False intelligence report… The intelligence was artificial, go figure

I made a video about this because it comes up so much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfgXj_V33Pw

It’s scary how many christians will pretend “my particular interpretation of god said so” is objective morality. People actually defend rape, slavery, and genocide.

I rely on sense and reason, personally. I aim to reduce overall suffering because I find suffering unpleasant and I empathize with others, and also because working together is mutually beneficial. It’s not a choice between emotion and utility, it’s both.

I’m not defending nazis you asshole.

Yes, you are.

I’m saying both sides are suck.

Which side is sending people to death camps without trial right now?

Thank you. I don’t think people realize how common this is. Abuse is the norm in the bible belt.

Trump’s hate speech and policies have killed countless people.

Have you noticed your sources tend to be “so-and-so apologizes, removes offending remark”? Do we get that same level of self-awareness from the right?

Did you even read that Reddit post?

Frequently in political discussions, someone will reject a criticism of republicans by saying that democrats aren’t perfect either. I agree they aren’t perfect and should be criticsed but they are a much less flawed choice for government for most people than republicans and it’s important to make this point. Pretending otherwise can be a lazy attempt at appearing mature by making a false equivalence between both sides or apathy that justifies not paying closer attention to politics because ‘they [politicians] are all the same’. This attitude led to Trump’s election because people thought both sides are the same (i.e. using private emails was equivalent to a decades long history of derogatory treatment of women because ‘they’re both awful’).

It’s critical of you.

Let’s check some comments:

The GOP actually executed a sophisticated funding project to capture state houses—and thus, redistricting authority—prior to the 2010 census redistricting. That action, by a major political party is an attempt to manipulate the ‘power’ of American citizens votes according to their party’s current interests. That is fundamentally undemocratic, full stop. This is not a case of one political party simply having the option to do a thing while the other did not.

There tend to be more indictments of federal officials under Republican administrations, and almost all of the major political scandals through the last several decades were executed under Republicans (Watergate, Iran-Contra, Iraq and Afghani wars). In fact, the only major scandal under a Democrat since Nixon was the Lewinsky scandal, which was widely considered to be political posturing by Republicans, which is why they lost Congressional seats in the 1998 midterm. This is a 40-year pattern.

It’s not that “Republicans unfairly criticized Obama for taking vacations and now Democrats are unfairly criticizing Trump for taking vacations.” It’s that Republican criticisms and Trump personally were objectively out of line and now Trump has taken more vacations than Obama after specifically criticizing Obama for that. AFAIK Obama hasn’t said a word about Trump’s vacations, and the elected officials in the Democratic Party are not harping on it nearly to the extent that Republicans did.

That the Senate in the Trump years would set out to upend the American health-care system largely in secret was a dramatic and genuinely shocking example of how the decay of norms is not an abstract problem. It threatens the most basic commitments of our democracy.

Stop defending nazis, dumb fuck. We see through your stupid bullshit.

This is an observation, not a threat: You are choosing death. It’s a death cult. If you don’t value life, keep it to yourself. Don’t take others down with you.

“Wahhh, Trump is being targeted.”

Wish they hadn’t missed. He’s a wannabe Hitler.

Fuck you and your false equivalences.

Yeah. It’s difficult for me to see “traditional marriage” as anything more than financially incentivizing and socially pressuring straight couples to breed. More mindless bodies for the capitalist meat grinders.

Commitments can be lovely and wonderful. Why was the government EVER involved? Because the bible said it was important to do it one way and one way only?

It’s a bit personal for me, admittedly. I don’t think my parents should have had children.

“These people”?

My question is, why was the government ever involved in personal commitments?

But sure, if straight couples are getting married with legal benefits, LGBTQIA+ couples+ oughta get in on that, too.

And to get ahead of the strawman stupid conservatives might create, animals and children cannot meaningfully consent and thus should not enter into lifelong commitments.

I’mma say the thing they hate. The reflexive property: love is love. 🙂❤️

No, that’s empirical evidence. Not magic.

Nazis and genociders suck. Fuck you for defending them, stupid-ass nazi.

Thank you. I had someone just yesterday try to pull the “fish don’t really feel pain” bullshit on me.

Meanwhile:

For rainbow trout, an estimated 10 (1.9–21.7) minutes of moderate to extreme pain (Hurtful, Disabling and Excruciating pain combined) are endured by each trout due to air asphyxia

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-04272-1

Sure. But don’t forget to take steps to prevent Google from harvesting your non-school data anyway. If using an official Gmail app, you’re probably screwed; they get your location, wifi, device info, why not?

If using a web browser, be sure it’s a privacy-focused one, don’t sign into anything but Gmail, and sign out and close the browser completely every time to clear cached data. And Google will still scan every email with automated scrapers, potentially training their AI on your carefully written essays, etc.

Can the idea that one side isn’t lying possibly penetrate your thick skull?

How did the conflict start?

Source?

You think we should do nothing while we are slaughtered? Have you actually thought about this at all?

Hypothetically, a person is coming to torture and kill your loved ones, then you. As long as they are alive, they will never stop trying. They’ve jammed communications, you can’t reach anyone else for help.

You’d stand there and watch everyone die while pretending to have the moral high ground?

We should Insist on universal human rights and the rights to be left alone to your own choices.

Right, so long as those choices aren’t causing needless harm.

No one really disagrees with that.

Uh, yes they do, and they’re actively killing us, hence the need for defense.

For example, I wish Kirk had stopped spreading hate while he was alive. But he didn’t. Now that he is dead, he can’t do that anymore. This is a good thing that potentially saved a lot of lives.

That diagram is making me stupider.

“Holy” is fake human bullshit. “War” is real human bullshit.