ASeriesOfPoorChoices @ ASeriesOfPoorChoices @lemmy.world

When faced with a series of unfortunate events, I make a series of poor cho

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It's a client-side function, not a Lemmy function.

Sync has it as a paid feature.

Fortunately, you're not the first person to have asked this.

https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/43535/do-other-countries-guarantee-freedoms-that-the-united-states-does-not-have

Here's a good, dark list: https://www.salon.com/2012/08/31/ten_ways_americans_have_lost_their_freedom/

This is a softer article, but helps put some things into perspective: https://www.houstonpress.com/arts/10-facts-about-america-that-show-we-re-not-really-free-7555741

"cool freedoms"

Hah!

So cool, hip cat. You show those squares, daddy-o.

There is. You just drive over the bridge to Malaysia. Lots of neighbouring everything.

"Maybe -I'M- god?"

Nope!

Damn. Very impressive. Thanks for that!

It absolutely, literally can be.

Not battery, but assault, yes.

TYL.

Until the USA gets preferential voting, I would suggest considering the repercussions.

🙄

It's not a deal at all. It's simply a way to identify idiots.

Lol. "Taking from your home". Last time I checked, my home didn't have a monthly access fee for me to use the things I bought.

Now he is freed from that requirement as well. A triple win.

Again, he got a full refund AND £5. He lost nothing of value.

He would have to pay a monthly fee regardless of these events in order to watch the movie he bought. Now he doesn't have to, since he can't.

Punishing them by giving them £5? The bastards.

Or rather, the Dems are, as a product of the nature of being such a broad party, centrist.

They're only left compared to the far right. They try to keep balance far too often, often at the degeneration of the left (or greater good).

I'm not saying it's bad (it isn't ideal), but it is what it is.

it doesn't mean both sides are bad in every single conflict

But you're implying it. You're implying far greater equivalence exists than there is.

If English isn't your native language, then let me help you.

both sides are bad

Is wrong. That is a final judgement, and it is wrong

both sides have faults

Is correct, and what you mean. It still isn't good, but is closer to what you mean.

Also, on the topic of left, right, centrist and moderates (etc), you should be aware of the concept of the Overton Window. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window) I am not going to support the entirety of the concept, but the basic relevance is that "if the general trend of the times is for people to be more right wing, then what you thought was central becomes what was right wing in the past". This is a fault / problem with describing an idiology not on its own, but only in relation to others.

Language is used for communicating ideas and thoughts, and if you don't use it "correctly", in the manner that other people use it, then you will be misunderstood.

Good advice. Doing more research right now! ;-)