Because I managed to internalize the Catholic morals I was raised with instead of just paying them lip service. Going to university and getting out from under that mental blanket helped a lot.

Also, the whole gamergate controversy snapped me out of whatever conservative mentalities I had when I saw the type of person I was becoming.

Looks like it’s specifically when an underscore follows a normal letter instead of whitespace. Not sure if that’s as intended by the markdown spec, incorrect in Voyager or unspecifed

That’s almost certainly intended behavior, otherwise any underscore would trigger formatting (much like the asterisk does instead of allowing snake_case_naming

But it is not easy to be a good person when you’re surrounded by media that try to make everything look ok, even if it isn’t.

I never said it was easy. But as someone who grew up constantly having fox news and limbaugh shoved down my throat for 10-15 years, I know first had just how hard it is, and that it can be done if you want to do it.

I’m not trying to justify every person who voted for Trump and I don’t think all of them are bad people

We can agree to disagree on this point. Even from alt-right sources, they knew he was going to do shit like deport anyone and everyone he could, and would embolden the police to be even more over the top than they already were. The problem is these people see shit like that as a good thing, which is why they are bad people.

I personally don’t care why someone voted for trump, the individual reasons are unimportant when they knew the kinds of horrors he would unleash on us. That’s why they are bad people. They knowingly made this choice, and from my interactions with magats around me, they’re only upset that the leopards are eating the wrong faces but would probably still vote for him again if they could (and anyone who tells you otherwise is most likely lying, just like after 2020).

The Republican Party used to be very big on smaller government

Really? When? Because all I ever heard was empty rhetoric when they weren’t in power.

None of that was known.

That’s what the intellectually lazy and liars say, anyway. Because all of that was absolutely known by anyone who paid a modicum of attention to sources that weren’t 100% regime aligned.

Sorry to say this, but your family voted for trump knowing who he is and what he would do to people. They are not good people. Ignorant and selfish people aren’t generally good people.

And it hurts to hear it, but you need to acknowledge the facts of reality. I’ve gone through this recently with my fuckhead uncle, and it still hurts a bit when the stupid fuck tries to get me to call him, but I keep telling him no because he won’t change who he is and I want nothing to do with people like that. And it’s ok to acknowledge that your family aren’t good people, but I wont pretend it’s easy to do. You can keep them in your life if you have the energy to try to change them, but know that you can’t change someone who doesn’t want to change.

Rubes who eagerly throw themselves at obviously bullshit narratives because the anger finally makes them feel something.

Teenage edgelord to bisexual 20 something to transgender 30 something

This describes like 80% of my friend group lol

Do you just have blank containers with “MILK” printed on them and nothing else? Cuz literally every package of milk I’ve ever had was branded in some way, even if it’s just the local dairy’s brand.

Capitalism. Line must always go up, and the only way to do that for most large companies is to gobble up all kinds of other companies to steal their assets and burn their liabilities. That’s why most of the grocery store choices funnel back to like a dozen multinational food companies. Like, look at this shit:

“The problem isn’t capitalism, it’s <fancy term to describe the inevitable result of capitalism>!”

the theory is that lawmakers keep rejecting it until it’s federally legal because they want to make tax money on it

That makes no sense, because other states tax it when they sell it. If it’s legal to be sold in the state, why wouldn’t they be able to tax it?

Textbook DINO Fuckerman

Maybe it’s just cuz I’ve got a neurospicy bean who is AuDHD and PDA af, but I do not understand how people can have more than a couple kids. Hell, my wife is the oldest of 5 and it’s crazy how much abuse I now see they all endured (both neglect and actual SA abuse of the youngest ones that wasn’t brought to light until a few years ago).

Sure, they just also host various military bases that just so happen to have even more long range weaponry, and the other 2/3s of the nuclear triad.

Shit, I owe an apology to Karan Soni, because I was sure it was one of those 3 playing Dopinder until I looked it up.

Durrrr, no duh. I meant the slopification he did to the trilogy for the rerelease.

A plant is not an animal, and is also not a sentient creature. A bone is a part of an animal harvested and used as a tool, not the animal itself.

It’s a simple line to draw.

A dildo also isn’t able to consent. A carrot isn’t able to consent and is more alive than the roadkill (since it can still reproduce).

A dildo was never alive, and a carrot is not a sentient creature.

Ability to consent is something we require from conscious beings, but we generally don’t require it from objects, and corpses blur the line.

Why does a corpse blur the line? Or is this DnD logic and a corpse is just an object? A corpse should be treated like the person it was, so it still needs consent otherwise you’re still raping it.

but it isn’t actually that easy to come up with a consistent justification for that condemnation.

It absolutely is: a sentient (not even sapient, but sentient) being’s bodily autonomy is inviolable without their consent.

Extending your logic to make my point, if a corpse is blurring the line, what about brain dead coma patients, especially ones that are infertile? Are they ok to rape? They’re alive and can’t reproduce, so what’s the difference, right?

Sure, but I can also construct a moral framework in which it’s ok for me to murder anyone I don’t like because my not-mental-illness-sky-daddy said so.

Moral relativism is bullshit and can be used to justify anything.