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  • Stranger was considerably more thoughtful and deliberate than you've described, but even still how is that different than Starship Troopers? Heinlein used his novels to explore worldviews, not really to endorse them. If you start trying to pin down his sincere beliefs with any one book, you're pretty quickly going to run into inconsistencies with the others.

  • Do they? I thought I heard that they did a u-turn on that a few years back.

  • Not really, no. Words have definitions. It's not a "semantic argument* to clarify the definition of a word. It's not "no true Scotsman" either, that's when you define group by some unrelated or incidental quality. What I've referred to is the definition of a tankie. The quality described is neither unrelated nor incidental.

  • Tankie

    Jump
  • Well, the tanks are replaced with ICE vehicles

  • No? My electric kettle takes like 3-4 minutes to boil the same volume I can boil in 1.5-2 on the stove. Hell I can get enough for one cup of tea boiling in like, 1 minute.

  • Is there a reference I'm not getting? Guerilla action is grassroots, but there's non-guerilla grassroots action

  • I'd consider that a subset.

  • I've been a gun owner for like 6 months, and it did not take me long to go from 1 to 3.

  • Totally replaced by having an induction stove. Regular kettle boils in like 2 minutes, never really use the electric kettle anymore.

  • Ah, respect. Though I think you could slip "or by the trigger" without much fuss.

    My point is that the song is topical enough to warrant practical commentary.

  • What's your point?

  • It's not that weird if you remember money

  • a CaR iS a DeAdLy WeApOn

  • Practice appropriate trigger safety. Come with a readied weapon obviously, but keep that finger off the trigger until the split second before it's necessary.

  • Twist: those are psych researchers, and he is in the experimental group.

  • Yeah tankie praxis only works if you actually have the tanks. And not just some tanks, the tanks. You need the military apparatus of the state, and its associated monopoly on violence, to make that work.

    It was never going to work when the opponent is the existing military. It's gotta be grassroots, nothing else is gonna work. Build your community. Like actually, do it.

  • I don't get this perspective. Obviously being gay is a "bad thing" in these contexts because the person in question is vocally homophobic. The insult isn't being gay, the insult is being a hypocrite.

  • Fingers crossed hoping this was always the plan

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    We need a tag like /s but for non-rhetorical questions

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world

    Decent 3d scanners under $1000

  • Ask Lemmy @sh.itjust.works

    Have you ever actually had an "and then everyone clapped" moment?

  • Unpopular Opinion @lemmy.world

    I actually kinda like when curse words are censored

  • Home Improvement @lemmy.world

    Making the most of a totally dead cabinet corner?

  • Buy it for Life @slrpnk.net

    Induction range in the $1,500 ballpark without a bunch of nonsense

  • Out of Context Comics @lemmy.world

    Not sure if this breaks rule #3

  • DIY @slrpnk.net

    Breezeway Greenhouse Help?

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world

    This moon decoration my wife got