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Not eating the pizza would send a better message.

Imagine the bosses throwing their employees a pizza party and the day ends and everyone goes home and no one has eaten a single slice.

FlyingSquid ,
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Yeah, I get it. When has the world ever become a better place when nations fund artworks?

Look at this Florentine shit:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/80cb691f-413c-478c-8057-f5661ea4a291.png

That is what you get when a nation's leader becomes a patron of the arts. Is that sort of smut what you want our kids seeing?

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That's okay, that's the church paying for it. DeSantis is fine with church smut.

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Fucking Aristophanes... getting famous just because the Athenian government wasted money on dramatic competitions.

FlyingSquid ,
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No, but neither is body shaming, and fat people get a lot of that at a beach.

FlyingSquid ,
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A lot of people seem to think that you can shame people out of obesity, which is nonsense. We live in a country where processed foods are cheap and easy when people barely have enough time to relax, let alone cook. Those processed foods are also designed by everything from scientists specializing in creating new flavors to psychologists to get people to buy them, so they do. We also live in a country where a lot of people are expected to just sit in a chair for eight hours with maybe a couple of short breaks and a lot of them end up doing regular overtime (and that doesn't count commuting time, when they are also likely sitting).

Of course there's an obesity epidemic. Why wouldn't there be? But shaming people for being fat when they don't have time to cook or the energy to exercise and are forced to spend large portions of their lives sedentary is not the solution. You need to attack the problem at the source, not the terminus.

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You can eat much more cheaply if you spend a little bit of time cooking.

I addressed this already. Many people barely have enough time to relax and de-stress from their horrible job possibly plus their horrible commute. Expecting everyone to be able to have the psychological fortitude to take the time to cook a meal regularly is asking a lot of a lot of people. Ingredients for cooking may be cheap. Energy for cooking is not a purchasable commodity.

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"I was going to vote for Democrats this year, but then I heard that one of the eight public beaches in New York City had one day a year for fat people and now I'm MAGA all the way!"

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Since you cut critics off before they could tell you to move closer to your job, let's see if they move on to "get a better job."

FlyingSquid , (edited )
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Indiana in August when I was a kid in the 80s or Indiana in June where I'm living today?

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/79a6b3de-d160-4694-ab0b-7f09b1b705ca.png

Edit: For those confused, it's much hotter, much earlier.

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And not just any megachurch pastor, one of Trump's so-called spiritual advisors.

Trump's buddies- Epstein, Gaetz and this dude.

I've never even had one friend who I knew was a pedophile.

FlyingSquid Mod ,
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I have heard the "the West forced Russia to invade Ukraine" bullshit even here on Lemmy.

A country can't force a second country who is in opposition to them to invade a third country. That's just not how anything works.

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Gold? The Mayans didn't care much about something useless like gold. Now cacao beans... she'd get a lot of cacao beans for that vase.

FlyingSquid ,
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Doesn't matter, that just means "we'll exclude all non-white, non-Christian Europeans who have ever said anything remotely critical of Donald Trump in their time on the internet."

FlyingSquid ,
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I can't think of a more fitting punishment for all of those elderly MAGA boomers who have alienated their entire families by being hateful and disgusting dying because of a lack of good elder care due to their hatred of immigrants.

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If they can find that someone. Sounds like they may not be able to. Good.

FlyingSquid ,
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It also gets corporations of the hook and uses immigrants as a scapegoat. The argument shouldn't be "immigrants will accept lower wages," it should be "companies should be paying higher wages." Even for immigrants.

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Whatever. I'll still be here.

Edit: Jeez. My egotistical comment was beaten by 7 hours. https://lemmy.world/comment/10773740

FlyingSquid Mod ,
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I have a lot to unload and nowhere to unload it.

FlyingSquid Mod ,
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More sort of clicked my beak halves together, but yeah.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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I understand why you're saying that, but I also think a show like this might convince fence-sitters that flat Earth ideas are nuts.

And James Randi and Penn Jillette could both say a lot about the benefits of using TV to mock pseudoscience. Adam Savage too, while we're at it.

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I thought that was going to be when they switched out Uri Gellar's props. I was not disappointed.

FlyingSquid ,
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Maybe don't take away NASA funding and give it to any of them?

FlyingSquid ,
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Maybe they should?

FlyingSquid ,
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Oh for fuck's sake...

FlyingSquid ,
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A hundred years? All of human history more like.

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket

Smedley Butler wrote that in 1935.

FlyingSquid ,
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Read literally the second sentence I quoted.

FlyingSquid Mod ,
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The country that killed Russians for years just for being black?

What on Earth are you talking about?

FlyingSquid Mod ,
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Yep, I realized that in another thread. They've been banned. Thanks.

FlyingSquid Mod ,
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I guarantee you Jon Stewart would never run for office. I also think he's more useful on the outside looking in.

What's a real shame is that a bullshit scandal ended comedian Al Franken's time in the senate. He was definitely one of the best senators of my lifetime.

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I don't understand what you are suggesting.

Are you saying Nigerians and Malaysians are the same in terms of race or are you denying that they are Muslims?

Because I can't figure out a third option.

Edit: Ah, I see. The third option is that you're a troll account.

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I doubt it's required by state law for them to go to Mecca on pilgrimage in any Muslim country. How could they even prove you really did it? At most they could inspect your passport to see if you went to Saudi Arabia.

FlyingSquid Mod ,
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Okay, but this is about going on the Hajj and their nation's laws cant require them to do that.

FlyingSquid Mod ,
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"Jew" can refer a person's religion, but can also be an ethnicity. "Islam" is a religion and not an ethnicity. I couldn't give less of a shit if you make fun of the Jewish religion. Do it all you like. It's a moronic religion.

So the religion of Islam? Yeah, I'll mock it. Arab culture? Nigerian culture? Malaysian culture? No. I won't mock that.

You don't choose your ethnicity. You choose your religion.

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Ok, I'll give him the one.

FlyingSquid ,
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No worries.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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There are good demoscene playlists on YouTube. I'd start there. Unfortunately, the live streaming demoscene video website seems to be gone now.

FlyingSquid ,
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Okay, if it is not a common sight to see people carrying ARs in Kenosha, then it makes sense that people at a protest would take that as a threat and act accordingly. I really don't know what you're saying here other than doing some ridiculous "both sidesing" when only one side committed murder.

FlyingSquid Mod ,
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"Bad" is not a form of government. You claim it isn't a dictatorship. What form of government is it? Don't change the subject.

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https://learn.rumie.org/jR/bytes/what-s-the-difference-between-autocracy-and-dictatorship/

Now... if it is neither an autocracy nor a dictatorship, what is Israel's form of government. Surely you aren't trying to suggest that Israel has no government.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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Again, why do cars have turn signals?

FlyingSquid OP ,
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Well I thought the answer was to avoid crashes by signalling to people behind you that you're about to turn.

But you're claiming that's not the case.

So why do cars have turn signals?

I am not psychic, sorry.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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Okay, well good luck convincing people not to go to work or the supermarket in places without robust public transportation unless they have a bicycle and it isn't dangerously cold or dangerously hot outside.

FlyingSquid Mod ,
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Of course it's possible to say someone is an asshole without knowing the "full consequences." Other than you telling me things you can't possibly prove, I've been given no reason to believe that a supposedly omnipotent being allowing 1000 people doing specifically what he commanded them to do die makes him an asshole. If he exists.

If you have the power to stop 1000 people from dying, then you tell them to do something and let them die (and not peacefully either considering how unpleasant heat exhaustion is), you're an asshole. And telling me that they will be rewarded later (which, again, you cannot prove) doesn't make up for it. If I stab you in the eye and then give you $1000, I'm still the asshole who stabbed you in the eye.

If he doesn't want to be called an asshole, let him defend himself. Or is he not omnipotent enough to do that and you have to do it for him based on your own unprovable claims?

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I'm not sure why you think that's some great revelation. My believing I'm not a brain in a vat dreaming that I'm having a conversation with you is just a belief. I can't assume anything about anything. It's all belief.

However, I think I have proved sufficiently that by any moral standard, he would be considered an asshole. You defended it by saying he rewards them more after death.

Like I said, if I stab you in the eye and then give you $1000, I'm still the asshole that stabbed you in the eye.

Similarly, if Allah lets 1000 of his most faithful die agonizingly in the heat while doing what he commands of them but then rewards them later, he's still the asshole who let them die agonizingly. The reward doesn't make up for it.

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