Gyroplast

Don’t quit your day job.

Good image choice, though! Just unfunny.

ok boomer

User- and instance name check out.

Thank you for the educational “um, akshually”!

Don’t let the fuzz hear that, fur real now.

It is an interesting techstyle, though.

Someone FELT like doing this. 🐑🥁🐍

You n’wah!

The argument is not how one gruesome, cruel, sociopathic behavior outweighs the other, but being opposed to extremely anti-social behavior in general. Nobody wins the cruelty olympics.

Frankly, even the idea of “it is ethical, enjoyable, or just tolerable to cruelly hurt X in any way, because they are objectively worse than whatever I can think of” should be fundamentally repulsive to anyone, more so when attempting to take any moral high ground.

It’s too close for (my) comfort to normalizing suffering as somehow deserved by anyone, which is how “the other side” likes to argue how exploitation is totally fine. “Everyone else would do it, too, I’m just faster or better at it than them.” - “If they weren’t subhuman, worthless losers, they could hold a job in my orphan blending factory, and just not be homeless or pay for medication”. These are examples of an anti-social mindset. Honestly wishing, not just out of righteous, powerless anger, another conscious being cruel harm for any reason is a very slippery slope towards that mindset. I try to fight this urge.

I follow the argument insofar that “they” caused unfathomable suffering in multitudes. I would really prefer if the reaction to this wouldn’t be the prevalent “I want to see them hurt in (un)kind, because they deserve it”, but rather “how can such people be effectively discouraged from ever wanting to become a scourge to society”, while still accepting that universal human rights are still universal.

Of course this is much more complicated than “just take the money, and shove it elsewhere”, and quite possibly not even achievable within the time we have left, and coming from societies as they currently are. Without that little quantum of optimism, hope, and belief in a fundamentally sociable human nature, though, I don’t see much in our future than eventual, total destruction, one way or the other.

TL;DR: Yeah, molten lead isn’t even close to the cruelty inflicted by those doused with it. But why are we one-upping each other in cruelty, again? What’s the point?

FOR NO REASON!!?! 🔥 🔥 That “barista” 🫤 deliberately spelled the name of my 😍 daughter 🥰 Brettly wrong on the cup, and did not appreciate her 🦄 uniqueness AT ALL when I demanded them to correct their stupid mistake! The nerve of some people! 🤯

yeah i tried looking up what that would even be a symbol of and how that, historically, could be justified, and found absolutely nothing. not even in their “yo, tha’s anti-semitic” claim.

I remember propaganda “caricatures” of jewish octopi ensnaring the world, promoting the myth of a jewish conspiracy to take over the world. Seeing how this conspiracy theory is somehow still going strong, I’m not surprised how sufficiently simple-minded, or ill-willed, actors pick up on the connotation, and interpret it within bounds of their very finite understanding of the world. Or twisting confabulated connotations in a weird, whataboutistic way to somehow… critique? others as antisemitic, since they’ve been labeled as such themselves all the time, and can only see and use it as a content-deprived slur anymore to silence and attack their perceived enemies.

Well, either way, antisemitic octopi were a thing in Nazi Germany propaganda. Poor cephalopods.

I did not need this to hit so hard right now. Time to start a new therapeutic rye sourdough.

What kind of soulless psychopath leaves a window of this size unmaximized is the real question here. Also, a horizontal scrollbar in the main section, able to scroll maybe 8 pixels total to see some more of the glorious empty padding, could have been a nice touch as a consequence of the “unintended” window size.