There are people all over the globe who want to ban books, I’m sure there is plenty of trying. The fact that they haven’t been successful across the country, but won in this one podunk district in a very conservative state, kind of reflects well on the US as a whole, no?

I’m sure there is some effort in every corner of the globe to have some books banned. You’re minimizing it either through ignorance or malice.

Sorry, meant to say “the EU” which is a political entity.

You propose legitimate criticisms of the us as a whole. I was responding to the claim that this one school district being dumb is what makes the whole us dumb. It’s terrible logic, and I think you understand that, which is why you didn’t attempt to defend their argument, but pulled in tons of other points to justify their conclusion.

Texas is, believe it or not, the USA. Since 1845 even.

No, Texas is part of the USA. It is not the USA. You even responded to the part about how I discussed parts of Europe…and you still fucked this up. Amazing.

But no, the right wing is no big deal.

Who said it wasn’t a big deal? I’m all for calling this out, but using this one school district doing something dumb to claim the entirety of the USA is garbage is…well, completely fucking moronic.

This isn’t the USA. It’s one school district in one state. I know you aren’t bright enough to separate the two, but it would be like saying because the far right has made inroads in French election, then all of Europe is in the toilet.

The sign is funny on its own, this caption is just terrible.

This is what people don’t seem to get. Human nature is when things are bad we band together, when things are good, we compete against each other. Capitalism leverages the latter while communism just tries to ignore that it exists.

Capitalism certainly has its flaws, but it’s a far better starting point.

I didn’t say the playing field was level; I understand that I’ve been granted many benefits due to my race and sex.

I said they are both bigots. Are you really arguing that a black guy saying all white people are pieces of shit is not a bigot?

I’m not saying to be tolerant of intolerance. This thread is filled with people shitting on people from rural areas, and being extremely prejudiced.

The problem right now is one of supply and demand, not because corporations are buying up too many properties. It’s the other way around where corporations are buying up properties, because due to not increasing supply, and demand continue rising, it’s a good investment.

We need more high density housing all over the place. I live in a nice little town right outside a large US city. We have a train right into the city, and a nice little downtown area that could certainly use more business. They have been trying to put up apartment buildings, but the NIMBY-ism is through the roof. It’s like every little attempt to add more housing, people start whining to high heavens how it is killing our “small town” feel. I mean, I get it, I moved here for a reason, but something has got to give.

I can only imagine what’s happening in more rural areas where everyone wants their big lots and single homes.

So I don’t really oppose increasing taxes per home, but I don’t think it’s really going to solve the issue of increasing home prices as that’s not the root of the issue.

That’s functionally how the homestead exemption works already

Unless I’m mistaken, that’s just a small tax break you get on the taxes on your primary residence. After that, it makes no difference the number of properties you own, their taxes stay the same.

Does he have book smarts? No, but this guy has a genius level ability to promote himself. He’s increased his inherited fortune by billions by selling himself (even if he could have don’t better just by putting his money in index funds). His worth is all in his brand.

Even for those of us who see through his lies, you still can’t stop fucking talking about him. People are always fucking talking about him, all the time.

He has gotten half of one of the largest countries in the world to blindly support him.

It makes me cringe to say it, and he is a terrible, terrible person, but to argue this guy isn’t a genius is to ignore reality.

You’re a better man than I because those things drive me fucking nuts.

How do you deal with the constant spam of “suggested for you” in your feed? Like you, I have a few reasons I stay on Facebook, but man it’s gotten to be such garbage that when I open it up it’s ad, suggested for you, ad, suggested for you, ad, ad. It’s frustrating because all I want to do is see what some friends are up to or check/post to the buy nothing group around me, and I have to deal with like 5 “best comic funny of the day! 😂😂😂” Posts within the first 10.

You’re confusing my lack of a double standard with fence sitting.

One person being bigoted and close minded doesn’t preclude other people from also being bigoted and close minded.

I could be a racist piece of shit and drop the n word. If a black person then turns around and calls all white people racist pieces of shit, we’re both bigots.

I’m not tolerating bigotry, I’m calling it all out. It’s you, right here, that’s defending bigotry. Not me.

This thread is filled with close minded, bigoted people shitting on people for being close minded and bigoted. It would be funny if it wasn’t so terribly tragic.

But you seem new here. This is pretty typical for Lemmy. So I guess I should say welcome. Lol

Where did you get this transcript from?

This is one long strawmen: you’re generalizing my argument for this single situation to every situation.

You’re basically accusing me of doing what you’re doing: thinking in black and white. In my case if I think that ruining his life here with severe punishment is wrong, it must always be wrong.

Ask yourself this. Is there anyone who did something very stupid in HS that turned out to be a good adult without facing severe consequences for their actions? I can think of a few.

You have no idea what the mom or sister did or did not do growing up or what Kyle was like. Again, it’s not about being rational, it’s about being outraged.