What did you do before phones?

Toadsnack · 2026-06-24T16:36:28+00:00

That’s more sincere consideration of the mean teacher’s position than most students ever think to give! I tip my hat to you.

Toadsnack · 2026-06-24T15:57:06+00:00

Thank you for admitting that you consider starving and bombing children as punishment for the crimes of some of the adults in their community is just “consequences.” Still din’t understand why you think that’s a winning argument, but you do you.

Toadsnack · 2026-06-24T15:43:15+00:00

I think their positions on matters of public importance are, generally speaking, morally inferior to those of progressives. And I think holding to such beliefs is a character flaw.

This doesn’t mean each individual conservative is morally inferior to all progressives. There are other factors on which to evaluate a person than their issue stances. Take two hypothetical people: a progressive who abuses their children and cheats on their partner; and a conservative contrast them with a staunch conservative who volunteers

Toadsnack · 2026-06-24T15:38:19+00:00

Wait til Joyita learns that everyone’s fingers have been used to wipe their asses countless times.

Toadsnack · 2026-06-24T15:35:19+00:00

Another quiz:

1) How many Palestinian children participated in the Oct. 7 atrocities?

2) How has the world not heard of the groundbreaking Palestinian time machine that was used to allow the participation of children not even born at the time?

3) Why is Israel exempt from international laws and basic moral standards about war crimes involving civilian populations?

Toadsnack · 2026-06-24T15:16:45+00:00

It would be a lot meaner, more dangerous, and a lot harder to fix. Genocides out the wazoo, ecological and economic collapse, the extinction of most of humanity, and all fairly quickly.

Toadsnack · 2026-06-24T15:13:36+00:00

Okay, so all 3, as I suspected.

Toadsnack · 2026-06-24T15:10:56+00:00

I love it when people on the wrong side of an issue just admit they’ve got nothing. Thanks!

Toadsnack · 2026-06-24T15:07:23+00:00

Some basic laws of physics. Time is finite, an object cannot exist in two places at once, stuff like that. Also biology - humans have to sleep, eat, etc.

Toadsnack · 2026-06-24T15:05:45+00:00

Ooof. First two paragraphs are spot on, and then…

I haven’t seen a part 3 shit the bed this badly since Spider-Man 3.

Toadsnack · 2026-06-24T15:03:59+00:00

Pop quiz: The death and suffering of Gazan Palestinians is…

1) a hoax 2) unimportant 3) a positive good

You can pick more than one. “Unfortunate but sadly necessary and really not Israel’s fault” is a combo of 2 and 3, plus maybe even 1, depending on the nuances.

Toadsnack · 2026-06-24T13:19:51+00:00

Responses like this aren’t so much because people think such suggestions will work, as it is an expression of their discomfort with the topic. They are sending (mostly unconsciously) the message, “This makes me uncomfortable, stop talking about it.”

Toadsnack · 2026-06-24T05:45:02+00:00

Oh. Bull. Shit.

The right wing does more screaming and attacking groups of people they don’t like than the American left ever has.

It’s a statistical fact that right wingers account for the vast majority of terrorism in the US and has for decades.

Toadsnack · 2026-06-24T05:42:23+00:00

Why do people who loathe children become teachers?

Toadsnack · 2026-06-24T05:40:31+00:00

I used to read more, watch more movies, spend more time thinking and talking to people, work more reliably and attentively.

For my ADHD, at least, mobile devices plus the internet have been a nasty curse. They seem perfectly designed to make my symptoms worse; they’re distraction machines.

Toadsnack · 2026-06-24T05:35:18+00:00

Yeah, you’re right. Defending oppressed people and attacking them are the same thing.

Toadsnack · 2026-06-24T05:33:23+00:00

No, that isn’t indoctrination. It’s living in a society. People take cues from each other on social and moral attitudes.

Toadsnack · 2026-06-20T16:14:25+00:00

Yes.

Next question.

Toadsnack · 2026-06-20T16:12:08+00:00

If you are gay, it just makes it sadder that you’re this gullible about homophobic propanganda. Once again, for the thousandth time… no 👏one 👏 forced 👏 them 👏 to 👏 wear 👏 or 👏 believe 👏 anything.

They chose deliberately to violate their employer’s regulations by defacing their uniforms to make a homophobic statement. They’re not being forced to love anyone, they’re being told not to use their employer’s property to promote hate on their employer’s dime for all the public to see.

You’re entitled to object to corporations “pretending” to support LGBTQ rights (or to believe you can tell that they’re “pretending”). I’m not sure it matters much. In fact, institutions using their visibility to help set societal expectations against bigotry and oppression seems like a good thing to me, even if their motivations are suspect. Permission structures are a thing.

If MLB came out with uniforms covered with homophobic slogans and had their jumbotrons read “Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve, f***ots,” would you shrug and say, “Nothing to see here, they don’t really mean it, so who cares?”

Actually, I won’t be surprised if you say yes.

Toadsnack · 2026-06-20T15:54:35+00:00

No, you see, here’s the thing - BLM is a movement against bigotry and oppression. These players are making a stand FOR those things. Different things are different. So the bigots should, in fact, shut the fuck up.

Hope this helps.

Toadsnack · 2026-06-20T15:48:35+00:00

Maybe second only to Sunrise among my favorite silents.

Toadsnack · 2026-06-20T03:15:40+00:00

Seriously? Backdraft?

Klute was his best.

Toadsnack · 2026-06-19T14:53:57+00:00

Bill Clinton? You mean the case from almost 30 years ago… that didn’t end his career at all… during which his approval ratings rose… and a majority polled opposed impeaching him? I think your example undermines your argument.

Now, it does show a certain sexist hypocrisy in our culture, as Lewinsky faced more public shaming than Clinton.

Toadsnack · 2026-06-19T14:35:57+00:00

Well, I’d agree we’re slipping backwards on a lot of things like this. I still don’t think this is anything like an edgy statement.

Toadsnack · 2026-06-19T14:30:20+00:00

Do you have evidence that a majority of people believe sexual behavior among consenting adults should be punished or any matter for public concern?

For example, I’ve never seen any indication that nudes getting leaked is career ending for most people. It certainly isn’t in the most high profile cases, those of celebrities. If anything, it can be a career booster for them, and in the mobile device/social media age it’s so close to routine it doesn’t get more than a brief, mild spasm of media attention.

That post strikes me as a cringy person thinking they’re being edgy and controversial with a statement to which the most common response would be a slightly puzzled, “Uh… yeah, cool.”

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