KillingTimeItself

there is no means of production in services based economy, so unless you’re willing to go through total economic collapse, and rebuilding through all of that, to some extent globally, that’ll be quite the journey. And you’ll find it to be the answer to the question of “why hasn’t anything happened yet”

It’s because people like being able to buy things lmao. Maybe if this admin causes a depression of sorts, but i’m not confident on that being the case, it’s certainly a realistic possibility, but it doesn’t seem to be imminent right now.

“Why would you allow someone else to tell you what it is you believe in? You don’t get to decide what being a conservative/liberal means. Someone else decides that. You aren’t part of it. So why would you let whoever that is tell you what you should think?”

the short answer is because the agree with it.

The better question is asking them whether they want to agree with something someone else said once, or whether or not they want to have their own belief foundation, their own principle system, and their own way to derive an answer to a problem.

The problem with modern day politics is that nobody, almost nobody is willing to engage critically with the problems at hand, to determine a real, functional solution to the problem, or at least, the best possible solution they can come up with. Everybody is perfectly fine and content with saying whatever the funny man on the screen tells them, and that’s the end of the story.

If you call yourself a captalist but don’t even believe in what Adam Smith said, are you really even a capitalist?

i’m a capitalist, but only to the extent that capitalism is the most effective mechanism of meeting the needs of a market. I think it’s fundamentally impossible to run an economic system in any way that is more optimized to the needs of it’s consumers than you can under capitalism, and that’s what i like about it.

It’s also true that there are some self regulating effects on the market. But that’s more complicated.

Though, just because i believe the market handles itself in most cases, doesn’t mean i believe it requires no regulation. That would be preposterous. I don’t want pure unregulated capitalism, but i don’t want socialism/communism either, i want both. Both is good.

that’s a left leaning moderate position. A far left position would be some shit like straight communism/socialism

The moderate left is more liberal in essence.

well yeah, it’s an insult. That’s like looking at a gun, and then being really confused when it’s capable of killing somebody.

Insults aren’t commonly derived from compliments, they’re often derived from offensive terminology, or context. That’s arguably the whole point.

no, you’re assuming i care about the poster, for all i care this isn’t even a real scenario.

I’m more concerned with how people are justifying immediately flipping on something like this with this little information, and to be fair, a number of people did concede that.

meanwhile windows users complacent in learning complex muscle memory in order to navigate only the most autistic UI design ever created (it was windows)

idk i like pissing people off on the internet i guess. It’s how i get my read on social norms these days.

As the ancient reddit thread once said, tell everyone that they’re doing it wrong, and everybody will immediately help you to find the answer. (they will just be an asshole about it)

Works great here too!

motherfucker is literally an insult, but ok.

to be clear, the wiki page you explicitly linked literally say it has a historical connotation, and the primary example it lists is from checks notes 53 years ago.

I’m going to hazard a guess that the sentiment has probably changed, a little bit. Since 1972. 1972 to be clear, was 8 years after the passing of the civil rights act. It’s a bit of a different time period now.

anyway point is, i’m not convinced anybody cares about using this as a homophobic slur anymore.

Sorry for the short temper, this thread has been too long and I already explained this on another comment.

it’s whatever, that’s how the internet is lol. This thread has been more than amusing for me thus far.

Yeah but the proportion of intensity also matters. The n word literally dates back to slavery. It makes sense that it would be a pretty offensive racial line to cross. Although i don’t think it’s fully strict, i think it’s just mostly strict, you can find examples outside of it.

There’s also the question of a slur being situationally relevant. For example, you could write out the n word in long form, specifically for the act of describing it, in a dictionary for instance. You would struggle to argue that it’s a necessarily “racist” usage of the word.

For the same reason i would argue that “cocksucker” isn’t necessarily a slur against gay people, for example, if you don’t use it for the purposes of specifically slurring a gay person. Which also brings into question whether or not it is even a slur in the first place.

Of course there are also words like faggot for example, which are more directly linked to gay people, and being a slur specifically in that regard, it doesn’t have much use outside of that. But even then people do still use it, primarily gay people. Some of us just think it’s a funny word. (you can call me a faggot all you want i don’t care, i just think you look silly lmao) though i would still explicitly denote the slurred usage of faggot.

And even if you were gay, that does not make you immune to internelized homophobia.

and this would be pretty fundamentally “schizo” like we’re talking freudian psychology levels of psycho analysis and diagnosing here. There are certainly select cases where that could theoretically be possible, but i don’t see that being worth more than interesting psychological banter. I mean realistically, it’s meaningless in 99% of cases. There’s going to be another more aggressive tell.

Just like there are plenty of black people who disagree with the usage of the word removed even if spoken by a black person, because it is still rooted in racism.

and you can be against the usage of it, for sure, but i think you’ll have a hard time finding black people who police what other black people say. Just as you will in this case.

i suppose that’s fair. But it’s also an insult. They’re not meant to be nice.

found the insecure person!

i doubt the war memes were that bad honestly. There’s been a lot of shitposting about it general, it’s just that most people haven’t seen it because it’s not particularly common. The real question is what their actual opinion is.

literally nobody says vaginalicker though? that’s just not the commonly understood variant of “cocksucker”

im sorry are we equating cocksucker, and the n word to be on the same level of offensive slur?

or maybe i’m just gay and i think cocksucker is a funny insult, but no i must be homophobic, clearly that’s the only option.

This shits just not that complicated bro, it’s language, doesn’t matter where an insult came from if it’s use is broadly different in modern lexicon. Some fascinating psychoanalysis of random people on the internet.

that’s also a fundamentally flawed argument though. Unless you’re like actively raping someone, there’s nothing inherently wrong with fucking a woman. That’s why the implication of cocksucker and motherfucker matter, obviously someone fucks everyones mother, but it’s the implication that people who are “motherfuckers” would fuck your mother just to be a problem.

i mean yeah, pussyfucker if you used as an insult would be quite a weird insult to throw, but it would work i suppose.

Motherfucker is also in the same vein like the other commenter suggested.

find me people who suck cock that actually give a fuck about other people calling people cocksuckers and we can talk.

And idk if I’d say it’s a power thing, cocksuckers are the active participant in a blow job, and I’d say the submissive one is the one with their meat between a pair of teeth.

nobody is arguing that sucking cock is submissive??? The argument is that being a cocksucker is a submissive thing.

Or you trolling? Or are you actually serious?