explodicle

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[–] explodicle@local106.com 1 points 11 months ago

How much do I think demand would otherwise be?

[–] explodicle@local106.com 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hey I'm in California too! ✋️🌞🤚 But people around here do not universally love gay people as much as the rest of America thinks - as you know, a disturbingly large percentage of us are bigots. They don't care who profits.

[–] explodicle@local106.com 2 points 11 months ago

We'll just call more of them up at the last minute. Get here in 20 minutes or you'll be on 3rd shift.

[–] explodicle@local106.com 7 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Chick fil a is homophobic; that might be keeping demand lower than it would be otherwise.

[–] explodicle@local106.com 4 points 11 months ago

Nazism (/ˈnɑːtsɪzəm, ˈnæt-/ NA(H)T-siz-əm; also Naziism /-si.ɪzəm/),[1] the common name in English for National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus, German: [natsi̯oˈnaːlzotsi̯aˌlɪsmʊs] ⓘ), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.

But really...

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

[–] explodicle@local106.com 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A platitude. The fascists are already trying to kill us, we need to fight back. Both sides are not the same.

[–] explodicle@local106.com 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Where are you getting price controls? The "answer" is a bunch of stuff that tbh will impact prices. For example, ending corn subsidies would make food more expensive on average, but you personally would save money because the healthy choices you make would have better economies of scale.

It's not like everyone in the world has this problem. It's concentrated on the USA; the food here is less healthy. I don't know you or what strengths or weakness you have, but everyone responds to incentives.

[–] explodicle@local106.com 5 points 11 months ago

Back in my day it was called "Last Man Standing".

[–] explodicle@local106.com 20 points 11 months ago (3 children)
  • If one person is obese, it's a personal failing.

  • If the country has an obesity epidemic, then it's a systemic problem.

When you create this shoveling caricature of your fellow citizen, you support the fast food industry's claim that millions simply have a personal problem. Their shareholders are the ones eating your lunch.

[–] explodicle@local106.com 11 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I don't get it, who's saying people who support election reform shouldn't vote?

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