It’s more that incidences of gun violence and mass shootings are so astoundingly common in the USA that at this point you can find representations of anything in the data, because there’s like 6,000 points of it in the last decade.

Are there trans mass shooters? Yes, definitely. Are there violent people who endorse democrats or are “leftist”, whatever that means when mass media says it? Yes. But does that change the fact that something like 80+% of domestic bombings and mass shootings done since like 1998 have been committed by right wing nutjobs and religious extremists (and that’s not just code for Islamic extremism, it also includes the many bombings of abortion clinics, the bombing of the Olympics, and the assassinations of abortion providers done by Christian fundamentalists that gets swept under the rug bc we only care about religious extremism when brown people do it).

But now you’re starting to talk about math and people hate that shit. And even when they don’t the right will handwave away or memory hole tons of stuff. The guy that assassinated the democratic senators doesn’t count, the great replacement shooters don’t count, etc. go on kiwi farms or /pol/ and you’ll literally see people say that there’s only been left wing violence in the us since 2006 or 2008, which is just patently absurd.

Fair enough. here’s a bunch of the discourse bc I’m not a lawyer or legal expert

It appears there are replies to this thread that call into question many of the things stated

it reeks of punditry - surface level knowledge and worst case scenarios presented with lots of confidence. fwiw the persons quoted qualifications have absolutely nothing to do with law. They are a “blockchain” and data science person who also does venture capital and angel investing, aka a classic “I don’t know when to stay in my fucking lane and think that because I made a shitload of money I must be a genius at everything ever” type

Ending asylums began long before Regan

Regan ramped up funneling them into prisons, which is basically why the Kirk quote is disingenuous bullshit. Can supportive rehabilitative programs be the answer, even if they’re involuntary and potentially lifelong? Maybe. But that’s not what happens a lot of the time. American politicians, especially republicans, continually push to either limit funding as much as possible, end, or privatize (which only works for the more lucrative things like drug and alcohol and disability services and even those are widely considered to suffer under private equity). Of course, their solution for “end” is throw them to the wolves, which in practice means homelessness, crime, increasing drug use, etc and eventually prison when those things disrupt communities. Kirk wasn’t an idiot. He’s like Newsom, he knew the most likely place these people end up is prison and he didn’t care bc he saw them as subhuman scum

The fact of the matter is treating serious and persistent mental illness is not lucrative. In fact it is a financial sink if you choose a rehabilitative model, and even an asylum model, which is generally more cost efficient (but can be done with some dignity) is still quite expensive.

The fucked up part is that prisons are quite expensive too but less so and as a result are quite lucrative to their owners. They also are culturally built into this sense of redemptive justice, as if punishment of the offender actually does something to bring peace to the offended besides deluding them that the chaotic and violent world won’t wrong them again because one unjust act has been forcibly atoned without creating any sense of remorse before returning the person back to society (just exposing them to one of the most traumatizing and violent environments for years or decades with no support, what could go wrong?).

So we ignore mountains of evidence that rehabilitation oriented programming is overall more successful because it’s not perfect, someone will still get murdered and assaulted! And they won’t get horribly punished! And we stick with our terrible system that objectively results in much more people getting murdered and assaulted

That’s not the problem. Hacking software rules. The problem is griefing shitheads who ruin games for other people.

I regularly hack single player games to cheat especially after I have a “legit” run and want to try playing op or if it’s just a game I’m not super invested in the mechanics of and want to power through the story. Who gives a shit if I do this? 20-30 years ago this was a cheat code or a game genie thing. Now it’s “bad”, which I get if it’s multiplayer and I’m ruining balance (unless literally the only multiplayer aspect is a meaningless leaderboard), or it’s still there but it’s monetized and that’s just scumbag shit

Came here to post this. If you hit a dog and bail you’re a fucking monster

Already there on right wing discussion sites

(Thread has 250 pages and is a continuation of the initial 500 page thread)

There is some leftist dissent but it is overwhelmingly right wingers positing the narrative that you propose (plus discord/transgender friends/never trump republicans)

Lmao I can’t think of anything that deserves less respect. fafo

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I used to know this person that pretended to be a lib but was actually a borderline maga bully and would get really defensive when they were called out for using ableist language. They had to be beaten over the head to not say f*g anymore but theyre the same shitty person that still mocks people for things they can’t change. Turns out they’re all over lemmy

Are you the kind of tech bro that is so happy Trump is in office bc he’s enabling technofascism. You fit the profile: take extreme offense to someone disagreeing with you, assume anyone critiquing apple is an android fanboy bc everything must be tribalism, ableist bc mocking people for the faults they can’t control is super funny like South Park, etc

More ableism, classy

you responded in minutes bro lmao

When I went to unlock my phone for the notification of this faceid didn’t work

Bc someone managed to find a bootrom exploit very early in the consoles life, which is fairly (and increasingly) uncommon (to find at all, let alone early). Still worth searching of course and still theoretically possible always but not something to count on

On my deathbed I will remember this exchange and smile

Can’t get it on if the bootloaders locked

I feel like this would be counterproductive in that it would ultimately be turned against the hacker group and used as fuel to increase control of devices when said group bricks 500,000+ phones or whatever. At least in the us the media and government will always side with corporations and that takes a huge amount of the population along with them

The 3ds free shop debacle with titlekeys being easily reused was pretty bad too. Like I suppose it could happen to anyone but if that happened to MS or Sony you know it would be patched in a matter of days (or hours, even) whereas the free shop worked for almost 2 full years. It is absolutely unimaginable in the modern context to think that a modern gaming company would allow an exploit that allowed you to simply download any game or update you wanted from their cdn and have your console immediately see it as legit. To think that such a thing would go on for years is mind blowing nowadays (and partially explains why the switch 2 is draconian, though it doesn’t excuse it. Just do better at security)