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Common consequence of being inside a nuclear disaster

Excuse you. I for one think rocks are great.

I'm JUST CURIOUS ok

I dunno. I think we should nuke it to see what happens

The Irish upper middle class will do anything except imagine a future where cars are optional.

We shouldn't, but I suppose for me it's a very case by case basis where I can't articulate a clear set rule

For instance, "defaults" is a loadbearing word here

I dunno that it is implicit tbth, that seems like far more restrictive a social norm than I am willing to conceptually accept

All porn sites required to adopt AO3 filtering tools posthaste.

Government punitive action but only towards sites that have not perfected filtering functions.

Workshopping a take that while I am against this sort of generalised attack on the genre I would welcome the government introducing some sort of ofcom for pornography, where you can complain about witnessing vore on a website you previously thought was for normal, wholesome hentai.

The one thing I will grant this wave of anti-porn activity is that it was and is very easy to come across it online without desiring to.

In other words: "sure it is, but are they wrong"

This is less pushback (since I have no real objection to the critique you express of /this particular case/, which is complex) and more a casual observation but tbh I do kind of feel very don't tread on me, snake on yellow flag about things adults do that i dont think are society's business

So much of the history of the past 5 years is the progressive side of a series of political battles going "wait, our opponents disagree with us? Well they must be right then" for literally no reason

(The only reason I'm mentioning this is because this seems relevant to discussion of individual guilt - in this case, no actual government with the authority to speak for and to the Lithuanian people as such actually instructed collaborators to collaborate. They chose to.)

(Your general point is excellent but the internationally recognised government was, depending on ideological persuasion, either in exile in Washington or in Moscow.)

(Something of a sidetrack but if I may nitpick at wording here: I'm by no means squeamish about talking about Lithuania's WW2 history, including the shameful legacy of local collaboration, but it wasn't primarily /Lithuania/, as a country, that killed them. Lithuania had no government.)

the home office are not fit for purpose. I will say this every day if I have to. A completely dysfunctional government department that has contributed to the fracturing of our social fabric. And it has zero morals.

When discussions on banning it in some European countries were happening lots of folks from latam bluesky seemed downright appalled and I was so confused by that because the entire user demographic in Eurasia is "people who want livestream updates from the Russo-Ukrainian war" and "actual nazis"

This is Dune

This is as surprising to me as when I learned Mexicans use Telegram of all fucking things as a normal chat app

It goes without saying this is no excuse, but a reflection on just Jewish history is a bit more likely to lead one to that conclusion than a more global scope for analysis

Tbth - and while I don't think this justifies it in any way - I do think the latter do sincerely believe it because it is a political ideology that emerged from a sense that the idea of eternal ethnonationalism is just descriptively true, and that therefore Jews lose something if they dont do it too

A as such, no. "You're absolutely right, that's so true" hits like a drug though, especially from a hot girl.

It appears so, yes

There is something worthwhile to be asked about whether we really gained all that much for framing the Nazis as completely sui generis and unique as opposed to just the final, most murderous form of ethnic nationalism.

"Is the Holocaust unique" is an interesting question, because while my answer is an unequivocal yes, I do think it is clear that this can be believed for basically morally dubious reasons.

"If you make an accusation of genocide at anything of a smaller scale you are trivialising the Holocaust" is not a particularly strong philosophy.