SaltSong

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[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 23 minutes ago

It's quite easy to understand. But you said "Property damage is not violence against civilians."

Clearly property damage can be violence against civilians.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 31 minutes ago

It is if you're using the definition provided by the person I'm replying to.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 33 minutes ago

Only if you're shorting them to further a political goal.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 0 points 34 minutes ago

He didn't say "swasticars." He said "property." Property damage can absolutely be violence against civilians.

My audience would be anyone tempted to think that planting a burning cross in the yard of a black family does not count as violence against civilians, because it's just property damage.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website -1 points 1 hour ago (4 children)

What if I blew up a water tower?

Or burned down every grocery store in the city? (At night, while no-one was there to get hurt)

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website -1 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

In other words, you can’t use violence against an empty car dealership in the middle of the night. So it’s not violent.

Enough damage to that dealership costs someone money. That's harm.

Maybe not a lot of harm. But it's harm.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 3 points 3 hours ago

It's honestly not too bad an idea, provided they are old enough.

I have no expectation of inheriting anything. Between medical bills and consumer debt, and the fact that my family is poor as shit anyway, there will be nothing to inherit. They might as well run that credit card debt up, because it dies with them.

I might feel differently if I had any reason whatever to feel bad about cheating credit card companies out of their money, but banks and financiers as a whole address not on my list of favorite people.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 12 points 1 day ago

If I wanted to be noticed, I'd go outside. The reason I liked reddit, more than any other social media, was because my identity was practically irrelevant. Only my posts mattered.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I would be suspicious of any big company trying to set up a manufacturing facility. Jobs, yes. We need jobs. But the company is not here to provide jobs, they are here for cheap labor. They area here because they hope the desire for good jobs will blind people to the environmental risks of the project.

And I would expect a Chinese company operating in America to be more of a risk then any other combination I'm aware of. The American people don't trust regulations. The American government doesn't enforce regulations. And the Chinese culture, as far as I can tell, believes that regulations exist to be broken. Three groups that have no use for anything that will protect the environment is a recipe for toxic waste releases.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 0 points 1 day ago

I'm relented reminded of the joke about the medical students.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 24 points 1 day ago

I'm pretty sure that the main reason Google funds Mozilla is to be able to avoid claims of monopoly on browsers. I don't think we can have it both ways.

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