I applaud your appeal to rationality.

But most human believe in God. Rationality is beyond our grasp. We’re fucked.

I agree with your analysis. I hate Popper’s paradox of tolerance though. Not because I disagree with it but because of how it’s used by angry leftists to justify their own hatred. I do think fascists should be executed, but only the ones that truly would kill others for their ideology. Too many people on the left are fine with killing those that merely provide cover for the truly violent by agreeing with their views but not having the conviction to carry them out. ACAB people bother me this way. Patel is a piece of trash. But he’s a worthless piece of it. Let him drink himself to death. Let him be an example to his people.

“Denny Crane.”

You literally make no sense.

Then you’re not listening, and I don’t need to respond.

I have mild dyslexia. It makes reading take a lot longer (about 100 pages in 3 hours), and it makes telling left vs. right a bit of a chore (1-2 seconds of additional cognitive load), but other than that, it’s been okay. I don’t know if that lines up with what other people call “mild dyslexia” though. I’m judging myself based on other cases I’ve read about/heard.

Using a racially-based pop-culture reference to make fun of someone seems pretty in line with racism to me. Just because it’s making fun of someone we don’t like seems little reason to discount it as racism.

This is like when someone put a statue of Trump with a micro penis in some park in New York. People loved it, but if someone had done the same thing to Hillary, there would be uproar. I hate Trump, but making fun of his body is no better when it’s him than it is when it’s someone else.

I decided in my mid-to-late 20’s that I did not want kids and that relationships tend to bring too much stress into my life. And from what I’ve seen from most other people’s relationships and marriages, I do not regret my decision. And these aren’t even bad relationships/marriages. They’re very functional. But there’s still stress and “drama” in all of them. No, thanks.

Tough question, but the first one that comes to mind is the Carmina Burana by Carl Orff.

Consenting adults can do what they want, so long as they’re not hurting anyone else. It’s nobody else’s business.

People who believe in God have failed to adequately reflect on their beliefs. Religion is fairy tales for adults. Sorry, but that’s the truth. Your question is simply a step on the staircase of rationality.

Thank you. I’m a lefty myself, but leftists have such a hard time seeing that criticism of their own side actually has validity. I totally understand what this developer is saying about depicting a progressive topic without being “woke” (preachy) about it. I see the same thing in movies/shows that depict female heroes—there are some that just make the hero a woman, and then there are others that pump the “girl power” angle, overplay the female lead, make it explicitly clear she’s better than all the male characters, bloat the script with feminist jargon, blah, blah, blah. It’s stupid. You want to do the progressive thing? Fine. Just do that. Don’t brow-beat your audience with a political message about it.

Your predecessor blessed the holocaust, you hypocritical piece of shit.

The jlJezebel article says what every other article from a trustworthy source says: Reddit has been summoned before a grand jury, but the jury hasn’t made a decision yet.

I don’t know why you’re so keen on rage-baiting here and peddling false news.

the U.S. state media

…?

Why lie in your title, OP?

Cute meme but a friend of mine got fired yesterday. Having a job definitely doesn’t suck as much as not having one.

That’s a nice line of thinking but it ignores the fact that it adds layers of complexity to life that aren’t necessarily beneficial. What has this 100% to 90-99% straight identification really added to your life vs. how much cognitive power it’s cost you to achieve it?

This is what I meant about us not having observed gender-neutral identification appearing throughout history. Sure, it may be a nuanced idea to gender identity, but what’s it really worth? If it was worth much, I would think we’d see examples of it poke through the prejudices of society throughout history. I just don’t see that.

Likewise, if it was really biologically driven, I would think it couldn’t be fully suppressed by societal norms, just like homosexuality and transsexuality. The fact that it doesn’t seem to be so strong a trait leaves me thinking it’s a cultural phenomenon. That doesn’t make it invalid or useless, but it certainly does make it less important than traits that are indelible enough to overcome cultural factors.

Honestly, I’m really not convinced it’s just a cultural fad, which may reflect a gradient on the gender spectrum, but is more like the tapers of the two spikes that represent male/female identification, rather than some vast valley of gender-in-betweenism that deserves broad acknowledgement.

“Noble” probably isn’t the word I’d choose, but “awesome” certainly fits.

So, after the court finds he had no cause to seize the ballots, can he be prosecuted for breaking the law?

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