PLEASE CHECK THIS OUT. Our own Aeronmelon is going through some shit at the moment and could use some help. Check it out here and consider an upvote or a comment to push it into activity. Sorry, not something I do often or will be spamming. But I care about my friend and if I can get a couple more eyes on his situation then I’m going to try to do what I can. (Last one I promise. Just twice. Not going to spam but dude is a big part of the Lemmy community, especially with Trek, and he deserves the help. And to the mods, if this doesn’t fit and you want to remove? Go for it. I completely understand it and I am sorry)
Edit: Oh wait I’m the mod here. Well, I say it is fine
I was leaving my grocery store when I saw a person calling for people to sign petitions. They had a variety of things to sign from lowering property taxes to “ensure pedophiles are jailed for at least 80% of their sentence length before opportunity of parole.” Republicans at the time were throwing the word around in relation to the LGBTQ. The core idea of this post clicked so hard in my head I think my wife heard it.
I always feel like they are hurrying to get me to sign when I start actually reading everything it says. It’s such emotional manipulation to get you to sign for something like the pedophiles should serve 80% of the sentence, but you read it and there is so much more about redefining what crimes are considered pedophilia.
Like, these are not simple 1 sentence things. Politics is not the simple solutions that people like to taut and quick and easy. Things need to be thought through thoroughly, written clearly, and extremely well defined.
I feel like the people who respond to “common sense solutions” are so unfathomably dumb not to realize that if it were so simple or easy it would have been done already. Or that it actually already exists and they just don’t know about it.
“Common sense solutions” come pre-packaged and pre-approved so no extra thought is necessary.
The world is complicated and over simplifying it is doing yourself a disservice.
Most of the people trying to get signatures in public try not to waste too much time on a single person.
But yeah you also have to look out because there are definitely people doing this kind of manipulation.