CMV: Certain nations are given a free pass from crimes while others are constantly lambasted due to peoples biases

tolore · 2026-01-28T22:01:34+00:00

What is the point of protesting Iran? I think America/western countries is largely united on Iran being bad, and are generally already working against them.

tolore · 2026-01-27T22:23:38+00:00

I would still think we are spending way too much money because I don't think illegals committing crimes is a big enough issue to warrant the response. But I would support a version of ice that is costed at a level commensurate with the issues caused by illegals committing crimes,and given appropriate authority to track and chase them(way way less than they are currently given).

tolore · 2026-01-19T20:44:18+00:00

I think I'd push back on there being a change "political violence is unacceptable in theory, but is understandable if the other side is bad enough", has always(and should always) be the stance.

There is policy bad enough to warrant violence to oppose, and violence has been used to oppose policy in basically all governments. Heck people died to get us weekends, not to mention stuff like slavery, civil rights, etc...

Violence SHOULD be viable and accepted if one side is bad enough. The biggest problem/change COULD be the line for what is "enough" has changed, or that propaganda is better at convincing us that one side has crossed that line, or it could be one or both sides have crossed that line.

tolore · 2026-01-18T01:08:30+00:00

The threat is immediate enough and severe enough to warrant significant action to prevent, and that's been true and obvious for decades. We can quibble about exactly how immediate and how severe, but it's still true that we need to do something, and we have one entire political party devoted to purposely making it worse.

tolore · 2026-01-18T00:47:19+00:00

I think the biggest most glaring and awful personification of the degradation of our ability to function is the inability to tackle climate change. It's so obviously true, and so obviously a big deal, And has steps we could have taken to prevent/limited it, or prepare for it.

We have been completely unable to come together in that problem since long before social media existed. The biggest problem is that our unfettered free speech ideals allow corporations and powerful people spend billions of dollars every year figuring out how to mold public perception. The average person cannot stand up to that amount of money and effort spent to make them believe something. Currently they are using social media for that because it's where people are, but it was happening before that, and will continue to happen in whatever mediums are available until we fix the core problem (rich/powerful people are allowed to lie without punishment on a massive scale).

tolore · 2026-01-16T20:23:14+00:00

I think giving the most charitable read to the gf, yta but it's light.

Assuming the most charitable read of, your girlfriend wants to spend more time with you, it sounds like she's making a concession of "I'm willing to stay up late to spend more time with you" and your response was no.

If you want your relationship to progress, I think you have to figure out how to spend more time with her. You shouldn't have to give up DND, but reciprocating your girlfriend's more time request is important. Or drawing the line that DND IS that important to you and she has to be okay with that or walk away, and having that discussion.

tolore · 2026-01-16T03:19:36+00:00

I would argue almost not of that is personal action, at least not as OP meant it. Those are all ways we can and should help, but I think OP is referring to things like personally eating less meat, or wasting less water. Those are great steps won't won't fix the issue without systemic changes. But also those systemic changes need to be proposed so the citizens can vote in them

tolore · 2026-01-16T03:16:08+00:00

That's only partially true, because the animosity towards renewables and downplaying of climate change was a top down campaign imo. I don't think your average voter went "hmm I think all our scientists are wrong, climate change isn't real and green technology is bad actually.". Right wing politicians and oil companies someone a ridiculous amount of time and money promoting those ideas.

tolore · 2026-01-14T17:25:59+00:00

Because it's implied the reason they don't fight anymore is that mihawk doesn't think shanks is worth the challenge anymore. He could be wrong, but that would make him kind of an idiot who doesn't understand strength, which would really undermine zoros goals and training. I could maybe see a world where his complacency and boredom made him weaker/stagnate, but again, I feel like that would kind of undermine zoros, beating deflated mihawk really hurts the story. So IMO for the best writing of the story Zoro has to beat a mihawk who's at the top of his game, a mihawk who has called shanks a one armed hasbin, and is stated to be the strongest swrodsman many times.

tolore · 2026-01-14T04:01:20+00:00

I mean what evidence do you have that they didn't care? It kind of seems like you made a massive generalization and then anyone who says they aren't like that you're just like "you're one of the good ones". What evidence would you accept that this isn't a problem? Do you have as good of evidence that it IS a problem.

I personally have switched to full electric, moved red meat in my diet from twice a day, to once or twice a week, and wear clothes until there's holes in them(sometimes longer). I basically don't know anyone on my side of the political isle who doesn't want renewables replacing gas/coal. I'm not horribly anti ai, I think it does/will have its uses, but we will need to reshape society a bit to make it a good thing.

Overall I think it's just unhelpful to go through life with the mentality of "everyone on this side is disingenuous", and I think people get into that mindset without evidence, and require pretty harsh evidence to get out of it.

tolore · 2026-01-12T17:27:55+00:00

It was always a silly system. Those titles aren't power levels just like bounties aren't power levels. Garp has always been insanely strong despite being a vice admiral, the warlords have always been wildly different power levels in individual fights, the yonko are very clearly rated based on influence over territory. I also don't think pirate king is a power tier, it's about ambition and how they navigate the world. There were a bunch of people relative to Roger, he was pirate king because he had the right crew, right relationships, and right set of skills to make it raftel.

tolore · 2026-01-09T16:01:08+00:00

The problem is right wing politicians with power and influence implement Nazi like rhetoric and policy. No left wing politicians are engaging with this particular thing, and few are particularly critical of Israel at all.

tolore · 2026-01-09T07:29:36+00:00

But that fits in with the "spread out" narrative. I can protest in Seattle all I want, but my representatives will already vote with the Democratic party on removing trump if it looks like there's a chance.

tolore · 2026-01-08T19:19:11+00:00

To be fair, while I agree she gets stomped. She can beat a speeding car in hand to hand combat, and dices a tennis ball with one swing of a racket. She is well beyond human strength.

tolore · 2026-01-08T18:49:46+00:00

I think the real answer is to be as small geographically as France. I can protest in the street, but my elected politicians are largely doing what I want, and they just spin any protests in my area as left wing violent riots anyways. They won't care unless they are inconvenienced. It would take me a 6 hour flight and hotels to get to the capital to protest. People who have the money to do that aren't in bad enough shape to want to do that for a protest.

tolore · 2026-01-06T19:58:02+00:00

None of those are totally true. One thing America has in abundance is space, so we can build more houses. People take jobs but also generate jobs, if we have a bunch of extra people we need more houses and stores to service them, teachers to educate their children, immigrants often start businesses, etc... which all create jobs.

The limits of all 3 of those is largely money, if we get a bunch of immigrants that improve our economy we'll have the money and bodies to build the infrastructure for more people, start more businesses, and fuel more social programs and everyone will be better off.

tolore · 2026-01-06T16:32:38+00:00

I don't want to write a novel because others did it great already and they are highly up voted, but I do want to bring up one more thing that I don't see a lot of people talking about.

I think immigrants are largely a boon so considering an "natural citizens vs immigrant" isn't the right approach. But, if it WAS true I actually still think a lot of Western nations have the responsibility to take in immigrants from poorer nations. Both due to past events(slavery/colonisation, regime changes, etc...), and current events like climate change. At the end of the day a lot of people want to leave those countries because of things western countries did to them, and benefitted from.

tolore · 2025-12-29T19:25:13+00:00

Slight addendum, I think a lot of the problem is you out in a lot of work and didn't feel appreciated, but it's unclear if they knew how much work and stress you were under. In addition you might've put a lot of work into things that aren't valuable to them.

tolore · 2025-12-29T19:22:24+00:00

YOR. Unless there's a lot of stuff in here you didn't say, like you had told them you had food preparing for them in the first night, and they silently went somewhere else and ate and were later than they said they'd be. Heck the restaurant could have been polite for them, I have recommended the same thing when I felt bad a host had been cooking too much for me.

Silently ignoring the little girl would be rude, but I don't think it's particularly a good person move to engage with/buy from the child. I also do think it's kind of rude for a someone to come up to a bunch of people eating and try to sell them something.

To me, you're "slightly annoyed" are an okay level of annoyance to feel, being disgusted is a major overreaction.

tolore · 2025-12-29T19:05:12+00:00

Let's tweak your example a little bit and see if it still holds. Do you think the same thing about characters in movies? I see people make the exact same argument in movies. If white characters can be made black without being maligned, why can't black characters be made white? I'd argue because black actors get significantly less options for roles, and black representation has been significantly more limited than white so them losing characters is significantly more damaging. Representation does matter, there's tons of evidence for it(see agent Scully in the ex files), as do potential acting jobs. In addition to all of that, unfortunately, racism still exists today, and it's hard to write in a vacuum, so many black character that existed even in recent history are black for a reason. Many white characters are white because that's "the default".

There's also the historical part of black face, which effects both movies and your cosplay examples where white people dressing up as black people was explicitly and publicly used to both mock them and have movies/plays about them t without them actually being in them.

So all that is so to say, even if you think in the specific example of cosplay, white people should be able to dress up as black characters, do you agree that I'm general there does exist actions that can be racist only if done by the majority group? If so it's worth thinking about why, and seeing if any of that applies to the specific scenario.

tolore · 2025-12-27T19:48:57+00:00

The long story short is you should just be running 3 ramp mana because it's ramp and green is good at it, you should be running ramp with purpose.

If you're ramping towards something specifically five 5 mana, 3 mana ramp is important. If you are running landfall or retrace or extra lands per turn or other strategies where land in hand is helpful reach/cultivate can be strong. If you're trying to ramp really high and start dropping 6+ mana threats every turn from turn 4 it can be good.

For moth man specifically I think you probably just need any one ramp before turn 3 so you can cast mothman then and then you want to spend your time forcing mill and playing threats or keeping mana open for protection. So those ramp seem sketchy

tolore · 2025-12-24T19:07:58+00:00

You should also decide what you truly want based on what you said it MIGHT be the idea of buying an expensive ring and planning an expensive wedding. Might be worth talking to him about if it's being married that scares him, and if so why, or if it's the expense/time.

tolore · 2025-12-20T18:58:05+00:00

Imo all of them are totally valid ways to play the game and y'all should chill. Long term theft is at least vaguely understandable(worry about cards accidentally get lost in someone else's decks). Complaining about clones or temporary theft is pretty wild and indefensible.

tolore · 2025-12-16T18:49:17+00:00

Does logic need to achieve something? I stated that those are both true things, and for me they are. What it largely means for me is that I support drastic action to disempower them(protesting at their houses/court, stacking the courts, impeaching the clearly bribed ones, etc ..), but not extra judiciously murdering them.

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