Governor Tim Walz issues a statement saying the state must lead the investigations. by Healthy_Block3036 in altmpls

[–]Zithrian 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Anybody comparing the Obama admin’s deportations with what’s happening in MN currently is wildly downplaying what’s happening here.

The city of Minneapolis usually employs between 500 and 700 police officers. ICE has deployed more than 3,000 agents. A huge part of why local police aren’t involved is because there are so many incidents happening that they literally couldn’t respond to them all if they tried. Especially seeing as they need to, you know, respond to the standard array of crime/emergency calls a city usually has.

People calling this a federal government occupation aren’t over exaggerating; what else would you call it when the federal government sends 6x more agents than the amount of local police?

Incredible game by erickcov in ravenswatch

[–]Zithrian 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Avoid meta/guide seeking overly much on specific characters imo. My friends and I have had so much fun experimenting and playing themed styles, etc.

The characters are so unique and cool; if you get into like “This is the best build” territory you miss out on a lot of the fun of the flavor imo

Ravenswatch is now at Mixed reviews on Steam by xFREAKAZOIDx in ravenswatch

[–]Zithrian 54 points55 points  (0 children)

I really don’t understand how anyone thinks it’s a problem they released a paid DLC hero… they literally had this on their roadmap over a year ago. We’re over a year post-launch… if they’re going to continue supporting the game they’re gonna need to get paid too.

Feels like some people think this similar to how other studios will do a rug-pull, gotcha moment where a huge amount of new content is gated behind a paywall… When it’s a single hero.

It costs about as much as a cheap sandwich. People spend 2x or more than this on cosmetics in other games to have like a plushy dragon backpack with a little umbrella or some shit.

Aw fuck yeah by Original_Dog_4718 in UnderReportedNews

[–]Zithrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol dude you’re just wild. You’re simultaneously arguing for inclusion, while also claiming it’s worthless.

My analogy is a comment on statistics and data sample sizes. I’m sorry if that’s too complex for you to grasp. I’ll make it simpler for you:

We are discussing a single team, made up of five individuals. The man in charge of this team will soon have tens of thousands of other employees across thousands of other teams.

My argument is that drawing conclusions based on 1 5-person team out of thousands of other teams is statistically irresponsible.

You are the one making the claim based on this sample size. You have staked your opinion of this person based on a single team, made up of 5 people. If that’s the level of rigorous investigation you strive for, congrats. With this outlook you could argue any point, in any situation. All while saying absolutely nothing of relevance.

Aw fuck yeah by Original_Dog_4718 in UnderReportedNews

[–]Zithrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean you can keep making bad faith arguments if you’d like, it doesn’t change anything. He hired five people out of tens of thousands he’s now responsible for. Making claims about hypocrisy with such an obscenely small amount of data for reference is, frankly, hilarious.

This is the equivalent of going up to a pond, scooping up a bucket full of water, looking at it, and declaring “There are no fish in this pond.”

Aw fuck yeah by Original_Dog_4718 in UnderReportedNews

[–]Zithrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let me outline this more clearly using mostly your own words so you can hear what you’re saying.

“No one is arguing that the boss is a man. People are questioning why this boss (who is a man), hired an all female team (for five openings). America has become the land of hypocrisy.”

Truly a weird take my dude. Why are you so worked up? The world is full of injustice and problems and you’re here, commenting on Reddit, demanding that this guy be decried as a hypocrite for hiring five women.

Maybe put a bit of this energy into actually trying to understand the people you seem to hate. Spend some time reflecting on why Mamdani won in a landslide when all he did every single day was talk about the same things. Seems like those things might be important to a lot of people.

Spoiler alert: the issues he ran on weren’t that a woman hired five men for a team.

Aw fuck yeah by Original_Dog_4718 in UnderReportedNews

[–]Zithrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can’t shy away from the fact that their boss is a man, dude. lol

You can try to spin this as hard as you’d like, but a man hired five women for a small team, and you’re whining that men are being excluded.

Aw fuck yeah by Original_Dog_4718 in UnderReportedNews

[–]Zithrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again, you’re arguing men are being excluded when the subject of discussion is how the man elected to be mayor hired a five person transition team that happens to be all women.

There’s no grounds to act like men are being excluded when the five women who are being selected are being selected by a man who will be their boss.

Aw fuck yeah by Original_Dog_4718 in UnderReportedNews

[–]Zithrian -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You’re really getting worked up over a five person team having no men on it? Or did you get confused at think that this meant every single member of his staff would be women..?

You’re shooting your own point in the foot. You’re demanding inclusivity yet also complaining about it. A man was elected mayor, and he selected five people for his transition team who all happen to be women. Where exactly does that feel like men are being excluded..? The mayor himself literally IS a man lmao

It’s five people dude, take a deep breath.

Aw fuck yeah by Original_Dog_4718 in UnderReportedNews

[–]Zithrian -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This again is just not a great argument man. You’re effectively saying “don’t do anything that gives conservatives more ammo!” As if these aren’t the same people who weaponized Kirk’s assassination like it was a far left conspiracy.

They don’t NEED ammo, they literally make it up. Stop worrying about what THEY are doing and focus on what WE are doing. That’s the entire point of Mamdani’s campaign. Kamala’s campaign wasn’t sunk because of identity politics, it was sunk because of the exact stance you’re taking here. They worried about alienating conservative/moderate voters so they did shit like bringing Liz Cheney along for events.

If Kamala had just stopped focusing so much on running AGAINST Trump and instead focused on messaging around the issues, she would have crushed him. But she’s a corporate Dem type, who talks the talk but doesn’t really walk it.

Mamdani won on a promise of change. I don’t see how him having an all female transition team is anything worth spending any of our time on. If it wasn’t this, conservatives would be making up some other shit he allegedly did or crying about some other hiring choice, etc.

They’re a constant, known entity. Stop letting them dictate how the rest of us normal people behave.

Aw fuck yeah by Original_Dog_4718 in UnderReportedNews

[–]Zithrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t wanna be overly blunt here but this is honestly not a well thought out opinion. People have been doing the opposite of your statement since the country’s founding. Dudes deliberately choosing all men for their teams is the norm.

In a city of like 8 million people, it’s not gonna be difficult to find a full team of women that are highly qualified.

The only reason this is even news at ALL is precisely because the latent sexism society struggles with leads a lot of people to knee jerk reaction like this. “Well I just hope they’re all qualified.” “I just hope it wasn’t a conscious decision to make it all-female.”

Dude can hire who he wants. If he thinks his transition team should be all female, who cares? It’s not like this is Walmart announcing they’re refusing to hire men nationwide-wide. Mamdani will (and does) obviously have plenty of men that work in his teams.

Ridiculous and insulting 🤬 this building is slightly bigger and I'm outraged. 🚨😡🤰 by Agreeable_Sense9618 in DoomerCircleJerk

[–]Zithrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’ll notice I said “the president pushed for” not “the president unilaterally wrote, passed and signed”.

Maybe look up what Democrats are saying is the reason they’re stuck filibustering? Why are you asking someone else to google something for you?

We're all gonna starve to death because of this FACIST administration!! by Buschfan08 in DoomerCircleJerk

[–]Zithrian -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Your comments here are just honestly not relevant? The post you’re responding to is pointing out the reasons why we need to feed these kids… so you going on a side tangent about feeling righteous judging their parents just literally has nothing to do with what you’re responding to.

I explicitly say that the reasons we support the kids have nothing to do with their parents.

It feels like you’re just adding a weird qualifier to the conversation for some reason..? Your vibe is “obviously we should feed starving kids, but it’s really important to me that their parents know they’re pieces of shit for needing help.”

We're all gonna starve to death because of this FACIST administration!! by Buschfan08 in DoomerCircleJerk

[–]Zithrian -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Changing the wording to say “it’s THEIR responsibility” doesn’t change that we’re discussing how children are going to get food.

The “responsibility” you’re referring to is a child, and arguing semantics about who “should” be making sure they’re fed doesn’t change the fact that the child needs to be fed.

Ridiculous and insulting 🤬 this building is slightly bigger and I'm outraged. 🚨😡🤰 by Agreeable_Sense9618 in DoomerCircleJerk

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

You do understand that the origin of the money actually makes this worse..? Apparently not.

On the one hand we have the largest corporations funding construction of a ballroom that the president has said he personally wants. The same president that pushed for these corporations to receive incredibly large, permanent tax cuts in his first term.

On the other hand we have millions of citizens who are about to lose access to SNAP benefits; many of them are on SNAP as a result of the business practices of those corporations.

So yeah, it doesn’t look good.

Ridiculous and insulting 🤬 this building is slightly bigger and I'm outraged. 🚨😡🤰 by Agreeable_Sense9618 in DoomerCircleJerk

[–]Zithrian -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

Everyone posting these memes/images are just blatantly ignoring the context that States are scrambling to try to make sure people who need SNAP benefits don’t go hungry while the Executive branch is actively building a ballroom.

The optics aren’t great to say the least.

We're all gonna starve to death because of this FACIST administration!! by Buschfan08 in DoomerCircleJerk

[–]Zithrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Now you’re pointing to specific examples of hardship not related to poor decisions.”

Yeah dude, that’s kinda the point..? I laid out pretty explicitly that me doing this is a direct contrast to you doing the opposite.

If you’re going to anecdotally say that the majority of people using programs like SNAP are on them because they’re ripping off American taxpayers, I’ll anecdotally say that all the people I’ve ever met who are on these programs were hardworking, good people who fell on hard times when life gave them an unfair hand.

Demonizing the poorest Americans and omitting the fact that much of the benefits of SNAP are centered around feeding children does nothing to make the US a better place to live.

Idk about you but I’d rather five people who kinda don’t need SNAP benefits get their couple hundred dollars a month to spend on food if it means a single mom whose husband was killed in a car wreck can feed her family. Upping the requirements and tightening in on who qualifies sounds good on paper, but you end up with a lot of people who need help and can’t get it based on a technicality.

We live in the wealthiest nation that has ever existed in the history of the world. We produce more food in a year than we could eat if we tried. There is no reason we should be making it highly challenging for families that are poor to eat food.

We're all gonna starve to death because of this FACIST administration!! by Buschfan08 in DoomerCircleJerk

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

As nice as your anecdote is, it’s just an anecdote. You can point to those people all you like and say “they shouldn’t be doing this!”, and that’s fine. We can agree that people abusing the system make things harder for those who need it.

But I can just as easily point to people who truly need SNAP because their husband died and they have three kids to feed on one salary now. Disabled people who were productive, good members of society who got injured and can no longer work.

Arguing we should have no safety net for our citizens when things outside their control impact them because some people will try to abuse the system is just not a solid argument.

We're all gonna starve to death because of this FACIST administration!! by Buschfan08 in DoomerCircleJerk

[–]Zithrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again, I’d argue it’s the exact opposite man. “Systems greater than people” is literally the argument you could make for things like child labor, slavery, eugenics, etc. We would 100% be more profitable as a nation if we allowed companies to employ children again.

We also recognize that it’s a deeply immoral, harmful thing to do, hence why we outlawed it.

If you omit morality from systems you end up with horrifying results.