Those two statements do not mean the exact same thing. Trump being less shitty than Hitler doesn’t make Trump good, you are definitely misunderstanding the saying. It’s about trying to achieve goals, and the importance of knowing when you’ve maximized the achievement possible without ruining your chances of achieving the goal by pressing further. It doesn’t mean “I can imagine something worse, therefore this terrible choice I do not want is now alright with me”.

I don’t understand your Hitler example, it does not seem to be an example that fits the saying. How is Trump good to Hitler’s perfect? Or is it the reverse? Either way doesn’t make sense to me. Normally that saying is used in a context where someone is potentially getting some of what they actually want, because getting all of what they want is not feasible, and continuing to pursue all of what they want risks them not getting anything they want. In your example you seem to be using it like it means you get a choice of either a negative outcome or a worse negative outcome, which is not correct.

It’s not about health or safety because if it were they wouldn’t still allow the most dangerous and destructive drug to be sold, yet you can buy alcohol as young as 18. It’s all about social control. Their preferred drug is legal even though it’s the least healthy and most unsafe of the commonly used recreational drugs.

In addition to their long and ongoing history of being shit, NYT does a lot of good reporting and is also useful for understanding a specific kind of perspective. I think if you’re reading diverse sources you will inevitably have to read the NYT if for no other reason than they are breaking news regularly and occasionally covering things that aren’t really being covered elsewhere.

Public opinion still matters even if it doesn’t matter to the fascists. If you want to stop ICE, being viewed as an out of control mob who are running around looting guns is bad tactics. Videos like this become fodder for their propaganda machine, it’s a gift to Trump.

Doing something in a way that is guaranteed to get everyone caught is not good. Literally, nothing positive was accomplished by these people doing this. The Feds might have even left the vehicle there and had someone in the crowd bait the mob into looting it, just to get this video created so they can turn public opinion against the protests. If you are going to do shit like this, have a plan and know WTF you are doing or you are guaranteed to get fucked.

These people are not thinking at all and this kind mob mentality BS is very dangerous. If you’re going to do serious crimes like this, doing it on video and leaving your fingerprints everywhere is incredibly stupid and will get you prosecuted.

I like to think so. You?

It seems like you are misunderstanding the situation. I’m asking you to explain why you support Italian media executives having the power to censor the Internet.

Can you explain more? It sounds like you think it’s acceptable for the owners of an Italian sports league to have this power over the Internet?

It’s not fundamentally different but it is improved. If you keep your armor on and load up on potions you can probably mash your way through anything.

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 gets my vote for game of the year 2025.

I set my age to the max in Steam back in the day, now I’m well beyond 100 years old.

Bring a fake checkbook, fraud was a lot easier back in the '80s.

In situations where your product is dependent on a problematic supply chain it can make sense for a company while also being beneficial to consumers. Imagine you need 100 widgets a month to build your product but the market is only capable of providing 10. It might make sense to start making 90 widgets a month to supply your own unmet demand. Especially if there’s also a widget cartel trying to squeeze your margins so producing the widgets yourself lets you cut them out of your supply chain. That could be the difference between your survival and failure.

The things people say they believe and how people actually behave are only loosely related. Not many people have a fully formed and coherent ideology that’s also congruent with their real life.

It sounds like the dude got exactly what he wanted.

No. I think people are extremely diverse in how they experience and engage with their individual subjectivity. I think a lot of people are like that at least some of the time, but it’s more complicated and probably a nonconscious behavior for most people when they are doing it. Describing it as a “mask” I think is potentially misleading because I don’t think that’s necessarily how people experience this phenomena subjectively.

VR is the best medium for horror. Everything is scarier compared to flat games.

Your mom is an asshole.