Something I love about this is how even though he’s noticeably nervous to be speaking in public and even when his emotions rapidly flare up and he’s overcome with rage he doesn’t become any less articulate in his speech, and even interjects to assert himself when they try to cut him off. This is a man whose passion for justice overpowers what appears to be quite strong social anxiety.

As if the general level of misinformation online isn’t already several orders of magnitude worse than anything on lemmy.ml.

Its ridiculous how many people take critical aspects of society for granted and assume they would continue to exist in a world where everyone does whatever the fuck they want without any central planning or control. In many places around the world people already dont have access to fresh/clean water for this exact reason…

You have a very simplistic view of what an anarchist society could look like and it’s rooted in the assumption that the only possible alternative to central planning is no planning. It’s absolutely possible for people to organize access to clean water in a decentralized manner and I know this because it has been done repeatedly all over the world and throughout human history. In the places you’re thinking of that do not have access to clean water it is often not the result of a lack of central planning, but directly caused by it, such as when a multinational corporation claims a community’s water supply as its private property and restricts access.

I’m sorry but it looks like a microwave.

At this point I whitelist rather than blacklist.

Who are these leftist policy politicians that leftists refuse to vote for? I have a suspicion that what you’re referring to as leftist policy is actually liberal policy, and you either don’t understand or care to make the distinction.

“Being exploited for profit as a child gave me an early understanding of how exploitative the world of casual labour is. I think other children should be exploited too because it teaches them how to escape exploitation, like I did. Huh? selection bias? What’s that?”

Wow. Hey, I have an idea. Touching a hot stove teaches kids not to touch a hot stove, therefore we should make kids touch hot stoves. It’s genius!

I would suggest a ouija board but I read the book mentioned above and know that he wasn’t too fond of those.

Kentuckian here, we’re known for horse racing, bourbon, coal mining, and cave tourism. And also being ruthlessly exploited by the aforementioned industries for as long as the state has existed (and possibly even before then).

I hate that word. I used a possessive apostrophe like this (its’) for years before somebody finally told me that rule doesn’t apply to its for some unknown reason.

A whippet is a dog breed lol. They look a bit like a cross between a greyhound and a borzoi (slender bodies, long faces).

Inhaling nitrous oxide gives a very short-lived euphoric high. Using the little canisters this way is colloquially referred to as whip-its. Prolonged use is known to cause severe and irreversible brain damage.

More slop op-eds blaming systemic issues on personal failures.

Please tell me you’re not from the US and our education system hasn’t failed you this horribly.

Well, yes, but that would require me to preemptively choose caution over expediency. On a related note, I always fight the giant spiders, and then get very upset at the predictable outcome.

There’s no greater risk in foraging mushrooms than there is in foraging plants. The real reason for the American fear of mushrooms being so prevalent is the dearth of knowledge about mushrooms in American culture. It’s similar to how many cultures in the past believed tomatoes and potatos were poisonous because they were new to those cultures.

The problem is that the center is defined relative to whatever political strains happen to exist at the moment, which are always in motion. The periphery moves, so the center moves with it. Anyone calling themselves centrists for an extended period of time is just someone without convictions who follows the general vibe around them.

Also burgoo and hot brown, not only uniquely American but uniquely Kentuckian. Each state and territory has their own signature dishes like any other country.

If one of those colors is red 40 then you have been drugged.

I agree, but I still think that as long as charities exist they should be tax exempt. I look at it similarly to USAID, which was a way for the US empire to project soft power, but also saved and improved lives. Ending 501c3 tax exempt status would be a disaster in the same way that the current administration ending USAID was. Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.