take as many free shots as he wanted at the heavily restrained and completely innocent man, a perk the military provided to each new recruit. “Now, I’m not entirely sure what this gentleman’s whole deal is. Looks like he could be from the Middle East.

Brutal.

Yeah, I’m guessing it was that, which won an IgNobel prize like a decade ago.

If you’ve ever worked in a call center, this kind of thing happens from time to time. After a couple times you learn to ignore it and push through.

I generally recoil from comparing biden to putin but this really requires russian levels of post-truth politics.

Israel is committing war crimes like trump commits all his crimes - openly, in public and shielded by US elites.

The Wikipedia article has multiple conflicting definitions, including:

"any use of the language, especially repeated phrases, to ward off forbidden thoughts”
“Claim Y sounds catchy. Therefore, claim Y is true.”
“the start and finish of any ideological analysis”

The problem is that the term is just BS, in part because the idea it was made to support is complete BS.

Defining ‘Totalitarianism’ was a cold war project of western academia, trying to come up with a way to say that the nazis and soviets were the same. They weren’t though. Only far right US Nationalists still claim this. The term has very low analytical use, so once the pressure to create this propaganda evaporated with the end of the USSR the term quickly became defunct.

Thought terminating cliches was coined by a psychologist in ’61 trying to claim that ‘totalist thought is characterized by thought terminating cliches.’ To translate: the west has reasoned ideology, everyone else just spouts cliches.

Jokes that involve or could be mistaken for rudeness rarely land online, in my experience. There are too many trolls and so people assume bad faith.

This term seems like just an insult wearing academic robes. And a tautology. All cliches over simplify the world, side-stepping complex analysis.

There’s nothing “thought terminating” about acknowledging that a problem is beyond your scope - which is what the first two mean. I’ve only heard YOLO used to encourage risk-taking, which is completely different.

Realistically, these are often just social cues that you’re bored with the conversation.

Obviously whether you use a cliche to avoid thinking deeper on a topic or for some other reason changes with each use. It’s not inherent to the phrase.

They’re connected by a counter so it’s an easy slide.

I would love it for boiling pasta and then draining the water.

The high desert of eastern Oregon preserves a number of early sagebrush sandals. There’s a significant change in the style and process of making them at some point and some archeologists argue that this may represent the arrival of a different cultural group into the area.

Monsanto spent decades knowingly murdering customers, spent millions hiding their murders, and to this day they won’t even accept responsibility for their murder spree - let alone show remorse.

People have suffered the agony of botched executions for far less than that. There are determined committers of genocide with lower body-counts than monsanto executives.

she has a positive impact on local economies and her product is bought by choice

So says every parasite though.

You can be a strong proponent of free speech and support stronger regulation and penalties for legitimately dangerous speech.

I don’t see a lot of left wingers coming out against free speech, but I see a lot of right wingers dehumanizing others and directly calling for violence, then trying to pretend that’s free speech.

There’s no self made anyone, there’s barely even a self. All life exists in a complex web of dependence. We can’t even digest food by ourselves.

Even our own shit isn’t self made, let alone the ill gotten gains of a billionaire.

Are you people allergic to fucking reading?
READ MY FUCKING POST AGAIN. FUCKING READ IT.

Or you could grow the fuck up.

I’d ask you not to swear at strangers on the internet over something thoroughly unimportant, which is why I felt it’s justified to sass you.

It’s physically impossible for a human being to stay awake while watching sport, you can’t expect anyone to stay awake while reading a rant about sport.

It’s a disgrace to the Ancient Greek tradition that the Olympics are attempting to continue.

JUST BECAUSE IT WAS DONE BEFORE DOESN’T MEAN IT SHOULD BE DONE NOW.

That’s a contradiction. Also, the ancient greeks didn’t have the concept of sport were super into dancing - spartans especially - so this whole argument is void.

I’m sorry that something you say you enjoy (the olympics) makes you so angry.

Yep, I used the new federal website this year rather than h&r’s free service.

I’m not dying about it. It’s pretty clearly no big deal. Just worth mentioning as a reminder.

No, I’m only 40 so I’ve never had to do a tax return by hand, I’ve always used a program.