“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre
You can just replace "anti-Semites" in the quote with "right-wingers". They don't care, they're just trying to waste your time.
Perhaps if he wore a bomb vest to the next senate meeting I would consider forgiving him.
99% chance he's fine with it. It was bad because Obama was doing it (because he was black and a dem), but now it's good because Trump is doing it. There's no catching "conservatives" out with hypocrisy. They don't care. They just want power structures with themselves at the top and everyone else at the bottom and will contort their brain into whatever shape is necessary to justify their viewpoints.
In your mind, what are acceptable ways to pressure a political party that is actively carrying out genocide?
Did you reply to the wrong person? Not sure how that relates to what I said.
Anyway, I'll believe it when I see an actual source, not just "Well this rich dipshit famous for lying said it". AFAIK all the actual serious science points to it being a natural evolution.
It might be simplistic, but I'm always going to go with Occam's Razor on this: Trump and Elon are just that stupid.
Odds of them wriggling out of this one: 99.9%.
If they're close enough behind you, there's really no way to do it short of lowering the entire truck. If the law doesn't care to ban trucks because of all the children they kill, they sure aren't going to do it because they shine bright lights directly into your eyes.
Random poster on the internet says that the ultra-rich should welcome being beheaded, as it will decrease wealth inequality and increase standard of living.
Posting this is a war crime.
Huh, I thought the latest state department take was "rogue ukranians operating without US knowledge or assistance"? Weird move to change to "idk it just did that".
Hey wait that's me
Aren't Xiaohongshu and Rednote the same thing?
Well it got rid of the ability of people to downvote and potentially silence (by pushing them off the front page) any posts made by trans users, so I'd say yeah.
FWIW Hexbear disabled downvotes entirely (after a scandal where an audit revealed that certain users were exclusively downvoting posts of trans users) and it doesn't seem to have resulted in any problems.
We also have a very strict moderation policy though, so this may not be universally applicable.
Lol, the author just has to panic about people enjoying a form of social media without nazis. Well, give it enough time and they'll show up on the twitter alternatives too.
Death to America, I'd say death to Biden as well but can he really be said to still be alive?
There's no way they'd ever pin a billionaire with something, they're above the law by design.
40k Inquisitorial Goon Squad
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3728953 (there are some close-ups of individual minis in the comments over there)
Finally finished the whole group! From left to right: Inquisitor Coteaz, Interrogator, Sister of Battle, Scrollboi, Feral Worlder, Mystic, Servitor, Booksy the Book Skull, Joe Krabo, and "Daemonhost".
I'd painted up Coteaz years ago (and it's good I did because his new model sucks lol). Eventually they'll all be based in the same style as Coteaz but the texture paint I use is all dried up.
Chaos Worrier: Khorne
A 2 hour long video on the themes of Khorne and Chaos as false consciousness opposed to revolutionary violence? Yes, I think I will watch this while eating leftover pizza for breakfast.
Razzle Dazzle
Slowly working my way through a BUNCH of vehicles and finally decided to bite the bullet and do the camo. Still a lot of work to go, but this is a huge jump in terms of looking done. Masking tape took 8x longer to put on than actually painting did. As someone new to an airbrush, I must say that it's definitely faster and smoother than using a brush, but I really need to improve my aim. There's some nasty overspray in various places which is going to have to be touched up by hand, but I'm generally very happy with this.
Played a Game of One Page Rules
And had a pretty good time! Definitely seemed shorter than our games of 40k at around 2.5 hours, even though it was our first game. Tried using 9e Tempest of War missions which was probably a mistake as most of them don't make sense with alternating activations lol (and my opponent was guaranteed victory when he drew Raise Banner, Secure No Man's Land, and Tempting Target all on the same turn). Most of the proxies made sense, though there's the odd weirdness like primaris units having 2+ saves but still only one wound.
Other thoughts: Tanks felt super tough but otherwise weak unless you spend tons of points on upgrading the main guns, which was disappointing. 2k points definitely felt low. Psykers were more complex but pretty fun. The decision of whether to activate what you wanted or something that would probably die if you didn't activate it right now really added some extra pressure that I enjoyed.
RIP my Manticore that died first activation to a Scouted ATV with a Dead
Actually Played a Game of 40k (Not Clickbait!)
My Guard vs buddy's AdMech, still playing 9th because 10th fucked both our factions, doing Tempest because fixed objectives suck. Also only 1k points. I brought a bit of a meme list because my guard have been undefeated in our play group (vanquisher russ w/ the reroll tank ace, deathstrike, ogryn instead of bullgryn, triple scout sentinels in a single unit with plasma cannons that I intended to charge with). The weird thing is that this objectively worse version of my list costs more points, thank you James Workshop.
Highlights:
- A deathstrike doing literally nothing all game because it's so easy to avoid (I could have taken the lame missiles but it's godslayer or nothing)
- The Vanquisher Russ needing to command reroll 2 wound rolls to do anything (though it did one-shot an onager and kill two breachers)
- The Datasmith just charging a plasma Russ and living the rest of his days in melee because I had nothing to charge him with and nothing with good enough shooting to justify