Meltdown
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- Comment on [deleted] 20 hours ago:
If someone disagrees with Islam, that person is by definition not a Muslim. You’re basically trying to have your cake and eat it too, saying that people who ascribe to an ideology don’t actually believe in the ideology they adopted. Unfortunately that’s not how it works in the real world. If they don’t ascribe to the ideology, then they don’t ascribe to the ideology, and that’s fine, but that doesn’t change the nature of the ideology itself.
- Comment on [deleted] 21 hours ago:
Why would you say that?
- Comment on [deleted] 22 hours ago:
People make the voluntary choice to adopt ideologies that promote racism, sexism, etc.
If they don’t agree with the ideology’s hateful and violent tenets, they don’t have to adopt the ideology, but it’s disingenuous to suggest that people who do voluntarily choose adopt those ideologies don’t actually believe in them. Nobody chooses an ideology they disagree with.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
You’re not wrong that this post is fake, but it’s I portant to remember that there’s nothing phobic about criticizing someone’s voluntarily-chosen ideology, especially when that ideology promotes violence, hatred, misogyny, homophobia, racism, sexism, etc. That’s not phobia, it’s just criticism.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
If you have the same sex as your partner, then it’s a same sex relationship. If you have the same gender as your partner, it’s a same gender relationship. Possibly it’s both or neither.
- Comment on what’s the difference between “he died” and “he’s dead”? 1 week ago:
“He died” expresses an action, while “he’s dead” expresses a state
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Two consenting adults on a date? Definitely creepy!
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 2 weeks ago:
Lmao, dude honestly just suggested Wikipedia as a reliable source of information. Fucking hell
- Comment on Hopping out of the shower, realizing I forgot to bring a towel 5 weeks ago:
Towelie always says: “Don’t forget to bring a towel!”
- Comment on Movie theaters are trying everything to bring audiences back — from pickleball to cocktail bars 2 months ago:
I might be more inclined to go to the cinema if the employees would ever actually do something about noisy children on their phones during the show. But instead, we pay an arm and a leg for tickets and popcorn, then we have to sit through 20 minutes of commercials, and then instead of a real movie, it’s just boring ass CGI action sequences.
- Comment on What mythologies have poor representation in media, in your opinion? 2 months ago:
There are lots of adaptations of Greek myth, but none of them are especially faithful to the source material
- Comment on Can Christians, Muslims or Jews worship or pray to pagan gods? 2 months ago:
Only if they don’t want to be condemned to hellfire for the blasphemy of monotheism
- Comment on Did anyone else learn that "a group of cats is called a Whisper?" 2 months ago:
A gay agenda of peacocks
- Comment on Did anyone else learn that "a group of cats is called a Whisper?" 2 months ago:
There’s a difference between using collective nouns that already exist in a language and making up brand new ones whole cloth.
Merriam-Webster writes that most terms of venery fell out of use in the 16th century, including a “murder” for crows. It goes on to say that some of the terms in The Book of Saint Albans were “rather fanciful”, explaining that the book extended collective nouns to people of specific professions, such as a “poverty” of pipers. It concludes that for lexicographers, many of these do not satisfy criteria for entry by being “used consistently in running prose” without meriting explanation. Some terms that were listed as commonly used were “herd”, “flock”, “school”, and “swarm”.
- Comment on Did anyone else learn that "a group of cats is called a Whisper?" 2 months ago:
None of those are goofy terms though…
- Comment on Anon reads a depressing book 2 months ago:
I too have read David Foster Wallace/Ernest Hemingway/Virginia Woolf