Well pehaps he was engaging in the metaphor, instead of saying “I think you’re too sensitive”

hurr durr racism doesn’t exist y’all

Opinions promptly ignored.

Society doesn’t only improve.

There’s advances and setbacks.

As a Finn I’m very worried about this complacency about authoritarianism. We Finns don’t have “In God We Trust” on our money, no, but it might as well say “In Bureaucracy We Trust”.

I genuinely respect those first amendment auditors. Like a third I see are prolly a bit too douchey, but that’s their right.

What’s the quote again?

Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.

— G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain (The New World #7)

Username checks out. Guy knows his space produce.

Still doing it.

You have to try and mock me a pseudointellectual, since you lack the intellect to engage with the arguments, so you mock it, while now writing a longer comment than mine.

Seems that you’re projecting pretty strongly with that

deciding that that’s your whole personality.

I’m the guy who’s been inspiring those YouTubers since the 90’s, lol.

Did you forget the part where I’m in the Finnish Defence Forces?

People who decide to identify as actual Nazis in the 21st century literally lose their personhood.

really change the point.

“My rhetoric being fallacious garbage means nothing”

Yeah see before where I said you lack the intellect to understand let alone engage with my argument.

If you can’t realize that, then you are missing a HUGE thing about the capacity for great evil (and great good) that human beings have.

"No, monsters aren’t real. That’s a made up bed time story thing. That

Monsters are very real. They just look exactly like everyone else. See before; “fallacious garbage”.

You are missing the point and supporting Nazism, even if you can’t understand the half a page argument with one link you need to check out (since you obviously haven’t actually read ‘The Banality of Evil’).

You know, trying to explain your already bad joke isn’t making it any funnier.

then our petty little back and forth will not matter when it really comes down to it, then right?

Ofc it will have. Everything matters. Some things more than others.

It seems like an excuse to not feel guilty for killing, and that seems like a dark path to go down.

“Oh please, won’t someone think of the Nazis?”

I don’t think you’ve actually read anything I’ve written. That too, is an exaggeration, I don’t literally mean that. I mean to say that you’ve not understood it for some reason. I’d like to point out that in my experience, the people who think calling someone an “internet philosopher” or “a fucking SJW” or “a keyboard warrior” (harder to call me a “keyboard warrior” when I’m actually part of the Finnish Defence Forces?) are usually slightly cognitively lazy and/or poorly educated people who just don’t have the attention-span nor the skills to actually engage in such discussion. So you mock it as being too fancy, meaning it’s too fancy… for you.

I can promise you not everyone share’s your view.

No, you won’t.

My war time posting is not in the front lines. It’s about ~30km behind them. In a leadership position.

(Yes, that’s the backside of my dogtags. I’m hardly going to dox myself by filming the front.)

Edit also, most communication is online nowadays, even academic. Everyone is constantly online. You can just call me a philosopher, no need for the “internet” or the quotations.

I jant one.

Calling them not human doesn’t help anything.

Openly displaying the attitudes they have for all other people’s towards them is done as a reminder of their garbage dehumanising rhetoric.

Just like you have a duty to punch a Nazi, you have a duty to dehumanise them.

It’s not because we believe anyone should ever be dehumanised —and we loudly proclaim that is our actual belief, enshrined in international human rights laws — it’s because it’s a rhetorical reminder of what Nazis do.

Like you say, of course they are people. In fact, the exact problem is the banality of evil. Historically pretty much a major portion of the Nazi party at it’s height were completely normal “law-abiding citizens”. Everyone knows what “I was just following orders” refers to. And that’s exactly it.

Those people are using it as an excuse, like “no-one told me it was wrong or shocking, I was merely acting like any reasonable person would”.

Had there been someone constantly yelling in their ear, about what cowardly shitbags they are, for not putting their life on the line, to resist the rhetoric coming from the actually fucked up psychopaths at the helm, maybe they couldn’t have reasonably used the “I’m just following orders” excuse.

So yeah. We need to dehumanise them all. I wouldn’t dehumanise like a 100 year old granny who was a member in 1942 or anything, obviously, but as far as rhetoric on the internet goes? They’re not people. Anyone directly supporting actual Nazi rhetoric deserves to be dehumanised for that reason until they change their views.

Evil is a human thing. No other animal does that.

Quite a philosophically naive argument, no offense. Animals eat their kids. Dolphins rape fish. Mushrooms take over ants make them zombies. Chimps even have wars.

But since you don’t think they possess the capacity to understand it’s “evil”, it’s not?

So… a dumb Nazi isn’t an evil Nazi? Or if you dehumanise a Nazi, it makes their actions acceptable? I don’t really get where you’re going with that particular point. (Sorry, I’ve a pet peeve about the naturalistic fallacy.)

And correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t it the religious right that’s anti fertility clinic?

No they’re anti-abortion and anti-birth management, not anti-fertility. Religious nuts are hypocrites and what part of the Bible talks about IVF? Prolly none.

It might genuinely just be a bitter angry person. I don’t even like to call it an ideology, they just complain they had no choice in whether they were brought to this world, ans and since the world sucks, they pretend like if somehow they could’ve chosen, they would’ve chosen not to even live, which makes no sense, as then they’d never have been a person with the capacity to think that. It’s paradoxical, is my point.

I wouldn’t be surprised that just general whackos like that do exist, but yeah, you’re right, it wouldn’t be out of line to false flag it to create even further infighting in the states.

To be honest it’s probably not even much of a challenge for some Russian disinfo agents to convince someone to firebomb shit like that. When people are denied healthcare and housing and the streets are flooded with opioids and guns, it doesn’t take much to find a person easy to manipulate.

So it might be both “real” and also politically puppeteered. That would make the most sense, honestly, but we need to remember that these sort of ultraviolent psychopaths aren’t really… thinking straight.

We’d like to make it make sense, but acts of violence rarely do.

Nazis are actual real people.

I could make an actual educated argument on how that’s literally not true, but it’d go into sophistry. Still, I definitely could.

Talk like that is exactly what leads to Nazis in the first place

No, it isn’t. It’s exaggerated rhetoric and a very appropriate response to legitimate Nazism.

What YOU are doing is what lead to the Nazis in the first place. Thinking you can reason with Nazis. 20th century Germany had people who basically were forced to be a Nazi, no matter their personal ideologies. It’s understandable, but it’s not acceptable. And it’s very different having been in the party when the Nazis were in rule and voluntarily choosing to be one in modern times. Choosing to become a Nazi is so much worse than being somewhat afraid in Germany in 1942, and joining out of fear for your life.

We know we’re purposefully exaggerating when we say Nazis aren’t people, and we know it. Nazis do not exaggerate with their calls to white supremacy.

So the appropriate reply to Nazism is to utterly dehumanise and shame them, as much as humanly possible.

I wanna see someone steal uranium

Uh… okay?

Niger Junta Takes Over French Uranium Mine Controlled by French Firm Orano Firstpost Africa

I just hope that I could make your day a little better at least.

Thank for the empathy. I can’t overstate just how meaningful even a slightly empathic message can be. I’m grateful.

Honestly, like had the guards had 1% of that empathy, I would’ve never been abused like I was. And Finland wouldn’t be as ass if the general population did as well.

Edit who the fuck is downvoting you lol

Nice

this idea is kinda radical but stay with me… maybe it’s ok for everyone to be attracted to someone and to a degree sexualization of the gender one is sexually attracted to is absolutely a normal human experience no matter what you identify or were born as? Huh…

And you think that is not what the author is doing?

but you’ll find people who will be supportive, even if it’s just a few

Seeing as I’m 36 and yet to find such a creature who I’m not paying hundreds an hour to listen to me trauma dump… I’d like to politely advice you to not use any definite sentence on what I will or will not find.

I would love a dog, I’ve had many as a kid. None from pup to gone though. My grandmas sofa wasn’t older than me, then when we got our own dog when I was 12, he got ran over by a truck (and I saw it very close, and picked him up after he was driven over by a full semi tire). Then our next dog was done which was a sort of rescue, but from a trainer. He was my best friend ever.

I’ve cried more over my dead dogs than I ever have for any relatives.

So yeah, I’d like to get a dog, but as I live in a bedsit and am kinda depressed, I don’t know whether I’d be justified in taking a dog… There’s better homes for pups to go to.

4, yes you can, haven’t you never heard of measures? Or do you just not know how to do math in your head based on how much you’ve had?

Volumetric dosing is more accurate than crumbs of pills, as long as you have a homogeneous solution and know it’s strength.

3 swallowing pills is more boring and most people like a liquid to go with it, so you’re gonna have to have a drink anyway

2 that depends a ton on the coffee and where you’re buying caffeine pills from

1 practice dental hygiene and moderation of consumption.

If you’re doing it just for the caffeine, you have a caffeine addiction. For me, I drink coffee because I enjoy it. The caffeine I can take or leave, and often do.

This year I’ve enjoyed every single cup of coffee I’ve had; all three of them.

So is lead.

Using historical data on U.S. childhood blood-lead levels, leaded-gas use, and population statistics, they determined the likely lifelong burden of lead exposure carried by every American alive in 2015.

https://today.duke.edu/2024/12/20th-century-lead-exposure-damaged-american-mental-health

She looks pretty young, but still.

Also, just schooling, lol. US education sucks donkey dick

Yeah, exactly, nothing is being done. And people are actively ignoring it, which only perpetuates the situation.

Thanks for the link though I might email those HS reporters