If you wait until you actually need a gun, it’s too late. You can’t just walk into a gun store and leave with a gun that day. Any by the time the shooting starts, it will probably be impossible for left-leaning people to pass a background check anyway.

But thanks for calling me a hate-filled idiot. If hating fascists makes me an idiot, then I’m happy to be an idiot.

The first step of people taking up arms in an organized fashion is having arms to take up.

It kind of did. Git changed its default branch name to “main”.

I think switching away from master/slave vocabulary is probably for the best. Getting rid of “master” in other contexts seems dumb to me because master has always had many uses not connected to slavery.

One that I surprisingly find myself agreeing with is replacing blacklist and whitelist with allow list and deny list, but not because I think using colors is racially insensitive; it’s because allow and deny are more clear to people from different cultural backgrounds.

Just because someone is a bigot doesn’t mean they aren’t following a plan. Testing the waters and normalizing bigoted thinking are things bigots do on purpose.

When has fascism ever taken root and been removed without violence?

Sometimes I forget that Hungary is part of the EU. And that Hungary and Turkey are part of NATO. It’s the kind of thing I don’t like remembering.

I’ve seen that in English as well, as a more empathetic version of skeletons in the closet.

Practically speaking, they let Trump win. But that doesn’t mean they actually like Trump or approve of what he’s doing. Imagining that everyone who didn’t vote for Harris is a die-hard Trumper just leads to despair, which benefits Trump.

FAFO

It’s ok to depend on people being generally competent most of the time. It’s not ok to depend on people never making mistakes, nor is it ok to depend on people acting in ways that real human beings don’t act. I’m politics, one if there critical failures was depending on politicians to act in good faith, and another was depending on the voters to stay informed and use critical thinking enough to avoid voting for an obvious conman.

Maybe there’s just no truly good system for politics, and the best we can hope for is the least bad option. But we won’t even achieve that much if we pretend the US system was created by enlightened demigods. It’s a deeply flawed system created by men who had no experience with democracy and who clearly saw themselves as the leaders of a new kind of aristocracy.

I will give them unqualified credit for one thing, though. The Declaration of Independence and the Preamble to the Constitution are some of the most effective works of propaganda ever created. Saying that all people are fundamentally equal while simultaneously excluding most people from the levers of power was perhaps the greatest con of all time.

A system that depends on the people running it not to make mistakes is usually a bad system.

Were they? Initially only white land owners were allowed to vote. Seems like they created a system that was great for people just like them.

Me too. That’s why I voted to stop the guy talking about invading Greenland.

Isn’t there a word for a repeatable anecdote?

Who did you vote for, comrade? Sure seems like you care more about using dead people as a prop than you do about stopping others from suffering the same fate.

It would be insensitive to refer to a camp where people perform labor as a “labor camp”, right?

Enjoy being mad about it. No skin off my back.

“We” don’t agree to keep it going.

And once again you are demonstrating that you don’t understand the difference between a metaphor and a thought experiment. If you don’t think the situation is analogous to the trolley problem, just fucking say that. Trying to create options that don’t exist in the original setup isn’t clever is creative; it’s just a childish way of refusing to deal with the concept being discussed, which in this case is an ethical dilemma.

According to people like RFK, I am. And what’s with the scare quotes? It’s medicine, not “medicine”.

I hope you get deported.