mycodesucks

If you seriously had any interest in engagement, you wouldn't be using EXTREMELY domain specific language in an attempt to sound smarter than everyone else. You'd be explaining, in laymen's terms, exactly what your suspicion is in an accessible way the way ANY real expert in their field is trained to do from day one. Instead you're either an actual expert who is extremely poor at the communicative aspect of your job, or a troll here to sow dissent and cloud the conversation. Either way, I'm appreciative that you read the room and decided to leave of your own initiative. It shows a level of awareness neither of your prior posts had, and it's refreshing.

Uh huh... and are there any limits to your CLEARLY superior magnanimity?

Would you pity a Nazi? A member of the KKK? How about a member of ICE?

Because it seems to me right now your position is either "this isn't big enough of a deal" or "there is NO level of heinous or dangerous ideology that is out of bounds", and I reject both of those premises.

In-group behavior is a biologically evolved evolutionary survival mechanism, and is only appalling and destructive when when the out-group is an IMAGINED threat or a scapegoat.

When they're ACTUALLY, OBJECTIVELY a dangerous problem, it's a legitimate response.

Furthermore, the out-group here CHOOSES to be an out-group. Being a vile, self-serving imbecile is not a "can't do anything about it", meaningless biological differentiation. It's a conscious choice that reflects character.

Three words are all it takes.

"I was wrong."

I'm not about to sympathize with these idiots now that they're suffering just to have them screw everything up AGAIN if we're fortunate enough to somehow claw out of this mess with SOMETHING like a civil society left. We didn't get burned hard enough by that when these idiots all voted AGAIN for him in 2024? Having learned nothing?

She's not a pitiable victim - she's a dormant cancer waiting to ruin us again, and continues to be until she sufficiently convinces me otherwise. I don't enjoy watching other people suffer, but she's a threat... one of the millions of tiny knives that are tearing open the bleeding wound of the US. Her suffering doesn't change that.

Gets bigger but not any heavier or stronger

The metaphor still works. Making our own problems then complaining about them is our defining characteristic as humans.

I said Dilbert. Not Scott Adams.

A lot of artists only received recognition after their lifetime because their works became a scarce resource that the rich could then use for circle jerking and tax breaks, and without any pesky living creator to have to pay or worry about doing things that put their investments at risk. It's been the rich ruining everything and compensating nobody all the way down.

This is the hairstyle if you want to annoy Dilbert.

These are gonna be some well-adjusted, loved babies raised by only the most responsible and financially capable parents.