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- Comment on I left the Tommy Robinson rally with the worrying realisation: this movement is only going to get bigger 4 hours ago:
I asked her why she was there and she looked incredulous. Wasn’t it obvious? “Because Keir Starmer’s a wanker.” Why? “He’s taking our speech away.” Even though you’re allowed to sit outside his house and call him a wanker? “Well he is.”
I wonder why the author felt the need to place this early on in the narration. As if the reader, from now on, needs to imagine a dumb bimbo that got verbally dunked on.
but more still felt this far-right gathering was the only place they could be heard
Sadly the author missed the opportunity for self-reflection. They are right: people talk about them, they talk against them, but never with them.
- Comment on Is there a word for when a bad person who got exposed for things deliberately finds "questionable" things about the person who exposed him? 11 hours ago:
Spite
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 1 day ago:
Imagine a car without cellular connectivity
- Comment on to hell I say 2 days ago:
Should he go to land jail or ocean jail?
- Comment on Malkovich? Malkovich 2 days ago:
malkovich?
- Comment on grocery 2 days ago:
I’ll archive this one under “Pictures you can feel”
- Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 2 days ago:
Seeing a hate preacher stop hate preaching is a good thing that bad people are pretending is a bad thing.
That’s not what happened though. The message got amplified by the way this murder happened, and the cheeryness of how many people reacted.
If the self-proclaimed good guys celebrate violence over dialogue, then there’s no good. A valid conclusion were the premise true.
- Comment on We don't perceive prices logarithmically when selling things. 2 days ago:
In my native language % means “per cent”, meaning per hundred.
So it reads as 125 per 100 times 40000.
- Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 2 days ago:
There will be radical people like that.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 3 days ago:
People complain that “google has turned to shit”. But the best part of their search offering, scholar.google.com, is still as amazing as ever.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 3 days ago:
The weird thing is that that’s always been the case. Only thing that changed last decade is the gullibility of the reader.
- Comment on Why don't harvesting economies make as much money as manufacturing or service economies? 3 days ago:
Depends on if there are many alternative producers, and if there’s a cartel.
For example OPEC makes big bucks.
- Comment on We don't perceive prices logarithmically when selling things. 3 days ago:
Guessing they mean;
A 5 EUR coffee is 1 EUR more than a 4 EUR coffee.
A 50000 EUR car is 5/4th or 125% tumes a 40000 EUR car.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 3 days ago:
2 factor authentication
- Comment on Rust 4 days ago:
Ooh no no nooo
- Comment on Still getting dunked on in Dota 2? Don't worry, even Gabe Newell gets called a noob once a week, apparently 4 days ago:
That’s called existential pain I think
- Comment on Still getting dunked on in Dota 2? Don't worry, even Gabe Newell gets called a noob once a week, apparently 4 days ago:
A weaker man in his position would nerf all the others
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Annoying you mean?
- Comment on 5 days ago:
There’s clearly a difference, and neither of those statements are good!
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 5 days ago:
Sounds like the reverse is happening instead, no?
- Comment on 5 days ago:
As are you, right now.
- Comment on The EU has never been closer to agreeing on Chat Control – here's how we got here and what’s at stake 6 days ago:
Damn near anyone paying attention knows this isn’t about child porn
The fact that the politicians exclude themselves from the spying is an indicator it might actually be about child porn
- Comment on Snapchat allows drug dealers to operate openly on platform, finds Danish study 6 days ago:
Ah yes, censoring dangerous words like ‘weed’ will make the platform a safe space.
- Comment on What is it called when you believe the U.S. political parties shouldn’t exist? 6 days ago:
It’s hard to assign a name to a negative, as the alternatives are so plenty. Maybe describe the improvements you might like?
I, for one, like the ideas of liquid democracy.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
I’d prefer to make the bullied feel welcomed than the oppressor with what limited time and resources I have
Nobody truely is solely the bully or bullied. That’s what seperates empathy from parochial empathy: understanding not only people who you like, but also those who you don’t like.
your link says that people who are ostracized by others tend to continue that cycle not that people who ostracized others were themselves victims of ostracization
You might misunderstand the meaning of the word cycle?
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Now being massively rude and dehumanizing to others is an active choice one makes, that’s not a outgroup that one is in through any choice but their own.
Unfortunately, this perspective often misses a crucial truth. Most abusers have a history of being abused themselves (1). They are trapped in a relentless cycle of anger, rejection, and pain, struggling to escape a reality where kindness feels foreign and unrecognizable. Breaking this cycle is profoundly challenging, as it demands consistent empathy and kindness from others—qualities they initially perceive as weaknesses. This is the very lesson they absorbed in their formative years. They see their worldview validated as angry mobs of self-proclaimed “good guys” celebrate intentional agitation, hurt, and violence.
You’re arguing that the rest of the party should feel bad for the asshole that was kicked out.
Exactly! Vilify behaviour instead of people. Try to protect your friend that’s being bullied by supporting his behaviour. Recognize that everyone can be hurt or wronged, as well as can hurt and do wrong.
In other words: be empathic.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Can we not take pleasure in knowing vile, evil people have perished and can no longer spread their destructive ideals that will lead to pain and suffering of others?
In doing so, you’re spreading vile evil ideals that lead to pain and suffering of others.
The message that it’s fair game to murser and hurt people, as long as you view them as “other”.
The test is empathy, man.
Exactly!
Charlie actively advocated against that
Pot, meet kettle
- Comment on if hate is categorically bad, then any sort of negativity is also bad. Even the word bad is bad. Being anti-hate actually has drawbacks 6 days ago:
I think you can’t spreadsheet your way through emotions — there isn’t a scoresheet that sorts them into a tidy “Good” column and an equally neat “Bad” column. I don’t think you can banish feelings you dislike and license only the pleasant ones.
I think what’s possible is learning to recognize what you’re feeling, fully experiencing it, and choosing deliberately how to direct that energy. Regulating actions and words. I think you can’t stop feelings from arising.
Life improves when you practice feeling deliberately, however imperfect the process, instead of suppressing emotions until they blow up.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
are still feeling empathy for tolerant people outside their groups
Apparently they are not, as exemplified by celebration of violence here. They only do so when they identify with people as part of their in-group.
The fascist chose to break the peace treaty and so they are no longer protected by it.
Neither are the people celebrating here, according to this logic. See the issue?
Now tolerant people have to work together with people outside their groups
Exactly, they should! What they’re doing instead is using violence on people outside their in-group.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
or a group of people break the social contract
That’s what most here are doing. Should everyone who celebrates this breaking of the social contract be fair game for reprisal?