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Don’t make fun of my heritage! I’ll not stand for this! My childhood growing up on my family’s spice farm was full of love and laughter. I can still feel the summer breeze on my face as it whispered through the mayobob trees on my way to the tater salad festival, an’ ill never tire of mommas stories bout my uncle ritz, like the time he snuck medium salsa to taco night and gramma passed out.

Ahhh memories

Meanwhile, a four-time champion is reportedly missing

Old news. He came back from sabbatical and is working on his next “star citizen extremely poo” effortpost as we speak

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hoooly shit that job sucks get out get out get oooout i hate them!

Its ok man, i listed myself as cis in the last survey and nothing hap

Police Incite Violence at Port Strike

Does the news think we’re all stupid? ARE we all stupid? Are there actually that many people falling for this?

I think it’s the media’s deliberate manipulating of information and humanity’s natural bystander effect

Specifically one study where students had to complete an exam and they pumped smoke under the door to see the results:

According to the principle of social influence, bystanders monitor the reactions of other people in an emergency situation to see if others think that it is necessary to intervene. If it is determined that others are not reacting to the situation, bystanders will interpret the situation as not an emergency and will not intervene.

The media portraying the genocide are calmly telling burgerland that everything is fine, something people universally want to believe. It’s not that we can’t. in fact when students were alone in the smoky room they were much faster to report the smoke. But when they were in groups they did not.

Referring to the smoke experiment, even though students in the groups had clearly noticed the smoke which had become so thick that it was obscuring their vision, irritating their eyes or causing them to cough, they were still unlikely to report it. Only one participant in the group condition reported the smoke within the first four minutes, and by the end of the experiment, no-one from five of eight groups had reported the smoke at all.

I think this is kinda close to the dynamic i mean. The “smoke” of the genocide (and expanding war) is literally in yanks faces but for the calming effect of the media they still trust, acting as they always do, as if hundreds of thousands of lives aren’t catching in their fucking throats.

Similarly, interpretations of the context played an important role in people’s reactions to a man and woman fighting in the street. When the woman yelled, “Get away from me; I don’t know you,” bystanders intervened 65 percent of the time, but only 19 percent of the time when the woman yelled, "Get away from me; I don’t know why I ever married you.“

And here i might be really stretching but i say here is where the lie “they’ve been fighting for thousands of years” works on the masses, who don’t know Israel is an invention younger than the sitting president.

Woof effort posting is hard I’m gonna stop

we’re here because the programming didn’t work on us, but probably for a bunch of different reasons, many of which are also outside of our control.

If i hadn’t got mad at the price of cable 20 years ago and pulled the plug i might be doing cold calls for kamala rn for all i know. I try not to look down on the folks still deep in prop cuz it really wasnt long enough ago i too was in platos cave

Haha those dreams where you’re smoking and wake up feeling guilty/relieved it’s not real mannn

If 80 senators decide the vote should be anonymous then it could be, right? Normally i don’t think that’d be possible but for something AIPAC hold so dear i could see it

First couple of months are the shittiest. Won’t lie, probably 2-3 before i wasnt getting that empty feeling in my throat, that craving for the burn. But if you get past that part it really does get easier i swear. Not easy but i swear not as bad as what you’re going thru rn.

Youve got one down mate, you can do it. Ill cheer for your success

Keep my butt stain out of your fucking mouth!

I was gonna say the same. Some can use vaping to quit but i just switched to smoking my vape all day. while vaping kicks the shit out of smoking in terms of stinkiness i have no faith in the safety of these vapes. My lungs feel worse than with og baccy.

Have you ever quit before? My longest stint was for 7 years before relapse

Personally, i think we should accept all kinds of beliefs, even that of bigots. We cannot make it a crime to have certain thoughts, only actions/behaviours should be punishable.

This is where it gets hairy, since allowing hateful thoughts to be spoken causes real hateful violent actions/behaviors from those they incite. By respecting this “right of bigoted ideas to be received respectfully”, the creators of this violence are free to act the way we know they do, that is with no respect for human life. Worse, they avoid blame for what they directly cause thru their hate.

The paradox of debating with those whose beliefs are hateful is: where does it stop being useful and become hurtful? When does being respectful towards hateful ideas become disrespectful to the targets of that hate? Is it possible that by treating hateful ideas respectfully at all you validate them as beliefs that respectable people have?

I think we would both agree there’s a vileness line somewhere, yeah? Where you’d stop entertaining their reasoning and shut down debate?

Maybe we even agree on where that line is.

Insults are useful i think and as you say, that’s where we don’t.

Why shouldn’t hateful ideas be made fun of? People entertaining hateful ideas are watching and learning how the world will react to themselves doing the same. Shitheads being treated respectfully makes the watcher believe the ideas are worth respecting. Gets them thinking “respectfully” is how their hateful words will be received. Gets them closer to repeating them louder.

What possible good things can come from allowing hate to be respected? Treat hateful racist ideas with the same respect as flat-earthers, because the idea itself and the people that hold them are foolish.

And why not hurt them? I suppose you don’t have a problem with their hurt feelings, but the effectiveness of this tactic, right? I can probably find historical evidence that shame is effective social tool if you want.

Just imagine if Musk (for example) had to do a parade through the streets like cercei in GoT, televised round the globe.

Betcha he’d shut his gob then, huh?

And the world would be better for it. Shameful ideas deserve shame and shame is an effective tool. Every effective tool used against facism is a morally just tool.

Wow thanks that’s a sizeable list! Ill try starting from the top :)

I’ve got piracy and time, mind tellin me a good episode to search that shows why you like em/what makes em good?

I hate that i couldn’t play Disco because puzzle games n me just don’t jive. But i loved the horse. I love wordplay and there’s so much of that, plus great characters that you love and deep characters you can feel for even as you hate em.

I am probably also fond of it because i learned “ace” was a thing and what i was while watching it so bias

I finally like Marge’s sisters