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  • It has been several years, and he did cry a lot when it happened

    He’s not new to the circuit, and he cried when it looked like he might wind up in prison. None of this is remorse.

    I’m not sure remorse is necessary if it was in self-defense.

    True - though I’d say it seems common. Either way, crossing state lines to procure a firearm to take to that protest to create the pretext to shoot people was not self-defence. That’s premeditated.

    I’m also not sure what other opportunities he has.

    I won’t be losing any sleep over someone having some extra difficulty finding employment after getting away with what he did. There’s no shortage of people that support him - finding a job that doesn’t involve bragging about killing 2 people isn’t a big ask.

    Nobody tries to find problems with the hand that feeds them.

    This simply isn’t true. I’ve turned down lucrative job offers (e.g. 70%+ more than what I was on at the time plus significant chunks of equity and benefits) because I had concerns about the ethics of the prospective employers. I’ve also spoken out about issues with my employers that have cost me multiple jobs (and chasing me out rather than listening buried at least one of those businesses). I don’t hold others to standards I don’t uphold myself.

    Honestly, with everything said about people like Dennis Prager and TPUSA, from his perspective he can just think “leftists hate and lie about them like they hated and lied about me”.

    I’m not going to make excuses for him dismissing the endless, quantified criticism of a transparently dishonest, racist propaganda outfit and the parade of absolute scumbags he chose to work alongside.


  • We can reasonably count the amount of time since Biden approved the transfer of billions of dollars worth of jets and weapons to Israel in hours.

    This was always going to be a genocide - it didn’t take the weight US security apparatus to know this, but the US’s active defence of Israel from supplying the weapons being used to carry out that genocide, to vetoing various UN security council resolutions relating to the genocide, to taking inadequate action too late, Biden and the US government broadly have actively aided this genocide.




  • The internet made photos of trump and putin kissing shirtless.

    And is that OK?

    I’m going to jump in on this one and say yes - it’s mostly fine.

    I look at these things through the lens of the harm they do and the benefits they deliver - consequentialism and act utilitarianism.

    The benefits are artistic, comedic and political.

    The “harm” is that Putin and or Trump might feel bad, maaaaaaybe enough that they’d kill themselves. All that gets put back up under benefits as far as I’m concerned - they’re both extremely powerful monsters that have done and will continue to do incredible harm.

    The real harm is that such works risk normalising this treatment of regular folk, which is genuinely harmful. I think that’s unlikely, but it’s impossible to rule out.

    Similarly, the dissemination of the kinds of AI fakes under discussion is a negative because they do serious,measurable harm.


  • WaxedWookie@lemmy.worldtoAutism@lemmy.worldRespect
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    3 months ago

    You’re making highly authoritarian, essentialist arguments - I can’t imagine why you’d be getting that kind of pushback.

    As you double down while getting downvoted to oblivion as everyone tells you how wrong you are, I’m sure you won’t be the…

    kid (that) comes up with bullshit rationalisation for why they’re right and everyone else is wrong once they get home.