Yep, the worst kind of story. "Be careful what you wish for, because you might get fine print."

Main characters: make wish Monkey's Paw: gives wish and something else Main characters: Oh, the problem was me wanting the reasonable thing, not that I trusted a really shady entity in asking for it! Me: May I leave this planet now?

So many people going "opposite sex does X in relationships" and me just being like "you could stop dating people who do X" and they always look at me like I've sprouted horns. Like seriously, people who do X in relationships don't need to be enabled to continue uncriticized

This was two posts down from a very funny video showing that you can get any result from a poll. Before I even read the numbers I was like "People, government, and violence-enacting groups are not the same" ie I can relate to (sympathize with) being a citizen of an occupying regime, even to being part of the occupying force, without agreeing with the overall agenda of the regime in charge. Maybe I'm empathizing instead of sympathizing, but I see most people who take polls on a CBS site (another obvious flaw here) will also sympathize (or empathize) that direction.

Then I read the numbers. They are abysmal. Still, I'd like to see a poll that is more fairly worded. A poll that constructs the opposite perspective in its audience would be amusing too.

Uncritical, naive, gullible... no, I think credulous works fine there.

I know Lemmy is tech heavy, and that still passed completely unnoticed.

ROFL! I'll see myself out.

I personally cannot distinguish satire from reality. And no, it's not because I'm credulous, but because every day incredible things happen. I don't need fake headlines that are just as crazy as the real headlines.

Similar. Riding on rollercoasters, watching wholesome cartoons, and reading good fiction don't feel childish to me, they just feel like well-deserved fun. Why associate that with childhood, when childhood lacked freedom?

But even the prequels are speaking directly to Lucas's feelings about Bush-era politics and the erosion of democracy, where the originals straight up talked about Nam and WWII. Idk, I guess I could understand the Andor hate if I hadn't had a lot of years of people trying to make Star Wars be about the space swords. No cohesive plot, no commentary, no thought provocation, just one cool moment with a space sword leading to the next cool moment with a laser gun. Andor was like "hold my beer." So refreshing.

Oh, yeah, we technically understand that most Christians say the deal is "Keep doing terrible things, just say you're sorry." Jeffrey Dahmer: heaven. His victims: at least some in hell. Not a bad deal for terrible people. Or maybe just, you can masturbate whenever you want as long as you feel really guilty about it afterwards. That definitely sounds as enjoyable as our experience.

Everyone has innate value by merely existing, so technically Mouse declared a deep personal wellspring of value. Could've been worse.

Considering the policies of No Labels are just libertarian finance with even more billionaire backing, we really have to consider the likelihood that the idiots who might fall for it really are gonna be the "centrists" Dems have been courting for decades.

It seems that you and your responders have all forgotten what the electoral college is.

I remember when I bought into "voting third party throws away your vote." Hey kids, take it from someone who grew up in a blue state. I get that thinking strategically fucking sucks, and you want to go with the herd, but it is not worth keeping the establishment party established just so you can be part of the 80% of people who say, "The actually good candidate wasn't electable." With any luck, solid states that show growing support for third parties will start applying the pressure that any incumbent party needs. Because the Supreme Court sucks not just because of Trump, but also because of Obama's milquetoast policies before that, and another Justice's refusal to retire when she knew the level of risk.

(Using your format limited my response, but the most important thing I've been learning lately is that voting is the token the government gives us so that our politics start and stop with the ballot. You can say "Why not vote and be politically active?" and I'd agree. But I'm concerned about how most people just forget to do anything after they vote.)

London cops are sometimes held accountable for attempted murder?

I don't mind stealing bread from the mouths of decadence

Problem: "Breakfast foods are expensive."

A: Eat different foods when you wake up.

B: Subsidies to keep people buying the foods and keep the companies afloat.

C: Tips on local, sustainable food production.

D: Any combination of the above.

Solution: "TELL THE POOR TO EAT LESS."

I always had vibes of why Click is so bad, that it cheats at evoking emotion, that the main character is an ass and still doesn't earn his torture--and that torture goes on and on and on and ...!--and that he doesn't even learn any valuable lessons in the end!

Then Big Joel did me the favor of analyzing why Click is so terrible. So yeah, even without seeing CK, the choice is laughably easy.

Didn't a pilot jettison himself recently and the search for the plane by the USG was ongoing?

Satanism is divided into Church of Satan and The Satanic Temple. COS comes from LaVey and is Randian libertarianism with an edgy aesthetic.

TST is the Satanism that you seem to be thinking about, using freedom of religion arguments to protect public spaces, bodily autonomy, GSRM rights, etc. We're cuddly.

There's a video by Shaun that taught me pretty much all of this for the first time. It's kinda sad that my history education was like "Bombs dropped, war over"