I am unbothered my friend.

I appreciate you taking the time to recognise the fault in the statement. That’s more maturity and self awareness than a lot of people have.

Keep that up.

Cheers.

Exactly this. The small amount of socialism we have in Canada, where I am, allows otherwise destitute people to have a place to live, food on the table, and the ability to see a doctor and recieve medical care.

Also, the fire department will show up if their house catches fire, and the police will show up if someone robs them…

All social services.

Idk, I live in Canada and we have a lot of social services. Things are going pretty decently.

I think you might be conflating socialism (the concept) with communism (the authoritarian system of government).

This reminds me a lot of love. People can’t, or don’t, by default, differentiate different forms of love, though, there are many.

If you express love for anyone that isn’t blood related, the implication is that you want to copulate with them, and often, that’s far from the truth.

I love a lot of people, but not in that way. Right now, the only person I love who I want to copulate with is my partner. At the same time, I have a large group of friends that I also love, as a kind of trust and friendship love, though they’re not related to me through blood, in any way, shape, or form (Besides us both being human, I guess).

Commoners in society are extremely reductive, so the nuances of such things often escape them.

You can like, love or even find something attractive, and that doesn’t define you. You define yourself. That’s the privilege of sapience. We can decide such things about ourselves.

I like your opinion. You can consider me to be bi if you want.

I don’t identify that way and I’m not so insecure that someone having a different opinion about me, bothers me in the slightest. You do you, my friend.

Present and amounted for.

I’m not saying I like it, it’s just the way it is.

I don’t mean to imply your job with writing your thesis on it is easy, the proof needed would be no easy task.

But it’s hard to flip through a history book and stop on any page, and not find something on the page that’s harmful to nature.

Proving that it’s harmful would be the part that’s hard. Finding the occurrences of harm is easy.

Seems like an easy subject. Just saying.

The whole thing stinks of socialism.

Like we should, idk, pool our resources to “improve” our lives or something…

Nah, I’d rather burn prehistoric forests in my trukk because I’m so free.

America, fuck yeah

This is the way.

Straight facts:

I am a straight man. Hello everyone. I hope you’re all having a wonderful day.

Also a fact, I support all peoples choices in terms of what they like and how they identify. Not sure why I would care if someone else wants to be gay, bi, trans, hereto/cis, queer, lesbian, etc. I’m not those things, I’m not sure why it would bother anyone that someone else likes things? Whatever.

Also a fact from a straight guy, aka, straight fact.

While I can recognise that some masculine figures are handsome/good looking, I do not… And I can’t stress this enough… I do not feel any attraction to men.

They can be rather good looking, but that doesn’t make me want to get them naked and fool around.

If you have excitement in your pants for someone of the same gender, well… I have news for you… And there’s nothing wrong with that.

Be who you are. Anybody who gives a shit is probably not worth knowing.

It’s not a serious problem. Needs of the one vs needs of the many and all that.

It’s still discourteous.

But at the same time, people who do that kind of work, generally understand how annoying it is when their relief shows up late, so that kind of thing usually works itself out naturally… Or the chronic late person ends up needing to find a new job.

That’s exactly my point.

Some jobs, it’s extremely important to be on time… A fireman is an easy and obvious answer. Also nurses and people who work 24/7 coverage positions. Though, a lot of those will inconvenience one person because the previous shift person will need to cover; then there’s arguments about the one vs the many, etc.

But I’m also not taking about 20+ minutes of lateness here. We’re taking about <10 minutes. Honestly, it still wouldn’t matter that much for most. Even if you’re relieving someone.

You should absolutely do everything you can to show up on time, so that nobody is put out because of you, but shit happens.

Anything that demands less, meh?

I had a specific exception for if you’re relieving someone.

I recognised this exact issue in my original statement.

Some of us still try to heed our neighbors.

Unfortunately that usually results in all of us, just chilling at the bottom of the pile, because while we were helping eachother, everyone else used us as stepping stones to get closer to the brim.

It certainly never died.

Over time the gap on Justice has only gotten wider. The rich will literally bankrupt someone with legal fees long before any kind of judgement can be enforced; even if they’re completely in the right, they can’t get justice because companies have enough money to throw at the problem that they can effectively ensure that any judgement against them is squashed.

Most will settle out of court at best, so that the whole experience can be over, while the rich barely need to show up for court when they’re charged with anything. Their lawyers take care of everything.

The police are just an extension of the same problem. The whole idea of police has been hostile to the common man from the start. It’s basically boiled down to, if you don’t do what you’re supposed to, then we’re going to fine you money you don’t have. When you fail to pay up, we’re going to throw you in jail.

Even if you can pay, is kept on your record and held against you for years to come. Forget getting decent employment if you’re convicted of any crime.

But the rich are barely affected by any of this. Punishments are usually a joke to them, like, they need to pay a few grand? Sure, in the time they the cop decided to do that, they probably made more money than the fine is, from their investments.

Everything is balanced towards those with money are affected the least, or completely unaffected, when they commit crimes, yet for commoners and poors, we get fucked for the rest of our lives.

This is the system. Working at intended.

I think the only way to realistically fight back is if all the tradespeople refuse to work on a foreclosed property.

It’s possible, or the land owners could simply bring in someone from out of state (or province, or whatever it is where you are)…

Canadian Tire?

Why am I not surprised.

Unequivocally no.

We live in an era of being able to buy things, sight-unseen. In that era, there was no way for an investor to bid without physically showing up, so if they did, and aggressively outbid everyone else, then they already have a noose set up for them.

Now? People don’t need to be at the auction in person, there probably wouldn’t be an auction to begin with. The Bank would hire a real estate agent, who would pass it off to whomever makes the highest bid. Simple as that.

I’d like to think we would, as communities, as a society, but in this society is also money hungry, faceless corporations that will do whatever they can to make a dollar. There are so many layers of obfuscation between the person who is buying the property, and the person who ultimately owns it.

I just can’t see it happening with the Internet.

Okay kids, this is what we call, micro management leading to a hostile work environment.

I don’t think I’ve worked for a company that gave a shit if I was 10 minutes late.

One company had a time clock that only kept time records to one decimal place of an hour. The clock literally couldn’t differentiate between someone clocking in 5 minutes early, or 5 minutes late.

Anyone who cares about how trivially late you are, isn’t someone worthy of your labor.