You covered my confusion, thanks

What am I missing here?

It helps she’s winning them gold medals

Thanks, I’ll check them both out!

Maybe as an acronym, but when you say the full phrase out loud it still feels pretty damn gross

Because he is the poster boy for Narcissistic Personality Disorder. People usually say poster boy metaphorically, but irony, nuance, and satire are dead.

I believe the idea is that porn is consensual and a child cannot possibly consent. Because of this, the term child porn isn’t strong enough or an accurate description for the crime they have fallen victim to.

All good, I’m pretty desensitized to violent imagery online at this point, just trying to look out for others. Your edit worked, I appreciate it. Also lol at “irony”

Opeth, although I don’t love their more recent drift away from death metal (dear god it’s been a decade now). I’ve really loved Cattle Decapitation’s newer stuff, too.

Oh and I second the guy declaring that Wu Tang is for the Children

Fuckin magnets

Probably why it says mild in the title. Running regularly has certainly helped me and my mood.

What’s a co-efficence reactor? Don’t think I’ve ever heard that term

If you’re gonna post that I’d hide it behind a spoiler

You’re trying to put a lot of words in my mouth. We’re clearly just talking past one another at this point, so have a good one, I guess.

I never said people should be forced to do anything, but if they refuse to do the bare minimum to educate themselves then they have earned my contempt. There is no measurable harm in not being interested in sports; I would argue that the harmful consequences of political apathy are all around us.

I’d love to hear you elaborate on what specifically MLK was ignorant about, shy of his infidelity.

The 19th century books you like aren’t resulting in people getting separated from their families or deported to countries they’ve never lived. They’re also not an immutable piece of your identity; your argument doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.

I’ll leave you with this, which brings me back to my original point that being apolitical isn’t a privilege that everyone has. Do you think a black person drinking from a whites only fountain in Mississippi in 1960 was able to just tell the cops “oh no need to arrest me, I’m not political”? Did a Jew residing in Vienna in 1941 have the privilege of saying “oh no need to evict me from my home and shove me into a ghetto, I’m not political”? I could go on. The ignorance and indifference that people have to their privileged status is what drives my contempt.

Good luck finding 5 dentists to attest to that

Ignorance in and of itself isn’t sinful, but willful ignorance is. Any adult in a democracy has a duty to be at a minimum mildly informed and vote and anyone not doing so is abdicating their responsibility to our society. You don’t have to have knowledge of something to indirectly support the conditions that perpetuate it.

There were plenty of Germans that said “we didn’t know” in 1945 despite living very close to concentration camps and having over a decade to witness the persecution of Jews, socialists, gay people, Roma, etc. I don’t find it absurd to ask people to pay attention to what is going on in the world in which they exist and have an opinion. I’m not even asking for them to hit the streets, just to be aware of what is going on rather than burying their head in the sand.

You should really read MLK’s letter from Birmingham jail. Your arguments somewhat mirror his frustration with what he called the “white moderate” who prioritized comfort over justice.

I think that’s a distinction without meaning. Apolitical people support the status quo, and anyone that says “oh you were mean to me so now I support putting children in concentration camps” wasn’t ever going to be an ally in the first place.

Come to think of it, Futayena wouldn’t be a terrible username

True. Lots of what should be reflective moments along the way. Can’t reflect when you have shit for brains, I guess