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Because when the average person hears "the government owes x Billion Dollars" the assumption is "they will be handing over X billion in cash". It's like the Ukraine military support - people hear "3 billion USD in military aid for Ukraine" and think the US is handing over 3 billion dollars, not handing over about 3 billion worth of old soon-to-be-retired equipment.

Which makes conversations about government debt really fun. It's just a lack of understanding.

Yep. Work profile and apps are completely disparate, and it's actually kind of tough to transfer any data across the boundary even if you wanted to. Any time I need to send a picture to my work Slack I have to remind myself to use the work profile camera app.

It's the same tech that powers the Secure Folder thing in Android devices. My older S8 was on Android 8 or 9 and still had this functionality, so I'm not sure how old you'd have to go to have a less secure setup.

I think this mastodon post is inaccurate.

Zizek is based as fuck, even if you don't agree with everything he says his books are really good

I think it's because the meme itself is the wrong way to try to make that argument. Instead of just saying "the US has 22% of the world's aggregate prisoner population and that's a problem", it's making that argument by directly comparing it to a MUCH WORSE regime for that exact violation of rights.

The whataboutisms tend to be bristling at the bad comparisons more than a direct refutation of the underlying point being made. I think complaining about the whataboutisms misses the point of those replies, which is valid.

As the other poster said, why not compare with Scandinavian countries that genuinely do have better justice systems rather than comparing with USSR or CCP which have much worse justice systems?

Based reality

Our ROI in terms of $/patient outcome is insanely bad lol

Yea the US could sacrifice zero dollars in defense budget and still provide adequate service to the population. Healthcare is cheaper when it's not being profiteered by insurance middlemen, and private companies pricing is really hard to influence directly without something like a price fixing lawsuit.

But hey gotta maintain the "democrats are just as bad" image.

Lemmy reacting purely based on an editorialized headline that meets their preconceived worldview? That would never happen!

Ben Eater on youtube has a great series

These are the "right by accident" people that make it so hard to have meaningful discussions.

You're absolutely correct and we shouldn't ignore genuine acts of antisemitism just because Israel's government is doing terrible things.

TIL park rangers are "Biden admin"

That's not true. Tankies love to shit on the US for "meddling" in Africa when a lot of the time its providing funding and weapons for regimes where the opponents are funded by Russia/Wagner/China. Depending on which way the wind blows, the US is either "overthrowing a legitimate regime" or "restoring the democratic process".

It's a no win. Africa is too weak to stabilize by itself after centuries of meddling, and if the US goes hands-off, Russia and China will just economically enslave them via predatory loans, like how neoliberal policies economically enslaved South/Central America to the US. I'd trust the US installed people for their own populace over Chinese/Russia installed people, given the respective human rights records of all involved.

Anyways, while 2003 onwards was a huge fuck up and absolutely abhorrent, Desert Shield/Storm was incredibly justified defending an ally under armed occupation and still gets shit on by Tankies.

One man's humanitarian mission to shut down a warlord is another man's mission to overthrow a regime and install US-friendly government.