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You think that there's a chance that a sitting governor, who graduated magna cum laude from Yale, and then got his JD from Harvard (cum laude), may be ignorant of the basic meaning of his words?

Anything is possible, I guess, but the saying, "Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity," only holds assuming everything else is equal. This is a very smart, accomplished man, who has just chosen to push the worst possible narratives available, all of which just so happen to help his cause. He doesn't get the benefit of the doubt.

It's not a great replacement for a forum experience, a "I need to search for an answer to a specific question" experience, or anything like that.

But for the sense of community that people tended to identify with their favorite subs? I think it's a pretty solid platform. Still has all the same issues regarding any centralized service run by a company, but that's going to be the case for the vast majority of replacements until there's a major paradigm shift across the world.

Exactly. I'm adopted. I'm pro choice. But this isn't really the own it's getting implied to be. It really just highlights that statistics can support an argument, but you can't really make an argument based solely on stats.

Grotesque? Maybe I missed seeing something else, but "Fuck Spez," isnt grotesque.

Nor can you really call using the canvas as intended "graffiti."

In the US, Walmart pays their employees by teaching them to file for food stamps and then keeping their pay depressed enough to qualify.

I can't stop working. Even if my retirement accounts continue to exist for the three more decades it will take me to begin drawing from them, I have no way to know and absolutely no trust that they quantity of money will be sufficient to support me.

The bank can take pretty much anything I own if I lose my job and fall behind, which severely curtails my ability to do anything except exactly what I'm told at work.

What's the major difference between this and serfdom, except that my current lords don't even have to supply me with food and shelter directly?

It's not a conversation. It's a statement of fact. The person I responded to said that we should help them win the war, but also seemed to be questioning why we'd be involved in logistics, while also saying that we should somehow "denazify" Russia, which is simultaneously vague and a hugely expanded action.

Cause and effect. You want the effect? You have to do some stuff to make some causes.

"We should help them win the war" necessitates providing advice on strategy, tactics, and the use of the equipment we have provided.

You can't really have the outcome you've described without the US officials doing exactly what they're doing.

That's why the regressive troglodytes are on a rampage.

They can't stand that people are actually comparing notes on their Christofascist abuse. So they try to block anyone talking about race or anyone who is happy, well adjusted, and queer. It ruins their narrative for their own brainwashed members.

Sinclair media is equally disturbing, but very few people question the reach it has into American homes.

Not to mention the consolidation of the rest of the news landscape.

There's several levels of trust here. I don't trust TikTok to serve me anything critical of China, and I know they tend to downshift certain lifestyle creators. But I trust TikTok to give me better on the ground information about a current/emergent event than I do our American corporate media companies, who regularly black out certain topics with near impunity.

Russians bombing apartments is more akin to terrorism than Ukrainians bombing a supply route.

They maintain their own fueling depots around their jurisdiction. One of ours is down the block from a Walmart, on the back side rode without much other development.

They do this to get cost savings on the fuel, maintain a segregated supply for themselves in emergency, and to avoid being near us plebs in a vulnerable (unfueled) state.

If the goal were to instill fear in Russian citizens, they'd be attacking Russian citizens.

They are not.

They are attacking a Russian supply line to hamper their offensive efforts.

When you give bad faith actors the benefit of the doubt, you look like a bad faith actor yourself. Stop parroting Russian talking points as if there's a way for Ukraine to have their approval without capitulating.

It's never been an objective fact that they're arguing.

They're implying more than they're willing to say directly. Over the decades we have seen indicators of their plan: conversion therapy, calling it "same sex attraction disorder," etc. Their base supposition is that there is no such thing as homosexuality, and that anyone engaging in homosexual behavior either lacked adequate parenting, was abused, or some other way was "broken" from the default of heterosexuality.

This is dangerous because you can't prove it isn't true, and as with most of their specious arguments, one or two examples is all they need to feel justified in whatever means they choose to employ in combating the problem they made up.

At its core, any disagreement with regressives boils down to definitions. Most of us live in a world where we accept other people's opinions in some way, even if we disagree. These folks will make up a new reality, and then phrase everything around their interpretation to try to force people to think of it through the frame they created.

Ultimately, they're useful idiots for each other.

Trump pandered to get the votes. The voters knew they were being pandered to, and went with it willingly. There were several interesting times where Trump tried to not be batshit crazy, and they full ass ignored him.

He's only their messiah as long as he functions as a mirror for them to see themselves in power.

"I have nothing to hide."

Until regressives make normal shit illegal, as they often try to do.

Damn, Elon been moonlighting?

Excellent point, lest anyone forget that he was really just running his mouth and got too far in before the mania dropped.

I have nystagmus, so after a full day of reading for work and playing games online after, my eyes are too tired to sit there and read.

I switched to audiobooks about 8 years ago and haven't looked back. It's amazing. Increasing the speed slightly makes them sound more conversation speed, so start with 1.3-1.6. I'm up to 3.3 now, which gets me through books at an insane rate.

I had to buy a car recently. The first five I wanted were sniped by the time I got to the dealership. I wound up having to pay 16k for a 9 year old car with 135k miles on it.

Cars are bonkers across the board right now. I honestly wish I had gone with a smaller new car rather than this older SUV that has already cost me in repairs.