Apepollo11

Here's an example of a sentence where a missing comma completely changes the meaning.

Those cases are different, and are dealt with through your country's asylum process.

I suspect the N words in question are very much white.

I focussed on the obesity statistics because that is what you were talking about.

OK, let's flip this.

According to you, people with no money are not only buying junk food, but buying it in quantities to become overweight and obese.

People with no money are buying large quantities of food.

Is that what you're claiming? Is that how the world works in your head?

I'm saying that people with no money have no money to buy food. You're saying that people with no money somehow also have enough money to buy large quantities of unhealthy food.

At this point I can only assume that you're just arguing bad faith, because there isn't anything complicated to understand here.

How are you not getting it?

You're right in claiming there is a link between obesity and poverty. However the difference in obesity rates between the upper quintile and lower quintile is still less than 10%.

Obesity is a problem across every single wealth bracket.

There is a problematically high number of people in America who are both poor and obese. But there are about twice as many people in poverty who are not obese.

Of course, and it's a common trend around the developed world.

What's important to realise, though is that there are huge swathes of people who are poorer than that. People who need to choose between eating and heating. People who go without just so their kids can eat.

The obese poor people are not the ones who are starving (obviously). They're not the ones in abject poverty.

Let them eat cake?

Believe it or not, there are other countries than the US on the internet.

Also (and I suspect an even more difficult concept to grasp) even within the US there are people with barely enough money to eat anything, let alone junk food.

Look at the data - 47 million people in the US face food insecurity. Do you think these people are trapsing down to the food bank only when they fancy a change from McDonald's?

It's good to be sceptical when you hear stuff that surprises you, but do a bit of research before dismissing it.

I remember you from several months ago. I see from this post, you've not taken onboard any of the help and advice from last time.

Either that, or this is just a trolling account you turn to every now and again when you're bored.

You've decided to leave Lemmy after being downvoted for posting links to conspiracy videos disguised as a question?

FWIW, I didn't downvote you, but surely you must see why other people have?

I'll provide some similar examples, hopefully you can see the problem.

"Is it true that deep down women really want to be treated as slaves? These Andrew Tate videos raise some compelling points. Link. Link"

"Is it true that black people are trying to wipe out the white race by diluting the purity of our bloodline? Here are some convincing videos. Link. Link."

Obviously these examples are worse than yours, but they're exactly the same form. Nobody wants that kind of thing in their feed. Nobody wants to be asked to watch tinfoil-hat crackpot garbage before they can properly answer a question.

GMT

We've done it before and we'll do it again.

/s obv

I don't know if this helps at all, but ...

It's impossible to meaningfully compare the actual you to an imaginary version of yourself.

The only meaningful thing you can do is reflect on whether, with the resources available to you, you can be better at the things you want to be better at.

Ellen - before she was a talk-show host, Ellen DeGeneres played the main character in an Emmy award-winning sitcom. The show had LGBT characters, with Ellen herself (both the character and actress) coming out later in the show's run.

I'm surprised I've not seen Will & Grace mentioned (I'm sure it must be here, but I didn't notice it). That show famously featured many LGBT characters, including a lesbian couple who were Will and Grace's main rivals.

Less specifically for lesbian characters, but featuring a gay couple as main characters, you've also got The New Normal, a fantastic show about a gay couple that was cancelled after one season, and, of course Modern Family.

I wouldn't say that this programme was good, but Brookside famously featured the first pre-watershed lesbian kiss on British TV (the watershed is the point, 9pm, where it's assumed that children will no longer be watching TV). This was in 1994, when we still had backwards Conservative Party laws about it being illegal to "promote public discussion" of homosexuality. For context, it's worth noting that even two years later, when Carol and Susan got married in Friends they didn't kiss.