Have you ever walked over a cattle guard? It’s creepy as fuck.

Putin was in his 30s or so when the Soviet Union dissolved. He’s an opportunist who saw the profit potential in a huge fire sale of the country’s economy. His wealth is roughly estimated to be $200 billion, all of it stolen from the people in various rackets since coming to power. The Russian people saw their country “lose” to the USA and, demoralized, they were disempowered to do anything about it.

Today the USA parallels this structure, with conservatives leading the defeatist, fatalist belief that we’ve “lost” to China, a narrative Trump fuels every chance he gets as it provides a shield from what he’s really doing. Every single crazy thing he does is a distraction from the financial racket being run by his family, who faded from the news cycle as soon as his second term began.

Thanks for the reminder, nomorehappinessforlife

Bringing him back from the dead. With Orban gone, he’s craving the familiar nonconsensual touch of a mentor.

What could possibly still be reserved for the?

Arrogance is thinking you’re smarter than propaganda. You are not. Your position is reactive and oppositional and ripe for mind control tactics. You are so easy to manipulate, in fact, that in one paragraph I’m going to make your blood pressure rise and flow to your amygdala.

Minority populations do struggle with high rates of addiction because of trauma. It’s just not the argument bigots think it is.

Human rights is not a moral issue. If hatred were an opinion worth platforming, Nazis would have built movements fighting for acceptance rather than trying to violently force their view upon us. The fight for equal rights by queer people has existed for 1000s of years because it’s an identity. It is endemic to our species and you can’t stamp out identity the way you can with hatred that hides in a deplorable subset of majority populations.

Your question employs a false right-wing premise. When your needs are taken care of, you won’t want to be high all day. The desire to work or contribute to a greater cause is endemic to our species.

Let’s hope OP grows up.

You have to treat the toxicity in society to treat it on social media. If, for example, you banned all the “negative” toxic accounts, Lemmy would become a bastion of toxic positivity. The people would sense its fraudulence and leave, and it would still be toxic. Eradicating bots would probably be an effective step toward a solution.

Did your dom instruct you to come here and humiliate yourself?

If you identify educated people as drastically different from you, perhaps they are just trying to fit in when they’re around you.

Trump could be riding away on a roving podium, mini Sean Spicer and Sarah Huckabee Sanders riding on his shoulders… just saying.

Ok great. So give them upward mobility. That’s going to cost money.

poor community

So the problem is still poverty.

You bring up good points… in service of denying the existence of echo chambers here. I’m calling hot garbage on you. Everyone should be on guard for echo chambers everywhere on the internet. The solution is not nearly as simple as blocking known ml and maga spaces.

There’s also PrEP, PEP, and DoxyPEP for HIV prevention and other STIs. These harm-reduction options help people reduce internalized stigma for sexual habits which, counter to what your conservative aunt will tell you, will help steer you toward safer habits over time. It’s a great time to be alive and sexually active! The days of regretting a poor sexual decision for weeks, months, or years is over.

Sometimes I’m in the mood for peanuts covered in chocolate! chocolate! chocolate!

Straight guys make me feel so straight.