What things that are legal today could become illegal in 50 years?
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Living in an "unchristian" way in any form, be it being an atheist, LGBTQ+, etc.
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Free expression, freedom of speech. Privacy. Home ownership.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]What do you mean by the home ownership piece?
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Dumping junk in space
Well that might be the case, with the tiniest nag that in order to get into space one has to be very rich.
So even if it's illegal it would still be done. And no one would bet an eye.
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Leaving your house without your papers and government issued ID.
In the Netherlands that's already a thing for anyone aged 14 and up
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Unlocking your bootloader
By October it will be illegal to view porn with an unlocked bootloader -
I always had some sympathy with them. It just seems like they want off this awful capitalistic treadmill we find ourselves on. Everyone always laughs and belittles them, but I'm always rooting for em just a lil bit
SovCits are not noble campaigners fighting against injustice. They are idiots deluded enough to think they've found the cheat code to the legal system by spouting the right string of nonsense.
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The concept of being trans is a relatively new thing, by historical timelines.
The historical record for what we would now call transgender people goes back over 4,000 to Ancient Babylon. And that's just the written historical record.
Yeah, we just called trans folk hermaphrodites or transexuals or some other words than we use now. Language has been fluid but the concept is not new. Hell, I grew up familiar with it and I was pretty naive.
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FOSS running directly on metal
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Slaughtering animals for food.
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That's my big thing. They always claim they need a truck to do truck things, but the vast amount of truck beds I see are empty. I don't own a truck, but still need to do truck things sometimes. When I do I pay around 40 bucks to rent one for the day, do all my truck things, then return it. Idk, maybe I'm crazy but I've spent maybe a few hundred doing that, that seems like a better deal than 80k
Exactly! When we gamed out the cost, it was almost double for the loan. Oil changes cost double (there’s your $40 every 3-6months), and the parts were vastly more expensive. So we only pulled even renting a truck a 3x a week. At 80k I’d need to be pulling something daily more than 10 miles 7 days a week to beat the cost of renting a vehicle.
Nevermind there’s basically nothing I can buy that can’t be delivered from say Home Depot without me needing a truck.
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If right-wing nutjobs keep running the government I am going to say "birth control" and "sodomy" are on the chopping block. Hopefully by 50 years this won't still be the issue but its what they want now. Just to note that the old "sodomy" laws made everything that wasn't PIV illegal. So if you like oral sex that will be illegal now. Sorry everyone no more fun
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What do you mean by the home ownership piece?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]The billionaires paying for campaign contributions of most politicians in modern democracies (seem to) want to get back to having "company towns" for each of the business they own.
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Positive: ecocide universally accepted as criminal and backed up with meaningfully disincentivising penalties
Negative: being remotely off grid in any way. Probably a symptom of me being British, but I fully expect there to be a point where we're required to be constantly tracked (location, what you consume, what you see, etc) in real time and it'll become a crime to evade it.
Positive: ecocide universally accepted as criminal and backed up with meaningfully disincentivising penalties
I hope so. But I find it hard to believe that enough world leaders are clean to get that thru. So much of what is weird in the news today makes perfect sense if I add these words to the end of the headline: "after a coke binge".
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Exactly! When we gamed out the cost, it was almost double for the loan. Oil changes cost double (there’s your $40 every 3-6months), and the parts were vastly more expensive. So we only pulled even renting a truck a 3x a week. At 80k I’d need to be pulling something daily more than 10 miles 7 days a week to beat the cost of renting a vehicle.
Nevermind there’s basically nothing I can buy that can’t be delivered from say Home Depot without me needing a truck.
Same, same. Even with high delivery fees it's still worth just paying them vs buying a truck. Unless you need lumber delivered daily, then it doesn't matter.
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Slaughtering animals for food.
The odds of that happening are pretty damned low.
It'd be great, but super unlikely
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In the Netherlands that's already a thing for anyone aged 14 and up
And it hurts absolutely nobody.
Turns out, the problem isn't carrying ID, the problem is US cops.
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Slaughtering animals for food.
Just for funsies then?
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I also predict erosion of 2nd Amendment for non-whites
You mean like the black panthers and the nra?
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If they went and lived in some remote mountain village or something I wouldn't mind.
But they claim all of this while driving without a licence or insurance. Would you be as sympathetic to their cause if they hit your car and cause serious damage?
I sort of understand their point but they've also been unimaginably selfish and entitled and that's the part I can't get behind. Also every single one of them is, without fail, an utter moron.
Don't forget a huge part of the movement is people trying to evade child support
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Ah fuck, I knew someone would be around to pick on that.
Trans rights in Western culture is a new thing we gotta fight for. Fuck me, gay rights is a relatively new thing we still gotta fight for. Didn't read my post? Were you not around when gay marriage was a sticking point? Like, 15-years ago? I know goddamned well the concept has existed since we were monkeys.
Your comment is a perfect example of why conservatives hate holier-than-thou liberals. Pick up a rifle or STFU.
Sorry, but the attitudes you expressed have directly hurt the trans community in recent years. Hell, in the recent Skremetti case that saw the erosion of trans rights, even the liberal justices were completely ignorant about just how far back in time trans people go. The idea that trans people are a new phenomenon is directly harmful to our rights and safety.
Look, fine if you want to LARP as an armed defender of freedom. But ultimately you're just playing dress up. You may style yourself a defender of the rights of minorities, but you're giving advice that is only applicable to someone in your position. 2nd Amendment rights effectively do not exist for members of many minority groups. What you're allowed to get away with because you're a middle aged cis white guy will result in members of other groups getting immediately shot by police.
