Mind the shavings

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Cake day: August 16th, 2024

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  • Self defense isn’t murder.

    When it gets into preemptive self defense…probably murder? But what if you are reasonably sure it will be too late to defend yourself later? Do you let yourself or those you love die? But people can weaponize that line of thinking in bad faith, they murder someone and say it was self defense because the other guy was definitely gonna do it. It seems too awful to allow, and yet for some people, it might be the only thing that stops them from getting killed. Clearly nobody should be expected to wait until the knife is in their neck to say, “well, at least I waited long enough to make sure I should have already done something”.

    A whole line of thinking that can be prevented by nazis not openly threatening rape, which is the real headline here.




  • “I won’t let you talk to them that way” is a bad one that doesn’t belong on this list. It implies you’re in control of them, which you’re not. It’s essentially a bluff, and if they call it, you need to be able to beat them up.

    To add more good phrases to this list, the phrases need to imply that the person still has their own agency (because they do), and that it’s just a dipshit way to use that agency. The other phrases are great.






  • Wrong energy. Both.

    Nazis want to be darth vader. Calling their actions appalling makes them feel like that. Calling them the little baby bitches that they are, and pointing out that fuming and threatening violence in response is exactly what a little baby bitch would do, destroys their cardboard badass theater.

    Hell, even Anakin Skywalker–literally Darth Vader–was a whiny little bitch in the prequels! That’s who they are, and people who mention it help everybody see what they’re really dealing with.

    Look at the man behind the curtain, folks.