Because during bad times the ones that make bad decisions don’t survive or at very least are removed from positions of power.
The ones best equipped to get in positions of power during "bad times" are bad people willing to put their ambitions above basic human decency.
The idea that violent and traumatic environments lead to strong people making good choices always seemed pretty stupid to me.
Another reason right to repair is needed
Being paid is a kind of attention/validation. The things he's selling are "branding" stuff that feed into his cult of personality. It's probably more of a narcissist thing than a money thing.
Those went up in price after the initial sale afaik
I thought this article had some interesting insight into how living in Israel can distort someone's perspective on these issues.
Meeting my friends in Israel this time, I frequently felt that they were afraid that I might disrupt their grief, and that living out of the country I could not grasp their pain, anxiety, bewilderment and helplessness. Any suggestion that living in the country had numbed them to the pain of others – the pain that, after all, was being inflicted in their name – only produced a wall of silence, a retreat into themselves, or a quick change of subject. The impression that I got was consistent: we have no room in our hearts, we have no room in our thoughts, we do not want to speak about or to be shown what our own soldiers, our children or grandchildren, our brothers and sisters, are doing right now in Gaza. We must focus on ourselves, on our trauma, fear and anger.
and that’s the only way it’s ever used.
Kind of an extreme claim which is definitely not true.
It’s the best example of what it’s trying to describe. It’s a hypocrite of a phrase, engaging in what it condemns.
So phrases are by themselves guilty of word crimes? A cliche isn't just an often repeated series of words, it's a tired idea. "Thought terminating cliche" is itself a thought terminating cliche if it's being used that way (such as to shut down someone who was engaging in good faith and happened to use a common expression as part of that), but that doesn't mean this category of expression doesn't exist. Of course it exists, the modern internet is plagued with it because it's full of propagandists with an interest in pulling people's levers with minimal effort and no interest in argument.
This is for sure an unpopular opinion lol
both sides have consented to spend their time with each other and that the topic is what they consented to spend their time on
No argument there, but it's not like this can never happen.
Online debates about politics tend to be bad, but that's mostly just because of people who are more interested in propagandizing than honestly hashing out ideas. If they aren't doing that, and you aren't doing that, it can be worthwhile. IMO the easiest way to tell the difference and know to stop replying is if you get a response that clearly was written after loosely skimming your comment, and using those few words as a jumping off point to launch into a mostly unrelated rant, rather than directly addressing your central point. Or, a common one with conservatives, an argument framed as unsolicited personal advice, that's never going anywhere constructive.
Ok but that's different than free will as in, the premise of a society in which a person is able to choose their path in life
I bet it was something like the hardware id instead but she misspoke
parks in bus lane
Wow I'm surprised you could find parking around here, you must be a parking sorceror
I think so, I'm using firefox and clicked the translate button in the address bar
The camera photographs the parking sorcerer, and the vehicle owner will eventually receive mail with a fine notice.
My browser is good at translating
Tool to copy Reddit comment chains
So I was reading this post and decided to make the tool described, as a userscript (I credit ChatGPT with doing most of the work, which went pretty quickly). To use it, install a compatible userscript browser extension such as https://violentmonkey.github.io/ , then press install on the linked page. Reddit comments should now have a 'copy-context' button that will put the comment chain in your clipboard. I made it for old.reddit so probably won't work with the redesign. Another limitation is that it will only work to copy what is on the current page, so if the comment chain is too deep it's not going to get all of it.
Any feedback is welcome. Also if someone who can read javascript wants to give it a once-over and confirm for people that it isn't malicious that would be cool too.