I mean, it would if human brains didn't hate subtraction

Kind of a plot point in "If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe", book 4 of John Dies at the End. David confronts an alternate timeline version of himself who already fucked up and got his world destroyed. The other David thinks of himself as the better of the two of them cause he actually got his life together, but he was really just a dickbag who kicked John out of his life, thus why he "cleaned up".

Like all Bad Robot productions. Mystery boxes are only interesting if you keep the lid on. That's why it's a really shortsighted writing style.

Remove the "?" and everything after. YouTube doesn't need to know where people are coming from.

"Capitalism failing a majority" isn't "capitalism is failing".

The former statement is always true, because capitalism serves the winners which will always be a minority or move to become a minority if it isn't (how it got in that state is anyone's guess). The question is only how much it's failing the majority. The two's interests can align for a time, but the needs and wants of one are almost always in direct conflict with the other's. The failures currently are massive, thus why running on helping people and actually doing the job of government (its role in a so-called "mixed-economy") is working better than anti-socialist/communist rhetoric to combat it.

Soundbites are good, but so is replying to what the other person said(mostly so we don't put words in other people's mouths)

Include SUVs in your computation and rerun the numbers. Yes, the big fuck off trucks are still a minority, but they push everything bigger the bigger they get. And bigger is the only thing they're getting.

I drive a MINI, bought it in 2018. Then, I was comfortably in the majority of car sizes (new minis are comfortable hatchbacks). Now, there's maybe 10% of cars that I'm comparable to, everything else has windows with bottoms that are at or above my roofline.

This is a cheat to camera. Film animation has them all the time. The thing that matters is how the final frame feels, rather than the plausibility of the pose.

That, plus squash and stretch is one of the twelve basic principles of animation. If you ever freeze frame some energetic hand-drawn animation, you'll have these as frames (not even cheated to camera like this)

You have both views open at the same time as well.

Pangendered

Much in the same way that a pickle (gherkin) is a cucumber. But they ain't equivalent

Yes... by teaching people. Meaning you need to reach them. If the way you talk is a barrier to being understood, you're going to reach way less people, my man.

I'm gonna quote scripture, not cause I'm Christian or anything (catholic apostate atheist), but because my sister fell into a Christian cult so this is an example that quickly comes to mind (her "church" had a real goofy interpretation of this that a lot of new American Christian Cults regularly have). 1 Corinthians 14:3-8, where Paul tells the Corinthians, who were holding mass at the time in Hebrew, that they need to speak to be understood. If they hold mass speaking a language that no one outside their church understands, they only lift themselves up. But if they speak to be understood, then they can lift up everyone.

Sorry to say, while using liberal in the way you do is definitely a nice shorthand to be able to identify people who are safe for you to express your views with, it also alienates those who don't know what the historical term means. Speak Latin, dammit (that was how the catholic church misinterpreted Paul's teaching in this letter. And the new Christians use it to promote speaking tongues. Aren't religions great? /s)

Yes, and I think me arguing "meet people where they are" or "speak to be understood" better fits what you're saying than the guy digging his heels in over the definition of liberal

Yes, historically that is the case. Semantics drift over time, though. Even though both liberals and conservatives are classical liberals, only one actually still uses the liberal label. When you don't acknowledge semantic drift, you alienate others because they can't follow what you're saying. If you want to destroy capitalism, you need to make the circle of people bigger, not shoulder people out before they begin.

Phrased another way, you want to move the Overton window leftwards, not contribute to it shrinking to the right.

Frontovers is the highest growing category of accident. They're happening because people can't see small children over the hood of their emotional support freedom truck, orphan crushing model.

Yes, cell phones but mostly lack of visibility.

Yes, so that you feel shame that you're stressed, so you don't talk to anyone else about it. It's both a control and cheap union busting tactic.

You think the workers own the means of production in North Korea? Cause I'm pretty sure that's glorious leader who does

Oligarchical capture of communist states, especially authoritarian ones, is going to recreate capitalism as it concentrates more wealth without more accountability. Plus, capitalist countries don't play with states with markets they can't expand into.

Yes, and as I already said elsewhere, speak to be understood. In the US, I have to account for semantic drift. You don't, which is great, but 4chan is an American institution.

So, when the comment we're all replying under drew the comparison between liberal and 4chan, the underlying context was that this was from an American perspective. So I talked about that, instead of talking about all possible contexts. Isn't language neat?

Yes, Americans are ignorant, but it's because of our incredibly loud propaganda. I would ask for kindness, but I'm certainly not gonna force it. I get being frustrated by the American-centric-ness that we all sort of drag around with us. I try to be humble, but it's really hard to know the shit you don't know, ya know?

Nope, but he was good at naming things. I really wish that the estate started suing these dickheads. I might not agree with IP hoarding, but it could do good here. (LOTR isn't in the public domain until the 2050s)