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Retevis can have quality control issues but I think they try their best and give a fairer deal than others

Energy but what about trees?

Recycling plastic.

We should just not use plastic.

Recycling paper and metal is still ok afaik

So 9/11 wasn’t terrorism because people in the twin towers were responsible for many deaths?

I don’t see the point of trying to shift the goal posts. Everyone is responsible for many deaths, the question is whether you believe in the classical style of warfare where the losing side has survivors that surrender out of fear. The “anti terrorist” crowd believe that’s just inherently wrong, killing should be strategically designed to wipe out the people it could coerce. They believe nobody can use “intimidation” or “negotiation” when reason fails because it would be coercive. Nobody can live their life with zero connections to deadly violence, so trying to change minds by force is coercive. And they hate that, so they want a pejorative word for it, so they came up with calling it “terrorism.” I just think that doesn’t sound like such a bad thing, they’re just extremely sick and insane for thinking it’s better to wipe out all “enemies,” and pretending they can avoid “terrorism” themselves, while they actually do it constantly in the process of seemingly trying to wipe out enemies.

If you’re asking me to condemn whoever killed that healthcare CEO last year, the answer is [censored].

If you’re not asking me to condemn that person, you might be a terrorist like me, but not as used to thinking about that fact as I am.

Or anyone that knows what “terrorist” means

I think it would be highly insane to call me a fascist for recognizing myself as a terrorist

I’ve been identifying as a terrorist for years in preparation for this. I have less than zero emotional reaction to being called a terrorist because I already call myself one.

For example, when I promote fighting back against Nazis, the goal isn’t to silently wipe out every Nazi and have them surrender because they’ve all died without any fear. I think we should deal with it more like how we dealt with the German Nazis in World War 2, where they surrendered because they were scared, not because they all suddenly died without warning and there were none left.

I willingly make statements people are scared by, sometimes those statements even involve stuff like fighting against Nazis, and it’s not accidental, I am willingly happy to recognize a goal of scaring people instead of just making them stop moving, so how am I not a terrorist? What part of the word “terrorist” isn’t fit by this? It’s like 2+2=4

On 9/11, some Jihadists did terrorism where they killed a small portion of Americans to scare others into doing what they wanted, without killing every American that didn’t willingly agree to begin with

The US tried not to be terrorists in Iraq, we were just going to wipe out everyone that didn’t take our side, we weren’t going to leave any survivors agreeing out of fear. We were just going to have people who were on our side the whole time left alive, and everyone else dead. Then we found out we couldn’t do that, so all we could really do was terrorism where we scare people into doing what we want if they didn’t agree before, like the Jihadists that attacked us

I’ve never really tried to wipe out my enemies, I’m more like the Jihadists where even if a country attacks me and refuses to listen to reason, I’m fine with having attackers survive and stop attacking out of fear instead of being dead. This is simply understanding how the term “terrorist” is used and recognizing how it applies

I’m with the old school million year old school of thought called “terrorism” upheld by examples like FDR and Winston Churchill, where if you can’t reason with violent people, you still don’t necessarily have to kill them. Killing them can be considered a last resort. I’m not with the recently-dominant idea of “absolute brute forceism” or whatever the alternative to “terrorism” is (never really heard anyone establish that or clarify it)

Happy for you or sorry that happened or whatever

Not reading this. Feel free to start this discussion with me on nostr, where there are no bans, if you have a spine

I think I’m the wrong person to try to gaslight

Not exactly.

Your reply is evidence of that, especially considering before your reply, there was evidence in the form of vote scores and culture, and especially damning evidence in the sidebar’s “rules” section.

It is a burden and a privilege

You explained the burden part, but forgot to explain why it’s also a privilege.

It’s like everyone is in the fog of lost souls from Legend of Korra, and we’re the ones that can see through it. When you have a working brain, you can make the right choices. You can guarantee your life is meaningful, because you’re not blindly using random dice rolls to determine that - you’re using your brain to make choices based on the meaningful information available to you. This makes every day deeply different for us.

I’m outnumbered by people who can kill me any time, but they can’t make it mean anything, or stop me from doing so, because I’m the one with an actual mental model of the world to make choices from.

Boiling away all the poetic wording, the simple truth is: the world is sick, and we have been spared the worst of the sickness. What a gift.

I’m not attacking you here

I find it really sad that you’re not attacking the person you replied to, when they are quite brutally attacking someone vulnerable.

Also sad that they have a multi-point-positive vote score.

Glad I’m not the only one to at least call them out at all, though.

You’re not saving the world. You’ll never be saving the world. Your contribution either way is irrelevant.

Why are you rage baiting in a place where people can get banned for giving you the kind of reply you deserve?

Rhetorical question, obviously.

Gene pool.

I’m just adding the phrase “gene pool” in a reply because I assume the heavy-handed moderation of this platform is why it’s been left out of the discussion so far.

The real impact on the future is terrifying. Gene pool.