Hegar @ Hegar @kbin.social

Mostly kind chonky weirdo. Gentle nerd freak of the pacific north west. All

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Suitably brutal and chilling version!

I can't not read that in a garbled south african accent.

Glad to be of service.

Yep, agreed.

Not really. Connections and social status will always have benefits.

People who don't realize that both liberals and zionists have a lot of imperialism to be ashamed of remind me of the US education system.

I've got some bad news for you about the history of those cliches.

There was a recent case in NC where a 12 y/o was found dead with his underpants off and the camp obstructed the investigation and continues to maintain the death was accidental even after a coroner ruled it was not. It's the second death at that camp as well, previous one was in 2014.

https://www.wfae.org/crime-justice/2024-02-16/nc-regulators-shut-down-trails-carolina-camp-after-12-year-old-boy-dies

Yikes, just looked at your profile. A supporter of both capitalism and authoritarianism?

I've never seen anyone so eager to tell the world that they are Neutral Evil.

Russia has said multiple times that they are a threat to NATO. Pretending otherwise is as childish as pretending this isn't a proxy war between NATO and Russia.

If you're going to defend Russia, at least try not to contradict Russia.

Uber is a bad faith actor, their business model is entirely monopoly-seeking. If they're trying to expand into bus routes, the goal will be to reduce the choices available to just Uber.

The only thing I've found that helps is feeling like I achieved something worthwhile in my day. So after 6+ hours of video games it'll be like 1am, I'll yawn and suddenly think, oh I should get in a couple hours of writing. Whereas if I had already cleaned the house and emailed my family then I'll be in bed by 11.

It's a problem where the solution is to not have the problem in the first place, which doesn't help if you already have the problem.

It's called Corditini

Both the mother and son are vile bloodthirsty xenophobes, the son is a criminal and meets the definition of a terrorist (though that's a nonsense word).

Your comment is far too close to calling for genocide though, which is not an acceptable response to injustice.

The Wikipedia article has multiple conflicting definitions, including:

"any use of the language, especially repeated phrases, to ward off forbidden thoughts”
"Claim Y sounds catchy. Therefore, claim Y is true."
"the start and finish of any ideological analysis"

The problem is that the term is just BS, in part because the idea it was made to support is complete BS.

Defining 'Totalitarianism' was a cold war project of western academia, trying to come up with a way to say that the nazis and soviets were the same. They weren't though. Only far right US Nationalists still claim this. The term has very low analytical use, so once the pressure to create this propaganda evaporated with the end of the USSR the term quickly became defunct.

Thought terminating cliches was coined by a psychologist in ’61 trying to claim that 'totalist thought is characterized by thought terminating cliches.' To translate: the west has reasoned ideology, everyone else just spouts cliches.

Jokes that involve or could be mistaken for rudeness rarely land online, in my experience. There are too many trolls and so people assume bad faith.

This term seems like just an insult wearing academic robes. And a tautology. All cliches over simplify the world, side-stepping complex analysis.

There's nothing "thought terminating" about acknowledging that a problem is beyond your scope - which is what the first two mean. I've only heard YOLO used to encourage risk-taking, which is completely different.

Realistically, these are often just social cues that you're bored with the conversation.

Obviously whether you use a cliche to avoid thinking deeper on a topic or for some other reason changes with each use. It's not inherent to the phrase.

I’m borrowing.

You can keep it! I don't need it back.

It was so clear that these stooges were only there to violate trump's gag order on his behalf. Of course he edited their speeches. Imagine how embarrassing it must be to have a senile dullard who can't string a sentence together correcting you when you already lie for a living.

Part of the problem is hyperactive agency detection - the same biological bug/feature that fuels belief in the divine.

If a twig snaps, it could be nothing or someone. If it's nothing and we react as if it was someone, no biggie. If it was someone and we react as if it was nothing, potential biggie. So our brains are bias towards assuming agency where there is none, to keep us alive.