It’s an aggressive mix of the gish gallop and motte and bailey fallacies.

They won’t even own their own viewpoints once you’ve gone through the effort of pulling apart the claim and addressing it. They’ll tell you that you’re reading too deep into it, misinterpreting it, all while putting out more nonsense for you to address.

There’s nothing you can do with the average person not being invested enough in politics to inquire further, and the lack of controls on public speakers. Except stoop to their level I suppose.

Someone actually gets it. Like every other sexual act it is an act of trust.

I’m not sure about that. In general I do feel as if I don’t contribute nearly enough to society in order to make it a better place.

As I’ve grown older I have felt regret about not stepping into a mentor role like this. I genuinely don’t think I’m the person to do it, nor do I consider myself capable.

I don’t believe in any religion, don’t like religion, but I also realize that it’s not the governments place to tell people what they can and can’t believe.

Besides that, given the specifics of this law it’s rather easy to see it’s not even about religion as a whole. It’s just more Islamophobia.

Thanks friend.

I try to laugh because it helps with how depressing life is, but sometimes I’m just overwhelmed by it all. Sometimes I need to close my eyes and ignore it.

not a few on the left,

Nah, was a lot actually. I know a lot of people that were really upset after the election and after the first few months. Then it stopped being a problem. “You’re overreacting.” “Don’t think about it.” “We’ll be fine next election.”

You wouldn’t do this to your cat. Or your dog. Or any other pet. Why should they have to go through it?

Nah, I know what nice guys are. I just more so meant I didn’t understand these people.

I don’t know about others, but I tend to look at how someone treats others as insight on how they’ll treat me. If someone is openly malicious to other people for such petty reasons then they’ll treat you the same way.

I never understood this specific example. Why are people so obsessed with someone that’s already spoken for? It shows such a lack of respect for boundaries.

I’ve run into the type of guy that thinks it’s alright to harass someone because they’re in a relationship with someone they’re interested in, and what makes me sad is how so many see nothing wrong with it.

I get the need for privacy given how many people have a habit of stalking or digging through post history for malicious purposes, but it also removes a lot of accountability. Accountability is equally as important, given that people turn into monsters without it.

Not even close to being untrue. I’ve listened to a lot of conservatives being anti-sidewalks growing up, complaining how sidewalks aided criminals.

This point of view seems to be what a lot of evangelicals fall back on whenever you somehow manage to score any points against their orange god.

I’ve heard several of them admit that, “Oh well, the world world is awful, and it’s fine if it ends.” Who gives them the right to make that decision for the rest of us?

Maduro was democratically elected and supported by the majority.

Forgive my ignorance, but didn’t Maduro ban opposition party leaders from campaigning against him?

I’m not saying or agreeing with the orange man, what he did was wrong. It’s not our place to intervene in other countries, but this is what I’ve heard everywhere.

How about all the times I’ve seen MAGA people make threats like that and worse?

Yeah, my own half brother threatened to shoot me for voting against his orange god. My parents regularly would post about how anyone who disagreed with Trump deserved death.

But these are rules for others, not for them.

I’m going to focus on keeping to myself a bit more, and start working on an old project that I put away.

I’ve been trying to do this, but the best I’ve achieved so far is having certain cords using adapters.

Therapy exhausts me, and I’d like to be uninvited to these sessions as I don’t have much to add, but seeing posts like this and reading other peoples stories makes me realize that it could absolutely be so much worse.

TeamSpeak can only replace the voice chatting aspect. The vast majority of people use discord for text chat.

It’s really such a different beast. You can chat in a discord server while you’re on your phone when you’re unavailable to chat on voice. I know teamspeak has an app, but it was clunky last time I bothered with it, and it’s still not that type of experience. People love discord chat, they love the emotes, they love their profiles. I just can’t see a lot of people giving that up.

And like I’ve said earlier, I’m not even sure if most people are aware of the changes or if they even care. The people from Aus or the UK that I’ve seen on discord lately seem like they’re just dealing with the id requirements.