Hey now, there’s a guy in a wheelchair in this one. That’s progress if I’ve ever seen it.

I can see how he might have counted 8 but that last one is a mystery.

You’re directly contradicting the argument that every trans activist has been making for decades by saying that sex and gender are “effectively the same thing”. Is that really what you want to be doing here?

I’m assuming you can tell I don’t share that optimism. Appealing to billionaires to do the right thing, even for selfish reasons, is a losing battle. I do genuinely envy your ability to find comfort in that thought though.

Multiple studies about the impact of public opinion on legislative action, two by Princeton and Northwestern that I’m most familiar with, disagree with that assertion. Your example of climate change illustrates that well in my opinion. Climate change is clearly not anyone who matters top priority. The action we see in that category feels more like an answer to the question “what’s the least we could do that will minimize social unrest while we rape the planet”.

You are of course free to disagree with that point but I believe there is a counterpoint for any example you choose to use to make the argument that politicians listen to voters.

Unfortunately for us what people support has no meaningful impact on the direction of our country.

I think that’s too far out in left field from these people’s perspective for it to be as effective as Islam would be. They need to think they’re being outcompeted by a legitimate religion. Maybe I’m giving them too much credit but I think enough people would see that as an intentionally contrarian organization and not as a competing religious ideology. I don’t think that would evoke the genuine fear of becoming a religious minority. Maybe I’m wrong about that but that’s my take at least.

You’re certainly entitled to your own opinion on the artistic merit of that kind of comedy but I don’t think there’s any denying that’s what it is. Nevertheless, why would you look to any artist, especially comedians, for balanced political discussion? That’s not what they do. Even the ones that talk about politics are doing it more for the laughs than the nuanced discussion. If any comes from their jokes that is a side benefit, not the primary purpose.

What sort of respect are you referring to when you say stuff like this? It feels like people these days judge everyone by the same standards they would a politician and that seems really odd to me. Comedians are supposed to say edgy stupid shit. That’s quite literally their job.

In the same way that I think the quickest way for stricter gun control laws to be passed is for minorities to start open carrying firearms en-masse, I think the best way to educate Christian nationalists on the importance of the separation of church and state is for everyone to start attending their local mosque and preaching the virtues of Islam when discussing politics. Conservatives are incapable of understanding the negatives of any policy position until they experience them personally. Force them to experience what it’s like to be a religious minority and they will change their tune very quickly.

I don’t think you need to deface it. You could even display it if you’re so inclined. Just make it clear to people who see it that you aren’t a Nazi sympathizer in the same way you’ve done here and you’ll be fine.

Breaking a leg is supposed to be good luck though so I’m sure everything turned out fine, right?

We need to start handing out death sentences or at least life sentences without parole for stuff like this. It’s never going to stop otherwise.

Nightly strollers is an interesting one. The rest have mostly survived as things a certain subset of people look down on but I don’t think there’s many modern complaints about people walking at night. Unless maybe that specific wording implies some sort of unsavory behavior I’m not aware of.

People do hate change. The bigger the change the more they hate it. That’s exactly why Windows to Linux is much worse for them than Windows 10 to Windows 11.

Your grandma probably hates the fact that you did though. There’s a small chance that’s not the case but I’d be shocked if she hadn’t complained about it many times to other people.

Exactly. I would say an MBA is only useful if your undergrad degree was in something other than business. It is meant to add management skills to an already skilled individual. If you don’t have any other skills it’s just an expensive piece of paper that, at least to me, signifies essentially the same thing as being the boss’s son would. You probably aren’t very good at anything but always think you’re the smartest person in the room.

My kid regularly gets a little bit of shit in his underwear and I’ll catch him sneakily changing his pants. When I ask him what happened he always says he was having too much fun to stop and go to the bathroom. If a kid was sick and excited about something, like the Hornet’s mascot showing up to school, I could easily see something like this happening.

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MBAs have no useful skills and yet they run every company in existence.