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Yeah, this is a slippery slope. Imagine you have a neighbor you don’t get along with. They could just report you for “mentally unstable behavior” and then you are added to a watch list! Then, of course, this list would be shared across government agencies, because “for safety”. This would affect every decision you make for the rest of your life! It’s almost like you would have a “red flag” attached to your name for the rest of your life!

All because someone just didn’t like you.

Judging by your comment, we are in agreement that “red flag laws” are NOT a good idea!

Ugh. I wish I didn’t have this overwhelming nostalgia that makes me want to play every LOZ game ever. It’s the only franchise that keeps me crawling back to the Nintethedone Clinic.

Literally all you have to do is throw that whole thing into a pot with some beer and heat it for a while, then you have a pretty decent soup.

My MIL is this kind of extrovert. She assumes that if someone isn’t constantly talking to her that they hate her.

Look lady: I love your daughter to death! I love you to death! I DON’T HAVE ANY NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN MY LIFE!! And you KNOW that!! Trust me, when I do, I WILL LET YOU KNOW!! In the meantime, business as usual and I don’t have any opinions on anything outside of my purview!

I swear, if ever she was forced to sit in front of a group of people in silence, her head might explode.

But Obama told me he really REALLY liked me!

I find it important to call out any media bias no matter how “tepid” you may find it.

It’s the deluge of “tepid” examples of bias that makes us complacent when what you might consider “real bias” comes up and goes unnoticed and/or unquestioned.

To all of the “neutral” folks:

Wouldn’t “neutral” mean you could swap headlines and photos and still have the same emotional response (because that is the aim of propaganda, to illicit an emotional response)?

I don’t think this would garner the same response if it was switched.

It is subtle propaganda (apparently), but biased propaganda none the less.

Not necessarily. One snip gives an example of a positive quality of the person in question paired with a positive leaning photo. The other gives no such example of quality (and in fact uses authoritarian language as a way of swaying opinion) paired with a photo doctored to (at least in my mind) resemble historically negative figureheads.

This is a form of bias and propaganda.

Exactly! Additionally, the visual cues that are obviously being used paint a very different picture.

Propaganda isn’t really difficult. It just requires a predisposed audience.

I love this. It always reminds me of Fleetwood Mac, and that’s always a good thing!

$700 gets you a pretty nice PC these days…

The most important lesson I have learned throughout my career is that large corporations are not worth working for. Too much “HR” interference.

The best work environments I have ever been a part of is when I worked for smaller businesses that were still made up of actual people and not nameless/faceless/soulless “corporate HR departments”, who’s sole purpose is to “make corpo more money no matter the means”.

I don’t know, have you seen how they are teaching math these days?

This liberal agenda is getting out of hand!! /s

“My God! It just falls right out!! It’s you!! You are the one I turned out last night!!”

I feel like it should be “Warm-Hindrance Man”

“So in short eat vegan like a poor vegan not like a rich person who thinks veganism is trendy”

But in the context of this conversation, wouldn’t eating like a poor vegan rely heavily on buying products that also have a heavy impact on the environment?

You would have to buy cheaper products which come from mass produced farms that use TONS and TONS of water! And generate TONS and TONS of carbon emissions during production of those products.

To be vegan AND advocate for conservation(you can advocate for something no matter your own behavior. That’s the wrong word to use) to claim that your lifestyle is better for the environment than your non-vegan counterparts, you have to have money.

It’s like the “MiniDisc” of records.

I’m not saying I would be walking around with a boner. I’m saying I would want to look at naked breasts because I appreciate female bodies (in this case, specifically the chesticle region) no matter the shape. Are you shaming me for that?

Sure, if everyone walked around naked 24/7, it would probably be less of an issue. Do you believe that everyone walking around naked 24/7 is a viable option?

And also, you seriously believe that it is an issue ONLY with Western cultures and Abrahamic religions?! I’m starting to think you have never spoken to someone from China or Japan about their societal norms.