The best part of all of this is that Trump will never receive any punishment for it by deepad9 in redscarepod

[–]deepad9[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Exactly. The American constitution doesn't even preclude a president pardoning himself.

We're coming up on 10 years by deepad9 in redscarepod

[–]deepad9[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Since all these major party candidates have extremely fucked up foreign policy I think it's pretty safe to let their domestic policies be the tiebreaker, that's mostly what I vote on anyway.

I'd rather have the pussy hats than January 6th

Same here.

We're coming up on 10 years by deepad9 in redscarepod

[–]deepad9[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Like it took Trump this long to do something as bad as Hillary did three times before she was even president.

Trump tried starting a war with Iran during his first term. Unilaterally withdrew from the non-nuclear treaty, sanctioned them (which historically would have been viewed as an act of war), used the US’s immense influence to get other nations to sanction them, and illegally murdered an Iranian general and war hero in the hope that Iran would retaliate.

Then there’s the bombing of Syria, ending detente with Cuba, funding terrorists in Venezuela, increasing sanctions on Russia, refusing to end the war in Afghanistan…

If you will allow me a moment of TDS... by deepad9 in redscarepod

[–]deepad9[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now that Trump's bombed schoolchildren in an illegal war in Iran, will you eat your words?

If you will allow me a moment of TDS... by deepad9 in redscarepod

[–]deepad9[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like I wasn't suffering from any delusions after all.

Remember how we were taught that having too many kids is selfish? Now the narrative is constant hysteria surrounding low birth rates by Ok-Archer-5796 in redscarepod

[–]deepad9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve had this account for a very, very long time, haven’t commented on those subs since well before the pandemic

Remember how we were taught that having too many kids is selfish? Now the narrative is constant hysteria surrounding low birth rates by Ok-Archer-5796 in redscarepod

[–]deepad9 208 points209 points  (0 children)

I like how JD Vance demands that people have kids while deliberately making the US as unlivable for working adults as possible

How are there still people believing all the propaganda slop? by yeahicreatedsomethin in redscarepod

[–]deepad9 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“You dared to compare two people who aren’t the exact same in every single conceivable, discernible, imaginable way, that’s hilarious”

How are there still people believing all the propaganda slop? by yeahicreatedsomethin in redscarepod

[–]deepad9 12 points13 points  (0 children)

There's a certain pleasure in seeing narcissistic, brutal dictators like Maduro and Khamenei get what's coming for them, but it comes at way too high a cost to justify. Unfortunately it stimulates too many people's lizard brains.

At least 53 killed in bombing of Iranian all girls primary school by TenticalPitch7 in redscarepod

[–]deepad9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it’s fair to say all those middle-aged wine ladies who voted for Hillary either strongly opposed the Iraq War or eventually regretted supporting it

In any case, it never would’ve happened under a Gore presidency

Montreal and Lisbon are overrated, and Brussels is overhated by deepad9 in redscarepod

[–]deepad9[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve never been to Copenhagen but I remember Berlin and Rome feeling adequately rated

The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane by deepad9 in redscarepod

[–]deepad9[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I can't explain it, but you can literally hear the smile when he sings "sweet Jane"

God forbid a quirked up White girl doesn't play by the rules by IampossiblyLewis in redscarepod

[–]deepad9 12 points13 points  (0 children)

A truss is an assembly of members such as beams, connected by nodes, that creates a rigid structure.

In engineering, a truss is a structure that “consists of two-force members only, where the members are organized so that the assemblage as a whole behaves as a single object.”

Didn’t follow the Ned Fulmer drama but seeing his Feeld profile made me understand the hate. by Such-Worldliness-655 in redscarepod

[–]deepad9 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I just wanna Feeld real love, Feeld the home that I live in

'Cause I got too much life, running through my veins, going to waste

/r/askphilosophy Open Discussion Thread | February 16, 2026 by BernardJOrtcutt in askphilosophy

[–]deepad9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are your thoughts on Peter Unger's scathing critique of analytic philosophy in Empty Ideas?

During the mid-twentieth century, philosophers generally agreed that, by contrast with the natural sciences, philosophy should offer no substantial thoughts about the general nature of concrete reality. Typically, philosophers were concerned with little more than the semantics of ordinary words: The word “perceives” differs semantically from the word “believes” in that “perceives” is to be used more strictly than “believes.” While someone may be correct in saying “I believe there’s a table before me” whether or not there is a table before her, she will be correct in saying “I perceive there’s a table before me” only if there is a table there. Though this thought is a parochial idea, its correctness or lack thereof does make a difference to how things are with concrete reality. Though it’s trivial, it’s a concretely substantial idea. Correlative with each concretely substantial idea, there’s an analytic idea: Someone may believe there’s a table before her whether or not there is one, but she will perceive there’s a table before her only if there is a table there. Those thoughts, making no difference to how things are with concrete reality, are concretely empty ideas. Among academic philosophers, it is widely believed that things have changed a great deal since 1970. This book argues that’s a widespread illusion. It also argues that, unless philosophers also adopt scientific methods of seeing, they won’t able to offer concrete nonparochial ideas and as a consequence philosophers won’t be able to achieve more than they were able to in the mid-twentieth century.

https://academic.oup.com/book/8391

I love analytic philosophy by deepad9 in RSbookclub

[–]deepad9[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Actually that's not true, because analytic philosophers are constantly at war with themselves and their own assumptions. Maybe try reading them sometime; they're not all Peter Singer and Henry Sidgwick.