I don’t want violence but to act like it doesn’t have a place in our world?

It’s entirely insincere to pretend more arms to Ukraine will result in less bloodshed. At best, you can argue “at least the right people will die” assuming you squint and tacitly ignore all the conscripts and mercenaries and civilians involved in this conflict.

But it’s insane to pretend we’re heading towards an end to violence doing exactly what NATO has been doing for the last three years.

Ukraine aren’t the ones that started the war

That hasn’t spared them from dying in it.

“We need money to buy the weapons”

“Whatcha gonna do with the weapons?”

“Make a lot more blood splatters”

you don’t even own data that’s on this small all-in-one device

If I don’t own it, why does everyone keep insisting I stole it?

Shit like this makes me miss the USSR.

merely identifying a fallacy is an instance of argument from fallacy

When the comment begins and ends with “That’s an <X> fallacy” and ending any further introspection?

“My mom said the sky is blue”

“That’s an Argument from Authority! Fallacy!”

When “fallacy!” becomes a thought-terminating response, it’s just debatebro shit.

Why are people not trusting experts?

People are trusting “experts”. That’s how they’re getting the information necessary to distrust other experts.

Dr Oz has “Doctor” right in his name! If he goes on Oprah - the show that brings on a parade of ahem “experts” to explain the world to a population of shut-in housewives - and warns that vaccinations are why your kids aren’t Ivy League Material, people listen.

It’s because they believe their ignorant opinion is just as valid as a researched conclusion.

Their opinions don’t just emerge Ex Nihilo. And they aren’t breaking arbitrarily for or against certain topics. They’re polarized around a set of reactionary beliefs because they’re trained into it by reactionary media, reactionary politicians, and reactionary local institutions.

This is a moronic take.

It’s just a capital gains tax

Maybe they’re confusing the literal name with the language? Idk.

I grew up on Perl and holy fuck… Rust is fine.

Anti-intellectualism isn’t real. Same for misinformation.

There’s a kernel of truth to this. People aren’t “anti-intellectual” in the broad sense, they’re biased to a certain worldview or partisan to an ideological lens. You can get liberals and conservatives to agree on quite a bit if you just channel the message through a trustworthy proxy. You can get them to split by making them watch Crossfire for an hour a day.

Vaccination is a great example of this in action. Big church groups that value being able to meet in public do a 180 on the jab when they see the impact a disease has on its congregation. Meanwhile, woo-woo liberals living in heavily insulated suburban communities can get very cavalier about vaccination when they hear an Oprah spokesperson claim it impacts their childrens’ academic performance.

I remember when COVID first hit and we got an earful about needing to conserve medical masks. “Don’t bother wearing them, just socially distance, they don’t really help” was a thing we initially got from liberals. Conservatives were masked up and liberals weren’t. And then the zietgeist flipped and it was liberals clutching them while conservatives were tearing at the gazy discount paper covers screaming “I can’t breath! I can’t breath!”

What we like to call “anti-intellectualism” is, at its heart, a trust issue. Which professionals do you consider credible? Which personal experiences inform your worldview? What do you value - personal safety? financial success? self-expression? religious dogma?

If you’re living in a country that functionally eliminated measles 30 years ago, you can get pretty fair on herd immunity and never have to see your beliefs challenged. Then, when your bubble is breached by the outside world, all those warnings about Diseased Immigrants ruining your pocket paradise are reinforced by the same crop of reactionary news shows and fascist politicians who raised you.

Dude’s practically a cyclops.

Fuck me. Can’t argue with that logic.

If you really want to tie your brain into a knot, consider that every Argument From Fallacy is a Fallacy.

Curly haired men in absolute shambles right now.

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in many American cities

Thank goodness nobody acts like this in the Big City.

Made up animal. No way anything that adorable lives in the sea.

Sharks are prey animals for giant squid.

Giant squid are prey animals for Cthulhu.

there is actual evidence…

Satellite imagery and open-source geographic data

Buddy…

Amnesty International verified the human right abuses independently.

Thanks for that

The important thing isn’t that your kids don’t see porn, it’s that they feel the requisite amount of shame and never talk to you about their sexuality.

Also, it’s one more thing we can criminalize in a surveillance state. So now we can more easily extort horny people with fines and prison if we feel the need