More Blind Lunacy.

This place has got some serious right wing nut job vibes.

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[–] 27 points 3 weeks ago

Oh. My. God.

The corporations knew this was coming! That’s why they always say “we’re a family”!

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  • [–] 24 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

    They’re so desperate about the midterms lol. Ever consider NOT being racist, bigoted, hateful, fascist pieces of mule dung?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    There will never not be a subset of men who feel entitled to us, our lives, our bodies, our output of work.

    I dated a guy (oh so briefly, never moved beyond the interviewing stage) who said on the 2nd? date he did not want a woman who used her energy on other people at work, specifically the human professions like teaching, psychology, or healthcare, because he felt that energy only belongs at home, with the family. I guess he was starting to relax enough to talk about how he really felt. Called Poe “nazifem” music over that meal as well. That whole meal wasn’t a Hello but a Goodbye. A final one.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    I dated a guy (oh so briefly, never moved beyond the interviewing stage) who said on the 2nd? date

    The second date? How many interviews do you typically do?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Dating is a series of interviews until you both decide to enter an agreement essentially.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    That sucks. I hate interviews.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Most people hate dating, too lol

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago*

    Yeah, I dread job interviews. They trigger my anxiety something fierce, and if I don't get the job, I get depressed because I feel rejected. First dates are like that, but even worse! Unfortunately, I need a job in order to pay rent, but there isn't anything forcing me to date, so I don't do it.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    This post is about taking away men's right to vote - how is that desperate for the incel vote in the midterms?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Do you know what the 19th amendment is?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Yes. It prohibits the disenfranchisement of any citizen based on sex. At the time that really only had impact on women, but the amendment doesn't specifically grant voting rights to women.

    The post is clearly a joke because they start by appearing to advocate for an awful thing, and then turning it around at the last second by advocating for the awful thing for the people who most often actually advocate for the first bit.

    It's not super funny or poignant, but it's obviously a joke.

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  • [–] 85 points 3 weeks ago (27 children)

    Oh they think they're being so very clever not saying specifically that they want to repeal women's right to vote.

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  • [–] 92 points 3 weeks ago (19 children)

    This reads more like satire, but I don't know the author.

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  • [–] 33 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    It reads like satire, but there is a real faction that are trying to repeal the 19th amendment.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    Oh absolutely, but I haven't seen people sincerely saying the way to remedy it is by removing single men's suffrage. The vibe I got was that this was using the real opinions and arguments of the people who oppose women's suffrage then humorously turning it on its head by arguing against men's suffrage, which is an equally reasonable (completely unreasonable to be exact) remedy to the arguments as what those people will claim.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Being in the platform it’s not.

    It’s a shame this cesspool is the only place to get tech industry tea.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    LinkedIn should be destroyed for the blight that it is on working people, but strawmanning the obvious, self-conflicting satire is not the move

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Is it a strawman when this is being treated as a legitimate position these days?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    It is. A few far right morons are starting to tout the whole, "Women dont vote right we should repeal the 19th" out loud instead of just thinking it privately. This is pretty clearly mocking that.

    That being said, fuck it, no one gets to vote. Were going ancient athens and just doing it by lotto. You can do your year and go home and face the repercussions without security and pension for a life.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig proposed a Jury-like system for passing legislation. The idea is that regardless of someone's stated political party, people will vote for individual laws that benefit them on a case by case basis before following hard party lines and it would be too costly and complicated for malicious groups to bribe individual citizens the same way they give "campaign contributions."

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I actually like that idea. Provided the law is ensured to have been read and the juries remain anonymous. Maybe multiple batches with no way of knowing who will be assigned to judge what law?

    Ill definitely have to read more about that, thanks for telling me.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    I don't think this system was meant to be perfect. It's just more resistance to bribes, coercion, and having you're values twisted by establishment political relationships.

    Corporate lobbying groups would still exist, but they would be forced to make their case in the open, in front of the jury, not while kicking back some drinks or a wink and a nudge along with a campaign check. Also, not all lobbying groups are evil. To name a few, the EFF, ACLU, and FFR all have lobbying aspects their orgs. This would level the playing field between the good ones and the ones with deep corporate pockets.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    What you are describing is supposed to be the role of the parliament in a well functioning democracy: you should be able to vote for the person representing your values, not choose the least bad option amongst two.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Yes it’s a about erasing women from the thought process regarding the 19th amendment.

    Human rights are indelible. They exist as something you really are entitled to by virtue of the fact that you exist as a human being.

    That said, legal rights which is what we discuss here, have only ONLY ever happened after a fight. No shit. All of them only come to us after a fight. Look up the history of the 19th. It almost didn’t happen. It wasn’t easy. It wasn’t a forgone conclusion. You need to realize that, internalize that, to fully understand what we are talking about here. None of this is something that cannot be legally ripped from us.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    yes the joke is that you expect that to be the point but they subvert it by targeting an even more vulnerable group instead (/s since we need that here apparently)

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  • [–] 20 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    Single men can’t vote? Thats all this is about? Fine. Single ladies can still vote but not single men.

    What, that’s not what you meant? Because that’s what you said.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago

    Then you'd better give me back every single fucking penny I've paid in tax you fucking nazi

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

    I’m sorry, what is this supposed to be?

    Quick Edit: Oh it’s blind! I pity anyone who feels the need to look at Blind. I read it as a descriptor, “blind lunacy”

    What is “White House & Policy,” why does it say “slync[dot]io” under it?

    A shocking number of people seem to think this is from a White House account, but there’s no real source.

    What is “this place”?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    It might be. It’s certainly in tune with maga.

    This post trying to shift the language. Words matter.

    Women’s liberation is exactly what it says. We were legally tied to men, dependent due to legal issues, up until the 1970s. Due to only 50 years of liberation in which we had to fight against significant societal inertia for while, well, a subset of males are still flailing after that shift, not knowing what to do or how to identify themselves after losing their life crutch shaped like a human being, specifically, a woman. Fueled by the prior generation, their dads, grandpas, and uncles, saying: women weren't like this back in my day. An honest statement, because we weren’t financially liberated from men and that creates a certain level of dependence that, by necessity, changes behavior.

    Anyway. Using the word “family” while avoiding the use of the word “woman” is an attempt to erase women from the thought process regarding the 19th amendment.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago*

    It might be.

    This could have been posted by someone in a different country, or even an LLM. Blind is anonymous and therefore useless. It’s been a joke in tech for over a decade now. You can sometimes get real information but it’s not often.

    This post trying to shift the language. Words matter.

    Words do matter. This post is garbage spewed by no one. It could even be a fake screenshot. 

    Sources matter just as much as words do. You’re giving a screenshot far too much power when it has no source.

    It’s alarming how many people upvoted this meaningless Blind post, because people get caught up in the drama instead of realizing what they’re responding to.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Did you not notice it ends in "taking away single men's right to vote"?

    It might be public policy I can get behind, but it's a shitpost.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    A. I am triggered by any talk that brushes up against rolling back any piece of women’s liberation.

    B. I’m just off a long work stretch of 12s and engaged in not moving from where I woke while viewing crap on my phone right now.

    C. This is the Internet.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Why not expand it? I mean single families can't really see the big picture and might want some arbitrarily different things. It should be an entire community gets one vote so things average out. We'll work together for a collective good that benefits all.

    Wait....

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago

    He's being sarcastic, right?

    Right???

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  • [–] 20 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    just all good reminders of something more important than your vote:

    the constitution is not permanent or immutable and there exist people and groups who know this and want to change things. in bad ways.

    the constitution does not “give” rights, it only takes them, and rights themselves are something that exist outside of all power structures.

    hit the gym.

    the nazis are.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    i mean i want to say the rights are guaranteed when they're made explicit and the powers to protect those rights are delegated from the citizenry to the government, and if that doesn't make it clear i'm a bit of an idealist i don't know what else will. like, you don't get to choose where you're born so you don't get to choose what you "voluntarily delegate" to the government, and emigration is rarely easy so your options when society chooses opposite you are limited.

    hooray.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    But keep it for single women? Aren't they both their own families if they head the household alone?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    You're missing what the 19th amendment fundamentally is:

    The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex, in effect recognizing the right of women to vote. The amendment was the culmination of a decades-long movement for women's suffrage in the United States, at both the state and national levels, and was part of the worldwide movement towards women's suffrage and part of the wider women's rights movement.

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  • Today I learned that people without families are entirely unaffected by their governments and so shouldn't have a say. Also that individualism and "selfishness" are incompatible with Capitalist American ideals...

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    Obligatory Man Show bit on ending women's suffrage.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    I mean… it’s a White House account. What do you expect?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I'd be happy working with my wife on votes, but only if it comes with the severe consequence of removing corporate money (votes) from elections too.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Take away all men's rights to vote, we don't deserve it. Women need to make all major decisions from now on.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    They had this policy in Franco-era Spain. Families got to vote, with the right being exercised by the head of the family.

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