Hegar

The person that you are now is not the person that you would be if you grew up in that situation.

That me is a stranger to this me I have no basis to guess what that stranger might do.

Wait y’all can pick the correct thing out of your pocket regularly? I’d say I have a 10-20% error rate. At least once a week I’m standing in front of the staff room door wondering why my car key is in my hand.

Exactly this and not a word more is the correct comment to this picture.

Our russian controlled white house will probably host several more PR stunts like this as they work towards their goal of fully cutting off US aid to ukraine.

I think it makes more sense to look at this as the latest step in that plan, rather than an unexpected event that with uncertain consequences to puzzle over. If this particular stunt was axed at the last minute, the situation in 6-12 months would likely be the exact same.

Ukraine was never going to accept a shakedown attempt from a proven welcher working for their enemy, nor agree to a full russian victory just because it was called peace.

Fascist coups succeed when the rich have bought into the coup.

Why would the rich seizing full control of the state make the stock market go down?

You can strongly see the cultural influence of Islam in Turkiye, North African and Pakistan.

Also in the US blue looks correlated with larger latinx populations, matching the much bluer populations in central and South america.

It also looks like more extreme climate weakly selects for more gender segregation - look at the more barren southern parts of South America, far north Canada, Scandinavia - but the effect of culture is clearly stronger.

Are you talking about definite pedophile bill gates by chance?

It is not. Writing “wash me” is not vandalism. This is not vandalism. Outside of the courtroom, reality is more important than a legal definition.

Moreover, legal definitions are irrelevant to whether an act is moral. Your fixation on this point in the face of so many people highlighting that no harm has been done again suggests you’re not arguing in good faith.

Writing in dirt is just not vandalism.

You insisting otherwise makes it seem like you might not be asking this question in good faith.

What will it accomplish?

It’s not directed at the owner, but bystanders.

If you didn’t know or care that musk was a self confessed nazi, seeing vandalized teslas is still likely to discourage you from buying one. We’re social primates and forceful, visible displays of disapproval work.

Isolating a nazi brand and putting downward pressure on sales is vastly more important than an overwhelmingly wealthy demographic - tesla owners - having to use their insurance (worst case) or spend 5 minutes washing their car (as in OP’s example).

hard for everyone

People who are struggling can’t afford teslas.

educate people

Musk supporters don’t change their opinion based on information. Tesla owners who bought before they realized musk is a nazi don’t need education.

Vandalizing an object that materially supports fascism is obviously morally acceptable.

Through UCLA’s Technology Transfer Group, which transforms brilliant research into global market products, the scientists have co-founded a medical development company called Pelage Pharmaceuticals

In case you were curious how this publicly funded research is going to be turned into private profits.

All day. Usually getting worse over the course of the day. Even a relatively mild hangover in the morning would be killing me by early evening.

Nothing helps it either. I’ve always eaten before drinking. Staying on top of hydrating while and after drinking has no noticable effect.

Our explanations for the behavior of outsiders say more about our beliefs than theirs.

Even explanations that feel correct to us are almost certainly wrong in important ways.

There’s plenty of scholarship on the various reasons people support fascism, that’s probably your best chance for a full answer.

70% of OF performers are women - I’d wager that’s why people are assuming a female subject.

spiritual whiplash

Some kind of christian or tradwife influencer?

Remember that religion is mostly grifting and the best grifters earnestly believe their patter.

Capitalism can’t innovate.

good (inclusive) leadership

That’s a neurological impossibility and we don’t gain anything by pretending otherwise.

whenever there’s a group of people together, someone will be the leader

You have a friend who’s always exerting their will over everyone else? This is thankfully not my experience.

Hierarchy has definitely infected our lives and thinking to a sickening extent. People pursuing power for what they see as good is the problem. Trying to influence what the power-hungry see as good is a fools errand because the effect that power has on the brain means “good” will always become “good for me” as you gain power.

The only way to a better world is people rejecting the self destructive desire to stand above. We need stories and social infrastructure that works towards that goal.

I imagine it would make fake-account-driven influence operations much harder, and it might drive down total online time.

I wonder what kind of performance bonus the republicans earn from putin if they can pressure the world’s 5th largest economy to leave the US.