Yep, the worst kind of story. "Be careful what you wish for, because you might get fine print."
Main characters: make wish Monkey's Paw: gives wish and something else Main characters: Oh, the problem was me wanting the reasonable thing, not that I trusted a really shady entity in asking for it! Me: May I leave this planet now?
On behalf of the rare individual who wants the author separated from the work, genuinely sorry. We know most public HP support comes from people who are ambivalent or actively anti-trans so don't get your wires crossed, I'm not saying you should ask each Gryffindor scarf if "they have legitimate concerns about the erasure of womanhood" if they're even hiding behind that obvious bullshit anymore. It's pretty much a given now. It just sucks that Death of the Author is a failure in this case.
This was two posts down from a very funny video showing that you can get any result from a poll. Before I even read the numbers I was like "People, government, and violence-enacting groups are not the same" ie I can relate to (sympathize with) being a citizen of an occupying regime, even to being part of the occupying force, without agreeing with the overall agenda of the regime in charge. Maybe I'm empathizing instead of sympathizing, but I see most people who take polls on a CBS site (another obvious flaw here) will also sympathize (or empathize) that direction.
Then I read the numbers. They are abysmal. Still, I'd like to see a poll that is more fairly worded. A poll that constructs the opposite perspective in its audience would be amusing too.
Uncritical, naive, gullible... no, I think credulous works fine there.
ROFL! I'll see myself out.
I personally cannot distinguish satire from reality. And no, it's not because I'm credulous, but because every day incredible things happen. I don't need fake headlines that are just as crazy as the real headlines.
Just so long as we don't put them on "reserved" land that we shrink every year or two until we suddenly decide that we want to take it back etc. I think it would be just grand to get a bunch more Palestinians in Palestine! For Americans, anyway. Immigrants are good for the economy. The Palestinians themselves might have better luck elsewhere.
I don't know who the poster is. I was just nodding along like "Yes, that is true why is it a hot take"
I guess I'm not online enough to see the problematic posts or comments, or the mods here are really Johnny-on-the-spot. So I have very little experience of any claims made here. The only time I found toxic content was in a dog sub, and the majority there was harshly against the breed currently begging me for belly rubs.
That was a tangent. But yeah, I haven't ever seen the fascists, but there are many possible reasons for that.
Cops: *go on strike*
Nothing: *changes*
Bourgeois: "Give them everything they ask for or society will collapse!"
Yeah, police are the enforcement tools of the owner class, designated extra privileges to give them the impression that they're somehow distinct from the proletariat. They'd have too much power even without unions. Listen to politicians who urge corrupt cops to stay on payroll because of literally getting the "rotten apple" metaphor backwards. I'm not really sure how you can judge some unions good or bad, when ACAB is a fact. Just, get rid of the police and leave this hypothetical to historians.
Response above mine says otherwise, but my point was that you can look at any time period and find some grumpy adult saying when they were children they were respectful, unlike kids these days! I read somewhere that one of the oldest pieces of writing was lamenting how lazy people are now that they can write things down instead of having to memorize everything.
I honestly don't know what century this was originally written.
I don't mind stealing bread from the mouths of decadence
Problem: "Breakfast foods are expensive."
A: Eat different foods when you wake up.
B: Subsidies to keep people buying the foods and keep the companies afloat.
C: Tips on local, sustainable food production.
D: Any combination of the above.
Solution: "TELL THE POOR TO EAT LESS."
Didn't a pilot jettison himself recently and the search for the plane by the USG was ongoing?
Adam Conover feels that way to me. Maybe he's not an official rep, but he puts a very good face on strikes in general and SAG-AFTRA specifically
According to the inventors of sin, sin is a crime or offense against God. If there is no deity, sin is impossible to commit. Also, they say all sin is equal: you are equally condemned for committing murder or for looking at someone lustfully. So this question, as worded, is deceptively hard to answer.
If you're asking "what's the most awesome thing you've done that people would consider a sin" well, I'd probably add to the list of people who answered with atheism, as questioning and searching for the truth is taboo in Abrahamic societies.
If you're asking "what's the most awful thing you've done?" Well, it might be somewhat tame, but I wake up in a cold sweat sometimes when I think about it. Imagine a 13-year-old kid confident of having the answers to someone's questions, when a life is on the line.
Oh, it's Prager-U. I was wondering who was dumb enough to characterize our current system as "socialism," but they're not dumb. They're just dishonest.
They spelled "monopoly" wrong.
I just had to find out what Moms for Liberty was. My life is a little worse for it, but at least their naming conventions have changed 0 since One Million Moms.