGA Task Force, brought to you by Carl’s Jr.

I prefer standing ovulations.

It’s always incredible to see how so many people say they’re willing to do something is contrasted with the close to zero people who do it.

Yet here they are, reporting on it.

Appearances (AKA propaganda) are key to despotism. If many people with rifles know how awful you are, you’re in deep shit. On the other hand, if you either ensure few people have rifles or confuse enough of them into thinking everything is okay, you’ll be fine.

You first. You’re far more hostile, so that’s where you belong.

Especially as foreigners learn how much we seem to want to exploit them. Whether in agriculture, housekeeping, or nuclear physics, the common denominator is taking advantage of foreigners who we constantly profess our hatred for.

Look up the term “outlier.”

An exaggeration, and I think you knew that when you wrote this comment.

The US has made efforts to save its citizens from hostile foreign groups on many occasions, but it generally doesn’t give a shit if you’re not a citizen.