@ahhhhiloveart1@HunterEKozak Nah, it's simply a conditional statement.
The fact that the antecedent happens to be true just makes it not a counterfactual anymore, like the exercise originally intends. But that's a failure of the hypothetical giver, if they can't anticipate and/or adapt to that possibility.
@justuseKsharps@GCS_Pottsy@ContraPoints So I'm taking that you weren't able to find any Sikhs to ask about their experience of the racial climate in the early '00s, huh.. Or did the conversation just not go the way your head-canon required it to, so you had to reclaim the framing with this Gish gallop of grievances? π€
@justuseKsharps@GCS_Pottsy@ContraPoints Are you sure? Ask any Sikh who grew up around that time about their take. The scapegoats shifted, but racists always found new targets to alienate.
The biggest difference is how far up the ranks this conduct was condoned. In '08 McCain stopped that lady calling Obama an "Arab"..
@antherder_@KaihatsuYT Crossing the line is not excusable by pointing out that he also has no game plan or follow-through to achieve his goals with his actions.
That'd be like arguing that it couldn't have been rape, since the defendant couldn't maintain his erection long enough to nut..
@uncle_mafell@joni_askola Just like Tim Pool, he still has some die-hard apologists who will make excuses for anything he could say.
But somewhere around that time his nonpartisan spell broke and he revealed himself to be yet another "enlightened centrist" who is just a useful idiot for Putin and his ilk.
@Comb711@ProgPro Not the part where the love interest finds out that you're basically zombie Jesus, and starts to make out with you over it? Inside the hideout of the order of hobo ninjas, explain to you that your destiny is to fight Aztec gods and VR ghosts, this universe's Team Aqua and Magma?
@Inclamiente@ProjectLiberal You're still salty that they didn't get to put that day on the scoreboard, because a brave Secret Service member held the last line of defense against the mob trying to breach through and reach the congresspeople on the other side of the door. Sorry, not sorry.
@disasterp1ants The strongest technique a sorcerer needs to learn is reading out those legal disclaimers in commercials for drugs and supplements. π€
@rthonbwooster@CromRedoubt The issue is that the MAGA Right is ousting the moderate wing and calling them leftist, too, the same way they did to Obama or Biden. It's brinkmanship, there is no way to appease them by integrating their standards into your Overton window..
@rthonbwooster@CromRedoubt Nah, he's just moderately right-wing (think Romney) with a soft spot for Trump, which makes him struggle to voice his criticisms of him without both-sidesing it reflexively, or whitewashing it as an issue with the wording, rather than the content of his politics.
@Aquinas1908@DustinRolstad@mirthincarnate That's only proof that whoever fabricated the shroud, was mistaken about anatomy in the same manner that Christian laypeople were at the time.
The same way the biblical God apparently also thought that lack of bleeding on the sheet was proof positive of a girl not being a virgin.
@dichterjurist Kleine Nebenwette, dass der Kollege auch das vermeintliche Voltaire-Zitat wiederholt, statt es dem eigentlichen Autor (einem pΓ€dophilen Rechtsextremen) zuzuschreiben? Das scheinbar beweist, dass wir insgeheim von leukΓ€miekranken Kindern regiert werden, oder so.. π