Anyolduser @ Anyolduser @lemmynsfw.com

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Looking at things pragmatically widespread education of the population takes time and simply won't take for some people. There are folks today complaining that "they don't teach taxes in school". These people have a problem filling out a 1040EZ. Not exactly encouraging.

At the same time Tic Tok represents a single vector for current or potential foreign propaganda and intelligence gathering targeting the American public. Opportunities to nip a single bud (so to speak) are few and far between and probably won't be possible in the near future.

TL;DR - The "sell or ban" is a short term measure that won't take a lot of time, education is a long term measure that takes years.

So figure, all it took was scripts that aren't dog shit and directors not trying to "fix it in post" all the time.

You threatened their worldview by pointing out that Lemmy is an echo chamber. People get angry when they feel threatened.

Not this shit again.

It would have cost you nothing to not make this.

Up until just a few decades ago the hardest thing for people to get was food, not housing as it is (for most of the people on Lemmy) today.

Because of this, being fat was seen in various societies as a sign of wealth or beauty, sometimes both. As late as a hundred years ago the US and Great Britain had "fat man societies". Here's an article on that:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/03/07/469571114/the-forgotten-history-of-fat-men-s-clubs

We can't really know why the "fertility idol" sculptures look that way, but if you're an early human spending your life going through cycles of feast and famine as you follow prey animals sticking around with the fat person you ran into was a good way to stay alive.

But they're not really communists, right? Because they did something objectionable and that would reflect poorly on communism as an ideology.

Sure, but when the Soviets weren't real communists and the Cubans aren't real communists and the Chinese aren't real communists and the Vietnamese aren't real communists and the Cambodians weren't real communists the argument starts to ring just a little bit hollow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

The dark side of in medias res.

Aye, no true Scotsman.

By modern standards this is pretty bad, and it boils down to an exposition problem.

The author needs to explain certain basic information up front (or at least pretty early on). A good way to do this is to have one character be a novice who needs to be told basic details, thereby informing the audience. In fact the "new guy" angle to exposition delivery is so good that it itself is becoming cliche.

In the example you brought up the author wanted to take advantage of the "new guy" trope but for whatever could not do that. Maybe the character needed social status or standing that a rookie would not have in order to make the plot work. Rather than find a creative workaround that made sense in their story they pulled out the old amnesia trick to eat their cake and have it, too.

Well, there's a whole string of words I've never seen next to each other.

Here's an actual answer to a ... let's see ... four day old post:

Hamas fucked around. Now they're finding out.

Specifically, they're finding out that using people in Gaza as meat shields only works as a deterrent when you don't perform massive raids into Israel.

Now the only hope they have of not getting their shit kicked in permanently is utilizing propaganda networks to get "useful idiots" (that's the actual, technical term used in intelligence communities) to put outside pressure on Israel to not hunt down each Hamas member individually.

That's the gory, ugly reality of the situation in Gaza. While the civilians in Gaza are absolutely being victimized it's hard not to blame the organization using them as human shields.

We never did get into area 51.

I'm just sayin...

Boy, you must be fun at parties.

I see the correct answer was "willful ignorance". Serves me right for thinking you weren't a propagandist.

Ok. You seem to be forgetting that the current open hostilities were kicked off by a large Hamas raid that resulted in hostages being taken.

The four possibilities are that you are stupid, brain damaged, are willfully ignoring recent events, or are high. I gave you the benefit of the doubt.

Are you willing to share what you've been smoking with the class?

We're busy using our tax dollars to equip them and keeping our troops where they won't start a nuclear war.