I think you assume I mean violence is inherently negative , I do not. Violence is a neccesary part of maintaining a peaceful society. It must be there, but we should never every forget that every single law we pass is a threat of violence to anyone who might not obey. That is all.

Did anyone at Standing Rock or Bundy ranch try to steal from or burn down the area?

My complaint is more that the socialist fails to realize that they do in fact harm someone by taking their stuff. Instead they seem to view those with stuff as ‘the rich’ with a bottomless supply of stuff to take, or possibly as enemies who deserve to be impoverished.

Cool, so when the south democratically built Jim Crow it wasnt through a threat of violence if people failed to comply?

I’m sorry, but if you flip the genders and ages in that sentence, then there is a massive backlash to what Harris said.

Yeah... a lot of the “advice” on here is no more than Mr. O’Malley opting to completely demolish a piece of “conventional wisdom” about ladies (which is great) but then lean in as hard as possible to those same bullshit ideas when they pertain to men.

Flying is awful because we made it that way, and now we reap the rewards of that. Want increasingly cheap seats? Well, airlines will respond by slashing any semblance of customer service, packing more people in, and treating economy passengers the way they’ve asked to be treated - as cheaply as possible.

I’m not sure why this is surprising? Anyone who has invested time and effort into making a good impression, particularly in a career, now has a real intangible “brand” value to their name. Going from Joe Smith to Joe Brown may not have a massive impact, but it still means that the google search which might have…

Anyone stupid enough to put a song like that on a work playlist doesn’t deserve a job serving the public.

This is silly. If it’s a YA genre book, sure, go ahead and quit it. But tons of great literature is difficult to read, slow at parts, etc. Reading Shakespeare can be wildly difficult because it can be tough to understand some of the idioms. Reading Gene Wolfe is tough because you always have to remember the narrator…

So wanting to get a cup of coffee without inappropriate music blasting is now being a pussy. Interesting. Would you think the same way if it was heavy metal music blasting? I highly doubt it.

But they aren’t “actively fighting against desegregation”. They are fighting to keep their kids in the best possible school. If you cannot understand the difference between someone fighting for their kid to get the best possible education, and someone fighting for their kid to not have to sit next to a black child,…

To actively fight against efforts to desegregate schools, just because you have been on the winning side of the inequality is racist.

But their outrage at the notion of their kids having to experience what kids of color disproportionately experience *is* about race.

It’s not a mischaracterization. You said it yourself: they want their kids, who already have every advantage, to continue to hoard privilege and deny upward mobility to those who have no advantages. They want to increase the gap between have (white) and have-not (non-white), simply based on arbitrary circumstance of…

I mean, I sort of get the perspective? Obviously the attitude is abhorrent in general, but it’s not hard to see why on an individual level the parents are upset. Not that it makes it right, or any less selfish, but my guess is those parents wouldn’t think of themselves as bigoted, they just want their kids to do as…

I think you’d have to change that to be “where you’re aiming” instead of “you” for your insult to properly land. My missing the point is not at all the same as my not being physically close to the point, you know? Different concepts.

Well the obvious rebuttal here is that when you moved to this piece of property, all of the conditions you describe above were in place to begin with. Caveat emptor, and all that. Fine, you cannot afford to buy the big piece of land next door - neither can I. But I can think through the reasonable consequences of what…

And yet still you complain that the writer of the article you clicked on is complaining under the headline “my enemies in nature, ranked”. Maybe the writer finds your take moronic, and is aghast at the total logical failure of your argument, which will soon be read by tens of people. Perhaps he has a case for moral…

Of course you are entitled to your own feelings and opinions. Not sure why someone deciding to do something other than what you want makes them a “dingus”, though. You know, since you’re the one using your presumably reasonably well read online platform to insult the taste, intelligence, and overall reasonableness of…