Hot take because Line Must Go Up is being blamed on "For the Shareholders!" lately, but:

It’s not just publicly traded companies. Private companies have greedy C-suites too.

At a guess, such cooperation would undermine Lenovo’s profit margin and would thus be a non-starter for them.

Enter government regulation, to pinch corporations by the ear and drag them to doing what’s right for society.

Apologies - didn’t realize I was talking to someone who has bouts of nihilism mixed in with their political activism like rocks in a salad.

Enjoy the block!

True, but your implication that I’m not doing enough while I’m sitting here complaining is just as well-served to the mirror.

I just have a thing for people who look down their nose at others

Speaking of making assumptions…

How is that an assumption? You were looking down on Redditors for having less sex than Lemmings, were you not? Or was that a different /u/Almacca?

defended [sic] by me telling you off for being dumb

Are you asserting I made a grammatical error? By all means, point it out. Don’t be coy.

Haha [sic]. Sure [sic].

I mean, we’re equally affected if you want to play that game. You’ve replied to every one of my comments.

Honestly I don’t know why I didn’t block you sooner. It’s clear you take pleasure in shitting on and getting a rise out of people. Bye, Felicia!

I just have a thing for people who look down their nose at others, especially if the target is objectively higher up on the matter in question.

You can guffaw at your own assumptions about me based on who’s defended by me telling you off for being dumb if you want. Doesn’t really affect me and it appears to make your day better. At least that way you never have to work on self-improvement!

I have no idea if “Fire!” in a crowded theater is covered by a different statute or not in my state without looking it up, but yes, Disorderly Conduct would be what I would use in that scenario too. Getting too specific with a statute can result in the defendant getting off on a technicality. You make the arrest for F.S.S. 69.420 “Fire In A Crowded Theater” and then in trial a year later it turns out “crowded” per case law is 100+ people, but the theater only had 99 that day.

Involuntary psychiatric holds tend to ruin people’s lives much more than a simple non-violent misdemeanor arrest, not to mention you have to demonstrate there is an imminent risk of harm and they appear mentally ill.

• Imminent Risk of Harm - Kinda? I’d call it probable risk of harm in the next few hours or days.

• Mental Illness - Certainly not, they were just angry at each other.

Actually no, both were very much “This person definitely needs to be removed from the public before someone gets hurt” and (virtually) all we had was that catch-all statute.

TLDR:

1. Lady kicks open a door to a church with 300+ people and screams “None of you are getting to heaven on my watch!” Panic, chaos, everyone assuming she was a mass shooter and went running for the doors.

2. Roomate vs. Roommate increasingly tense arguing and 911 calling on each other “fearing for their lives.” This being Florida, both had guns “and weren’t afraid to use them.” The last call was them arguing at each other on their porch and a neighbor called 911 because it seemed like it was getting heated to her.

You can read the post I made about my termination. I’d sticky it on my profile like I did on Reddit, but I don’t think lemmy.world has a “sticky” feature:

https://lemmy.world/post/43267939

I want to get off Mr. Reagan’s Wild Ride.

I want to get off Mr. Reagan’s Wild Ride.

I want to get off Mr. Reagan’s Wild Ride.

I want to get off Mr. Reagan’s Wild Ride.

Used to be, yeah. Got fired about 6 years ago now.

Build a large enough catalogue of bulk data and anything can be used to track you.

We bought “It’s just so we can catch the terrorists!” hook, line, and sinker post-9/11.

But when “terrorism” is redefined as “making people in power upset,” we’re in big trouble.

So don’t say anything rude about Donald Trump or the FBI will seek you out:

https://invidious.perennialte.ch/watch?v=QS4bVx74nxU

What did we get from Detroit? Bloated low tech shit boxes that barely make it past warranty.

Don’t forget the bailouts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_bankruptcy

And if there’s anything we know about nimby curmudgeons, it’s that they’re on the rise and rewarded for their behavior, generally. Just look at the lady who retired off of calling a toddler the n-slur for social media.

The 2/2 (I think?) arrests I’ve made for Disorderly Conduct, both times reminded me of how bizarre it is that the statute is so incredibly powerful and nobody seems to notice or care.

Jokes are supposed to be funny.

Reddit hasn’t been majority nerd for at least a decade now.

Lemmy, on the other hand…

In other words, people in glass houses probably shouldn’t throw stones at people in brick houses.

God, it always feels so weird to see people lying to themselves to have a circle-jerk about something they dislike.

First off, 90% of your comment is ad hominem or straw-man.

Secondly, it’s abundantly clear you don’t know what a political ally is. You’re confusing the term with “friend” or “exactly the same in beliefs.”

Me.

Presumably you’re doing all this shit-stirring because you think the US is on the wrong path (i.e. oppressing people), so people who want to stop the oppression it’s doing are on your side. Even if you only care about certain people it’s oppressing, and they only care about certain people it’s oppressing, you both want to stop the oppression, yes?

Otherwise I guess you’re just an agitator with no real goal, which would be kinda funny if you’re just openly admitting to out of the blue.

Because it’s going to it might be far more than one person.

Fixed that for you.

How many? 2? 5? Will that number be over the line in the sand for enough Americans to Do Something™?

Obviously we’ll probably see shortly, but my suspicion is we’ll mostly hold up some signs in the street or in Congress, complain on social media that nobody is doing anything, and move on with our paycheck-to-paycheck existence.

We are an inherently selfish people; few of us will risk our necks for others.

I mostly agree with you (because most of it is pure fact and not opinion) and it mostly doesn’t refute what I said (because it’s also factual).

MAGAs see that reading the Communist Manifesto is a requirement for entry and simply don’t bother. They have X, Truth Social, Reddit, etc. to party on, and they’re fine with the downsides of those platforms, i.e. supporting oligarchy/technocracy.

It’s not that they “get their asses handed to them,” they’re just not here.

Compare your perception of reality with election results. Even if Trump cheated like he probably did, I doubt it was bigger than single digit percentages.

TL;DR: You simply don’t witness enough MAGAs and you naturally assume they must not exist.