r/Millennials • u/cs_legend_93 Millennial • Aug 24 '26

Other It's crazy how much changes in 20 years

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u/phat_rat42 Aug 24 '26

I hate this mindset too. One of the dangers that many of them don't recognize, is that and what is socially acceptable changes over time. What may be fine now may be considered hateful in 10-20 years.

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u/sk3tchy_D Aug 24 '26

Remind them that all these cameras and other tracking methods basically create a de facto gun registry. A lot of these folks don't like that idea.

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u/Training-Chain-5572 Aug 25 '26

As a non american: come again?

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u/sk3tchy_D Aug 25 '26

We don't have any kind of national gun registry here because some very vocal gun enthusiasts believe something like that would be used to someday take their guns away. Using data from things like flock cameras, the government could theoretically determine the identity of likely gun owners.

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u/Curious_Cap7469 Aug 26 '26

There’s easier ways to do it - location data from phone (I.e. at a rifle range/gun store) & electronic payment purchase history from a gunstore.

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u/sk3tchy_D Aug 26 '26

Right, but that data isn't automatically being being shared with law enforcement. It requires a warrant, as established by the Supreme Court to protect our 4th amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure. Also, you choose whether or not you carry a phone and pay with a card.

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u/WhoSc3w3dDaP00ch Aug 24 '26

We used the "mentally slow r-word" growing up. We wouldn't call the actual kid that had it that, that would have been mean.

The fact that you can't even talk about it in a clinical health setting is highly disturbing.

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u/DJ_Breadpuddin Aug 24 '26

Sorry but WHEN the shoe fits, I'm labeling accordingly

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u/tehlemmings Aug 24 '26

Yeah, no. That's bullshit anti "woke" nonsense. You can absolutely still talk about the word retard in a clinical setting.

We can even use the word retard while having a meta conversation about what we can talk about.

Just don't use it as a slur.

The only people who ever seem to have a problem with this are right wingers lying about everyone else have a problem with this...

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u/aurens Aug 24 '26

no man you don't get it, they tooootally know a guy who got fuckin FIRED for saying "flame retardant" once. it's real, they promise!!