BlackDragon

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I literally already explained that in the comic you’re replying to. The sea lion should have done something bad to deserve being criticized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That just doesn’t work, because the sea lion’s behavior in the comic is entirely reasonable, and it is the other characters who are being unreasonable. If the point of the comic is that the sea lion’s behavior is bad, they should have actually made the sea lion do something bad instead of call out someone being racist against him

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  not a racist conversation, because sea lions are not sentient beings despite what is about to happen

  sea lions literally are sentient beings in the context of the comic. the only justification the comic gives for why sea lions are bad requires them being sentient beings.

  are you literate

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just obviously not about all the stuff that you seem to think it’s about.

  But it literally is? You’re the one coming up with weird interpretations about “what if it was actually about xyz”

  What is actually happening in the comic is that a character is being racist and the victim of that racism is portrayed as being wrong and annoying for calling out the racism. That’s literally what’s happening in the comic. It doesn’t require any kind of gymnastics or interpretation, that’s the surface level reading of what is occurring in the comic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Racism justifies harassment and home invasion?

  Yeah. Not gonna cry over what the victims of racism do to racists.

  and more about the harassment veiled in false civility as a means of silencing discussion.

  How is the sea lion silencing discussion? The racist lady said a racist thing and the sea lion invited discussion by asking, “Why did you say that racist thing?” and then they refused to actually explain why they’re racist against sea lions, treating it as self-evident that being racist against sea lions is correct and thus that it is unreasonable to question it.

  Pretend he’s not a sea lion, but a conservative

  He can’t choose not to be a sea lion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I gotta be honest, the sea lion is not the bad guy in this comic. Guy randomly says some racist shit, and a member of the group he’s being racist against calls him out for being racist, so he then uses that as justification for the initial racist statement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burning Up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a great time to propose my system of temperature: Super Celsius. I’ll connect it to the freezing and boiling points of water just like Celsius, but while freezing remains at 0, boiling is now 1000. Get ready for a nice mild day of 250 degrees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those poor plants⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If the only animal corpses anyone ate was euthanized pet remains and the practice was somehow free of influencing the unnecessary euthanization of more pets, I can’t say I care. Same way I don’t really care if people eat roadkill or animal products from a dumpster. I’m not going to do it, I don’t see these things as food. And I think there’s a minuscule harm done in the proliferation of the perception of these things as food. But that harm is negligible in the face of animal agriculture which is my primary concern.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those poor plants⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What part of my reference to it as animal abuse sounds like an endorsement of the practice? I’m not sure about you, but personally I consider animal abuse to be unacceptable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those poor plants⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But then you’re still causing plants pain by farming and eating them. Isn’t that argument no different than saying if you believe that harming animals causes them pain, you should be in favor of eating the ones that are hunted because farming them causes more pain?

  If you insist on animal abuse then you should do it through hunting rather than factory farming precisely because of the diminished amount of suffering caused. But it’s still more suffering than would be caused by just eating plants so I’m not sure I understand your point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those poor plants⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you actually believe harming plants causes them pain and that that is bad, you should be vegan. Animal agriculture harms far, far more plants than any plant agriculture ever could.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those poor plants⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not only do you jump to an insane straw man.

  It wasn’t an insane strawman though? It was literally the argument they made. Something has to die for you to eat, therefore it doesn’t matter how many things you kill or how necessary those deaths are. The fact that you must kill something absolves you of any guilt for any amount of killing, is the ridiculous argument the person made (and which carnists often make) which we are making fun of for being obviously evil and wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alas Moths⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alas! Moths.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Birthday⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly! In English! Which this person does not know!

  You seem to be getting pretty confused here. We’re talking about the literal meanings, that is to say the ones that someone who doesn’t have a strong grasp of English should know. Metaphors and idioms and so on are famously difficult for those without a strong grasp on the language, but I am arguing that this is not one of those. This is a phrase with a straightforward literal meaning, unlike such phrases as “pulling your leg.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Birthday⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or the number of days since their birth? That’s the simpler explanation.

  “Those apples are numbered” = “we know how many apples there are right now”

  No, that does not make equal literal sense to what I said. Because days that are in the past are gone, we don’t have them anymore. We refer to moving through time as “killing” time or as “losing” time, in English we don’t tend to think of the past as something we currently have. The future is something we have or will have, the past is something we had and no longer have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Birthday⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It means that you can place a specific number on the number of days left in a person’s life? I’m not sure I understand the question because the meaning of this one is pretty easy to see. Normally it is unclear when your death will be, but if someone tells you that your days are numbered they are implying that they possess the exact knowledge of what number of days you have left to live.