SoleInvictus @ SoleInvictus @lemmy.world

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Here's a great article that's starting to make the rounds. He was an awful person.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/

I was initially really confused about why you were suggesting someone was the koi herpes virus.

For any other confused fish people, KHV stands for kissless, hugless virgin.

He's a CEO. His job is to guide his company to make money. His actions are actively doing the opposite: he is causing his company to lose money.

While this happens from time to time, a smart, presumably stable CEO reverses course and engages in damage control when this happens. Instead, Musk is doubling down hard, despite knowing full well this is likely to destroy the platform formerly known as Twitter.

Look at it this way. You have an investment banker than handles investing a great deal of your money. You just found out said banker just made a series of awful decisions which caused the investments of several of their other clients to crash. They are unrepentant and refuse to take responsibility, instead telling those involved to go fuck themselves.

Would you want that person to continue to handle your money?

I laughed and spit tea on my cat. Kitty was upset until she realized catnip was in the tea. Everyone wins. Well done.

LOL, I wish my NES or SNES games looked this good.

Name a United States president since the 1930s that WASN'T guilty of at least one war crime. You can't!

You're right, but you're not right about why you're right.

This has to be the most divorced from reality hot take I've seen on Lemmy in awhile.

I came to say exactly this. I have a career, have hit life goals, and done all that stereotypical stuff, but I didn't really feel like an 'adult' until powering out with my therapist through childhood trauma and weird mental things, like handling my ADHD and coming to terms with my mortality.

Unnecessarily antagonistic and really has nothing intelligent or worthwhile to add?

I would sponsor a fur suit if this happened.

I think people are misinterpreting your comment as "the Nazis originated from leftists" versus what I think you meant, that the Nazis went after leftists first after getting into power.

Well shit, I almost got through a whole week without crying.

Not saying all conservatives have brain damage, but...

There's definitely a correlation between issues with critical thinking and conservatism.

I'm poly and am now in a monogamous marriage but was in a few poly relationships prior. I'm 99.5% okay with this.

Poly was fun but had high overhead - there's a certain amount of work required for any relationship and it seems to increase to some extent as you get closer with someone. Two partners was literally double the work, sometimes more. A lot of people thought I was a swinger which always pissed me off. A couple of non-poly girlfriends thought it gave them carte blanche to fuck around on the side while I was staying monogamous for them. Classy.

My very last poly partner was simply horrid and ultimately turned me off to poly. Successful polyamory requires trust and communication. We had been unintentionally monogamous for awhile and it turned out she was not communicating some unfulfilled needs. To be fair, they were valid needs, but I couldn't have known to fulfill them without being told first.

When she and I started dating, we were only seeing each other and had agreed that we'd only consider bringing new people to the relationship if our "core" relationship was solid. That was always my condition in every poly relationship. Years later, without any prior warning, she told me about the issues she had with us and mandated that the only way she'd be willing for us to stay together was if I were to support her starting a relationship with an absolute trainwreck of a human being. He was a socially awkward, late twenties, literally virginal fellow that had never been in a relationship of any kind before and he nailed the cocky, oblivious, "kind of an asshole but projects the blame on you" engineer stereotype on the head so hard you could feel it across county lines. I noped the fuck out so hard. Looking back, my ex had glaring warning signs you could see from space, but I was pretty young and nieve, plus I was madly in love with her even before we started dating. This and an earlier relationship with a narcissistic abuser are the only relationships I regret.

I met my now wife a few months after my ex and I split. She didn't want to do poly and I was pretty burned out on it, so I had no complaints. I do miss it sometimes. I'm a bit of a flirt and I really miss that, the excitement of hitting it off with a new person and all the chemistry and interesting things to learn about them. Still, I wouldn't trade what I have with my wife for all the dates in the world.

I've got ya: https://archive.ph/Tqmxe

Message board hypocrisy, a concerto in three movements:

1. Moderato: In which the villain claims someone who hasn't read or understood the article is an idiot.
2. Adagio cantabile: the friendly townspeople read the article and lo! The villain himself did not understand the article!
3. Allegro scherzando: where it is revealed to all that, by their own criteria, the villain actually called themselves an idiot. Bravo!

You have accurately communicated the facts and I believe adherence to truth, even if you don't like that truth, is the only way to be better than the typical OANN and Fox News crowd. I even found a corroborating article for the skeptics.

https://thedispatch.com/article/fact-checking-a-claim-that-fox-news/

When people disparage facts they don't like based simply on the fact they don't like them, they're furthering a post-truth society.

I'll do digging, thank you!

Also, great screenname! I'm also a fan of the best beetle ever. Snoots and boots!

Hey...do we have a weevil time community?