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IceCreamOnStero posted...

Human nature is irrelevant to capitalism. None of the problems with capitalism would be magically solved if everyone was individually nice and altruistic. It doesn't matter whether any individual capitalist is greedy or altruistic, because the system inherently pushes people to perform greedy and destructive acts regardless.

This is very close to my stance on the subject. The idea of human nature, to me, is incoherent. Existence precedes essence.

I don't like this common rationalization that capitalism is really just this natural order of things given the fact that people are, by virtue of their very nature, greedy and selfish. There's nothing anyone can do.

the_pika posted...

True capitalism is good.

Have you considered that the version of capitalism that you think is not good is just the inevitable result of the capitalism that you think is good?

MarthGoomba posted...

Who

The incredibly famous star of movies and TV shows named Karl Urban.

DisgracefulSins posted...

Probably feigning incompetency in order to get insanity plea.

He doesn't have to fake it.

It was way more insane than I expected. I liked the part where Pence stopped the debate and demanded everyone there kiss his ass, which they did.

Grindelwald was first mentioned when in the series? Was that name even printed before Half Blood Prince? I honestly don't remember, I haven't read the books in a very long time, but how many words did Dumbledore have in the entire series about Grindelwald? Is it even more than 2 or 3 sentences? He was a footnote on the back of Dumbledore's baseball card.

Plumeofdusk posted...

yea, but at the same time, wouldn't it be a bit strange to just bring it up out of the blue though? Dumbledore's love life was never plot relevant to anything. :v

The author of a story can orchestrate the details of the story any way they want to. This question doesn't really make sense. There are always a number of details that add to the narrative that aren't critical to the plot.

If she wanted Dumbledore to be gay, she should have mentioned in the text. I think it's asinine for an author to reveal details about a character that aren't in the story, and in this case it was even more awkward since it was clear she was pandering. Very odd lady, JK Rowling.

My wife didn't want real diamonds, I spent a decent chunk of change for one but I could have spent way way more.

Patriotwolf posted...

That's a strawman

What is?

Patriotwolf posted...

Rich men north of Richmond is racist?

He said the song is charting because of racists. Can you not read?

SaikyoStyle posted...

He got elected by a razor-thin margin the first time around.

Against a very bad Democratic candidate to boot.

It looks awesome. I played the hell out of armored core 3.

Walk as slow as you want, but when you're in a group, consider going single-file instead of blocking the entire fucking sidewalk.

Sometimes I say me-lay. I know it's wrong, it's not intentional, I don't know why.

Any mountain without Tifa is invalid.

Revelation34 posted...

The reality of the real world that isn't part of your fantasy world.

In the real world, talking to your neighbors does not result in your immediate execution. You watch too many True Crime documentaries.

Carljank posted...

Fuck off

Someone call the cops on this man.

gatorsPENSbucs posted...

I said as long as nobody gets hurt, whats the harm.

I think many people would argue that there is harm done by Nazi rallies whether or not someone is injured or killed.

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He's still the smartest Florida Gators fan I've ever met.

Dark_Arbron posted...

Now youre just trolling.

I'm trolling by suggesting that it's unreasonable to assume that you'll be killed just for asking your neighbors to stop setting off fireworks?

Really think about that.

Revelation34 posted...

I'm from reality.

Sure, the reality of a John Carpenter film about the end of the world.

Revelation34 posted...

Getting beat to death, getting stabbed to death, getting shot to death.

Are you from the movie Escape From New York?

voldothegr8 posted...

Yeah, go and try to reason with people setting off explosives and revving their bikes with joy. What can go wrong?

No really, what could go wrong?

MobileProphet posted...

^ Shut the fuck up

Blistering retort.

streamofthesky posted...

If they're this uncaring or downright sociopathic about other people,

I know this word has been extremely diluted, but no, setting off fireworks and revving your motorbike is not sociopathic. Get a fucking grip. You know who is actually sociopathic? Most cops.

streamofthesky posted...

there's very little chance they can actually be reasoned

How could you possibly know this without talking to them first? Very little chance? Bullshit. Making such assumptions about your neighbors is surely one way to fray community bonds with each other. Maybe if they knew that a nearby neighbor had a child sleeping down the street, they'd be willing to make a little less noise.

streamofthesky posted...

with and a near 100% chance that they'll now associate every police call or other complaint made about them to be attributable to you, and will retaliate.

I think it's obnoxious to couch your misanthropy with such nakedly unsubstantiated probability. Stop doing that.

With that being said, what are the odds they'll associate every police call or complaint with someone who actually called the cops on them? Higher or lower than the odds that they'll associate every complaint with the person who actually showed a backbone and asked them face-to-face about quieting down? The answer is obvious, of course.

Call the police if you've exhausted every other option, but having police in your neighborhood is bad, actually.

kurdt032 posted...

That is incredibly based for a country song. What are you lot on about

It's fake right-wing populism. Very cringe. Not based.

ArsGoetia posted...

elon musk

Every person posting in this topic is more intelligent than Elon Musk. Including you.

ejolson posted...

Yes, I do, specifically why I say that.

Something that you've experienced first hand is an anecdote. That's what anecdotal evidence is.

ejolson posted...

Because its not divisive. And you would know that if you were paying attention to the groundswell of support this guy is getting from the left and right because it targets the fat cats.

Do you fall for the fake populism of Tucker Carlson too?

evilpresident posted...

I just tried working out how the colours would line up but kept getting stuck on it. Like, I'd get one side and then be stumped on how to get more than that.

I don't really know how to solve a 2x2, but with a 3x3 you don't actually solve each side, you solve it in layers. The top and middle are both extremely easy, they just take a couple of algorithms each. The last layer requires the most effort.

AloneIBreak posted...

No, Im dumb as hell.

Anyone can learn to solve a Rubiks cube if you can just remember a few algorithms.

k1zzl3_82 posted...

the scrubs one is pretty good
"Bad friends", is pretty funny
some of the "behind the bastards" stuff is good too. They have a good episode on Dr Phil and Steven Segal

I recently listened to the Rush Limbaugh episode of Behind the Bastards, Paul F Tompkins guests on it. Really great.

ClayGuida posted...

I prefer comedy, I've caught up on the Always Sunny podcast. Was thinking of starting How Did This Get Made, since I love Zouk, Scheer, and June. Amazon only seems to have their last 8 months, so not a huge backlog.

I'm interested in mostly comedy or entertainment discussion. I don't really want to listen to politics, sports, or true crime. I'm fine with them in visual media, but not listening.

This Is Important. It's the creators of Workoholics' podcast, they have awesome chemistry and I think they're hilarious. I think it's even better than their show.

No, don't call the cops. There's no situation cops can't make worse. Talk to them yourself.

I agree. I think Get Out is great, but I think maybe a little overrated, just in my experience. Nope is fantastic.

I didn't really get Us. I didn't enjoy it the first time I saw it and haven't gone back.

wanderingshade posted...

This is just boner culture outrage again. Just because the 80s Turtle April was a voluptuous big tiddy red head and this is different.

It doesn't help that the new design looks like complete shit.

KainWind posted...

It looks like a bison

That's what I saw.

I just watched White Lotus, it's excellent.

For movies, if you're into psychological thrillers, I just saw Cure for the first time, I couldn't believe how good it was. I've just seen a couple of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's films for the first time (Cure and Bright Future) and they were both much better than I was expecting.

Can't we just all get along?

COVxy posted...

I was asking you to look at how people generally used the term before and outside the context of defund the police

I did cover this already. "Reducing funds" is a perfectly reasonable way for the average English-speaker to interpret the word "defund" and you know it. There is nothing misleading about that. You're the one being a little semantic weasel about this.

Long ago, before people got uppity about police brutality, the meaning of "defund" was pure. But now? Alas! Other people using word have desecrated it! They have caused it to mean many things. Other things.

I'll just decelerate my car when I need to remove all its speed. I'll just descend this flight of stairs by appearing at the bottom. I'll dehumidify this room by removing all the vapor from it. Deplete, decline, decrease, depreciate, decompose, degrade. These are all words the average English speaker should know. Most of them would be in the vocabulary of someone with very below average English language skills. All of these words use the this prefix in the same way. Surely even you must concede that someone encountering the phrase "defund the police" for the first time should consider the possibility that it might not mean "remove all funding from," but instead "reduce the funding from." Are you going to tell me straight that the latter is complete outside the bounds of any reasonable interpretation of the phrase?

I refuse to believe it. Sorry. You're just lying. I don't think you're this stupid. I think you just fucking love having your face stepped on by the boots of the boys in blue. But don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.

COVxy posted...

It seems you have discovered that when people started to use the term defund in the context of this specific slogan the meaning magically changed (translation: it was being used atypically and misleadingly).

I just did what you asked. What did you think I would find when you first suggested I google it?

I like how you just completely give up at this point. I would too if I were you. Yes, when I use the word I'm doing it atypically and misleadingly, when you use the word it's good and true and correct. Message received, you fucking dishonest hack.

COVxy posted...

No, i'm simply asking you to google "defund" and read what pops up.

Would it concern you to hear that when I do, I'm seeing results that support what I'm saying? I swear I didn't set you up to this. A few mentions of "with draw financial support from," "prevent a group from continuing to receive funds," which I still don't think explicitly means what you think it means, but closer to you than me.

I'm also seeing mentions of "to stop providing money or as much money to pay for something," questions like "what does 'defund the police' mean" being answered with "reallocating or redirecting funding away from the police department to other government agencies" and "Defunding the police means shrinking the scope of police responsibilities."

Should I have binged it instead? Somebody ask Elon Musk what it means, I'm sure the world's smartest man and owner of X social media has an opinion.

Jiek_Fafn posted...

Engaging voters in a way that they easily understand and motivates them to generate change is incredibly important.

Again, my point is that if people are tripping over something so insignificant as an activist slogan, they're not open to engaging with the idea at all in the first place.

Jiek_Fafn posted...

Saying you don't care about that means you don't care if actual change happens.

Not only do I care deeply about actual change happening, I will go so far as to say that if change ever does happen, it won't be because someone chose the right slogan.

COVxy posted...

I mean, prefixes often have different connotations and denotations depending on what they get attached to.

Okay, sure. Why, in this specific case, what does the prefix mean? Why does it only mean "remove all from" and not "remove from?" Or both? Which one is typical, according to you?

COVxy posted...

Just google the word defund and see how it's being used.

You want me to look at how it's being used by people who hate the slogan and oppose police reform? Or the people using the slogan? Because it might mean different things based on who says it.

asdf8562 posted...

The slogan you claim to have no feeling for, but here adamantly defending

Beep boop.

COVxy posted...

Defund typically means remove all funding.

Typically?

If I decelerate, do I lose all speed?

COVxy posted...

That's not typically what the word defund means though.

"Reduce excessive spending" is a very fair understanding of the word "defund." I think it's quite clear, and I have trouble believing people when they seem to not get it.

asdf8562 posted...

People are blaming the slogan, because the results speak for itself. The slogan was the problem.

This NPC is glitched out or something.

Gwynevere posted...

Whether or not they get funded or have any significant oversight is not up to general populace.

Not with that attitude!

asdf8562 posted...

As the meaning of that slogan varied from person to person.

This is asinine.

If the meaning of that slogan varied from person to person, that wouldn't be the literal interpretation of the words in the slogan. Would it?

asdf8562 posted...

You don't care about the terrible slogan, but here you are trying to convince me how great the slogan was

That is not what I am trying to do. I find it very hard to believe that you're having this much trouble understanding what I'm saying.

It is very clear that I am not trying to convince you that the slogan is good or even important. Slogans aren't important whatsoever. People are blaming the slogan for their inability or disinterest in engaging with the actual problem. You care more about all this nerdy, mediated PR speak than you do the real underlying issue. Go kick rocks.

asdf8562 posted...

A slogan that requires explaining that you don't mean what the slogan is literally saying

Also, as an aside, this is just plainly wrong. The literal meaning of the slogan, "defund the police," IS what the slogan says. "Defund the police" explicitly means "reduce the funds the police get," and that is the literal idea it's representing. "Defund" and "abolish" are not synonyms.

asdf8562 posted...

Again, if the concept has to be constantly explained to multiple people that your prized slogan you adore so much

I do not give a fuck about the slogan. I have never for one second of my life gave a fuck about this slogan. Not one single solitary little bit. I do care deeply about the police of this country trampling on our rights with absolute impunity. Can we focus on the actual issues instead of bitching about every single insignificant little thing?

I just don't understand why it's so fucking hard for some people to just engage with an idea instead of all this cringey PR speak.