The wealthier a country becomes, the more meat they eat. The vast majority of the world could survive on a vegan diet. Thrive, even. This isn’t about survival, it’s about taste.

So, you’d be okay if somebody killed you as long as they ate you afterwards?

Relevant Todd in the Shadows that came out just a few days ago.

Vaporwave went one better by putting symbols in the band name. Sometimes the band name is just a bunch of triangles or something.

Of course, there was that time that Prince changed his name to a symbol, and there’s also a band called !!! (pronounced “chik-chik-chik”)

So, what you’re saying is… It is a drop-in FOSS reddit replacement.

The reason why sports are segregated by gender is because men can’t stand to lose to women.

Think about this. Why are even non-contact sports segregated? Tennis? Why?!

Even chess is segregated by gender. Chess!

The only way that trans people make sense is if gender and sex are two separate things.

How is it that I, a straight man, am attracted to trans women if they’re actually men? Does that mean that I’m bisexual? No, because I’m not attracted to cis men. (Or trans men, for that matter.) Think about the pretzel logic you have to get into if you have a worldview like JK Rowling. “Bisexual for femininity” isn’t a thing. Straight men are attracted to women. Cis women, trans women. Women. Period.

Now, I know that it’s about more than attraction, but this is what got me to start thinking about this. Another was this thought experiment somebody gave me: “If your dick got chopped off, would you instantly turn into a woman?” No, of course not.

At this point a gender essentialist would probably start talking about chromosomes. Chromosomes determine what your gender is! Nobody uses this as a definition for gender in any practical way, though. When you’re looking at somebody from across the room, you don’t know what their chromosomes are. How many of your friends do you have chromosomal data on? How about the people you’ve dated? Are they going to use chromosomes to determine which bathroom you can use? Or which team you can play on? This is incoherent. It’s like basing gender upon whether you have an even or odd number of atoms in your body.

I had one person tell me that a trans woman would be unsuitable for marriage because she couldn’t give birth. I’m not interested in having children, but setting that aside…would they say the same thing about a cis woman who’s infertile? Every single one of these arguments is incoherent.

It has been for several years now. I rarely use Google now, and when I do, I’m using it out of DuckDuckGo (!g)

A child’s face says a lot. Especially the mouth part of the face.

If we can’t get rid of the electoral college entirely, electors should at least be proportional. For example, if Kamala Harris gets 25% of a state’s votes and Trump gets 74%, then Harris should get 25% of the electors from that state (instead of zero).

A surgeon can have a little fun as a treat.

It’s why the US killed a half million middle eastern people after 9/11

Which was wrong.

It’s why people are praising Ukraine for invading Russia back

How is this different from what Hamas did on Oct. 7th?

It’s why nobody cries about all the dead Nazi’s

The Allies did not commit genocide on the Germans during WWII. The Germans were committing a genocide, and the Allies were stopping them.

This is peak whataboutism.

Did you demand they stop funding attacks after the half million middle eastern civilians were killed by allied forces during the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq?

Yes, I did, actually. In fact, I did that before a half million were killed. I was always against both wars. What’s your point?

Do you demand they stop funding Ukraine because it’s now invading Russia?

No, because Russia is the aggressor here. Ukraine is a sovereign nation. Just like Palestine would be if not for Israel.

They were happy that Hamas killed a thousand Israeli civilians and took hostages.

I don’t care. They could’ve been dancing in the streets over it. It still doesn’t justify genocide.

“I demand my government force another country to stop killing civilians immediately” -Also you

I can demand that my government quit funding it with my tax dollars.

We don’t need an upper age limit. We need term limits.

They’re quoting people from the DNC in the article. Did you even read it?

“Hold your nose and vote for this trash and then we could make get someone decent/progressive next time.”

And then watch what happens when somebody like Sanders almost gets nominated.

Where are the donations?

What convinced you that the Green Party is a laughingstock and that Stein is responsible?

Or the fact that with her campaign only surviving with the help of GOP operatives and Russian propaganda campaigns, she’s actually making it harder to take third party candidates seriously at any level of government?

Which GOP donors and Russian operatives are you referring to? Donations are a matter of public record. Which ones are from the GOP and Russia?