That’s actually not far off from how things shook out economically in the Civil War. The North had roughly 5x the manpower, firepower, and money of the South. The South was never going to “win” the Civil War, due to that disadvantage. For them, “winning” would have been making the war costly enough to the North that the North gave up.
Calexit is the name of the California secessionist movement that has been around for a few decades.
And we have absolutely no data to suggest that’s happening. It’s purely hypothetical.
It would probably make me distrust the prosecution, like if they’re bringing this up they must not have much to go on. Like every time a black man is shot by police they bring up that he smoked weed.
I guess my main complaint is that it’s insane to view it as equivalent to real CP, and it’s harmful to waste any resources prosecuting it.
This sounds like you’re searching really hard for a reason to justify banning it. Pretty tenuous “what if” there.
Like, a dildo could hypothetically be used to sexualize a child. Should we ban dildos?
It’s so vague it could apply to anything.
With a set of all images on the internet. Why do you people always think this is a “gotcha”?
For Europeans, a quick primer on American uses of the term:
“Liberal” = socially liberal: gay marriage ok, trans people ok, immigrants ok
“Neoliberal” = economically liberal: laissez-faire, lower taxes on businesses, fewer worker protections
“Liberal” is left-wing. “Neoliberal” is right-wing. Sounds similar, very different. There are a lot of bad actors on lemmy who intentionally try to conflate the two. Don’t let them confuse you.
If a child is not being harmed, I truly do not give a shit.
such material can easily be used to groom children
This literally makes no sense.
Distribution cost of games has gone down to almost zero since then.
This is lemmy. All these people are like 14. They have no idea who Dawkins is.
Only in the long run. A lot of them died and suffered horribly first.
People are ABSOLUTELY going to forget. They always do.
What power? You fuckers didn’t vote them INTO power
He did vote against the Canadian tariffs actually. It’ll pass anyway though.
We were within 2% of stopping them. If you bastards had got on board, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
Maybe if Brits would stop saying ridiculous things lol
Those voter ID laws would have been the death knell for democracy, as they were in the Jim Crow South. Stopping them had incalculable benefits for the American people.
You’re overthinking it.
If I were President, I wouldn’t try to rule my country like a (particularly stupid) King. I would ask Congress to convene a task force comprised of economic experts, and then to propose, debate, amend, and hopefully pass a piece of legislation that addresses housing costs while having the consent of a majority of elected representatives. And if Congress said no, I would suggest that the citizens vote in new Congresspeople who will actually take the actions they desire.
Also I would ban any stupid kids from voicing any “if I were in charge” opinions, on penalty of time-out and having their phones taken away.