But you ask anyone who knows anything about fighting and the first thing they tell you to do is to cut your hair short because it’s just an easy handle to grab on to.

This is called a motte-and-bailey. We were discussing a group trying to ban books about the Holocaust, and the larger concept about groups of parents being able to ban anything by whining about it enough. You put forward a different argument you think is bullet proof about banning sexual content with the implication that this argument defends the much weaker argument about banning Holocaust books or whatever books the mob may choose.

Just pointing that out. It’s a common fallacy and one that feels right, it isn’t necessarily done intentionally.

The freakout about sexual content is fabricated and designed to play to emotions. School libraries already ban sexual content. There’s no smut or erotica at them. The small handful of books that people wanted to ban were either educational or were similar to many books that were not targeted by those parent groups and the sexual situations were not the focus of the book. The main similarity was that they were about LGBT sexualities.

Because the rules are in place and curated by professionals. What I don’t want is every semi-educated group of extremists to have the ability to whine enough that they get important books banned.

I go to /c/greentext to have my 4chan brain rot filtered out of the experience. Otherwise I could just go to 4chan.

I’m wondering if it’s why I don’t get so much as a rejection email for many of the jobs I’ve applied for. It always feels like submitting an application is just tossing it into the void but this study seems to corroborate that.

No, the drug Olympics gives them downers too.

Wife wants coke, a brick of hash, bottle of pills, some meat and some sausage. Kid wants a sandwich and some ciggies.

Yeah… The US has a sound and practical military strategy of owning a military that would win quickly and dominate completely. War is brutal??? Is China in your mind soft and coquettish in their war strategies lmao. With oriental honor lol.

I’ll tiptoe around the questions of how this made you think of a US China war, and what lengths you would go to insist that there would be little reason for China to ever be the “aggressor”.

On authority is used to justify the fact that many communist movements of the past turned into brutal dictatorships and that “it’s fine actually that mao starved half of China because you can’t have a revolution without being authoritarian”.

The actual paper is short and kind of stupid. What Engels was arguing in that short essay with a ridiculously outsized influence was that he was technically correct (the best kind) that anarchists are silly because any type of government someone could propose inevitably involves one person imposing their will on another like your quote says.

Really what Engels (who was a prominent communist thinker) was doing was fucking up any attempts at communist organization because now 1/3 of communists think that brutal authoritarianism is based and necessary for a revolution.

Spinage

I can’t wait for all the horrific post-war PTSD art that comes out of China with these as the centerpiece.

All she has to do is drop the media-seeking bullshit and/or stop being a public figure. It’s free and easy.

It’s not that they’re immune to facts, it’s that they’ll see the fact and just willingly lie because they think they have the overall high ground and believe they’re trolling right along trump to own you.

While the weights here are impractical, wouldn’t a weighted barrel work really well? If you’re forced to engage your muscles against the weight of the barrel you’ll most likely be extremely stable.

This jamoke’s horny for clown Trump.

It probably should be burger. But that seems like a trick since I’ve never seen a burger referred to having a “lifespan”

Deadlock kind of seems like it might be a spiritual successor. It won’t be the same but it’s got a lot of similar DNA. It could be what people expected Overwatch to be.

I want an alternative history story about Trump being the president for 911

Someone pointed out in another thread that it would make a lot of sense that this attack was for clout/reputation on the darkweb as a high profile advertisement for their DDOS business.

Are the posts on this sub based on any particular source? Some of the memes are just about current events but others seem to require extremely diverse, specific knowledge on the details of a bunch of different wars.