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  1. So... How many people are complaining about you calling tankies dogs now? Like- Keep a tally please. Also, if you like, keep a tally of those who who know you did not call tankies dogs but are gonna complain you should have. I dunno if I am hoping I am the first or not.

    none, surprisingly

  2. Hulk Hogan is not sexy but he was closest to being sexy in the movie where he was a nanny taking care of children, this guy knows both

    in response to Women are physically attracted strong men who can hunt for food and provide healthy offspring. Women are more empathetic to care for young. Would you trust Justin Bieber to prevent you from getting mauled by a tiger? Would you expect Hulk Hogan or Clint Eastwood to take care of children and understand their needs well?

  3. How do I argue with doggies better?

    in response to How do I argue with tankies better?

    belly pats and peanut butter

  4. I don't want to accuse women of NOT being shallow, but I feel like that evolutionary-biology-adjacent anon is really projecting some shallow vibes here. Feels like they're having trouble conceiving of women as anything other than a political (?) class. Seems unhealthy. Seems self-alienating. Seems like an unforced error. Seems like sub-optimal strategy.

  5. Right now I’m getting lambasted on Twitter for saying Stalin and Maduro are bad, actually.

    in response to How do I argue with tankies better?

    block and move on

  6. I refuse to date ugly and flat women

    sorry fam but the woke illuminati will be assigning everyone two flat-chested sisterwives, it's gonna be threesomes with daisy ridley and keira knightley for the rest of your life

  7. How do I argue with tankies better?

    this is like asking me how to win an argument with a dog

  8. Women are physically attracted strong men who can hunt for food and provide healthy offspring. Women are more empathetic to care for young. Would you trust Justin Bieber to prevent you from getting mauled by a tiger? Would you expect Hulk Hogan or Clint Eastwood to take care of children and understand their needs well?

    in response to Why are some women attracted to soft effeminate men like Justin Bieber and most K-pop bands?

    why are you telling me what women are attracted to and then asking me why they're attracted to something else

  9. Source??? I think you’re confusing Iraq with Iran, which the U.S. did coup in 1953. Saddam was the leader of a SOCIALIST party ffs. Even if it was only nominally, why would the U.S. back a socialist during the COLD WAR?

    in response to What do you think we should have done about Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi then?

    are you fucking with me

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War

  12. what would happen to marketing and advertisements in a socialist economy

    depends on the economy, I suppose. they have advertising in China, they had advertising in the USSR. dunno if they needed advertising in MAREZ.

  13. How do we pay for food stamps without causing runaway inflation?

    I guess that depends on the scenario here. are we talking about the SNAP program as it exists now? if it were expanded? is this part of a large-scale reconsideration of how we guarantee food to people, and the worry that, if food becomes too freely available, the market will collapse?

    I guess what I'm asking is: in offering suggestions for how to manage inflation re: food stamps, how radical can my solutions be?

  15. Where did you come up with "Link in the down there part"?

    I thought it was funny

  16. That probably would've been more satisfying, but I'm not convinced it would've worked as an ending. Like, "Violence creates more problems than it solves" is arguably one of the series' main themes. I'm not sure I would've bought the idea that the problem created by killing a bunch of people was solved by killing even more people.

    in response to How would you have ended the John Wick movies, if you were given a blank check? I agree that the ending we got was a bit disappointing given the build-up of the previous installments, but part of why I was excited to see how it turned out was that I genuinely couldn't imagine what an endgame to that would look like.

    I suppose that's a way of reading it, but I read it much more explicitly as "the rules that supposedly keep us civilized are, in practice, merely guidelines for whom we can be uncivilized towards, and the people treated with the most civility are the ones who write the rules; strict adherence to these rules WILL NOT guarantee you justice or liberty or even safety, as the system has no interest in any of these things, only in its own self-perpetuation; and if you seek justice outside of these rules, or even follow a one rule that forces you to break another, you will be eliminated if you cannot be brought to heel."

    Chapter 3 leaves off on this note, with the implication that John is ready to reject the entire enterprise, which I was pretty hype about. so Chapter 4 ending with John's crafty strategy to game the rules into a win state (even at great personal cost) and leave the system standing feels like they chickened out. and they probably chickened out because they either cannot fathom actually taking the system down, or to keep the franchise running indefinitely.

  17. (diff anon) consider trying inside llewyn davis if you haven't already

    in response to Favorite Coen Brothers film?

    saw it in the theater, annoyed the fuck out of me

  18. What is your favorite exampls of "Well, somebody forgot that different people are different."?

    this happens daily as a neurospicy person who hangs out people who are other flavors of neurospicy

  19. How would you have ended the John Wick movies, if you were given a blank check? I agree that the ending we got was a bit disappointing given the build-up of the previous installments, but part of why I was excited to see how it turned out was that I genuinely couldn't imagine what an endgame to that would look like.

    he has to actually take on the High Table

  20. Can we just skip to part where we [REDACTED] the ruling class and establish a new US constitution built on progressive ideals? How much longer are we supposed to let sociopaths run this country?

    I think the reason we never get any meaningful [REDACTED] off the ground is BECAUSE everyone wants to skip to that part instead of doing any of the legwork to make it happen

  21. I met Ben today (really), AMA

    in response to Do you like Ben & Jerry’s?

    why won't they make a dairy-free Phish Food

  22. The words that describe you are, and I quote:
    "Twink, twank, Twink"?

    did you mean twunk

  23. Where might one learn more of polyamory without having to just bombard you with questions?

    there's books on the subject. polysecure is supposed to be good.

  24. Alan Wake or Nathan Drake?

    William Blake

  25. Do you like Ben & Jerry’s?

    just Jerry

  26. I keep getting ads for messianic Jewish organisations before the Youtube videos I watch, and since I never saw anything like that before watching your video about Jesus, I've decided to blame you for it.

    leftist infighting has got to stop

  28. Are beard transplants acceptable if one's own beard is lacking?

    in response to Tips on growing a beard?

    according to Leviticus, only if the donor is a fellow Christian who doesn't wear mixed threads

    Rabbinical literature is more divided on the subject - MANY a midrash has been written - but Reform Jews have settled on a soft "yes"

  31. Favorite Coen Brothers film?

    Blood Simple is the only one I like

  32. Tips on being racist?

    send me all your money

  33. why do you like jorjor well so much

    I think it was very good of him to save his son kalkal-el by sending him to earth

  34. Thoughts on Contra burning bridges with Keffals?

    I don't know a lot about the Contras, it's a gap in my understanding of Sandanista history

  37. Tips on finding women who are attracted to guys with beards?

    in response to Tips on growing a beard?

    grow a beard and they'll find you

  38. have you ever used one of your gfs boobs as pillows

    that's what they're FOR

  39. The top 3 most-spoken conlangs (aside from the ones designed for fictional species like Klingon) are Esperanto (eurocentric), toki pona (basically a priori grammar, reasonably-widely-sourced vocabulary), and lojban (the grammar is based on functional programming languages like LISP and Haskell, and the vocab is eurocentric).

    in response to Do you think that most of the common conlangs are very eurocentric in their design?

    is Klingon eurocentric?

  40. Best noir film to get started with?

    honestly, start with The Maltese Falcon! it's a cracking good time and is basically starting at the beginning.

  41. Tips on growing a beard?

    conditioner and occasional beard oil, if it's itchy

  42. Yeah now you’re just an incel who calls 16 year olds names

    in response to Do you wish you could be 16 again?9

    did... did you miss that I was making fun of my 16yo self?

  43. Your thoughts on Olivia Rodrigo?

    she's got sun in her motherfucking pocket you'd better believe

  46. Why did Obama appease Iran?

    I don't fuckin know, the great gazoo told him to

  47. Do you think that most of the common conlangs are very eurocentric in their design?

    in response to Do you think that a constructed language being taught around the world would be good for humanity? Think about how much useful information is inaccessible to billions of people because of language barriers. You wouldn't even have to forfeit the linguistic diversity of the world.

    I've gathered a few of the most famous ones are. this is not my area of expertise, and do not feel confident that I know which conlangs are actually most common, and look forward to someone popping in to say UM ACTUALLY THE SECOND-MOST SPOKEN CONLANG ADHERES TO SINO-TIBETAN GRAMMAR STRUCTURES

  48. Already do, and odds are U do 2. 4face.

    in response to U2, 4Face

    I masturb9

  49. ... pretty sure that's just how death is.

    in response to Horses are not to be trusted. They killed Christopher Reeve.

    it's more the long stretch of his wheelchair-bound life in which he was an activist, director, and occasional actor

  51. Pretry sure if a person's a system they're multiple people? Least I think that how DID functions.

    in response to you’re a system

    your face is an alter

  52. Ian, are you also one of those pro-Palestinians who engages in October 7 denial, or say that "all Israelis deserve it" etc., anything of that nature?

    this is a question on the order of "have you stopped beating your wife"

  53. Horses are not to be trusted. They killed Christopher Reeve.

    in response to Thoughts on horses?

    feels like you're erasing a big stretch of his life

  54. Do you think that a constructed language being taught around the world would be good for humanity? Think about how much useful information is inaccessible to billions of people because of language barriers. You wouldn't even have to forfeit the linguistic diversity of the world.

    various common languages and pidgins have arisen throughout history to serve this purpose, though never a full-on conlang, and never worldwide.

    I think the main impediment here is that English-speakers won't learn it, they'll expect everyone to learn English. (and, thanks to imperialism, they're largely right.)

  55. Why do leftists say "socialism will give us a better quality of life because we'll be more efficient and productive" and at the same time also "capitalism is destructive because of infinite growth on a finite planet, we need to slow things down". Which is true?

    I dunno if I agree with the first statement, but growth is not the same thing as efficiency or productivity. I would argue trying to grow infinitely on a finite planet is deeply inefficient; if your burn rate is greater than your intake than you are not running efficiently.

  57. i'm glad you stand in support of my right to think that horses are big and terrible. they shouldn't be so strong AND freak out so easily.

    in response to Thoughts on horses?

    I freak out easily and I want to get big and strong

  58. Thoughts on horses?

    in response to Thoughts on Vaush leaking his horse folder?

    this is a generally pro-horse space, but we are allies to the equinophobe community

  60. Diffanon but pretty sure that falls under 4

    in response to Do you mean: 1."a third party will never realistically get enough votes to influence the political landscape" 2."if a third party gathered a significant number of votes, that would be entirely ignored/forgotten almost immediately" 3."if a third party gathered a significant number of votes, the meaning of such a result would be interpreted in many different ways, none of which would be able to act as a direct megaphone for the people who submitted those votes" 4. None of the above?

    your face falls under 4

  61. Can you please pledge to never learn what this sentence means

    in response to Thoughts on Vaush leaking his horse folder?

    I'm not in control of this, the explanation has already ended up in my inbox against my will

    I can pledge not to tell you, though

  62. Honest opinion of Bakunin?

    great beard

  63. Thoughts on Vaush leaking his horse folder?

    I have no idea what that sentence means

  64. same anon: I guess I don't really disagree. It's fully irrelevant to me anyways as I am in a swing state so I will probably end up voting for Biden because I can't really justify any other course of action to myself, in my situation.
    I like to think that, if the dems saw their strongholds states pull out of their reach to the left, it might rattle them enough to inspire some meaningful changes in policy, but ultimately they know we're stuck in the 2 party trap and don't have to acquiesce to shit. The dem politicians don't mind when they lose "power" anyway.

    in response to Do you mean: 1."a third party will never realistically get enough votes to influence the political landscape" 2."if a third party gathered a significant number of votes, that would be entirely ignored/forgotten almost immediately" 3."if a third party gathered a significant number of votes, the meaning of such a result would be interpreted in many different ways, none of which would be able to act as a direct megaphone for the people who submitted those votes" 4. None of the above?

    most of them keep their jobs no matter who's in the White House

  65. Why doesn’t Hamas free their hostages if they want to stop the genocide of their own people?

    they keep offering to but Israel rejects the offers

  66. Same anon. You can’t stop them from taking you out of context, but you don’t have to make it easy for them. “I’m not here to convert young men, I’m here to defeat them” sounds pretty bad no matter what context and it’s a lot easier for them to use than “ I’m not here to convert young conservative men, I’m here to defeat them.”

    in response to Right wingers post things liberals and leftists say and do out of context all of the time. I can easily see a right winger posting in response to a post from you “look what he really thinks of young men!”

    I'm sorry, but it's very naive to think that will help

  67. Do you mean:
    1."a third party will never realistically get enough votes to influence the political landscape"
    2."if a third party gathered a significant number of votes, that would be entirely ignored/forgotten almost immediately"
    3."if a third party gathered a significant number of votes, the meaning of such a result would be interpreted in many different ways, none of which would be able to act as a direct megaphone for the people who submitted those votes"
    4. None of the above?

    in response to There's a decent argument to be made for voting third party in like Vermont, Hawaii, Wyoming, North Dakota, et al, I think. Like if you essentially know which way the state is going to go, then probably the best thing you can do with it is protest by picking what would be better, if it had a chance. Abstaining from voting only ever gets counted as disinterest, never as disapproval.

    5. winner-take-all elections will always trend towards two parties because more than two is systemically suboptimal. you would need to change the voting system to ranked choice or approval voting or runoff elections or SOMETHING under which multi-party elections are viable. until such time, a third party vote us entirely about your conscience and presents no meaningful threat to those in power.

  68. Do you like Disco?

    Disco Elysium!

  72. There's a decent argument to be made for voting third party in like Vermont, Hawaii, Wyoming, North Dakota, et al, I think. Like if you essentially know which way the state is going to go, then probably the best thing you can do with it is protest by picking what would be better, if it had a chance. Abstaining from voting only ever gets counted as disinterest, never as disapproval.

    in response to [Diff Anon] Out of curiosity, what would you say to those of us who do live in states that are firmly red/blue (recommended actions, books on the subject, etc.)?

    voting third party doesn't communicate anything meaningful either

  73. I really doubt "supporting and giving financial aid to Indonesia while it committed atrocities", the main thing he cites for Ford and Carter, would be sufficient grounds for hanging by itself. Terms like "crime against peace" and "crime against humanity" are pretty broad and you could implicate a LOT of historical world leaders, not just presidents, if you were to prosecute as aggressively as Chomsky does.

    in response to The only way you can believe this is if you think America’s foreign affairs have been evil for the last 80 years.

    um, yeah. I don't think many world leaders would make it out of Nuremberg alive. Chomsky definitely doesn't.

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