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My sibling in Christ, this is what these words were specifically built to mean.

The U in Utopia is both the privative “u” and a form of the meliorative “eu”. The word was coined by Thomas More in 1516 to literally to mean “a place that is so perfect it cannot exist”, and the hope was that the fiction would serve as an unattainable model to aim for, to motivate and direct the progress of real-life society Though the word “dystopia” was later coined as an inverse mirror of utopia, it doesn’t use nor does it require a mirrored etymological wordplay: “dys” just means “bad”, basically, no implication of inexistence there. And for good reason: the dystopia is a trope that is used mainly in anticipatory fiction as a warning for where real-life society could be headed, as such it would make no sense for it to be depicted as impossible, on the contrary it must have a ring of truth to be an effective warning.

Tolerance is not an absolute principle, it’s just a social contract. People who breach it aren’t protected by it; end of paradox.

That and making, in what should be seen as the sole crowning jewel upon a veritable turdwagon of a life as a professional waste of carbon, the best argument in favor of gun violence since Brian Thompson

At least he died doing what he loved