futatorius
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- Comment on Is it possible to have a "free speech" platform that simultaneously stops "hate speech"? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, only one of those tactics works.
- Comment on Is it possible to have a "free speech" platform that simultaneously stops "hate speech"? 3 weeks ago:
you’ve invented an implicit judge who rules what is and is not free speech
Imagine that. Living in the real world, you are constantly faced with ethical choices.
- Comment on So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence. 3 weeks ago:
Clip the ends of the nails off. Not much more effort than moaning on Reddit, and more useful results.
- Comment on What your coffee preparation method says about you 5 weeks ago:
القهوة العربية مع الهيل؟
That’s the best.
- Comment on What your coffee preparation method says about you 5 weeks ago:
Starbucks coffee is consistently made, not well-made. Their roasting is just off, and it adversely affects the flavor of the coffee.
- Comment on What your coffee preparation method says about you 5 weeks ago:
I use a French press and Linux Mint.
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 month ago:
Because the standard for Democrats is perfectionism, but the standard for Republicans is “That’s just Trump being Trump.”
In other words, they didn’t think it through, they got suckered by propaganda.
- Comment on True Story 1 month ago:
Holding people accountable for their actions that affect you is an entirely just and necessary thing to do.
- Comment on True Story 1 month ago:
Another contributor to low turnout was massive voter suppression. It’d be interesting to see that quantified. Hundreds of thousands of voters were being purged in each of several states. The single-issue Gaza vote was lost in the noise of those gross examples of electoral manipulation.
- Comment on True Story 1 month ago:
Gaza was also a big issue for Gen Z
It was a convenient excuse for their apathy.
- Comment on True Story 1 month ago:
asking the relatives of genocide victims to vote for someone
There are 160,000 Palestinian-Americans. Most of them originate in the West Bank (especially Ramallah) and Jerusalem. Almost none of them are in Michigan. Michigan’s Arab-Americans are mostly Lebanese-descended.
People with family ties to Gaza were a vanishingly small percentage of the electorate. They’re vastly outnumbered by the people who were suckered by the “Dems = Genocide” concern-trolling.
- Comment on True Story 1 month ago:
It’ll be a genocide soon enough.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 month ago:
Some people are going to die-- mostly women. More people are going to have their lives turned upside-down, especially immigrants and ethnic and sexual minorities. Many immigrants, even legal ones, are going to be expelled. Corporations are going to run wild as regulation is abandoned. People are going to be bankrupted by predatory healthcare firms at a much higher rate than now. Every form of corporate pollution, adulteration, cheating and chicanery will be tolerated. The judiciary will be further corrupted. The US will not only withdraw from NATO, but will try to shut it down. Ukraine will be handed to Putin on a platter. Taiwan, the Baltics, Moldova and Poland will be left to fend for themselves. The ethnic cleansing in Gaza will transition even further to a full-scale genocide. Every aspect of government will be handed to corrupt, incompetent fanatics: kakistocracy all the way down. The impartiality of the civil service will be destroyed and the 19th-century spoils system reinstated. Social Security will be privatized and gutted. Obamacare will be eliminated. Congress will hold show trials of Trump’s perceived enemies. Terrorist acts and sabotage of critical infrastructure will massively increase, and the clampdowns that follow will be used to further degrade what few rights we still have.
But at least you won’t have Kamala’s pantsuit to complain about.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 month ago:
They’ll kill off the filibuster as soon as it gets in their way. They don’t care about tradition or institutional continuity. And anyway, the Democrats seldom resort to the filibuster, they just bend over.
Trump and Musk will have a power struggle within a few months. Trump hates the idea that someone’s richer than him, and will want to humiliate him. Trump will dump RFK Jr too, as soon as Jr gets more publicity than Trump. What will be semi-permanent are the careerist shitstains like the Speaker, the God-botherers with their crusade against women, and the anti-immigrant scum.
- Comment on Why is the term "bloodline" often used instead of "family tree"? 1 month ago:
And royals, like race horses, are not bred for intelligence.
- Comment on Why is the term "bloodline" often used instead of "family tree"? 1 month ago:
Yeah, it only matters for old-school animal breeders and royal genealogists. It’s a pre-scientific notion.
- Comment on Religious people: The world is ending 3 months ago:
Not all early Christians followed Paul. The church in Jerusalem under James was at odds with Paul on a number of subjects. There were also more radical groups outside Jerusalem that combined Christianity with Greek philosophy, having women preaching and leading congregations, and incorporating various mystical beliefs that didn’t originate in Judaism or the teachings of Jesus.
- Comment on Religious people: The world is ending 3 months ago:
The Muslims have never had a big, convoluted End Times mythos like the Christians, at least not in the Qur’an. At some point in the indefinite future, there will be Judgement Day, and everybody living or dead will get hauled in front of Allah and the recording angel will play back your scorecard. Then it’s Jinnah (heaven) or Jehenna (hell).
There are quite a number of hadiths (extra-scriptural reports of things Muhammad said or did) that talk about the end times. Hadiths are assessed by Islamic scholars based on their provenance and general credibility. Those originating from people close to the Prophet are ranked higher; those that contradict the Qur’an are downgraded. Most of the non-Qur’anic end times narratives sound very similar to Christian eschatology, except that the Mahdi, the successor prophet to Muhammad, appears. Jesus (Issa) returns, there’s the Antichrist (the Dajjal) stirring up mischief, signs and portents, the giants Gog and Magog running amok, the stars fall from the sky as meteors, etc, etc.
It’s not as entertaining as Ragnarök, but it’s more coherent than the Christian fundies’ fanfic.
- Comment on Religious people: The world is ending 3 months ago:
According to mainstream Christianity, that’s trying to force God to do something. And the Bible is clear that nobody, not even the faithful, will know when the end times will come.
Not that I care, being an atheist. But these people make shit up without even bothering to see if it’s consistent with the shit that’s already been made up.