SaltSong

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[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 6 points 2 weeks ago

I disagree. Data's reaction was logical. It was the only method available to stop him continuing to do evil shit. As soon as Data had the opportunity to handle it in a more legally structured way, he took it.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Viagra.

Hair plugs.

Steroids.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To be clear, I think this is a silly question, and I'm only entertaining it because I'm somewhere I don't want to be, doing something I don't want to be doing.

Because the bear is a danger to the woman, and is, at least rhetorically, preferable.

The tree is no danger to the man, unless it falls on him. To get a reasonable comparison, we need a comparable level of all but guaranteed danger.

I propose a megaphone in a crowded mall.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The word literally means "not from here." In the bible, Jesus tells us to be kind to the alien among us, and he wasn't talking about men from Mars.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This is, functionally, the concentration camps.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 5 points 2 weeks ago

It was too late on November 6th.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Might only be 40. Long enough for the current generation of leaders to die off.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago

If voting could stop fascists, then in 2020 when Joe Biden got more votes than Donald Trump, he would have been president. There would have been a democrat in office from 2021-2024. And your fantasy world sounds nice, but it’s not what happened here in the real world.

Is this some kind of advanced sarcasm? Because I'm not understanding what you're trying to say.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Even a Nazi clock is right sometimes, if only by accident.

Ageing with the conservatives means you should double check your ideas, but if you are right, you're right. Don't abandon a correct opinion just because the other guy agrees with it.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I can’t recall a single time in history where voting has defeated fascism.

Fascists mostly start by winning legitimate elections. Defeating fascism with votes would just look like Clinton winning the election instead of Trump.

You might as well say that you can't recall a single time when having a visible security presence stopped a robbery.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 43 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

That's the thing that a lot of people keep misunderstanding. If the President of the US wants a person back from what I am going to describe as "A lesser country," only for this exact moment, and not for any other case at all, he can get that person back. Send a battle group over, and ask politely.

El Salvador does not have the ability to keep him, if we want him back.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website -2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

If they die messily, how long will it be before the next courageous instinct shows up?

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