@anarcho_baker Not saying anarchism is non-scientific, but a person being a scientist doesn't transitively make all of their work scientific. Newton's work on optics and motion doesn't make alchemy scientific by proxy.
@ProductOfLabor I love this because however someone reading it feels about Graham Platner they can tell themselves they're not the one's being described.
@BentleyShafer@janvbear@theistinthought How many kids does it take to be able to multiply 1 x 4? Is that something that only unlocks after the third kid? Is your thought that every person who lives in a city and not a suburb is single without children?
@ablata_at_alba I imagine the odds of you crashing your bicycle in a way that can cause serious head injury goes down (but not away) when you're not contending with motor vehicles.
@PluviumG@noahbradley My guess is to inspire comments saying "the one on the right looks better" (which, imo, it does) to drive engagement. People (like me) enjoy correcting others on this site and blue checks have figured out how to monetize that impulse.
@janvbear@theistinthought Again "American life requires cars" is something you can only believe if you haven't lived in an American city that doesn't require cars. I have, so I know that isn't true. I don't know what has to go wrong to think the average American can up and move to the Netherlands tbh.
@janvbear@theistinthought The idea of an American city that precludes its population from owning a car is very much a ghost story. It doesn't exist. The opposite, however, is omnipresent.
@janvbear@theistinthought You can live with a car in cities like SF or NYC, but try and live without a car in LA or Seattle and you'll see very quickly that most city planners in the US have decided for us that we will be buying cars whether we want to or not.
@TamTamTammy3 If you're argument is that "leftists" support American imperialism because they live in America, I'm failing to see how it's a leap in logic to say "you, as a 'leftist', support European imperialism because you live in Europe."
@janvbear@theistinthought I think I can guess where they haven't lived if the idea of buying fewer than 8 bags of groceries in a single trip is unthinkable to them lol
@Farmer_Shane91@AdsoOfBelk I'm sorry, you need to do some punch-up on that joke. It's obvious you stole that from a redditer's shower argument. The claim wasn't about "eating," it was about leaving the grocery store with 8 bags. Try to keep up, bud.
@Farmer_Shane91@AdsoOfBelk You're doing it again lol people in cities do actually eat food. An adult might be able to imagine how people who live in cities eat food without using cars but, alas, here you are.
@theistinthought@janvbear I love this thread of people who have never lived in a city with a population above 4 digits scaring themselves with ghost stories about what they think people who live in cities experience rather than, like, taking a single trip to NYC to find out.
@AuthorXoXiee Like, I get it's twitter so we all hate each other, or whatever. But it's weird to try to psychoanalyze someone over fairly benign media critique. That's not a healthy way to disagree with someone right out the gate. There are people on the other end of your computer.
@AuthorXoXiee It's clear you're talking to someone who isn't present. I get that you've probably dealt with bad-faith criticisms of the show and character in the past, but I don't appreciate having that generalized resentment pointed towards me for no reason.