Water

joined 11 months ago
[–] Water@real.lemmy.fan 8 points 11 months ago

... To be completely completely fair, the Greeks with power treated a substantial amount of their population as machines, forcing them to perform labor and submit themselves sexually to them, and presided over a system that might have actually viewed the eventual goal of society to be elevating the people of my City to not lives of indolent leisure & carnal pleasure through subjugating countless others...

[–] Water@real.lemmy.fan 22 points 11 months ago

Some do it to potentially document accidents - I know some racial minorities in my country that say they are accused of child abuse and investigated at the drop of the hat if they bring their kid to the doctor and they have any kind of bruise. I heard of a Muslim woman who lost custody of her kid for 48 hours until she was able to produce CCTV footage of her child breaking his arm in a playground accident, and not due to some act of child abuse.

So,, having a cam that catches your kid experiencing an innocuous fall wherever it may be in the house is a good security measure, particularly if the justice system comes at you preloaded with bias.

[–] Water@real.lemmy.fan 2 points 11 months ago

I appreciate people posting content which disproves the idea that the GOP is monolithic.

[–] Water@real.lemmy.fan 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

... Then what's the point of this law if Congress is full of brown shirt "traitors" who will give congressional approval for withdrawal from NATO?

[–] Water@real.lemmy.fan 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is exactly right - of course, there may be some gerrymandering forced in, but often times a consensus is reached by sitting legislators locally to gerrymander local districts because it can ensure the political longevity of both the left/right candidates who do it.

Amazing to me that we would have "progressives" downvoting this comment - as if there's real faith that the Democrat party has their best interests at heart, lol.

[–] Water@real.lemmy.fan 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My first thought was that this was very un-Libertarian of Milei, and then I got my answer:

José Luis Espert, a legislator in Bullrich’s Together for Change alliance, which is in coalition with Milei’s Liberty Advances party, replied with a three-word phrase: “Prison or bullet.”

Milei did not even say these lines.

It seems to be mostly about cracking down on disruptive protests that block traffic, etc.

Some of this just isn't that bad:

It also limits the participation of teenagers in social protests, ruling that parents of youngsters who should have been at school instead of protesting will be sanctioned.

Fair & good.

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