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some suggest that herders need to start acquiring private land and operating like other businesses

Yes, why don’t these poor farmers who have nowhere else to go simply BUY large plots of land?

Let them eat cake.

Then you’re camping!

Gotta be unpredictable, the nozzles can smell intent.

I would bet that you’re all guys

Weirdly sexist take…

Every time I get downvoted, I move an inch closer to the exit door of this community.

Lol OK bye.

Nobody gives a shit and complaining about down votes is the quickest way to get them.

Guess what! Outside of a few custom instances that for some reason want to be reddit, the fediverse doesn’t track your total karma.

Unless you’re going back to keep track of your comments for some weird reason, the only time you see a down voted comment is when you get replies.

I could have hundreds of net down votes by now, but I don’t know because luckily my instance doesn’t track votes.

The point is, it’s a little number next to an arrow. Who gives a shit.

Well, I could have gone into detail about their scientific and industrial value, but those aren’t what massively inflates their perceived importance and price.

Cool, I can burn it to ash with the tools in my garage.

Diamonds are shiny/glittery and hard, that’s about it.

I always confront those people with “and what do you think would happen to YOU in such a place? History doesn’t think it will be good” but then they double down or make some mental gymnastic leap to why it’s okay.

Surely the leopards won’t eat THEIR face.

If all the joint chiefs and secretaries of [thing] said “we will be marching in Ottowa in 3 days” it really doesn’t matter if the president said it. Because even if he hasn’t said it in a press conference to the world, he most certainly agrees with the people who DO think it’s a slam dunk.

I’m sure anything you said or linked would have been met with “that’s western propaganda” like they’re not shaking hands with MAGAts screeching fake news at things they don’t like.

Yeah, I’ve never once seen anything but criticism over the US’s involvement in the middle east.

The most I’ve seen is a couple people saying the equivalent of “well SOMEONE had to do something about X” And a bunch of others jumping on them to clarify that X either never existed, or was massively exaggerated and the US isn’t the World Police.

Genuinely would love to see someone link a good faith comment trying to argue the above, so I can tell them all about how they’re a fucknut

Can you truly say you’ve had the HB experience if you haven’t recieved emoji/sticker/gif spam from people who weren’t alive for 9/11, have never been outside their country, and refuse to listen to opposing views, but know with full certainty that all western countries are 100% full of genociders and colonial rapists who all deserve the glorious death the super benign, extremely peaceful and misunderstood countries of North Korea, China, and Russia who have never once been correctly accused of human rights violations…

And of course, if they point out that your country has dipped into those things in the past, well your entire worldview is shattered and their whataboutism has solved everything and proves you deserve the death they crave for you.

All I’ve seen in response is “hurr wouldn’t happen without US military industrial complex”

I’ve been missing that one.

Which just tells me you’re right, no response to this so they default back to old rhetoric.

He said “communications platforms” not “misinformation, social engineering, and mass data collection platform masquerading as a social media platform”

So my nephew was talking mad shit the other day about gymnastics and how it’s “not a sport” and it’s “for weak girls”.

I asked him “If it’s so easy, why don’t you go do a couple flips and prove how easy it is?”

His sister answered saying “Last time he tried that he broke his foot!” and started laughing.

My nephew immediately glared at us and started crying.

Russia acts like my 10 year old nephew.

You would need a shovel just to find the bar.

My dad thinks climate change is a scam and “someone [i]s making a lot of money from it”

My dad also laments that the local lake doesn’t freeze over like it did when he was a teenager, DRIVING on top of it with his brothers.

Totally unrelated to climate change though. Cause that’s totes fake.

Also storms are more violent and frequent, winters are basically spring 2.0 now and the local river has flooded way past historic levels and could threaten the downtown area of their city within the decade.

But all that is SOOOOOOO unrelated.

Anyway, how’s your sex life?

I’d love for the US to go completely hands-off the middle east if only just to stop comments like this up that seem to think one country can somehow be responsible for tons of other countries meddling in the same area.

I mean, I want that so people will stop being ripped apart by us-made explosives, tax money stops being wasted, and focus more on improving things for the people within it’s own borders and making it more inclusive to outsiders, but stopping comments like that is a nice little bonus.

What percentage of their DNA is from Homo Neanderthalensis?

At this point, I’m almost positive that a republican US president could sign a treaty with north Korea, China, Russia, and Fucking Thanos, and everyone launches nukes, and world leaders and media outlets alike (that survive the ensuing shit show) would STILL beat around the bush and ask “What’s all this, then?” like things aren’t glaringly obvious.

“Well we can’t report reality, or we might get accused of bias…” is getting old.