Found the middle manager, everyone!

You get a lot of people willing to work with you when you’re passive-aggressively condescending towards them?  

Why is everyone in this thread pretending as though we don’t need and have a massive, globe-spanning infrastructure for the refining and delivery of gasoline?  Sure I guess you can pack a 50-gallon drum full of gas along with you to remote areas, but it’s not like once you burn through those 50 gallons, the gas will…

Yes, especially if the pisser has a weak stream.

Not to be that guy (totally to be that guy), but shitting in the fryer would actually be one of the safer excretion-related things you could do in the kitchen. For one, I imagine you’d mostly just end up with a deep-fried turd that you’d then have to fish out of the fryer - good luck getting it out without getting…

Please explain then how Democrats seemed to respond to this question almost entirely differently (12% responding that they think he should have this ability vs 43% of republicans). Why, it’s almost as though the way that you interpret that question has a lot to do with your political leanings...

People just want to see themselves in Pooh...

Yeah, I caught that she clearly had this prepared, too.  She was pretty obviously going to go on this tirade with someone.  

She can only masturbate to American Psycho so much!

Haha nice non sequitur, comrade trollski. Is this now also part of the right wing playbook? Finding any and every opportunity to bitch that people don’t want to have an open, earnest discussion about your fucked up worldview? Look, Dimitri - most rational adults see through that pretty easily and understand that all…

It’s very important that we avoid boring the internet trolls. The systematic dehumanization of an entire class of people isn’t nearly as important as keeping the neckbeards entertained!

Yeah digging into the nuts and bolts is definitely something that needs to happen. And argued about by lots of very intelligent people because there are likely many ways to skin the socialism cat, especially in a country as large, diverse, and resource-rich as the US. But I think step 1 would be getting to a place…

Same.  Except my usual pattern is: speed up to get away from asshat -> get like a hundred yards ahead of them before hitting traffic -> get irrationally angry at traffic, making me the asshat.  Truly a vicious cycle.

Because if everyone succeeds, then how can any of them have a misplaced sense of superiority towards the rest? Which is the real point - conservatives deeply believe that some people are just better than others.  Everything else is just a smokescreen to cover this one undeniable fact.

I’m done with you now because I’m just repeating myself at this point. If I misstated your opinion, I apologize (something you never granted me but whatever). I would point out that if your opinion is anything other than what I said, nothing else you’ve said in this thread makes much sense (i.e. if you’re not…

Videos like that are fairly common* because agriculture is a huge fucking industry. There are over 30,000 beef feedlots in the United States alone. If only 10% of those were unethical, that is 3000 feedlots, with around 3 million head of cattle per year, that are ripe for an expose. Also a lot of feedlot owners to…

Either you’re not a very clear thinker or you’re still conflating different ideas. It is not that 95% of animals are raised on factory farms, and so therefore, by the transitive property, 95% of animals are abused and suffer at the hands of factory farmers. Not all “factory farms” are alike, and while I agree that…

OH, FFS - breeding an animal specifically so that it can fight and die for amusement is also not the same thing as breeding an animal for food. It’s clear that you want to believe all food animals suffer, and suffer to a similar extent as fighting animals. I honestly don’t know what to tell you there - suffering does…

To be 100% clear, my standpoint is that livestock are created solely so that we can eat them, and it’s asinine to pretend as though that’s not the case. In addition, any claim to “natural” lifespans or conditions for such animals is a misguided one because livestock have no natural equivalent - they have been so…

The cow’s life and suffering are only meaningless if you don’t then eat the meat that they were solely created to produce. Because whether you approve of it or not, the fact is that the meaning of the cow’s life is to provide humans with beef to eat. It wouldn’t exist otherwise.