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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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That is neither possible nor remotely advisable, the US has nuclear weapons and butchering millions simply because they voted for the wrong person is immoral by most standards of morality.
edited 15th Nov '16 4:15:40 PM by Fourthspartan56
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangNo, humanity was not a mistake. There are a lot of people with bad intentions and narrow minds, but for each of those there are ten who are good, caring people. We're hitting rough waters, sure, but that means we just need to stick together and fight even harder. Despairing won't fix things.
"Can't make an omelette without breaking some children." -BurNot sure how much France can do to fight the US's potential leaving.
Anyway, "human guilt", like white guilt, straight guilt, cis guilt, and all the other privilege "guilts" out there is not that a helpful attitude to have. Sure it makes you feel important and good in a masochistic way when you wallow in misery over your self-martyrdom, but that's time that could be spent trying to take action and help the people who need it more or minimize the damage in the first place.
Killing people for the crime of having shitty opinions is fundamentally immoral, even if these opinions are legitimately terrible. Not to mention it sets an extremely bad precedent for if they ever reclaim power.
edited 15th Nov '16 4:23:13 PM by AlleyOop
I think people need a little bit of time to properly deal with their guilt most of the time and that's perfectly natural and healthy, but you have to move on at some point.
I don't know about you guys but I don't feel particularly embarrassed at being human. It's not like it was humanity as a whole that created these problems, just a lot of us are very hateful or ignorant. Just because they are like that doesn't mean we shouldn't have existed or that we should just give up.
I think no man represents better the Republican Party's How the Mighty Have Fallen as John Mc Cain. Who, while very disagreeable, still felt like a respectable man you could reason with. The fact he firmly stood against Trump throughout his entire candidacy somewhat highlights this.
edited 15th Nov '16 4:25:46 PM by Gaon
"All you Fascists bound to lose."And who gets to determine who's dangerous and deserves to die, pray tell? There's a sizeable chunk of the US population who would decree that people like you are the ones in need of purging, you know.
Except he fell straight in party line and continued to endorse Trump multiple times after he said something repulsive. Man's still got some sense of honor if he's willing to call things out at all, but he's too cowardly and self-interested to actually act on it and put his foot down when he needs to. In some ways that's worse because it makes him hypocritical.
edited 15th Nov '16 4:26:31 PM by AlleyOop
I was arguing specifically against the "Killing people for wrongthink is inherently immoral" by positing that there are in fact situations where unilateral decisions are the only sensible solution. Not arguing that we need to be stringing up trump supporters.
"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"@Climate Change: Well, here's hoping that France and everyone else can convince Trump to do another flip-flop. God knows he's done enough of them already. Although it if can't, then at least I can take solace in the fact that, according to most reports, human civilization might end just after I die from old age.
The planet doesn't need saving. It'll be here long after we're gone.
As for the people living on the planet that have to deal with the effects on the environment, that's a totally different story...
"I squirm, I struggle, ergo I am. Faced with death, I am finally, truly alive."Yeah can we PLEASE not talk about advocating for the murder of like, anyone?
I understand emotions are running high and some of us might be facing an existential crisis but come on.
More like most of which did not even vote for Trump.
edited 15th Nov '16 4:37:10 PM by Draghinazzo

Last February I retweeted a tweet that was basically "I better not end up in something called "The Resistence" by the end of the year". Goddamnit, that was supposed to be a joke.
edited 15th Nov '16 4:15:16 PM by Lanceleoghauni
"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"