I report ads as sexually explicit all the time. Annoying jingle? That’s inappropriate sexual material. Same ad twice in an evening? Inappropriate sexual material. A company that supports the regime? You better believe that’s inappropriate sexual material.

That’s not true though. It’s a way to whitewash the legacy of one of history’s few unmitigated villians.

No one’s honoring themselves and their country by showing respect to the memory of ted bundy and he killed orders of magnitude fewer than cheney.

It’s disrespectful to “honor” the passing of a murderous torturing thief.

It’s disrepectful to the memory of the million+ iraqis civilians he killed for no reason, the innocents tortured under his direction, and the victims of his many financial crimes at home and abroad.

Yeah that seems like it should be the case, right? This particular event does look like just an indie film fest that should’ve gone ahead to me.

But plenty of chinese dissidents are right wing lunatics. A lot are fundementalist christians or say, explicitly pro fascist meditation cults who fund trump and orban and claim to levitate, like the falun gong.

If you look at the damage the substantially far-right cuban expat community have done to politics in florida and pressuring towards bad policies and war nationally, id be more careful about which anti-china voices to empower.

Maybe he should stop raping children, aiding genocide and supporting climate deniers instead of treating philanthropy like a pre-reformation nobleman buying indulgences to get into heaven?

I hear that lethal projectiles are very slimming.

That outfit is straight fire though.

Overalls are always sexy AF, the knee-high rolled cuffs show off the ‘too cool to give a fuck’ combo of socks and slippers, but the shirt’s on the opposite side of the color wheel for maximum contrast, and the yellow hat adds to the cartoonishly cheerful look.

It’s an outfit that screams both “look at me!” And “lol i dgaf”. I would absolutely wear the hell out of that outfit. I wouldn’t accesorize it with a handgun though.

I have often thought that if i got a bunch of money i’d make sure not to move house, quit my job or otherwise change my lifestyle. I’m also neurodivergent and quite devoted to avoiding ever excercising power and to ignoring authority as much as i can.

Realistically I suspect we’d get food delivered multiple times a day.

But of course i don’t think me-without-a-billion could ever really know what me-with-a-billion would do.

Not only do you have to be capable of immoral actions to amass that much wealth, but having power has all sorts of neurological effects.

People who gain power become less capable of empathy. If you gave a “good” person that much money, they would be less able to think about how their actions hurt others.

Empathy is a trait that almost all individuals of many mammal species possess. Lethal intra-species violence is also a behaviour observed in many (all, i’d guess) of those same species.

Individuals, their peers, their social networks, their identities, institutions and the specific situation all influence behaviour. When those line up one way, we do a murder. A different configuration and we do a cuddle.

It makes no sense to suggest that humans are either inherently good or bad - those are artificial concepts that don’t even have a fixed meaning within a single human identity group. At the end of the day we’re just organisms exhibit behaviours to meet needs.

no matter how many sweetener packets you put in it

Ok, legit question: does unpopular opinion allow straight up trolling?

All humans alive today carry neanderthal dna, meaning we all have neanderthal ancestors.

I believe the current understanding is that sapiens and neanderthals were like lions and tigers - we are able to produce viable offspring, but not always and maybe only with a neanderthal father, not mother.

We are a different branch from a common ancestor but they are also our ancestors.

Yeah, i feel that. I think that in this attention economy it’s important to focus on the real.

I don’t fully understand why the fascists want us all focusing on BS, but we shouldn’t be giving them what they want.

I gave you the benefit of the doubt with your last trolly comment because we’ve had good exchanges in the past but i’ll bow out of this conversation now.

Anatomically, for sure, but cognitively and behaviourally it’s harder to prove.

For example did early homo have grammar? Many think the expansion of erectus, esp. over water, implies complex language but that’s hardly certain and there’s a lot of homo before erectus.

I’m just pointing out that poll doesn’t support your argument. Prioritizing hostages is just not the same as opposing genocide.

From 5 months ago: 82% want to expell all palestinians in gaza and 47% want to kill every man woman and child

From june: 64% believe they are no innocents in gaza, which justifies killing even children.

Fascist says some nonsense bullshit is always a distraction, never newsworthy and best left unshared.

That seems to me to be about hostages, rather than the genocide.

One in five still think killing palestinians is more important than saving the lives of hostages, but that doesn’t mean all of the other four in five oppose having killed all those palestinians.

People are upset about netanyahu prolonging the war and killing hostages for the sake of his career, but that’s not the same thing as opposing genocide.

Garbage clickbait headline 😮‍💨.

“Some time before sapiens seems to have expanded into this particular area” is not at all the same as “long before humans existed”.

Neanderthals are literally our ancestors, they have everything we think of as human.

There was a now debunked idea that symbolic thought emerged in europe ~40kya. The explosion of symbolic art we see then is in part because of preservation factors and how well studied europe is.

It’s fairly well established that non-sapiens humans were capable of symbolic thought. No one is surprised that neanderthals made cool art.

how unpopular Bibi and his genocide is…

Netanyahu would likely get voted out because of his mishandling and killing of hostages and his corruption but the genocide itself still enjoys widespread popularity in israeli. If there was an election, a slightly different right wing zealot would likely win.