Promethiel

Are we sure OP isn’t being meta? The message and demographics change if the punch is coming from other community posters.

In case your statement wasn’t actually carefully crafted to make your point (kudos if so!): Yeah, you got it right.

That was a post correctly identifying the problem of the decades long rising anti-intellectualism cultured amidst the populace (See Carl Sagan’s excellent and chillingly prescient “I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time…” quote).

Said post then really had the gall to not just take all agency from the willfully ignorant alongside their responsibility, but it then goes further to state that the fault lies with the non-willfully ignorant.

Then it suggests that the non-willfully ignorant are in fact being willfully ignorant to the fact that they have to (I had to pause and re-read here, the weight of the author’s cojones was throwing me off) locate simpler and/or rougher folk more like ‘The Midwestern’ to do the messaging in a more “relatable” (air quotes) way.

I admit, my born and raised through the abject poverty and bare unfinished construction found the world around from the Favelas to the heights of Appalachia was quite “ready to slap a smarmy ass city fucker” by the end there.

But then I realized: If not maliciously posted then clearly they may not realize it. They may actually think that the miseducation, furthering divide, and increasing tensions amongst those who consider themselves team “knows better about feelings” and those who consider themselves team “feels better about knowing” have anything to do with the direct interactions between the two groups, and not the reality: The messaging being bought and paid for.

Who benefits from the poors not realizing that the scope and limits of their wits are quite the same human potential as the inhabit of any gilded tower?

That post was saying that intelligence and fact-finding is making people feel stupid and attacked, but it failed to correctly attribute that to the fact that people are being told and taught to feel that way, as part of the ever present real issue.

That is what being willfully ignorant of the fact you’re carrying water for the sick and mentally twisted Billionaires who remember the human mental potential and must live constantly suppressing it in terror of the alternative, looks like.

People are supposed to include the fact that the pencil can go through because (layman terminology abuse ahead) of the “shape” the space-time topology is presenting (or I guess being induced to present as, if Sci-fi hypothetical) before you get to the explanation of the pencil as craft/observer and how the hole is how that shortened path through the wormhole appears from frames of reference not the pencil.

I like the bagel idea but then you have to hold it all horizontal while explaining so they don’t see the hole too early and you’re then just left intently staring at your audience across a bagel held at eye height like a slowly hungering loon. Or so I’ve heard.

But neither of you know that. That’s just the most anecdotally likely. You’re doing the same thing as the presumably real friend is doing: discounting the reality OP is saying they’re experiencing (they don’t feel like celebrating currently because ofcurrent affairs) and replacing it with head in the sand “touch grass” disguised with the words it takes for you to feel like you’re correct.

Maybe that friend always has their head in the sand. Maybe that friend is maliciously giddy about the possibilities espoused by shit like Project 2025 and deflecting.

I, am hoping you can both understand I’m saying you look like hypocrites. No inference needed.

How do you select the worthwhile content without the use of your opinion or taking the matter to your tastes?

Your comment, but without irony or sarcastic pretention. What exactly do you think semantics are?

His vehicles aren’t even safe for other Dragons to ride on. Why would I buy from a company who unironically had the below answer for me when I googled from the back seat of one of their cars while Ubering and thought of that news:

Opening a Rear Door with No Power

Not all Model Y vehicles are equipped with a manual release for the rear doors. Remove the mat from the bottom of the rear door pocket. Press the red tab to remove the access door. Pull the mechanical release cable forward.

Emphasis mine. Still don’t know which kind I was on, but an emergency would have not been the ideal ‘find out’ time. I’ll avoid that by not fucking around with purchasing their cars.

You did not read the article, just the headline. If you had, you’d know what the fuck is being discussed and how it’s not ‘Women’s Rights’ whatever the idea of that term means to you that needs to be air quoted.

This is about the female experience in

general public are being slaughtered, families torn apart and executed, people assassinated in hospitals, bombings and pushing people off land… Kinda hard to fit that in.

The tens of thousands of pregnancies that are going on with no infrastructure. The conditions of the mothers and the babies that do survive those. The effects on lack of supplies on menstruating girls. Women issues, because they’re part of the innocents being genocided and a vagina and a penis work differently.