rainynight65

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on Double Standard · c/memes · 6 pts · 2y

My German father, who lived and worked in Budapest for a long time, pronounced it wrong. I rarely have cause to use the name but when I do, I try to do it justice.

The idiocy is that the same people who normally advocate for freedom of speech and freedom of consequences, who oppose what they call 'cancel culture', and who think that you should be able to say anything you want, who don't believe that words have impact - they're the exact same people who are getting all hot under the collar over this, and are more than happy for this particular speech to have consequences.

You can't have it any which way. I don't condone what Kyle Gas's said, but it's interesting if not disturbing to see who's the loudest in advocating for severe consequences.

Read up a bit about Ralph Babet and you'll see what a massive hypocrite the guy is.

It wasn't too long ago that right wingers were marching the streets in the state of Victoria, calling for the then-Premier to be hanged. One woman who later got elected to the Victorian parliament said she wouldn't rest until she saw him hanging from the end of a rope.

Guess who didn't oppose those calls for violence? The same people who got their knickers in a twist over this one, that's right.

on Hmm, needs linux · c/comicstrips · 31 pts · 2y

Why would you need to charge it all the way up? Just plug in the PSU, switch it on, look for your file, turn it off.

on Loyalty · c/lemmyshitpost · 9 pts · 2y

That pistol appears to be cocked and not locked (safety off). I seriously hope there's no round chambered.

"I always thought there couldn't possibly be a God, with all the evil in the world. But perhaps... all this evil exists because there is a God. Perhaps, yes, perhaps this God just isn't a particularly nice guy. It's possible that God isn't a DJ, but an arsehole."

"He's probably both. A DJ who exclusively plays Rammstein at a kid's birthday party."

"You know the saying that God created Man in His image? Well, look around. If you assume that God is an arsehole, it suddenly makes a lot of sense."

Freely translated from The Kangaroo Chronicles by Marc-Uwe Kling

The standalone Gwent version started sucking the moment all the competitive gamers got their hands on it. Then it was all about optimising the game to death, all the decks got streamlined. I came back to the game after a longer break and it was almost completely different, and my favourite faction had been so drastically altered that I couldn't get back into it.

So how come people trust Donald Trump? How is it that he can get away with lying whenever he opens his mouth, how is it that people buy it when he pretends he's the underdog and not part of the establishment? How is it his followers, who are so ready to believe that the government lies to them all the time, don't call anything of what he says into question?

If we go by what you say then we're basically fucked. Government and authorities can never regain trust because thanks to people like Trump, thanks to parties like the Republicans, who have spent decades undermining that trust, thanks to the mass media who are highly complicit, we live in a post-truth world, and it's enough that a government wasn't 100% truthful that one time, we can never trust them again.

No, I really can't understand the mindset. Especially not in the face of the constant undermining of trust by certain elements of society, including when they're in government. We didn't just arrive here for no reason. The same people who have eroded the trustworthiness of government and authority (on purpose, see Reagan) over decades are the ones who now exploit the results of their actions, for their own gain.

If, in your scenario, group B was on the level, it would be a different story. But they aren't. If A oversold their claim, B would have massively oversold theirs. And that was easy to prove and has been proven. B also just didn't oversell their own claim, they also exaggerated the claim that they refuted to something that, in this form, was never said - standard MO.

There is no trick to this. Being factual and getting people to believe you is much harder than telling an easy but good-sounding lie and getting people to believ you.