Robert Raffety

@the_crowtaro @jordanw00456197 @theramblingfool Sometimes my brain is like…

@rob_raffety @jordanw00456197 @theramblingfool The mental gymnastics here sheesh

*Every anonymous poll shows blue winning* "Those anonymous respondents are virtue signaling."

@jordanw00456197 @theramblingfool I buy it but I wonder if some vote blue so that they don’t have to lie when people ask how they voted. There is no downside to voting blue in a hypothetical poll, but lying takes some mental effort. That would still be plain old virtue signaling.

@theramblingfool They might be virtue signaling to themselves.

@4nt1p4tt3rn Have you upgraded your PB&J or are you still working with Wonder bread, creamy Jif, and grape Welch’s?

I am well into adulthood. I will still eat the hell out of a PB&J. This is right, normal, and natural. I will not discuss this, nor will I take questions. Just sit there in your wrongness and stew.

@thevivafrei It could.

But if you kill a murderer, the number of murderers in the world does NOT remain the same.

@dsn0wman @RealPostFolder I wish that kind of thing only happened in Seattle.

@RealPostFolder In Seattle we a have a white people taco restaurant called Taco Time. You can even get tater tots.

I think that's just "taco night" to most Americans

@AntiLeftMemes Because teaching children to do that is how you get adults who can do that.

In what situation would a child need to know how to do this?

@Chloe_bae28 Lots of them hate each other, if that counts.

Is there an ideology that openly hates the working class and the everyday joe?

@its_The_Dr Hold my beer. I’m pretty sure I can take ‘im.

Would you?

@ChinaUncensored Strong property rights and freedom of association create thriving free markets in a happy accident. It’s not about “economic systems”. It starts and ends with individual liberty. Governments should concern themselves with nothing else.

“Capitalism” is a Marxist strawman, a term first coined by French (of course) socialist Louis Blanc, because if the debate is between a system where “we kill you and take your stuff,” vs “you can freely engage in labor and business without interference,” you know what people are going to pick, so Marxists make up these BS labels to trick the same people they have nothing but contempt for.

@RealEdFriendly @LibertyCappy Put it on a shirt, I’ll buy it.

@LibertyCappy sad but tru

LOL

@TheRealJBx The price of these things at Sam’s Club and Costco is often less than a whole, raw chicken. It’s got to be a loss leader for a lot of retailers. If we’re going to have a SNAP program at all, it should cover wholesome, low-cost foods like this.

Rotisserie Chickens will soon be able to be purchased with SNAP funds. Thoughts?

@FrankyChen19 @nxt888 Some of that money will probably be used to support a Weibo account where the posts take an incomplete set of facts and a small assumption or two, and spin them into a questionable critique of China. I’ve seen something similar done recently.

@rob_raffety @nxt888 Every accusation is confession. Pay someone to "write crap".

If a foreign army occupied Texas, American militias would mine the roads. We know this because Texans will tell you themselves. Proudly. They have bumper stickers about it. They have prepared for it. The entire cultural mythology of the American gun owner is built on exactly this premise: When "they" come, we will be ready. "They." Some imagined foreign force that will one day arrive to take American freedom. The irony is total and it is never examined. The people most loudly committed to the fantasy of armed resistance against foreign occupation are the same people who looked at Iraqis mining roads against American soldiers and called them terrorists. The principle they claim to love, an armed population will resist occupation, they apply exclusively to themselves. The moment someone else applies it to themselves, in an actual occupation rather than an imagined one, the principle evaporates and what remains is: "Why do they hate us?"

@asuka_481 Baby cuddling in public is like art in public. It is culturally enriching, spreads joy, and promotes unity.

電車で親子がイチャついてる動画が 「迷惑行為だ！」「家でやれ！」 と炎上してしまう みんなはコレについてどう思った？

@judgeshowgames @philosophymeme0 I’ve got a bunch of ex-girlfriends who would vehemently disagree with that.

@rob_raffety @philosophymeme0 I'd hope so. It's nice to see someone who thinks about it instead of immediately judging, even if your thought doesn't necessarily agree with mine. The world would be better with more people like you.

@CynicalPublius To be clear, it’s a list of people whose opinions on movies are worth hearing.

@CynicalPublius You just got added to my list, buddy.

I watched the craziest sci-fi/time travel movie last night on Amazon Prime. It's called "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die." It stars Sam Rockwell, and I liked it. However, I can see where people might hate it too--it's that quirky. Think of a mash-up between "12 Monkeys" and "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension," and you have "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die." If you like deadpan humor in sci-fi, and if you think AI is going to kill us all, this movie might be for you.

@oelma__ The first and greatest movie James

Can you name one thing Scotland gave to the world..?

@judgeshowgames @philosophymeme0 Once again, hard to argue with. Most people are more than happy to meddle when they believe they can do good. I’m not sure if you’re moral or not, but you’d probably make a good neighbor.

Then why am I standing at the lever in the first place? How did I get the responsibility here? I mean I'd be having a shitty day after that for sure. But I don't believe a person has a responsibility in that situation unless they accept it, because that opens us up to all manner of terrible follow-ups after that.

@molly85442443 @ClimateWarrior7 I am not sure that I buy into this. In fact, I am pretty sure that I don’t. But I am going to think about it EVERY TIME I think about espionage and intelligence from now on.

@ClimateWarrior7 I love all those Cold War films & TV series like "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold" and "Tinker Tailor". Yet, even then, I could see that all that "spying" malarkey was just a way to keep Oxbridge grads in well paid jobs. It was laughable how seriously everyone took it.

Apparently back in the 1970s the West was convinced the Russians had some kind of superfighter, the MiG-25, because the Russians kept absolutely thrashing it across NATO airspace. Afterwards the engines had to be replaced, but the Americans didn't know that. When someone finally stole one and landed it in Japan, in 1976, it was discovered to be a heap of junk. The things one learns from YouTube!

@ClimateWarrior7 Slightly more reusable than a missile, then? In the days before advanced guidance systems, this may have actually been useful.