Probably not “Marcus is gay” since they didn’t have a similar idea of sexuality, it being more or less a free-for-all.

As if he could still manage an erection.

I take “what the absolute fuck” to mean there’s a platonic ideal of “fuck” and that’s what they’re referring to.

But this did make me want to find out the etymology of “absolute” :

https://www.etymonline.com/word/absolute

I’m not a runner but this type just popped into my mind, with this sort of half cover, so you can have an mitten on your hand when running but take it off to use a phone blow a nose or whatever, without taking the gloves off.

Mittens good because they’re pretty airy and don’t get as clammy as full finger gloves.

I’m sure this model is also found in more sporting materials

“half cover gloves” or smth for search terms idk

You disgust me.

You mean this?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatcher_effect

I’d assume there’d be at least someone there who’s job it is to “research” things to see if they’re to be banned or not.

Like the person who would’ve had to read the Harry Potters.

Are you aware Elon bought the title of “founder of Tesla”?

He’s not invented jack shit. Dude’s a moron.

With a term like that, it’s not weird to link Wikipedia, but I actually would’ve understood it without it as well.

But here in Finland schools aren’t in loco parentis for the trip to and from school. Only while school’s in. That’s why for instance schools here couldn’t sanction pupils for fighting on the way home.

Who’s “them” and what is “the test”?

You needed a licence to drive a bicycle?

That’s the point. They’re ridiculing the hypocrisy, not the sexism.

Wouldn’t know, don’t remember that ever happening.

Every group has its idiots, but I will admit it felt like a higher class of idiot.

Oh that’s unlocked some memories. Wow what a flashback.

he absolutely should have the book thrown at him

That I will get behind 100%. Absolutely. I think there’s quite a lot to be done within a legal framework to make him face some consequences at least, as long as it’s not a total kangaroo court. Which a lot of these seem to have been, what with the oligarchy and corruption and whatnot.

Also, the nazis didnt start out with genocide.

No, they didn’t. We could talk all night about how some Germans would have insisted at the end of the war that they didn’t know shit about the death-camps or any killings for that matter. Would I have believed any? I doubt it. Would I have been so certain of knowing that they weren’t actually lying to me, that I could have taken it upon myself to serve justice on them? I don’t think so, no.

It’s easy to say that in hindsight, if you had the chance to stop the genocide of tens of millions of people by killing one creepy little Austrian dude who never did any good in his life, you would. But say for the sake of the argument that you right now get a weird time-machine just appear in front of, ready to take you to Braunau am Inn on April 20th, 1889. It also has several gadgets for you to use, rendering you functionally invincible and extremely powerful (so you can do whatever you fucking like without anyone being able to stop you, but not like God levels of power.)

Would you murder that baby Hitler? It’s easy to say “yes” if you don’t think about it all, but then at least history would change massively. Probably for the better, but perhaps not. As cold as it is, war did bring many advancements as well. Would you even be born, or would a paradox wipe you out if you tried changing anything? Without getting too deep into metaphysics, my point here is that you wouldn’t have absolute certainty about what would happen. Perhaps the best thing for humanity would be for you to try and influence Hitler (and/or history in general) more than just straight up murdering a baby?

The point is that you wouldn’t have the certainty, so it would be much harder to actually decide what to do, despite us now and here knowing that Hitler was mega-fucking evil and we would want to have been able to prevent the genocides of the 20th century.

A few videos that I thought of while writing this: Killing Hans Sprechter

And this Baby Hitler | DEADPOOL 2 Extended Scene | Ryan Reynolds

But yeah, that’s just the absolutes. People don’t function in absolutes. I think you make a valid point about some people sort of giving up a bit too much when people should be actually riling up and looking for what can be done about the Trump presidency, legally. But yeah, definitely throw the book, not Molotov cocktails.

“Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.”

But we’re not sure he will “commit atrocities of unbelievable proportions”.

He’s a demented reality TV-star, but his rhetoric is undeniably fascist and autocratic and he has a very clear history of lying and being extremely self-serving to the point of endangering both American and non-American lives with his ignorance and stupidity.

When Trump became president, he pretty much immediately gave Russia a list of top-US spies, who then started dying. He’s clearly dangerous, but is he “let’s murder a (more or less) democractically elected president elect of the United States”-dangerous? Should we just go and murder him, for the sake of justice and democracy? No. That would be like curing a headache with a bullet. Yes it would definitely work, but… it’s a bit disproportionate.

I’m not saying nothing should be done. I’m saying that straight up murdering someone without due process is a bit over-the-top.

Of course he did those things. He also breathed, shat and ate. Is everyone who breathes, shits and eats a Hitler?

I can name dozens of non-Hitlers who’ve done all the things you’ve said.

Did Harris run with “Trump is an actual Hitler” or “Trump is a dangerous fascist”?

Because if it’s the former, then rationally your argument is a strawman and needs to be amended before more rational conversation can take place.

You’re doing a bit of a strawman.

“My opponent is a fascist” =/= “My opponent is Hitler”

Did Harris talk about Trump being a literal copy of Hitler who will genocide millions of people in death camps, or did she assert he’s a fascist and a very real threat to democracy?

Because your rhetoric really only works if you know for a fact that Trump is a literal Hitler. We all know him to be a literal autocrat though.

flagrantly violating the Constitution to keep him out of power is something that should be done

So break democracy to save democracy? Ends justify the means? Hindsight is 2020, so if someone tossed you in a timemachine and you found yourself in the 1920’s, you could have the confidence to actually kill Hitler without any qualms, because you’d know what would happen. But no-one has that. We can confidently say Trump is a demented child-rapist who will fuck shit up and make things worse for everyone except his oligarch friends (which very much includes Putin.) We don’t know how bad it’s gonna get, but it’s clearly a downhill the world is facing with a US president like that.

No, but bigoted, cisgendered, heterosexual white men are probably more likely to listen to other cisgendered heterosexual white men due to their bigotry.

Someone disagreeing within Chad Junior’s very narrow social circle will mean more to him than someone outside of the circle, especially if that person is also unlike Chad Junior in several ways. Unfortunate as it is.