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that’s stupid

I wonder if it’s another missionary

perhaps they are saving that for sweeps

It’s so hard for me to grasp that all these people would make these insane claims solely due to their affection for Donald Trump of all fucking people. How on earth did he manage to pied-piper these dipshits so effectively.

The climbers are pretty shitty people, since the survivor and the body had to be found and airlifted out.

I love how you go from ‘guns are just tools’ to ‘I think about fighting all the time’ in like three sentences. I’ve had guns, I used to be a member of the NRA, I’m also not a dipshit who thinks a gun is just as much a tool as a hammer is. They’re designed to kill things, it’s not weak to admit that’s what they’re for.

A gun is a tool with only one use.

it seems a little wild to accuse the Christian Right of not supporting Jews (Israel).

They “support” them in a way, but not out of any real egalitarian or humanitarian reason. For some, supporting Israel is the same as attacking Islam. For others, they support Israel because they think that will hasten Armageddon. It’s not because they really like Jewish people or Judaism, I suspect a number of the Christian Right really just like that Jewish people have a place away from them to call home.

ooh, is there another time? that’s my birthgay

If they are aborted they die innocent and go to Heaven.

exactly, if everyone got into heaven then they wouldn’t be so special and get to judge other people

I bet it’s ‘unsinkable’

Dukat had more likable moments than Huffman.

Ok, but the main reason I don’t eat raw eggs is because they’re not very appetizing.

Dumb question: what’s a mind map? i’ve heard of it, and seen some examples, but still have no real idea what one is for.

Can’t trust these companies to do what’s right.

This has to be drilled into the collective consciousness as much as possible. There is no such thing as an ethical corporation, or an ethical company that is for-profit – they simply cannot be ethical, they are amoral by design. If Target or Walmart or Netflix do something that is seen as positive, the only reason is a profit motive, not because they are moving towards being ‘good’.

I should refine what I said. I think they genuinely believe many of the things they espouse, but (1) they espouse many things they don’t believe in an effort to bring in outsiders with less harsh ideas before acclimating them to the intensity (“I’m as gay and liberal as they come, but even I can see how the trans movement has become largely exclusionary and radical”) and (2) this is more about what the purpose of the community is, rather than the individuals. The individuals that are trolls can just be blocked, even if it becomes tedious when they grab new accounts. The community itself has a purpose, however, and that purpose can be either focused “internally” (members are discussing things amongst themselves) or “externally” (members largely discuss how to affect other communities). I think worries about freedom of speech or the silencing of honestly held (and expressed) beliefs are largely worried about the former (which may be more earnest), but a lot of the toxic communities are the latter, where there is very little that is expressed in earnest on the platform, because earnest conversations aren’t the purpose of the community. They’re little more than staging grounds on a given platform to try and either recruit outsiders or annoy their political opponents. I think this last aspect is the worst part, since communities like the_donald only really shared a communal love of annoying ‘the libs’ or left wing ideas in general, and the only purpose of the community was to be shitty.

A lot of free speech arguments falter in situations like these, imo, since they are predicated on the speech involved being genuine feelings/ideas/emotions. Troll groups like explodingheads and /r/the_donald are/were less about exchanging ideas and more about inflicting ideas on others. When the_donald was isolated, their community essentially started to die because there wasn’t much genuine interest in discussing politics - their only interest was in ‘redpilling normies’.

I must be in the minority here, I turned off sub-specific CSS as soon as I could.

It’s not even like the object screams ‘sexual organ’. Boston University archaeologist Curtis Runnels, who was not involved in the recent study, told Science the ornament looks “rather shapeless”, and at first glance, it’s hard to disagree.

really wish they’d said “at first glans”

Maybe, but another way of looking at it is that this already unprofitable company just lost (potentially) 5-10% of their marketable advertising attention. That makes their job of becoming profitable harder, and anything they do to compensate may well make their situation worse. (It could, obviously, also have no effect given how large Reddit already is)