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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • He was in many ways one of the causes of the decline of constructive political discussions. A man who’s income came from having political discussions asking people to prove him wrong and never ceding ground. Debate club disguised as discussion, then filmed and posted to the internet for the masses to see his ideas “win”. There was no evidence on a single issue that could change his mind except his donors telling him to or polling indicating he’s losing support over his stance.

    In many ways it’s reminiscent of old videos in which preachers debate scientists about evolution before the scientists either learned to debate to a crowd or got replaced with science educators.







  • You aren’t American are you? Many families here teach their children to use guns. It’s considered irresponsible to keep guns in a house with children and not teach them to use them (though you should keep the guns locked up and away from them when not in use).

    Also it’s really easy to shoot a gun without training if you don’t give a fuck about not wasting ammo or who or what you hit. Especially if you’re aiming at a crowd. It’s rare for school shooters to be decent marksmen, rather they just bring a gun with decent rate of fire and a ton of ammo and shoot into a crowd











  • Yeah I also just see a lot of the imperial propaganda that I had to learn to recognize being an American in it, but for China. It’s very, “support for China doing bad things is morally superior to opposition to it”. Like, you have a victim of the cultural revolution and you’re telling me that she’s wholly in the wrong for begging aliens to help saying that we cannot save ourselves.

    The show leans away from some of it but the entire story revolves around the full villain status of people with reasonable criticisms and their blind faith that makes them to a certain degree uninteresting.