normalbeet

joined 1 year ago
[–] normalbeet@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago

And what if everyone were honest about what these "damages" should be?

Even this fantasy scenario of consequences is an incredibly low-balled Cost of Doing Business of murder.

[–] normalbeet@slrpnk.net 22 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I did make the changes personally. Everything must be perfect now in the whole world! You’re welcome!

How ridiculous. We need to be honest about power.

[–] normalbeet@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 year ago

Shouting a plain absurdity is one of the clearest ways to demonstrate group affiliation.

Forcing others to be civil about a lie of existential proportions is one of the clearest ways to demonstrate power.

[–] normalbeet@slrpnk.net 38 points 1 year ago (5 children)

They have trained you all your life to blame the victims.

[–] normalbeet@slrpnk.net 34 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Billions and billions and billions and billions of dollars of propaganda are just a coincidence.

And a century of research into more powerful and crushing propaganda. Just a coincidence.

[–] normalbeet@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

I find myself thinking back to growing up in farm country, where everyone would just dump all poisons on the ground. I don’t know whether alternatives were realistically in place for nasty chemicals and substances that you didn’t want. I never heard about them.

Farms get cut up into yards, and I think of whoever chooses the wrong spot for their garden.