Demut

Kinda crazy that this is still a thing in the 21st century. You'd think all the U.S. workers who were killed in strikes and such by private armies and the like during the previous century would've achieved a bit more with their deaths like they did elsewhere. Here's to that plan of a general strike in a month or whatever it was actually gathering enough support.

I thought that initiative got cockblocked by the Republicans. Am I misremembering this?

That huge blob of "Reported Ukrainian Partisan Warfare" has been there for a couple of months now, right? Did they just forget to remove that or is this actually still happening?

I don't think the ones who have an issue with her these days are the ones who believe in hell though

2 hours ago, Kal-El814 said:

This hasn't been the case for like... 30 years.

Guess pop culture has yet to catch up to this new reality then.

3 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

Harry Potter is basically a symbol of hate at this point. Only those who turn a blind eye can't quite see it yet.

I know this should be obvious but c'mon, you cannot be serious, right ?

Why are U.S. government institutions so toothless? I always hear about how the IRS is oh-so tough on tax evasion and yet this doesn't even qualify as a slap on the wrist. Is there some deeper reason, like how they wouldn't fuck with Scientology after those domestic terrorists started attacking the judicial system with a myriad bogus lawsuits and shit? When it comes to the States I basically never hear about the likes of the billion dollar fines that are regularly handed down in the EU. This can't all just be "rich people have more electoral influence".

9 minutes ago, TUFKAK said:

Remember back on ign when he said the Russians would never be a threat to Europe again?

 

I’ve no idea why you guys engage with him.

I've never been on IGN and, to the best of my knowledge, never said or even thought such a thing. What the fuck is wrong with you people? Has there been another user called Demut in my absence that you're all confusing me with or something? I don't even know who you are, your name means nothing to me. Were you actually posting on D1P/BC back in the day under a different username or are you some newcomer?

1 hour ago, TheShader said:

Yes, you know, just how water is poisonous by this standard. You can overdose on water. Ya know, the thing we need to live.

Oh, good, so you are starting to get it. Do you see yet why it's silly to handwave away side-effects by saying "only happens with an overdose" when the same is true for the most lethal toxin on the planet? And it actually has beneficial applications in the right (minuscule) amount, i.e. botox.

1 hour ago, TheShader said:

I'm not missing it. Let me stop being coy about it. You don't consider trans people are people.

LOL, what!? Of course they're people, what else would they be? Cats? Dogs?

1 hour ago, TheShader said:

You think the fact that the only openly trans person in the HP universe is named Sirona Ryan is hilarious

I think it's pretty hilarious that you think that was intentional. QAnon for progressives.

1 hour ago, TheShader said:

And in case you try and say otherwise, I saw you respond over her name in the HW mega thread). It's easy to think someone isn't causing harm to society when you don't view their victims as a part of society.

Again, what are you on about? They're not living somewhere in the wilderness, why wouldn't I think of them as part of society?

1 hour ago, TheShader said:

Please provide me a source in which JK has saved the lives of billions of people while harming a single person. We can continue the discussion of this statement once you have provided that.

You did read the following sentence, right? I mean you even quoted it.

1 hour ago, TheShader said:

It does not. You are using an extreme example of '1 billion lives saved to a snatched purse' to prove your point that someone hurting tens of millions of people is no big deal. All the while ignoring that the philanthropy of millionaires does not inherently absolve them of their crimes. Unless you want to say outright that Bin Laden, Epstein, Maxwell, and others were a net positive to society due to their philanthropy.

Again, where is your evidence that "tens of millions of people" were harmed? I asked you for a source, you didn't provide one. And to spell it out once more for you: It's silly to call something "harmful" when the harm is minimal whereas the benefit is immense. It doesn't need to reach the extremes of my example, that was just to show you the underlying principle, which you apparently agree with.

6 minutes ago, TheShader said:

and not from overdose

Hahahaha, nice cop-out. The dose makes the poison, remember? By your logic the botulinum toxin is not harmful because it only harms if you overdose on it.

Also, you're missing the part where she never caused "harm to society" in the first place. Please provide me with a source that she did. Also, I know you're into conspiracy theories, so please only legitimate sources and not Jezebel.

By the way, since you missed the forest for the threes, the analogy was there to remind you that it is only sensible to call something harmful if its downsides vastly outweigh its benefits. If someone saved the lives of billions of people by developing a vaccine for malaria for instance, it would be insane to call that person "harmful to society" because he once snatched an old lady's purse. Obviously, neither the ''''''harm'''''' nor the benefits are extreme in the case at hand but it illustrates the underlying principle.

3 minutes ago, Jason said:

Of course he's a Putin apologist. 

You alright in the head there, Jason? I'm getting worried.

You don't seem to understand how tax-deductible donations to charity work. Here's a helpful link. Meanwhile, I see that you still haven't answered my related question whereas I answered your unrelated one. Don't sweat it though, I'm sure you just missed in your posting spree and are about to reply to it now.

Mass Effect 4 (or whatever they're gonna call it)

Let's hope they don't shit the bed as hard as they did previously. I've got pretty low confidence in BioWare though given the last couple of turds they put out and ... other reported issues of theirs.

2 minutes ago, TheShader said:

I just keep forgetting to post completely unrelated things

You keep forgetting that there's an edit button, too, it seems.

w e w  l a d

You do know you can edit your posts, right?

3 minutes ago, TheShader said:

Unrelated question, just a bit of curiosity: do you think Charles Manson should have been let free so long as he donated large sums of money to charity alongside running a murder cult?

Nah.

Related question: Would you call insulin a "harmful" drug because it has lead to the death of people?

9 hours ago, stepee said:

a harmful person

LMAO

What a nothingburger. About as significant as Pootin saying last year that he ordered his nuclear response forces to be "on super-duper, for-cereal high alert". So, what's he gonna do now that he feels no longer bound by this treaty? Increase the number of launchers and nukes on stand-by? On paper this already allowed the R*ssians to have enough missiles and warheads deployed to raze the West multiple times over. What's more, given the corruption in the rest of their military I doubt they are even able to field as much as the treaty already allowed them to in the first place.

Man, mainstream journalism has become such fucking garbage.

Why in the world are Kherson and Kharkiv areas still marked as "Claimed Ukrainian Counteroffensives"? They're not marking the north of Kyiv, Sumy etc. as such, so why these?

Man, I hope they fix the fucking pawn AI (or else scrap them altogether) in the sequel. Even just more detailed orders would've improved it by leaps and bounds. As is, it's basically a coin toss (or worse) whether or not the stupid shits are gonna do anything useful when you prompt them to. "Oh, what's that? There is a sliver of your health missing? Lemme just stop in my tracks an inch away from the maws of some monster to cast a slow-ass spell to heal that minuscule damage. Oh no! Now the monster brought me to death's door and I need saving! Help, help!" A source of endless annoyance, that's what they are.

1 hour ago, SuperSpreader said:

If Putin was visiting the warzone, and they notified us, what would you do?

Troll him somehow. I'd have to think about the exact method though. Maybe fly a drone overhead that's equipped with speakers and blaring the Ukrainian anthem or something, thereby marring his photo op. Although all-in-all that would be kinda meh, now that I'm saying it out loud.

7 minutes ago, Biggie said:

Why do vegans try and make everything taste like meat?

'Cuz they know what's good (they just won't admit it to themselves).

Almost beat me to it

Well well well, will you look at that:

The 'Big Man' himself in Kyiv. I can already hear the Solovyovs, Skankbeevas and such on R*ssian state TV seething impotently.

22 minutes ago, Phaseknox said:

I’ve been waiting years for Dead Island 2

Man, I hope they don't screw this up and it lives up to the original.

Joking about what kind of species it would take for them to fetch that price, you mirthless sourpuss. And you fucking people have the audacity to call me a party pooper? Unbelievable.