It is destroying America.. The problem is the mindset of "what is yours is mine by birthright". The list never ends... It was food.. then healthcare.. Now it's fucking cell phones.. What's next? Oh yeah.. A free wage to do nothing a la UBI... Next it'll probably be free cars... But nothing, and none of it, is free.
You asshats see "pens" and think "no big deal" and it wouldn't be if the line didn't keep getting pushed back further and further and further...
It's a simple thought experiment that illustrates the larger problem: If tomorrow the government decided everyone had the inalienable right to electricity, and the government would pay for it, how long until we had electrical shortages? Who would give a fuck about setting the thermostat to 68? You'd just crank it up (or down in the summer) and fuck all the savings.. it's FREE!!!!
I know two people who get those free cell phones that CA hands out.. 1 is on his 5th because he can't remember to take it out of his pants before he throws them in the washing machine... The other is on her third, I think.. She's been losing them.. But who the fuck cares? He, quite literally and with no sense of shame, said "Yeah, washed my phone again last night.. No biggie, I'll go down and get a new one tomorrow.. I just have to bring back the broken one.." Why the fuck would he care? There's no lesson... If I wash my phone I have to BUY another one... You learn pretty goddamn quick to take care of your stuff when you pay for it.
Now I can't wait to hear how this logic is racist and anti-poor people.. Have at it...
I'm against communism and coercion. If the school needs pens, make the giving anonymous. But gathering up all the supplies from the students and redistributing them is not okay.. Something doesn't have to be a capital crime to fall on this side of "not cool". For fuck's sake... Why should Parent A, who paid for their supplies, have to donate them to Parent B?
Is it nice to do so? Of course! But it should not be mandatory.. Why can't you people understand this?
Who said there's no coercion? I said force.. But coercion can still be applied. Public shaming for example... Not gonna take the kids long to figure out which kids are poor and are receiving free pens...
It's hard not to take home office supplies. You're running late to a meeting, so you grab a pen off your desk and stick it in your pocket. Then you forget about it
But that's not what the article is about.. Your scenarios wouldn't (most likely) result in office supply expenses shooting up by 20%. Nothing is ever black/white. There are always shades of grey.. But the story is talking about rampant supply thefts... I certainly wasn't talking about taking a single pen home by accident. But a large chunk of the morons are trying to justify this theft with "employers suck! Soak them!"
Is your point that if one person steals from people it's okay for someone else to steal?
We, as a civilization, decided that was unacceptable about 5,000 years ago.. The fact that Joe Smith steals from his employees is not justification for John Doe to steal from his employer. Or, are you trying to say that because a person in the Trump administration is a fuckhead, that all conservatives are?
Thanks for making my point for me. Not regretting this decision at all. If it was up to you fuckheads we'd all be like Venezuela now. I'll apply your logic and assume you have the brainpower of AO-C...
Thanks for being the arbiter of what's reasonable.. I guess if you feel that way, that's the way it is..
I think paying for a iPhone is moronic... But I've never suggested Apple was ripping anybody off.. Don't want to pay for an iPhone? Buy an Android..
Don't want to pay for Updates to your Motorola radio? Pick one of the other companies making encrypted radios.. Motorola doesn't have a goddamn monopoly.
Maybe if you bought products from the company that was acting in a reasonable manner, the unreasonable ones (Motorola) would wither and die..
Instead you steal from the shady company and the honest company never gains any traction in the market.
Then how do you make money from your software you ask?
*The same way every other legitimate business in the history of mankind did!* By selling your *service* as a *service*. Not as a product.... Because *it isn't!*
It's because of assholes like you that this is the exact direction the software industry is headed. Software as a rental.. I can't just buy Photoshop anymore.. Nope, I have to pay for it ever single goddamn month... Because fuck faces like you kept stealing it...
Here it appears Motorola was doing exactly that.. Selling an update service... Doing exactly what you suggest they should do.. What's it like to contradict yourself in your own post?
In the US, copyright infringement is a civil offense, and I believe it is the same in Canada. So it doesn't make much sense that he was arrested for that.
It doesn't make sense because you are talking out of your ass. You aren't a lawyer, stop pretending to be one.
Criminal copyright laws prohibit the unacknowledged use of another's intellectual property for the purpose of financial gain. Violation of these laws can lead to fines and jail time. Criminal copyright laws have been a part of U.S. laws since 1897, which added a misdemeanor penalty for unlawful performances if "willful and for profit".
Criminal penalties were greatly expanded in the latter half of the twentieth century, and those found guilty of criminal copyright infringement may now be imprisoned for decades, and fined hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Criminal penalties, in general, require that the offender knew that he or she was committing a crime, while civil copyright infringement is a strict liability offense, and offenders can be "innocent" (of intent to infringe), as well as an "ordinary" infringer or a "willful" infringer.
The above is for the US.
The person referenced in the story, a Canadian, knew damn well what he was doing and he evidenced it as much when he said "Don't ask where these keys came from". As Canada also has criminal penalties for copyright infringement.....
According to section 34(4) of the Copyright Act, specific penalties will be decided by the court. Section 35(1) states that an infringer is liable for the financial gain made through infringement, and "such damages to the owner of the copyright as the owner has suffered due to the infringement"......
In addition to the civil penalties described above, Section 42(1) of the Copyright Act sets out a number of criminal offences. These primarily deal with infringement that involves sale or rental of copyrighted materials, and can result in fines of up to $1,000,000 or prison sentences of up to 2 years for indictment. For a summary conviction, the maximum fine is $25,000 and prison term is limited to 6 months.
So both countries have criminal copyright law..... Try again.
Valid or not, this fine publication will be handy for management to further lean on workers. I expect it will be just a matter of time before people making minimum wage will have deductions from their paychecks for every item needed to do the job.
...pay them a living wage & stop stealing their labour/wages.
As another poster pointed out, he's had items stolen from his desk by people he knows are being well paid. Your argument fails. You can't justify theft. You can try, but you'll fail and we all know you're a thieving cunt with zero morals.
Yes, because communism has ever worked. If your idea was so fucking good, why don't we see it in practice? You think you're the first guy to come up with the idea of employee owned companies?
THEY SUCK. Even UPS finally abandoned that moronic philosophy and have gone public.
I swear to God, it's like you mouth-breathers think you're inventing communism for the first time every time you open your fucking pie-hole.
Bullshit. Every single job I have ever worked at gave plenty of vacation time. Some paid, some not.. But I can't remember hearing "no you can't take time off" outside of "Can't do it this week, but next week is fine" when we had some big project going.
So tired of you assholes and your excuses for why you act like cunts.
Maybe, just maybe, you should drop the job at Taco Bell. You'll find that out in the real world, where people have jobs that require some skill or intelligence, employers are a whole hell of a lot more accomodating. They tend to be less accommodating when you can be replaced by a mentally retarded chimp....
Amazing as everyone there earns an ample paycheck, I guess there was opportunity.
I suspected as much.. It's culture.. It's not starving people who need a pencil.... I'd be willing to bet that most of these thefts aren't actually out of true need. It's probably more "If I have to buy my kids school supplies, I won't have enough left over for the top of the line iPhone."
When it's "everybody else is an asshole", it's not. It's YOU.
When my buddy got married for the 4th fucking time, I told him I never wanted to hear any fucking complaints about the woman. Either he sucks at choosing women or he's a giant asshole who drives women away... The only common denominator in those marriages was him.
You're a liberal.. You drip with "I'm blameless. I'm special, I'm a snowflake.. All my employers are meanies!!!. Yeah, you're the common denominator, retard.
I am not a company owner, but if I were I would not care one bit if employees were taking pens home.
Awesome. Good for you... Except for the part where I get the feeling you're trying to justify it.. You being fine with giving away pens doesn't mean I am. And, I suspect that if you were a company owner, you'd be less thrilled with thieves taking money, indirectly, out of your pocket. Every pen (or case of pens) you have to buy is less profits to take home.. For thin profit margin businesses, this could be a serious concern. But, what the fuck do you care? You're okay with theft...
Employees are paid a wage.. If that wage is insufficient to purchase their own fucking pens then they need to ask for a raise or look for work that pays more. This idea that it's somehow morally acceptable to accept an offer of employment, for a defined and agreed upon wage, and then turn around and steal from your employer is bullshit..
Schools send out ridiculous lists because they work on the Robin Hood principle: Only a subset of parents actually send supplies, and the teachers redistribute from that stash to everyone else who have "hardships".
Please call it what it is.. Communism. Perhaps not by force, but it's still communism.
Spoken like a true thief.. A thief with a tiny brain who can't read a fucking article.. 52% asshole.. 52% of the work force taking home supplies. You don't think that adds up?
Honestly, how the fuck do you not understand:
Managers routinely order up to 20 percent more product than is necessary, just to account for sticky-fingered employees.
A 20% increase is not insignificant for large companies. If XYZ Corp is spending $500,000 on office supplies, you don't think another $100,000 matters?
You're a liberal. Any excuse to justify your moronic behavior is acceptable to you.
So glad I made the decision to start cutting you cunts out of my life..
Oh really? Maybe you should've spent 5 seconds to Google it before shooting off your mouth.
Maybe you should have done your research before shooting off your mouth. You do realize the chart you posted was a sliding scale right? It's adjusted for population. That red line look it's lower than other places it's been? Looks to me like 1890 was when the world had the fewest conflict deaths. That's not because 1890 had less people either.. it's a sliding scale.
There are 10 official wars and 8 active military conflicts recognized by the United States. There are also other violent conflicts involving 64 countries and 576 militias and separatist groups.
The four ongoing conflicts with the highest number of casualties (at least 10,000 deaths per year) are the Syrian Civil War, the civil war in South Sudan, the war in Afghanistan, and the Mexican Drug War. Those with more than 1,000 deaths include the Yemeni Civil War, the Somali Civil War, the Kurdish-Turkish conflict, conflicts in Nigeria, the war in Darfur, the Boko Haram insurgency, the Libyan crisis, the Sinai insurgency, the South Kordofan conflict. and the South Sudanese Civil War. Beyond this is the ever complex war with terrorists throughout the world like ISIL and Al-Qaeda.
Do those actual stats sound like a peaceful world, dipshit? We might not be having one giant global conflict, but we have a fuckton of small wars spread out all over the goddamn place. And just for reference, the Mexican Drug War is in reference to the cartels fighting the government of Mexico, it has nothing to do with the USA's War on Drugs.
The other problem, as any Usenet veteran knows, is that allowing completely free speech leads to the destruction of forums. The best rule is to allow people to create forums, and allow forums to regulate their use.
Mostly I agree with that. But, I am unsure how we deal with de-facto monopolies. Yes Facebook is a private company and yes people can go elsewhere.. But, they aren't... Acknowledging that things are rarely yes/no, black/white, or private/public is part of the issue.. We have shades of grey here... Facebook is private but it's got a massive amount of users.. More than any other social network has ever had... We have to address this.. If we're gonna kick off the Nazis (who are actually few and far between) then we need to give the boot to the extreme left too.. One company (Facebook) swaying the political opinions of billion(s) of people is not a good thing..
We know they're doing it.. Deliberate or not is besides the point... Social media is rapidly turning into an echo chamber... You have an idea, you meet others with the same idea, and all you get is positive reinforcement.. Doesn't matter how fucked up your ideas are, you're going to have a huge audience of like-minded people reinforcing your political/social bias.
Right now it's the left that has control of Facebook, I think that's pretty obvious.. But we know shit flip-flops in this country.. Do you want conservatives like me having all the power at some future date?
I don't like the idea of single party politics.. I go ultra conservative on some things and mildly liberal on others (pro gay marriage for example.. They should be as miserable as the rest of us:) ) I'm aware that having anyone influencing huge chunks of the population, with no opposite view, is a bad idea. It'd be just as bad if Facebook was leaning ultra conservative and was kicking off liberals..
I don't know how to fix it... Maybe we bust facebook up into two chunks... Or maybe 3...... We have to do something though.. I think one of the main issues is that the freaks (left and right) are given way too much voice, proportionally, at this moment in history..
It wasn't like this before.. Politics wasn't like this... Society wasn't like this...
Regardless of someone being pro-trans or anti-trans, how the fuck did 0.1% of the population get this loud of a voice? I can't go a day without hearing about trans people.. I don't hate them (honestly)... But how does 0.1% of the pop get a voice this loud? When have we EVER bent society to the demands of 0.1% of any people?
Even the anti-vaxxers have managed to form huge groups where they sit around all day telling each other how bad vaccines are.. Nobody to dissent.. They'll kick 'em out of the group... So all they hear from is other anti-vaxxers... That's not a good idea.. And don't even get me started on the Flat-Earth assholes...
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Just to clear this up in my head.. Are you saying that you limit what your kid takes to school so the excess is not collected?
No, but if I entered your house I might smash some things and laugh.
Yeah.. good luck with that.. I'm one of those evil conservatives who owns a fuckload of guns..
It is destroying America.. The problem is the mindset of "what is yours is mine by birthright". The list never ends... It was food.. then healthcare.. Now it's fucking cell phones.. What's next? Oh yeah.. A free wage to do nothing a la UBI... Next it'll probably be free cars... But nothing, and none of it, is free.
You asshats see "pens" and think "no big deal" and it wouldn't be if the line didn't keep getting pushed back further and further and further...
It's a simple thought experiment that illustrates the larger problem: If tomorrow the government decided everyone had the inalienable right to electricity, and the government would pay for it, how long until we had electrical shortages? Who would give a fuck about setting the thermostat to 68? You'd just crank it up (or down in the summer) and fuck all the savings.. it's FREE!!!!
I know two people who get those free cell phones that CA hands out.. 1 is on his 5th because he can't remember to take it out of his pants before he throws them in the washing machine... The other is on her third, I think.. She's been losing them.. But who the fuck cares? He, quite literally and with no sense of shame, said "Yeah, washed my phone again last night.. No biggie, I'll go down and get a new one tomorrow.. I just have to bring back the broken one.." Why the fuck would he care? There's no lesson... If I wash my phone I have to BUY another one... You learn pretty goddamn quick to take care of your stuff when you pay for it.
Now I can't wait to hear how this logic is racist and anti-poor people.. Have at it...
I'm against communism and coercion. If the school needs pens, make the giving anonymous. But gathering up all the supplies from the students and redistributing them is not okay.. Something doesn't have to be a capital crime to fall on this side of "not cool". For fuck's sake... Why should Parent A, who paid for their supplies, have to donate them to Parent B?
Is it nice to do so? Of course! But it should not be mandatory.. Why can't you people understand this?
Who said there's no coercion? I said force.. But coercion can still be applied. Public shaming for example... Not gonna take the kids long to figure out which kids are poor and are receiving free pens...
OK, so you suck. What else do you want me to tell you about yourself?
I know you're a hypocrite. I bet you'd object to one of your house guests walking off with items you own, without asking first. So.. fuck you...
It's hard not to take home office supplies. You're running late to a meeting, so you grab a pen off your desk and stick it in your pocket. Then you forget about it
But that's not what the article is about.. Your scenarios wouldn't (most likely) result in office supply expenses shooting up by 20%. Nothing is ever black/white. There are always shades of grey.. But the story is talking about rampant supply thefts... I certainly wasn't talking about taking a single pen home by accident. But a large chunk of the morons are trying to justify this theft with "employers suck! Soak them!"
Is your point that if one person steals from people it's okay for someone else to steal?
We, as a civilization, decided that was unacceptable about 5,000 years ago.. The fact that Joe Smith steals from his employees is not justification for John Doe to steal from his employer. Or, are you trying to say that because a person in the Trump administration is a fuckhead, that all conservatives are?
Thanks for making my point for me. Not regretting this decision at all. If it was up to you fuckheads we'd all be like Venezuela now. I'll apply your logic and assume you have the brainpower of AO-C...
Thanks for being the arbiter of what's reasonable.. I guess if you feel that way, that's the way it is..
I think paying for a iPhone is moronic... But I've never suggested Apple was ripping anybody off.. Don't want to pay for an iPhone? Buy an Android..
Don't want to pay for Updates to your Motorola radio? Pick one of the other companies making encrypted radios.. Motorola doesn't have a goddamn monopoly.
Maybe if you bought products from the company that was acting in a reasonable manner, the unreasonable ones (Motorola) would wither and die..
Instead you steal from the shady company and the honest company never gains any traction in the market.
Then how do you make money from your software you ask? *The same way every other legitimate business in the history of mankind did!* By selling your *service* as a *service*. Not as a product. ... Because *it isn't!*
It's because of assholes like you that this is the exact direction the software industry is headed. Software as a rental.. I can't just buy Photoshop anymore.. Nope, I have to pay for it ever single goddamn month... Because fuck faces like you kept stealing it...
Here it appears Motorola was doing exactly that.. Selling an update service... Doing exactly what you suggest they should do.. What's it like to contradict yourself in your own post?
Enjoy your new world order, cunt.
100% no crime here.
I dare you to tell that to the guy in question when the government gets done ass fucking him. I think he'll disagree.
In the US, copyright infringement is a civil offense, and I believe it is the same in Canada. So it doesn't make much sense that he was arrested for that.
It doesn't make sense because you are talking out of your ass. You aren't a lawyer, stop pretending to be one.
Criminal copyright laws prohibit the unacknowledged use of another's intellectual property for the purpose of financial gain. Violation of these laws can lead to fines and jail time. Criminal copyright laws have been a part of U.S. laws since 1897, which added a misdemeanor penalty for unlawful performances if "willful and for profit".
Criminal penalties were greatly expanded in the latter half of the twentieth century, and those found guilty of criminal copyright infringement may now be imprisoned for decades, and fined hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Criminal penalties, in general, require that the offender knew that he or she was committing a crime, while civil copyright infringement is a strict liability offense, and offenders can be "innocent" (of intent to infringe), as well as an "ordinary" infringer or a "willful" infringer.
The above is for the US.
The person referenced in the story, a Canadian, knew damn well what he was doing and he evidenced it as much when he said "Don't ask where these keys came from". As Canada also has criminal penalties for copyright infringement.....
According to section 34(4) of the Copyright Act, specific penalties will be decided by the court. Section 35(1) states that an infringer is liable for the financial gain made through infringement, and "such damages to the owner of the copyright as the owner has suffered due to the infringement"......
In addition to the civil penalties described above, Section 42(1) of the Copyright Act sets out a number of criminal offences. These primarily deal with infringement that involves sale or rental of copyrighted materials, and can result in fines of up to $1,000,000 or prison sentences of up to 2 years for indictment. For a summary conviction, the maximum fine is $25,000 and prison term is limited to 6 months.
So both countries have criminal copyright law..... Try again.
Oh geezus... Well, if it applies to you it must apply to everyone...
By the way, nobody is paperless... The paperless office was a fallacy that never came to pass.
Valid or not, this fine publication will be handy for management to further lean on workers. I expect it will be just a matter of time before people making minimum wage will have deductions from their paychecks for every item needed to do the job.
That would be illegal in many jurisdictions.
...pay them a living wage & stop stealing their labour/wages.
As another poster pointed out, he's had items stolen from his desk by people he knows are being well paid. Your argument fails. You can't justify theft. You can try, but you'll fail and we all know you're a thieving cunt with zero morals.
Yes, because communism has ever worked. If your idea was so fucking good, why don't we see it in practice? You think you're the first guy to come up with the idea of employee owned companies?
THEY SUCK. Even UPS finally abandoned that moronic philosophy and have gone public.
I swear to God, it's like you mouth-breathers think you're inventing communism for the first time every time you open your fucking pie-hole.
Bullshit. Every single job I have ever worked at gave plenty of vacation time. Some paid, some not.. But I can't remember hearing "no you can't take time off" outside of "Can't do it this week, but next week is fine" when we had some big project going.
So tired of you assholes and your excuses for why you act like cunts.
Maybe, just maybe, you should drop the job at Taco Bell. You'll find that out in the real world, where people have jobs that require some skill or intelligence, employers are a whole hell of a lot more accomodating. They tend to be less accommodating when you can be replaced by a mentally retarded chimp....
Amazing as everyone there earns an ample paycheck, I guess there was opportunity.
I suspected as much.. It's culture.. It's not starving people who need a pencil.... I'd be willing to bet that most of these thefts aren't actually out of true need. It's probably more "If I have to buy my kids school supplies, I won't have enough left over for the top of the line iPhone."
When it's "everybody else is an asshole", it's not. It's YOU.
When my buddy got married for the 4th fucking time, I told him I never wanted to hear any fucking complaints about the woman. Either he sucks at choosing women or he's a giant asshole who drives women away... The only common denominator in those marriages was him.
You're a liberal.. You drip with "I'm blameless. I'm special, I'm a snowflake.. All my employers are meanies!!!. Yeah, you're the common denominator, retard.
I am not a company owner, but if I were I would not care one bit if employees were taking pens home.
Awesome. Good for you... Except for the part where I get the feeling you're trying to justify it.. You being fine with giving away pens doesn't mean I am. And, I suspect that if you were a company owner, you'd be less thrilled with thieves taking money, indirectly, out of your pocket. Every pen (or case of pens) you have to buy is less profits to take home.. For thin profit margin businesses, this could be a serious concern. But, what the fuck do you care? You're okay with theft...
Employees are paid a wage.. If that wage is insufficient to purchase their own fucking pens then they need to ask for a raise or look for work that pays more. This idea that it's somehow morally acceptable to accept an offer of employment, for a defined and agreed upon wage, and then turn around and steal from your employer is bullshit..
Schools send out ridiculous lists because they work on the Robin Hood principle: Only a subset of parents actually send supplies, and the teachers redistribute from that stash to everyone else who have "hardships".
Please call it what it is.. Communism. Perhaps not by force, but it's still communism.
Spoken like a true thief.. A thief with a tiny brain who can't read a fucking article.. 52% asshole.. 52% of the work force taking home supplies. You don't think that adds up?
Honestly, how the fuck do you not understand:
Managers routinely order up to 20 percent more product than is necessary, just to account for sticky-fingered employees.
A 20% increase is not insignificant for large companies. If XYZ Corp is spending $500,000 on office supplies, you don't think another $100,000 matters?
You're a liberal. Any excuse to justify your moronic behavior is acceptable to you.
So glad I made the decision to start cutting you cunts out of my life..
Oh really? Maybe you should've spent 5 seconds to Google it before shooting off your mouth.
Maybe you should have done your research before shooting off your mouth. You do realize the chart you posted was a sliding scale right? It's adjusted for population. That red line look it's lower than other places it's been? Looks to me like 1890 was when the world had the fewest conflict deaths. That's not because 1890 had less people either.. it's a sliding scale.
There are 10 official wars and 8 active military conflicts recognized by the United States. There are also other violent conflicts involving 64 countries and 576 militias and separatist groups.
The four ongoing conflicts with the highest number of casualties (at least 10,000 deaths per year) are the Syrian Civil War, the civil war in South Sudan, the war in Afghanistan, and the Mexican Drug War. Those with more than 1,000 deaths include the Yemeni Civil War, the Somali Civil War, the Kurdish-Turkish conflict, conflicts in Nigeria, the war in Darfur, the Boko Haram insurgency, the Libyan crisis, the Sinai insurgency, the South Kordofan conflict. and the South Sudanese Civil War. Beyond this is the ever complex war with terrorists throughout the world like ISIL and Al-Qaeda.
Do those actual stats sound like a peaceful world, dipshit? We might not be having one giant global conflict, but we have a fuckton of small wars spread out all over the goddamn place. And just for reference, the Mexican Drug War is in reference to the cartels fighting the government of Mexico, it has nothing to do with the USA's War on Drugs.
You think the world is more peaceful than ever? Okay...... alrighty then...
The other problem, as any Usenet veteran knows, is that allowing completely free speech leads to the destruction of forums. The best rule is to allow people to create forums, and allow forums to regulate their use.
Mostly I agree with that. But, I am unsure how we deal with de-facto monopolies. Yes Facebook is a private company and yes people can go elsewhere.. But, they aren't... Acknowledging that things are rarely yes/no, black/white, or private/public is part of the issue.. We have shades of grey here... Facebook is private but it's got a massive amount of users.. More than any other social network has ever had... We have to address this.. If we're gonna kick off the Nazis (who are actually few and far between) then we need to give the boot to the extreme left too.. One company (Facebook) swaying the political opinions of billion(s) of people is not a good thing..
We know they're doing it.. Deliberate or not is besides the point... Social media is rapidly turning into an echo chamber... You have an idea, you meet others with the same idea, and all you get is positive reinforcement.. Doesn't matter how fucked up your ideas are, you're going to have a huge audience of like-minded people reinforcing your political/social bias.
Right now it's the left that has control of Facebook, I think that's pretty obvious.. But we know shit flip-flops in this country.. Do you want conservatives like me having all the power at some future date?
I don't like the idea of single party politics.. I go ultra conservative on some things and mildly liberal on others (pro gay marriage for example.. They should be as miserable as the rest of us :) ) I'm aware that having anyone influencing huge chunks of the population, with no opposite view, is a bad idea. It'd be just as bad if Facebook was leaning ultra conservative and was kicking off liberals..
I don't know how to fix it... Maybe we bust facebook up into two chunks... Or maybe 3...... We have to do something though.. I think one of the main issues is that the freaks (left and right) are given way too much voice, proportionally, at this moment in history..
It wasn't like this before.. Politics wasn't like this... Society wasn't like this...
Regardless of someone being pro-trans or anti-trans, how the fuck did 0.1% of the population get this loud of a voice? I can't go a day without hearing about trans people.. I don't hate them (honestly)... But how does 0.1% of the pop get a voice this loud? When have we EVER bent society to the demands of 0.1% of any people?
Even the anti-vaxxers have managed to form huge groups where they sit around all day telling each other how bad vaccines are.. Nobody to dissent.. They'll kick 'em out of the group... So all they hear from is other anti-vaxxers... That's not a good idea.. And don't even get me started on the Flat-Earth assholes...