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“We will rebuild!”
“We will rebuild!”
Yeah, I read the good message, but then saw Homelander and thought, “makes fascists happy?”
There are some common misconceptions about dictionary definitions, including 1) that they’re prescriptive and 2) that they’re complete. In reality, at least for English, dictionaries are descriptive, meaning they attempt to describe how words are commonly used (where “commonly used” is a non-exact metric whose meaning is decided by the group compiling the dictionary); and they’re incomplete in a number of ways. A dictionary provides a starting point for understanding words we don’t know or are unfamiliar with, but there’s a reason people go to school for years to study specific subjects in depth–a depth that’s lacking in the dictionary definition.
Who are these people who have so many choices in friends that they can afford to vet them?
Is Aramaic word that references dying words of Jesus
No, stating that a popular revolt against a corrupt leader is the result of our actions is denying their agency
Incorrect on all counts!
Ok, so you’re a bad person, that’s all
russia is the only one preventing those
There’s no proxy war. You’re dehumanizing Ukrainians by denying their agency
Ad hominem fallacy
The terrible actions of the US don’t justify russia’s genocide
Where’s the cop, you ask? Standing outside a school shooting, preventing anyone from rescuing the kids.
Maybe the WSJ has a point; we could save a lot of money if we stopped buying breakfast and just ate the WSJ staff instead
Yes, he’s bad, evil in fact. Saying it in a mocking tone doesn’t change that material reality
On a less philosophical note, I find it immensely annoying how Snap creates mounts for its apps bc of how it clutters up disk management tools
That’s a ridiculous idea. If I buy a computer with an OS that has an encryption key to protect the hard drive, and later I need that key to remove my data to another system, I have an entirely reasonable expectation that I’m allowed to do so, regardless of how much the computer manufacturer doesn’t want me to.