I have a friend who has a child with down syndrome and I did some work with down syndrome kids in my youth so I just don't like the term and try not to use it even though it is prevalent in the Bitcoin community . I understand it is not being used in the context to demean mentally challenged people but instead to highlight stupidity.
It's just a word. I know there is no malicious intent. I was merely pointing out that the point was so good that even though I don't like the word I had to offer an agreement zap.
Hah. Fair enough.
I have given up many words but that one I'm particularly too fond of to let go.
Not to get into a rant about language here, but to me the word evolved and does now evoke any image of legitimate medical challenges to me. But I know it can for people and I know the history of the word.
But that's the funny thing about language. We use the term moron freely, another word whose meaning has evolved. The R word isn't quite there and still has some sting.
It's funny because... it's not the first time I had to defend my use of the word. And I don't use it often.
But one point I like to make is that if I say the word and it immediately conjures up the image of someone with a legitimate disability in your mind, then maybe it's not my problem. I'm not attacking you and understand your point of view also, but I had to bring this up :P
When I hear or use the word, I never have disabled or challenged people in my mind, I have idiotic politicians and dumbass people.
On the flip side, if I'm thinking about disabled or challenged people, whom I also have in my surrounding as well, that word never comes to mind.
I swear there's a comedy bit about this somewhere, where someone says retard and another goes "hey hey woah, watch your words, my brother has X disability" and the other guy goes like "hey woah woah, that's offensive that you think of him when I say retard. Your brother is not retarded, he's a smart guy with X condition. Not in the same universe"
Anyway. I said I wouldn't rant.
Language cam be interesting.
TL;DR I get where you're coming from, but we all have our hills to die on and I'm not ready to part with such a useful word yet, especially in this clown world we live in
Will California liberals ever self reflect on the chaos they've created?
During the BLM riots, I had many neighbors post "defund the police" signs on their yards.
Today, they are complaining about a rash of break-ins, and the neighborhood has even banded together to pay for a private patrol because the police aren't doing enough.
They will never learn because learning requires admitting you were wrong.
Leftists want to cause chaos.
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The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. The strategy aims to utilize "militant anti poverty groups" to facilitate a "political crisis" by overloading the welfare system via an increase in welfare claims, forcing the creation of a system of guaranteed minimum income and "redistributing income through the federal government". (Wikipedia)
The problem they are having is professional shoplifters not kids taking a candy bar. Gangs of shoplifters are going into stores in California and wiping them out because unless they steal 951 or more it’s not a felony so they don’t get charged. So the store owner repriced everything at 951 so if people steal it is a felony.
They can. They likely are prohibited from charging more at the register but since they are charging less than the posted price I don’t think there is anything to prevent them from doing it.
Prop 36 is on the ballot on Tuesday, a response to prop 47.
Of course none of these props matter if DA's refuse to prosecute for shoplifing, smash and grab and other kinds of theft.
High prices are not illegal regardless of what Kamala says.