Starbuncle

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Homeless people cost more money than these programs do, even if you don't take into account the amount of taxes being paid back.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

You need to mark your comment as a spoiler!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

My understanding of the situation in Ukraine is that women are free to do as they please and men are now property of the Ukrainian government.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I think we have misaligned values (you seem to put less value in individual rights), but I can respect your consistency.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Do you feel the same way about women not volunteering themselves since they don't have a draft?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

They functionally are. They are compelled to comply under the threat of violence.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (10 children)

The condition in which one person is owned as property by another and is under the owner's control, especially in involuntary servitude.

It doesn't say anything about about a military draft exception. All drafts are slavery. It doesn't matter how noble the people enforcing it think their cause is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Whoever put that specific image in the article embed did it specifically because they knew it would generate this type of argument among people and therefore increase traffic to the article. Y'all got baited.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

And I'm sure those Chinese workers definitely have the same compensation and rights as American or European workers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I like built-in AI autocomplete more than an actual AI chat. It's amazing at filling in code that is really obvious so I don't have to type it myself. Anything even remotely complex will be subtly wrong though, so it's only good for reducing tedium.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Lemmy users any time someone references anything American

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