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4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
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This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
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also:
STOP BRINGING YOUR PETS TO THE GROCERY STORE. No, I'm not talking about the genuine service animals, I'm talking about the shitzu who piddled in produce, or the rat dog who's barking at an actual service animal, I don't care if you call it an emotional support animal it's not trained and it doesn't belong near food you selfish fuckwits.
it's a fucking grocery store for people, not petsmart or home depot.
and people shouldn’t be able to own more than three pets max.
So much for couples with pre existing cats.
Add children to that and I'm with you.
There is nothing more totalitarian in existence than government regulating people's reproduction. It's for people who see abortion bans and think: this is great, but how can we extend the same principals and logic to men?
@seathru@lemmy.sdf.org @yesman@lemmy.world
Ususally, totalitarian regimes wont only punish parents for violation of the policy, but also the children. I was the second child born in Mainland China during the one child policy, and they denied legal documents and essentially tried to denied my existence for as long as possible (practically treating me like a "bastard child", as if I were born out of wedlock or something). They demanded my parents to pay a massive amount of money (aka: a "fine") so I could have a legal identity. My mother also got forcibly sterilized after that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heihaizi
Without legal documents, you basically are like an illegal immigrant in your own country.
Its horrible. Both Forced Birth and Forced Abortion policies are two sides of the same coin, government overreach where there shouldn't be.
Yeah, I guess it's one of those things like communism. Great on paper but humans can't be trusted to admin it.
Not even the death penalty?