Hey fascist, leave our friends and neighbors alone.

I think what they’re doing is more than playing devil’s advocate in the modern use, using it more as the original meaning of advocating skepticism and caution when coming to conclusions. I think you both have points, but holy hell it’s refreshing seeing someone calling for calming down and thinking skeptically on the internet when speaking to their own side.

I miss the old 4chan where their politics were insane justifications to commit whatever acts of terrorism in the middle of their venn diagram of “things they feel like doing” and “things they have the capacity to do” but weren’t right or left but politically confused, angry, and kinda insane. The 4chan of anonymous instead of the 5 4chan of kiwifarms

Yeah the republicans have realized that they can demand anything they want to be part of the budget so every year we have a government shutdown then lose some rights to get it up again

If I started talking like that they’d put me away

Also, we have mutually assured destruction. This whole thing is highly unlikely to be needed

And even if he was so fucking what it’s Iowa, sure it’s atypical he wasn’t broke but still

Markets don’t make something capitalist but when markets drive consumption rather than consumption driving markets that’s a sign that capital is gaining power over social welfare. Ad proliferation should be seen as a warning sign towards the social ecosystem.

But you are correct if those ads are promoting socially beneficial choices they may not be a sign of capitalism. Ads that promote healthy choices or taking public transit over driving have their places in socialist societies. I just doubt that they’re the whole of what’s being advertised in exchange for toilet paper. I suspect companies are finding their way in.

And if the companies were workers cooperatives that would be a different problem but Dengist reforms ensured capitalist participation in the Chinese market so I’d believe it if I saw it but I’m not assuming it’s only coops advertising

I’m looking forward to whatever supergiant does next. Also haunted chocolatier

I hear they have pretty good sex, cooking, and wolf taming techniques

Advertisement predominantly exists to encourage consumption, this is primarily a means to increase wealth

I stand by that it’s insane that resisting arrest of oneself or others and opposing and impeding law enforcement is illegal. Sure you shouldn’t be allowed to attack, but the desire to be free and to stop unjust arrest should be considered innately human for the former and a consequence of internalized values of citizenship for the latter.

Not just your friends. If it can cost you your job or ruin your month, suddenly capitulation hurts

I think it’s just that a content creator, especially one with the ability to come off authentically, comes off as more trustworthy than a media corporation, even one well known for its trustworthiness.

Part of me misses my childhood local paper. Especially the game we played in middle school of finding the spelling and grammar errors. Honestly though I do think we need to have a revival of subscribing to local newspapers

For those of us used to using multiple cues they can help, but they’re also often absolutely terrible

I’m gonna be real here, if a president I liked did something like that to trump I’d find it funny. This is part of his massive campaign against his enemies and such but it’s just the kind of petty and insane that I would expect from a Larry David meets veep version of west wing

It’s not the whole of Christianity, but it’s an infection that’s spread through a lot of it.

I used to volunteer at PFLAG where a pastor who also volunteered there was sponsoring a refugee into the country. At a different point in my life I drank with a man who was very vocal about how supportive his pastor wife was of his bisexuality. Hell my childhood catholic priest told my father to quit being a bigot about me being trans.

I struggle to trust any given Christian, and part of the problem we face is the privileged position Christianity holds in society, but there are Christians resisting the evil. There are progressive protestants opening their doors to all people and catholic workers martyring themselves for leftist causes even today.

Like, the comment is true, but in a “colonial powers drew a line through other people’s lands to divide it between themselves” way not in a “we can just take it from canada” way

And should it be powered by nuclear wafers?

Yeah super smash brothers melee is the peak for this. It looks fine on an lcd, and if you suck at it it’s fine, but there’s a skill level where your TV is hindering your ability to improve and you probably aren’t even winning local competition nights yet at that point.