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Cake day: August 25th, 2024

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  • finnadrag@lazysoci.altopolitical memes on db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comThis is 2026
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    6 days ago

    ‘Lawmakers oppose legislation and try to attend meeting’ doesn’t normally imply ‘actively disrupting the legislature in protest’. It’s lying by omission. Yeah technically they were ‘opposing the legislation’ but that’s not why they were arrested.

    Turns out they do actually arrest you when you try to get arrested to bring attention to something.

    I’m kind of baffled that you’re doubling down on refusing to acknowledge the amount of spin.


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    Incredibly charitable of you to pretend that the tweet or whatever accurately reflects that text. ‘two black lawmakers arrested for opposing legislation’ is a little bit different than ‘a black lawmaker and his brother arrested for interrupting the session and refusing to leave when ordered’. I think it’s based of them to do that but come on.

    *fuck facts I guess. They probably actually took them outside and lynched them. Maybe they even killed all the black residents of the district. It’s not sensationalist enough that a lawmaker and his brother got arrested for protesting something worth getting arrested in protest of. So just lie a bit, make it 2 legislators. Deliberately paint an incomplete picture so instead of making a choice now they were just passive victims who were ‘just attending a meeting’. Gotta get those reposts and upvotes in the leftist echo chambers.



  • The downvotes on this are both funny and telling. I like it so its good. Asking if its bad is bad.

    I’m actually starting to see the point in a weird way. If they think about as critically as a dog or a cat maybe it doesn’t make sense to hold their decisions to a higher moral standard. We don’t call it immoral when non-human animals rape other non-human animals because they aren’t capable of the level of thought required to conceptualize moral decisions. But, uh, neither are significant amounts of humans apparently.



  • I really don’t understand how people can reconcile this kind of data with a positive opinion of humanity

    40% of people saying ‘spanking children is not a moral issue’ is probably the worst datapoint here. At least 4 in 10 people are fully just animals blundering around operating on instinct and following what feels good. And that’s not even counting the other people whose idea of morality is just ‘what is my visceral reaction’ who had a visceral reaction.