Piss off your local conservatives by telling them you support an organization that takes unskilled workers and gives them free housing, free healthcare, job training, cheap mortgages, and tax-advantaged income. When they start going on about how that sounds like some “commie bullshit” reveal that you’ve just described the US military. Your mileage (kilometerage?) may vary in countries with a functional healthcare system

We’ll start by giving them back your house

Yes, I unironically enjoy NATO propaganda. Stay mad commie

This captures why I don’t enjoy Harry Potter (in addition to JKR being a shitter)

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That is infinitely funnier, using solely LoTR quotes would make road rage much more humorous

Seems like a good word, I like that

It’s only an “established slur” to some people (mostly in online niche communities), to a lot of people it’s just everyday speech. Words such as retarded, special needs, intellectually disabled, moron, imbecile and more are all terms used to describe a disability, just like “blind”. I’m tired of this artificially accelerated pejoration sped along by people who just want to correct others to feel good about themselves, the euphemism treadmill for people with intellectual disabilities in particular spins faster than for any other topic. We haven’t invented 15 different phrases for blind in the last 50 years, there’s no reason to do it for disabled brains any more than for disabled eyeballs.

Instead that energy should be focused on ensuring people don’t use someone’s disability to put the disabled person down. Those people are the real problem, not normal folks criticizing people for their shitty behaviors they can control, not immutable characteristics about themselves.

Foolish seems like a useful word, probably could be substituted and keep the intended meaning intact.

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What is wrong with calling people unintelligent when they are doing unintelligent things that are directly causing me problems (for example, people on their phones blowing through red lights?) If someone tries to change lanes into me and I say “are you blind? You almost hit me!” is that similarly bad?

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Showers vs rain is a great lesson in consent. I did not consent to be rained on, I do not want to be wet just then so I don’t like it. When I turn on the shower I consent to be rained on, so I like it.

Haha that sounds pretty funny, thank you for explaining!

I consider myself fairly terminally-online but now and then I see a post like this that may as well be a foreign language, and I go to the comments for clues and they’re all just random words strung together and it makes even less sense. What a time to be alive!

Indeed, but only one of them can you openly criticize while living within its borders without fear, and it ain’t China.