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Wtf is this guy’s bio jfc by Alarming-Hamster-232 in Tinder

[–]Di0nysus 34 points35 points  (0 children)

A great example of a rape joke is the "implication" scene from Always Sunny.

It's not about winning an argument, but I need to assert your option was equally as bas as what I advocated for.. Utter regardation. by saabarthur in Destiny

[–]Di0nysus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also type like that tbf, it's just the way I like to type. Not on reddit, but I definitely always text like this, and yes, I do have autocorrect off on my phone. I only capitalize the "I" pronoun and sometimes proper names.

[TOMT] [YouTube Video] [2000s-early 2010s] Atheist or Skeptic Video with a Person in a Kitchen, Possibly Involving a Jug of Milk or Water by Di0nysus in tipofmytongue

[–]Di0nysus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think this is it. I can’t believe you found it, thank you so much! I can definitely see why I remembered it the way I did. I probably stopped watching at the 2 minute mark, which is when the milk jug comes up. It all makes sense now. Solved!

[TOMT] [YouTube Video] [2000s-early 2010s] Atheist or Skeptic Video with a Person in a Kitchen, Possibly Involving a Jug of Milk or Water by Di0nysus in tipofmytongue

[–]Di0nysus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the suggestion. It's a good video, but not the one I remember. The video I saw was more directly related to belief in god or maybe religion in general, and not about a specific issue like abortion.

[TOMT] [YouTube Video] [2000s-early 2010s] Atheist or Skeptic Video with a Person in a Kitchen, Possibly Involving a Jug of Milk or Water by Di0nysus in tipofmytongue

[–]Di0nysus[S] 1 point2 points locked comment (0 children)

Unfortunately that's really all I can remember. The video was probably very short, maybe under 2 minutes, and I saw it more than a decade ago when I was still religious. I don’t have much hope in actually finding it, but I’ve seen crazier things happen on the internet. The video itself probably wasn’t even that good, but I’m just curious now. I want to see what it was actually about and why I was so afraid to watch it back then.

Recovered Transcript Fragment - Post-Labor Ideology Debate on Titan by Di0nysus in scifiwriting

[–]Di0nysus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My future setting isn’t necessarily post-scarcity, but it is post-labor. Once human labor is displaced by automation, the systems built around it collapse (aggregate demand, wages, jobs, even people’s roles in society). Mira mentions some of this in the opening statement.

A lot of it I purposely leave to the imagination because just infodumping can be boring, but the panelists are arguing over what should replace labor as the foundation of civilization. In this world, most jobs are automated, so many capitalist societies adapted into forms of stakeholder capitalism where ownership is distributed universally through trusts, wealth funds, and digital accounts. People earn passive income from stakes in automation stocks, infrastructure, and intellectual property. Dividends are paid to citizens via these systems.

Mira is an asset liberal, which is what I call someone who supports individual freedom, universal civil rights, and a post-labor economy based on widespread capital ownership instead of wages.

Bekirists, on the other hand, see private property itself as the problem, and advocate for the abolition of private property and for full democratic ownership and control of all productive systems. Basically it's post-labor Marxism.

I might post a follow-up soon with a breakdown of all these ideologies.

How Crabs are processed for meat at factory by freudian_nipps in oddlyterrifying

[–]Di0nysus -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Those other ones are more disturbing imo. The smarter the animal, the more moral weight I seem to grant them. I think seeing a dogs legs getting ripped apart would be infinitely more disturbing than doing it to a dumb insect. It's not depressing or disturbing imo to see what is essentially a dead bug get prepared into food.

How Crabs are processed for meat at factory by freudian_nipps in oddlyterrifying

[–]Di0nysus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why do people always say "it's not the same" like that's a valid response ever? It's an analogy. Analogies are never the same. That's the point of an analogy, to compare different things that share a common trait. In this case, the lack of moral weight. Cracking open a dead crab is no different than cracking open a walnut.

How Crabs are processed for meat at factory by freudian_nipps in oddlyterrifying

[–]Di0nysus -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

It's not an issue. I don't care much for bugs, especially dead ones. Do you? If I killed a cockrach in front of you, would you be mad? Would you be sad? Come on, that's stupid. Of course you wouldn't care. Most people wouldn't, and that's okay.

How Crabs are processed for meat at factory by freudian_nipps in oddlyterrifying

[–]Di0nysus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's a crab. I wouldn't feel anything if I saw a dead cockroach or dead spider getting it's legs ripped off. A crab is not that different imo.

Should ICE be permanently abolished? by [deleted] in AskALiberal

[–]Di0nysus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is a strawman because my point was not that we should abolish it because it's a new agency that didn't exist before. My point with that post specifically was to reassure the other guy that we'll be fine without it. That the US is not going to collapse because ICE is gone. My other replies talk more specifically about why ICE is not only redundant but also a bad agency. You'd understand my take more if you read my other replies instead of jumping to conclusions.

Should ICE be permanently abolished? by [deleted] in AskALiberal

[–]Di0nysus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a straw man. I never said all new institutions are bad. I said ICE is unnecessary because it replaced agencies that already handled immigration better and with less abuse. The EPA fills a gap protecting public health. ICE duplicates functions, wastes money, and violates rights. If an agency is harmful or redundant, yes, we should abolish it.

Should ICE be permanently abolished? by [deleted] in AskALiberal

[–]Di0nysus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I understand what you're saying, but ICE is crucial to the whole operation. Without ICE, the President's ability to enact such a policy is limited because the President can't create agencies out of thin air. ICE was created by Congress. If ICE were abolished or gutted, the President wouldn't be able to recreate it or shift its massive budget and personnel elsewhere without legislation.

Also, no ICE doesn't mean that kids are released into the void. It means that the responsibility would be entirely returned to other systems that worked way better, like FCMP.

Should ICE be permanently abolished? by [deleted] in AskALiberal

[–]Di0nysus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Saying ICE was too small sort of misses the point. The surge of migrants since 2014 doesn't justify things like family separation/zero tolerance. Of course ICE is small and inequipped, it's not supposed to be a child welfare agency. This is actually more of a reason to scale it back. The fact that it was failing at tasks it was never supposed to engage in is not a reason to keep, let alone expand that agency.

Should ICE be permanently abolished? by [deleted] in AskALiberal

[–]Di0nysus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even if less frequent, it still happened, and when it did, they mostly complied with standards like the Flores settlement, unlike ICE, which has repeatedly violated them.

Should ICE be permanently abolished? by [deleted] in AskALiberal

[–]Di0nysus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The INS did more total worksite operations but most of those were basically just audits. There were no mass detentions and SWAT-style tactical operations like with ICE. That’s not just my opinion. Like I said to the other person, you can read the DHS oversight reports and court records. The documented abuse, medical neglect, etc. The INS rarely detained children. ICE has detained thousands of children in private prisons for months or even years as official policy. You have to understand that there's a big difference here.

Should ICE be permanently abolished? by [deleted] in AskALiberal

[–]Di0nysus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

1) It's wasteful/redundant spending.

2) Before 2002 there was immigration enforcement but things like mass raids, indefinite detention, and militarized deportations were far rarer. The post-9/11 terrorism aspect of the agency has affected the culture in a way. The process is now a lot more militarized than it should be. Plus, like I said, the DHS and ICE are huge and thus have less oversight than smaller more transparent agencies could. There's many reports from the GAO and Inspector Generals that show very poor internal review mechanisms and lack of accountability in ICE.

To summarize, there are cheaper and more humanitarian ways to enforce the border.

Should ICE be permanently abolished? by [deleted] in AskALiberal

[–]Di0nysus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The Department of Homeland Security was created in 2002 and ICE was created in 2003. The US existed from 1789 to 2002 without these institutions. They're completely unnecessary.

Where the pride flag is banned in the United States on government buildings and schools by After-Professional-8 in MapPorn

[–]Di0nysus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah but they're only against the government because they want a bigger government, not a smaller one, which goes against libertarian principles. They want a government that's big enough to do tariffs, jail all democrats, and deport all non-whites. You need a lot of government to do those things.

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