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It's a common stereotype (I can confirm anecdotally) that whenever a woman goes to the doctor for any reason, the doctor will do one or more of the following:

1. ask when their last period was, regardless of the presenting issues
2. tell them to lose weight
3. order a pap smear
4. dismiss their distress as insignificant due to period/hysteria/any-BMI-higher-than-a-supermodel/just being a woman.

This happens a lot. I don't know the stats but it's happened enough times to women I know to actually cause them to avoid medical treatment.

Not necessarily.

You didn't provide any further context, so I will not bother providing further explanation.

heard in David Attenborough's voice

It's a little disturbing whether they could successfully breed.

It's more disturbing that they would try.

Dude, you're almost starting to understand what I'm saying, but obviously not there yet.

I forgot I had all the power and was the president of the world right now.

So, it would be simple and easy if an impossible and unrealistic condition existed. Not helpful.

I can get my own solar panels [...] I can lobby my community

That's a good start, and not hard. Maybe even simple, and/or easy. But it really doesn't solve the whole problem - it only solves a tiny, tiny part of the problem.

You just need the people with power to actually push for the things I am saying

And how exactly are any of us going to get this to happen? Is it simple to get the people with power to do something? Or easy? Don't you think there are millions of people who would love for exactly that to happen? Once again, if it were simple or easy, why hasn't it been done?

It is simple

Oh man, I thought you were starting to understand.

It is not simple. It is not easy. Of course we need to get the people in power to make change. But that is absolutely not easy or simple. It's like saying, "just cure cancer, duh!"

I do understand what you're saying. I'm saying you're wrong. It may be easy for one person to do certain things, but it's NOT easy or simple to get many people to do enough to effect real change.

I get the impression that you want these things to happen. I agree that doing these things would improve the situation.

If they are easy and simple, why haven't you done any of them?

• Renewables are not everywhere; why haven't you done that?
• Silver spooned babies who just feed corporations more power keep getting elected; why haven't you stopped that?
• Unions are still not as ubiquitous as they could or should be; why haven't you formed them?

None of this shit is rocket science and you are floundering in learned helplessness like our situation actually IS insurmountable. It is not, not by any means of the word.

Great! What's your plan?

Because merely identifying another near-insurmountable cause and saying it's "simple" or "easy" is pointless and dismissive. That's my point. You've offered no solutions or even suggestions for how to find a solution.

If it's so easy, why don't you do it? You don't feel like it?

Its obfuscated on purpose by the wealthy

Why would that matter? You said it was easy.

get rid of the billionaires and stop making clown laws. It is actually this simple.

There is no part of that that's simple.

If you want to solve the energy problem, invent and mass produce a cheap, non-polluting, zero-point energy generator. It is actually this simple.

I remember this ad in one the computer magazines I had as a teenager. Don't ask me why I remember it so vividly.

JFC stop being such a massive dick. Nobody attacked an entire country's population. They're saying this is not a singular instance of cruelty, that there are many other examples, which indicates that it's probably a systemic problem.

You: "These people are assholes"

Reply: "Yeah, in fact a lot of people are assholes."

You: "How dare you!"

As if America doesn't have a long history of cruelty?

I'm baffled. You made the original assertion that "cruelty is the point" - which makes a lot of assumptions, right or wrong - but at the same time you seriously think this (Alligator Alcatraz) is just a one-off? And that pointing out that it seems to be a trend is divisive?

Why are you being such a huge douche about this?

You said cruelty is the point. They AGREED, and said (to summarize) that this is NOT an exception, it (cruelty) is the American way.

I don't get how you can say "cruelty is the point" but when they agree with you it's "divisive"? What about that is more divisive than what you said?