Because -isms exist in a binary world (sexism, racism, etc…)

Any increase in visibility for whatever minority they happen to hate, is a decrease in visibility for them (in their feeble transactional little minds) and it drives them bonkers.

If you think your Apple phone isn’t listening to you, I have some seaside real estate I’d like to sell you in Montana.

Flive has flive letters.

Great photo!

The notion that “facts matter”.

I’ve spent my entire life believing that facts don’t care about feelings. That scientific truth doesn’t require your belief in it in order to be true. That at the end of the day, reasoning will beat emotion…

By far the most dis-heartening thing about the last few years (to me) has been accepting the idea they “facts” are “whatever is shouted the loudest”.

It, more than anything else, makes me feel helpless. If the enemy isn’t even playing with the same fact-sheet… How do you even begin to fight that?

I know how anyone could organize something so large, But a mass strike/walkout would have more impact than anything else right now.

None of the common people go in to work until shit stain “abdicates”

It’s not “gone”, but the notion of it being “acceptable” is gone:

Using ‘retard’ as a slur, not only for people with intellectual disabilities but also just for people or things you think were stupid.

Zebra F-301

Dreams are basically simulations of our lives that we run

I rarely ever feature in my own dreams. Nor do people I know. My brain invents completely fictitious stories and characters, like watching a movie or a stage play.

I get what you’re trying to say. But the truth is, a red light doesn’t stop anyone from doing anything. It just tells them that there will be consequences if they choose to do so and get caught.

For the sake of the metaphor that you were going for, we can say that some people know that they’ll face no consequences if they’re caught. So they feel entitled to not bother stopping. While some people know that, based on previous history, that they’ll be stopped even if they just managed to squeak through while the light was still yellow.

I realize I’ll get downvoted to hell for saying it, but IMO anyone who says that non-violence works every time is naive.

The French didn’t gain anything until the guillotines started rolling. America didn’t get their freedom until they started fighting back. British/Portuguese/French Colonialism in Africa didn’t come to an end until the locals started rioting and in some cases flat out starting revolutions.

Anyone who says violence never solved anything hasn’t been paying attention to ANYTHING in history EVER.

It’s Tommy Westphall’s world. We’re just living in it.

Kazinsky probably “killed himself” because he took a look at the world of 2023 and realized that no one listened to a single word he said.

That’s correct. It IS better than it was. And it’s important to KEEP it that way. But in case you haven’t noticed, world history is following pretty much the exact same path beat-for-beat that it did in the lead up to that war that cost 140 million lives.

It’s not whether we are better off than we were in the past. It’s a question of whether or not we’re going to stay that way. Because the next world war might claim a billion or more. (exaggerating for effect of course)

In some ways I think they always were about non-violence. Kagami clearly only resorted to the bombing when they had nothing else to lose. The female leader (Sonia I think her name was) was on that side of things as well, while Roger Cross’ character (I think his name was Travis?) was the militaristic one.

Canadian Sci-Fi starring Roger Cross

That made me laugh out loud because it’s so damn true.

It was a pretty good show that sadly got forgotten. But yes, on my second rewatch recently (In Canada at least it’s also on Tubi for free…) I was immediately with Liber8. They are the protagonists. And I think that was kind of the point of the show by the end.

I too enjoy peyote on occasion.

Well shoot. My regular eye doctor is a cute little thing that I kind of have a crush on, and now all I can picture is her talking about my eye sphincter…

I’ll have none of your witchcraft here, thank-you-very-much.