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Certain piercings are stereotypically seen as gay or feminine. Like, I've got >30 piercings, yeah, I'm going to pierce my navel.

Blue cheese dressing is definitely gay. Manly men like sweet salad dressing. I know because Anton LaVey said so, and we all know he was a manly man.

Nah, you're not abnormal. I've had the same thing happen at multiple store. The most invasive has been Microcenter; they tell me that I have to give them my email in order to wait in line for tech support, and then bombard me with spam. Every time I buy something new there, I have to tell the cashier to NOT use the address on file that they won't unlink from my bank card.

They're not trying to get rid of regulation though; they're trying to make sure that the regulation is in their favor. That's what regulatory capture is. They're going to be fine with regulations that help cement their place in society.

Probably not, TBH. It's probably about social order; they likely believe that there should be a specific order and set of rules in society, and that somehow billionaires 'deserve' what they have, and that it's 'right'. "The way it is is the way it should be." They likely also have regressive views about the position women should hold in society, LGBTQ+ rights, etc., for the same reasons. It's a fundamentally conservative thought process.

How do I get to that? I saw something posted yesterday by, I think by SatansMaggortyCumFart? But I can't find it again.

Sure, we should have the data, because more data is usually useful, but I'm not certain that it's actually material.

Let's say that, statistically, the people that owned >20 firearms were 100% more likely to commit a violent crime with a firearm than the general population. First, that's still a very, very low percentage of people that own >20 firearms, second, any way you cut that, gun ownership is still a civil liberty in the US, and third, you're still looking at correlation rather than causation, and I don't know if a correlation--and remember, this is just a mental exercise, rather than any real statistics--gets you any closer to finding the real cause.

This is the same problem that you run into when you start talking about factors that make someone into a person that commits a mass casualty event; you can find a lot of factors, but simply having one or more of those factors doesn't mean that you will commit a mass-casualty event, and not having any of those factors also doesn't mean you won't commit a mass casualty event.

I think that there's a lot of anxiety more than puritanism. There's a lot of reasons, but one of them is certainly the growing political divide; women are trending more and more liberal, and men more and more conservative. Women don't want to get trapped by a man that doesn't think that she should have rights, while men seem to think that they are 'owed' a woman to have their babies (...and how are they going to fucking pay for those kids, when they think their wife is going to stay at home, and they have zero fucking job prospects...?).

TBH, if I was a woman, I sure as fuck would not want to risk dating men right now.

I'm thinking of the voters that are at the margins, not his core demographic. I agree that MAGAs are going to be unswayed no matter what. But there are def. voters that are thinking about personal finances, and think Trump will be better for their wallet (spoiler: he wouldn't be), and you might be able to peel them off if something really gross came out just before they voted. Or peel enough of them off to make a difference.

Ah, I was thinking that it was a ban from lemmy.world completely.

Poop.

That's... Interesting. This site is considered to have a significant right bias, but it's still reporting on these claims, and seems to give them credibility. OTOH, Times Now News has a very mixed record on facts, so this might be total bullshit.

We'll see what happens. If it's real, and it comes out with a week left before the election, that might be just enough to tip the scales. Maybe.

@jordanlund@lemmy.world did this get reversed? Because I'm seeing posts again when I'm not signed in on a mobile client. Or did they move to another instance?