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those folks aren’t interested in history, they are interested in fantasy.
for a lot of folks, that’s all history is, or why it’s fun, it’s the fantasizing about it. It’s not the boring staid work of a true historian who is looking at boring crap like cargo manifests to piece together the reality of history.
i had a horrible math teacher for two years in high school. there are tons of awful teachers out there who know nothing about what they are teaching… they are just doing a rote job and teaching blinded from the same textbook for decades on end.
about 80% of the teaching staff at my high school were of that ilk. They just wanted an easy boring rote stable job and they got summers off to party/travel… and I meet teachers who basically say this is why they wanted to teach.
I think I had like 3 teachers in secondary school who actually knew what they were teaching.
i hate it when someone argues with me by telling me i made a stupid argument by making a stupid argument.
usually my falsely attributing a fallacy to me, which they themselves perform in their counter-argument.
and then they basically go ‘no, you were illogical first, if you don’t admit it you are stupid and I am smart’.
OK, really big-brained logic there.
did you say that fire hydrants can be other colors than red?
for sure. i got several comments removed for being anti-semetic, and anti Palestinian.
they were comments in sequence citing statistical facts about the situation. which we not convenient to either’s side being absolute good vs evil narrative.
sexuality is a spectrum, but politics is a rigid binary. welcome to 2026.
what about grammar. grammar debates fall into prescriptive vs descriptive camps, usually with the former thinking society will collapse if we don’t rigidly standardize language use, and the latter laughing at linguistic changes and doing a lot of comparitive analysis.
What i find annoying is that prescriptive don’t really understand the concept of registers of a language. They seem to think there is only one legitimate register and all others are bad/wrong/false or something. Even if they, pragmatically, switch registers all the time without realizing it. They mostly nitpick the language at the collegiate formal level that is used among the professional classes.
i don’t take a lot of hard stances on things so people online love to paint me as the villain their their dramatic ‘you have to pick a side’ way of viewing the world.
and when i do take hard stances, like say, personal choice and accountability/responsibility, that basically gets me labeled a fascist, at least, the past few years. apparently the notion folks are responsible for themselves is part of the fascist agenda, or something.
the problem here is you suppose people can’t and won’t be hypocrites, or simply ignorant.
They will and are. Politics makes more sense when you realize that it’s largely emotional rhetoric and people respond emotionally to it. Everything is about them feeling their feels. whether that is based on ‘social values’ or ‘political goals’ is irrelevant, and both are just forms of rhetoric.
the interesting problem is when you confront groups with real world problems that require real world solutions, rather than rhetorical social value rhetoric. like, what specific policy should you support or try to make into law?
I’m not really ashamed but I have some 90s classic anime on DVD and people try to shame me for it all the time. Like, they sell it on the shelf in the corner and go ‘YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE ANIME NERD WEIRDOS’. Except I’m not. It’s just shit I liked as a teenager and I re-watch every few years. I don’t get why it is so ‘shameful’ to have these in my possession. I know nothing about anime since like 2004.
It’s Cowboy Bebop, Escaflowne, and Neon Genesis.
be happy and don’t become another whiny rich cunt who constantly prattles on about how difficult their life is and how they don’t have enough money.
your life is already better than like 99.9% of other people’s at your age.
wish he would chew my scenery
you sound like a straight up menace to society. we need to lock folks like you up.
i bet you even put your bike on your car… and put it on a boat. insanity.
You assume those are necessarily wrong/bad things, you are working off some ideal, that doesn’t really exist.
Things have always been corrupt, it’s just a matter of degree and nakedness you find objectionable. I guess you’d prefer more of the backroom dealing of the early 20th USA century politics, and the massive lack of transparency therein.
cool, keep interpreting me however you like. I’m not here to convince you, or anyone, of anything.
money is speech, that’s the law of the land. more money = more representation.
always has been, always will be.
the root of ideological purity is personal insecurity
you being offended and feeling self-righteous about it and no doubt patting yourself on the back about the whole exchange here.
you’re welcome.
nobody hears people who don’t speak.
and if you speak up and you are not part of the hivemind, they will try to either silence you, or browbeat you into conformity.
or just falsely report your comments so you get banned…
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