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The talk page is an all-time classic of petty Wikipedia drama.

And likely intends to do so for life.

Speedy is relative. It's in response to monarchies which would, if they didn't like you but didn't have a case against you, lock you up "pending trial" for the rest of your life. The point was just to prevent that.

The kids in the top one are so excited about their newfound Freedom(tm) to toil away in the mines.

This is a fair bit worse than poor use of money.

Octopodes nuts?

The root of it is transphobia because before the Olympics started, they predicted that because trans athletes are allowed like they have been for over 20 years, they'll dominate every event despite that not happening before and nothing having changed recently. Since that didn't happen, because admitting that they were wrong is very clearly not an option, they accuse cis athletes that they deem not sufficiently feminine of being trans. People who don't really follow what's going on but take the right wing position by default believe them, and it reinforces their biases, so it works as propaganda despite a complete lack of basis in reality.

It's a dog whistle to the racists who think the only thing worse than not being white is being mixed race. But they can't just say that out loud, so they play dumb and go "how can she be both?"

The main advantage of Blu-ray audio is supporting 7.1 surround, while a CD is limited to 2 channels. Unless you have the equipment to take advantage of that, though, it's a moot point.

Minimizing death by replacing it with eternal torment is some evil genie shit.

For any randomly chosen person on an infinitely long track, the trolley will take an infinite amount of time to reach them. 0% of the people on the track are harmed at all.

They're worse. They're really the next generation of Cuil.

That's not how that works. You don't end up with a blank slate, you end up with a fascist shithole with no guarantee of it ever being unfucked.

It's named as attack ad bait. "So-and-so voted against the Kids Online Safety Act" sounds bad to the uninformed voter, and there are a lot of uninformed voters.

At this point he could spend an entire debate screaming racial slurs and defecating on the podium and not lose any voters.

You'd be right in this case too. It's extremely sketchy, it's pretty much absolute censorship power with only an informal promise that it won't be used for anything nefarious (but a refusal to actually codify anything preventing that). "Harmful content" is left very conveniently vague.

Whatever it is, it looks like it's been sitting out for a week.

I feel like there's a primal part of my brain that would tell me not to drink something that looks like there's mold growing on it that would be difficult to get past.

The previous approach was to focus on how he's a dangerous fascist, which his supporters were able to spin as strength. Focusing on how he's the kind of off-putting creep that you instinctively cover your drink as he walks by can't be spun that way.

The claim is "Earth isn't a planet", sometimes with the addition of "space isn't real".