Thanks for the post. I got so many tankies blocked

There’s more nuances to it than just conservative. He’s pro eu, Orbán was a russian shill

Thank you! Perfect.

It’s probably part of why he succeeded though. Right enough to pull those voters, but not too right (pro eu etc.) so he could pull the centrists and left-leaners as well. Since as far as I understand there aren’t really leftist parties going strong in Hungary right now

Yeah, ain’t going too good for the world right now, I have no clue how to solve it either. But slow descent to fascism still allows seeking that solution and fighting against it, even if it now seems to be in vain…

allowing

That’s really the problem. The answer should be educating people and making choices to ensure they can choose to not make tons of kids, or vote against their own good. Of course humans are stoopid and that’s easier said than done (there will always be some dinguses that can’t be helped). Anyway, my point is, if we take reproducing or voting, or anything major affecting human rights and lives, and turn it into something that has to be surveilled and regulated by someone or something, it’s a speedrun to eugenics and dictatorships. I’ll take idiots making kids and voting rather than allow societies fall straight into fascism by making it easy

Ohhh the colors speak to me. Nice!

It’s like demanding taking an intelligence test before making kids. Sounds cool on paper but it’s not even a slippery slope, it’s a train track towards… yeah

As an another neurodivergent lacking some essential emotional stuff: also being nice and kind to others is smart for maximizing your personal well-being. If people think nicely of you, they are more inclined to listen to you, and help you, and that gets you way further in life than just being a selfish prick people don’t want to be around. It is also logical to apply this not only to people immediately next to you, but to people far away as well, since being mean and evil towards them will not get you shit in the long run or might even make things worse, but it’s more likely it might benefit you later.
Or sure, you can be as mean as you want and might even end up some bitter asshole with all the money you could imagine if you have good enough start and lot of luck. But that’s pretty far from a good life in itself; you can get all your needs met a lot easier and even have nice people around you.

My theory is that we never find the actually smart sociopaths (or psychopaths or whatever the term is here), since they’re intelligent enough to hide themselves with kindness

Same around all the nordics as far as I know. Just a little jam on the side

If it was a big angry mob throwing them, it could be? That could be both threatening and humiliating at the same time. I agree that whatever this is doesn’t seem too effective though, but then on the other hand I don’t trust this isn’t some misinformation campaign to make the protesting look stupid in general. Sad times

I’ve always loved the third prequel, it’s such a great film, easily best out of all the star wars movies. I know that always makes a lot of people scream, but the whole thing is so perfectly tacky and has so many unnecessary little details visually and plotwise and I just love aaaall of it. It’s absolutely hilarious, a lot better than purposefully made comedies. The acting fits amazingly well with the tone constantly and randomly switching between comedy and tragedy, and almost every single line and scene in there has such meme potential, 10/10.

As a bonus treat it even has visually the best space flight and lightsaber fighting scenes out of all the movies! What’s there not to love? I don’t understand why would anyone ever apologize for liking it lmao

edit// oh, and if I called it “revenge of the sith” nobody would even know which movie I’m talking about, since you have to go through hoops to even link the name to the plot. That’s like the cherry on the cake!

Shouldn’t the first one be a couch to maximize the meme’s potential?

It was won by such a landslide it’s possible they just can’t really. If more than 2/3 of voters unify basically to say “fuck you and your shitty regime” there’s very little to be gained by bitching about it, and probably even more you can lose. It’s possible the whole country would kinda have exploded if they couldn’t have channeled that into voting

The consistency isn’t really the selling point, yeah. What made the books any good was the kind of whimsy of being suddenly thrown into a weird magical word that didn’t follow any understandable logic and was full of cool stuff and mysteries. That’s a great hook for kids! The first three books do that pretty well. After that…

Zero sugar soda tastes 99% the same as regular

Unless you have hypersensitivities and can taste the sweeteners lmao. Though I have to say that most of regular sodas taste like chemicals too, so it’s not that different either way

My suggestion is always “suicide clinics”, where you can just walk in. That sounds absolutely horrid, but the point is to catch the people that can be saved by intervention. They take you in, and talk with you, go through medical history, then you have to wait some hours etc. and all that. And if you still wish to die and you’re not diagnosed with having some sort of episode, they just let you swallow some pills and then you get to lay on a bed and die.

That’d be way more efficient than just letting people jump from the rooftops and on the train tracks, would save people, would traumatize less people, would cause less suffering; would overall improve the situation. Of course that could be misused, and it would not catch all people. But I’d definitely prioritize getting less people splatter on the sidewalk anyway

That’s why I included the “pointed at right direction” lmao. A lot of people are jerks and that applies to all groups

Also do a small test patch somewhere on your skin and wait for at least a day. Shitty way to find you’re getting a reaction if you already spread it to larger areas

you need to go to work

As a side note, the usaian culture about work observed through internets is just… absolutely bonkers. Everyone is constantly complaining how terrible their jobs are, how they suck them dry emotionally, physically, financially - yet even if nukes were flying they’d probably still just meekly say they gotta go to work