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People are down voting you because out of all things you could have devoted mental energy towards today, you chose holocaust denial.

Friendly reminder that if your ideas aren’t complete shit then they can withstand some challenge.

Using allegory as a moral proxy is fine. And even a really great way of making complex or dry topics more approachable.

What is not ok is when you take allegory as literal, such that you actually believe that there is a sky wizard who will punish you for showing your hair in public. What is incredibly fucked up is when you then project that literal belief to a prescriptive action framework which commands you to murder heretics.

Muhammad on the other hand, doesn’t want you to know that he looks exactly like the letter “f”

US Christians: “write that down!”

If elected president my first order of business will be to make all birth certificates fully unicode compatible.

Yeah I use a GoogleTV and don’t let the set itself connect to the internet. I held onto an HTPC as long as I could but it just got too troublesome to coax high quality streams out of it after a while.

It’s hilarious how much incel sympathy materializes on lemmy the very microsecond critical support starts involving the prospect of some deferred male orgasms.

Hint for those who don’t get it - it’s not about the sex. It’s about sending a message.

Because populism is always dangerous. If Democrats go all in on populism, I will stop voting. I am not going to play this game where we just volley lies back and forth like a tennis ball until someone trips and the other person scores a point.

I will always support sober technocracy. If American politics actually turns into populist tennis then all is lost.

This is the problem. The grievances are largely not legitimate. They are regurgitated outrage of the day. The moment you deal it they are on to the next manufactured outrage.

The gentle click of jackboots makes it hard to sleep

Yeah Paris is great as a cool, old, European city with lots of history. If you like just hiking around cities it’s great. I can imagine if you go into it thinking it is like some French tourist resort, you will be disappointed.

So like Vegas, but with less booze and weed?

Cruises. It’s literally people who are so terrified of international travel, they bring their home culture with them on a boat. Even if the mechanics of cruises are generally nice, they are filled with, and cater to this demographic. Personally when I am traveling, too many other Americans or Germans kind of ruins the vibe, so a whole boat of them is like purgatory.

Yes, you have pretty much perfectly described why most Tom Clancy books have pretty niche appeal. The literary value is all in the well researched military nerd stuff, and weirdly plausible hypothetical geopolitics

That’s kind of why I don’t think the RFK stuff is actually going to happen. Trump can sell the economic populism stuff but he lost in 2020 because of anger over public health. Letting RFK be crazy is just going to cause headaches.

Honey, why is there a leopard at the door?

Marxist Leninist.

Yes on both accounts. It is frozen whipped topping. It had enough air to hold its shape when it melts.

Sabotage Democratic outreach and voter engagement efforts right?