[-] PostmodernPythia@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago

The Senate not being population-based is part of the problem too. As are gerrymandering and not having universal adult suffrage or federal holidays for voting days. But a Constitutional Convention would be state-based, too, so we’d end up with something even worse than we have now.

[-] PostmodernPythia@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, but none of that applies to a South African born in South Africa to South African parents.

[-] PostmodernPythia@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As someone who has extensive personal experience with severe mental illness, I appreciate very much your desire to defend us (your instinct would usually be right), but psychopathy is a weird one. If the previous commenter had said “mental illness” instead of psychopathy specifically, I’d be pissed. But there is evidence that psychopaths advance in business management. I realize it’s not exactly JAMA, but here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephaniesarkis/2019/10/27/senior-executives-are-more-likely-to-be-psychopaths/?sh=24aa505d47c4

[-] PostmodernPythia@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

Both 9/11s were pretty freaking real, but you’re right on the US orchestrating the 1973 one.

[-] PostmodernPythia@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

On a practical level, with the current system, there is no way to fix this. My choices are utopian dreams or despair, and I’ve made my choice.

[-] PostmodernPythia@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

You could outlaw for-profit participation in the sector. Facebook would suck way less if it didn’t have to increase profits for shareholders constantly.

[-] PostmodernPythia@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Frankly, I don’t trust anyone who’s not angry at corporations, but otherwise I tale your point.

[-] PostmodernPythia@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Might have something to do with the slavery, imperialism, and genocide. Or the fact that French Canadians are primarily of French descent. It’s simply not comparable. Also, while people say French Canadian to describe an ethnicity and culture (again, one primarily made up of French immigrants), I’ve never heard someone call Quebec French Canada in seriousness.

[-] PostmodernPythia@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Except how often do you hear about radical feminists who aren’t TERFs anywhere in mainstream discourse? For much of the population, TERFs are the only “radical feminists” they hear about. (I reject the idea that a belief that biology is destiny as compatible with feminism in any case.). It’s not so much people in this community I worry about getting the wrong idea, it’s everywhere else.

[-] PostmodernPythia@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Ok, then in certain circumstances your disgust response that directly contradicts the evidence may result in a lower chance of your survival. Your body, your call. I wholeheartedly support your right to refuse care. I, however, am rather fond of living and will use whatever medical intervention works best.

[-] PostmodernPythia@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

As a trans-inclusive radical feminist sick of radical feminism being tainted by their bullshit, I strongly disagree. Let them pick a new name showing how far they’ve strayed from the feminist ideal that biology shouldn’t determine destiny.

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