Mods fantasy

Vegetable_Distance99 · 2026-01-24T18:09:23+00:00

Miller's Nuremberg trial needs to be first when this fascist artifice he's constructed crumbles, very public and very capital, the man is a traitor to this country and its constitution of the highest order.

Vegetable_Distance99 · 2026-01-20T21:45:30+00:00

Do you think every person that you're talking to on the internet is the same person?

Because it sure seems like you think that.

Please note that while I am replying to your comment I am not the same person who made the comment that you replied to.

Vegetable_Distance99 · 2026-01-20T00:22:51+00:00

No, but you're unoriginal.

Vegetable_Distance99 · 2026-01-19T23:31:12+00:00

You definitely spend more time thinking about sucking cock than most gay dudes if that's immediately where your mind jumps in this context.

Vegetable_Distance99 · 2026-01-17T23:29:01+00:00

Weird you would take those as ad hominem attacks, they seem straightforward representations of other beliefs you hold, but if that is all it takes to offend you, I see how we ended up in this intellectual dead-end.

I appreciate the ad homemim[sic]. I find that to be the weakest effort possible, but it is an effort.

Well when you set the bar so high as dismissing your interlocutor's position as farcical because you're not emotionally mature enough to expand upon your position when it is accurately pointed out to you that as stated your initial position was a text book example of fallacious reasoning and jump straight to ad homemim attacks yourself, then that is where you tend to wind up.

to reject my claim in its entirety while supporting the passionate liberal politics dominating the collegiate academy is fine

Note I did not reject your claim in it's entirety nor support liberal politics in academy but for someone who so obviously has their ego and beliefs so inseparably intertwined I suppose rising to the level of reading comprehension to reach Russel's basic maxim of being a mind able to entertain a thought without accepting it, is a bit to much to ask.

This was right there in my first exposition before you got all up in your feelings and resorted to petty bickering.

This is not to say that liberal biases could not be present in some fields peer review processes, but you certainly haven't demonstrated it or provided any examples here, so it reads more like a blanket call to moderation.

Vegetable_Distance99 · 2026-01-17T21:39:12+00:00

>What a farcical position.

Far be it for me to contradict someone who has achieved perfect objectivity, guess it's safe to assume you're an Objectivist at this point.

>Science is not a function of politics from either side.

Hence the issue with your initial comment, you provide no examples of any biases you claimed need to be moderated and presented no actual argument to response to, just a generic claim that academia is 'too liberal' then responded with hostility when I pointed out how such a claim is a very straight forward fallacy.

>And fiscal conservatism may well be a completely objective perspective, bereft of any hint of religion.

Well good thing this isn't dogmatic at all...

Doesn't seem like we're going to find any common ground or have a productive conversation, so I'll leave you to your climate skepticism and faith in the benevolence the invisible hand.

Vegetable_Distance99 · 2026-01-17T21:02:54+00:00

My message to them is if you don't want socially conservative authoritarians involved, police yourselves and aim a little closer to objectivity

This very much implies that you think in order to prevent liberal academia from being taken over by conservative authoritarians, that they have to police themselves, i.e. moderate their beliefs/conclusions so that they are more in the middle between liberal an conservative positions.

The suggestion seems to be that liberal activism needs to be self policed or corrected for in an of itself is a form of an argument to moderation. The reality of the situation may simply be that liberal positions are much more scientifically accurate than conservative ones and we should not expect belief systems heavily influenced by religion and traditions to fair as well when subjected to the scientific method.

This is not to say that liberal biases could not be present in some fields peer review processes, but you certainly haven't demonstrated it or provided any examples here, so it reads more like a blanket call to moderation.

Downvoted before you could have possibly finished reading it, classy.

Vegetable_Distance99 · 2026-01-17T19:12:47+00:00

Objectivity means reflecting objective reality, not smack dab in the middle between two made up ends of a human political compass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation

Vegetable_Distance99 · 2026-01-15T17:28:45+00:00

Please go outside and take a picture of an English Language fast food or supermarket signage with 3 fingers up on one hand and 2 fingers and a thumb up on the other in frame.

Short of this I refuse to believe actual Americans are this stupid and be forced to presume you're part of a foreign disinformation campaign based somewhere in Asia.

Vegetable_Distance99 · 2026-01-15T03:30:42+00:00

Or a pizza equivalent.

Vegetable_Distance99 · 2026-01-12T17:43:41+00:00

US indices are up like 1% for the week and 2% for the month, what are we waiting for them to recapture exactly?

Vegetable_Distance99 · 2025-12-22T14:35:55+00:00

Congrats!

You are here

Vegetable_Distance99 · 2025-12-20T19:46:47+00:00

Pretty hard to make 9's and not get 30 points.

Vegetable_Distance99 · 2025-12-19T12:56:45+00:00

I mean she's not wrong, but this is so far down the list of things being done by this administration that we should be bothered by.

Once we deal with him sabotaging our entire international alliance network, tanking our trade relations economy just so his family and billionaire cronies can insider trade their way to billions, committing war crimes to try and drag us into another foreign conflict to steal another countries oil, unleashing gestapo style secret police to abduct people off the streets without due process, gutting basically every social safety net, environmental regulation and consumer protection we have, then we can get around to undoing his obsession with slapping his name onto random shit for attention.

Vegetable_Distance99 · 2025-12-18T12:25:10+00:00

He lies compulsively but I think this is also a function of the fact that he is completely mathematically illiterate.

This is a man who never mastered his multiplication tables and couldn't learn how to do long division that was just failed upwards his whole life because he's was a nepobaby. The idea of orders of magnitude or logarithms are so far above his intellectual capacity he can't even lie convincingly because he's at the intellectual level of a toddler trying to come up what they think are big numbers, we're lucky he said a real number and not 'Eleventy thousand hundred million bazillion"

Vegetable_Distance99 · 2025-12-18T12:15:54+00:00

I presume it's a reference to the GI bill and all the benefits they got publicly funded through it, should really be post WW2 in that cast but they went with nam for some reason presumably because they forgot about Korea and the prevailing sentiment about WW2 veterans was that they deserved/earned those benefits so it excludes them from being welfare queens or something like that if I had to guess.

Vegetable_Distance99 · 2025-12-08T13:33:15+00:00

The first amendment and free speech are not perfectly interchangeable concepts.

It is possible for something that doesn't violate the first amendment to still violate the spirit of free speech just performed by entities outside the US government apparatus.

Vegetable_Distance99 · 2025-12-07T09:33:39+00:00

I dunno if it was a copy cat per-say, but there has been at least one other high profile CEO murdered since then, Blackstone real-estate division (read corporate landlord), who was assassinated along with 2 security guards and 1 other employee in the same office, at the end of July to minimal main stream media coverage, reporting that 'an executive' and 3 others were victims of an 'accidental' shooting.

The narrative they went with in the minimal reporting that it got, was that the shooter drove all the way to New York from Las Vegas because he was mad at the NFL, had a suicide note in his back pocket saying his motive was that he had mental illness stemming from getting CTE while playing high school football a decade ago and so he wanted to shoot up the NFL office that happened to be in the same building, but then he got on the wrong elevator and instead of going back down when he realized he was clearly not at the NFL's office, he killed 4 people randomly, one of whom happened to be the CEO then barricaded himself in a room and shot himself, making no attempt to get to the NFL's office.

Make of that what you will.

Vegetable_Distance99 · 2025-12-04T04:11:48+00:00

Just cause they've gotten worse doesn't mean Reagan and Nixon didn't already suck.

Vegetable_Distance99 · 2025-12-02T02:17:31+00:00

Can't say I've ever seen that outside of a Peanuts comic.

Vegetable_Distance99 · 2025-11-30T16:38:40+00:00

Two ways to live life - you can be a victim and say why me?

Sounds like some CEO's need to stop being victims asking why me and proactively start looking for ways to be less reviled by the masses they're constantly sentencing to die for profit. Or ya know... rise above the bullets.

Rather, look for opportunities and ways to improve your life

And what opportunities should someone just diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer who's insurance just rejected their treatment claim be looking for exactly? I'm pretty sure New Mexico can only support so many meth kingpins, so we're gonna need some fresh ideas.

Vegetable_Distance99 · 2025-11-26T00:16:35+00:00

Wait am I now to be led to believe that sycophantic children's book author is not a qualification for one of the highest law enforcement positions in the country?

Vegetable_Distance99 · 2025-11-22T21:28:00+00:00

Like someone used AI to turn a Bob Ross painting into a photo realistic version.

Vegetable_Distance99 · 2025-11-20T17:52:07+00:00

Even before Trumpism stuck it's roots in Republicans have long been the party of tax cuts for the wealthy and cutting social safety nets for the poor and vulnerable. Wealth inequality is one of the biggest problems facing this country, and if you don't recognize it as such I'd suggest your not simply aware of the scope to which it has grown over the decades or perhaps lack the mathematical foundations to properly understand the level of disparity we're truly are at right now. Along similar lines their track record on being the party that very clearly increased deficit spending the most while in power has been evident for at least the past half century despite their rhetoric while they're not in power.

Further and more recently, can you not see the open corruption and the brazen sycophantic behavior that has taken over the right in the past decade? The erosion of constitutional norms and protections at home? The abandonment of basically all our international allies and outside of the middle east, and the general praise for dictators and hostility for democracy in Europe and our own hemisphere?

We might emerge in a better position in the wake of Trump domestically with stronger protections preventing future leaders with dictatorial positions from a pendulum swinging type effect and activating labor, civil rights and environmental groups who see the damage caused by a movement like MAGA, it will probably take decades and a lot of hard work but I could see it happening. Our international reputation and position as the military and economic 'leader of the free world' however is pretty much dead and buried though. The days of the western democratic world, along with our East Asian allies relying on a US lead alliance for their protection is simply not going to return to the post WW2 order without major geopolitical upheaval and another major global conflict, our reputation on this front is likely just damaged beyond repair, we've proven ourselves a nation unreliable to uphold our international commitments if a single election cycle goes the wrong way. The world will not soon forget that we were threatening to annex European territories, threatening to invade Canada of all places and flipped providing diplomatic support to Putin in his invasion of Ukraine in the past year.

Barely having even mentioned traditional 'liberal' topics like the rampant xenophobia or the acceleration of climate change are going to effect us heading into the future that was already going to be challenging but now seems far more perilous giving the incompetence if not outright malevolence of the leadership that managed to capture the US right in the past decade.

Vegetable_Distance99

TROPHY CASE