Pussies produce life, he just produces shit.

I fear that cops ARE tools of oppression.

Anything but old.reddit is beyond shit.

The only way I can explain such stupidity is by assuming malice, e.g.: “We must put endless fear into the poor people. Our decisions are moral, theirs are not.”

The eggs I buy in the UK have both a display date (for the shop) and a best before date (for the consumer). They’re a week different. The best before date is probably around 28 days after the egg was laid.

I wish I lived in a world where one accuser was enough to warrant a serious investigation and then serious steps put in place to limit future harms, if any harms were found.

Everyone knows he’s guilty. His supporters just don’t care that he did it.

His supporters are Conservatives. They believe that the law doesn’t apply to some people because inequality is ‘good’ and ‘natural’. And they also believe that inequality will be in their favour, even if they live precariously on or near the very bottom rung of society.

Conservatives are most often the people who would (and, increasingly, in a country which got rid of royalty, do) support something like the Divine Right of Kings to do what they want. “Because somebody has to be in charge,” they will say, while imagining the ‘wrong’ kind of people being rounded up.

Insert Wilhoit’s Law here.

Yes. America needs an internal system on the federal to support Americans feeling oppression from within the state they live in. And that’s crushingly sad. But, of course, authoritarians always need an outgroup to blame.

I love how it’s a bit of a stretch to back legalising a substance which has become legal in a fair number of states without any issue (that I’m aware of).

How many elections before a candidate is praised for saying something like, “I, unlike the others, am prepared to accept that the populace generally believes that vegetables are part of a healthy diet?”, because we live in a world where the vast majority of candidates are just saying any old stupid shit that is viral on social media.

It’s an absolutely shitty, irrelevant single issue IN THIS ELECTION because there’s no meaningful difference

Human lives are not an irrelevant issue. You pretending to rationalise otherwise makes it clear that you would happily be rationalising voting for Trump, as long as it brought benefits to you. “Yeah, well, he might oppress queer people and immigrants and women, BUT he would lower business tax and I’d make a profit.” (Unless, of course, you’re not rationalising, and you just don’t care about when people who aren’t you die).

I don’t solely care about what’s best for me. I care about other beings. That you don’t agree is of no interest to me, except to make a mental note to not take on board your sense of morality.

If, as you say, these two candidates are so similar when it comes to protecting innocent lives, I won’t vote for either of them.

But you damn well already fucking knew that, so quit your bullshit strawmanning.

You’re so angry that I’m not voting for Harris. I can imagine you easily pivoting to be angry I’m not voting for Trump. You present absolutely nothing of interest to me, as you are motivated solely by what you prefer. The chance of you making the world better, at this moment, seems to be zero.

What’s important is that “enough” people do to prevent humanity from selecting one of our myriad possible self extinctions.

The issue is that it is easier to harm than it is to heal, so the ratio has to be quite large in the favour of those who do not wish to do damage. See how easy it is for a motivated few to destroy public discourse by making up harmful bullshit, and then having it amplified because it’s ‘interesting’. The common preference for convenience is easily bent towards harm, because harming others to feel better about yourself not being harmed in comparison to those others is very easy.

Immigration is very important to the economy. Maybe they would bring back wooden ships to move immigrants around, and they could be packed below deck and treated terribly.

“Sounds cheap!”: a happy Capitalist.

I’m not sure that depressing your central nervous system will do much to reduce the possibility that your queer, immigrant, or female friends or family will be oppressed.

Plenty of people will get angry about made up stories of children being abused.
Those same people do not seem to do much about feeding hungry children in their area, or supporting them when they are abused by parents or guardians.

This single example makes me question to what extent humans can be said to generally act based on a defence of their own moral integrity.

If corruption became impossible due to some update of human moral firmware, the human world would break down to what I suspect would be a surprisingly large extent. Corruption isn’t always a side-issue, it’s integral to how some human governance systems work.

I’m Ukrainian. Military power is also why my family are dying.

If killing people is wrong, the only possible response is to stop killing people.

If he won the 2020 election then he wouldn’t be able to run again…

There are no rules. There is only what lies the masses (perhaps even enough to win election, with a little bit of Electoral College bs) will accept, and there seems to be no clear limit to that.

The dumb part here is that the American people and the American political environment and media has normalized all this.

“The truth is not as important as immigrants, queers, and lesbian feminists with pink hair being put in their place. Authorities get to decide the truth, after all, that’s what they’re for.”

A world based on ‘strong people’ doing what they want is already a world where the truth doesn’t matter. There is no more illogical outcome that can come from this, because trusting in an authoritarian leader is already completely illogical.

Me: “Not killing innocent people is a pretty good single issue, though.”

You: “No, it’s an absolutely shitty, irrelevant single issue…”

Okay. I will stop expecting humans to treat other humans with decency. After all, we can’t expect innocent people not to be oppressed and exploited. Frankly, I only get cheap technology because of slave labour, so therefore I have to not care about humans. At least I’m doing well, living in a country with a generally higher standard of living.

Thanks for setting my mind at ease. I will swap my moral expectations for being complacent. That will make the world better, because - as we know - the human drive for profit is not in any way creating outcomes that are bad for the world.

If it turns out I’m lying to myself I can just end my life. For, after all, life is not an important issue. Easy come, easy go.

I’m glad I haven’t had children, then.