Well, yes, the sad reality is that very many people are rather stupid. This won’t change and we should treat it as a fact - people are always going to fall for schemes. I think the fact that they’re stupid doesn’t mean they deserve to be exploited, though. This is a failure of laws and regulations.

Did he specify already that he chose to name himself after St. Leo the Great? I’m probably out of the loop, I thought we were still guessing which one of the previous 13 popes Leos he’s named after.

Exactly, that’s why they’re called conservatives and not progressives.

How do you think the unthinkable?
With an itheberg.

I think they understand but do not agree. Their vision of making the country better is just different, so much so that liberals are unable understand it IS actually what someone could want. They do want to live in a nationalistic distopia.

You’re supposed to fight the small battles that come your way. You’re supposed to refuse to do the bad thing.

I agree. But you can say turn to the right and people connect the clockwise movement of the wheel with the direction of the car, which makes it possible for people to understand each other’s instructions intuitively even if they use right-left terminilogy instead of the precise clockwise-counterclockwise one.

It doesn’t matter where you hold the wheel. When you’re turning right, you’re always doing the right movement for tightening a screw, no matter the hand position. That’s the point.

The starting point is on the top.

That is the tear-layer, isn’t it?

You buy shoes that are easy to swap - like no need to use hands kind of easy. You can also go barefoot at home, because the floor is clean.

That’s a good thing, genocide is what it was. Seeing the expression “Holodomor famine” feels a bit bizzare. Holodomor means famine. It’s kind of like chai tea.

Yes, you’re right, preschool and grade school children do identify as animals a lot and they’re often not ashamed to express it, because it’s much more tolerated at that age. It’s viewed as wierd in adults though and it’s much more rare among adult people. Probably partially because it’s a juvenile trait and most people just grow out of that phase , partially because it’s viewed as juvenile (and wierd), so many of those who do not grow out of it are afraid to express it. I find it harmless, so I wish for more tolerance.

Being a furry is not common. What’s not common is treated as strange and potentionally harmful.

It’s always a minority thing. Just like with furries.

Mermaids mythology originated as sailors’ fetish.

That would be strange. Mermaids don’t fuck each other, they get famously fucked by sailors.

I don’t think a sexy woman saying she’s a mermaid would get strange looks.

What did you think the “pearly” in Pearly Gates was about?

You’re giving the world numbers. Olgratin was talking about the US. I don’t know the US numbers but they could very well be quite different.