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We are forced into bigger houses by zoning laws. Pressured into larger cars for an illusion of safety. Legislated into the most expensive healthcare. Our education is dumbed down to make us compliant. When do we stand up and scream NO MORE!!!

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I believe rigid social roles based on gender are inefficient and exist to protect those currently in power. I also think the historic makeup of the nuclear family works. It isn't the framework of the nuclear family that is wrong, it's rigidly enforcing it on everyone that is.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

There is an aspect of our car dependent society that few mention, cars all but guarantee intersection between poor people and police. Poor people are constantly reminded of the power of the state, the precarious position poverty forces them into. It keeps us in our place.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

When work experience in high school equals extracurriculars, in an hour by hour basis, this will be a big step towards removing the advantage of generational wealth. The same is true with ending unpaid internships.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

I want diversity because it is strength. I want diversity because it is entertaining, it makes for better art. I want diversity because it is the byproduct of freedom, it takes authoritarianism to enforce monoculture. I want diversity because I understand evolution.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

The right says tariffs will bring back manufacturing, and they are okay if this causes things to get more expensive and people can not afford them. Why? Because manufacturing is a manly job and deserves higher pay, while service jobs are sector is feminine and doesn't. This is the dumbest time-line.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

When a wild animal kills someone, it is easier to understand they did it because they don't know better. When a person who know physics and philosophy kills, it is difficult to understand they know ethics no better than an animal.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump administration isn't building infrastructure to deport millions. They are giving out billion dollar contracts to deport thousands. The high profile, illegal deportations are to give the illusion of mass deportation. He's also slowly eroding people's expectations for following the law.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

The lack of imagination that thinks humanity as one people needs to be one culture is how you get fascism. Hidden behind the evil of fascism is a boring banality. Diversity is strength and it's creative. In the US fascist ended our moto, out of many, one. We should take it back.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Many Buddhist focus on attachment over desire or craving. This seems like a way to avoid the difficult steps of the Path. Instead of giving up or moderation, instead of renunciation, you just say they don't care as much and keep the same things in their life.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

It seems like Republicans try and destroy every success a Democratic President has presided over, while Democrats bend over backwards to help Republicans. There is no reason other than spite to end the Department of Education, yet it is the goal Republicans have.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Trump wants to undo all of his predecessors' accomplishments. One of Bidens big pushes was to cure cancer. Now, Trumo is actively trying to undo cancer treatments. Who voted for this?

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Mandating an ID to vote is just a poll tax with extra steps. Set up a toll-free number that will help people with every step of getting an ID that cost them nothing, then it stops being a poll tax.

submitted 129 days ago • 0 comments

The goal isn't capitalism for the sake of capitalist, it's capitalism for the sake of consumers.

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

DEI, the competition for last place. Dumb, rich white guys competing against impoverished minorities for last place is appearantly the most important issue in America

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

Trump has threatened two of our three closest neighbors. The only one he hasn't threatened, Russia.

submitted 161 days ago • 0 comments

@asocialaggie.bsky.social Just wondering if you get this message

submitted 166 days ago • 0 comments

An entertaining discussion on AGI.

submitted 166 days ago • 0 comments

Our big brains make us capable of being so much more than the primates we evolved from. At the same time, our brains make us capable of being so much less.

submitted 169 days ago • 0 comments

Every now and then, I buy a lottery ticket, not because I think I'll win, I understand odds. Whatever I end up daydreaming about, this is what I work towards trying to do but without millions of dollars. It's surprising how many of the things I day dream about are attainable.

submitted 173 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is complaining that China has too much influence in Central America. His response is to threaten to steal their property, which will give China even more influence in th America's. When given a choice between doing business and someone stealing from you, it's not a tough choice.

submitted 173 days ago • 0 comments

Here is what's wrong with the United States. Poor people buy into capitalism thinking we get ahead through competition. While wealthy people cooperate to keep their workers poor. Worst, the wealthy use the government, benefiting from socialism, while convincing their workers socialism is evil.

submitted 173 days ago • 0 comments