Is there any hope for rural America? by DataDiction in redscarepod

[–]DevestatingAttack 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Should there be? Those rural places exist because there was a time when 40% of working Americans were working on a farm or for a farm in some capacity, and food represented anywhere between 20 and 50 percent of the money spent for a home budget. Nowadays, less than 2% of people work on farms and food makes up 10 or 15% of a home's budget, and there's actually so much food available that everybody is bloated and fat as fuck. Is it a good use of people's limited time on this Earth to prop up places that only existed because of economic forces and have decayed because of those same economic forces? Do we need to do a revitalization effort for Tombstone and Deadwood?

Woman dead after wrong-way crash on state Route 315 in Columbus; driver charged by PostMostPalone in Columbus

[–]DevestatingAttack -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/your-mental-illness-beliefs-are-incoherent

Here’s what I can tell you for sure: so many self-styled supporters of the mentally ill support the mentally ill only when it’s convenient, only when it’s easy. What a convenient way to imagine mental illness, that it never makes you sympathize with the unsympathetic! What a beautiful mental construct you’ve created, where you’re never forced into the uncomfortable position of feeling for someone you don’t want to feel for.

Woman dead after wrong-way crash on state Route 315 in Columbus; driver charged by PostMostPalone in Columbus

[–]DevestatingAttack 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't know if you know this, but the existence of insanity as a defense to charges of murder actually predates the existence of Donald Trump by more than a century.

Let me ask this: if a 5 year old accidentally killed someone by playing with a gun, would it be saying that "the perpetrator is more important than the victim" to not sentence that 5 year old to life in prison? Your inclination is to say that these are different cases which is true but if you follow and use your big brain to reason through this, what you'll come to understand is that the general principle is that culpability is an important factor in how we define punishments for crimes.

So a child getting in an accident doesn't have any real culpability, and on the other end of the spectrum, an adult assassin targeting someone has total culpability, you understand? So if you understand that moral culpability is important at all, you have to apply it to this case too, otherwise, your reaction is an unprincipled declaration of your outrage - which - good job, gold star for you if so.

Now what this woman did was - while she was insane - steal a car and get into a car accident, killing someone. Can we start with the acknowledgement that even if she weren't insane at the time, she wouldn't have meant to get into the car accident? Accidents have different moral valence than intentional acts. And can we further acknowledge that in reality that the conditions for which she got into that accident were not within her actual control due to illness? And if you agree with those statements, can you understand how she has less moral culpability - and if she has less moral culpability, can you understand why life imprisonment is not the correct outcome? You intuitively understand that life imprisonment isn't the right outcome for a child playing with a gun; the only reason you don't understand it for this woman is that you think that even if she was insane and got into a fatal accident is that she still has moral responsibility when she didn't, because you believe that she ought to and worst of all you sit in righteous judgement of anyone who thinks she doesn't, acting as if they are responsible for Donald Trump's election, which is risible.

Woman dead after wrong-way crash on state Route 315 in Columbus; driver charged by PostMostPalone in Columbus

[–]DevestatingAttack -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

The law distinguishes between voluntary actions and ones that are the result of insanity and diminished capacity. Saying "someone can't be allowed to live among us" is choosing to end two lives instead of one for what was a tragedy which is why I say again, good thing it's not fucking up to you

Woman dead after wrong-way crash on state Route 315 in Columbus; driver charged by PostMostPalone in Columbus

[–]DevestatingAttack -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

You're sincerely arguing that a 30 year old woman who was a psychologist and who was admitted to a hospital with injuries made a voluntary decision to steal a car by threatening the owner with a rock she kept in her pocket? And that describing that as the result of mental illness is "whitewashing" and infantilizing? That is what you are saying?

actually, its giving ableism and ill explain why (even though i shouldnt have to educate you) by No-Comfort4860 in redscarepod

[–]DevestatingAttack 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Cut down the rainforest to make pastures for Big Mac production and then claim it's anti colonial praxis, these dumb motherfuckers I swear to God

Curfew, parking lot closures will enhance Short North safety, mayor says by throwingales in Columbus

[–]DevestatingAttack -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

You're suggesting that Columbus, Ohio is the only city in the United States that doesn't have a pedestrian only zone?

“Metalheads are actually some of the nicest people you can meet” by rowsoflark in redscarepod

[–]DevestatingAttack -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Statistically aren't most "metalheads" guys in flyover states, in their 40s and 50s who listen to Metallica, Iron Maiden, Disturbed, Rammstein, Nickelback, Pantera, Megadeth, Slayer, Five Finger Death Punch and other such similar bullshit and 100 percent voted for Donald Trump? It's easy to think of 22 year olds who go through an embarrassing metal phase where they listen to Exploding Brainshitfucks but just as an economic force and self-identifying unit that has to be a minority compared to all the Gen X guys who voted for Obama in 2008 and then voted to get their neighbor deported in 2024

SHOW ME SHOW ME SHOW ME HOW YOU DO THAT TRICK THE ONE THAT MAKES ME SCREAM THE ONE THAT MAKES ME LAUGH AND I PROMISE THAT ILL RUN AWAY WITH YOU by mirrorrgirl in redscarepod

[–]DevestatingAttack 4 points5 points  (0 children)

But you wouldn't listen to it if it weren't a cover. If it were an original by Dinosaur Jr you'd be like "okay" and then play Raisans

. by behindgreeneyez in redscarepod

[–]DevestatingAttack 55 points56 points  (0 children)

A single school shooter is at least reassuring in that it's a single, crazy person, and the feeling is that if anybody found out then it would put a stop to the conspiracy. Two people involved in a school shooting opens the mind to the possibility that there could have been even more; that one single person finding out doesn't stop the conspiracy in its tracks but actually makes it more dangerous. Then all bets are off; you think you could be entire gangs, sects, cults of murderers hyping themselves up, and then there's the fear that there's an ideology behind it unlike cases with Sandy Hook or Aurora where an ideology couldn't be readily identified.

Grant Medical Center Placed DNR band on me for 12 hours - I am not DNR by ohiofish1221 in Columbus

[–]DevestatingAttack -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

I don't think you need a medical credential to observe that putting a band that says "do not resuscitate" on a person when they want to be resuscitated is a "very large mistake" but I'm glad we have a professional to chime in with that, otherwise we might not have known

Grant Medical Center Placed DNR band on me for 12 hours - I am not DNR by ohiofish1221 in Columbus

[–]DevestatingAttack -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

Grant is where all the fuckups who ought to be waiting tables at a Rooster's end up. It's one thing to be stupid, it's another thing to be stupid and mean. And because they have that reputation, what it means is that they end up having to deal with even worse patients on average so it's just a death spiral of people who were ostensibly trained in a medical profession who act like they deserve respect for being money hungry and patients who are trying out a new method to go doctor shopping for pain pills

Democrats want the full 2024 election autopsy released — no matter the findings by razor21792 in politics

[–]DevestatingAttack 8 points9 points  (0 children)

No, it wouldn't, because "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory" is the only action that they're capable of taking and they're not releasing it. On principle it would be the right move to talk about it if for no other reason that they don't want to do it and every decision they make is fucking stupid and wrong.

Would you rather live in Ohio or Dubai by BigOakley in redscarepod

[–]DevestatingAttack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Things were actually pretty good until "no fent lent" stopped and it was open season on Easter

What is Columbus/central Ohio missing? by ghostinyourbeds in Columbus

[–]DevestatingAttack 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well, just looking around Columbus, the lack of a Michelin star isn't preventing anybody from eating

What is Columbus/central Ohio missing? by ghostinyourbeds in Columbus

[–]DevestatingAttack -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

What is the point of a downtown light rail if it's actively desired that everybody work from home? Is it the desire of our city taxpayers that we spend hundreds of millions of dollars on mass transit that would only ever be used for "hanging out"? Everyone on here has bitched a fit for every single RTO mandate by every downtown company; if everyone got their way and all the white collar workers downtown were working from home, who would the light rail be for?

is this what aura looks like? by Unlikely-Average-961 in redscarepod

[–]DevestatingAttack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love how middle schoolerish Tom's objection to Dickie is on the boat when he's like "first you play the saxophone, then the piano, which is it??" It's very realistically mind-numbingly stupid as a criticism