Ah - You must be referring to the ones that funded and backed Hamas’s rise to power over the secular moderates with predictable results…
Israel.
Ah - You must be referring to the ones that funded and backed Hamas’s rise to power over the secular moderates with predictable results…
Israel.
So what if now hear me out we do none of that, and do number go up instead - you know - for the shareholders?
Who will pay their bribes to secure a healthy pipeline of human suffering because that’s good for their investors donations to encourage more great policies and responsible governance.
But prison is so much more expensive… Looks at political donations from prison companies Ah - that’ll do it.
Why bother with representation and good policy when you can have corruption, graft, and all the wonders of late stage capitalism.
What’s hard to understand is why you skipped the question I asked, and answered a different one instead.
The creation of the CSAM is unquestionably far more harmful, but I wasn’t talking about the *creation *- I was talking about the possession. The harm of the creation is already done, and whether or not the material exists after that does nothing to undo that harm.
Again, is your prescription the same as it relates to the possession, not generation of CSAM?
There we have it folks.
You couldn’t help putting a nice little bow on my point, could you?
It has been several years, and he did cry a lot when it happened
He’s not new to the circuit, and he cried when it looked like he might wind up in prison. None of this is remorse.
I’m not sure remorse is necessary if it was in self-defense.
True - though I’d say it seems common. Either way, crossing state lines to procure a firearm to take to that protest to create the pretext to shoot people was not self-defence. That’s premeditated.
I’m also not sure what other opportunities he has.
I won’t be losing any sleep over someone having some extra difficulty finding employment after getting away with what he did. There’s no shortage of people that support him - finding a job that doesn’t involve bragging about killing 2 people isn’t a big ask.
Nobody tries to find problems with the hand that feeds them.
This simply isn’t true. I’ve turned down lucrative job offers (e.g. 70%+ more than what I was on at the time plus significant chunks of equity and benefits) because I had concerns about the ethics of the prospective employers. I’ve also spoken out about issues with my employers that have cost me multiple jobs (and chasing me out rather than listening buried at least one of those businesses). I don’t hold others to standards I don’t uphold myself.
Honestly, with everything said about people like Dennis Prager and TPUSA, from his perspective he can just think “leftists hate and lie about them like they hated and lied about me”.
I’m not going to make excuses for him dismissing the endless, quantified criticism of a transparently dishonest, racist propaganda outfit and the parade of absolute scumbags he chose to work alongside.
We can reasonably count the amount of time since Biden approved the transfer of billions of dollars worth of jets and weapons to Israel in hours.
This was always going to be a genocide - it didn’t take the weight US security apparatus to know this, but the US’s active defence of Israel from supplying the weapons being used to carry out that genocide, to vetoing various UN security council resolutions relating to the genocide, to taking inadequate action too late, Biden and the US government broadly have actively aided this genocide.
Strange of you to respond to a comment about the fakes being shared in this way…
Do you have the same prescriptions in relation to someone with a stash of CSAM, and if not, why not?
In cases like this, I favour the kind of poetic justice that only irony can deliver - leaving them strapped down to be waterboarded by one of their sewage outlets seems like a good option.
The internet made photos of trump and putin kissing shirtless.
And is that OK?
I’m going to jump in on this one and say yes - it’s mostly fine.
I look at these things through the lens of the harm they do and the benefits they deliver - consequentialism and act utilitarianism.
The benefits are artistic, comedic and political.
The “harm” is that Putin and or Trump might feel bad, maaaaaaybe enough that they’d kill themselves. All that gets put back up under benefits as far as I’m concerned - they’re both extremely powerful monsters that have done and will continue to do incredible harm.
The real harm is that such works risk normalising this treatment of regular folk, which is genuinely harmful. I think that’s unlikely, but it’s impossible to rule out.
Similarly, the dissemination of the kinds of AI fakes under discussion is a negative because they do serious,measurable harm.
You’re making highly authoritarian, essentialist arguments - I can’t imagine why you’d be getting that kind of pushback.
As you double down while getting downvoted to oblivion as everyone tells you how wrong you are, I’m sure you won’t be the…
kid (that) comes up with bullshit rationalisation for why they’re right and everyone else is wrong once they get home.
Die mad, I guess. Probably avoid having kids in the meantime though - I can’t imagine they’d deserve you as a parent.
I don’t get this eating bugs paranoia - assuming it becomes a meaningful thing, they’ll be turned into something tasty. There’s also every reason to think it’ll be cheaper and more sustainable than meat.
I don’t see conspiracusts losing their minds about the mechanically reclaimed offal in their burgers.
He’s already been impeached for all the good it did.
The issue is that the GOP has power, and they’ve hitched their wagon to Trump, meaning that they’ll move heaven and earth to protect him. Rules, norms, fairness, representation and integrity don’t matter one bit - it’s all self-interest.
You know the best way to get a teenager or a toddler for that matter to do something? Start by treating them like a person.
I bet you absolutely love listening to people as they refuse to treat you like a person, let alone acknowledge your bullshit rationalisation.
Try not to lick any boots on your way out.
Exactly this - Though I want him to have the best possible VP pick so that he’ll gobble up as many GOP votes as possible before pissing them away, signing a book deal and becoming a menace on the pundit and/or speaking tour circuits.
Canva’s UI is somehow more fiddly than Word for making edits, but they’ve always seemed like a pretty decent company to me.
…of course that only holds true until it doesn’t - I’m looking at you, Google.
Ratchet up military escalation, deny it’s an escalation, establish it as the status quo, whine about being attacked because Noone but your vassal states like the escalation, threaten to escalate further, rinse, repeat.
It’s been a Russian staple for a while now - see their recent “our troops aren’t mobilising military exercises near the Ukrainian border… it doesn’t count - it’s all Russia” for that.
Who’d have thought Business Insider would be running interference for the neoliberal slide into end-stage capitalism, by blaming those worst affected by the collapse for the symptoms that are fucking them over?