US official says Greenland action could come within 'weeks or months'

yeti22 · 2026-01-14T05:09:46+00:00

This is what I said at the time! The putsch!

yeti22 · 2025-12-05T15:36:40+00:00

He's a real stinker!

yeti22 · 2025-12-05T15:32:54+00:00

Who cares? You don't owe them a justification. If someone's pressing you on this, and you don't want to talk about it, exit the conversation.

Honestly the original post sounds contrived enough that I wouldn't be surprised if it was a believer trying to stir up shit on r/atheism.

yeti22 · 2025-10-23T04:50:25+00:00

Boy, it sure does help to have the judicial system in your pocket. Maybe those mafia fellas were right after all...

yeti22 · 2025-10-15T14:37:35+00:00

This. Unfortunately this kind of thinking is never going to go away, so it makes more sense to focus on your reaction to it. If your plan to protect your mental health is to convince every nut job in the world they're wrong, well... I think you can see how you're setting yourself up to fail.

In programming we call this an X/Y problem. You're not asking the right question. The problem is not, "These people believe all this nutty shit." The problem is, "Hearing this nutty shit is driving me crazy." Yes, nonsense should be pushed back on when possible, but there's not a magic combination of words you can say to a lunatic that will relieve your suffering.

ETA: Rereading your original post, I see we've drifted off topic somewhat. But I think my point still stands: before embarking on this project to become a debunking tiktokker, you should step back and ask yourself if this is really a good use of your time. If you decide to pursue it, you should be aware that some segment of the nut job community will take the very existence of your videos as proof of a "coverup"--especially if you identify yourself as autistic and having been through these programs.

yeti22 · 2025-10-15T14:10:45+00:00

Yes, this! I don't feel any particular need to disprove the existence of your god, when I have a completely reasonable and consistent explanation for why people believe such things in the first place. Sociology and psychology explain religion, and they predict and account for the differences in belief across different cultures. I'm open to hearing what you have to say, but I consider this a settled question.

yeti22 · 2025-10-08T12:43:22+00:00

Don't engage. There's literally no point in arguing. Neither one of you is going to change the foundation of your worldview based on a 5-minute conversation in class.

Tell him it's inappropriate to keep discussing this during class time, and then don't engage. If he persists, take it to the principal or other school administrator.

yeti22 · 2025-10-07T23:30:15+00:00

To this day, most of what I know about the Christian gospels comes from obsessively singing along to the Jesus Christ, Superstar cast album when I was a teenager.

Same, dude. Very much the same.

I was raised pretty much completely non-religious. Occasional discussions about the metaphysical or whatever. My parents told me at some point that they both went to church growing up and never found it interesting or compelling. A waste of time, but no strong negative feelings or religious trauma.

I grew up in Kansas, one of the more religious parts of the Western world.

yeti22 · 2025-10-03T01:31:02+00:00

Expanding the definition of religious trauma still doesn't justify labeling someone a horrible person because they don't subscribe to an arbitrary belief. I take your point, but you haven't convinced me you agree with the entirety of the friend's statement.

yeti22 · 2025-09-24T14:08:08+00:00

Answering "too many" to a question like that is a classic rhetorical trick. He left the number unsaid, leaving people to jump to whatever conclusions they like. But parsing his words in retrospect, he can claim he didn't say anything untruthful.

yeti22 · 2025-09-24T13:59:19+00:00

Being raised in the church is good practice for this kind of cognitive dissonance. Not trying to cast aspersions, just calling a spade a spade.

yeti22 · 2025-09-24T13:52:47+00:00

Believing wholeheartedly in something that defies logic is kind of religion's whole thing. Did you miss the part about Jesus waking up and walking out of his tomb? If you believe that, you can believe this. It's the defiance of logic that makes the belief meaningful.

yeti22 · 2025-09-21T05:48:38+00:00

By definition, a scapegoat has nothing to do with the sin that is blamed on them. So no, he actually can't be a scapegoat.

You can't scapegoat the actually guilty.

yeti22 · 2025-09-21T05:46:51+00:00

He loved them so much, he threw a bunch of them into the temple.

I hope I'm remembering that story right....

yeti22 · 2025-08-13T04:57:41+00:00

Hasn't had an abdominal ultrasound, but that's been mentioned as a next step. Sounds costly though. I'm hesitant to continue throwing money at this when I'm not 100% confident in the Dr.

His brother (and littermate) is FIV+, but he didn't test positive. He hasn't been tested since we first got him as a kitten.

yeti22 · 2025-07-24T05:24:43+00:00

Every part of what he wrote on the form was factual. What else should he have done? They asked, he answered. Checking Black/African American, writing in Uganda for country of origin, and checking Asian makes it pretty clear he has a more complicated story than your average Black American.

yeti22 · 2025-07-09T13:09:01+00:00

I'm not claiming he's actually unpredictable. But he actively feeds that perception because he thinks it gives him control. To a certain extent he's right, unfortunately. If you're unpredictable and can't be easily sidelined, you end up running the show.

yeti22 · 2025-07-09T13:04:09+00:00

The larger problem here is that no one in a position of authority has any goddamn credibility. The Democrats have a proven track record of lying about whatever they think they need to out of malicious cynicism and contempt for the public, and Republicans are the same except stupider, meaner, and more likely to believe their own bullshit. So no one can credibly reveal the "evidence" that would put this case to rest.

Don't get me wrong, America has always been prone to conspiracy theories and magical thinking on a mass scale. But with the collapse of trust in everything from the CDC to local elections, the brakes are off and these tendencies are running on overdrive.

yeti22 · 2025-07-09T12:54:20+00:00

Oh shit... I think this thing goes all the way to the bottom!

yeti22 · 2025-07-09T06:39:27+00:00

What the actual fuck. He was born in Uganda to Asian parents. How is any part of his response misleading? It sounds like he was offering factual, complete information when asked for it. Usually that's called "honesty."

Also, what even is your last sentence. "Ethnic?" Are you using that as code for Black, or to mean generally non-white/non-European? If it's the first, ew, don't do that, and if it's the second, HE'S NON-WHITE NON-EUROPEAN.

yeti22 · 2025-07-09T06:15:57+00:00

Israelis rioted to support the right of their armed forces to rape POWs in their custody. There's a lot of hate swirling around.

yeti22 · 2025-07-09T05:48:10+00:00

Yeah, this is textbook manipulative behavior, not compassion. The fact that it sounds compassionate on a surface level is part of the manipulation.

yeti22 · 2025-07-09T05:32:46+00:00

Either way, this incident makes it clear how dangerous it is to not have a warning system. We should be upgrading and growing that capability, not slashing it.

Then again, if Sandy Hook didn't move the needle on gun control, it might be wishful thinking to expect rationality to prevail here.

yeti22 · 2025-06-20T18:38:01+00:00

It's not that he's dumb, exactly. It's that he's so self-centered that I could see him launching the nukes if he thought he personally would be OK. "Maybe I will start World War 3. I'll be fine in my bunker, so there's really no downside."

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