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You Americans have a very weird relationship with the second amendment - and the Nazis really took it as a “free from criticism” amendment, now, haven’t they?

Stop giving these assclowns the benefit of the doubt. Stop accepting the “it was only in jest” excuses when they push their agenda. Sartre said it right:

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

While he does specify anti-Semite, in the context it’s clear that he means Nazis.

Push back on Nazism and stop accepting excuses on why it isn’t “really” Nazism.

Like taking the literal Nazi marches seriously in 1938-39 while the war was raging in Europe?

True, but don’t forget that the internet essentially destroyed the last guardrail against stupidity: social exclusion.

Pre-internet (not even social media mind you as prior to that, BBSes and forums existed), if you were a dumbfuck, you got excluded. No friends, no hanging out with people, nobody wanted to spend time with you. And most people being social beings, you’d want to avoid that, therefore you either didn’t voice those opinions, or learned to change them.

Then came the internet and suddenly, the morons found brethren. First were the conspiracy theorists who were already excluded, finding safe havens to hide out at. But then slowly - and this is where mass social media, and easy access to it via smartphones and tablets, and affordable computing, comes in - the other morons, let them be racists, antisemites, homophobes, transphobes, etc., slowly discovered that hey, while they might be alone in their surroundings, they’re not alone when you account for 7 (back then, today it’s 8) billion people!

And so the last guardrail was gone, and stupidity, a la Idiocracy, has begun to spread.

Not to mention that the Nazis, coming out of hiding, were quick to utilise these new spaces to recruit people. Now with less overt racism and antisemitism, they preyed on the newer generation.

Remember when around 2012-13-14, all the big meme sites - 9gag, iFunny, etc. - slowly became more and more extremists, racist, and overtly Nazi? That was a somewhat coordinated move, capturing the youngest generation knowing full well their parents aren’t yet tech-savvy enough to do anything about it. Kids under 20-22 lack the reasoning skills older people do, this directly leads to lesser understanding on how bad their actions are, and how they’re being influenced. Which did happen slowly but surely, and resulted in the Trunp win just a few years later.

Mind you I’m not saying these people don’t need to take responsibility for their actions - they most definitely do. I’m purely explaining the reasons why things unfolded as they did, so we can prevent it in the future.

The real mistake was not finishing the job of getting rid of all Nazis back in 1945.

Can’t put direct blame on Dear Leader, after all.

Oh, good to know. Last time I checked around WASM this wasn’t really an option.

Sounds like at this point if you want to kill someone, it’s enough to report them to the police.

They either get swatted or the investigation opened will make life impossible enough for them to commit suicide…

Even if it is… You’d seriously deny a vet housing because they had an investigation opened against them, that, again, was closed without further action?

Troops ain’t worth shit in this case, sadly. The real deterrent is the presence of quick-response military at large.

Most anti-vaxxers were all about how the COVID vaccine will kill you in 3-5 years.

Then it turns out that in some instances the vaccine actually extends your life.

That, I’d call a polar opposite.

See the main issue with that is you need to bundle everything into the app.

Modern computing is inherently cross-dependent on runtimes and shared libraries and whatnot, to save space. Why bundle the same 300MB runtime into five different apps when you can download it once and share it between the apps? Or even better, have a newer, backwards compatible version of the runtime installed and still be able to share it between apps.

With WASM you’re looking at bundling every single dependency, every single runtime, framework and whatnot, in the final binary. Which is fine for one-off small things, but when everything is built that way, you’re sacrificing tons of storage and bandwidth unnecessarily.

theVeterans can be … rejected on apartment applications

what the fuck is wrong in the US? You can have the money, the income, etc., and still be rejected an apartment just because there was a dropped criminal investigation in your past? Not even a conviction, just an investigation. I was investigated (case dropped) in Hungary because my ex flatmate defrauded a bunch of people in relation to the flat (landlord, electric, water and heating providers, among other things), then tried to blame me for them, going as far as reporting me to the police (who quickly discovered that I wasn’t the responsible party at the times indicated and all the fraud happened after I moved out, so the case was dropped). In the US, a landlord could seriously deny my application for housing purely based on such an investigation taking place? This is beyond ridiculous.

Shoulda made the revamp of the constitution an enforced, time-boxed process then. Currently the approximate timeframe of getting an amendment through is what, 60 years or so?

Turns out anti-vaxxers weren’t just wrong, they were the polar opposite of right.

But human existence is suffering. Buddhism teaches that if you do incredibly well, you’ll be reborn as a being with a worry-free life. Being a plankton sounds exactly like that.

IMO human existence, with all its benefits, is waaaaay below plankton.

Gotta reduce the apparent military pressure on Vladdy daddy. Can’t have actual military force in range if Putin decides to actually directly strike NATO territory after all.

See this is something I don’t get about billionaires.

You already have enough money to literally buy ANYTHING you want. You might not be able to buy slaves but you can pay people to do shit for you, there’s even people out there who’d be down for a whipping for a few thousand dollars… You’re literally king of the world, without moving a pinkie.

And instead of using all that money, all that wealth to get new experiences, learn new things, discover new places, literally do things no-one has ever done before… what do you ask for?

More money.

It’s not even greed anymore at that point, it’s a psychological issue, akin to hoarding, except your hoarding ruins the entire planet.

Billionaires shouldn’t exist, period.

Only the right kind of comedy!

Even the system of checks and balances were kind of a fuckup if you think about it - the whole system just presumes that most people are acting in good faith and bad faith actors are limited to a few positions or a single branch.

The White House has no balls

No. If courts decide that the demolition was illegal, he has to put it back exactly the way it was. It’s not a free pass to “rebuild it the way he wants”.