Girl, be careful what you ask for…

Somebody called in the tip himself…

They genuinely believe the US is filled with millions of evil, lazy people on welfare who don’t work and play videogames all day and collect $50,000/year in benefits…

Meanwhile you have billionaires like Elon Musk who pays people to play videogames all day for him, and they don’t bat a fucking eyelash… (I mean, by no means the worst thing musk does, but you get my point)

It’s so insanely removed from reality

I have no idea what book series you read (or if you’ve read it at all) but you are…very off on this take.

Don’t get me wrong, JK Rowling is a total piece of shit, but the books themselves are distinctly anti classism, “blood purity,” slavery, misogyny, and a whole host of other things you listed.

Are they without any flaw? Certainly not. Is it okay if people boycott the media because of Rowling’s ongoing transphobia? Absolutely. But most of what you’ve listed about the book series is blatantly untrue…

Yeah, I would wager that this is not really a generational thing (or at least, not a cutoff between millennials and gen z).

I’m a millennial and I guarantee there are plenty of people my age who would have no idea what op’s question means…

The only thing I can hope for is one day, when I describe this to my kids, their reaction is, “What???”

Maybe it’ll be grandkids…

“Yeah, I agree, that is horrible. I am literally just trying to keep more innocent people from suffering and dying…”

Reminder that a rubber bullet is mainly metal with a thin layer of rubber around it…

Or the guy moving things with “telekinesis.” He covered the table with tissue paper and suddenly the guy’s powers disappeared…

They systematically made millions of people fear for their lives. I’m glad shared that for a moment.

For #1, you’re missing the bullet point:

• “Acts nice to my face, but doesn’t consider me a human being (and votes accordingly)”

It’s always mobile game or sports betting ads that are the most “wtf?” levels of complex, which tells you something…

Since when can an executive order nullify a Constitutional Amendment??

Seem like a pretty open shut case to me…

Yes, that was my first question: what about Photoshop as an image editor? What is a comparable replacement for that?

I don’t know how it stacks up price-wise, but I’d argue Bluebeam is a far superior PDF editing program. It even covers some word processing, Illustrator, and some PowerPoint adjacent things.

That being said, I can’t see it as practical for the average consumer.

Well my argument is that they fall under a different analogy. Something like a car and wheelbarrow? They’re both used for transportation, sure, but they also have two distinct functions that don’t cancel each other out.

Truly. Trump and his ilk are like if you made the antithesis of Christ’s teachings in lab…

Religion. They are the “Christian party.”

I mean, literally none of their actions reflect the teachings of Christ, but culturally they have entrenched themselves as the only religion Christians can choose (at least, from the view of many Christians).

I am more trying to argue that Pinterest and Reddit/lemmy are fundamentally different enough that they aren’t really interchangeable.

I personally use both, but, again, for wildly different purposes.

Well…yes, it is a link aggregator, but have you ever used Pinterest? The uses for it vs reddit are wildly different…