shawn1122
@shawn1122@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Stereotyping is wrong. 2 days ago:
If we’re going off election results it would be two thirds of white men and more than half of white women.
- Comment on Stereotyping is wrong. 2 days ago:
For which party and why?
- Comment on The "western hemisphere" rubs me the wrong way 3 days ago:
There’s truth to what you’re saying but it also doesn’t matter. If it was somehow designated as “North Atlantic” or with any arbitrary label, you would still have a subgroip of those people thinking their superior and giving us phrenology, eugenics, Nazism etc.
- Comment on The "western hemisphere" rubs me the wrong way 3 days ago:
In UN proceedings the Middle East is referred to as West Asia.
- Comment on Why does most American's give shit to the French when if not for them we would have lost the revolution? 2 weeks ago:
France has no US military bases on its soil and has refused to be entirely vassalized by the US unlike most of the rest of Europe. It’s one of few Western countries that has managed to maintain strategic autonomy in the face of US hegemony. Refusal to participate in the war in Iraq is an example of this, while countries like the UK followed blindly like a good little lap dog.
- Comment on YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives 2 weeks ago:
Durable societies are unfortunately bound to have such inconveniences for some in exchange for the betterment of many.
Tech companies have released the equivalent of digital opium so they and the government are accountable.
When we look back at the opioid epidemic of the 90s we don’t blame the addicts or their families (well I suppose we did at one point, without the benefit of hindsight or a bigger picture view), we blame the Sacklers, pharmaceutical companies, doctors that took kickbacks etc.
I’d hate for us to make the same mistake just because the drug is delivered in a way we don’t completely understand yet.
It’s also not as simple as asking parents to simply be better at parenting, whatever that may mean. The drug is already out on the street, widely available, and ridiculously addictive. Keeping your child from it is not only depriving them of a dopamine hit that their brains are not developed enough to simply ignore (even most adults are addicted) and it is in many cases relegating them to social ostracization.
This is far beyond what one parent or group of parents can fix. It requires a societal level change which generally needs to come from the government, whether we like it or not.
Are we a society that collectively cares about the next generation? If we are then a solution is necessary. I’d be happy to hear out possible solutions and, as a parent, share what is viable and what isn’t. It would be nice to hear from other parents also.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
If you talk to locals, yes, this is the stereotype.
- Comment on They wonder why nobody wants kids anymore. 2 weeks ago:
For people outside of the US, FMLA is up to three months of unpaid leave where you get the privilege of getting to keep your job and your benefits (though you continue to pay for them while not being paid).
For many American women, this is all they have access to for maternity leave. So they power through those three months then have to scrap together the cash to put their 4 month old in day care ($15 to $20k annually) while not getting paid for the quarter of the year.
Around 40 to 45% of women in the US don’t even qualify for FMLA because your employer needs to be large (50+ employees) enough and you need to have worked for them long enough to qualify (usually a year).
Blue states fill the gap with their own state run programs (still usually only three months, though you get some pay) but if you’re in a red state the choice for many women is 1) have children and enter financial ruin or 2) don’t have children.
America lags behind most advanced economies in this regard and there isn’t any sign these circumstances will get better.
- Comment on They wonder why nobody wants kids anymore. 2 weeks ago:
The American economy was birthed from chattel slavery so the idea of workers having rights has always been a struggle here.
- Comment on If cannibalism were the norm and human meat was freely available in grocery stores, there would surely be people who prefered to eat only the meat of people of their own ethnicity or only women's meat 3 weeks ago:
Not exactly cannibalism but mummia (powdered mummies) was popular in Europe from the 12th to 19th century.
- Comment on YSK that no form of United States ID, no matter how valid, guarantees protection when ICE decides you look like an immigrant. 5 weeks ago:
All those years the Americans spent bragging about defeating the Nazis only to then become the Nazis. What a timeline.
- Comment on YSK that no form of United States ID, no matter how valid, guarantees protection when ICE decides you look like an immigrant. 5 weeks ago:
Every empire has a grand narrative. The rest of the world has been quietly rolling their eyes at these American euphemisms for some time now.
- Comment on YSK that no form of United States ID, no matter how valid, guarantees protection when ICE decides you look like an immigrant. 5 weeks ago:
Was a thousand years of the dark ages not quite enough?
- Comment on What should the next President of the United States do? 1 month ago:
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Immediately reverse domestically regressive policies.
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Foreign affairs? I’m afraid cats out of the bad. No ones trusting the US the same way again. Start the process of patching up relations but it’s going to take much longer than one term.
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Find a way to actually improve the material conditions of the average American. Trying to use laws to prevent another Trump is not going to work. Demagogues thrive in an environment, typically defined by unease or insecurity. If people feel that their lives are improving they don’t fall for it as easily.
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Be competent.
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- Comment on Being afraid of vaccines is literally childish behavior. 1 month ago:
America doesn’t just do this domestically. They have interfered in other nations public health perceptions as well. The CIA undermined polio vaccination in Pakistan and Afghanistan when global eradication actually seemed possible.
- Comment on Judging by how many users on the internet telling Americans to "just move to another country lolz", people must think immigration laws are very lax or something... (it's not) 2 months ago:
I’m sure being targetted by ICE could qualify.
- Comment on The USA and Europe are now enemies 2 months ago:
The US was isolationist during much of world war 2 and had a “cash and carry” approach towards selling arms to US allies during initial part of the war which after much deliberation became a lend-lease arrangement that had been against the desires of the American people who did not want to get dragged into conflict that had its center stage in Europe. These financial arrangements made the US incredibly wealthy, essentially extracting centuries of colonial and slavery based loot from the Brits, which allowed it to become the global hegimon it is today (for now).
- Comment on The USA and Europe are now enemies 2 months ago:
What has caused this?
Wealth concentration among the elite in Western countries?
Demographic collapse putting strain on social systems warranting increased immigration?
Struggling to adapt to a changing world order brought about by a reemergent Global South?
The hard part is figuring out the why. Trump and the far right are symptoms of a mich bigger problem and it’s not going away in one election cycle.
- Comment on Venezuela Condemns US 'Piracy' as Trump White House Signals It Will Seize More Oil Vessels 2 months ago:
When the US ovethrows a government for it’s nations natural resources, it then sends in it’s corporations to profit / benefit Americans involved in that industry. The locals get nothing. This is the neocolonial playbook.
Pivoting to renewables would protect the local population but it would change the American imperial strategy on a meaningful way.
- Comment on If WW3 breaks out, what countries are going to be on which side? 2 months ago:
India US relations have gone cold since Trump. Particularly with the +25% tariff for buying Russian oil which they perceive as unfair since
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India followed the US in sanctioning Iran in 2019 which is why they increased purchases of Russian oil.
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The West had set a price cap on Russian oil after the Ukraine war as everyone understood that completely banning its purchase would drive oil prices up undesirably.
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The Biden administration was explicit in acknowledging and accepting that India buy Russian oil. It was seen as necessary to stabilize the market.
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China buys more oil than India from Russia and faces no specific additional tariff.
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The EU continues to buy gas and the US buys uranium from Russia (which also allows them to continue to finance the war).
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The IMF (which is seen as an American/Western institution) continues to bail out Pakistan and the peception in India is that some of those funds will reach non-state actors who will perpetuate violence in India.
There are actually more reasons but India recently hosted Putin for a state visit and rolled out the red carpet for him. India and Russia have historically had good relations (the Soviet Union used its UN security council position to support India against postcolonial Western interference on several occasions) but this was friendlier than many were expecting and it is in large part due to the current US administration being inconsistent on trade policy and incompetent at diplomacy.
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- Comment on If WW3 breaks out, what countries are going to be on which side? 2 months ago:
Middle East/Africa would likely become its own sphere just based on geography. I assume Europe would be in Russia’s sphere.
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 2 months ago:
Needs?
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 3 months ago:
I think they just romanticize Western antiquity which very much saw sex as a manifestation of power and control rather than an expression of an intimate connection.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 3 months ago:
Damn didn’t know Lemmy drafted Aristotle. Another win for the Fediverse.
- Comment on DEI4All 3 months ago:
DEI isn’t a hiring quota. That’s a widely held misconception. It’s purpose identify hidden biases and expanding oppurtunity. Employers may run outreach or mentorship programs, and set realistic goals to give under‑represented folks get better access to hiring consideration, while still selecting based on merit.
- Comment on The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing" 3 months ago:
The goal here is to go back to a world where such racial hieraechies are accepted but without human accountability. This way you are subjugated arbitrarily but hey the computer said so, so what can we do about it?
- Comment on I'm coming for you 3 months ago:
Wheres the paneer though?
- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 3 months ago:
The Old Testament is a monotheistically rebranded Epic of Gilgamesh. A lot of the themes were borrowed adapted and rebranded from there and other literature are the time. Even the monotheistic Jewish God was initially given the title of the supreme God in the Canaanite pantheon (El).
The Old Testament is a time capsule from 5000 years ago. There are some general concepts that can apply to a modern moral life but if you tried to follow everything it says in life today, it would be problematic.
The clear message in the Old Testament is one of God as the absolute and final authority. Its very clear that the message is one to keep people in check. Theres often bending of the rules and some degree of favoritism towards God’s chosen ones. Does not give off an egalitarian vibe but religion is generally not meant for that. Its generally meant to reinforce hierarchical structures (and to get people to accept them even if they are low in the hierarchy out of fear of God).
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 3 months ago:
When theres 195 countries and they only male up 4% of the global population? Yes.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 3 months ago:
The US is small on a global scale but certainly big enough to destroy the world.