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Brave Little Hitachi Wand

@ yakko @feddit.uk

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  • States also don't vote, this is collective punishment that affects Trump voters. I guess they'll probably cheer for it all the same

  • What are you, a writer for the Punisher comic?

  • I think I'm ready to validate NYC's superiority complex.

  • The ones who know they're wrong bother me even more.

  • It's kinda unfair that the "go play outside" generation had to do it during unprecedented pollution and a heap of serial killers on the loose unlike anything the world had ever seen. And now the air is cleaner and there are barely any serial killers, but nobody forces their kids outside anymore.

  • The choice is yours! Is it the traces of sweat, skin particles, and smudges of ink you treasure, or is it the memory of meeting an idol while they were still hot and unproblematic?

  • If this is a seriously prized signature, here's what you do: scan it, isolate the signature in GIMP (or Photoshop if you're into that sort of thing), and send your phone to a laser engraver who can permanently fix the design in place. Then wash off the original. As a side bonus, you can get the same thing done on future phones in perpetuity.

  • Do it again, but this time with one of the true things that has happened

  • I get that. I live as an immigrant American in the UK, and it's very frustrating sometimes. I more get along with the people who hate America, but I'm used to seeing the light in their eyes die when they hear my accent the first time. I don't wash my hands of anything America has done, but I've done everything I practically can. I still vote, I stay informed, and I am depriving the regime of my taxable income.

    I watch with great satisfaction when a leftist sets a cop car on fire, but I have a family to think about. I can't be doing those kinds of heroics, and the temptation to throw down was too great when I was living stateside. I have pacifist beliefs and ideals, but not pacifist emotions. I probably never will. Growing up has been a slow motion destruction of everything I was raised to think I was part of. I was raised in cosmopolitanism and intellectualism, only to learn that my country had abandoned those ideals decades before my birth (if they were ever sincerely held at all).

    I do understand hating Americans, I'm the conflicted vampire-hunting daywalker of hating Americans. But even I try not to judge people purely by their governments, that would just be stupid. Imagine hating North Koreans or Russians, it's obviously wrong. What are they supposed to do, overthrow their governments? Their governments that are orders of magnitude weaker than the US government? See?

  • Alright, enjoy spiking that football. You were born someplace that doesn't need to stop existing, happy for you and your lack of empathy.

  • Done that, but it hasn't fixed anything. Also, the UK is noticeably worse since I got here... I can't get anything right!

  • So anyone living in a country with a bad government is a bad person, provided there is some form of elections? That's your baby-brained dipshit take here?

  • I don't have ready examples of astroturfing for you, but I'm willing to be convinced in either direction; hit me with whatever you saw that made up your mind.

  • You've seen Garfield without Garfield, get ready for RoboCop without RoboCop!

  • Prove the opinion is being astroturfed, and I'll change my view.

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  • Because money is finite. There's a good rationale for diversity of renewables, but at some point you have to look at the cost benefit analysis and let some ideas go. We could maybe harvest some energy from dropping gold bars into the Mariana trench, but it would take away money from better ideas.

  • We broadly agree about .ml as a whole, but not on how you're treating this individual. You don't convince anyone of anything this way, it makes them identify more strongly with whatever you're attacking. That, too, is part of how we got to this ruinous moment. Prejudice, in a word.

    In any case, debating fascists has always been a bad idea. Fascists are not good faith participants in any debate, and their seat at the table only ever serves to normalise their twisted views, and spoil any chance at the healthy interplay of competing ideas.

  • Shitty way to act when someone drops a normal opinion. Don't be tribalistic

  • Oh interesting, there are cool people here