I dislike lift kits. For anything other than a dedicated off-roading rig, it introduces compromises that I’m not willing to make. Where is your SUV going to live most of the time? Be honest when you ask yourself that, and mod your car accordingly.

Shut up and take my money. Any running, driving car at this price is a steal, but one of this era and condition is worth substantially more (to those of us who prefer cars of this era; practically worthless to anyone else). My 1995 Cherokee has twice as much rust, and has already had its floors replaced once. It also…

What an appalling situation she’s been forced into. Plus she’s also understandably wary about her own citizens kidnapping her. 🙄 Add in a legislature that has decided emergencies can only last just so long (not sure what they’ll do about the zombie apocalypse we’ve all been prepping so hard for), and her hands…

Yeah, it’s tough for me. It’s awesome that it works for you, but I keep looking at civilization and I see people just getting angrier and angrier, going into their echo chambers and justifying their hatred of each other. Like, it’s not you, personally - like I say, I don’t know you, and it’d be super shitty of me to…

Rights don’t work like a list that gets enumerated: you have ALL rights, until your actions endanger others (or are otherwise considered by law to be against the social contract). You don’t have a right to infect other people with a life-threatening illness. More importantly, we’re a nation of laws by democracy:…

Hating ignorant people is our only chance to do what? How does hating and wishing harm fix the problem?

To me, that’s like saying, “It’s not against the law to drive drunk, but if you do it, you won’t be allowed to drive.” If you’re making it hard as hell for them to live in society, then you’re essentially forcing them, aren’t you?

If it’s true that anger makes you more rational, then by all means embrace anger, and be rational. But wishing harm on people isn’t rational, and doesn’t stop them from being abusers.

Yeah, I definitely don’t recommend being Christian. But that’s kind of the point of the Nietzsche quote, don’t you think? That Christians aren’t Christ-like - i.e. don’t represent the ideals embodied by the legend of Christ? The Christ of Christian lore has more in common with Gautama Buddha than with most modern…

Oh, and: I’d apply all the stuff I just said to religion, too. We can can them all we want, but stopping them is actually about education, and pushing reason, science, and rationality. (Mostly at children; adults are harder to reach.) We know that works. Fortunately, religion is a long-term problem, and we’ve got…

Yeah, would you believe I write for a living? About half of what I put into words makes no sense at all.

I don’t understand why we can’t legally require them to get the vaccine. (Well, yes, I sorta do: because we had one of the worst world leaders ever when this thing first broke.)

Sorry, I can see where that might have been unclear. What I’m talking about is: I don’t think our best bet is to hate ignorant people who make dumb-ass decisions, and wish harm on them. I don’t think it fixes the problem, and I think it’s probably corrosive for the people who do it, and likely to lead to a situation…

Isn’t using your limited energy, resources, and concern actively wishing these (undeniably shitty) people harm and suffering a waste, too? I don’t know about you, but when I’m suffused with toxic fury, it doesn’t solve problems and does wear me out. I enjoy it, I revel in it, it’s super satisfying, but it doesn’t fix…

Oh, man, are you laboring under a misconception. No worries, but I am emphatically not Christian, or religious, in any way. I’m very anti-religion, in general, for the same reasons I’m anti-irrationality. “In truth, there was only one christian and he died on the cross” is Nietzsche, not, you know, the Bible or…

Hatred often interferes with the most rational choices. Emotions make us do things that we otherwise wouldn’t, and sometimes they’re not the most effective things. If some drunk is endangering your family, you’re more likely to do something to stop him that’s not in anyone’s best interest, right? Aren’t you more…

You’re absolutely correct! Gandhi was abhorrent in, like, a bunch of ways. His attitudes and behavior toward women and sexuality were...uh, weird isn’t really putting it strongly enough. There’s no one you can point at that’s 100 percent good, or 100 percent bad; that’s not how humans work. The Reverend Martin Luther…

That’s not at all what Dharna is talking about. I think they’re straight fucking dumbasses, too: the difference is wishing harm. I had a lot of friends who thought the only way to fix policing in America was to murder all the police - like, literally every police officer. I don’t think that kind of indiscriminate…

It’s not about what’s okay for THEM to do: they’re being fools who endanger themselves and others. After 18 months of quarantine, I got two trips out, and now delta and unvaccinated, ignorant people mean I’m right back in quarantine. (While I’m vaccinated, I live with someone who can’t be.) No one is saying what…

What we should do is torture them. Or round them all up into camps, and gas them. Disfigure them with acid, so everyone can identify them, and spit on them as they walk down the street. Bully them, castigate them, murder them. They were ignorant fools, and now they will be dust, victims of our fury. Abandon reason,…