Agreed. Ive followed him off and on since the beginning. Love Clint ❤️

Unfortunately, the problem isn’t scientists believing in climate change. Its high school dropouts who think anything that doesn’t fit in a preschool popup book is fake.

Get to it then. 🤷‍♂️

I got a nice LG C3 on an open box deal, I connected it to run updates and fiddle for a few, then deleted the apps and took it offline.

“BuT eVeRyOnE iS oN tWitTeR”

And will continue to be so long as everyone keeps showing Elon there is NOTHING he can do, say, or allow that will get people to leave.

Meanwhile, everybody will continue to refuse to leave the platform, further showing Elon that there is no price too high for people.

They’d take up that fresh prime Redbox real estate.

I’m generally pro-suicide but its depressing how likely your thing sounds.

I’m happy to block people. I don’t owe anybody my time or energy, if they’re tedious and annoying in situation a, they probably will be in B as well.

Its the internet, I just dont care. I’m going to make my experience tolerable and if I can’t I’ll leave. 🤷‍♂️

Granted, I am in a bible belt rural city, but I’ve realized if you stick out the conversation with some of these Trumpy Christians long enough you’ll get to the heart - They really do just… want to be told what to think. You have to play nice to get them there, but they eventually drill down to some variation of “Gods word is law and my pastors word is gods word and anything else is satanic bullshit we’re not meant to know if we were it’d be in the bible or my pastor would tell me, as God intended.” Scientific advancement is either fake or heathens dragging us further and further from god because Satan guides them to knowledge about the world.

I can’t speak for everyone of course but its nuts to see how many people really are still ALL IN on “the apple is knowledge, Eve ate the apple, and that ripped us away from god for eternity - we were meant to be nothing but sheep”

Hell yeah dawg let’s spend millions to benefit the human population!

“NO! THATS SOCIALISMS! What I MEANT was hand it all to billionaires for absolutely no reason!”

Thats the plan - and nothing will be done because there is no law, no faith, only money.

Democrats are no better. They’ll argue for women’s or trans rights (when convenient) but even most of their "progressive voters still worship at the altar of Money and think to limit greed in any meaningful way is inherently sinful.

Oh fuck off already, nobody cares.

Do we have an iamverysmart community? We could use one.

Of course Lemmy and dropout have a meaty Venn diagram, but this really makes me glad I haven’t watched all the Smarty-pants 🤣

Handsome boy ❤️

This is the way I’ve come to look at it: non-violence is ideal, but non-violence is one of many “languages.” (Obviously here we’re just talking about violence, but yknow some is political, some is social, etc.) Some people can speak many of these, some people only speak one or refuse to use others (like how you say you will only use nonviolence.)

The issue is that some people only speak one language, and aren’t going to “understand” (be persuaded or moved by) others no matter what. A bigot only understands hate and emotion so they aren’t going to be swayed from that position by logic or facts because they don’t “speak” that language.

What I’m getting at, is that for people who only speak violence - non-violence doesn’t mean anything to them except an easy target. They aren’t going to consider your viewpoint because you won’t fight back, they won’t back down because “clearly you aren’t a threat.” They’re going to violence until they reach their ends. With somebody like that, you have to “speak their language.”

Of course on an individual level you (maybe) can get the police to handle it, but on a social level like dealing with nazis you have to keep them scared of return violence. They are violent by nature (the entire ideology is elimination of undesirables) and should be treated as such. Let them know that we punch nazis. Let them know they aren’t the only ones with guns and unlike most of them we go to the range. Let them know if they wear iron crosses and shit they’re getting kicked the fuck out. Fuck them, and let them know we’d be happy to fuck em up if they want to give us the opportunity.

I’m generally anti-violence myself, but I’m also a large guy so I’m lucky enough to be able to avoid it. I can’t bring myself to be a pacifist though. Knocking some kid around is easy come take a swing at me and see how it goes. Shrug

You’re quick to imply that this study is bullshit, yet offer no counter argument except “believing statistics is for losers lul”

So where are your sources to refute the article?

I’m in DC and NYC a lot, and the places I stay are almost always pretty quiet areas (cause I’m not staying in the hotbed touristy/party-y areas)

Even in cities, most people have average boring 9 to 5 jobs and need to sleep at night. When you get away from those particular areas (of course Times Square isnt indicative of the “norm,” right?) its all pretty mundane actually.

Stonks

Shouldn’t have had a Hamas commander in his back pocket 🤷‍♂️

/s

Although I do think its an exaggeration

“Almost every day?” Maybe, depending, but not always. Which is why I fell back on multiple times a week which is depressingly not an exaggeration.