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assassin_aragorn,

Oh lovely. Now when they ram a bunch of fishermen from the Philippines in international waters, they’ll also kidnap them.

assassin_aragorn,

This is common strategy to the right – they try to convince everyone that there’s violent criminals everywhere that no one’s taking care of.

assassin_aragorn,

Simple example – lets say you’d lose 2% of your inventory per year to theft if you did nothing. Your gross income would go down by 2%, so you compensate by raising your prices by 2%.

Now let’s say instead you want to lose ~0% to theft. You’ll have to hire guards, or more likely, contract out to a security company. That’s now going to add to your annual expenditures, let’s say 5%. If you want to compensate for that, you’d need to raise your prices by 5%.

So, here’s the question – what’s actually the better option for the company? It’s hard to say without real life numbers and estimates. But basically, it wouldn’t be worth beefing up security if you’d pay more for that versus what you’d lose to theft.

And that’s only the monetary side of things. Having very public incidents if the thief doesnt cooperate would be bad for business. Worst case scenario, the thief fights back and has a weapon. You’re going to lose waaaaay more in sales than you would’ve if you just let them keep the contraband.

This is why a lot of companies are more lax on shoplifting these days. It just really isn’t worth it. Plus, a serial shoplifter is going to show their face again anyway, and you can quietly accost them preemptively.

assassin_aragorn,

It isn’t worth the effort to punish in most cases

assassin_aragorn,

Please proceed, Mrs. Alito.

Seriously though she’s just exposing more and more how the Court is an absolute sham that isn’t even close to impartial. It actually convinces me that long terms are a bad idea for everyone – including the judges’ family.

The Supreme Court must be impartial, and that binds not only the judge but their immediate family as well. It’s unrealistic to expect people to show political impartiality for that long, and the way that it should work is that judges effectively give up their right to free political speech while serving. They cannot be allowed to express political opinion whatsoever.

With that in mind, shorter terms with a much larger body of justices feel appropriate. There also needs to be a new check on the Supreme Court so that their word isn’t final – the very idea goes against our idea of Checks and Balances. 2/3 of Congress, or a simple majority of Congress plus the President should be able to override the Court.

Anyway, what I remind myself when I get pissed about this – reform will happen. These cretins have made it inevitable. The only question is when, and each time they spew their vile hate, the justices and their spouses bring us closer to reform.

assassin_aragorn,

Nah conservatives will be eager to put Asians in the “not white” category at the drop of a hat.

assassin_aragorn,

Excellent job by Lauren Windsor. A full mask off, candid discussion that shows blatant partisanship is a step up from the other wrongdoings we’ve heard of Alito and Thomas so far.

Republicans are a craven mafia family so they’ll do nothing, but this is still a very important news story. Change to the Court will only come once the public passes a critical threshold of distrust for it, and this story brings us closer and closer to that tipping point.

The Court will be reformed in our lifetimes. It’s gone too far and will be course corrected. It’s just a matter of when. And I can only hope it will be while Alito and Thomas and McConnell are all still alive so they can see the consequences of their partisan actions.

assassin_aragorn,

Oh I saw CNN air this. They had absolutely no pity for the tears and the anchors basically said “sucks to suck, doesn’t exactly inspire sympathy”

assassin_aragorn,

Man, I don’t know how I could stomach that guilt. Knowing that your rescue came at the cost of many more innocent civilians killed and wounded, including children. I don’t think I’d be able to look at any of the victims who survived in the face, let alone grieving family.

What’s really twisted is it isn’t the hostages’ faults either that all those people died. I don’t know if I’d even blame the kidnappers for those deaths. Surely the IDF could’ve done more to prevent civilian deaths.

It would take a monstrous person to not feel considerable guilt after this. I guess we’ll find out the type of person these hostages are.

assassin_aragorn,

For the 200 deaths today

assassin_aragorn,

That would require Hamas to care about Palestinians. Their leadership is a bunch of wealthy shitheads living it up in the UAE. They hold a dictatorship over Palestine and refuse to have elections.

To actually get Hamas there, you probably need to target the rich people giving orders.

assassin_aragorn,

Maybe the Palestinians themselves devalue their own lives compared to Israeli lives.

What the fuck

assassin_aragorn,

50 civilians killed indiscriminately per 1 hostage freed. And that’s not counting everyone that’s already been killed in this war.

I think anyone with a shred of morality is heavily conflicted by this. Saving hostages? Great. Killing 50x as many people as those saved? Not great. Not great at all.

It naturally leads itself to the question we’re all thinking – was it worth it?

And I think many of us have the same answer, although we may not like it – no. It pains me to say it, but it would’ve been better to let them stay hostage for longer while developing a plan which wouldn’t kill civilians.

assassin_aragorn,

The big question on all of our minds – was this worth it?

No. It probably wasn’t.

assassin_aragorn,

No, but I’m fully aware I’m a hypocrite there. I think most people are when it comes to their loved ones. If I was family of the hostages, I wouldn’t care how many innocent people died to get them back. I’d support the IDF.

If I was the family of the nearby Palestinians, I wouldn’t care about the hostages, and I’d let them die if it meant my family would be safe. I’d support Hamas.

This is why geopolitics can’t be personal. The best decision is not one that you insert yourself into, because you have a much higher threshold for acceptable collateral if it’s your own family on the line.

At the same time though, this is also a lesson in why a ceasefire is crucial. You put yourself into everyone’s shoes, and you understand why this needs to end. Everyone’s families and loved ones are dying or in captivity, and it’s perpetuating a cycle of violence. It needs to end. Israel has the power to withdraw from Gaza and pursue purely diplomatic means, and it should.

assassin_aragorn,

Engineer here, I just use whatever’s convenient. It’s handy to know both.

That said, I did confuse a poor coworker of mine this week when I was using bar for tank pressure and psi for the safety reliefs. That’s totally on me though.

assassin_aragorn,

To be clear this was a conversation over the phone, not a tech review or something. And I was explicitly naming the units, it was just jumping all around that had him confused.

Official documentation and programs should always be explicitly clear on what units are being used, especially pressure.

assassin_aragorn,

I’m pretty sure I read earlier today that the national Republican party was urging Republicans to vote to protect contraception so they could argue they weren’t that extreme and Democrats were being over the top.

And right after reading it, I thought about how Republicans were absolutely not going to pay any attention to that guidance. The inmates are running the asylum, and it’s time to let them burn the party down.

assassin_aragorn,

This article should make it even more patently clear to everyone that the situation in Palestine would get much worse if Trump wins.

assassin_aragorn,

Something tells me that if Warren was the option you’d still have a litany of complaints about why you weren’t going to vote for her

assassin_aragorn,

I mean, you’ve only mentioned Palestine. You’re being indifferent to Russia’s attempted genocide of Ukraine, the genocide in Darfur, and the Uighur Genocide.

Are you truly indifferent to them? Or are they just among the global issues you’re worried about?

If you can only focus on one thing at once, how are you deciding on which genocide to focus on?

assassin_aragorn,

Weren’t you just criticizing someone for invalidating your experiences? That’s exactly what you’re doing right now to the person above.

If they say shit is much better for them and their loved ones right now, don’t say they’re just pretending that’s the case. If you want to be respected for saying things are personally no better for you, don’t tell someone else they’re just pretending if they say things are better for them now.

Otherwise you just come off as an incredibly disingenuous asshole.

assassin_aragorn,

“If he just says mean words about them they’ll come around! So will Republicans! He just needs to loudly criticize him!”

“But he’s done that”

“HE’S NOT SAYING THE RIGHT MAGIC WORDS”

It’s quite interesting how it always comes down to this argument, that Biden just needs to be mean to Manchin and Sinema and then they’ll do everything that Biden says. Some extend the same logic to Republicans, which is just hilariously laughable.

assassin_aragorn,

Could you explain what specific actions Biden could take to achieve these without needing Congress?

assassin_aragorn,

Biden could have put massive pressure on his party to pass the Equality Act to safeguard the rights of people of any sexuality or gender. He could have done so fiercely and publicly, and campaigned in the home states of those like Manchin and Sinema to threaten their seats if they did not comply.

Somehow I don’t think “be mean to them!” would’ve made them suddenly fall in line. I find so often that arguments get distilled down to this, that Biden just needs to say the right words and then everyone will agree with him.

That’s not how it works. If it was, Sanders would be president with a House and Senate that were 100% progressive. The uncomfortable fact is that there is no malicious self sabotage here – it just wasn’t possible.

Regarding Roe, there have never been 60 Democrat senators in favor of codifying Roe, or 50 Democrat senators willing to overturn the filibuster to codify it. Progressive senators needed to be elected, and weren’t. If everyone who wanted abortion to be an unalienable right went out and voted for a progressive senator in 2016, 2020, or 2022, it could’ve easily been passed. But people didn’t bother.

Perhaps those Senate candidates should’ve fiercely campaigned and denigrated pro abortion voters who refused to come out and vote? After all, you claim it’s a magic cure all strategy to get people to do what you want.

assassin_aragorn,

You should take your own advice instead of screeching at everyone. I must admit though, you’re quite right, my head does hurt from reading your awful mental gymnastics.

Don’t you think your constant rage at everyone is a sign here that you’re doing something hypocritical and wrong?

I’m guessing probably not, but people have come to epiphanies of self growth from even less likely situations.

assassin_aragorn,

If you cannot exercise enough self-control to keep your mouth shut, I am not responsible for that.

You’re the one who’s posted two replies within a few minutes lmao

Regardless though, I thank you for your response. It isn’t often that someone proves of their own accord that they’re completely unhinged.

Feel free to keep responding though. You’re just proving the point further and further, and I doubt that’s going to end. Go ahead, keep projecting. I’m enjoying the free entertainment.

assassin_aragorn,

I don’t know how many of their comments are still visible, but hoo boy. Tantrum is a mild way to put it. They’re utterly unhinged.

assassin_aragorn,

Homophobia on the first day of Pride. Really?

assassin_aragorn,

What do you mean by forcing himself on his knees to suck the other guy off? It comes across as a subservience thing that sucking dick makes someone lesser.

assassin_aragorn,

Then stop bothering the rest of us who are trying to make things better. Your whining from the peanut gallery is annoying. You aren’t going to get any sympathy for your bitching here.

assassin_aragorn,

I wonder if this is something unique to millennials. I firmly believe schools shouldn’t have to disclose anything regarding a student’s sexuality or gender identity to the parents, because I remember how intolerant and downright brutal parents were to their LGBT kids when I was in high school. I prefer to let the school and teachers keep things from parents, because I don’t trust conservative parents to not abuse their children.

assassin_aragorn,

The parents in this case are Gen X aren’t they? That makes sense I guess since it’s a 50/50 split generation on liberal and conservative. I’d be extremely surprised to see the children of millennials having this problem though. Millennials have been an unusual generation because they haven’t been becoming more conservative

assassin_aragorn,

Yeah but Israel is a country. It is not representative of all Jews, as much as Netanyahu would like it to be.

assassin_aragorn,

Could you elaborate? This was the only conflict I think where NATO took action outside of Article 5. The Democrat president in question here supported attacking the people committing genocide, so I’m not sure what your point is.

assassin_aragorn,

I mean, who is “they” in this case? NATO took an offensive action, potentially their only one in history, to disarm the Serbs and stop the genocidal side. It certainly wasn’t ignored. Kosovo exists because of NATO involvement, and they’ve named streets and erected statues to that end even.

assassin_aragorn,

Some people put their politics ahead of genocide. They’ll deny it’s a genocide if it doesn’t fit their agenda. They’ll take an absolute stance if it does fit their agenda.

It’s a tale as old as time. Chomsky is a very good example of this.

assassin_aragorn,

Ironically, pro imperialist even. He holds the position that Ukraine should’ve stayed a buffer for Russia, instead of acknowledging that Ukraine is its own sovereign country that gets to choose its own destiny.

assassin_aragorn,

Why wait? She’ll live a long life. There’s plenty of time to hold her accountable for aiding and abetting Trump.

assassin_aragorn,

I’ve seen actual people with family from Gaza online say that they want Biden re-elected because he may suck balls, but Trump will outright throw protestors into concentration camps.

Would you like to tell these people to their faces that they’re neoliberals defending a genocidal president? I will caution you however, you may want to wear some padding and a helmet.

assassin_aragorn,

I don’t know why you’re bringing up some conversation you claim to have had with entirely different people.

Because you had this conversation with people just a few comments up the chain:

lemmy.world/comment/10311688

You’re saying that people voting for Biden are defending genocidal presidents. I find it appalling that you would say this about people who actually have family suffering in Gaza.

This is a complete joke. You’ve actually already forgotten what people were saying to you. Why the hell should we take anything you say seriously if you’re not engaging in this conversation in good faith? Clearly, you’re not paying attention, and you’d rather scream into the void about how morally superior you are.

assassin_aragorn,

Your reading comprehension is severely lacking.

assassin_aragorn,

This isn’t about morality, I’m telling you that you can’t fucking read or you don’t care about reading.

Netanyahu says deadly Israeli strike in Rafah was the result of a 'tragic mistake' (apnews.com)

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that a “tragic mistake” was made in an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza city of Rafah that set fire to a camp housing displaced Palestinians and, according to local officials, killed at least 45 people....

assassin_aragorn,

You’re fucking right it’s a tragic mistake, now what’ll you do to make up for it?

assassin_aragorn,

I agree. I think the spoiled centrists are a smaller group than the progressives overall. And it’s utterly foolish to blame progressives and Sanders for Clinton’s loss in 2016. There were a myriad of issues which all came together, like Russian meddling and the Comey letter and her taking the blue wall for granted. These factors combined had more effect than progressive detractors.

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