He was 19. Cut this victim blaming bullshit.

No, fuck not holding dumbfucks responsible for being dumb as fuck.

Blast them with piss, fling feces in their faces, go full primate. 🐒

So, they disagree with the idea that

• morally, individuals are categorically equal & have equal fundamental liberties
• the coercive power of government is dangerous, so it needs to be denied authority to abuse those liberties
• government exists for the people, who have a right to change & replace it?

These ideas are compatible with leftism. Rejecting them seems dangerous & incompatible with leftism.

The art of not giving a fuck, which humanity has known for millennia, is pretty effective.

The incredibly short treaty (I’m surprised the comments haven’t linked yet) lacks an expulsion provision. At best, per article 13, every other party may (with 1 year notice) withdraw from the treaty & join a new treaty excluding the party they want to expel. Article 8 prohibits parties of the treaty from entering “into any international engagement in conflict with this Treaty”.

A unanimous agreement to change the treaty to enable expulsion is another possibility.

Nothing bad ever came from this.

Except everything bad that came from it? That’s some serious selective attention.

I truly believe things would not have gotten nearly as insane as they are had Google not decided to ban him.

Popular culture became complacent by over-relying on censorship instead of openly educating, criticizing, and discrediting idiots as was effectively done before with deference to free speech values.

What about censoring neo Nazis?

ineffective, disastrous, & still no bueno. better to educate & discredit their weak reasoning.

limits on hate speech

which is bullshit: not being merely offended is not a fundamental liberty, no imminent risk of damage to an interest a person has a basic right to results from merely expressing an opinion.

such laws are readily abused

• German repression of political expression: live police suppressing pro-Palestinian protests as anti-semitic, raids & arrests over calling a politician pimmel, internet patrols penalizing vitriol, insults, & satirical images of politicians showing fake quotes
• UK repression of political expression: designate Palestine Action as a terrorist organization, arrest pro-Palestinian protesters, arrest someone over a social media post backing Palestine Action

& ineffective at preventing the ideas & ideologies they oppose from taking root & gaining power. the advocates of repressive policies are only mildly inconvenienced or continue undeterred underground. the German AfD isn’t struggling. far-right parties like Reform UK keep going. so, they fail to keep anyone in check while also undermining basic freedoms.

ability to justify truth & correctness is far more important than attempting to coerce conformity to correctness through dogma, taboo, & censorship. weak ability to justify makes people incompetent defenders & weak believers of correctness. individuals hone justifications & acquire competence to deliberate effectively through practice of vigorous & open deliberation with adversarial positions. censorship, even of incorrect belief, robs both those whose speech is suppressed and their audience of open deliberation they need to justify their beliefs and actions competently & effectively.

only cowards fear words.

there’s no such thing as “governmental overreach” in a well working system that is FOR the people and BY the people

Nope: two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner.

Coercive power can be turned against the individual democratically. A system that gives government the power necessary to protect individual liberty but also denies it authority to abuse liberties is necessary.

civil disobedience, not by corporatist overreach

“corporatist overreach” can be civil disobedience & legal challenges.

With all the cranks on here, downvotes are a sign of doing something right. Some instances hide downvotes entirely. Others offer settings to not show them.

Not sure blocking them affects the downvote count shown to you.

So, your argument is that

explanation = approval

? That pathetically superficial take pretty much amounts to media illiteracy^[1]: see fallacy Confusing an Explanation with an Excuse.

Can anyone factually explain atrocities in your presence without you treating any explanation as a defense even when it’s explicitly stated that the explained subject is immoral?

They answered the question & your not liking the answer doesn’t make it less true. There are better ways to deal with facts than insufferable irrationality.

Trump approves

The answers to all those questions may be yes.

People who make those works aren’t necessarily the best authorities on their condition even if they have it: they’re still fallible humans with blind spots who’ve only lived as themselves without another version of themselves to compare. Much like how competent speakers may lack explicit awareness of the subtle nuances of their language & may succumb to over-analysis suggesting false rules, just having a condition doesn’t make someone acutely aware of the distinctions that set it apart, so they may misattribute.

They may also be flat out wrong about having the condition, since it is the internet after all.

Some of it is a matter of degree where it’s relatable to everybody within manageable limits but a dysfunction beyond those limits.

Are untrained people as accurate at diagnosing themselves as the professionals with degrees who spend years to train for it?

Your judgement seems baseless and irrational. Be better.

That’s the whole western hemisphere.

I also loathed when they tried to teach me that custom, especially the whole utensils switching hands deal: it’s frustrating for a young child who will fumble and drop utensils to the floor trying pointlessly unnecessary maneuvers.

I loathe the European convention just as much: bring pointy, sharp thing to mouth in less coordinated hand? Fuck no.

I don’t follow either convention. Instead

• utensil that approaches mouth (fork or spoon) in dominant hand: least chance of fumbling, dropping food, self-injury
• knife in non-dominant hand: cutting doesn’t require fine coordination (practice makes it 2nd nature) & fumbled knife ends up on plate
• utensils never switch hands: minimizes fumbling.

Basically, the European convention with opposite hands.

Exposure therapy: nuke yourself a few times. Your anxiety will vanish.

sources who usually have a vested interest in the continuation of capitalism

cool ad hominem & appeal to unreliable authority fallacies. truth doesn’t ultimately rely on authority, but their arguments, so it comes down to evaluating their arguments directly.

• are they valid?
• are their premises true?

if so, then their conclusions are true.

if you’re only going by authority when an argument is provided & facts can be verified, then you’re vibe-thinking.

Though life expectancy increased during Mao Zedong (from 41 to 61.2 years), it didn’t double.

GDP per capita was mostly flat (modest growth from €733 to €1017 in purchasing power parity) during Mao Zedong & took off only later.