Seleni

joined 2 years ago
[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

‘True and proper order being restored’ and ‘those uppity Others finally getting their just desserts’. And they figure that if they have to suffer a bit for that, then so be it. You have to remember that these ‘Christian’ loonies all have a persecution complex, so for them a little suffering is seen as a good thing.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The problem tends to be that (1) experts are only experts in their own fields, but have a distressing tendency to think that makes them experts in all fields and (2) an expert is often only an expert if unchallenged. Plenty of ‘experts’ have had their research get supplanted—or attempts have been made to supplant it—with newer, more accurate research, but the older so-called experts often fight against that newer research so as not to lose their exalted status. Sadly, you see often in science (look at how Louis Pasteur was treated when he dared to suggest bacteria caused disease).

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

I hate to say it, but I absolutely guarantee the law will do nothing but show up afterwards and pick up the pieces. If he does decide to get his fat ass off the couch and come get you, you’ll have to handle him yourself.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Tell that to the .ml folks lol

Their instance auto-censors them when they use it

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Playing ‘The Mysterious Axeman’s Jazz’ no doubt

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Yup. I’m totally sure that had nothing to do with this guy’s response to her coming to his door.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean, tbf, if he’d called the police they’d probably have shot the person 6 times. Maybe he just felt like cutting out the middle man?

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Remember, these are the same people that believe hurricanes hit us to punish us for not being nasty enough to LGBT people. In their mind her ‘sinful ways’ caused her to be shot.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Some did—my paternal grandparents were a love-at-first-sight case. After my grandfather passed away, my grandmother was so heartbroken she basically stopped living.

Some didn’t—it wasn’t after my maternal grandfather held grandma’s hand to the hot stove, or beat her black and blue, that she finally got up the nerve to throw him out and file for divorce; it was when he started to go after their kids. Even so, as a single mother she faced all kinds of difficulties and discrimination socially and in the workforce.

But I can’t even imagine what things would have been like if she had been forced to stick with him.

And regardless of how much my paternal grandparents loved each other, they were still chained together, both by society’s expectations and by laws that, for example, wouldn’t let my grandmother have her own bank account until the mid-70s.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Yes that would be the joke.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

My grandmother too.

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