Well, this is .ml. I guess I should have expected deflection and “appeal to hypocrisy” when naming authoritarians. But, you indirectly proved my point - authoritarians are belligerent.

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That’s easily over $50 in brand name travel size toothpaste retail. They’re usually over $1 each.

That is the standard plot for any good story.

The most basic version is: normal person gets pushed out of their comfort zone, undergoes turmoil, comes out of this turmoil changed.

Unfortunately popular movies tend to make them all “tough guy gets pushed into violence, destruction ensues, he gets the girl and/or revenge” or “uptight person gets put in absurdly contrived cringy situations that are supposed to be funny, then comes out of the situation not uptight and gets the girl.”

You can’t force something that doesn’t exist.

An appeal to fiction is about writing and plot choices within a fictional story.

That’s a lot of words you wasted.

I’d dislike a god even more choosing to allow such a test to proceed. It’s a variant on the “Trolley Problem”.

What kind of god would sacrifice an infant to prove belief instead of just popping in with a booming voice and saying “Yes, I’m real you morons!” to prove it?

Damn right, Bernie. I was a blue-no-matter-who because they actually make some policy sense, but now it’s only because the Right is absolutely insane. If a Progressive or Social Democrat actually had any traction I’d vote for them over the straight (D) instantly.

Ugh. I dislike titles like this.

Lowest high? Highest low?

Just say “record lowest” or “lowest ever recorded” or something.

Yes. DDG and SearXNG.

Google has really gone down the shitter so far as to be near useless sometimes.

I can’t remember what I tried to search for a few days ago, but I used “quotes” to restrict the search (not that modifiers mean shit anymore, they’re often completely ignored) and got zero search results.

Zero.

It wasn’t even that restrictive of a search term. Nowhere on the entire english speaking internet has someone not written what I asked for? Literally impossible. Want to know how bad it was? It couldn’t even be bothered to give shitty AI results.

15 years ago there would have been several pages of results. But now, nothing. Probably because my request couldn’t be monetized.

Your manipulation of government with billionaire money has paid off in an inconvenient way. The crazy MF who you thought you could control and give you all the tax breaks and power to manipulate the market has gone rogue battling the billionaire authoritarians of other countries for nothing more than ego.

Congrats. You have survived the initial catastrophe. Thank goodness you somehow knew to be prepared for such a situation. Hmm, how did that happen?

As the world is plunged into nuclear winter, chaos, starvation, and warring with whatever weapons are left, you will watch it all happen from the comfort of your bunker as your supplies and fuel dwindle only to die just the same from starvation, some infection, or most likely painfully and slowly from a radiation induced illness thanks to the now completely poisoned world. “King of the hellscape” would be on your tombstone, except there’s nobody left to make one. #winning.

Wasn’t it like two weeks ago Tucker was regretting voting for trump?

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Sure. Charlie Kirk was a fantastic example.

“Appeal to fiction” is not an argument fallacy when the discussion is about IRL events, even if using fictional stories as a tool. Appeals to fiction are about written fictional stories and the events within them.

That said,

Making the choice that your fictional heroes are the ones fighting an obviously bad opponent yet in real life deciding to support an antagonist that is directly relatable to the fictional ones really is mental gymnastics and hypocritical.

Unless they secretly side with the Empire and just lie to everyone that their hero is on the Rebel side.

“Inspiring?”

Stfu unless you’re an influencer, I guess?

Who is running the camera.

Terrible question.

What’s the reward here?

Getting a TBI or getting laid?

Always that 30-40%.

I had the 52x model.

Semantics.

Just common usage has made a “motorized bicycle” of yesteryear into its own vehicle class today. It’s exactly the same thing with e-bikes hitting 30+ mph speeds, just electric motors instead of an ICE.