Asbestos gauze

The word consuming is deeply unsettling in this context. More so than high velocity plastic shrapnel, which is surprising

Is that a pocket… mouth?!

You can’t infringe on the freedoms of others even if doing so would save other people’s lives. That’s un-American.

Unrelated, but I heard there’s a trans cross country runner a few states over who’s winning most of the regional track meets. We have to put a stop to that at all costs.

2020

They said they were going to run government like a business. Businesses do this shit all the time.

Found one of the dumb ones

I’m sorry but if you’re a dumb adult in 2025 and you don’t have a physiological impairment that’s on you. There’s more free educational information on the internet today than you could find in the library at Harvard or Princeton 50 years ago. Choosing not to look at any of it isn’t someone else’s fault no matter how much they may benefit from you continuing on in your dumb ways.

I understand how it happens and I agree that the people making and spreading the propaganda deserve more of the blame than those consuming it. However, I don’t think the consumers get a free pass. We (including myself because I understand that I am not immune to propaganda) all have the responsibility to view information critically and not let our biases and our environments distort our view of reality. In the cases where I fail to do so I am ultimately to blame for that. The same is true for all of us. Blaming manipulators lets people avoid taking responsibility for allowing themselves to be manipulated and that is not going to help us solve this problem.

Sure, but that view makes it sound like they are helpless victims in all this. They have access to the internet just like we do. They fall for the propaganda despite all evidence to the contrary and I only see two possibilities that can explain that; they are stupid or they want all that hateful stuff to be true so badly that they choose to shut out everything else. Neither explanation makes them anything other than shitty, selfish people.

I don’t recall if this is where I originally heard it but it gives you a place to start: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/02/28/who-likes-authoritarianism-and-how-do-they-want-to-change-their-government/

Well statistically about 30% of people worldwide don’t mind fascism so that’s hundreds of millions of people too. I’m not sure I’d be willing to say a lack of loving relationships is the primary cause of that but I doubt solving that problem would hurt.

He also said he’s not sure if we need to uphold due process in all situations. I’m willing to concede the point in his case if it means we can hang him tomorrow.

They’re in those silos by choice so fuck em

Either way, hard pass

You may be technically right but talking about the nonexistent legal justification for Trump’s actions at a time like this feels a lot like telling black people that because the civil rights act got passed in the 60s racism can’t happen anymore. In other words, yes there’s a rule but it doesn’t mean shit if it isn’t enforced.

Well, that’s not going to happen if everyone stays hidden until it’s safe to come out

What are you scared of? There’s more of us than there are of them. Hiding in the shadows, too afraid to act is how they win. Be loud and deliberate in voicing your opposition. If they’re coming for you anyway you may as well face it head on.

What good is new technology if I can’t place it behind a massive paywall and generate obscene wealth with it? You expect my dragon hoard to stay confined to one castle like I’m some kind of peasant?

I agree. Having sex with women is the gayest thing a straight man could do.