Tagging is essentially the same as removing and not a compromise in my book.
Come check out Mastodon sometime, where we also tag movie spoilers, politics, mentions of any medical condition, and eye contact.
There’s nothing wrong with eye contact. It makes some people really uncomfortable. So we tag it so that they can filter it.
I wish I could upvote this twice! I’m actually on my way around to my second re-read of “Small Gods” during another full Discworld read-through.
Yea. Any religion that believes in a just interving diety runs into this.
If i really believe my god is perfect and all powerful, then why should I have compassion for all the unlucky people that god clearly despises?
It’s hard, because the idea of a perfect loving god is incredibly attractive.
It’s the evidence that sucks: if god is real and all powerful, then god is, at best ineffable, and at worst a terrible raging asshole who lovingly created a parasite that eats childrens eyes.
Now, if we’re willing to believe in a sort of weak impotent god, the theology gets more interesting.
why would I want this type of thing done at the community level?
I have an RSS feed for my unfiltered comics.
I read here for the community.
I’m happy to just skip the work of bigots, and have mostly blocked the users who routinely post that stuff.
That saif, if we’re going to remove credit with intent, i have a request:
let’s be clear and cedit “some random bigot”, so I’ll know i might not want to seek out the artist.
Even while aware of how little classic scifi or fsntasy covers usually have in common with the book contents… This is still surprisingly weird.
This is a dumb strawman.
There’s basically two consumers, plus a bunch of lies told by the Epstein class.
Consumer 1: Wants a good product produced in a way they feel good about at a fair price. This typically includes preferring both locally made and fair wage pricing, as well as not-killing-the-planet.(Non-sociopaths who are currently not afraid about their finances tomorrow, tend to fall in this category.)
Consumer 2: Just needs the lowest price possible to survive another day. (People may drift btween these two modes, based on life events.)
Cosumer 3: Epstein class rapist. Wants you to believe their crimes are somehow your neighbor’s fault.
Edit: This maybe flew over my head. Is Orange man Epstein class?
I think it’s going to work. You’re probably not alone in liking this comic.
I think we’re mostly on the same page, you just can still trust a Democrat, I guess?
Let’s extend your analogy, though: the Democrats are shooting too, just not directly at me, at this moment. There’s plenty dead at their hands.
I still might rally behind a Democrat to stop an authoritarian, one more fucking time.
And I might not.
We did this dance.
Democrats do not stop the shooting.
I am strongly inclined to trust a total stranger over an established Democrat.
I am not alone in that.
Even if a Democrat cared to save any of us, I do not believe that the Democratic party has the remaining influence to make any difference.
The Maga crowd got something right: the average Democrat politician is spineless, broken and unwilling or unable to disobey orders from a secret cabal of pedophiles.
If we could wake the Maga types up, they might realize the dumb fucks they’re worshipping are part of the same pedophile ring.
Through that lens, being the person that knowingly votes for some niche candidate that they know isn’t going to win any election against those two, knowing full well that by doing that you’re making it that much easier for the Christofascists to scrape out a win and continue pushing this morality horseshit on the people…no, you don’t get a pass. Not anymore.
So when do we hold the democrats accountable for being openly detestable, if not when the they’ve handed the whole country over?
Our only chance at this not getting worse is a likeable candidate. We know democrats are committed to never running one.
What’s the answer here?
Yes, the Democratic party running a true populist is the answer sure. We all know that’s not going to happen.
The US Democratic plans to continue to eek out loses from the jaws of inevitable victory, and enjoy ongoing campaign funding and unaccountability, as their reward.
This, what we have today, is literally their whole platform. They helped plan this.
When do we hold them accountable for that? Is is still too soon?
It is for any democrat who makes it into significant power, yes. Gotta work within that system for slow gradual improvements that can be easily undone.
Perhaps it’s just me, but to me this article feels like belittling the problem by not differentiating between “hated” products and “harmful” products.
Exactly!
Hated product? Oh well. My paycheck still cashes.
Harmful product? Oh shit. Sorry boss. I’m still working on that. It’s been confusing, but we almost got it. Annnyyyy day now, boss. Pretty sure we will get it on track next sprint. Or the one after. (Source: I once got well paid to “accidentally” kill at least one truly shit-head idea. It probably cost me a pay raise, but I left soon after for more money, and I’m still proud of that every time I reflect back on it.)
Devotion to agnosticism is beautiful.
To me, it means I will passionately defend another person’s right to remain “undecided” on all things spiritual.
It can be surprisingly effective in some circles.
Yes. By the porn stats, Linux already crushes ChromeOs. Let’s not take any advice from it.
That could get old. But…
I play Pathfinder, by the way.
Yes. And the awkward social situation is when they ask what I’m wearing, but I didn’t pay any attention to the brand of the urinal mat.
I don’t want that to happen again, so now I’m careful to take note of the urinal mat branding.