Unless you’re on .ml, where they censor all swear words

Simple. It’s not only about how much they have, it’s about how much we don’t have.

They also hate that the plebeians can do things they can’t, and they want the ability to do those things themselves, immediately, but without having to put in anything as low-brow as effort or practice.

Up until now, they had to settle for paying lots of money to get those things and keep them for themselves—witness the art gallery scene—but this poses them two problems: they didn’t actually make it, and worse, they had to part with their precious money to get it.

Now they think AI will let them make anything they want, do anything they want, and never have to pay artists or workers, so they can keep even more of their precious money.

Yeah, this is just code for ‘hey middle-class people, Mamdani might be coming for you next!’

Maybe didn’t want to leave shell casings behind?

Other than that, I got nothing

Aren’t they though, at this point?

As mercury softened the gums, calomel was the principal constituent of teething powders until the mid-twentieth century.

O_o

Aha! So it was Pluto causing autism and the push to reclass it as a dwarf planet was an attempt to reduce its power!

Yeah, their books are a decently good romp overall, but some of their ideas about how to ‘properly discipline’ a child definitely leak through from time to time.

Buying used copies and pirating his stuff so he never sees a penny, and talking about what a pile of shit he is. I do the same with David and Leigh Eddings. Who locked children in cages in their basement and beat them, among other things.

Mel Brooks once pointed out that dictators hate to be laughed at. And he would know, given he fought the Nazis in WWII.

So laugh. Mock them. Humiliate them. Their overinflated egos can’t handle even the slightest scratch, so short of shooting them this is going to be the best way to hurt them.

It’s funny to me because when an incel bothers me I sure would like to sic a shark on them.

Just because only one group believes that Jesus was God doesn’t mean it isn’t the same God.

lol

Yeah, we definitely pick on them as part of a Soros-backed psyop and not because they have some amazingly garbage takes.

Here’s a sub that has fun watching the Tankie Triad.

The ones that build webs are. The males of orb weavers/cobweb spiders wander from place to place, always on the move looking for food and sexy ladies.

I mean, that’s a valid tactic too. See Comcast -> Xfinity

Speaking as someone who would have been stillborn if not for a C-section, there are some surgical procedures that are kind of important.

The line to draw, I feel, is are you attacking institutions (i.e. smashing the windows of Wall Street, chaining yourself to the doors of the police station), or people (like the loons here in Oregon attacking minority families during the fires)? Are you harassing oppressed groups (like kristallnacht did) or the overpowered establishment (like Blair Mountain did)?

(Obviously, punching individual Nazis is still fine.)

But really, at the end of the day, violence is still violence, and while it may be the right action, it is never a good action. That is something I feel all protesters need to keep in mind.

To paraphrase Dan Shive, there are times when you best (or only) choices lie between the least-bad and most-bad options. And when that happens, humans tend to try and rationalize the least-bad choice as being the good one. This is a trap. If you start to think of the least-bad choice as a good choice, pretty soon you start to believe it—and then you stop looking for the actual good options.

Even if an actual good option—like a nonviolent protest—isn’t feasible for one situation, you should always try to find a truly good option, if you can. That’s why the combo of violent protests on one side, peaceful group on the other, tends to get the best results.

Good for you. History disagrees with your disagreeing.

Look up Malcom X, the Black Panthers, and the Battle of Blair Mountain sometime. Pretty much every victory oppressed groups have won has had to draw blood in order to win the day.

MLK didn’t; Malcom X did. MLK’s underlying message was ‘acknowledge my peaceful protest, or you get stuck with his less peaceful protest’. Peaceful protesting alone tends to get you a whole lot of nothing.

Edit: of course, most history classes seem to forget Malcom X even existed, because the ‘just peacefully protest over in that corner and don’t bother us, it will totally make us change our ways’ narrative is much more desirable for certain demographics.