[-] KarlBarqs@hexbear.net 70 points 8 months ago

this is a classic sci fi plot

And every single fucking time it goes bad for the people involved

Like literally every single instance of a species being uplifted in sci fi is a cautionary tale about interference with others, and usually has the uplifted species be violent/used as a weapon

Literal fucking Torment Nexus bullshit

[-] KarlBarqs@hexbear.net 97 points 9 months ago

North Korea has kept to itself for something like 70 fucking years and still people are utterly terrified that they'll leap across the border and do Evil Communist things the moment South Korea's back is turned

[-] KarlBarqs@hexbear.net 122 points 10 months ago

If I wrote a story about a nation of people so concerned with genetic purity and the future of their nation that they harvested the literal cum out of dead soldiers in order to artificially inseminate people down the line, any editor would laugh in my face and tell me it was absurd and needlessly fascistic sadness-abysmal

[-] KarlBarqs@hexbear.net 77 points 10 months ago

a few bad apples

Finish the turn of phrase

Finish the fucking turn of phrase, I beg of you, this is not the defense you think it is

[-] KarlBarqs@hexbear.net 77 points 10 months ago

In the 50s and 60s, the easiest way to gain entry into Canada for immigration was to show a Nazi tattoo. This proved one was ideologically anti-communist and thus safe.

[-] KarlBarqs@hexbear.net 70 points 11 months ago

Somehow we've managed to find the first human being to function without a single neuron firing.

A brain exists, but nothing is occuring within. No electrical signals, no neural activity.

And yet they manage to post anyway

[-] KarlBarqs@hexbear.net 94 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Great ideas like what?

big-honk

Great ideas like what??

[-] KarlBarqs@hexbear.net 69 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

outsource the construction of absolutely everything to China

confused as to how China makes Things

[-] KarlBarqs@hexbear.net 114 points 11 months ago

What if an issue is genuinely complicated and cannot be resolved by a three word statement of position? Can there be no discussion around that?

That's fine if it's an issue that is worthy of debate.

We're talking here specifically about the rights and survival of human beings, and in that kind of case, no. There is no room for debate. There is no complexity. You either support people's right to live, or you don't. There fundamentally cannot be a grey area here; any response that includes the words "yes, but" automatically cedes ground to fascists.

[-] KarlBarqs@hexbear.net 95 points 11 months ago

acknowledging [Hitler] was, in fact, an effective leader

Wasn't his leadership famous for being incredibly dysfunctional? Like there wasn't a single thing about the Nazi "state" as it was that was even remotely functional at any point

[-] KarlBarqs@hexbear.net 86 points 1 year ago

Every lib I know says this is a genocidal war (despite no proof of any intent to genocide, they just think Putin wants to massacre every Ukrainian ever) and that, responding to that report about crackdowns on draft dodgers, anyone who tries to avoid conscription is a traitor and should be treated as such.

Absolutely deranged the takes one can dig up when one is not threatened in any way.

[-] KarlBarqs@hexbear.net 78 points 1 year ago

Nobody in the world other than libs and Adrian Zenz state there's a Uyghur genocide. Not a single country (least of all Muslim countries) and not even the UN.

Even Adrian Zenz never said it was a genocide, that was invented whole cloth by Reddit libs like yourself.

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