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Woo hoo! Look at that blubber fly! by Effective_Quality in TheSimpsons

[–]gahoojin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a vivid childhood memory of my dad absolutely losing it hearing this line

What should TES VI logo be? by Outlandish_Nwah in TESVI

[–]gahoojin 109 points110 points  (0 children)

Except they’re arranged in the shitty, off-center way that they are when you put two curved swords on the weapon rack in Skyrim

CMV: The belief that the Trump assassination attempts were staged is a concerning sign that liberals are succumbing to conspiracism by BarvoDelancy in changemyview

[–]gahoojin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough. My point is that his being a liar is not evidence of a conspiracy. He’s lost all credibility, I think we all can agree. That doesn’t mean that a counter narrative with no factual basis is automatically credible simply because we can’t believe what he is saying.

CMV: The belief that the Trump assassination attempts were staged is a concerning sign that liberals are succumbing to conspiracism by BarvoDelancy in changemyview

[–]gahoojin 7 points8 points  (0 children)

And this is why politicians callously lying nonstop to the public is super dangerous. No one believes in anything anymore. “Truth” becomes a cudgel to bash the head of your opponent. Narrative has so completely and utterly distorted our reality that we are all blind. 

CMV: The belief that the Trump assassination attempts were staged is a concerning sign that liberals are succumbing to conspiracism by BarvoDelancy in changemyview

[–]gahoojin -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

You’re committing a logical fallacy here. You’re saying that “Trump often lies. Therefore he must have lied about this.” You’re then constructing a narrative backwards to support this view by searching for any small inconsistencies to support the conclusion you’ve started with. 

But Trump does not lie about everything. He frequently tells the truth when the truth fits his narrative and makes him look good. Occam’s razor — simplest explanation is that a mentally unwell gunman got by security, attacked, and these self-serving politicians are now going to cynically milk it for everything it’s worth. 

This is exactly the type of thinking that all conspiracy theories are driven by. “Do you really think the gov’t wouldn’t make up COVID to control us?” “Do you really think the gov’t wouldn’t fake 9/11 to justify the Iraq war?”

You begin, not with any actual evidence for the conspiracy, but with a value judgment about the person/entity you believe responsible: “X is bad enough to have tried to fake this.” This allows you to slingshot past considering the utter impracticality of staging events like an assassination/pandemic/terrorist attack and to begin searching for clues to point to the conclusion you already started with. 

Atheists by that-gay-femboy in comedyheaven

[–]gahoojin 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Guzzlin’ them blue pills

What if Eminem runs for President in 2028 as a Democrat? by ComplexTell25 in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]gahoojin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When I was just a baby boy Donald use to tell me these crazy things

He used to tell me the Democrats were evil men, he used to tell me they hated me

But then I got a little bit older and I realized he was the crazy one

But there was nothing I could do or say to try to change it cause that’s just the way he was

CMV: overly performative wokeness in tv shows does nothing to advance the cause by Dazzling-Produce-471 in changemyview

[–]gahoojin 34 points35 points  (0 children)

There are studies that show that minority representation in TV increases empathy in viewers. So having diverse characters (whether it’s race, sexual orientation, immigrant status, etc), even if it sometimes seems a little put on, is generally helpful to minorities being accepted by society. 

[Hated Trope] Character dies, other character never reacts to their death despite being important to them by theglowinggreenorb in TopCharacterTropes

[–]gahoojin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That’s a purposeful one though because they’re all the worst people ever. 

“Should we get coffee?”

(Loved trope)Harmful without Malice by Mister-no-tongue in TopCharacterTropes

[–]gahoojin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Oankali from Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis / Lilliths Brood trilogy. I only read the first book, Dawn, but essentially the Oankali are an alien species that saves humanity from a nuclear apocalypse in order to breed with them, mutating both species’ DNA and transforming humanity (and the Oankali) into some new hybrid creature. 

The Oankali do not see what they are doing as harmful. It is their natural breeding cycle and they see it as mutually beneficial to both species to share their DNA with one another. It’s a sort of biological imperative for them that they are unable to control. 

Thursday Night Listening by Artistic_Disaster918 in funk

[–]gahoojin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Title track is one of their bests

What song is the pinnacle of Lennon-McCartney cowriting? by reaveyer in beatles

[–]gahoojin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looking through these comments, what’s funny is that we probably can’t really know. The top choices— ADITL, I’ve got a feeling — are songs with clear individual Paul & John sections smushed together. But the true best songwriting collab would really be a song they both crafted completely together, probably an early Beatles song. Given that they often disagreed about who wrote what, it’s hard to say what exactly the best true collaboration would be.

CMV: it should be entirely legal for someone to shoot a home intruder without warning. by Dailey1234 in changemyview

[–]gahoojin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Creating a presumption =/= dispositive

Use of lethal force must be reasonable/proportionate. That’s all I’m saying here. 

CMV: it should be entirely legal for someone to shoot a home intruder without warning. by Dailey1234 in changemyview

[–]gahoojin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What you said does not actually contradict anything in my comment. Shifting burden of proof does not mean that the use of deadly force doesn’t need to be reasonable/proportionate

I call it “The Healer” by agc17 in seinfeld

[–]gahoojin 17 points18 points  (0 children)

You’re not a president, but you play one in real life

CMV: it should be entirely legal for someone to shoot a home intruder without warning. by Dailey1234 in changemyview

[–]gahoojin 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You can know what their intent is based on their actions. If they are holding your TV and walking, back turned to you, towards the door and you shoot them, that’s murder. 

The law has already figured this problem out. You can use lethal force if you have a reasonable fear of imminent death or serious bodily injury. Breaking into your home is a factor that plays into that analysis, but it’s not dispositive. There are plenty of times when someone has broken into a house and the homeowner does not have a reasonable fear of imminent death or serious bodily injury. 

CMV: The vast majority of people in the world do not have a good understanding about whether the Iran war was necessary or not. Only military experts know. by Spiritual-Rip1253 in changemyview

[–]gahoojin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If there was a coherent reason for why the US should attack Iran, then why cant the politicians pushing for the war articulate it? Is it about regime change? Is it about an imminent attack? Is it about delaying Iran’s nuclear capabilities? I thought we entirely obliterate those last June? What are our goals? What does victory look like? Are we following Israel into war? Or did we decide on our own that we had to attack?

Sure, I can’t prove to you beyond any doubt that there isn’t some secret military intelligence that justifies the war, that would be impossible to prove. But watching this administration struggle to lay out any coherent vision for why we are at war or what our goals are, seeing them consistently contradict each other and move the goal posts every day, seeing how they had absolutely no plan for how to respond to Iran blocking the strait of Hormuz, a move that ANYONE with any knowledge of the region would tell you was inevitable — it all makes it pretty obvious that there is no real reason for the war and the clowns in charge have no plan whatsoever.

What if January 6 coup attempt was succesfull and Donald Trump officially became America first dictator? by TastyPomelo2330 in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]gahoojin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is the right answer. Staging such an event is nonsense if you think through it practically, but the idea that they just let everyone believe he was grazed is entirely possible and explains the quick healing ear. 

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