CriticalThought

@CriticalThought@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They literally pay the majority of all tax in a society

  I’m going to have 1000 pizza pies, you’re going to have one. We each need to contribute to the group. You’ll give half of your pizza pie, I’ll give one whole pie. I’m a much bigger contributor than you. No one hungry should be upset with me, especially since I periodically give a slice to the people who bake all the pizzas for me. Enjoy your half pizza.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry. Not all of us were able to get our country’s gold from the nazis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨👴☝️I did that⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I won’t stop using it just because people with inferior education sometimes don’t get it.

  I doubt anyone doesn’t get it, it just sounds twice as unnatural to a native English speaker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for your reply. I feel you mischaracterized my response, likely because you didn’t understand it, in which case, likely because I did not express it well.

  I don’t care whether op leaves Reddit, it’s not an important issue to me, and it has absolutely nothing to do with purity. I was responding to the idea that it’s hard to leave reddit, which may feel true for op, but, just as you suggested, if everyone took that attitude with everything, positive change would be stymied, and your suggested resort to suicide would make a lot more sense. Making space (e.g., by leaving an abusive relationship of one kind or another) can seem hard or scary, but I stand by it as a means to enable better things to come. What op wants to do with that is up to them.

  I hope that’s more clear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, like food, water, and air—impossible to live without!

  Word to the wise: leaving makes space for alternatives that clinging to hinders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  OP is asking an interesting and important question. While I don’t claim it as definitive, there was an insightful article written in 2016 that attempted to address the question head on: How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah. This is all a joke to you. Sorry for having taken you seriously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  May I ask, if someone were to make a gesture indistinguishable from a Nazi salute, what would be necessary to convince you it was, in fact, a Nazi salute?