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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

They're not wrong, but this is a broken failure of our legal system at work that rewards the wealthy

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Correct. And Christians have been led by a false prophet to think that the party most espousing the teachings of Jesus, is actually a cult of Satan.

Which just goes to show your how gullable religion makes you. As intended by the ruling class.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

What about them embodies an oligarch? What about them is insincere?

Do you have anything to support your assertions, or was this just a random ass rant to try and sound cool and like your know what you're taking about? Because it doesn't feel like you know what you're taking about.

Nothing you've said has been accurate or made sense yet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Yup. This has been confirmed from numerous sources.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm not disagreeing with you in any way, but things like ejecting a person out of a vehicle before it bursts into flames, where they woke up and the vehicle was on fire, and they would have been unconscious and burned alive in other scenarios.

Same with the drowning argument of being unable to get out of the seat belt due to panic.

In every one of these scenarios, it's extreme and the possibility of it happening is so remote it's not worth considering. But it still comes up in the "argument" (speaking from experience arguing with someone who was anti-seat belts for years).

All I was highlighting is that if we're going to be able to argue with the people who believe this stuff, we have to acknowledge the extreme edge case view they hold as theoretically possible under the most absurd conditions; and then that allows us to move forward in the conversation to convince them that the odds of something like that happening to them vs the seat belt saving them are so remote they may as well plan to win the lottery 8 times in a row.

I say this from experience, that's what finally allowed me to break down the walls of my anti-seat belt acquaintance over months/years of arguing. He's wearing a seat belt now, even though he still snarks about it. But it keeps him safe, and deep down, he understands that now because I took the time to acknowledge that his concerns, while theoretically possible, were not real concerns for anyone in the world to think about on a day to day basis anymore than worrying about getting struck by a meteorite would be.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's by design. The uncanny valley is meant to guard us against things that are close to human, but not quite. Specifically corpses/dead things or extremely sickly people.

This is intentionally drawn as a monster, and doesn't resemble a human as much as an AI generated image is trying to.

Our brain is, subconsciously, able to discern the difference.

One is only a threat in our head (the monster) and the other is a potential disease carrier (AI Generated)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There are some extreme scenarios where this is true, and it gets inflated and conflated when arguing against seat belt laws.

It's all a game of numbers at the macro level, and seat belts save far more lives than they potentially damage. The math has checked out and been backed up over and over and over again for 70+ years and the result is always the same: Seat belts overwhelmingly increase your chance of surviving a car accident.

The edge cases, while there, are not worth risking a surefire death or dismemberment under the vast majority of conditions.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You could make the same argument to support anything anyone wanted. The Easter Bunny. Santa Clause. Et. al.

If you assert a thing without evidence, then it can always be dismissed without evidence.

But ultimately, it doesn't matter what someone makes up or believes in, as long as they don't use those beliefs to hurt or oppress other people.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Yeah, exactly. This is pure satire.

That it's near indistinguishable from reality at this point, is a tragedy.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

He fulfills the fake requirements anyone else does, because it's all made up.

It's like that old saying: how do you Kill a vampire?

Your could use garlic, or wooden stake, or...

But, it doesn't matter. You can use anything your want, because they're not real. We made them up. Including the ways to kill them that fit the contemporary times.

Edit: Downvoting me does not make your anti-christ, or your christ, a real thing.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 days ago

If you read his newly released book, all in the family, they already totally fucked him and his sister or of the inheritance because Donald needed money to pay off the failing casinos, and he manipulated his dementia riddled dad into disowning his brother's kids because his brother died trying to become a pilot instead of taking on the family business.

I wish I was making that up.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not tried. Did. He absolutely did. There's an expose on this. If it wasn't for that judge's strong condemnation of trump trying to overturn the election when talking to Pence, Pence might have voted to overturn.

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