It is… if you don’t have the time or energy to do all that fact-checking because you have to work yourself to the bone just to afford rent.

Yes. An unpaid one.

It’s her!

People calling him an illustrator and not an artist are just jealous of his hands.

I don’t call people artists because I have no reason to insult them.

This is not uplifting news.

It would have been uplifting if he had been hanged while his ill-gotten assets were being redistributed democratically.

was also a lot cheaper

That’s what they told me when I was a kid - and now I live in a country where 20% of the population can’t even afford milk. So I have to ask - cheaper for whom?

been due to plastic subsidies or something equally evil

Don’t know, but it sure did allow the big supermarket chains to monopolize the dairy supply business.

We literally had actual bottle recycling schemes back in the old days when we had people delivering milk and other dairy products.

But that didn’t fit into big corporations “profiteering-at-all-costs” plans, so they started selling the stuff in plastic.

I would love to be given a few minutes worth of grace to edit some minor spelling and/or grammar mistakes once I’ve hit the “post” button.

If you bought a Tesla you are not “progressive” in any way whatsoever.

It’s amazing to me just how hassle-free it is to use Lemmy as opposed to reddit.

Rddit just feels like it’s actively trying to get you to leave it.

They say “anyone can become president”,

Anyone that believes that probably also believes that a glass slipper can magically turn you into royalty.

It’s nice to see the name Shapiro not linked to something vomit-worthy, for once.

There is no such thing as “blind” justice. What they mean with “blind justice” isn’t justice at all, but rather a blind application of and obedience to law - which liberalism have always (and utterly falsely) conflated with “justice.”

It’s an ideal in that people should be working towards taking control of the state apparatus

People are ALREADY in control of the state apparatus. What we have is, by now, the very predictable result.

The american legal system isn’t about justice

None of them are. They are all about maintaning the status quo and nothing else.

It’s an unreachable ideal to be continuously worked towards.

No it isn’t. It’s a pretense that the class who controls the violent apparatus of the state is impartial. It’s propaganda and nothing else.

That’s the ideal, it’s supposed to be aspirational.

It was never an ideal. It was little more than a marketing gimmick.

Hard yes from me, thank you.

Oh look… a white supremacist desperately trying to “whatabout” more than a hundred years of US terrorism.

It’s a phrase that could only have been invented in the USA. So yeah… pretty damn terrifying.