hypna

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[–] hypna@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

It would be nice to have some opposition, though. Even if most "conservative" media right now is little more than xenophobia, or cult worship, there do exist sound arguments against the typical internet-left positions. I don't have a solid enough read on what comes through New in the fediverse to say whether any of that is being submitted and just downvoted off everyone's feeds, or if all that's being submitted is the average conservative media junk.

Still, political spaces without opposition/diversity invariably degenerate into purity contests, and circle jerking.

[–] hypna@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I think in the context of legislation, interpreting "let pass" to mean "allow to be signed into law" is understandable. But I see you just meant it chronologically.

[–] hypna@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"let pass".. . is there some major confusion about how presidential vetoes work here, or what do you even mean?

[–] hypna@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lmao what is this edge-lord shit?

[–] hypna@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Linux is a great server OS. It's an okay desktop OS.

[–] hypna@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

"Big" is not a negative adjective. "Truck" is not (mostly) an identity or demographic group. You'd have to make up some term like maybe "murder trucks" to get close to an analogy. Would you not suppose that someone who advocated against "murder trucks" thought trucks were bad?

"Crowded" - maybe mildly negative. "Places" - not an identity or demographic.

"Toxic" - Ok. "People" - This hardly seems like an identity or demographic. Maybe if martians start talking about "toxic humans" we'd have an analogy.

And that whole last paragraph is just a straw man.

Let's consider some real analogies.

"Poisonous Hinduism" "Virulent Femininity" "Malignant Jewishness" "Destructive Liberalism" "Pestilent Blackness" "Dangerous Queerness"

I literally just looked up synonyms for toxic and picked random identity groups. Could you imagine trying to make any of these phrases academic terms?

[–] hypna@lemmy.world -4 points 8 months ago

Doomerism is a vibe. You're gonna have a hard time talking people down around these parts.

[–] hypna@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

It's a constitutional amendment that was ruled on. The Constitution applies the same in all states. If it were just Colorado law I think it would be much harder to appeal the ruling to the US Supreme Court.

[–] hypna@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I was curious how often this actually happened and found this other article with some figures.

https://www.iosconews.com/news/state/article_3280a3fa-bc08-54ae-80e1-a92d10aab51b.html

"More than 5,400 minors were married in Michigan between 2000 and 2021, according to the nonprofit Unchained at Last. More than nine in 10 of the minors were girls, with 12 under the age of 16."

So I guess it was mostly 16 and 17 year olds who now have to wait to 18.

[–] hypna@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Oh good, a petition.

[–] hypna@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No one is obligated to patronize any business or artist (generally speaking). Obligation isn't the issue. But it sounds like, yes, you choose not support/patronize artists who have certain opinions you disapprove of.

I've seen this sentiment floating around the Internet sometimes, and it always strikes me as very limiting.

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