Everytime I see these dumb wojacks I definitely think the meme creator is 12 and have to back away from completely pre judging the whole meme. Thank you for this.

He was openly spreading propaganda against the lawful government too!

Really good book.

Yes I’m aware we have had some amendments. Ending slavery. Allowing women to vote. Direct election of Senators.

What about gerrymandering? Cap in the house leading to bad representation? The senate? I mean the senate still exists. States aren’t people like people pretended they were. So much has not changed.

Even Jefferson surmised it should be radically updated every few decades. I think he’d and many others would be pissed to realized we’re all held hostage by compromises that barely made sense at the time.

Man. Woman. TV. Camera.

Not really. I’m suggesting people are social animals and will not enjoy you if you piss on small talk. Yeah small talk sort of sucks. Sorry.

There’s a lot of variables here. I’m an engineer. At work I can say “I disagree. The reasons are…” and the reason my boss doesn’t fire me? Because honesty matters in this context. Same for my marriage. If my wife says she wants to give the kids donuts for dinner, I can directly disagree because again honesty matters (to my wife, to the kids, to the marriage).

Since you didn’t get too far into the specifics of who, where and why you might express disagreement in a lower stakes conversation I can only surmise.

You are at a bar and an acquaintance says “I thought Anyone But You was the best movie of 2023”. What does that person hear if you simply respond “I disagree.” Maybe that your opinions as a movie critics are more important than hearing their feelings? Why don’t you instead just say “I didn’t see it”? That would tell the person you generally don’t watch rom coms and therefore probably wouldn’t agree on what the best movie was anyway. Is honesty really critical here? Or is holding a conversation that doesn’t turn people off the priority?

You are at work and your direct report turns in utter shit to you on a project that has some degree of importance. Do you says “This is unacceptable”? Or do you instead thank them for completing the task and then ask questions about the work, the product and them to see if they understood the assignment, or whatever else is going on with them or their work load?

Honesty is important in a lot of contexts. Bluntness is not the only way to express something. There are passive and indirect ways to be honest. And there are ways to honor other priorities while not being untruthful.

No one wants to be your friend, spouse or direct report if your knee jerk reaction appears to be a negative response to everything that’s uttered.

Part of resolving this is tact. Just simply not uttering the first thing that comes to mind. Part of this is a reframe and simply prioritizing someone else’s feelings over your own need to be honest or correct about something unsubstantial.

Blue Curaçao and sprite

Definitely to be on the next iteration of this meme.

I welcome our new alien butt lords

Elaborate?

Just pop a bike rack on your back plates and you are good to go.

#im14andthisisdeep

Yeah I thought thirty was old when I was in high school. Adults of a given age have been getting healthier and healthier my entire life. Being childless in my early thirties is also a blessing. But come on. I had time and no money at twenty one. Now I have money and wisdom. And still healthy. Probably healthier than I was at 21.

Sure lots of people in their twenties are still poorly and may be unhealthy but there’s no magic age where life is over.

Off topic, but isn’t disney going to sue you to hell and back for profiting off their venm diagram mouse logo thing?

If she can win ~5 states I think she gets to make certain demands at the convention. Such as giving a speech or requiring a platform be written.

No Haley fan, but I am interested to see what or if her plan here is.

To pull it full circle: you average atheist does NOT want to commit genocides or ban churches or tell religious people not to teach their kids.

These are some broad brush strokes, dude.

I agree that modern and western atheism is sort of a dialectal to western religion and so perpetually tied to it in a way, that westerners don’t often see.

I agree that atheism as commonly portrayed online (actively and by its detractors alike) is militantly against Islam, all religions, etc.

But lots of atheists are actually humanists and not militantly out to root out all religion entirely.

Inside the US we are plagued by a religious fascism that yes, sadly, colors a looot of the online conversation about faith and atheism.

Atheists are not generally for eradicating all religions on the planet.

Remember when Barbie didn’t end with Will Farrells head in the guillotine?

Do I need more pixels? Or am I just missing Elon’s planes, the oil companies, the Koch family planes, the military industrial complex, the car industry,