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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

One way of thinking of it could be that since all of our intention and decision making originates in such a process, the line between them isn't that clear.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

It's more that society should have asked nicely instead of trying to manipulate me into it with years of brainwashing and coercive economics, so I made it a priority to participate as little as possible and that's on them. Want a functional system, treat people with respect.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (8 children)

The comic is about how when people speak online online about women’s issues, dudes keep trying to make it about dudes.

This is a legitimate complaint in the situations where the topic is uniquely a women's issue, and people are trying to redirect the conversation to something that really isn't the same thing and is a separate issue so talking about that means you aren't talking about the first thing anymore. But the meta issue of someone trying to talk about one group's problems and getting hit by whataboutism, seems arguably more universal and might not be specifically a women's issue, so saying something along the lines of "yeah this happens to us too it sucks", could be supportive and not about shutting up discussion of the original topic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

And it's arguably in the process of dying itself right now, in quality if not in user count yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

True, although most wealth is held in the form of things other than money, which represent a legal right to power over various things, like who can live in what house, and what thousands of people at a company will spend their time working on.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (12 children)

The comic is about the meta issue so it's not quite the same imo

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

One time I was biking and someone coming the other way smiled at me. There was nothing to the interaction beyond that few seconds but somehow it was just such a powerful smile it made my whole week and I still remember it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I would say, whichever one is polling highest, who has signaled support in any way for the issue. Other things about them don't matter because they aren't going to win anyway. In this case a lot of third party votes for a single candidate are probably better than the same number of votes spread across different candidates because it looks more like an organized voting block to politicians looking at the numbers in retrospect, who are the reason to vote at all if you are voting third party, you are trying to communicate via those numbers about how your vote can be obtained or lost.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I thought it was the electrons that orbited

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If you are saying they will privatize elections somehow as a loophole around following the constitution, I am skeptical

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (7 children)

19th Amendment:

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Only about a century old. Let's go for another 100.

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