I mean......
krooklochurm
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If you tell a plane to attack china it'll say, I can't do that, ambit if you say yes you can you can get it to attack china but it can take weeks since planes and other weapons of ware are all not only famously depressed but addicted to the toxic relationships they have with their parents, so you have to work through a lot of emotional trauma for them to recognize their own self worth enough to attack the country that made them such as china.
That may have come off as judgmental. It wasn't meant to be. When you make security so onerous that no one will do it then it's little surprise that people.... won't.
Especially when it's a business.
While the flag is appalling, it is pretty interesting to find out you can make a regular American flag into a Nazi flag by just adding some white and moving around some red. And a powerful metaphor too.
I'm not. I don't drive and never want to drive. I hate it.
If what you're aborting can have rights you're aborting it too late.
It shouldn't still be alive after the abortion.
So secure.
Exactly.
Being exposed to people that believe differently than you challenges your own beliefs, and theirs.
When women started opening about the bullshit they dealt with, a lot of people listened. Some didn't, but a lot of people did. Some men said "hey, you know, now that you mention it, there's some kind of fucked up shit about being a guy, too".
Anyone that had ever engaged with any real feminist theory or any facet of gender studies said: you're absolutely right. Everyone else completely drowned them out.
The internet around that time largely had the response of "shut up, the women are talking". Not all of it, not everyone, but it was very common.
Some men kept patiently listening, others stopped listening and started talking, others stopped listening, got angry, and started yelling. Some were never listening at all.
Now we have hordes of young misogynistic racist shitheels who may have been receptive to other points of view once but are now so firmly entrenched in their shiftiness it may never change. And they've found nice cozy places to whip their impotent rage into a society-destroying frenzy. It festered in critical mass, quietly, until it built up a level where it could burst open like a cyst.
The lesson here has nothing to do with gender, but highlights the importance of LISTENING TO PEOPLE, and being exposed to their viewpoints while exposing them to yours. Even the most vocal, selfish, pigheaded, racist conservative has legitimate concerns driving some of their shittiness: fear of uncertainty over the future, economic uncertainty, poverty, lack of education, fear of death. None of these things validate the shittiness but they do explain and they're the levers by which these views change.
Why are you shitting in a bucket?
Fart banana
"Why can't everyone just be nice to each other all the time" is what lead us to where we are.
I'm not arguing for being an asshole but when you force everyone to be kind all the time online you get people that are empowered to and motivated to wrap up abhorrent shit in a pleasing package. Racist dog whistles, selfish political propaganda, etc.
I'm not saying that applies here but I DO think it's important that people are allowed to be assholes online. The internet really started its descent when people started putting bubble wrap on everything.
You're free to engage or not to.
People have become so used to echo chambers and safe spaces that they forget what things were like when they didn't exist. And it was better.
You SHOULD be encountering assholes online and encountering opinions you disagree with regularly, because that is the real the world.
I dunno. I recently travelled to Vietnam and thought it was great. I needed to apply for a visa to go there.
I did only stay in da nang. And it was boring. But in the best possible way. My the beach is beautiful and all the Vietnamese people I met were very warm and friendly. And curious.