HenchmanNumber3

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[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago (8 children)

The original meanings of words change over time with usage. Though they have some overlap and some differences (Brazilians are considered Latino but not Hispanic and Spaniards are considered Hispanic but not Latino), the term Latino is generally replacing previous usage of Hispanic, though Latino is likely used more in urban and coastal regions of the US and Hispanic is likely used more in rural and landlocked regions. The usage of either term won't always be accurate and it will be an exonym used for people who don't call themselves by that term.

You're free to say, "I don't identify as Latino. I'm Mexican." Or "I'm Mexican American." if you're in the US. There will be surveys and polls and forms that won't have Mexican as a choice though since they use pan-ethnic or continental terms for wide groups of people for categorization purposes. Similar to the fact that white isn't an ethnicity or a scientific taxonomy. It's an arbitrary designation with historical, social and political baggage.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 26 points 11 months ago

Subpoena his Viagra prescription.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 14 points 11 months ago

The law’s section that bans books depicting sex acts from school libraries includes an exception for religious texts, like the Christian Bible.

What a coincidence! My deeply held religious beliefs in a new religion I just made up holds all LGBTQ+ books as sacred religious texts...

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

I am deeply interested in the thoughts of billionaires who benefit from the incomparably greater amount of work other people perform to provide them with obscene amounts of wealth so they can find a comfortable balance between exploiting workers and flying in dick rockets for fun.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 20 points 11 months ago

If drug use while pregnant is child endangerment, then society should be indicted whenever a woman is denied all the prenatal care necessary to deliver a healthy baby regardless of her income or wealth, otherwise we'd be prosecuting people for being poor. Oh wait, we already do that in other scenarios! My bad. Carry on!

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

If you have to coin a phrase for it, I'd say something like comparative minimization rationalization.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 14 points 11 months ago

I sincerely appreciate that WSJ thinks their propaganda is so important that I'd want to pay to read it.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

This sounds like a walkaway hashtag comment.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Never try to do anything good because bad might inadvertently result from the action.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

It's possible that they thought the first one didn't post and kept trying. Sometimes you get a timeout error and return to the editable text with the post button again but the post already went through.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The Superman problem. Main sources of conflict tend to involve depowering, fighting another godlike, or threatening people they care about. Over and over again.

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