The first thing Putin did before staying in power forever was to amend the constitution to give himself another term.

I’m giving your upvote to @ickplant

I don’t like all of ~smol pp~'s policies, but at least they tell it like it is, you know? After ~big pp~'s growing scandal and flaccid campaign promises, I just want someone who has the stamina to keep this country erect for at least the next 3 years.

BLM was/is also hostile to other marginalized groups like the LGBTQ; a BLM group literally blocked my city’s Pride parade in the middle of it. Aren’t we protesting the same thing? So hypocritical and tone deaf.

Doesn’t the Hippocratic oath basically just say “Do no harm”? I don’t think you’re morally obligated to work.

That’s essentially a real quote:

“No, he’s not the one,” one ICE agent reportedly said.

“Take him anyway,” the other replied.

Canada’s doing ok. There’s a 75% chance that the next prime minister will be liberal, but our conservatives are also less crazy than Trump. Most Canadians hate Trump right now, so both sides are pretty much required to oppose Trump.

The US might invade us, but that’s true for a bunch of countries right now.

Only benefits for elderly people are done through Twitter, everyone else has to fax.

I don’t understand why any family member of a controversial public figure (good or bad) would want to insert themselves into that space. Like, being the kid of Trump or Musk doesn’t give you special insight about society or foreign affairs, so why would you comment on them like some kind of authority? And even if you thought you had some valuable insight, wouldn’t you want it to stand on its own merits? Tom Fischbach is a great example of that, IMO.

“Some of you guys are alright, don’t go to the US on Sunday.”

I thought Trump would have to declare martial law to blatantly violate constitutional rights…

(Formerly American) Conservatives in CECOT: You can’t detain me, I have a rights!

Trump administration: Do you feel like you have rights?

Literally just having a tattoo–even without having any criminal history–is enough to be sent to the gulag.

The highly-skilled, educated, and non-crazy ones of working age are actually great for other countries’ economies. If you work at a gas station or are crazy, not so much.

The human brain is a biological machine comprised of a very large number of simple components that follow the laws of physics. Some combinations of those components interacting in a certain way results in what we consider to be consciousness, but it’s still just a chemical reaction based on purely physical processes. When a brain’s components stop interacting in that way, its consciousness ceases to exist.

You’re entitled to your own personal beliefs, but you should know that your belief is inconsistent with the current scientific understanding of biology and consciousness.

It’s not ethical to irresponsibly create children, but it’s also not ethical to prevent people from doing so. The most you can do is make that information easily available to people and encourage them to act responsibly.

One of the biggest problems would be enforcement of that license. With driving, cops are everywhere and regularly pull people over to check their license. With hunting, there are game wardens that patrol hunting areas and check the licenses of hunters.

With procreation, people can have unprotected sex anywhere and typically in private. You’d either need to give some group of people permanent access to enter any private space at any time (to randomly check for unlicensed sex), or force everyone without a license to take birth control or be sterilized. Unfortunately, none of those options are ethical.

It’s “losers”, but yes. I’d phrase it as “not every poor and uneducated person deserves sympathy; it’s not necessarily victim-blaming to refuse to accommodate such a person.”

Disabled people should have to ask for a seat on public transit if one isn’t available; other people shouldn’t immediately get up when a clearly disabled person boards, nor should anyone expect them to without being asked. Similarly, you have no right to criticize someone (who doesn’t appear to be disabled) if they’re sitting in a seat designated for disabled people and they don’t get up when a visibly disabled person gets on.

First of all, the disabled person might not even want the seat. If they do, it’s reasonable to expect them (as an adult) to advocate for their own needs (i.e. ask). It’s actually more offensive to assume that every elderly or otherwise visibly-disabled person is incapable of that.

Second of all, not all disabilities are easily visible. I’m a mid-twenties guy and I was born with an auto-immune disorder that sometimes makes it very difficult or painful to stand/walk. It’s happened multiple times that strangers on the bus have chewed me out for not giving up my seat, even though (statistically) there were probably other people sitting in disability-designated seats that needed that seat less than me and the visibly disable person who just boarded. I can’t fucking believe I have arthritis in my twenties, either. I’m just trying to cope with the shitty circumstances I was given and the last thing I need is to constantly have to justify myself to ignorantly self-righteous strangers.