Linguistic_Biscuit

Reverend Barber is an amazing advocate for civil rights. This is a disgrace.

No - no one wants to to YOUR job for your terrible shitty pay.

Unemployment is at an extremely low rate. If you don’t have workers, your labor budget is too low.

Looks like a Renaissance statue.

She’s smiling, so you know it’s all okay

Note to self- return to this thread and make a joke about the “honor system,” but work in the words “your honor.”

What would you judge people on other than their history?

I’m disinclined to forgive Biden when he hasn’t “forgiven” those incarcerated by his laws.

Biden has had the opportunity to make changes, which is great. Convicted felon a rarely get that chance

I’ll ask you - how would you feel about someone writing off this legislation as being “30 years ago” of you were someone who lost decades of their life to this draconian legislation? If you are a felon who can’t vote? If you are a minority person in your 30s who didn’t have a father for huge chunks of their formative years thanks to the mandatory sentencing laws?

Bold of you to assume my phone hasn’t been on vibrate for the last 15 years.

It’s “conservative” to judge a politician based on their record and actions?

I mean, I guess you can take that point of view. But there are people still in jail based on that bill from thirty years ago. They’d probably like us to stop judging people based on past events.

Wait - the entire legal system is “fixated on past events.” What are you even on about?

I’ll take “Unsurprising But Disappointing Headlines” for $2k…

Feel free to believe the government, I guess and follow blindly into war.

I think it’s smart to ask questions. Especially when the WMDs in Iraq were 100% incorrect.

Again, I don’t believe most 9/11 conspiracies. But I do think it makes sense to ask questions when things don’t align.

Buddy. Calm down. I’m not making any argument here. I’m just saying given what the huge response was to 9/11 and how it seemed to largely miss the mark of who was involved - asking questions is a reasonable thing.

Correct. And neither Afghanistan nor Iraq had anything to do with 9/11. It has been proven over and over that it was the Saudis, but we don’t want to attack them.

9/11 was used as an excuse to attack Afghanistan for their Taliban and strict religious beliefs. Then 9/11 was used as an excuse to invade Iraq for the WMDs. Both were not involved at all with 9/11.

People and corporations made billions of dollars off these wars, and it’s reasonable to ask why they were started in the first place.

Not every conspiracy.

But ones that lead to starting baseless wars for oil and money are certainly worth asking questions about.

Because the government is notorious for their transparency?

Okay. Not “force” but just encourage.

My impression is that there’s tons of lurkers here who aren’t contributing.

You can make a post without it being a shit post.

Go to your local community board and mention a great pizza joint. Or a hike. Or share a pic of an animal you’ve seen.

It’s just a question of content quantity.

We should have a Lemmy Drive Day. Where every user is encouraged to make five posts and twenty-five comments.

It would be a kickstart.

There’s a big difference between “9/11 was a conspiracy” and “9/11 was fake.”

I think lots of folks agree that we didn’t get the entire story behind what happened that day.

I think no one who was alive that day believes it was “fake.”

Oh gosh this is absolutely terrible.

Where?