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Aww 🥺

I wish to see a video of someone doing this

Having lived with partner for 10+ yrs, I'll take the 2nd bathroom every time

Schrodinger's president

Remove your eyelids!

Smooth brain accelerationism

Counters are installed whole like that sometimes. I can imagine that maybe the contractor's router broke or was lost or stolen and they had to come back the next day with the router to cut the proper hole but in the meantime he just rough cut a couple holes with the buzz saw so that the homeowners can use their sink.

This post is riddled with logical fallacies and bad faith arguments. You're position on me, my comments, and my message have all been apparently precast by you and I'm old enough to know that nothing I say or do short of complete submission and withdrawal will satisfy you.

Regarding your confrontation story, you can literally say anything here to contort the events to fit your narrative and nullify any point I'm trying to make regardless of the quality of thought I might put in. So we're done on that front.

Your next problem is apparently reading comprehension:

defending themselves from aggressors makes them bad people, that they'll have blood on their hands and they won't be able to live with themselves.

Did you know that written text on the Internet is not real life? Reality is an insanely chaotic flow of immeasurable complexity, and the hopelessly simple distillations of it that our puny brains attempt to make by describing it with words always fails to capture true reality. What I can only hope to describe about the situation you seem dependent on as your only source of protection against others (killing in self defense) are just a few of the potential consequences that could arguably manifest from doing such a thing.

My head my be really far up my own ass because I don't see where I'm telling people not to defend themselves. Or that they're bad people for doing so. Just saying it's complicated and in my life experience, things aren't black and white simple like that.

Further, your dislike of me appears to be so strong that you are willing to say things that deny simple universal truths, like that if you kill someone, there will be figurative blood on your hands. This is true regardless of the situation. The sky is blue, water is wet, and if you kill, blood gets on your hands. Not sure what to do with you regarding this, seems hopeless to me.

More on your lack of reading comprehension:

anyone who says the following:....Is either trolling, or unintentionally trying to get people killed through bad advice.

I'm not even sure what about my words or how I'm presenting my thoughts qualifies as advice? Also, pepper spray doesn't work? Really? Do you know what pepper spray is? I'm no weapons expert so please enlighten me if I'm wrong in saying pepper effective in certain self defense situations.

And most importantly, in that phrase you quoted, I was talking about the composition of the originally posted image. As in, the person who authored the content of the image, as I am assuming it is a work of fiction, purposely chose those details to incite a specific emotional response. I wasn't actually trying to give real advice to victims of assault, that would be insanely foolish, irresponsible, and wrong of me to do so. Which is why I didn't, although you seem happy to accuse me of doing so anyway.

And finally:

You're either an alt right troll, or worse, you're someone who thinks themselves an ally, but has absolutely zero practical experience in the matter.

I'm neither, in fact. I'm not an ally, as I understand it, allies help. I've done nothing to help. I'm just a run-of-the-mill lefty. I'm not claiming to be anything else. When I vote, I vote for liberal policies and minority rights. The rest of the time, I'm dealing with life as any other human on this planet must do.

You seem to have mistaken your feelings for facts in your writing. Your statements have an anger that could not have come from me, I think you're unfairly projecting outside emotions onto me and my words which is not the way to make friends. I know this changes nothing for you, so have a nice day. I hope it goes well for you when you kill someone for reasons you think are justified.

Gimme dat wide receiver

... What did you do the first time it happened to you? You said "(again)" so did you literally KILL them? Or do you simply regret not KILLING them. Apparently since I don't approve of killing people I have to list all the incountable ways that you can deal with all kinds of negative confrontations without resorting to literally killing someone. This has been a very stupid day defending the most basic idea that maybe we shouldn't just kill people and maybe we shouldn't fantasize about killing people.

Righteousness is in the eye of the beholder. If in the act of defending yourself, you kill somebody, is that objectively a good righteous thing? Is that not a bloody stain on the world? Will there not be blood on your hands? Would you be happy about the fact that you killed somebody for the rest of your life? Will you always feel that it was righteous to do so? And do you think anyone in a similar situation should feel perfectly justified and freely killing anybody who they feel threatens them in self-defense to just kill and that this is the right thing to do? I don't think so, so no I don't believe you have a right to kill somebody every death is a tragedy, the story may just be longer than the particular interaction that led to that killing. Are there deaths that are necessary for the survival of the "good guys"? Maybe, doesn't make it right to me. It just sucks all around.

First of all I appreciate the quality of your statements and I should thank you for being a real person and engaging with me in this way, thank you.

The original posting was most likely a fake story from 4chan about a southern cowboy father giving his trans child a gun so as to defend themselves against any sort of bigoted violent attack. We're all supposed to feel good about this loving caring father figure, and presumably lament the fact that our own parents weren't as supportive of our own eccentricities growing up.

Simultaneously we are expected to implicitly accept that guns are solution to anything, that possession of a gun will prevent violent bigoted attacks by being a form of "self defense," and that this father raised their child in an environment where there would be susceptible to such attacks and that's fine and not to be questioned.

Guns are machines designed to kill people. If self defense was really the goal why didn't the father gift their child a bullet proof vest or a shield or pepper spray or a taser or any other of the myriad options that exist in the real world to defend yourself from attackers?

In my mind the reason the posting has a gun as the gift and that the responders in this thread love the posting so much is because guns are for killing and this satisfies the very fantasy and desire that any angry repressed person has which is to kill their oppressors. It's a simple fantasy where there's the hero with the gun and quickly they just shoot and kill the person or people that's causing them all their problems.

This is not a good psychological situation. I grew up physically and emotionally abused to the extent where I fantasized killing my parents and others often. I have anger and other emotional issues to this day. I know very well how this feels. Being much older and much calmer now I know how bad it was to be this way; I was a victim. So forgive me for coming off like a far right troll I promise you I'm not. I'm a solidly left leaning atheist with a PhD and I work in a research lab. I don't want people to fantasize about murder it doesn't lead to anything good it doesn't solve any problems and this post has an implicit murder fantasy that's why I'm spending all this time to argue with people that it's not good and to find other ways to deal with these feelings.

I must be blind because I don't see the word "trans" in any your quotations. Those certainly are things I wrote however. I also don't see where I was complaining about " trans people doing homicide"

complaining about trans people doing homicide

CITATION NEEDED

started saying that they don't

CITATION NEEDED

Nothing to do with anything I said. Learn to read.

I assure you, I've read through that literature for a long time. I'm concluding that I'm dealing with a bunch of angry teenagers here. I am in no way shape or form desiring that trans people remain passive targets. if you're being attacked obviously defend yourself. again this has nothing to do with what I'm saying. Sitting around and seething in anger wishing you had an opportunity to kill and imagining all the scenarios in which you're going to kill somebody it's not the same as standing up for yourself or defending yourself. This is becoming a stupid waste of my time and I am sure the FBI will keep records on all of you should you actually decide to pick up a gun and do anything about your feelings.

Ain't no revolution tho is there, get real

That's stating the obvious. Further, laws are not Rights nor moral guides. Killing is wrong. Attacking trans people is wrong. The folks in this thread are wrong for lusting to kill. I recommend watching some videos of actual killings and murders and see if you really want to be involved with that.

My baby is learning to eat, his hands get filthy and I'm teaching him Spanish, so after meals it's time to chant the magic spell