Not sure why you’re being downvoted. I’ll try and do a better response later when I have some time.

In an ideal world we could replace SCOTUS members who, for example, lied under oath to congress. That would allow a lot of problems that seem impossible to solve to be pretty easily solved. I think the US is an example of a cascading system of measures to make it hard to undo the rot. For example: We need better rulings on cops, so we need a better supreme court, so we need to pack the court or get rid of the fascists on it, so we need a majority progressive congress, so we need campaign finance reform, so we need more people to vote, so we need laws against electioneering… I mean there are things that could be done that ate lynch pins for huge progress, but the system is certainly stacked against us. Not a reason to give up, but it explains a lot of the nihilism generally in our culture.

27.6 per 100 people vs US, which is 120.5. Where are you sourcing that from?

1: Your source uses FBI data.

2: The criteria is clearly spelled out in your own source, and it changed in 2013 to be more strict.

3: Our mass shooting problem definitely requires extensive work.

4: Extremist violence does account for the vast majority, and right wing is the vast majority of extremist violence, especially if you count religious extremists. However, the abundance of guns certainly adds more since we are not the most extreme religious country, nor do we have the most percentage of right-wing idealologically aligned people.

5: Forcing cops to care has never worked because, according to SCOTUS, they’re not required to do their job, even while on shift and present. Also, the most red flag sign of gun violence is domestic abuse, which most cops do on the regular, as well as right wing extremist ideation, which most cops engage in already. We’d be better off firing the domestic abusers and domestic terrorists that make up the majority and hiring social workers for most roles.

“Liberal” is a very bold accusation when most people on Lemmy across all instances are better described as socialists including me.

Putin would have to not be a hypocrite to be any different than the west, but this isn’t really about Putin, so you’ve said 2 things, and both are straw men. RT has as much integrity as Newsmax does talking about Trump.

RT engaging in whataboutism?! Nooo, they would never.

Phil Butler sure does like gobbling Kremlin cock.

Do you often take offense to what’s written in dictionaries and historical accounts?

Very cool photo, you’ve got an eye for it.

Rent. Control.

I don’t get micromanaged any more, but when I worked retail I had to help customers that walked up and so I would use my phone always in the same spot where I can see the camera feed of all the exits in my periphery. I don’t know if a customer ever saw my phone.

I’m not sure what you mean. It seemed relatively on point.

Lol, a dream worth living… unfortunately, I’d be dead in short order.

Jews have not trashed their international goodwill, zionists have. Many Jews show condemnation of the genocide in Gaza and no reservations about calling it that. See: Jewish Voices for Peace. Equating the two is the problem, but it’s not up to the Jews to say, “Not on our name” as much as it is for everyone else to say, “Zionists sure do sound like and act like Nazis.” Jews shouldn’t even have to voice their disdain for the false association because it’s an antisemitic idea created and spread by Zionists and Christian Fascists.

Not sure which is worse. Depends on the person typing.

Peaches. I can’t eat them without having a seriously bad time for a day or two. Still, if I see a Georgia peach that’s soft I usually just deal with the consequences later. They’ve been the hardest fruit to give up.

It’s not a competition between Gaza and Ukraine for those of us with a degree of moral consistency.

Perhaps a better example would have been the Uvalde police vs the shooter. People are rightfully mad at the police, but nobody gatekeeps that anger in that instance except police apologists.

If you’re drowning, you don’t look down at the water, you look for a life raft.

What’s potentially more scary is that they garner this defeatism about human rights by way of the United States, so what does that mean for when America does the same thing? Obviously, American imperialism has a long violent history, but its wars have never specifically targeted women, children, aid workers, and journalists. If they did though, apparently they’d all be just as silent as they have been for our extension in the middle east.

May be worth running water over one just in case if you are interested in pursuing it. I was so confident that a Styrofoam container for my humira meds would hold water that I filled it up and started walking before realizing it was dripping all over me.