JuBe

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[–] JuBe@beehaw.org 23 points 7 months ago (5 children)

One tip I heard was asking “how” questions as follow-ups, rather than “what” questions? It tends to encourage people to think through how the conspiracies might actually work, rather than just jumping from point A to point B.

 

Now they should have to pay the postage to mail their “apology” letters it to every Georgia voter.

[–] JuBe@beehaw.org 7 points 11 months ago

As well-intended as this article might have ascribed, it felt like it was all over the place.

[–] JuBe@beehaw.org 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I have a counter-point that I’d like to hear your thoughts on: at least to some degree, it seems like part of the housing crisis is caused by private equity firms not being restricted from buying up property, artificially reducing the supply of housing that can be purchased by then renting it out, which artificially increases the cost of housing and making it less accessible. More of the population then has less wealth, while smaller portions of the population end up with more wealth, again making homeownership farther out of reach.

[–] JuBe@beehaw.org 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

This is a facially stupid law. (And by “facially stupid,” I’m not even addressing the morally bankrupt policy implications, but rather critiquing the framework that is wholly untethered from how the law and a system of justice works.)

[–] JuBe@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

That’s why they’re choosing to pick on them.

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

This sounds a lot like Hitler in the late 1930s (in the lead-up to World War 2).

[–] JuBe@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

It’s not about refusing to adopt a “race ideology” that suggests racism; it’s the refusal to acknowledge statistical evidence, the refusal to investigate the law and history of this country, the refusal to recognize cause and effect, and the refusal to appreciate that some times, empathy simply is not possible. It’s the refusal to recognize that history has an impact on the present, and to make the future better than the present, we must make the present better than the past. What suggests racism is being presented with all of that information, and take a stand against making things better.