aberrate_junior_beatnik

joined 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Maybe I'm just a bigot, but I think the only pronouns a school should have are it/its.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I forget where I heard this but someone mentioned that a 4-dimensional being could mirror you. Doesn't sound so bad until you realize your amino acids & stuff would all be the opposite chirality, which means you could no longer process food.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I'm sure firefighters spend most of their time being bored waiting around for a fire so they probably welcome the distraction.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Sure, in response to this statement that is a criticism that Biden did not deliver:

This all sounds like shit he should have done in his first term if he wanted Dems to have any faith in him whatsoever.

You said:

You seem to think a president can act unilaterally. Or that Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema weren’t holding the senate by the balls until the house got taken by Republicans two years ago.

I don't think it's unfair to say you think it is naive to believe that the "president can act unilaterally", and the natural converse of naivety is being savvy.

Anyway, I fail to see the point of arguing with someone who thinks I am a liar, so I will bow out of this conversation. Have a nice day. Believe it or not, I do sincerely wish you well.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I'm going to say a thing that would be considered entirely reasonable if we were talking about any other profession, but since we are talking about the powerful, will be disregarded:

That is not my job. That is the president's job. I should not be expected to come up with a strategy to solve their problems. When they tell me they are going to do something, and then fail to do so, they did a bad job.

I used to think like you do. I used to think I was savvier than all the naive people who wanted things from their politicians, and criticized the politicians when they didn't deliver, because how could they have? But over time I've realized that I was being duped. That I should stop arguing that better things aren't possible, because when people believe that, it comes true.

A criticism I'll head off: I understand I can't vote for them and forget it. I'm not advocating for reduced civil engagement; it's our job to protest and agitate.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Everything the Nazis did in the Third Reich was legal. People who resisted them were breaking the law. Maybe we should evaluate things by their impact (pollution/invasion of privacy) rather than their legality.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (4 children)

So you're saying I could be famous if I can hold out till February. 🤔

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Millions of soviets died fighting nazis.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If reacting to something always makes it more likely to occur, you have just made reacting to things Elon Musk says more likely to occur.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Technically true, since you could also just replace them with nothing

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