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  • aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneFun fact rule
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    1 month ago

    As much as I dislike billionaires and think we have a huge problem with school shootings, the math on this doesn’t check out. According to Forbes there are more than 2,500 billionaires; 2,500/60 > 40 per day. I didn’t dig too deep on the stats for school shootings (because oof), but thankfully we’re not there. There are so, so many more than could be, and it’s a horrible tragedy that we’re doing nothing about, but we aren’t there.



  • Remember kids, when brown people do something bad, it’s terrorism. When white people starve an entire population after a failed occupation, that’s just because we are very concerned about misogyny. Now, starving an entire country en masse has (to my knowledge) never caused a government to be overthrown, and in this case has no chance of improving the treatment of women in the country. Nor have women in Afghanistan ever asked for sanctions, nor do they support them now that they are in place. But don’t let that fool you in to thinking we’re doing it for any reason other than to help women in Afghanistan.

    Before you respond, please take a look at my post and notice I said _nothing positive about the Taliban _. This is about the disingenuous use of women’s rights to excuse and even celebrate mass starvation.












  • aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    1 year ago

    there are two healthy sex phenotypes … and b) the result of something going wrong.

    What about intersex people makes them “unhealthy”? What makes what their bodies do “wrong”?

    Everything else is a) extremely rare

    Intersex people are about as common than redheads. Would you agree with the statement that redheads are the exception that proves the rule that there are 3 hair colors, blond, brown, and black?

    [Edit: more common -> about as common]