Some people sure can’t miss an opportunity to be misandrist.

How do you even know MeatPilot is a man making a dumb joke in the dumb jokes community and not e.g. a woman or enby making a dumb joke in the dumb jokes community?

Basically, yeah. Law enforcement supervisors prefer higher arrest volume.

“Oh no, the all-purpose machine we made is being used for one of those purposes that was predicted by just about every scifi ever!”

They’re just protesting to virtue signal.

A lot of people are attracted to trustworthy positions of power because of the opportunity to commit crime and the low odds of being caught and prosecuted.

That particular name isn’t even a difficult name to pronounce for an American English speaker, so this is doubly dumb.

The only thing you’re going to be off by - as I understand it - is the “h” in Rahman is more glottal-stop guttural than we’re used to pronouncing. Everything else is standard American English phonemes.

I would be surprised if anyone was on the fence about Trump’s sex crimes.

You either have people who realize that he looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, and are willing to treat him like a duck…

…or you have people for whom no amount of evidence could ever convince them.

They were simply terrible for each other. They both won out by breaking up.

I’ve just been using en dashes this entire time, was once accused of being a bot because I used them, and as a result I found out that I was using dashes improperly — and should instead use em dashes.

They’ll probably either not care or accuse the receipts of being AI - whatever FOX tells them to do.

Just look at JD Vance and Ted Cruz, both reasonably popular with MAGA Republicans despite openly expressing their contempt for him before he was elected.

“Democrats want to fall in love; Republicans just fall in line.”

So we should expect them to forget (or “forget”), but I never will.

As the post was un-removed (shout-out to the mod team here) I can now reply:

Next time you see a leftist meme crop up from one of the more popular non-local communities, take a peek at the comments for people like me and the legion of people dog-piling them.

“I disagree with this part of the meme:” is considered a deeply hostile act and you’ll be treated accordingly.

As the post was recently un-removed (shout-out to the mod team here), we can continue the discussion here if you’d like:

Your position is more or less that I am so terribly wrong that you’re not going to bother educating me, correct?

For the record I’m not trying to pester/harass/troll you as you suggested via DMs - I’d just rather move the conversation here. Feel free to screenshot the entire thing and put it in a reply for transparency and posterity’s sake. Or don’t reply if you’re positive I’m a troll; that’s fine too.

If sanity returns and Trump doesn’t get to have a third term, all the Republicans will just line up to say they were secretly working against Trump this whole time, which will make (most of) them look good to their base.

Yeah I was going to get worked up at this until I read your comment.

As much as it sucks to have a Pause on anything happening in the federal government for two years, it’s better than Everything Happening And It’s All Bad.

On the other hand, respect to them for not giving you a task you looked like you couldn’t handle.

You’re mischaracterizing what I said, probably to push your agenda. Either read more carefully or skitter back to somewhere people don’t bother thinking before typing.

Because your eyes are already observing the backs of your sockets, I’ll hold your hand:

I never said the USA isn’t a genocidal settler colony turned global hegemony, nor did I say it doesn’t deserve criticism for that and more, nor did I say I don’t enjoy such criticism. Hilariously ironically, I said the opposite.

I can’t confirm if the second half of your username is true, but the first half sure is.

I think I described them better, but you’re welcome to carve out your own definition.

Stalinists, Maoists, etc.

Hyper means “over,” “above,” etc. I think it’s Greek in origin?

“Auth” is short for “authoritarian,” meaning those who lean towards “a good society is one with stricter enforcement of laws,” as opposed to “libertarian” philosophies, generally meaning those who think people should be left alone more often than not.

Left is the political “left,” generally proposing a “managed economy” or “regulations on businesses,” as opposed to the “right” which often values Laissez-faire capitalism.

Hyper-auth-left people believe that the best society is one where a vanguard party (often led by an autocrat) destroys capitalism, capitalists, and often anything that even remotely resembles either (examples of the latter including academics, people who wear glasses, and Jewish people), usually violently.

“The USSR was perfect.” 😍

“Some things the USSR did were good.” 😡

I totally get that as a philosophy, but the people (or for all I know, bots) that I’ve been running into lately aren’t that.

As an example, they’ve done mental gymnastics to build the following logic:

• Russia opposes the US (factual)

• The US is imperialist (factual)

• Therefore anything Russia ever does cannot be imperialism, but must be anti-imperialism (???)

• Therefore anyone who criticizes anything Russia ever does must be anti-anti-imperialist, ergo imperialist (???)

It’s people LARPing wanting freedom from tyranny who actually just want despotism with a different flavor on the boot.

Meh. Enjoy running around telling everyone who voices a concern to “cope.”

I think I’ll be taking your advice to block your instance.