[-] theilleists@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

But you have to understand, to 74 million people, the Fox News Cinematic Universe is reality. There's regular bullshit, and then there's bullshit so widely believed that you actually have to study the bullshit, just to be able to predict what its subscribers will do next. Like religion.

[-] theilleists@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

That comment was not referring to literal nazis. They were talking about the American right wing.

[-] theilleists@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Speaking as a Marxist, we did in fact need to chuck Newtonianism out the window early last century since it turned out not to work at high speeds, in strong gravitational fields, or at very small scales...

[-] theilleists@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Counterpoint: he's controversial because of what he says and does, not because of lies people tell about him.

[-] theilleists@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

I've got the daily low-dose version, and it's changed my life. True to expectation from a dissociative drug, it causes me not to feel so much personal identification with the unwanted thoughts that keep bubbling up in my head. It may not work for everyone, but it works for me.

[-] theilleists@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Privacy Pass just randomly generated Prince Andrew and now my browser is all sweaty.

[-] theilleists@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

Please do bring facts. Then, cite your sources. You have sources, right?

... right?

[-] theilleists@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Huh, I had always heard it as "turbulent priest," but as I look it up, I realize there would obviously be multiple valid translations, cause Henry said it in French.

[-] theilleists@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago

So we all agree there are exceptions to freedom of speech, like the proverbial person shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater, right? But you think incitement to violence is fine as long as you say it with a tweet instead of with your mouth? What a loophole!

[-] theilleists@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

I made it through about 10 minutes, and it's exactly as hypocritical as you'd imagine.

The left wants to weaponize language by calling abortion "reproductive health care." They prefer this because it sounds a little less like "murder." /smugface

Yeah, and you want to weaponize language by calling abortion murder. Your defense of that is, "But we're right. It is murder." In much the same way that the left's defense is, "But we're right. It is health care."

They're just describing how people have always argued with words, but they want to weaponize language by referring to argument itself as "weaponizing language" (but only when the demonic commies do it) so that arguing for any viewpoint left of theirs is tantamount to violent crime. With a weapon.

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