The way you perceive time is based on your state of mind, not your age. My perception of time hasn’t gotten faster as I age. It’s gotten faster and then slower depending upon my lifestyle and my mindset.

There’s a big difference between defending your country within your borders and crossing a border to fight in another country.

Remember that bill that would strip non-profit status from any group, based on the whim of the president? With no hope of appeal? That was very popular with Democrats, until Trump won.

Even if you assholes don’t abuse something like that, you know that you aren’t going to be in office forever? There’s an election every 4 years, remember?

Don’t go conflating Democrats with the left, though. There’s some overlap, but they aren’t the same.

It’s not even about being a communist. It’s about being a tankie.

What is the point?

Really? Could you explain it?

Every week? I shave every day. I don’t want my scalp all stubbly.

I honestly don’t know what point you’re making here.

You don’t think he’s funny, and that makes you cringe? Okay.

I think if Voltaire took himself seriously, then he would be cringe, but it’s clear that he doesn’t.

Some people don’t think that humor belongs in music, and that’s okay. But it’s kind of like calling Weird Al cringe. It makes me think that you don’t understand the artist.

Which is crazy, because originally “alternative” just meant “underground”, i.e. stuff that wasn’t popular. Once it did become popular, though, then it solidified into its own genre

People are often poor judges about how they’ve changed, because it’s difficult to be objective about yourself. I’ve had friends’ personalities do a complete 180 and they’ll tell me “I haven’t changed at all, actually”.

Oh, really? There’s for sure some bad 90s music you’ve just forgotten about.

I’ll be watching Todd in the Shadows and go, “Oh shit! I forgot about Spin Doctors! Damn, they were annoying.”

This was also the decade that gave us nu metal ffs.

Well, there’s a random combo if I ever heard one.

They still make me cringe. But now it’s classic cringe.

Punk is a pretty broad genre.

This is the straw man:

Way I see it, you have two competing overarching theories, “spontaneous order” and “orchestrated order”.

You’re assuming that there is order and working backwards.

Sometimes people try to explain the formation of these theories in terms of fulfillment of an emotional need (“they can’t accept this would just happen so they need to pretend someone is in control”), which is just inaccurate.

You didn’t explain how that was inaccurate. You just said they were using a “mental model”. Why are they using that mental model, though? It’s because they need somebody to be in control.

This has actually been studied. Sociologists have studied conspiracy theorists, and they are often people with control issues.

You’re attacking a straw man. There are groups vying for control. The question is whether or not there is one group controlling everything, and I think that’s highly unlikely.

Way I see it, you have two competing overarching theories, “spontaneous order” and “orchestrated order”.

I see a lot of chaos, too. Conspiracy theorists will look at something that I regard as chaos (say, the Sandy Hook massacre) and say, “Oh, yeah, that was planned (by a conspiracy).” There seems to be an unwillingness to accept that there is a lot of chaos on the world, and while some things are controlled, much of it is not.

We fucking need a Flaming Carrot movie.

I thought this was a Super Fun Pak comic for a minute.

If I had to kill somebody, I’d be scarred for life. Even if it was clearly in self defense.

Yet I’ve talked to gun owners who fantasize about getting the drop on a burglar and shooting them dead or something like that. I don’t know if they’re actually that bloodthirsty or just delusional, but either way it’s pretty disturbing.