“women’s only cars” aren’t really much of a thing… there’s like, a handful of places in the entire world that have them; they’re super rare.

yeah, saw that comment later…seems like a troll…

nah, they’re just THAT dense and have no idea what they’re talking about…not a troll, just too dumb to realize they’re being dumb…

the salt isn’t bait for hunting: it’s just for nutrients.

the local hunters always leave salt out, especially in winter near the feeding stations.

it’s super common to supplement diets of all sorts of game with salt. it’s purely for the health of the population.

so it’s a) not illegal (wtf, why would it be?), and b) not for hunting at all…at least not directly

why would deer be illegal?

username is NOT checking out, lmao!

only: it was NOT random.

that’s the part you refuse to acknowledge.

mother of slippery slope…

everything you’ve said so far takes place in some fantasy world that exists only within your own imagination.

the law failed. the democratic process failed.

your argument boils down to: “please let’s just give the tyrants everything they want from us! it’s the law!”

seriously, is this your first day on earth?

do you simply lack any and all perspective?

and to top it all off: the sheer disregard you show for the countless lives this CEO cut short is frankly breathtaking.

you claim to care for all human life and think everyone deserves a fair trial. that’s well amd good…how could that possibly have ever happened under the current state of affairs in the u.s.? when HAS it ever happened? what makes you think it possibly could?

this was the only way that murderer would ever face justice, and deep down you know that.

of course there’s hypocrisy here:

you are treating the choices of the two people in question as equal. they are not.

the CEO was in a position of power, abused that power, and suffered the consequences. that is justice fulfilled. not the preferred kind, but still justice.

apart from that, the democratic process spectacularly failed, on this exact topic: obama DID try to enact healthcare reform, but was blocked at every step.

if voting does absolutely nothing, you’re not leaving people a whole lot of options.

the justice system does nothing to help, the voting process has failed to help…what is then left?

this isn’t some horrific, abstract, morally ambigous consequence of a cascade of nebulous events.

there is a very clear cause and effect.

push a boulder off a hilltop; it will roll downhill.

leave a person no other option, but violence; it will end in violence.

it’s a strictly logical consequence.

there is no moral ambiguity here at all. it was a clearly warranted action, with known causes.

cause and effect is a matter of physics, not philosophy.

if you want to blame anyone, blame the republicans: they are the guilty ones here. they are directly responsible for the circumstances that allowed this situation to happen in the first place.

yes, it’s not an ideal outcome.

but it was inevitable, sooner or later. and it’s frankly amazing it hasn’t happened MUCH sooner, and MUCH more often.

this wasn’t a “flaw” in the “democratic” system of the U.S. this is a consequence of the oligarchy working as intended. the intent just happens to be self-destructive in this case.

what this CEO did, was the equivalent of smoking at a gas station; are you really surprised he got blown to bits?

i guess it really comes down to: Fuck Around; Find Out.

well…he did find out, didn’t he?

(and don’t assume i’m a U.S. citizen. it doesn’t matter, and i’m not.)

kinda defeating yout own point here:

the guy made the concious decision to ruin strangers lives for nothing but his personal greed every single day.

that was HIS choice, HIS action, HIS decision.

well…actions tend to have consequences.

this was a direct consequence of actions the CEO willingly made, repeatedly.

nobody forced him to. nobody compelled him to.

so yeah, he DID choose exactly this, no question about it.

the hypothetical voter in your example indirectly chooses his judgement, this CEO chose directly, all by himself.

so as you can see: the CEO very much DID vote for his fate. he voted every single day working for UHC.

your comment is the absolutely highest form of hypocrisy.

there’s a whole sub-community around building physics exploit driven crafts:

look up “kraken drives” ;)

on top of which it creates a security issue too:

by teaching users to always instantly click on “OK”, “Accept”, etc, they stop reading the actually important messages, because they’re being bombarded by so, so many useless pop-ups everywhere…

“I constantly came” is the funny bit ;)

you’re arguing government action with a user that hails from “@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org”.

i don’t foresee a fruitful discussion, mate…

FYI: it really shouldn’t…

you can just say season 8, but why would you, when a “a shit of ice and fire” is available as drop-in replacement?

this is exactly, and i cannot stress enough just how exactly, the plot of “Don’t look up”

hazbin hotel is an adult cartoon musical tv show about the daughter of satan trying to establish a hotel with the aim of rehabilitating the souls of sinners so they can enter heaven.

it’s an excellent show! a lot of fun with a bunch of famous actors doing the voices/songs ;)

eh, discord started catering to people using it as a forum, so they are actively making the problem worse…

they introduced pseudo-forum channels where messages are grouped into threads, like a traditional forum…of course not indexed, and with their signature terrible “last message first” sorting, and terrible UI that doesn’t do any of the things a forum is supposed to be good at…

so yeah, discord absolutely belongs to the other awful internet diseases you mentioned, it’s not an exception…

you shouldn’t use it because it’s a black hole for information.

anything out on discord should be treated as deleted, because it inevitably will disappear one day, with no hope of recovery.

when a public forum is indexable that means that projects like archive.org and wayback machine can save the contents, even if the site itself disappears some day, meaning the information is preserved for future generations.

communities use discord way more than they should, and all that those communities create is effectively non-existent. most of it is already as good as gone.

think of modding communities, which are by far the worst offenders when it comes to discord: not only are way too many mods hosted on discord itself, way too many communities are only sort-of indexed through discord, meaning the links to where the actual files are hosted can only be accessed through discord. so even if the files survive the inevitable purge, they are lost anyways.

so many communities have already just… disappeared without warning, because the server got nuked for one reason or another, often completely idiotic reasons. and all the knowledge stored on those is gone. forever.

that’s why discord is insanely bad for the internet as a whole, but for data driven communities especially.

it would be fine if people only used it for what it was meant to do, chatting, but misusing it as a forum is where the problems begin.

it gets even worse when people insist on using it as a support channel: questions and answers are constantly buried and impossible to find, search engines can’t show you the contents, so you don’t even know that your problems even have answers, questions are constantly repeated over and over, even though they’ve already been answered, and on and on the list goes.

discord is bad for communities. it is destructive. it is insanely divisive!

there’s a trend for every single creator/author to have their own server!

so instead of having one big community, where users can easily find information and content, and creators can easily exchange ideas and concepts, you get tiny splinters that either don’t talk to each other, or don’t even realize they exist at all!

and all of that is completely hidden behind opaque “search” and “discover” algorithms that only serve what discord itself thinks the user wants.

it’s top to bottom terrible for communities, but people flock to it anyways, for all the wrong reasons.

discord is the bane of online social groups!

and the worst part is: you are absolutely FORCED to use it, because damn near everyone uses it! and there’s no alternative way to access it, you HAVE to use it! that alone should set off alarm bells!