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  • Larry Niven subtweeted this in some Known Space books. The protagonists' ship in Ringworld has a wide variety of tools and equipment that are not technically weapons. Including a mining laser that once punched a hole so deep into a moon that it developed a stable atmosphere. Accordingly, the main character christens it the Lying Bastard.

    It spends the whole first novel upside-down in a ditch.

  • Lemmy probably feels like Reddit when it first started, all warm cuddly and friendly to newcomers eager to discuss and collaborate around central topics.
  • No, you aren't. That's the problem. You could just hit Show Context a few times, and see what I'm talking about, where you scoffed at the suggestion I hadn't insulted you. Or you could remember when you wrote that, like, an hour ago. But you're making extremely specific demands as if the exact word I used must be the exact word you used, or else I'm completely wrong about everything.

    How dare I say you say I said a thing, just because that's plainly what happened.

    More to the point - how dare I project any sort of internal state onto you, in this discussion of how you have done exactly that to me.

    I am telling you there was no insult in answering your comments directly and accurately. You cannot believe that. And that inability is somehow my fault. Aaand asking how I could do better is just further insult, and also my fault.

    The nature of bad faith is that there is no right answer.

  • Lemmy probably feels like Reddit when it first started, all warm cuddly and friendly to newcomers eager to discuss and collaborate around central topics.
  • I couldn't prove the sky is blue, if you're going to be hostile to any text under my username.

    You are complaining about me insulting you. Which never happened. Substitute whatever summary of that is dry enough; that is the problem and I am asking you what else you wanted.

    Jesus Christ, take yes for an answer.

  • Trump's competitor promises to give part of Ukraine to Russia and block Kyiv's accession to NATO
  • Fascism is conservatism.

    Fascism is conservatism, but louder.

    In every country, conservatism has that undercurrent, because they're the same idea at different intensity.

    Do you think aliens beamed down and took over America's conservative party? No: they voted for fascism. This is what they wanted. They felt The Hierarchy™ was being threatened, because of gays and blacks and them darn transgenders, and they are ready to enact dictatorship to reassert the privilege of the white-nationalist ingroup.

    It's always been there - from slavery to Jim Crow to Don't Ask Don't Tell. It's usually happy to use the language of civil discourse, because it's usually in control already. But the moment society shifts toward greater equality, in spite of their political efforts to stratify and separate people, the conservative base will abandon all disguises and demand violence.

    People who are right-wing without being conservative are your Mitt Romneys, your Arnolds Schwarzenegger. Y'know. "RINOs." People deeply confused by how the party that used to love them suddenly calls them traitors, because they chose stated principles over kneejerk loyalty. It's almost... it's almost like... it's almost like the principles... didn't matter? Like it's all just excuses for kneejerk loyalty?

  • Lemmy probably feels like Reddit when it first started, all warm cuddly and friendly to newcomers eager to discuss and collaborate around central topics.
  • Stupid is an essentialist insult. I'm describing behavior. Not knowing something is fine. Being offended by the explanation is baffling.

    You demonstrably expected an explanation for what I said. Which I gave. And that somehow made you act even more hostile and defensive.

    Third time: what else am I supposed to say?

    If there is some way to deal with this, that you would not consider degrading - what is it?

    if there is no way someone can question your comments, that you wouldn't consider a personal insult - how would anyone communicate with you?

  • Trump's competitor promises to give part of Ukraine to Russia and block Kyiv's accession to NATO
  • Dictionaries reflect use.

    What people mean is always enforcing hierarchy.

    That is the only consistent thread, within and between conservative movements worldwide. They want one guy in charge of everything and half the population fighting for scraps. On some level they do not believe society can function any other way.

    The people who attempted to overthrow American democracy aren't preserving a damn thing.

  • Lemmy probably feels like Reddit when it first started, all warm cuddly and friendly to newcomers eager to discuss and collaborate around central topics.
  • Others credit the GameFAQs forums closing. Which really tells you how long reddit's been around.

    A bunch of websites circa 2008 basically won the internet, and would be dominant essentially forever if they hadn't all started lighting themselves on fire circa 2020. Apparently because of interest rates. I am no ardent anti-capitalist, but I can definitely say, this specific arrangement has been thoroughly fucky, and its collapse has been deeply stupid.