[-] whogivesashit@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Deeply unserious

[-] whogivesashit@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 8 months ago

You ever read Fahrenheit 451? It's just a decent read imo, but it has a few gems worth mentioning. In case you're unfamiliar, it follows the story of a man (named Guy) who lives in a future version of America where books have been outlawed.

Guy meets a former English professor and begins to read in secret. In one of their meetings, the English professor tries to get Guy to talk about what he's thinking, but Guy is being timid in sharing his thoughts. The professor then says this

You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

To hide your ideas this way is to live in a bubble, and you cannot grow your mind this way.

[-] whogivesashit@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 8 months ago

I've seen like 5 comments where you refuse to expand on your views. This is a formal invitation to bring your opinion to the marketplace of ideas and have it sorted out.

[-] whogivesashit@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Also anyone dating legal teenagers as an adult are weird AF. Gives off "Id go lower but the law won't let me"

[-] whogivesashit@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 8 months ago

IMHO both groups have bad apples

Oh bad people can come from anywhere, what a salient observation.

By every important measurable standard, women are still treated worse in contemporary society. The fact you would respond with this nothing take when someone brings up misogyny is incredibly telling. Wishing well to any women unlucky enough to be in your life.

[-] whogivesashit@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 8 months ago

Yes. Only get your info from approved sources people. Heaven forbid you fact check anything yourselves

[-] whogivesashit@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Believing that the Nazis, who systematically gassed millions as a part of their ideology, is at all akin to any of the atrocities committed under the Soviet Union is historical revisionism in order to downplay the crimes of the fascists and, what you can clearly see in this thread already, foster anti communist sentiment with barely a reason why.

[-] whogivesashit@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 8 months ago

We're all poor af

[-] whogivesashit@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 10 months ago

What's hilarious is you saying euro, dollar, yen, like these all aren't different amounts. Weird that this arbitrary number is what's holding you back from thinking China is trying to build something. Sounds like you need more theory

[-] whogivesashit@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Do people not understand sarcasm

[-] whogivesashit@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Congress will not be doing this, so arguably the most effective method is something that's actually achievable

[-] whogivesashit@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I think he's just really caked up

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