“This will help me become president FOR SURE!” he said, then spun the little spinny propeller on his beanie cap.
“This will help me become president FOR SURE!” he said, then spun the little spinny propeller on his beanie cap.
And twitter. And mastodon. And lemmy ffs, we’re not immune. (I’m doing it right now, in fact.)
He’s already being prosecuted. Pull out the gun or shut the fuck up, pissbaby
We’ve been at war continuously for the last 20 years, actually. That’s not an exaggeration, it’s a literal fact about the way post-9/11 America structured the powers of the presidency to declare and then just maintain a state of war.
Am I wrong in thinking the original tweet was a joke? Adding the mac speech bubble is just saying “no, fuck your joke, this is my joke now”
and i figured you’d read what i actually wrote instead of arguing with someone who didn’t exist
Yes, I know all that. The argument I was replying to was that you run out of trees if you use them to make paper without recycling. That argument is false. You’re arguing with points I didn’t make.
No, this isn’t solved by having a whole forest available when you scale up the consumer side too.
You’re seriously underestimating how many trees there are. The only reason we’re losing forest is because of grazing land. That’s clearcutting, where you remove the tree and just destroy it or just burn the whole forest. As a vegetarian I’m obviously not here to defend grazing land, but if you look only at wood and paper production, we absolutely can replace the trees we use with enough time for them to regrow completely.
Doing so devastates ecosystems by turning them into monocultures, but you’re only talking about the replacement rate of trees. We don’t have to worry about the replacement rate of trees, we have to worry about greed for land and environmental impact.
After reading the caption I had to look at the picture several times to convince myself it was not, in fact, Ben Shapiro in a garfield costume
why not just let lose of this crippling desire to align ourselves with some historical identity
Fair enough. Counterpoint: It doesn’t freaking matter what word we use. No matter what the word is, the right will attempt to poison it and stir hatred of it and assign meanings to it that aren’t real. Look at what happened to “woke”. It will keep happening, because the modern right is Fascism, and poisoning language is a fascist tactic that goes back to the very beginning. You call yourself an Anarchist; where on Earth do you live that nobody has negative associations with “Anarchist”.
Use whatever word you want, just use it consistently. Don’t expect it to stay free of propaganda, because they do that to our words on purpose.
That’s why they call me Dollar Bill. Because I have one.
Lol haven’t seen it yet. I rolled the dice
I zoomed in on the notes. I couldn’t make it out completely, but here’s what I saw:
This is exactly how I’m tryna be (I live alone in my house with my dog and my $0.003M fortune)
Pretty rare to see a swastika that’s drawn well enough to do this
The person who made this is either a troll or a fascist, and to me it doesn’t really matter which. Poisoning the meanings of words and theories is an old, old fascist trick and that’s all that’s happening here.
OK, the Paradox of Tolerance is a Karl Popper social theory about how society should feel about its subgroups, and made recently famous again in a comic, although I don’t think the comic context is relevant to this meme.
The basic idea is that if we tolerate absolutely every subgroup, then we are logically also tolerating the existence of fascists and other types of subgroups that want or promote intolerance. If one of these groups (let’s say, Nazis) is tolerated by society, it may gain control–indeed, to Popper, this is inevitable–and society becomes intolerant again. So paradoxically, tolerating everything led to the collapse of tolerance itself.
His remedy is that we must not tolerate the intolerant, we must extinguish groups like that through various means. To be clear, Popper is NOT saying we must kill or commit violence against the members of those groups, just that we must make sure the group structure itself is dismantled as it’s being built in every case. And here we get to the rather terrible point being made by the meme. “Minorities”, as the meme puts it, would be the Nazi group from the earlier example, because their viewpoint is a minority. And Popper isn’t promoting violence against them, unless you consider the enforcement of laws to be inherently violent. (A valid point of view, but very far from what the meme is suggesting.)
The Baby War of 2020 touched all aspects of our lives.
lol