I would be surprised if there weren’t several shops dedicated to the building.

I don’t think IQ ever considered willful ignorance though. It’s meant to be based off the average intelligence of a population, but how do you factor in those that would rather be angry and hateful than think for half a second?

You don’t gotta out yourself like that bud

The rats don’t live in a system that exacerbates and encourages the worst excesses of the worst people. The rats that don’t help are our billionaires.

There’s one group responsible for the division, and it ain’t the irish.

While I think the meme’s a bit far, if I see a .ml talking about how great China is, I’m going to just glaze over whatever they’re saying.

Do unto others as you want done unto you. Basically all of game theory. The threat of a guillotine. These are all extremely basic and rational arguments that merely ask you not to be a dickhead.

Not everyone’s content to be spoon fed their dopamine.

If only it were possible to make points without inventing goofy and easily ridiculed scenarios.

There are well defined lines at which supporting the government would not be supporting a stable democracy. Project 2025 has enumerated several of them.

I would certainly love to not see a single one of them come up. I plan to be disappointed.

Their face looks like “you know, I was going to murder you, but I’m just gonna see how long you keep this up for until you realize.

To be fair, in that world body armor seems to be both commonplace and extremely effective.

I quantify it as: Taylor might not deserve the guillotine, the rest inarguably do.

Oh no! More .ml comments to shame me!

Let me be clear - I will not, ever, believe anything, anywhere on Lemmy, anyone tells me about the Chinese government. I don’t even think you’re necessarily in the wrong in this particular instance, it’s just not even worth considering it.

I’m definitely going to trust a .ml on a topic about the Chinese government

I’m unaware of Gates’ complicity in any genocides, though I’m certainly no expert.

Yeah 1, 2, and 4 are easy lever flicks, 3’s a bastard but I would be on the fence about the lever flick and 5 is even less “objectively deserves to feel the consequences of their actions” though no one with that much net worth is particularly easy to be sympathetic to.

The worst thing is, this is a far more effective way to make them productive members of society. It just isn’t cruel.

To the third: ymmv. My babies LOVE belly scratches, though they’ll give you a soft love bite if you overstimulate them.

I would shout at both if they don’t take their meds.