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Yup, it's sickening.
I'm Norwegian, and we had a (domestic) terrorist attack back in 2011. This nationalist bombed the parliament in Oslo (the capitol) to lead all the first responders over there, giving him time to go where he really wanted to go; a left leaning political youth camp. He shot nearly 100 people dead, mostly children. I was in town that day and felt the bomb go off. It was terrifying to say the least.
The thing is, it didn't take any of us long before calling it a terrorist attack. As soon as we got a fairly clear picture of what happened, we immidiatly labeled it a terrorist attack. Nothing else. No one tried to excuse him or why he did what he did. We grew even stronger together as a nation to fight this evil. We stood together. He did not divide us, as he would've wanted. I'm very proud of my country for this. And we all know Norway is a very white country. Despite our big cities having many immigrants, our country in general is for the most part ethnically born Norwegians. Many people here oppose immigration in various degrees, especially people from small, rural towns. Still, NOBODY tried to deflect blame here, or try to minimize what happened. We all agreed that this was a terrorist attack. Many people jumped to conclusions that someone from a muslim country was the culprit in this terrorist attack, but no one argued as soon as we found out that he was an ethnical Norwegian. We all came together in solidarity towards those he meant to hurt; immigrants and those of us who supports immigration. We stood together in solace, in peace. We held hands and cried together, wanting to rise above this sickening evil.
It's beyond me how other western nations are incapable of calling out the facts as they are. Calling one domestic terrorist a terrorist doesn't label the entire race of that domestic terrorist, but you* act like that's what happens. It's disgusting.
Not saying you as in *you, I'm just referring to "you" as in those refusing to accept reality.
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I mean.. I totally get where she's coming from and all that, and I absolutely agree that we need to seriously reimagine what policing in America looks like, but I don't believe completely getting rid of all policing is the solution.
It's absolutely impossible to get rid of all crime, so we do need law enforcement to do just that - enforce the law. I'm totally for the concept of dradtically shrinking the police funding and number of police, and instead offer strong social programs that prevents crime from happening.. but even in the most utopic and safe world, crime will never be eradicated. We should absolutely focus more on prevention, that's key to true reform and justice.. but that's complicated, and requires reform on not just policing, but every other aspect of governing. That includes ensuring affordable and quality housing for every single person, ensuring affordable/free, quality and accessable health care to again literally every single person, ensuring every single person quality employment with quality pay, the list goes on.. you get the idea. The thing is though, even with all these things in place, you'll never be able to 100% prevent all crime. Proper policing is not just about preventing crime, but bringing justice when it occurs, which it always inevitably will. That's just the sad reality.
We need reasonable solutions that actually makes sense. American policing today is totally indefensable, and it needs to drastically and systematically change. We need to look more at alternatives to deal with homeless people, domestic disputes, drug issues, mental health crisis', and all non-violent offenses, but as well look critically at all existing laws, and reevaluate what we deem illegal and not. Prison reform is also massively important, as well as complete drug reform. Policing is a massive issue, but by far not the only issue. Police unions needs drastic change as well.
I just think that colmpletely aboloshing the police isn't reasonable.. a dradtic reduction on the other hand is reasonable AND necessary. Redistributing funding is as well - that's one of the more attainable solutions to the issue at large. Social programs supporting lifting people up and out of desperation, homelessness, health issues including drug addiction and all of these things are real solutions that can be done. Completely aboloshing the police simply isn't realistic. I certainly wish that COULD be a reality, but that's wishful thinking. We need to look at other solutions. I recommend looking at how other countries, those with the least amount of crime are doing policing.. they're obiviously doing something right, and have figured out great stuff that America hasn't yet. That includes getting money and "lobbying", aka legal bribery out of politics, so real solutions CAN take place, instead of quality, meaningful policies being dead at arrival due to police unions, prison "lobbyists" etc. bribing politicians to not change anything.
Money in politics is what we keep coming back to - it truly is the root of all evil, and the thing that mostly obstructs progress from taking place.
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The lack of empathy is strong in the US, apparantly. Feels like a biproduct of the American political system. That`s what can easily happen when policies are made in such a way where you have no choice but to care only about your own best interests. When most people struggle to even take care of themselves (considering extremely expensive health "care", horrible student debt etc.) it can easily become hard to care about others. If everyone got the oppurtunity to get a good education, housing and healtch care, simply generally overall fair wealth, people would be more able to actually think critically and logically about their beliefs and choices.. but it has become obivious that especially the republicans don`t want that, because they know very well that the more educated and well off people are, they wouldn`t get as many votes. If republicans stopped voter suppression, agreed to the easy principle that ALL other democratic nations understand and comply by - that the well being and active participation of ALL citizens matters equally and made sure everyone had a fair shot in life and in the democracy in general, they wouldn`t be in power. The Republican Party doesn`t even stand for anything anymore, other than trying to suppress people that thinks differently, trying to reverse EVERYTHING Obama did SIMPLY because he did it (and he`s black), wanting to take away as much social benefits as possible so they themselves get more money. They don`t stand for anything other than regression and supression. That`s the only "trick" they have. Same goes for the electoral college; without it Hillary would have been president right now. They`re shameless. Absolutely shamelss. They are the swamp that needs to be fucking drained.. and (most of them) put in prison. What they`re doing only reminds me of Nazi Germany. "I was just following orders". Scary times. Good luck America, this is your second chance, PLEASE make sure to turn this thing around so that democracy lives on. Keep the argument going, because that is democracy. May the argument never end. If the argument ends, all is lost.
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@agonleed3841 Don't really agree with several points here, tbh. You're entitled for you opinion, not trying to start an argument but felt a need to answer to this. I think what you're saying only furthers the stigma for black people to get professinal help. There are several reasons that going to an objective stranger that have spent years studying to become mental health professionals (therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists etc.) Friends, family and even yourself have bias, considering that friends and families know you personally, which can easily blurr objectivness. Of course some issues can be solved on your own or with loved ones, but not everything. Some things does require professional help, sometimes medical intervention. Mental health is not a "white people issue", illnesses have no specific targets. We have to start taking mental health as seriously as our physical health, and start viewing mental health as equally important and as a big part of our physical health. Even stress alone affects your body and overall being. These things are tied together - healthy mind, healthy body and vice versa. We need more diversity in the medical field overall, both in the psychology field and the "regular" medical field. As mentioned in this video, more people of color would most likely benefit from having a therapist that are more likely to have had possibly similar experiences as you, regarding race issues and possibly gender issues if that's important to you. That also minimizes the risk of poc experiences unfair treatment in whatever regard and possibly preventable medical negliegence/misdiagnoses/or in extreme cases straight up harm. It's just nice for people to have that option. Not saying that for instance a black man can't recieve amazing care and treatment from say a white woman and so forth, but studies show that diversity is highly needed in all medical fields for many reasons, including what I just stated. Stigmatizing poc's mental health issues is simply harmful. There is nothing wrong in being sick or struggle one way or another. If you break your arm, no one judges you for going to the ER to get a cast. Then why should we judge mental health issues, which are equally important to deal with as broken arms and diabetes etc.? That makes no sense.
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Brian Jones "How often do you see police going about your daily life?" totally depends on where you live. I'm sure since you rarely see officers, you live in a more wealthy area. When you live in low income neighbourhoods, especially where there are mostly POC-residents, it's impossible to not see several cops all the time.
You have an obivious bias here considering your family serving. Not saying that's bad or whatever, it just gives an obivious bias or confliction of interest, making it easier for you to trust what the police are saying and doing, rather than the people they are "serving".
A law like this where you can't even SAY anything bad about cops is a clear violation of the 1st amendment. It's just wrong on so many levels.
It's not just "unruly" people who critique the police. We don't just do it when we're getting arrested or whatever. Regardless, og shouldn't become lawful to arrest someone/add further charges to people in high stress situations (like when getting arrested or protesting, for instance).
Police may not like getting called names or whatever, but they have to accept it, not let that be another reason to unjustly filling up prisons. Their job is in part dealing with angry and stressed people. They should work on deescalating instead of just arresting people for voicing opinions. We have the right to critique them, they're supposed to serve and protect us. OF COURSE people get mad and will shout at the police when they can do just about anything they want (including killing people 😤) without consequenses. A law like this would do nothing but further the just outrage, only causing a never ending spiral of unjust arrests and more protests, leading to more unjust arrests and so forth, you get the idea. This is just bad. Free speech should be protected, not attacked. This law is a clear attack on free speech.
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@ezras8889 Ughhhh. So I'm supposed to listen to one random dude instead of PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, tons of anecdotal evidence etc etc. I didn't learn about the pink tax from the daily show AT ALL. I knew of it a long time before. I mean, as a woman that have money and goes to stores.. as a woman that have to buy sanitary products AT LEAST monthly who have to deal with those ESSENTIAL, CAN'T GO WITHOUT-items being taxed as "luxury"-products etc. There's nothing to debunk here. Just go to a store, find the same brand of razors, shaving cream, shower products, deodorants etc, one marketed for girls (often pink, flowers and just "cute" packaging) and the other marketed for men (dark, black, grey, husky, bold writing, more masculine design). The product marketed for men, despite being the same brand, being equally sized, same amount and everything, and the one marketed for men are usually not only cheaper, but better. Same goes for clothing.
Take a very easy example.. a plain, white t-shirt. One for men, one for women. Men's shirts (despite having the same fit, from the same brand, same size, same everything; only difference is that one shirt is in the men's section while the other is in the women's section. The t-shirt "for men" will be a lot cheaper, even with better stitching. Better quality for cheaper prize, despite having the same design, size, fabric, brand, color, everything. Men gets it cheaper, often with better quality (at least stronger, more sturdy stitching). Have you looked for yourself? Gone out in stores and compared? Have you actual first hand experience instead of just "experience" with one dude's YT-video?... I think not.
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Same here in Norway, and I'm assuming in the rest of Scandinavia as well (Sweden and Denmark) 😂😂😂 Neither men or women usually have these extravagant, over the top-rings. Men usually just have a thicker, silver ring, and if they want to be a bit more "fancy" with it, they embroad their initials, or wedding dates or smthn like that on the inside of the ring. Woman usually have something more feminine, but kinda the same. Women usually have some little diamond or smthn like that, but nothing compared to the American standard AT ALL. Only the super rich people here do that.
Well, Norway, and Scandinavia as a whole are kind of known for being simplistic. Not so flashy. Our home interiør is usually just very plain and simple wood, possibly white or opake paint, like eggshell or smthn. Our kitchens and living rooms are usually quite bland, but stylish. Like, unitone colors, with the addition of some green plants or whatever. You get the jist. Simplistic and minimalistic. I guess that reflects on our wedding/engagement rings as well.
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@minuette1752 Sure, seeing historic places (including stupid Hitler's home) is interesting and it doesn't make you a nazi at all.
I've for instance have went to go see many consentration camps in Germany and Poland, and that was such an amazingly incredible journey to go on. The experience was absolutely amazing, despite being extremely emotional and hurtful. The terribleness of it all is what made the journey. Seeing everything. The gas chambers, the so-called "toilets" (I'd Google to see some pictures if you haven't already seen them), tons of leftover shoes and glasses, where they slept, everything. Railroads, the "ARBEIT MACH FREI"-sign.
After seeing that, you're sure to get home with a new perspective on life, to put it like that.
This asshole's post, tho.. what he wrote was just extremely off. It surely did sound like he respected Hitler and holds awful views about this.
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@ThePinkBinks I know, it's horrible. America is digging their own grave by their selfishness and hypocracy. So glad I was born, raised and still live in Norway. Most of us have our heads on our shoulders, and since we're such a little country we have no choice but to work together with many other nations. Not complaining about that at all, it's really a good thing all in all. Yet despite being a very small country, we do have power in many ways, so that we don't have to completely rely on other nations. In many cases, we help other nations. One of our former prime ministers, one of our most popular ones from perhaps the (off and on) most popular party is now the NATO's general secretary. So I feel so lucky to live here. Of course we have our problems like every other country on earth, but we actually for the most part trust both our politicians and our media. We have quite strict laws when it comes to news media being factual and not opinionated, which goes a long way for sure. We're simple, sensible people for the most part. Not power hungry. Fairly humanitarian and we're very proud of our social networks and morals.
Many other countries should actually research not only Norway, but northern countries at all to see how we do things. I'm sure America and many other countries would greatly benefit from at least some northern ideals. We're very much about compassion and actual fair chances for people. I mean, just looking at the numbers, we HAVE to have gotten a lot of things right considering Norway (part of Scandinavia - Norway, Sweden & Denmark) as well as Iceland and Finland lay quite on top when it comes to both wealth, happiness and health. So we're doing something right.
I strongly disagree with the policies of the parties that given right now, but I still have faith in them wanting to provide EVERYONE with the best help possible. I know that they're doing quite a good job with this pandemic as well as with vaccination. We haven't recieved too many vaccines yet, but distribution isn't going too bad, it's at least going in fair order. We're doing the best with what we have. We surely have had bumbs in the road along the way, but this is new to everyone, so no one can expect getting everything completely right. We're learning from our mistakes, and our government is humble. As soon as we discovered the new mutated virus here, we immidiatly locked everything but essential work down once again. We have had mask mandate for quite some time now. By now, it's rare seeing people outside without masks.
The good thing here is that generally, the people trust our government and media, and the government trust us. This has taken us a long way.
There's lots to learn from us and our morals and values.
Good luck to all of you, regardless of who you are, where you're from and where you live! Lots of love from the capitol of Norway, Oslo 💗💕✊
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I mean.. I totally get where she's coming from and all that, and I absolutely agree that we need to seriously reimagine what policing in America looks like, but I don't believe completely getting rid of all policing is the solution.
It's absolutely impossible to get rid of all crime, so we do need law enforcement to do just that - enforce the law. I'm totally for the concept of dradtically shrinking the police funding and number of police, and instead offer strong social programs that prevents crime from happening.. but even in the most utopic and safe world, crime will never be eradicated. We should absolutely focus more on prevention, that's key to true reform and justice.. but that's complicated, and requires reform on not just policing, but every other aspect of governing. That includes ensuring affordable and quality housing for every single person, ensuring affordable/free, quality and accessable health care to again literally every single person, ensuring every single person quality employment with quality pay, the list goes on.. you get the idea. The thing is though, even with all these things in place, you'll never be able to 100% prevent all crime. Proper policing is not just about preventing crime, but bringing justice when it occurs, which it always inevitably will. That's just the sad reality.
We need reasonable solutions that actually makes sense. American policing today is totally indefensable, and it needs to drastically and systematically change. We need to look more at alternatives to deal with homeless people, domestic disputes, drug issues, mental health crisis', and all non-violent offenses, but as well look critically at all existing laws, and reevaluate what we deem illegal and not. Prison reform is also massively important, as well as complete drug reform. Policing is a massive issue, but by far not the only issue. Police unions needs drastic change as well.
I just think that colmpletely aboloshing the police isn't reasonable.. a dradtic reduction on the other hand is reasonable AND necessary. Redistributing funding is as well - that's one of the more attainable solutions to the issue at large. Social programs supporting lifting people up and out of desperation, homelessness, health issues including drug addiction and all of these things are real solutions that can be done. Completely aboloshing the police simply isn't realistic. I certainly wish that COULD be a reality, but that's wishful thinking. We need to look at other solutions. I recommend looking at how other countries, those with the least amount of crime are doing policing.. they're obiviously doing something right, and have figured out great stuff that America hasn't yet. That includes getting money and "lobbying", aka legal bribery out of politics, so real solutions CAN take place, instead of quality, meaningful policies being dead at arrival due to police unions, prison "lobbyists" etc. bribing politicians to not change anything.
Money in politics is what we keep coming back to - it truly is the root of all evil, and the thing that mostly obstructs progress from taking place.
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@bladeswillxbleed It's totally out of control.
I'm not American tho, and actually live in a place that makes it a lot easier to trust our government (for the most part). Our media has strict rules as well, not giving them the oppurtunity to either cover opinions as news, we only get actual objective news, not only national news, but international. They're not allowed to "pick a side" (like fox news = right-winged and cnn = left-winged). We also have MANY parties, we even have three parties in control. We do have one party that wins, but that party has to choose two other parties to lead with. Then the rest of the elected parties have seats in parliament. We have so many parties that not every party gets enough votes to even have ONE chair in parliament. So, it's highly democratic. This means that we don't have two sides, so we don't have to deal with our politics like you do in the states. This has many upsides to it, obiviously. This makes it way harder as well for our news media to have noticeable biases. We also know that our news media has to tell us the truth, we can't have news media that gives us their OPINION on the news instead of the actual news. Our broadcasters and journalist's job is simply finding the truth as it stands in the moment and relay that information objectively, to not create confusion. This is a really good thing. It allows us the people to argue about the context of the news instead of what the actual true news are. This is really helpful to everyone. Not saying bias doesn't exist and that it's all perfect, but our setup is way better. It gets the truth out.
There's no wonder people in the states feel like it's hard to know what's real and what isn't.
I truly hope that with the new administration that came in this January will help get things back on track as much as possible.. but the work load is MASSIVE and extremely complicated, so it will take time and fuck ups (which they hopefully and most likely will learn from, unlike the previous administration in "charge"), but that's natural. You can't expect everyone to get everything right, all the time. That's simply impossible, even for the best of us. It does seem like things are going in the right track at least. There hasn't even been one single month with the new admin, so it would be lunacy to expect them to have solved everything already. This takes time and effort - and coorporate work. We have to work together for this to work out. The road is long, but we have no choice but to continue the fight for the entire world.
It just sucks how shitty the US gov is, considering everything. Reform on so many levels are need. Yet, we can't give up. We just can't.
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I mean.. I totally get where she's coming from and all that, and I absolutely agree that we need to seriously reimagine what policing in America looks like, but I don't believe completely getting rid of all policing is the solution.
It's absolutely impossible to get rid of all crime, so we do need law enforcement to do just that - enforce the law. I'm totally for the concept of dradtically shrinking the police funding and number of police, and instead offer strong social programs that prevents crime from happening.. but even in the most utopic and safe world, crime will never be eradicated. We should absolutely focus more on prevention, that's key to true reform and justice.. but that's complicated, and requires reform on not just policing, but every other aspect of governing. That includes ensuring affordable and quality housing for every single person, ensuring affordable/free, quality and accessable health care to again literally every single person, ensuring every single person quality employment with quality pay, the list goes on.. you get the idea. The thing is though, even with all these things in place, you'll never be able to 100% prevent all crime. Proper policing is not just about preventing crime, but bringing justice when it occurs, which it always inevitably will. That's just the sad reality.
We need reasonable solutions that actually makes sense. American policing today is totally indefensable, and it needs to drastically and systematically change. We need to look more at alternatives to deal with homeless people, domestic disputes, drug issues, mental health crisis', and all non-violent offenses, but as well look critically at all existing laws, and reevaluate what we deem illegal and not. Prison reform is also massively important, as well as complete drug reform. Policing is a massive issue, but by far not the only issue. Police unions needs drastic change as well.
I just think that colmpletely aboloshing the police isn't reasonable.. a dradtic reduction on the other hand is reasonable AND necessary. Redistributing funding is as well - that's one of the more attainable solutions to the issue at large. Social programs supporting lifting people up and out of desperation, homelessness, health issues including drug addiction and all of these things are real solutions that can be done. Completely aboloshing the police simply isn't realistic. I certainly wish that COULD be a reality, but that's wishful thinking. We need to look at other solutions. I recommend looking at how other countries, those with the least amount of crime are doing policing.. they're obiviously doing something right, and have figured out great stuff that America hasn't yet. That includes getting money and "lobbying", aka legal bribery out of politics, so real solutions CAN take place, instead of quality, meaningful policies being dead at arrival due to police unions, prison "lobbyists" etc. bribing politicians to not change anything.
Money in politics is what we keep coming back to - it truly is the root of all evil, and the thing that mostly obstructs progress from taking place.
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@abpro3xt.215 Not true. Most of the time, the quality is the same or even worse for women. Like razors. Same goes for pants. Pants are tailored differently for men and women due to obiviously different body types. Yet, just think of a kind of pants that use the same fabric, from the same store, the same fit (despite the different tailoring to fit our different body-types), everything's the same. Yet women's pants costs more despite being just about the same. Usually, men get better quality, their stitching are usually of a much higher quality, as well as pants for men having adequate pockets. Usually not the case for women's pants. We're lucky if we even have pockets on our pants, and when we get that "luxury", they're extremely tiny. They can barely fit a single key. There's no chance for them to be able to fit and entire set of keys like we all usually have, a wallet or a phone. Men never have that issue. Pockets also add on to production costs. Not significantly, but making pockets obiviously adds on more fabric and stitching. Same goes for making more room in pants for men to fit their.. junk.
Still, pants for women cost way more. Same goes for everything else that's either marketed towards men or women. It makes no sense at all.
Also, saying women "shop way more" is just a nonsense stereotype. That's not something most women do. It's simply a stereotype. There's loads of men out there that shop equally as much or way more.
That "women shop more" can really only be applied to makeup, as there's obiviously more women using makeup than men. Everything else is just a stereotype.
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@ThePinkBinks Oh cool, may I ask you where you're from? I guess I don't remember too much of history classes, so I can't really remember who descented from Norway 😅
I surely agree with you. We should all, no matter if we live on the smallest place on earth, or the biggest, that promoting fact and science based information both in our politics and our media. It should at least be much better clarified what is actually based on science and/or evidence or not. At least. That would eliminate so many problems all over. News and opinion is not the same thing, not to be confused at all. I don't blame regular citizens too much (I do blame some citizens a little tbh 😅), I blame those in power. Not only the government, but coorporate owners whose businesses are directly impacting lives.
It just seems reasonable to me to not allow for news programs to broadcast opinions while disguising it as actual news. It shouldn't happen at all.
Oh and yeah, there's so many bizzare stories about people doing the craziest shit when it comes to the pandemic. Ugh.
Well yeah, for us small countries that have no choice but to work with other nations, we find it to be a (mostly) positive thing to do. It's kind of like asking your neighbour for some sugar or whatever, hehh.. Having to work together with often times many other countries is greatly benefitial. I guess that gets fairly lost when it comes to at least the world's largest nations, like the US, China, Russia and such. I guess they get a bit lost in power, wishing to be "the greatest country of all" and whatever. To me at least, that seems like dangerous thinking. Having to be number one. Big problems are sure to arise from that kind of mindset and goal.
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@fauxvid-19healer45 I'm amazed at how misinformed you are. Any logical person would understand that t's behaviour and his republican senators etc. that supports him talking about (non-existent) voter fraud, rallying his base up to get them angry and believe these lies, that speech he held saying they have to show strenght instead of weakness, the "stormthecapitol"-hashtag, his rethoric itself for 5 years, especially this last year building up to, during and after the election, claiming over and over again that the election is getting stolen and that they have to fight to take it back and so much more? Also the fact that during the terrorist attack he did NOTHING but watch the news as the attack happened for two whole hours, practically getting forced to give an address saying reluctantly that although he loved and support them that they should "continue the peace" and so much more.. Although he maybe never said to storm or attack the capitol directly, it's obivious that this outcome was forseeable. That in itself is criminal. When you do something, if your actions can lead to forseeable damage/criminality that is still criminal. Intent doesn't really have to be there for it to be criminal, it's still criminal acts if what you're doing, despite not intending to can result in forseeable damage. This was surely forseeable, saying elsewise is stupid or ignorant. Your points here and there just makes no sense.
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@PWNINSWAGMASTER FINALLY an ACTUAL answer. Thank you.
Alright, so let's begin. First off, you're obiviously trying to provoke me here. I'm not provoked. You seemed to get offended as soon is I tried to flip the script on you so to speak, when I made that one comment about how you probably wouldn't like it if I were to state whatever about your religion that isn't true. That's when you became childish. I still hold my ground in that your first statement isn't true, and that it is your belief. I care about facts. Your statement is NOT factual. You don't KNOW there is a god, you BELIEVE there is a god - which is completely fine. You may feel very certain that there is a god, but there is NO WAY to know for sure until you've actually died.
But then for you to claim that atheists believe life/our current reality can't bring equally as much joy and suffering is completely false. That is not what being atheist means. That's the only thing I answered to.
Just like I'm sure you don't appreciate people trying to say stuff about religious people that isn't factual, I don't either. That is why I corrected you. You talk like religious people are above non-believers or something, and that's not okay. Also, there is no reason in trying to "inform" non-believers about god and what not. Atheists are a minority, we know very well what different religious books says.. I mean, we can't get a break from believers about religion. The difference is that atheists don't believe what's said in those books are true, but YOU do.
I'm talking straight up facts here. I'm not stating my beliefs as facts. Religion can't be proven, hence why it's non-factual. Still not saying that I think it's wrong or bad in any way (generally) to be religious, but you can't claim it's factual without legitimate proof. That's just how facts work.
All I'm arguing is that your religious belief can't add statements purely from your perspective as to what being atheist means.
At least, thank you for FINALLY just saying that you know what atheism means. But you adding a personal philosophical belief together with that definition is wrong. It's your right to belive whatever about religion, atheists and everythig, but there's no need in completely flipping out on someone merely stating what atheism actuallly means. I'm not trying to say you're wrong on all counts, just that it's important to know the difference in believing and knowing.
I'm not trying to add definitions to your religion, so please stop adding "facts" about my non-belief.
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Yup. Here in Norway (I live in the capitol Oslo, born and raised east side, fuck yeah) and here it's rare seeing anyone (unless you're only walking your dog or something) seeing anyone (except small kids) wearing masks. It's SO rare. Considering it's so rare not seeing people wearing masks while grocery shopping etc., we don't even really care when people aren't wearing masks because the rest of us are, meaning that the one or two people that doesn't wear them really doesn't matter or affect anyone because 99% do wear masks. It's not fun, but it's so nesessary. We barely have people sick from covid anymore, but that's because we're so vigilant about it all. We don't wait to shut things down when numbers are rising, meaning we only have shutdowns these days for like a week or two, which has become really rare. We're almost back to "normal" because we actually trust our scientists and government enough to listen and adhere to the advice given.
It's not that hard, really. If only you people in the states didn't have a war on truth, I'm sure you'd be a lot better off - your economy as well.
Just look at all the other countries that adhere to social distancing etc., compared to you guys. Who has the lowest covid related numbers? It's not the states. It's us who don't try to fight the truth. Look at all these countries economies. Who has it better? It's not the states.
I guess many of y'alls lightbulbs doesn't work anymore. Reason and logic is thrown out the window, and you're the ones suffering.
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ANYONE, straight, bi, gay, trans, male, female can have HIV etc.
Many say it's scientifically valid for these rules to be put in place because apparantly people that to anal are more likely to have these illnesses (I don't know if it's true or not so don't come after me if that's false, please). Several straight people do anal as well. If anything they could check for illnesses before collecting the plasma. It's not like only gay folks can have these illnesses. I also saw someone commenting that even if you have HIV or smthn it can be cleared out so the blood is clean. If that's true that's cool, but if anything, maybe there should be a routine check up (regarldess of sex, gender and sexuality) before giving plasma/blood, to eliminate that risk completely. Idk, just a thought. NOT AT ALL saying these regulations for gay men are valid or okay in any way, I hope you got my point here.
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@Sam-handwich583 ¡¿¿¿¿¿¿¿???¡¿¡¿?¿???... huhh? Those two sentences were so incredibly confusing that I can't even gather some reasonable words to find a reasonable reply myself. Wow, that takes skills.. congratulations, dude. I feel like I must applaud you for that achievement. It's hard to make a couple of even short sentences that meaningless, making ot impossible for me to resist pointing it out. After reading whatever that was, I couldn't jusr let it go.. move on. I couldn't do it. I now literally feel entitled to an explanation, so I don't have to lay awake all night, analyzing your attempt at formulating something that was supposed to be two english sentences, so I can comtinue my life without the agony of trying to understand something so insanely impossible to understand.
Please help me, I'm confused, in agony, unable to rest and find peace. This is serious. This truly is a great mystery that needs to be solved pronto.
I'm not okay.. this was the last straw that finally completely broke me. Without an answer, a proper exolanation, I'll have to be admitted to the psych ward, and die suffering. This is serious business.
WHY ARE YOU SO EVIL, FORCING SUCH TORTURE UPON INNOCENT PEOPLE!?!?¿!???!?¿!!!¿¿?!?!?!¿¿¿?!!?!??¿!???¿!???¿!¿¿¿!?!!!+??¿??? THIS. IS. NOT. OKAY. I NEED ANSWERS. I DESERVE ANSWERS!!!!!!! NOW!!!
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Yeah..
I mean.. I totally get where she's coming from and all that, and I absolutely agree that we need to seriously reimagine what policing in America looks like, but I don't believe completely getting rid of all policing is the solution.
It's absolutely impossible to get rid of all crime, so we do need law enforcement to do just that - enforce the law. I'm totally for the concept of dradtically shrinking the police funding and number of police, and instead offer strong social programs that prevents crime from happening.. but even in the most utopic and safe world, crime will never be eradicated. We should absolutely focus more on prevention, that's key to true reform and justice.. but that's complicated, and requires reform on not just policing, but every other aspect of governing. That includes ensuring affordable and quality housing for every single person, ensuring affordable/free, quality and accessable health care to again literally every single person, ensuring every single person quality employment with quality pay, the list goes on.. you get the idea. The thing is though, even with all these things in place, you'll never be able to 100% prevent all crime. Proper policing is not just about preventing crime, but bringing justice when it occurs, which it always inevitably will. That's just the sad reality.
We need reasonable solutions that actually makes sense. American policing today is totally indefensable, and it needs to drastically and systematically change. We need to look more at alternatives to deal with homeless people, domestic disputes, drug issues, mental health crisis', and all non-violent offenses, but as well look critically at all existing laws, and reevaluate what we deem illegal and not. Prison reform is also massively important, as well as complete drug reform. Policing is a massive issue, but by far not the only issue. Police unions needs drastic change as well.
I just think that colmpletely aboloshing the police isn't reasonable.. a dradtic reduction on the other hand is reasonable AND necessary. Redistributing funding is as well - that's one of the more attainable solutions to the issue at large. Social programs supporting lifting people up and out of desperation, homelessness, health issues including drug addiction and all of these things are real solutions that can be done. Completely aboloshing the police simply isn't realistic. I certainly wish that COULD be a reality, but that's wishful thinking. We need to look at other solutions. I recommend looking at how other countries, those with the least amount of crime are doing policing.. they're obiviously doing something right, and have figured out great stuff that America hasn't yet. That includes getting money and "lobbying", aka legal bribery out of politics, so real solutions CAN take place, instead of quality, meaningful policies being dead at arrival due to police unions, prison "lobbyists" etc. bribing politicians to not change anything.
Money in politics is what we keep coming back to - it truly is the root of all evil, and the thing that mostly obstructs progress from taking place.
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Logical? Nah.
I mean.. I totally get where she's coming from and all that, and I absolutely agree that we need to seriously reimagine what policing in America looks like, but I don't believe completely getting rid of all policing is the solution.
It's absolutely impossible to get rid of all crime, so we do need law enforcement to do just that - enforce the law. I'm totally for the concept of dradtically shrinking the police funding and number of police, and instead offer strong social programs that prevents crime from happening.. but even in the most utopic and safe world, crime will never be eradicated. We should absolutely focus more on prevention, that's key to true reform and justice.. but that's complicated, and requires reform on not just policing, but every other aspect of governing. That includes ensuring affordable and quality housing for every single person, ensuring affordable/free, quality and accessable health care to again literally every single person, ensuring every single person quality employment with quality pay, the list goes on.. you get the idea. The thing is though, even with all these things in place, you'll never be able to 100% prevent all crime. Proper policing is not just about preventing crime, but bringing justice when it occurs, which it always inevitably will. That's just the sad reality.
We need reasonable solutions that actually makes sense. American policing today is totally indefensable, and it needs to drastically and systematically change. We need to look more at alternatives to deal with homeless people, domestic disputes, drug issues, mental health crisis', and all non-violent offenses, but as well look critically at all existing laws, and reevaluate what we deem illegal and not. Prison reform is also massively important, as well as complete drug reform. Policing is a massive issue, but by far not the only issue. Police unions needs drastic change as well.
I just think that colmpletely aboloshing the police isn't reasonable.. a dradtic reduction on the other hand is reasonable AND necessary. Redistributing funding is as well - that's one of the more attainable solutions to the issue at large. Social programs supporting lifting people up and out of desperation, homelessness, health issues including drug addiction and all of these things are real solutions that can be done. Completely aboloshing the police simply isn't realistic. I certainly wish that COULD be a reality, but that's wishful thinking. We need to look at other solutions. I recommend looking at how other countries, those with the least amount of crime are doing policing.. they're obiviously doing something right, and have figured out great stuff that America hasn't yet. That includes getting money and "lobbying", aka legal bribery out of politics, so real solutions CAN take place, instead of quality, meaningful policies being dead at arrival due to police unions, prison "lobbyists" etc. bribing politicians to not change anything.
Money in politics is what we keep coming back to - it truly is the root of all evil, and the thing that mostly obstructs progress from taking place.
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I've got one word for ya - FASCISM.
It's back in full swing. Brace yourselves for impact and keep fighting for DEMOCRACY.
Keep voting democratic, progressive whenever it's possible. Even an establishment/corporate democrat is better than the blatantly evil (non-)alternative, the fascist party, formely known as the GOP, then GQP, aka the Repukelikkkunt party.
Unfortunately, democrats aren't exactly providing any reasons for you to vote for them. However, that is FAR BETTER than just allowing democracy to perish.. and that's EXACTLY what you'll get by not voting for democrats. They're at the very least not actively trying to take away your rights and democracy at large. The bar is honestly incredibly low, but in order for progress to even be possible, fascism cannot take a hold. Whatever you do, contonue voting anti-fascist.
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@Smulpaap123 That's just bullshit. Excuse me, but that's complete bullshit. - outsider looking in, myself.
The point in impeachment is not only getting someone out of office, that's already done, so that's not the problem. The problem is setting a precedent and holding someone accountable, as well as preventing someone from holding office again (+ the country not wanting to pay even more taxes to someone that doesn't care about the tax payers at all, considering amongst other things that he's barely paid taxes). THAT'S THE POINT.
Also, blaming democrats for this is like blaming a rape victim for being raped. Do you remember (most) democrats/liberals actually giving him a fair chance at holding the office with respect? They did that, but now that they've done that for too long they have no choice but to go down hard in this. To show that this is not okay. We're not talking about jaywalking here. This is big stuff. Holding someone accountable does not equal disregarding unity.
The democrats tried teaching for unity and some common ground when the former "president" took office, DESPITE him actually losing the popular vote. This time, despite Biden actually WINNING the popular vote, republikkkans refuse to even give the new leaders a chance. Answer me this - how is THAT helping to unify ANYTHING? Stop blaming democrats/libs for everything while not expecting the same from republikkkans. You KNOW* that if the tables were flipped, republikkkans would have a completely different tone than they do now.
How can you claim you want unity when "your" (not saying yours personally) party promotes dangerous lies about fraud that have been disproven time and time again AND several republikkkans (both regular citizens and politicians) speak about medieval executions, like hanging their opponents? PLEASE TELL ME HOW THAT IS SUPPOSED TO UNIFY ANYONE BECAUSE I CAN'T, AND NO OTHER REASONABLE HUMAN BEING CAN. PLEASE. TELL. ME.
-edit, writing error.
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Jeez. America, wtf is wrong with y'all?? Here in Norway we can't wait to get the vaccine. Although we surely have a fiew nutjobs dealing with radikal conspiracies, their voices are never heard. We're too scientific for that shit lol. We had to shut down all of our malls again, only keeping gas stations, grocery stores, emergency services, vets and just the most essential places open. Nothing else. Mask mandate everywhere (except outside), stay at home (as much as possible) orders. Not in the entire country, but in our red zones. As soon as we discovered the mutated virus or government shut down all things necessary. We didn't wait until hundreds/thousands of people got sick and/or died, we shut down straight away - and I'd say at least 80% of people complied. Yes, it sucks and we hate it, but our government takes us seriously enough to do it and they actually don't hesitate (too much) with giving all kinds of relief for people, unemployed or not. We know our government have trust in us, which probably makes us trust them. It's a two-way street. We don't like it, but we comply because we know that the better we get at hindering the spread, the faster we get our lives back to as normal as possible. We've done this since about the beginning (we were a little sloppy to begin with, but as soon as it got as bad as it did last year, we immidiatly stepped up). Therefore, our numbers are extremely low. We're not New Zealand yet to put it like that, but we're way closer to New Zealand's situation than the situation in the US. So we're doing some things very well. Wich has served us all. If only America would stop dragging this shit out so much already, I belive not only the US would be so much better off, but the entire world. The virus don't care about no border control or stupid walls.
The US deserves a whooping with a switch by grandma, y'all need to be whipped into place at this point it seems. Oh, how great is it that the "greatest" country on earth is screwing up everyone. How classic. I'm sure America will try to claim they were the ones that eradicated this shit when it (hopefully one day) passes. Wouldn't surprise anyone. America, time to face the issues and sober up.. but you can't fix what you don't acknowledge. I'm scared for how this will go. Negliegence is literally killing people in the masses, but then we have stupid aholes like Cruz and Taylor Greene and their ride AND die-followers. Ugh, HOW DID YOU GET TO THIS POINT, THIS IS JUST SICK. I'm tired of having to care about American politics, but it's impossible to escape considering how much of a influence the US has.
I keep hoping and wishing for you sensible people out there who made Biden/Kamala and Georgia happen. I have hope that all of you sensible people are able to push through and make some great changes. All hope is not lost, but it's slipping for sure. Please, for the sake of yourself and for the entire globe - please let this new administration get things back on track. I beg you. We're all tired. I know you are too.
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I mean.. I totally get where she's coming from and all that, and I absolutely agree that we need to seriously reimagine what policing in America looks like, but I don't believe completely getting rid of all policing is the solution.
It's absolutely impossible to get rid of all crime, so we do need law enforcement to do just that - enforce the law. I'm totally for the concept of dradtically shrinking the police funding and number of police, and instead offer strong social programs that prevents crime from happening.. but even in the most utopic and safe world, crime will never be eradicated. We should absolutely focus more on prevention, that's key to true reform and justice.. but that's complicated, and requires reform on not just policing, but every other aspect of governing. That includes ensuring affordable and quality housing for every single person, ensuring affordable/free, quality and accessable health care to again literally every single person, ensuring every single person quality employment with quality pay, the list goes on.. you get the idea. The thing is though, even with all these things in place, you'll never be able to 100% prevent all crime. Proper policing is not just about preventing crime, but bringing justice when it occurs, which it always inevitably will. That's just the sad reality.
We need reasonable solutions that actually makes sense. American policing today is totally indefensable, and it needs to drastically and systematically change. We need to look more at alternatives to deal with homeless people, domestic disputes, drug issues, mental health crisis', and all non-violent offenses, but as well look critically at all existing laws, and reevaluate what we deem illegal and not. Prison reform is also massively important, as well as complete drug reform. Policing is a massive issue, but by far not the only issue. Police unions needs drastic change as well.
I just think that colmpletely aboloshing the police isn't reasonable.. a dradtic reduction on the other hand is reasonable AND necessary. Redistributing funding is as well - that's one of the more attainable solutions to the issue at large. Social programs supporting lifting people up and out of desperation, homelessness, health issues including drug addiction and all of these things are real solutions that can be done. Completely aboloshing the police simply isn't realistic. I certainly wish that COULD be a reality, but that's wishful thinking. We need to look at other solutions. I recommend looking at how other countries, those with the least amount of crime are doing policing.. they're obiviously doing something right, and have figured out great stuff that America hasn't yet. That includes getting money and "lobbying", aka legal bribery out of politics, so real solutions CAN take place, instead of quality, meaningful policies being dead at arrival due to police unions, prison "lobbyists" etc. bribing politicians to not change anything.
Money in politics is what we keep coming back to - it truly is the root of all evil, and the thing that mostly obstructs progress from taking place.
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YT's biggest and most watched (political) news network gave a shoutout to the Daily Show, this segment in particular! That made me so happy. They're a great news show! They consist of ACTUAL progressive democrats, who fight for what's right, with a large focus on exposing corruption on each side of the isle. They're the best, and I recommend y'all go watch The Young Turks, Indisputable and The Damage Report. They're not supressed by corporate donors' interests, and have had all kinds of guests, including both AOC and Bernie who's supported this network. They've also had on all kinds of other guests for debates etc., so they clearly show that they're not afraid to have ANYBODY on. One of it's anchors (who I believe is their CEO/founder) had a great debate, CRUSHING Tucker Carlson. You can find that debate on The Young Turks YT-channel. I believe Politicon hosted it, so prob there as well (if they have a YT-channel).
I couldn't recommend these people and that network enough, they're great!
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Oh wow, I remember seeing and episode on Jim Can't Swim (a pshychology + criminology channel on YT) where we get to see murderers interrogations and often times their day in courts. Obvs both interrigations and court proceedings takes days upon days, and you obvs can't upload EVERYTHING that went on. But I believe one of the episodes I saw was about this mom's son EXACT case - a man with his fiancé (she was utterly shocked when she first realized what her husband had done and was straight forward with the police and in court, she testified AGAINST him for the sake of all victims, both the dead and alive ones so no hate for her is warranted) stopped because she wanted some wine. The shooting started when she was in the store, and the shooting had already happened when she got out. No one called the police, the old fart that tried using self defence as his defence, saying so to his terrifyed (now former) fiancé. That was so obiviously a case of violent hatred and racism, as he had no remorse, and his ONLY reasoning for why their dispute about loud music turned deadly was that.. the music was loud. He claimed they threatened him and that he saw a barrell/rifle/gun/stick (he couldn't make up his mind about that, apparantly). NOT A SINGLE WEAPON was in their car. At all. Their only "crime" these kids committed was being young, black, listening to hip hop/rap in their car after they had been SHOPPING or something like that. So they did NOTHING WRONG, yet a 17-year old died, and other people in that car were lucky to BARELY miss all those bullets he uncontrollably shot towards their car. The shooter even stepped out of his own car in order to get better aim. Can't remember his explanation for this, but it made zero sense. Obvs. If he was legit fearful he would've stayed in the car. Such and obivious rasist hatecrime. Even during interrogation he showed his true colors even more, as the pair of police questioning him was one white dude and one black dude. He wouldn't even look at the black dude, and ignored him to some degree, while having no problem chit chatting and having eye contact with the white officer. Like.. how stupid can you be??? Feel so sorry for everyone involved, especially the victim and his friends who were with him and his family.
This story like so so many others just crushes my heart and soul, I'm so thankful that shit like this is an extreme rarity where I live.
Respect to that mother for everything she's been through and for her success. ♡
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