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  • ericattytomemes@lemmy.worldLet's gooooooo.
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    9 days ago

    If I’m reading the hypothetical right, it’s saying what if in a year, the numbers were reversed… 323 $hootings with 69 deaths, versus 1 school shooting with 1 death.

    Would gun laws change, would tax laws change? Etc etc. Would minimum wage change?

    Purely hypothetical of course


  • ericattytomemes@lemmy.worldLet's gooooooo.
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    9 days ago

    Also, he has a lot of kids now… money tied up over inheritance squabbles and civil cases getting redistributed to lawyers and court systems. I imagine more kids will come out of the woodwork too claiming a piece of the inheritance pie






  • ericattytoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    25 days ago

    My grandma was born in WV 1919. I asked her a lot over the years (she passed in 2015)

    Your great grandma may be different… but keep in mind, she’s human. And if she’s anything like my grandma, she will lie, or more charitably have some false recreations of certain memories.

    So asking round about questions to get more details about certain things can sometimes get some interesting truths exposed without her realizing it.

    Do not point out inconsistencies in an accusing way!!!

    Remember not everything is the actual truth, even if she’s being honest. We are human and our memories are swiss cheese on good days. None of us remember everything with 100% accuracy.

    Oh, and ask about her favorite music through the years, or favorite foods. Sometimes sounds, tastes l, and smells can trigger memories!





  • She clearly said the risk of pregnancy was due to policy decisions, not bad men. She obviously adores her husband and he adores her. One of the points is that even happily married couples who should be able to have sex can’t have sex because the medical risk is too great because of decisions made by a government and not medical professionals and their patients.

    They sound like people that would like to have children one day. But if the medical care isn’t available they are gambling on o will they get: 1 - a healthy baby and two alive healthy parents 2 - a baby and a grieving dad (wife dead) 3 - only a grieving husband (wife and baby dead) 4 - no baby, grieving parents, and a wife with possible lifetime disability, and/or infertility 5 - a severely disabled baby that the parents get to watch suffer for days and weeks or longer before it dies of something we already know is incompatible with life.

    The rest of it is trying to figure out how to support other women, through 4B or however possible, that are in other situations from her own.


  • Seriously. I managed a small rock band for a while. We got picked to tour with another band in some clubs in Eastern Europe. This was pre-Spotify, but Facebook strong.

    We had no CD sales pre-tour to these places, just some views on youtube. We were relying a lot on the other band.

    But the people that came to the shows?They knew the words and sang along and we had a great time.

    Someone had our music and shared it before we got there. And we were grateful for those pirates!! And yes, we sold some merch and CDs at the shows.

    If not for the pirates it would have been a much different experience with a lot less people showing up.

    Our band never “made it” but it was still a successful tour and a helluva lot of fun. In large part because our music was pirated and shared ahead of time.






  • ericattytoMemes@lemmy.mlPerfect clarity
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    2 months ago

    I mean, Kamala is running on policies that would help the little guy. And she might lose to guy who SA’s women and said he could shoot someone in the street.

    If she wins and we get a peaceful transfer of power, then I’ll have more faith in your dream.

    But right now, it seems like violence is what the masses crave over social reform.