Tedesche
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- Comment on The look... 5 months ago:
“Okay, now throw a straight punch at me.” “…Why?” “Because it doesn’t work unless you throw a straight punch! Just do it!” …[sweeps the leg] “Noooo, you jerk, do it so I can show you how adept I am in the martial arts!”
- Comment on Real committed 5 months ago:
I like your memes, but this is a dick response. You could have just not answered, no reason to go out of your way to be an asshole.
- Comment on Waddle waddle 5 months ago:
To be fair, ducks are pretty dumb.
- Comment on I'm 99% sure it's not real 5 months ago:
Pretty sure they just draw complex pictures of bridges all day.
- Comment on The plot thickens 5 months ago:
It’s a short one, overly faded.
- Comment on When you've been in the pool a little too long... 6 months ago:
Yes. Female?
- Comment on Does Mach speed change depending on the altitude? 6 months ago:
Yes, because its calculation relies on the local speed of sound, which is varies based on several factors, including altitude.
- Comment on He knows 6 months ago:
Operant conditioning is a helluva drug.
- Comment on Ouroboros 6 months ago:
Can someone knowledgeable please explain to me why snakes don’t realize they’re biting themselves when this happens?
Also, related question: why do dogs sometimes bite their own tails and hind feet as though they’re foreign entities?
- Comment on Positive review 6 months ago:
Why, because all cartoons know each other?
Toonist SOB.
- Comment on What could have been 6 months ago:
I haven’t seen a shitpost of this caliber in a really long time. Bravo, OP.
- Comment on Do guys that tip cam models hundreds of dollars week after week think that model actually likes them? 7 months ago:
Your BIL likely has an intellectual impairment to get those benefits. Learning disabilities are not typically severe enough to disable a person from working. An intellectual impairment is a much broader term that essentially indicates the person’s IQ is significantly lower than average, and this very often is disabling enough to prevent a person from working.
- Comment on Should I quit my monthly expenses for alcohol? 7 months ago:
Okay, fair point, I didn’t check the sub name before I commented.
- Comment on Should I quit my monthly expenses for alcohol? 7 months ago:
I live in NYC and in Manhattan to boot, and this is such mf’ing garbage. Please, any non-NYers in this thread: do NOT think these costs are accurate. These wouldn’t be accurate anywhere.
Stop trying to bait rage and disparage NYC, OP. This is a pathetic attempt and you’re a POS for making it.
- Comment on The actors who have played this iconic role 7 months ago:
As much as he might deserve it for his personality, no, my comments here are genuinely because I just didn’t think his version was as good as others.
- Comment on The actors who have played this iconic role 7 months ago:
For me, it was too brief to even count as an interpretation. I don’t get how people can compare Leto’s performance to Ledger’s or Phoenix’s, simply because of how much more there is to the latter two’s, not even taking into account artistic quality or interpretation.
- Comment on The actors who have played this iconic role 7 months ago:
I really hope you’re being sarcastic here.
- Comment on Cereal is glorified food pellets. 7 months ago:
Is that supposed to make me want it less?
- Comment on What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ? 7 months ago:
Didn’t they also establish that Sargent is a hyper-religious Christian and that the majority of American flat-earthers are? If this is a religious belief for them then there’s absolutely no hope that they’ll change their views.
- Comment on impossible 7 months ago:
I’m not a math person at all, so I’m not really debating your proof, but it seems to me that if 0.9• = 1, then what does 0.1• equal? It “fits” perfectly into the “space” between 0.9• and 1, but if 0.9•=1 then 0.1• should equal 0, right? Except it doesn’t, because 0.1<0.1• and 0.1 definitely isn’t 0.
I definitely understand why some religious people think numbers are a tool of Satan.
- Comment on why is the world suddebly focused on the irsali-palestine conflict and hamas group? 7 months ago:
Because it’s recently escalated from a simmering series of minor conflicts to full-blown war. Hamas launched a coordinated series of strikes against Israel on Oct. 7th, massacring lots of people, and Israel has responded by bombing Gaza indiscriminately, killing thousands of civilians in their attempts to slay Hamas leaders.
This is “new,” in other words. It’s receiving a lot of attention because it’s a big change from the state of things prior to 10/7/23.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
I’ve been on here since the Reddit API nonsense and it was always like this. Lemmy is a haven for the Far Left, and the Far Left is just as blind to nuance and their own hypocrisy as the Far Right is. It’s just something you have to put up with here, and that will be the case until Lemmy attracts a wider audience.
- Comment on Gone too soon 8 months ago:
He will obviously be missed, but I don’t think 82 is “too soon,” even in this day and age.
- Comment on How can I practice being more emotionally available as a man? 9 months ago:
Wow, a bigoted prick and an internet stalker. Stop following me around, asshat. Maybe get off the internet for a bit? Get a life.
- Comment on How can I practice being more emotionally available as a man? 9 months ago:
Start seeing a therapist. Get help from a professional and avoid taking the advice of strangers on the internet.
- Comment on What's the difference between asking someone title or someone's pronouns ? 9 months ago:
Even amongst conservatives, I would wager the ones who are reasonable enough to accept gay people are reasonable enough to accept trans people. I agree with what you’re saying—the general trend is that a new minority group is first reviled and then gradually accepted; gay people had a hard-won fight, and trans people will too (although thankfully, I think trans people can ride gay people’s success on this front, at least a bit). I just think there’s a huge contingent of conservatives (mainly the Christian Right) that will never accept gay people and group trans people in with them, rather than seeing them as separate issues/groups.
- Comment on What's the difference between asking someone title or someone's pronouns ? 9 months ago:
I don’t think most conservatives draw a meaningful distinction between being gay and being trans. These are folks who still view homosexuality as a mental illness and I’m fairly certain they see transsexualism as a closely-related mental illness, similar to the way schizophrenia is closely related to schizoaffective disorder.
- Comment on Star Trek transporters 9 months ago:
It goes a lot farther than that, actually. If you have the technology to assemble a person on a molecular level like that, you can basically prevent that person from dying. Captain got killed by an alien on an away mission? Just print another copy of them from their scan from just before they left.
- Comment on Question From a Liberal: How are We Destroying the USA? 9 months ago:
Gun control, higher taxes, and more regulations are all things I see liberals pretty universally pushing for. Those are all enforced onto people whether they like it or not.
Okay, I’ll concede gun control is an issue on which liberals are trying to enforce their views on others. However, the tax increases liberals push for are heavily weighted towards corporations and the super-rich; working and middle class people are largely unaffected by them. Furthermore, I don’t consider the tax rate a “way of life;” that’s not what I was referring to in my comment. Similarly, the regulations liberals push for are things like “you can’t dump plastic in the ocean” and “you have to use this slightly more expensive part in your device, because studies have conclusively shown it’s much better for the environment,” and I don’t see those as “ways of life” either. The classic divide about government regulations is that liberals want more of them and conservatives want less, but the regulations themselves are almost always very specific, policy-relevant things that aren’t the same as one sector of society forcing their cultural values on another. The tug of war over regulations is about the freedoms of the private sector vs. the interests of the public. We all agree there should be a balance, just like we all agree taxes are necessary; the only debate is about what that balance should be.
would you consider a vote that codified race-based slavery to be an acceptable result of democracy?
Obviously not one I’d accept, nor I think the population voted on to be slaves, but sure, it could be a product of a democratic process. I’m not sure what your point is here, so maybe I do regard it as a bit pedantic? The original quote of mine you referenced was in the context of me talking about the allure of authoritarianism. I said that, because in my view, conservatives these days are displaying a great deal of approval of/desire for an authoritarian response to democratic processes that don’t go their way. Trump is the most obvious example, but you could look at the Republican reliance of gerrymandering to maintain their own power in the face of popular votes that don’t go their way as another. What is so serious about democrats winning that these sorts of extreme strategies are necessary? I suppose I can see how abortion might justify it to some people, as it’s about saving lives in their view, but “the gay agenda?” “Wokeness?” The “rigged” 2020 election theory that has not a shred of evidence in support of it? If conservatives are willing to give up on democracy over those issues, I just don’t think they’re even really trying anymore.
That’s just politics? I’m not voting based on who I think is the chillest bro I’d love to invite for dinner. The specific person matters very little to me as a whole, given our current political system. Rather, I care what policy they will enact (or block) while in office, how the government is leaning in terms of party makeup, and general election strategy.
While I understand your point, I reject your logic on the grounds that Trump is demonstrably not like your garden variety politician. He is mentally disordered in a very extreme and dangerous way, and it’s frankly irresponsible to put him in power over others. And it is this single fact, which conservatives seem to dispute, that makes me think they’ve lost their minds, because this is an extremely important and not particularly difficult distinction to see. I see voting for a psychopath for president as a moral evil, which should be something we all agree on. The fact that it is apparently not is very concerning to me.
- Comment on Question From a Liberal: How are We Destroying the USA? 9 months ago:
Thank you for the response!
I’ve thought about this–this oft-commented-upon notion that conservatives want small federal government and more power in the hands of the states and/or people–but I continually find it difficult to square this with what conservatives are voting for today. Trump has been very clear about wanting to consolidate power in his own hands, in a manner consistent with authoritarian dictators, and conservatives don’t seem to have a problem with it. Similarly, while the conservative cant about abortion for decades has been that they want it in state control rather than federal, now that SCOTUS has put in state control, conservatives are talking about a federal ban. So, I don’t really buy this notion that conservatives favor local/state control over federal; I increasingly think that’s a facade for “we don’t like people different from us enforcing their views on us,” but it covers, “we have specific ways we think people should live and we want to enforce those views on other people.” The problem I have with this is that liberal policies don’t actually enforce their ways of life on conservatives, with the significant exception that said policies do push to have liberal ways of life promoted in public education, which conservatives obviously have a problem with. However, liberals aren’t trying to force anyone to get abortions, simply let people who want them have them. Similarly, no one’s trying to force people to be gay or trans; simply accept people who are gay as human beings. I honestly don’t know what conservatives think the “gay agenda” is. Can you explain this?
I understand that the allure of an authoritarian government is one that holds to your own policies and tramples any opposition to them–I can understand the appeal of that to anyone, conservative or liberal. But I would think most people are able to wrap their minds around the idea of civil disagreement and the importance of people being able to debate things and vote on them as a group (democracy). I do think the media has overblown the extent to which conservatives think the following, but January 6th really did send the message that Trump supporters don’t accept what the rest of us call democracy, and that’s a serious problem. Currently, polls indicate most conservatives still support Trump, who is still claiming the 2020 election was stolen from him. Why should liberals regard conservatives as reasonable, rational human beings under these circumstances? Why should I respect the opinions of a person who is willing to vote for a transparent psychopath and liar, just because he parrots what the policies they like to hear? Clearly, liberals vote for politicians who have flaws and simply parrot their views, but Trump is beyond the pale, is he not?