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DomeGuy

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    Disney Reportedly in Chaos as Talks About Jimmy Kimmel's Return to ABC Continue

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  • The late night host was suspended because Donald Trump wanted him suspended.

    It doesn't matter what Kimmel said, or about whom, or how politely.. he was censored by the government,.and that's literally the first thing we put into.the constitution to say 'no, they can't do that".

    Don't carry water for fascists by repeating their lies.

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    Young, white females positioned to fight MAGA

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  • The Senate in 2020 was 50 Republicans, 2 independents who caucus with the Dems, 1 coal baron pretending to be a Democrat, 1 green party scam artist also pretending to be a Democrat, and 46 actual Democrats.

    Even if you got past the filibuster the vote would almost certainly be 49-51 against or worse.

  • What is going on with Jimmy Kimmel...?

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  • You got it in 1.

    Trump's a wannabe facist, so his crony at the FCC corruptly pressured the employer of a comedian he doesn't like into firing said comedian.

    Make note of this, and refer back to it for the next several decades anytime anyone on the right bitches about "cancel culture" or "free speech".

  • More New York Democrats coalesce behind Zohran Mamdani, but key holdouts remain

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  • If Schumer and Jeffries want to endorse whomever they want, they can resign their positions as party leadership.

  • More New York Democrats coalesce behind Zohran Mamdani, but key holdouts remain

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  • Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are doing incalculable damage to Democratic party unity by not enforcing their party's candidate for NYC mayor.

    It doesn't even matter at this point if Mamdami loses -- any call by either "leader" for party unity will be met with "you didn't endorse Mamdami, why should we endorse your pick" by anyone to their left, forever.

  • What is something that should have died out a long time ago?

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  • A diesel engine can literally run on vegetable oil. We don't need fossil fuel subsidies to keep farm tractors working.

    If we must distort the market directly, we should do so on the demand side. Give farmers a per-Joule fuel subsidy, and let them use petro-disel, bio-disel, or electric as the market may provide.

    Either we believe that markets work or we don't

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  • My other half had a very good experience with TalkSpace, which accepts our insurance.

    Unless you're in the Republican medicaid-obamacare gap, you should have insurance and they should have at least some mental health coverage. And if you are or they don't, a professional stranger via an online service is definitely something you should look into.

  • What if this is a coma dream.

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  • Whether or not you're "really" a real person, or a brain in a jar, or a butterfly dreaming you're Zhuangzi, you and me and everyone else are still "people" we should respect.

    Wrestling with the unfalsifiable nature of reality is something all thought traditions have dealt with, and I'd argue that you're not really an adult in 2025 if you haven't contemplated that all you know could be a hallucination.

    The screwier question always becomes "if this is a dream , what if you're not the dreamer?"

  • Scientists Have Translated the Inner Monologue. The Implications Are Incredible.

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  • Was there any reported reduction in training time needed for subsequent words?

    Just getting a computer to understand anything from the implanted wires is progress, but it's "spend hours training for each single word" we're still at a 1970s scifi level of interaction.

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  • No, we absolutely should not mark the records of known transgender athletes in any way. Because once you start down that road you wind up asterisking cisgender athletes whose development is outside the norm.

    We could get into a long discussion of transgender persons who do or do not undergo HRT, or how there are already rules against transgender women competing professionally if they aren't on HRT, or whether or not such rules or gendered sports at all are justifiable.

    But all of that is just a distraction. The elite in any competitive sport are ALREADY several orders of magnitude beyond the norm, to the point where any advantage a trans woman might have for going through male puberty is essentially a wash with "are you just naturally well-formed for this sport".

    It's worth noting, by the way, that there ISNT broadly an athletic benefit to having gone through wrong-gender puberty before medically transitioning. Plenty of athletes have done exactly that, and as far as I know exactly none of them wound up being relatively better among their true gender peers post-HRT than their standing among birth-gendeR peers pre-HRT.

    And there have been more instances of cisgender women being wrongly accused of being trans than there are transgender women athletes at all.

  • Is empathy a sin? Some conservative Christians argue it can be

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  • In order to justify their own bigotry, they seem to be literally abandoning the central teachings of the key teacher in Christianity.

    When Jesus was asked "what is the most important part of the law", the two part response was love . To love God wholly, and to love others as we love ourselves.

    When later asked how Christians would be judged, Jesus said that we would be judged as if we had done to Jesus whatever we do to the least among us.

    I don't see how it is possible to reconcile bigotry with either of these teachings. I guess they can twist themselves into rhetorical knots and try, but it seems way easier to just decide to love everyone and leave it to God to judge us for whatever our sins may be.

  • Are you a feminist? (If so why, if not why not?)

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  • Not everything is a spectrum. You are either actually pregnant or not-pregnsnt. You're either free to go when the officet is talking to you or you are being detained. You either had consent for sex or you didn't.

    For example, if the example you provide to bolster your argument is "Hitler had admirable qualities", then you've jumped all the way past Godwin's law and there's no use talking to you.

  • Are you a feminist? (If so why, if not why not?)

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  • "most people" are (1) a much smaller group that you think and (2) wrong.

    If your behavior can at all be described as sexist, then you're not a feminist. That includes both Feminism Appropriating Radical Transphobes like JK Rowling.and outright sex pests like Andrew Cuomo.

  • Are you a feminist? (If so why, if not why not?)

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  • Of course I'm a feminist. It's one of those sublime categories like "alive" or "pregnant" that has only two possible states.

    1. Feminist
    2. Sexist pig.

  • Are you a feminist? (If so why, if not why not?)

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  • "feminazi' is kinda like calling a woman a "female". Its use conveys a "I'm a sexist pig" message you do not seem to intend.

    Better terms for women who believe that (cisgender) women are superior to men.

    • Feminine Supremacist
    • Feminine Chauvinist
    • Sexist Woman
    • Man-hater
    • Anti-feminist
    • F.A.R.T.
    • Sexist woman
    • Sexist pig

    Some of these may covey other messages in their usage.

  • Considering an open relationship? Don’t read this Reddit forum

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  • Thank you for your response.

    So, your line from "capitalism" to "nuclear family bias" starts at "line must always go up" and passes through a "more adults is less efficient" principle. Ok, I can understand that picture.

    I think you're wrong about what "capitalism* means, but not in a way that matters for this discussion.

    What I'm confused about is who is asserting that a multi-adult household is less efficient. You aren't, and I'm not, but that sounds like a economic paper trying to smuggle in "christian family values" in the way that creationism tries to smuggle religion into other fields of science.

    I honestly just don't get that argument, as multi-adult households are the norm in a lot of nations and a big reason for the shift towards multi-generational households in western societies is the increased wealth gap, where the rich support their extended families and entourages while the poor make do with less. Stable households with more than three adults are literally more efficient by any measure anyone cares to name.

    My opinion is that the bias against them comes in large part from America's "middle class" myth, (with working men each having their own fiefdoms), and partly from a belief that they are either inherently less stable or cause instability elsewhere.

  • Considering an open relationship? Don’t read this Reddit forum

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  • How does the prioritization of investment over labor make a non-nuclear family lifestyle difficult?

    Nuclear-family bias in law and custom is a real thing all on its own. I'm not sure what capitalism has to do with it, but I'd be fascinated to hear you expound on that if you feel like rambling.

  • When someone gives you the quote in this post, don't you just want to slap them?

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  • From a purely secular-civil standpoint, an important function of religion is to offer solace and comfort regarding the finite nature of life.

    Folk who repeat the phrase with sincerity are professing a belief in the God alluded to in the phrase, who watches over each human specifically. For those believers any obstacle which occurs is either a challenge they are meant to overcome or a fate they should accept the way Jesus of Nazareth accepted crucifixion.

    For those who don't believe in Jesus, the God of Abraham, or that They are micromanaging our lives, the phrase is an annoying thought terminating cliche and dismissive platitude.

    I'm not sure slapping them is necessarily appropriate, though.

  • What other things have options where everything is so bad that it's a matter of "what sucks the least" rather than "what's the best"?

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  • That's a hell of a lot of words that aren't either "of course we should vote in every election for the best possible candidate" or "no, we should withhold our votes in the general if the Dems don't nominate someone sufficiently progressive."

    If you mean the latter, say it. If you don't, then say that, too.