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I do not think it is a real problem.

Oh, America.

I’m not the one who watches influencers and youtube celebrities. You are.

All of your positions on stuff… None of the ideas you stated are original ideas.

You’re hallucinating a viewpoint I didn’t articulate.

All of my ideas are original ideas.

If by “original” you mean crazy, yes. If you mean you didn’t believe some weirdo’s ideas on the internet and build on them, no.

All of my ideas are original ideas.

I usually learned something everytime I listened to his show.

This you?

The Democrats have given up power to the right because they don’t want to be imprisoned. That’s why Kamala dropped out and they did everything possible to try to help trump get Inca second time. You will never understand this unless you are super smart

Super smart like you? If by “smart” you mean “credulous” yes. If you mean intelligent and rational, no.

If it’s any consolation, I think some of your conclusions about the state of America are spot on.

Dude, not a word of what you said came from your own brain.

I use duckduckgo browser because I can burn the cookies away after visiting sites. It didn’t jump around on my browser.

Wow. And you think you filtered out the opinion bits?

Americans.

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Americans continuing to blame the kids who are being shot at, or absolutely anyone who had anything to do with it EXCEPT the gun nuts, tick, I had that on my bingo card for this thread.

That’s not what happened here, though, is it.

You’re right of course.

If they don’t have subscribers, they can do whatever they want?

If they don’t have any people who give a shit as subscribers they can do what they want. They can go batshit insane alt right loony neo nazi with no further penalty, indeed, if they’re pretty much the only subscribers, there’s a financial benefit to go further magat and a loss to do otherwise. And your daughter well plead with you to get disney so she can watch pretty princesses and if you cave, then your son will grow up racist.

When fox pulls this shit they are fine, because sane people aren’t watching anyway. The only reason disney backed down is that it hurt them. If no one goes back, it can’t possibly hurt them a second time.

But absolutely you sold do what toy want with your money and if this was a permanent deal breaker for you, go ahead and permanently reject them. I’m OK with that, really, but I can’t pretend that you’ll have ongoing influence on their future decision making at the same time.

It’s the only ring these companies understand.

If there’s no one left who gives a shit they can do whatever they like and won’t feel any pain next time.

The people have some power with their wallet by only if they use it.

You’re under no moral obligation to resubscribe at all, but if nobody does, they made a financial mistake by putting the show back on the air.

Sunk cost fallacy.

You’re right there. Yes.

You said

To me, these aren’t a bad idea.

and yet you also said

The devices—operated remotely by a team in Texas

in the very same post.

I wouldn’t want some bored trigger happy gun nutjob from Texas playing shoot the bad guys with pepper spray on a games console where my kids and their multi ethnic friends are the NPCs.

I’m pretty sure they meant that the gun regulation, help and free healthcare would be progress, not so much the drugs and the drones.

Dude, it’s very simple. Homelessness is caused by poverty.

I don’t know about your country, but here in the UK, over half of homeless people are adults who were previously in the care system. I told you this and you clearly didn’t listen: if you’re in the care system, when you hit 18 your family placement evaporates and if you don’t already earn enough to pay private sector rent, you’re homeless. I don’t know about you, but I wasn’t financially independent of my parents until I was in the second half of my twenties and it’s much harder now than it was when I was starting out. Good luck getting a job and claiming benefits if you don’t have an address.

Say after me: if you don’t have parents or family to stay with, and you can’t make rent, you’re stuffed. It pisses me off when people treat homelessness as a character defect rather than a complete failure of society to care for those who can’t cope. Fuck right off with your judgementalism.

It’s all very well you sitting on your comfy sofa declaring that they have brought it on themselves and and that if they only cut down on the narcotics they’d have enough for a nice little apartment somewhere, but your cosy little plan isn’t going anywhere on the hard pavement at 2am when some lads piss on the homeless guy’s sleeping bag because, like you, they think is his fault, because you have no fucking clue and your holier than thou moralising about how you’d definitely stay squeaky clean if you ended up on the street being kicked night after night and treated as non existent day after day is BULLSHIT.

I think the person who you’re replying to wasn’t laughing at people with addiction problems at all, rather they were pouring scorn and skepticism on the idea that some wonder drug can fix all the problems of people who end up with drug addictions.

Let’s take homeless people for example (who are frequently people who were in the care system as children, so don’t have parents or relatives to go back and live with when money gets too tight).

All the things that I do to cope with my (much less serious) problems, like chill on the sofa on my phone, take a long bath, go for a nap on my bed, hang out with my friends at the pub, talk it all over with my wife or my dad, none of those are open to them. Sleeping rough is painful. How do you escape that?

So to expand on what @gibmiser@lemmy.world said, if you treat the drug addiction of a homeless person on its own, you will completely and utterly fail to treat the drug addiction problem.

Having said that, I’m finding some of the arguments the other way here fairly convincing.

But conversely, I remember in 2010 I asked a youth group what they thought the main parties were about. They said that Labour were about making education better and the Conservatives were about making the NHS better. None of them remembered that the Conservatives massively underfunded the NHS and always prioritised tax cuts over public services. I was right. They were wrong.

So much this. 16 year olds rarely know (or care) much about politics, AT ALL.

This will make it much more likely that young people will acquire the habit of not voting.

Make them wait till they want it.