I grew up in the 90s where everything we didn't like was gay so I get it. Trump bad. Musk bad. Depict them as gay because it's funny. It's just weird to need that.
Also I was raised around a fucked up drunk so I also get the whole "these are homophobes, let's make fun of them for being gay because they'll react negatively even if i technically don't care about homosexuality." Just pushing buttons.
I need to try windows again. I remember it being more complex than Linux. I switched just so things were easier. Cygwin! Registry editing! Getting a Microsoft degree just to edit my desktop menus. I didn't just sit there and install my programs like a good kid and actually wanted to, you know, do things with my computer. And boy did windows hate me for it.
I'm hoping modern IDEs or just having Linux on standby would make Windows simple enough to use.
No problem, I probably shouldn't immediately use such a weighty topic when I was just trying to be ridiculous to make fun of ridiculousness.
I was replying to someone who said "just goes to show that most innocent people police kill aren't innocent" or whatever. Because it's very useful to point out that people did a bad thing when police execute them on the street.
I'm being sarcastic by the way.
Kind of like how most children who are violently beaten by their owners/parents did something wrong. Yes it's illegal, and it's over the top, but it's very useful to point out that beaten children have probably done something bad. It's so useful, it really informs my judgement.
If you smoke weed you're more likely to wear converse. It's aesthetics. When someone says they're anti abortion I usually see it as aesthetics. They want others to see them as being anti abortion. That's what they get out of it.
It isn't a literal belief. Democrats reduce abortions, much better than cons. Being anti abortion should mean voting for Democrats... IF you were still taking things literally. It's not misinformation or lack of education, it's misaligned priorities.
They're just trying to be a tribe and signal allegiance. To have literal beliefs that you live by regardless of "your side" is a completely different game to what they're playing.
How can Steve ban tiktok if Doug won't let him mitigate homelessness? Why is Bob talking about housing when Alex is gung-ho on genocide?
Sorry, I meant to ask: how can the government ban tiktok when the government won't do anything about homelessness? How can the government be proud of mitigating homelessness when the government supports genocide?
Citizens United must be a curse from a Greek god. A funny little jab to highlight our tendency to oversimplify.
He like red. You like blue. Everyone get purple. This, ooga booga, is more fair. Is better democracy, ooga booga.
Silver shirts to red caps.
You don’t need to prove me wrong on some online forum. Reality will prove me right.
I was banned from whitepeopletwitter for sarcastically shitting in Nazis; something like "Yes, because X is clearly normal" or whatever.
Banned for supporting Nazis. Told them I was obviously sarcastic. "You weren't being sarcastic because there was no /s"
It made me realize how insane a mod could be and not to care about communities online too much because I'll just be shut off with zero recourse by people who don't care.
At the very least it would balance out the stream of reports of Israel bombing / shooting yet another journalist / American / medic / humanitarian.
How do people who don't like the color chartreuse expect to color things? Chartreuse is my favorite color!
It's Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, not sure how popular that series was... The monster was named Deucalion, he was a good persona if I remember right... and he could teleport around the world.
Well we don't live in a video game so we can use NATO to attack, like with Libya. It's our alliance, we'll do what we want!
My favorite name he was ever given is Deucalion.