I’m curious why you used @ in your comment—oh I see, you’re on a mastodon server, cool!

Yeah since his death I watched a couple of videos and he is was so robotic and insincere. Like he would just cut off his opponent if he detected a keyword that relates to some lukewarm rebuttal (that anyone with a passing familiarity with the topic would see through) and use it as a rhetorical trap, to stop having a thinking debate and pivot to simply spewing talking points.

Smelling the feculent turn, the crowd would then cheer and whoop him on as he would pile on more and more bullshit over the original dishonest dump.

Then his Move: he would ask a question based on this insincere tower of turds. He would repeat it, it’s a simple question, right? Just answer the question.

Obviously the original point is buried under several layers of shit by this point, so it’s hard to tell what the debate was even about…

I think that’s what honest people failed to realise when debating Kirk. It wasn’t about anything other than winning the debate.

Yeah just like send an email to a journo, call a quick conference, say it in a meeting, or even just post it on social media: Palestine is a sovereign nation and it is under siege.

And the “West” is currently helping them commit genocide.

Thank you jerk face!!

Thanks for sharing, this is a better write-up than I would’ve done.

But yeah it really sucks because from the outside Bandcamp looks like a great “light touch” platform, but the truth is sadly much more cynical and anti-democratic.

I buy on Bandcamp Fridays, but am suspicious of that platform since they changed owners so often without any input from the community or musicians.

I’m keeping my eye on https://subvert.fm/ as a hopefully more democratic option.

Food didn’t actually spill and video doesn’t even show anything breaking. Bah! I’m happy it worked out, but I was kind of hoping to see a tragedy within the bounds of human comprehension for once.

This is why I’d be a bad politician. I couldn’t stomach pretending that the party leadership cares about democracy or fair play

Damn that is excellently put.

Very understandably, most reasonable people are uncomfortable with violence* but then we seem powerless at the state level to stop the gradual rise of violent ideology that everyone knows will end in classes of vulnerable people who are no longer protected by the prohibition on non-state violence.

* state violence that is part of the script of life isn’t scary for some reason though.

Saving your comment.

Real

Schnnnaaw what du we have heres

If funny looking hate mongers aren’t safe, then who is??

For anyone out of the loop (from the AP / quoted in the article) :

Why are people protesting in Nepal?

The demonstrations—called the protest of Gen Z—began after the government blocked platforms, including Facebook, X and YouTube, saying the companies had failed to register and submit to government oversight.

But they spiraled to reflect broader discontent about a lack of opportunities and corruption.

In particular, many young people are angry that the children of political leaders—so-called Nepo Kids—seem to enjoy luxury lifestyles and numerous advantages while most youth struggle to find work.

It’s a miracle 😭

This. My partner (love) used to use all these excuses with her friends out of guilt for not having a “good reason” for not wanting to go to something… ohhh what a tangled web we weave I’d say as she left a fib for why she couldn’t go out to a concert after working two weeks straight. Invariably she’d go for a casual walk with another friend and get caught in her web of lies after someone saw her.

A minor faux pas, but so much stress just to avoid admitting you don’t feel like it.

Anyway she’s much better now. I’d like to think some of that is my being a radically honest judgemental misanthrope rubbing off on her.

She has like several of orders of magnitude more really good friends than me though, so I could definitely benefit from letting some of her rub off on me, too.

As a misanthrope I feel this so strongly.

This is also why I’ve stopped giving excuses and just say I’m not feeling like it. You can’t really argue with feelings—not by solutionizing, anyway.

Link doesn’t appear to work?

And if it starts to get shitty, it gets forked!

Your username rules

Genital subscription is premium and coming is premium+ 😞 I’m sorry