This is the case with literally every conservative crowing about “free speech”. They want full freedom for themselves so that no matter what they say there can’t be any negative consequences or reactions, and everybody else can get fucked and die in an extermination camp

Yeah they’ve been saying this every time someone helps Ukraine. First small arms were a “dangerous escalation”, then heavier weapons, then tanks, then fighters, etc. etc. Funny how they don’t consider eg. threatening nuclear war every second day or sabotage operations in Europe a “dangerous escalation”.

I’m starting to feel like nuclear war would probably be preferable to a planet with Russia in it (the fact that I live in a country bordering them doesn’t help)

Touché, it’s not like this is anything new

Yeah like how is this a disappointment? I get what he means of course, but it’s like being disappointed in Stalin if he hugged Hitler. Disappointment sounds like he was expecting something better of Modi

Moderate conservatives pretty much no longer exist.

The “moderates” are more than happy to collaborate with actual fascists; it’s not like the leopards will eat their faces, after all

I have a suggestion for who you can release first.

Is it tax dodgers? I bet it’s tax dodgers

We humans sometimes use a rhetorical device called “hyperbole” where we use exaggeration to emphasize our point, and it’s usually not meant to be taken literally. Welcome to the planet, hope you enjoy your stay.

Yeah there’s a reduction in violence, and certainly it reduces the fatality rate

Oh no!

A day late and a dollar short, as seems to be a theme with weapons aid to Ukraine, but at least they’re getting some jets now

If you think solar panels are the solution to our problems on a “significant” level, you clearly haven’t been paying enough attention and don’t understand the scale of the issues here – and no I’m not going to be the one who has to educate you

it’s like 2/100 now

ah I see you’re an optimist

What if brain chemistry is just an excuse?

This has to be the single fucking stupidest opinion I’ve seen anyone voice whole year. Jesus fuck, forget anything I said about how I think you mean well, because you clearly don’t. You’re a fucking walking and talking example of the Dunning-Kruger phenomenon who has their head so far up their ass that they think brain chemistry is an excuse, and that your fantastically idiotic opinions clearly mean you’re wiser than the rest of us plebs when you can’t even process the thought that maybe mental illness could affect how much someone exercises. How you manage to function in society without dying of drinking bleach is completely beyond me

People who have never had mental health issues be like “why don’t you just stop feeling bad?”

I know you mean well but like jesus christ

Edit: nevermind they’re a myopic self-important twat and obviously don’t mean well

because eating right will fix the climate and the economic system

I didn’t either but turns out: https://lemmy.ml/comment/12172653

Family tree’s a straight line

Ah right yes, I get what you mean, definitely agree with that

There are few if any good female role models for the same type of spaces.

This is such an odd take that I’m really not sure what type of spaces you’re referring to exactly

There aren’t enough role models teaching them that you can be a man without being toxic to women.

Is this really the problem, or is the problem that the sort of people with role models like Tate are the sort of people who wouldn’t gravitate towards non-toxic role models in the first place?

Because if it’s actually true that there are very few good male role models to choose from, I’m not entirely sure what that tells us about men, exactly.