BillyClark

It’s cool in panel 3 how his work lets him dress up like Dracula.

Or maybe he means fecund.

Men can be fertile or infertile, and the comic is about how that’s a poor choice of words, so who knows what the word was intended to be.

Talarico actually explained why he said that just before he said it, and it was for similar reasons. The original texts used gendered words to refer to God. Sometimes, they used feminine words, and sometimes masculine words.

The ad is pretty explicit about that. If god now has a binary gender, then if Talarico is elected, God will be non-binary for 6 years.

Talarico is so powerful that only electing him to be a senator seems like a big step down for him.

I thought when I explained the problem, you’d remove the racist comment the next time you logged on, and probably give FiniteBanjo some penalty similar to the one I was threatened with.

I considered reporting it again with more details so that maybe another mod would remove it, but since I was threatened about that, I’m reluctant to do so.

I reported it because that comment goes against the rules of the entire platform, and even if my report was initially misunderstood, I don’t think we should leave racist comments up.

Just to recap the racism, I said that Africans couldn’t vote in America and that’s why democracy wouldn’t keep them from being enslaved, and FiniteBanjo responded with a picture of the Obamas, saying that they were Africans voting in America. There’s no way that they thought the subject was African Americans. It was African slaves. And they posted a picture of a person who was repeatedly falsely accused of being born in Africa. It’s blatant racism.

For the most part, Batman doesn’t even punish criminals. He stops and detains them, usually using force, and sometimes what we’d call an excessive amount of force. Batman’s thing with killing is that he goes out of his way to avoid killing criminals while stopping and detaining them.

The question of killing is not really about punishing them, and so due process doesn’t really figure into it.

Systemic problems are caused by individuals.

I grew up in Texas and had a middle school history teacher who told us that no real historian calls it The US Civil War, since it was called The War of Northern Aggression. And he went on to teach us all of the other stuff you’d expect from a dumbass who would say that.

I wonder how many kids he fucked up with his propaganda. I didn’t have a reason to doubt most of what he said for years. Probably until my history class in college.

What an asshole he was. Making the world a worse place.

The problem doesn’t mention that it’s a corporation. He could be stealing from a one person shop.

Reported you for blatant racism.

American slaves came from outside America. Places like Africa. Africans don’t get to vote in America.

When I was in college, I had an ethics class where the class was presented with a conundrum, and here’s the gist of it:

A man was hired to write something. He was instructed that he had to make sure to put a copyright notice into the work. (This was the time when if you didn’t specifically put in a copyright, then it was automatically public domain.) For whatever reason, the man did all of the work, but did not add the copyright statement. Then, he quits the job, takes all of the work home with him and sells it. Were his actions ethical?

An overwhelming majority of the people in my class argued that his actions were ethical, to be paid to make a product and then take the product home with you and sell it yourself. So, at the time, I thought either that was some sort of psychology class experiment that I didn’t know I was part of, or people are far more unethical than I ever imagined.

Obviously, the main argument for their side was that it wasn’t wrong to take public domain material because it’s not illegal.

I realized the truth much later. The average person, even the average college student, doesn’t really think about things very much. They have never in their lives tried to think about whether something is ethical, and have spent their entire existence guided by emotions like a dog or something. So, asking them to think through a problem with only one step is about the maximum they’re capable of. So, because they are basically incapable of thinking, when given an ethical problem that is even slightly complicated, they can just default to “it’s legal,” and then they don’t have to think.

Looks like we don’t need the Bill of Rights, or any other rights laid out in the law, then. It just interferes with pure democracy. Let’s go change the Constitution, boys! Those “rights” are interfering with our very ethical need to enslave people.

For some reason, I guess the casual senseless violence in a living room, I’m reminded of the old Dear Sister sketch from SNL.