

Fair enough. My hackles are usually up thanks to how people treat me.


Fair enough. My hackles are usually up thanks to how people treat me.


I’m aware. If you really want a pedantry fight:
Nothing about my comment implies it would be a long practice session.


Because people are more comfortable letting homeless people starve or freeze to death than they are with shooting them.
Same reason people are happy to buy ham from the grocery store but would feel uncomfortable slitting a pig’s throat.


Ooh, free lock-picking practice!
I don’t think it would be illegal to non-destructively unlock that lock.
- Ex-cop


Then that’s a you-empathy problem.
As I said, most of humanity does not rise to the occasion when their number comes up. Biden was no different.
You didn’t stop Trump either. I hope you don’t get cancer, and if you do, I will extend my empathy your way.


Nah, I still extend empathy to people who didn’t do enough. That’s like 99% of humanity.


I mean, yeah.
Wal-Mart caters to people who will buy cheaper things no matter what, whether that’s because they’re desperate or disinterested in how that impacts their world.
It’s like saying NASCAR fans like seeing cars go fast; that’s basically the whole point.


Porque no los dos?


Because there’s big money in doing the worst possible decision and the American voters are more or less fine with money in politics.
That’s more illegal than I can openly suggest.