PhobosAnomaly

A great question. I was going to call it a "thought experiment", but as Wikipedia more succinctly calls it, a "philosophical concept". I'm wary of jumping to the paradox of tolerance as a device to handwave away violence against anyone.

It's an important point to consider and it raises vital questions that challenges my own argument, but ultimately the rights of the human override any philosophical ideals.

In this instance, I would much rather preserve the rights of any person - arsehole or not - rather than subject them to sexual violence because of a perceived difference in political opinion.

Thanks for your reply, I appreciate your insight.

We still disagree, but I genuinely appreciate the additional context you have to offer. I'm not wholly altruistic, I think Fuentes is a massive piece of human garbage.

But, he is human - and with that, is his right to human rights.

I don't like him as much as the next person and that is an entirely subjective opinion, but levelling the same kind of hatred and lack of compassion effectively makes you no better than fanny balls Fuentes is. It's a dangerously small leap from <I don't like what this person stands for> and therefore sanctioning sexual assault, to <they don't like what I stand for> and therefore sanctioning sexual assault.

I suspect we're on the same broad page, but our means are vastly different.

You and I are on such vastly different platforms that you're one of the few people I don't think I can find any common ground with. Whereas I agree one's own qualified rights end where others rights begin, I consider basic human rights to be absolute, and certainly not influenced by whatever political views you do or don't share.

By extension, the abstracted opinion of "I think it's funny that <a group of people I don't like> " is borderline fascism in itself, and your position is cancerous to any anti-fascist movement you're involved in.

Nah it wasn't. Although I really should listen to more of her stuff.

Seriously though, what is the deal with trying to stop others from doing the exact same thing that you are doing by speaking in the imperative form?

It's a comment section after all.

Stop trying to police language.

dat irony tho

Thanks for taking the time to reply, but:

Many of us heard it back in 2016, but the media

I lost interest after this. Someone's talking about normalising the sexual assault of a group of people - as likeable or dislikeable as they may be - and all I can see is some "I told you so" word salad?

I'm sorry if I've picked you up wrong, but I'm happy to be corrected.

Do you hear yourself?

quality burn

Though I would still like to go. That architecture looks fantastic.

I suspect the answer lies in paragraph 4, where I'm making the assumption that the scammers make contact directly with the buyers, and invite a payment to be made to the scammers rather than the brokers.

I suppose in a strictly legal sense, the brokers are off the hook then as they've no idea the scammers have asked the buyers to send a payment.

It's scummy as fuck all round.

Man I miss Eudora back in the day. I used the mail client in SeaMonkey before I just started using my phone to check mail.

The 90s and 2000s were a simpler time.

Some of them may be hardware related - any time I sign in to one of my TCL TV's with a Premium account, the first result in any search is always one marked Sponsored. It's gash, but it doesn't happen on any other of my devices than that TCL TV which makes me think it's some sort of vendor problem.

Either way, YouTube/Google/Alphabet/whoever won't give a fuck so if it's that bad, then vote with your wallet.

I'm just freestyling here and I'm sure someone with a professional experience or academic background in psychology can tear it up for arsepaper, but I wonder if it's an innate fear?

Like the uncanny valley with autonomous human-style robots or how AI generated pictures of faces are sending primitive recognition patterns haywire, I wonder if covering up half of the visual cues to recognise someone as friend or foe provokes an in-built negative reaction?

I mean, it's not rational, but then chucklefucks who complain about it don't do rational even if it's in their interest.