Wow, never even thought of that.

Yeah, you’ve got a lot of rules for how much people need to say in order to justify saying anything. I’m not saying you’re wrong exactly - yes, elaboration and offering proactive solutions is BETTER - but I don’t think your expectations are fair. And we’re probably at an impasse as far as this goes.

Not judging you, just sarcastically pointing out that you’re not quite living up to your own Christ-like standards. You seem like a smart, decent person - wrong about somethings, like being so good as to facilitate evil, but too good is always better than too bad.

But you’re wrong. Telling the truth is always part of the solution. Take 3 statements one could make in the wake of Barbara Bush’s death.

Oh, and what a virtuous and empathetic response this is. Can’t believe you’re a hypocrite on top of being an idiot.

No, I’m sorry, I think Barbara Bush is an odious person, and I think there’s an objective argument for that, and you have to be “allowed” to make a counterpoint when a whole bunch of people start acting like she was a saint because she had the good graces to give up the ghost.

Because life is complicated you dumb shit.

You’re being silly. You think the Bush’s read her tweets? She was “speaking” to her FOLLOWERS. People who ostensibly follow her because they are interested in what she has to say. When there’s a general societal waxing poetical about someone who was objectively an awful piece of shit who doesn’t deserve a public…

You’re a fucking idiot.

And the fucking arrogance! “Baffling and spreading fiction”! Like you’re some kind of authority on the matter. You apparently haven’t studied it beyond your own gut feelings (so to speak) but this gigantic and growing body of scientific research is declared BY YOU to be a “spreading fiction”. lol It’s amazing.

I’m sorry but you’re just plain wrong and ignoring mountains of data in, like, a fucking hundred different fields of study - psychology, genetics, sociology, economics, neurology, just to name a few broad categories.

Yay, you’re the best at being obtuse, yay!

Look you simple shit - there are also psychological reasons why the poor are fat that have nothing to do with how fucking GREAT capitalism is - you can’t be this stupid. In fact, the cheap garbage food and the overeating of it are mostly BECAUSE of capitalism.

So simplistic and so stupid. They’re eating cheap heavily processed garbage food. The fat poor would be healthier if they were thin.

Have to add this - not to brag - just so you know what’s possible. Here’s a breakdown of how much my wife’s pregnancy and childbirth cost in Canada, noting what is covered by my private insurance (group insurance through work - “free” but presumably salaries are adjusted accordingly) as opposed to our government…

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I laughed really hard at your modern translation of that fable - nicely done.

Canadian here - is Good Friday not just a day when pretty much everything is closed in the US?

Shit, I get how the side effects of the question being on the census are not good, BUT, “Are you an American citizen?” seems like a super-valid question to have on a statistical analysis of America’s population, so I’m sort of torn between the social and the scientific on this one. I mean, I’m not for anything that…

He means he doesn’t really understand what schizophrenia is and should probably stop using the word in a derogatory manner for what he thinks it means.