Nah, I can give them p-r-------l at least.
Nah, I can give them p-r-------l at least.
Abso-fucking-lutely 100% the correct take right here. We need to absolutely be wary of opportunists trying to remove nuance from the situation. That doesn’t mean don’t be realistic about the horrors, that doesn’t mean treating the vile guilty parties with kid gloves, it just means ensuring we don’t let our outrage carry us away with the current. And we have to be honest with ourselves that there are legitimately an astounding amount of outside forces and actors trying to manipulate the situation from all sides to score wins and promote dangerous ideologies.
Seek justice, seek peace, yes absolutely, but don’t let yourself become an unwitting soldier in somebody else’s war.
I agree entirely and will add that hell, I even miss the satisfying sound of the CD drive opening and closing slowly with its mechanical whirr
We ain’t a monolith bro, and you don’t speak for me
This whole “all the homophobes are closeted gay men|all the racists secretly fetishize black men” thing is reductive, unrealistic, and unproductive. This dude is gross as fuck and I’m glad he’s getting charged with something at least, but chocking these things up to underlying latent sexual urges is weird and doesn’t solve anything. I’m going to pivot to homosexuality as it think it’s a clearer example now: yes there have been a number of bigots who have turned out to be closeted gays in denial, but concluding from that that all bigots are closeted muddies the water and prevents us from tackling the real root causes of bigotry and, frankly, makes “our side” (for lack of a better term) seem unnecessary sexually-obsessed.
Both are victims
Every so often I think about the fact that there are actually real people with real chodes and it legitimately makes me kind of sad
Bro you literally did the “yet you have a phone!” meme
Yeah I thought we might be having a conversation, but your last comment did in fact clarify that you’re being disingenuous, so I agree we not be able to continue.
What have I said that implies they would get to demand anything? Where I have I said everyone gets to have everything they want?
I don’t like taking out the trash and my partner doesn’t like doing the dishes but we both do them happily because we understand when we contribute to the household we both benefit in vastly greater measure than our individual efforts.
It does, but we have the means to provide the basic needs for everyone already, no replicators required.
Then the flower crown maker doesn’t get to have a truck, but that’s okay because all of their needs are still being met. Utopia doesn’t mean everyone having everything they want all the time, it just means having everything they need
You seem to think the flower crown maker is making them for profit. You’re stuck in the capitalist mentality. We shouldn’t be defined by what we do and we shouldn’t only do that which is for monetary gain. I don’t want somebody needlessly making an endless supply of flower crowns, I want a person free to make flower crowns only when they want to for pleasure.
Why does the truck maker need anything? Why can’t he just give the truck for free if his basic needs and resource requirements are being met?
Basic needs and resources should be provided, the rest by bartering or agreement, yes.
Have you seen Star Trek?
Money shouldn’t exist. Hope that helps!
Which is interesting, because the point of the phrase is to imply something is so commonplace that it practically has no value. It’s so commonplace you can get a dozen of them for a dime!
So technically while the relative value of the dime in this phrase decreases, the relative value of the phrase itself increases as the dime’s value ever further approaches negligible, ever better emphasizing the point!
Words are fun.