Neither was King Kong in 1980.

What about being named after a building?

At no point did I mention volume, I implied education. I actually find just yelling louder to be worse than censorship, as all it does is increase the level of tension and push people towards extremes. Which helps no one.

I also didn’t mean to imply that we shouldn’t use band-aids at all, just that it’s a simple treatment, not a cure. Blocking certain speech and rhetoric can help to a degree… but not if it’s the only thing you do.

The problem with current strategies is that no one wants to go beyond that first step. Whether it’s censorship, or shouting.

Censorship is, at best, a band-aid. And they can always find ways around it. The best solution isn’t to block them from view temporarily, but to teach people to evaluate what they say with empathy and critical thinking.

That is, of course, difficult to accomplish. But then again, there’s no easy solutions, only easy excuses.

Its the definition according to the people who dont actually want socialism…

Everyone disagrees with what socialism means when you listen to the people who say “Socialism is the Soviets! Socialism is death panels! Socialism is when government bad!”

But if youre listening to those people you dont actually care what Socialism is, you just want an excuse to keep a broken system so you dont have to work at changing it.

Socialism is unions… but from the top down instead of just at the bottom trying to mitigate the problems brought about by capitalism. Socialism is people working together for the greater good instead of the greater profit. Socialism is people matter instead of money.

I suppose if that’s the opposite of what you want, youre right to oppose it.

We got weekends because of collective action, Unions are an example of collective action (when formed and utilized correctly).

As opposed to…

I mean, they acknowledge that it’s wrong, and they acknowledge that Bruce Wayne is not stable enough to have power by having him give the power to Lucius.

Not all scenes are so one-note that it only ever has one meaning or message.

Trump, of course, being so much better.

Pragmatism beats principles every day of the week. The problem is it makes weak-willed people scared.

I’d hardly take criticism from so called leftists regarding smugness.

Blaming “liberals” for not voting on “principle” (re: ego) while they sit on their asses telling everyone else to form an armed rebellion instead certainly aren’t smug bastards themselves.

Responsibility for someone else’s vote?

All the people making excuses for why their vote clearly didn’t matter so they were better off not voting obviously aren’t making excuses themselves. That would be silly!

The amount of people who sat home on voting day outweighs both republican and democrat voters. Apathy won the last presidential election, just like every election in recent memory.

Well since more than a third of them can’t be arsed to get out and vote even once every four years, much less for state and local elections or primaries… I’d say a whole hell of a lot to get to an armed insurrection. Which has much less a chance than a non-violent revolution, no matter how many people on lemmy harp on about armed conflict being the only possible solution.

No Man’s Sky has added thousands of generic resource gathering tasks by now!

I have tried playing it maybe half a dozen times and come to the same conclusion each time: “This is it?”

It’s a great game for wasting your time in the most banal tasks possible, but not much more.

Yes, that too

I do think there’s an over-generalization, a merging of the idea of America as a society and the actions of a few supported by a minority… but the effect is the same. The US has casually invaded and overtaken a sovereign country. Whether it’s the will of the people or not… they’re not doing enough to stop it either way.

Yeah, that’s probably the worst thing that’s going to result from fumbling.

I think it’s giving entirely too much credit to a commenter trying to justify being called out for staring.

Yeah, some people will overreact. That doesn’t mean you have to take it personally. I think the original commenter has skin that’s too thin and got hurt because someone told them they were doing something that made that person uncomfortable.

Just like people should understand that they’re going to be viewed by others in public, people should also understand that not everyone is going to react in the specific manner you want them to in all circumstances. If they got told off, as it were, get over it and move on. Don’t take it as a deep-seated societal problem they must rail against.

It’s not hypocrisy to act with emotion, it is however hypocrisy to criticize someone for acting emotionally when you defend your actions as emotional in nature.

I’m almost entirely certain this comic predates that meme.

“They were dressed all sexy like” isn’t an adequate justification for acting like a lecher. And we shouldn’t normalize it being so.