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Magic Powers
Austria4478 Posts
It's like being surrounded 24/7 by cookies and sweets and all. Forget dieting in such an environment, you'll be lucky if you become only slightly overweight. Your discipline will eventually break. "Think for yourself" or "do your research" turns into an impossible standard just as "stay healthy" or "maintain your diet" would. Misinformation-induced hypnosis in some individuals is guaranteed. | ||
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Mutaller
United States1051 Posts
With Citizens United, money is speech, and I believe the billionaire problem came out of that. | ||
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KoveN-
Australia504 Posts
On December 29 2024 20:59 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: The irony of an ultra-conservative accusing others of having dying ideologies... lol. While it's somewhat terrifying that someone on the "far right" feels emboldened enough to make a public post, historically your side has a pretty bad track record. You're the cause of the occasional "few steps back" as the rest of us make progress, so enjoy the next four years of your swastikas and white hoods and red hats while you can, because thankfully in the zoomed-out grand scheme of things, you're a dying breed. You've been saying this for how many decades now? What's wrong with making a public post? Are you violent or something? | ||
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Fleetfeet
Canada2645 Posts
On December 31 2024 11:51 KoveN- wrote: You've been saying this for how many decades now? What's wrong with making a public post? Are you violent or something? "What's wrong" is equivalent to a communist (from your perspective, I'm assuming) feeling emboldened enough to publicly announce they're a communist, or a neonazi (from a leftist perspective) publicly announce they're a neonazi etc. But sure yeah something about someone threatening you with violence, yup. Go off, queen. | ||
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KoveN-
Australia504 Posts
On December 31 2024 12:49 Fleetfeet wrote: "What's wrong" is equivalent to a communist (from your perspective, I'm assuming) feeling emboldened enough to publicly announce they're a communist, or a neonazi (from a leftist perspective) publicly announce they're a neonazi etc. But sure yeah something about someone threatening you with violence, yup. Go off, queen. Oh no! Not a c-c-communist! How terrifying! Do you people never get tired of projecting? | ||
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Fleetfeet
Canada2645 Posts
On December 31 2024 16:15 KoveN- wrote: Oh no! Not a c-c-communist! How terrifying! Do you people never get tired of projecting? :Shrug: dunno what far right Australians are afraid of offhand. If you offer anything of actual substance instead of hiding behind imprecision I'm sure people will be happy to call you a moron in more direct ways. | ||
KwarK
United States43610 Posts
On December 31 2024 17:11 Fleetfeet wrote: :Shrug: dunno what far right Australians are afraid of offhand. If you offer anything of actual substance instead of hiding behind imprecision I'm sure people will be happy to call you a moron in more direct ways. Aboriginal flags terrify them. | ||
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Velr
Switzerland10853 Posts
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45306 Posts
On December 31 2024 11:51 KoveN- wrote: You've been saying this for how many decades now? What's wrong with making a public post? Are you violent or something? Not being baited by the projection, sorry. Have a wonderful, hopefully non-violent, day  | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17273 Posts
"two men competing for global domination who can barely manage their own lives", Jerry Seinfeld, January 19, 1995. Regarding Elon, https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/elon-musk-calls-justin-trudeau-insufferable-tool-in-new-social-media-post-1.7142131 If Elon knew Trudeau well he'd attack his intellectual capacity directly. This is a weak smear by Musk. I wish he had dug deeper. | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45306 Posts
On December 31 2024 20:34 JimmyJRaynor wrote: Regarding Elon, https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/elon-musk-calls-justin-trudeau-insufferable-tool-in-new-social-media-post-1.7142131 If Elon knew Trudeau well he'd attack his intellectual capacity directly. This is a weak smear by Musk. I wish he had dug deeper. Why would anyone care if an easily-triggered baby like Elon Musk called them dumb? | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17273 Posts
On December 31 2024 20:45 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: Why would anyone care if an easily-triggered baby like Eloen Musk called them dumb? As Piaget said: "labelling is disabling". You're obfuscating your ability to objectively analyze this by labelling Musk. Thomas Mulcair analyzed it nicely in the embedded video in the article. Mulcair explains why Trudeau's comments were dumb. Trudeau is not dumb compared to an average person, however, compared to previous PMs Trudeau is the dumbest. He might be on Kim Campbell's level. Musk and Trump firing away at Trudeau weaken an already weak leader. CBC very heavily favours Liberals. The CBC had to make an entire article plus an embedded video out of an off handed tweet by Musk. That is some good trolling. Like I said though, he could've done better. | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45306 Posts
On December 31 2024 23:25 JimmyJRaynor wrote: As Piaget said: "labelling is disabling". You're obfuscating your ability to objectively analyze this by labelling Musk. Thomas Mulcair analyzed it nicely in the embedded video in the article. Mulcair explains why Trudeau's comments were dumb. Trudeau is not dumb compared to an average person, however, compared to previous PMs Trudeau is the dumbest. He might be on Kim Campbell's level. Musk and Trump firing away at Trudeau weaken an already weak leader. CBC very heavily favours Liberals. The CBC had to make an entire article plus an embedded video out of an off handed tweet by Musk. That is some good trolling. Like I said though, he could've done better. Your whole perspective was that Musk should label Trudeau as dumb, because that is supposed to offend Trudeau, so you're being hypocritical here. And if Musk or Trump is triggered by you, you know you're doing something right. And now you're walking it back by saying Trudeau isn't actually dumb anyway, so I don't know why you bothered with your original statement. Why not just wish that Musk would act like an adult, instead of wanting him to try to troll people? | ||
hexhaven
Finland961 Posts
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Nebuchad
Switzerland12392 Posts
On January 01 2025 00:40 hexhaven wrote: Newsrooms have entire departments dedicated to "Famous Person posted X on their social media page", it's just chaff. Spare a thought for the poor guys in those departments by the way, mayhaps when they were growing up they had dreams of becoming journalists or something | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26282 Posts
On December 31 2024 20:34 JimmyJRaynor wrote: Watching the "ideological debates" in this thread is sorta like watching Newman and Kramer play that big game of Risk on Seinfeld. "two men competing for global domination who can barely manage their own lives", Jerry Seinfeld, January 19, 1995. Regarding Elon, https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/elon-musk-calls-justin-trudeau-insufferable-tool-in-new-social-media-post-1.7142131 If Elon knew Trudeau well he'd attack his intellectual capacity directly. This is a weak smear by Musk. I wish he had dug deeper. Pot. Kettle. Black. Musk talks more errant bollocks, at a higher volume than almost any other notable public figure on social media. He’s one of the most insufferable cunts on the entire planet, although with the silver lining that he’s exposing his own intellectual gaps for all to see. Although this thread has definitely drifted hugely away from its ostensible purpose, so yeah 100% agreed there | ||
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Magic Powers
Austria4478 Posts
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45306 Posts
On January 01 2025 01:17 Magic Powers wrote: I find it hilarious that, in response to Elon Musk being called a dumb, easily-triggered baby, the defense is "labeling is disabling", a phrase which refers to the harmful practice of labeling children as "problem child" or "troublemaker". Virtually admitting that Elon Musk is being an infantile adult. Agreed. If JJR had made the claim that being on Elon Musk's bad side can be problematic, because of how much money and influence Elon Musk has, then I'd agree. Musk is pretty powerful, especially with his control of Twitter and his friendship with Trump. But instead of saying something like "Musk disliking Trudeau could be an issue for Trudeau", JJR wants Musk to throw juvenile insults at world leaders. Musk will surely do that anyway, because he often acts childish, but that should be viewed as embarrassing behavior by Musk. | ||
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oBlade
United States5903 Posts
On January 01 2025 02:05 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: Agreed. If JJR had made the claim that being on Elon Musk's bad side can be problematic, because of how much money and influence Elon Musk has, then I'd agree. Musk is pretty powerful, especially with his control of Twitter and his friendship with Trump. But instead of saying something like "Musk disliking Trudeau could be an issue for Trudeau", JJR wants Musk to throw juvenile insults at world leaders. Musk will surely do that anyway, because he often acts childish, but that should be viewed as embarrassing behavior by Musk. This applies to anyone who talks about world leaders that way, right? Some of us have a New Year's resolution to get started on. | ||
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hexhaven
Finland961 Posts
On January 01 2025 00:48 Nebuchad wrote: Spare a thought for the poor guys in those departments by the way, mayhaps when they were growing up they had dreams of becoming journalists or something Oh I know, I have a bunch of journalist friends, and it's depressing to hear them talk about their industry and their jobs. | ||
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