I have sympathy for Heaven’s Gate victims. I don’t have sympathy for the Manson Family. Take from that what you will.

I’m glad we agree that clowns are not human.

Reminder to everyone to cancel their Hulu/Disney+ subscriptions if they still have them.

Please refer to this simple guide.

Oh so this is a Photoshop?

Looks like a noun to me, dawg.

That’s… Well, I don’t like eBay, but it’s better eLon.

It’s not like twitter is some vital service.

Well, unless you’re an indie artist.

So many “Christians” seem to treat the religion as a “get out of Hell free” card. That’s what I think of the religion over all: it’s just an excuse for bad people to convince themselves they’re allowed to be awful. After all, what else can you take away from a religion that tells you any sin can be forgiven if you just ask? And these are the exact same people who turn around and claim Christianity and fear of Hell are the only thing keeping people moral. It’s genuinely an awful person who must believe fear is the only thing keeping them in line. A group of sociopaths to believe that empathy is strictly transactional.

Had to look that one up. Apparently it’s prison slang for child molester.

I mean, to be fair, I think “have no children” is less radical than “hit children with missiles,” so… I’d put that at maybe 1 or 2.

All the chuff, none of the nuance. As I stated, and as others have stated, the point isn’t whether the NWS did or did not do something at all, it’s that what they did do, they did wrong. Very wrong. They’re still getting it wrong.

Flooding is common in Texas, and is generally a minor hazard. That’s how it was reported. That’s not what happened. That is the valid criticism that you’re intentionally disregarding.

And this is what you do. I’ve seen other comments of yours. Time and time again, you try to play “devil’s advocate,” but you do so by disregarding any arguments that don’t align with right-wing talking points. Anything you can’t refute, you subtly push aside, trying to bury it within these little nonsensical attacks.

Okay, I’ll just respond factually, then.

They’re only right from a surface-level examination. The context of my own comment, the comment that you replied to, is enough to prove you wrong. Moreso, other people in this very thread have mentioned that while, yes, they did indeed send out a warning, the warning was severely out of scale for what actually happened, exactly like I said in the comment you replied to.

Is everyone just too far in their bubbles now that they reject whatever actually happened in favor of whatever narrative their side of the internet made up?

The irony being, by ignoring the context of my comment as well as the thread as a whole, this is exactly what you’re doing.

Hug every fascist, amirite?

Man, I wish instance blocks extended to users.

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That pic is from r/conservative. That’s like looking for accurate history on a .ml community. These fucking clowns would deny being struck by lightning if a Republican told them to.

I live in the Texas panhandle, which was not subject to the flooding rains. They still got everything wrong, though. Not four hours ago, they said my area wasn’t going to get any rain. Guess what? Heavy rain right fucking now.

I wonder if there’s an equivalent to r/ihadastroke on Lemmy

Based on the image, doesn’t this imply that the far right is less right than the moderate right?

Not really. The choices were “Current horror with some level of hope for less horror in the future,” or “Horror+ with an $11.99/mo premium package.” Protest voters helped us get that premium package.

Misread the text at first, thought you were hoping for a fuckin’ spider syndicate.

Alright, I’m done with your lying and moving goalposts. I’m gonna do what I always do with people who act in bad faith and block you.

But first, I’ll say, I cited the Mali civil war because it’s ongoing. They were also one of two parties in the Sino-Vietnamese war after Vietnam invaded Cambodia. This was in 1979, with ongoing smaller conflicts until the 90s.

They also took control of the Paracel Islands during the Vietnam War, 1974.

And while neither of these were started by China, your original stance didn’t include that little asterisk, you just moved the goalposts when you were proven wrong by the proud, public admission of Chinese officials.

While China may not have been involved in many conflicts, or started any of them themselves, neither of these classifiers were a part of your original position, and you only started shifting when people proved you wrong. You’re a petulant child who can’t stand to say “I was wrong.”