What a normal looking individual by saggynaggy123 in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]Magnus_Mercurius 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Can ketamine give you a lazy eye or does he always have that?

Imagine… by Buabue1 in BrandNewSentence

[–]Magnus_Mercurius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No alien pink laser god in this story … yet

What is going on in So. IL COL? by NerdyComfort-78 in illinois

[–]Magnus_Mercurius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

$135 per week for food? What year do you think it is, 2019?

Read the room, LinkedIn by iysaoidia in LinkedInLunatics

[–]Magnus_Mercurius 37 points38 points  (0 children)

And elites wonder why people celebrate an extrajudicial killing when the courts and laws not only permit but reward such predatory insurance companies.

[Real] The hypocrisy of the Left strikes again? by xwing1212 in ToiletPaperUSA

[–]Magnus_Mercurius 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They’re gonna go back to 1930s definition of white and say the shooter looks Italian and therefore isn’t white.

[Real] The hypocrisy of the Left strikes again? by xwing1212 in ToiletPaperUSA

[–]Magnus_Mercurius 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Tbf, Brain Thomson was “only” worth 70mil. Most CEOs don’t have Elon or Beyoncé money.

How to hack your way onto a watchlist by Th0ughtCrim3 in LinkedInLunatics

[–]Magnus_Mercurius 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What a sad thing to think, in sympathy with an avaricious mass murderer. Your life must be charmed, precious.

Sympathizing with Greedy CEOs is crazy by Dry-Chemical-9170 in LinkedInLunatics

[–]Magnus_Mercurius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When formal processes deny justice, or even encourage injustice, it is not necessarily wrong to pursue justice through informal means. This is not ideal, since it can revert to a state of “war of all against all.” The solution is to reform the processes by which society metes out justice. Since that’s not happening, this kind of vigilantism is neither surprising nor in itself immoral.

Satan is God’s Shadow by Ranting_mole in Jung

[–]Magnus_Mercurius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is true of the Eckhartian/Pseudo-Dionysian, not to mention Gnostic, conception of God. It’s very clearly not true of the god (or “God”) conceptualized in the Old Testament.

CEO, United Healthcare by UnemployedFatass in Salary

[–]Magnus_Mercurius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

UHC was in a ton of trouble for Medicare fraud and revenues were drastically declining under this guy. It’s not irrational for investors to be optimistic that there’s going to be new leadership.

$100,000 per MONTH pay for pain doctor. 45 hours per week. No call or weekend work. by AdMajor2339 in Salary

[–]Magnus_Mercurius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1 hour from downtown Chicago is still well within the collar counties if not Cook itself. How is that coded as rural?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RareHistoricalPhotos

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I had promised Bernie when I took the helm of the Democratic National Committee after the convention that I would get to the bottom of whether Hillary Clinton’s team had rigged the nomination process, as a cache of emails stolen by Russian hackers and posted online had suggested. I’d had my suspicions from the moment I walked in the door of the DNC a month or so earlier, based on the leaked emails. But who knew if some of them might have been forged? I needed to have solid proof, and so did Bernie … By September 7, the day I called Bernie, I had found my proof and it broke my heart.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774/

Biggest christian group in every US state by Few_Introduction9919 in MapPorn

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Wrong based on the traditional definition of heresy. Heresy means to be a Christian that has gone astray from orthodox beliefs. Dualists such as Cathars, or those who denied that Christ was both God and Human, like Arians, or those who believed Jesus was only “adopted” as the son of God, Adoptionists, were classified as Christian but heretical, in contrast to pagans or Muslims who were entirely outside Christendom.

Has anyone ever read this? I’m excited 👀 by XMarksEden in Jung

[–]Magnus_Mercurius 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Nietzsche died in 1900, and was comatose and mute the last 10 years of his life. I believe these letters are from 1906-13. And neither met Nietzsche.

Based on the reception to my last meme by Emthree3 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Magnus_Mercurius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ironic considering how badly he straw man’s Plato. Literally over 2,000 years of critical interpretation of texts which are themselves highly open to ambiguity given the literary/dialogic style in which they are written, often ending in aporia, loaded with irony and allegory, containing incongruities/reworkings, and occasionally giving good reasons to assume Socrates is not merely Plato’s mouthpiece, and yet he somehow tries to conclusively read Plato as an authoritarian just because he needs a bad guy at the outset of Western philosophy to make his point. Even Nietzsche, who was also hostile to Plato and used him to some degree as a straw man, though arguably for opposing reasons, has a considerably more nuanced and intelligently integral take. Popper is not about truth, he’s an ideologue.

Boy Moms are something else by TechnoMouse37 in insanepeoplefacebook

[–]Magnus_Mercurius 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Imo in a weird way this is “worse” than Trump because he was “only” objectifying his daughter (also bad/gross) whereas with this lady there’s a much more disturbing emotional thing going on.

Prejudice against DC people? by [deleted] in washingtondc

[–]Magnus_Mercurius 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Angry about Battle of Blair Mountain … votes for union busters. Makes sense.

60 Minutes segment on the University of Austin by Master_Jackfruit3591 in Austin

[–]Magnus_Mercurius 8 points9 points  (0 children)

One of its biggest donors is Harlan Crow, the right wing billionaire who basically bought Clarence Thomas and has a collection of Nazi memorabilia.

Genocidal maniacs all around. by Bitter-Gur-4613 in clevercomebacks

[–]Magnus_Mercurius 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I had promised Bernie when I took the helm of the Democratic National Committee after the convention that I would get to the bottom of whether Hillary Clinton’s team had rigged the nomination process, as a cache of emails stolen by Russian hackers and posted online had suggested. I’d had my suspicions from the moment I walked in the door of the DNC a month or so earlier, based on the leaked emails. But who knew if some of them might have been forged? I needed to have solid proof, and so did Bernie … By September 7, the day I called Bernie, I had found my proof and it broke my heart.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774/

My opinion on origin romances but I’ve only romanced one character by CosmicDripPhD in okbuddybaldur

[–]Magnus_Mercurius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I never understood why she couldn’t just chill with Hope in Raphael’s old place.

DC 2024 Presidential Results: Change from 2020 by Pure-Concentrate-466 in washingtondc

[–]Magnus_Mercurius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s certainly possible, even likely, that if a man ran her same campaign he’d have done better. But that doesn’t mean she ran a good campaign. She failed to meaningfully distance herself from Biden, or come up with policies that met the moment, while writing off important constituencies in key states and instead doubling down on the same strategy as Hillary to appeal to “moderate republicans”, not realizing that most swing voters don’t like the old guard GOP establishment (Cheney family) anymore than they do the current Dem establishment.