It really isn’t. Having emotions is not weak. Pretending like you don’t is weak. Expressing the emotions you have, processing them, letting them move through you, and moving on productively is not weak, it is strong. Shoving them down and the having them come out in other nonconstructive ways is not strong, it is avoidant. Allowing yourself to have emotions despite the judgement of others does not make you vulnerable, it means you are healthy and self-assured enough to support yourself emotionally.

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Gay people have exactly as much money as everyone else. There are proportionately as many gay billionaires as there are gay homeless people.

Recognize is not perform.

literally russian bot farms

It’s remarkable how respectful you are of Arab views that you don’t also hold but which happen to be convenient for you.

easy. wait.

Ethical treatment would be not to own one in the first place.

They are appealing to different people with different methods, but their ultimate ends are more aligned with each other than with you and I.

I’m confused by your title and responses. Was there some document somewhere that we were to read to familiarize ourselves with what you already know before we post?

I’m saying that I have had a hobby in computing continuously since the 80s but in recent decades it has fucking sucked.

Fire guy!

spotted the valor stealing hypocrite

Go vegan.

Any climate activist who isn’t vegan is just a virtue signalling poser.

I’d start consuming content that originates on Reddit again, for one thing.

It wasn’t retro at the time. Retrocomputing is an entirely different interest, you’re not looking at it through the right perspective.

A clock that keeps perfect time never reads the correct time. Non sequitur, I just think it’s interesting.

They are. They absolutely are. One gives you all the social conservatism that the ruling class will permit you to have, and one gives you all the social progressiveness that the ruling class will permit you to have. They both work for the exact same interests. Whether or not the state allows gay marriage or abortion is totally irrelevant to the ruling class, has zero effect on their lives, and they give and take these things cynically not to advance a political cause but just to keep us scurrying back and forth, oscillating between panic and ersatz vindication, giving cover to allow them to shape the world 50 years from now into anything they please without any meaningful oversight or democratic input.

Voting in elections is literally the least engagement you can possibly have with governance without it being none at all. It’s okay to “throw your vote away” if you are actually engaged. You make more of a difference in one day than any vote you cast makes.

Genocide is not a special interest group issue.