alilbee

joined 1 year ago
[–] alilbee@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

They will be lightly affected by her denouncing some of the protestors (which is separate from supporting Israel and its genocide), yes. Remember that the Jewish voting bloc is also primarily democratic. If your concern is politics in this situation, it's a very fine line that Dem politicians have to walk here.

Edit: I'm just gonna back out of this thread. I'm not supportive of the genocide, but yall also don't want to have an actual conversation.

[–] alilbee@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Why would his opinion not be subject to critique from the hundreds of people who use this site? Don't post if you don't want your opinions to be scrutinized by the forum you're posting in.

[–] alilbee@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, your children have an equal stake to yours. It gives you nothing.

[–] alilbee@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I haven't looked but no way they're removing perks. They're too enmeshed into the game design.

[–] alilbee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this title. It's not clickbait and it accurately describes the content. You're just upset you got caught out saying reactive, incorrect things about a video you didn't watch.

[–] alilbee@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (8 children)

It's nobody's fault but your own that you did not actually watch a video or read an article. Don't watch/read, don't comment. Easy. The title isn't deceptive just because it isn't a perfect TL;DR for lazy internet forum users.

[–] alilbee@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Are you under the impression that people donate money to politicians as an investment? For some of us, our sights are on yknow... not letting our country slide into a fascist state. My personal wealth is not as important as that.

[–] alilbee@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Hey, stop focusing so much on "I told ya so" to people who are definitely on your side. I was torn on it as well, but out of consideration for the potential impact being unknown. Hindsight is 20/20 and we're all better served by not gloating if we were right and instead focusing on the future path we are now on. Let's just keep it positive and build this victory through positivity instead of potential fractures with people who likely agree with you on the issues.

[–] alilbee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They didn't do one in this case, but I have heard stories of these sorts of malicious actors paying people stateside or elsewhere to take the video interviews. I've had to do ID checks on video in recent-ish interviews.

[–] alilbee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The first time, I was unfortunately still deep in the cult. I was on his side and then some. I was actually attending Falls Creek at the time. The second time, I met him in the Capitol as part of a large group and got to ask a few questions. Just wasn't an appropriate venue to air grievances given the context, which I'd rather not share too much about to avoid identifying myself. I was also only just barely getting out of the other side of my Christianity, so still did not have the faculties about me to even pinpoint my own grievances.

[–] alilbee@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Ah, Senator Lankford. He ran a church camp for children for many years called Falls Creek and preached there often. I've actually shaken his hand twice, both before and after he became Senator. He's a dyed in the wool Christian and governs like it. This is also the same Senator who cowrote the bipartisan border bill that was tanked by Trump some months ago. To be clear, I'm not a fan. Just not surprised by this stance at all and figured some folks might like context.

[–] alilbee@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So is baseball. Do you have a point?

view more: ‹ prev next ›