HopeOfTheGunblade

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[–] HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 2 points 4 months ago

Yes, it can't impact the trial, that he didn't testify. Doesn't mean we can't infer, out here away from the court, that he put up a big front in public and slunk away with his tail between his legs in court, because he knew he was guilty and would only have made things worse if he testified, along with earning some counts of perjury.

[–] HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Shouldn't you be able to get it in in at least some states via ballot measures, from where you can use it to send better people to DC to implement it federally?

[–] HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I've been having this argument a lot lately, so the sarcasm shit right past me. It's exhausting trying to get people to understand that no, really, genocide a * 3 plus additional genocide b is worse than genocide a alone.

[–] HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I don't think I said that. Can you show me where I did?

I will say that you have a slice of responsibility over the future, and you'll have to live with the consequences of whatever decision you end up making - including the one where you sit on your hands. No matter what you do, you can still complain about it, but the future will be whichever one we collectively steer to. One of those possible futures is worse than the other. So it seems to me that we should steer away from it, rather than wrong our hands about how we don't like the choices. Sure, you don't like the choices. They're the choices regardless. Model the outcomes of each possibility, decide which one you hate the least and steer towards it, because we are getting a future selected from among the possibilities. Jesus is not going to rapture us out of this.

[–] HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 2 points 4 months ago

Yes. Humans are given to certainty and judgement in excess of what the evidence merits, so I have taken to understatement.

I'm not convinced that Joe Biden is fascism, though. Would you be so kind as to compare him to Umberto eco's list, and share examples on each point? Trump seems like a much better match to that, but perhaps I have missed something.

[–] HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 15 points 4 months ago

I mean, acknowledging that humans are never going to be fully informed or perfect calculators, the correct time is approximately when the expected outcome of action is better than the expected outcome of inaction, plus some finagle factor to account for bias.

[–] HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 4 points 4 months ago

Apparently it has a significant chance of "aggressive ass cancer".

[–] HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 87 points 4 months ago (39 children)

Yes but see, if we just sit on our hands and don't vote we won't have any responsibility for what follows! Only voting for someone who is less than ideal on this issue is a morally bad choice!

[–] HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 33 points 4 months ago

I have no interest in downvoting you, but I would like to say that on priors, I would be surprised to learn that she saw "Hamas" and "Palestinians" as anything other than a distinction without a difference. She's electively of a set with Lindsey "Nuke Gaza" Graham, and she's voting for Trump apparently now, who has been very vocal about his support for the "kill them all" perspective.

Do you have specific evidence that leads you to believe otherwise, or is it more of a charity in humanity thing?

[–] HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

These companies provided access to the required technologies free of charge, for humanitarian purposes.

They don't own it, they don't get paid for it.

[–] HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

"Big corps" aren't involved here. It's a philanthropy project, and from what I can find it's not legally encumbered in any way like Monsanto stuff is. This is entirely Greenpeace doing something that gets headlines, instead of something actually good. Don't forget that that organization, too, has motives, first among which is going to be survival and advancement of the organization.

[–] HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 6 points 4 months ago

And you can prove that corruption claim? Because the red team has been busting their asses trying to find something, anything, and they have fuck-all. Waaaah he has a failson, that's your knockdown argument?

Or did you mean trump, who keeps losing court cases because he's a corrupt lying rapist with bad taste and hygiene?

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