CriticalThought

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[–] CriticalThought@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Thanks for your reply. I feel you mischaracterized my response, likely because you didn’t understand it, in which case, likely because I did not express it well.

I don’t care whether op leaves Reddit, it’s not an important issue to me, and it has absolutely nothing to do with purity. I was responding to the idea that it’s hard to leave reddit, which may feel true for op, but, just as you suggested, if everyone took that attitude with everything, positive change would be stymied, and your suggested resort to suicide would make a lot more sense. Making space (e.g., by leaving an abusive relationship of one kind or another) can seem hard or scary, but I stand by it as a means to enable better things to come. What op wants to do with that is up to them.

I hope that’s more clear.

[–] CriticalThought@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Ah yes, like food, water, and air—impossible to live without!

Word to the wise: leaving makes space for alternatives that clinging to hinders.

[–] CriticalThought@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

“What is this, an arch for ants?”

[–] CriticalThought@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for your reply, and good luck with your mysterious education campaign!

[–] CriticalThought@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Sorry if I’m being dense, but just to make sure: you’re saying China is preparing to protect itself from an upcoming Japanese invasion?

[–] CriticalThought@lemmy.world 52 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Under this plan, would the farms be nationalized, or would people be forced to work for the profit of private farm owners?

[–] CriticalThought@lemmy.world 61 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I thought someone running for political office can’t be arrested or tried for a crime in case they eventually win election (at which point all possible charges are automatically dropped)?

[–] CriticalThought@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

Who will be ignored next?

I hate to say it, but there hasn’t been a time in modern history where there weren’t women and children starving while the rest of the world did nothing.

[–] CriticalThought@lemmy.world -3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Then maybe stay home and not vote harder?

[–] CriticalThought@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

"We [the rich] are sick of financing you. You want health care? Befriend a doctor. You want entertainment? Go roll around the mud with your fellow pigs."

This is apparently not a real quote from Musk: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/musk-billionaires-tired/

Plenty to be concerned about, all the more reason it’s important to be factual.

[–] CriticalThought@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I presume they’re too focused on their big win with how they saved Gaza to worry about anything else…

[–] CriticalThought@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I was under the impression that JD Vance enjoys the financial support of Peter Thiel et al.?

How Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley funded the sudden rise of JD Vance

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