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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • In specific context, I am not arguing against or for banning comics.

    I personally am for banning people that are bigoted, and especially when their bigotry is hidden away from their art so that I might find myself enjoying art from an artist that I would personally find detestable.

    What I am arguing against is the specific use of the phrase “All it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing” as a hammer to bludgeon somebody else into accepting a specific viewpoint as the superior one.

    I’ve said it before in other ways and I will say it again that if you give me the choice between being your bitch and being an asshole, I will pick asshole every single time because I value my right to choose above what you claim is an absolute truth.

    It’s quite comical to me that people cannot see that these are two separate conversations, and the separation of the conversation happened long before I waded into it.


  • We’ll see, since I’ve already laid claim to mine, you can lay claim to yours and be like buffer country between old America and Cascadia.

    In exchange for your country of Blagraria providing a layer of separation between Cascadia and the states, we’ll offer you favorable trade agreements that you can then use to parlay into income from the old America.

    And if they do something stupid like trying to attack you to take you over, we’ll have your back with our massive trade financial resources and natural resources.

    And of course we’ll make sure to blanket Nevada in solar cells and set up distribution networks and we’ll sell you solar electricity at fantastic prices.



  • I think also it’s a consequence of the terrible, up to and including complete lack of sex education that most men receive.

    But also my first girlfriend didn’t even know where it was either and thought it was a myth also, so it’s probably the absence of effective sex education that is the cornerstone of the myth of the clitoris.





  • When my dad was teaching me how to ride a bike, I would make it so far and then fall down.

    I couldn’t figure out how to control the bicycle and myself, and every single little bump in the road, I would lose control of the bike.

    After the third or fourth time my dad picked me up and dusted me off, and he placed a hand on my shoulder and he said, “Look son, you rule the road. Don’t let the road rule you.”

    And I don’t know what magic there is in that phrase, but immediately after hearing that, I could ride a bicycle.

    And it’s not just me. I later on encountered a kid who was learning how to ride a bike, and he kept falling over. And I looked at him and I said, “I’ll tell you what my dad told me. You rule the road. Don’t let the road rule you.”

    A few days later, I saw his little, like, I don’t know, seven-year-old self riding a freaking full-grown adult 10-speed mountain bike and pulling tricks when just three or four days prior he was falling down on a huffy.