Imagine being this brainwashed. You know where higher education is free? Pretty much the entire civilized world. Guess whether 'murican taxes compare favorably or unfavorably against that?
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Gabu@lemmy.worldto Physics@mander.xyz•Peter Higgs, physicist who theorised Higgs boson, dies aged 941·1 year agoRest in peace, Boss(on) man. Some hefty contributions to our understanding of quantum physics, and all around a good civilized man.
Gabu@lemmy.worldtoWTF@lemmy.world•Evicted 82yo man sets himself on fire rather than leave0·1 year agoVery sad and an unnecessary death - he should’ve only set fire to the house instead. In fact, anyone getting evicted should do that.
you mean paper backed by the might of a whole country vs expensive and poluting scam coins?
The trick is that you don’t actually need to do it, as we already have the functional equivalent analogue – the development of countless different religions in the past, in different regions of the globe – as evidence. If at least one of these religions were right, you would’ve expected it to show up in at least more than one region in the past, but we can clearly trace all similar religions to patterns of human migration, which strongly suggests humans created all of them out of their cultural beliefs at the time
While the quote presents a correct conclusion, it’s also problematic in that it makes a slip of logic and paints a target for fallacious rebuttal.
- The slip of logic: one cannot conclude that no gods exist because all religions are clearly wrong – all that tells us is that none of the specific gods depicted by these religions exist. The path to disprove the existence of ALL gods must go through philosophy instead;
- Painted target: by juxtaposing science and religion, he invites the religious nuts to perceive and treat both things as belonging to the same class of intellectual activity, i.e. the “you have your opinion and I have mine” crowd.
Not sure how it applies, when trains are the superior form of transportation
Has your opinion of Isreal changed because of the last few months?
It changed insofar as going from “they’re a pretty horrible fascist society” to “they’re straight up Nazis”.
If so has that changed how you view their actions in the past against the Palestinian people?
Not really.
If the comparison of Russia in Ukraine to Isreal in Palestine was only made legitimate in the past few months […]
You’re commiting a fallacy, I believe and hope unintentionally. Israel has always been the aggressor, I’ve never contradicted that. However, defending a population associated with a vile terrorist group at a time said group has just attacked is simply bad politics - you’ll not get many allies and now your detractors have a concrete event to point towards when dismissing your position. At present, Israel has effectively admitted to wanting a genocide and Hamas has waved the white flag multiple times, so it’s the perfect moment, politically, to defend the Palestine.
Not at all. That was still the wrong moment to do it. NOW (and for the past few months, since Israel began its full-blown open genocide) is the right time.
Gabu@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Ukrainian porn star raises funds for war amputeesEnglish0·1 year agoIs it illegal, or only illegal to make?
Gabu@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Like surely you must have acquired a clue by now.English01·1 year agoWhich is a horrible choice that instead communicates lack of intelligence.
Gabu@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Like surely you must have acquired a clue by now.English01·1 year agoI’m a communist, you slug - of course I agree that conservatism is a cancer. The problem is that it’s written like she just learned what letters are.
Gabu@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Like surely you must have acquired a clue by now.English01·1 year agoWe’re not in the era of blocky flip phones anymore, please don’t ever write like this woman.
Gabu@lemmy.worldto Curated Tumblr@sh.itjust.works•30 years of gay times with the butler UwUEnglish1·1 year agoThe song “Star of the County Down”, as sung by The High Kings, uses “queer” to mean “unusual”. Incidently, I find that to be the best arrange of this classic Irish tune - very melodious.
Their point, obviously, is that average Joe can’t just post a picture of their feet on instagram and get money for that.
LMAO, this clown is acting like american food is real food.
Gabu@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player.1·1 year agoWhy’d you use a Facebook piece of crap like instagram to begin with?
Gabu@lemmy.worldto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Someone needs to be reminded that anticompetitive practices are illegal1·1 year agoMindless fanboys: AmD aNd nVidIa aRe LitEralLy tHe sAme!
Gabu@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Online vape seller has ‘no intention of stopping’ shipments to Australia, despite nationwide ban — ‘We have no intention of stopping just because of one twat in Canberra.’English0·1 year agoStill better than people who smoke (which does include “vaping”)
Usual 'murican take. Do you use roads? Do you use clean water? I would ask about public transit, but you’re a 'murican, so I already know the answer to that is “no”.
Everyone already pays for the State to exist. Civilized countries use that money to benefit all citizens through free higher education, free healthcare, free public transportation, etc. The US uses that money to kill children in the middle east and to bail out huge corporations.