The resistance of the Hobbits is true, but stronger still is the circumstances in which the ring came to your possession. Bilbo stumbled upon it, Frodo inherited it, Sam took it to keep it safe. All three resisted for a very long time. Only Frodo gave into the temptation while the ring was in his possession.

Meanwhile, Déagol found it on accident in the river. Smeagol coveted it as a birthday gift. When Déagol refused to give it, Smeagol killed Déagol for it.

Yes, there are plenty of people mature enough to separate the atrocities committed by an MC and their enjoyment of said MC

The issue is the ones who aren’t. And there are a lot of them

Damn you comments! No one with the sound. Gotta do everything myself

https://youtu.be/d3W1YeGnsuA?t=15

Even timestamped

I was really uninterested in the fascist is the protag anime, but y’all enjoy.

As a former lucid dreamer, it’s not even close to every dream and you still have to wake up inside it first. Definitely gonna have some things be seen

Lol, I got enough space in my heart to follow you and make sure everyone knows you’re selling slop. Now if you labeled your slop as slop, I’d leave you alone. But you don’t so I won’t.

This is OP’s AI slop rag. You can ignore all of posts from this user and your day will be better for it.

Yes, and I think me arguing “meet people where they are” or “speak to be understood” better fits what you’re saying than the guy digging his heels in over the definition of liberal

Yes, and as I already said elsewhere, speak to be understood. In the US, I have to account for semantic drift. You don’t, which is great, but 4chan is an American institution.

So, when the comment we’re all replying under drew the comparison between liberal and 4chan, the underlying context was that this was from an American perspective. So I talked about that, instead of talking about all possible contexts. Isn’t language neat?

Yes, Americans are ignorant, but it’s because of our incredibly loud propaganda. I would ask for kindness, but I’m certainly not gonna force it. I get being frustrated by the American-centric-ness that we all sort of drag around with us. I try to be humble, but it’s really hard to know the shit you don’t know, ya know?

Yes… by teaching people. Meaning you need to reach them. If the way you talk is a barrier to being understood, you’re going to reach way less people, my man.

I’m gonna quote scripture, not cause I’m Christian or anything (catholic apostate atheist), but because my sister fell into a Christian cult so this is an example that quickly comes to mind (her “church” had a real goofy interpretation of this that a lot of new American Christian Cults regularly have). 1 Corinthians 14:3-8, where Paul tells the Corinthians, who were holding mass at the time in Hebrew, that they need to speak to be understood. If they hold mass speaking a language that no one outside their church understands, they only lift themselves up. But if they speak to be understood, then they can lift up everyone.

Sorry to say, while using liberal in the way you do is definitely a nice shorthand to be able to identify people who are safe for you to express your views with, it also alienates those who don’t know what the historical term means. Speak Latin, dammit (that was how the catholic church misinterpreted Paul’s teaching in this letter. And the new Christians use it to promote speaking tongues. Aren’t religions great? /s)

You think the workers own the means of production in North Korea? Cause I’m pretty sure that’s glorious leader who does

Oligarchical capture of communist states, especially authoritarian ones, is going to recreate capitalism as it concentrates more wealth without more accountability. Plus, capitalist countries don’t play with states with markets they can’t expand into.

Yes, historically that is the case. Semantics drift over time, though. Even though both liberals and conservatives are classical liberals, only one actually still uses the liberal label. When you don’t acknowledge semantic drift, you alienate others because they can’t follow what you’re saying. If you want to destroy capitalism, you need to make the circle of people bigger, not shoulder people out before they begin.

Phrased another way, you want to move the Overton window leftwards, not contribute to it shrinking to the right.

If, for whatever reason, you could only choose to do one, then yes public transit infrastructure should be the priority. This might be surprising, but I’m not involved in Mexican politics, so I can’t comment on why those efforts aren’t occurring. My guess would be car-centric propaganda is wide-spread there just like it is in the states.

My 30 years comment isn’t how long it takes to get a town, community, or even a city to embrace car-antagonistic infrastructure. That’s more like 5-10 years for a majorityof transport use to change. I meant how long it takes to turn a nation to majority non-car transit.

No, I don’t think EVs are being deployed as a stop-gap here. It’s definitely an attempt to capitalize on the EV market gap that American automakers are leaving wide-open. That doesn’t mean it isn’t still good, just not the better solution.

Yes, but also they already have a fuck ton of road infrastructure, so this is also good. The transition takes time and this will lower co2 faster than waiting the 30 years it would take to get the infrastructure in place to reduce car usage enough to impact co2 emissions.

You should still do it. This is AI slop, so nothing of value here.

Nah, this is OP’s AI slop rag. Don’t compare it to the writers of the onion

Guess would be opportunistic scavenging