Nelots

A poll found 41% of voters under 30 viewed the assassination as acceptable.

Crazy how we can see numbers like this and then see other articles saying only "dark corners of the internet" support Luigi.

Eh, to be fair, I get it after looking through the modlog. The implication that you wish far more people were okay with an assassination and that there is no other recourse is absolutely advocating violence. Now, whether or not it's acceptable to think that way is a whole other topic, but I don't think it's fair to say you weren't at least speaking out in support of violence.

I agree that we seem to use language differently, and it's pretty interesting to see. Both of us have been upvoted by at least one or two other people as well, so it seems some people agree with you and some with me despite our completely different takes, so I don't think either of us are really wrong.

According to the dictionary, 'is' and 'was' are respectively a present and past tense singular of the word 'be'. The definition of the word 'be' (or at least, the one I find relevant here), is "having the state, quality, identity, nature, role, etc., specified". This seems like a significantly more important part of the sentence to be emphasizing here.

On the moon he is the alien.

As opposed to who? I still just can't understand why you would emphasize 'he', when there are no other subjects that we could be talking about. Like, obviously we're talking about Neil, so why would you put emphasis on it? On the other hand, the fact that he actually 'is/was' an alien is pretty surprising to think about and thus the important bit. That is to say, it makes more sense to emphasize the fact that he is an alien, and not the fact that Neil is the subject.

The emphasis is not being placed on was because it's past tense, it's being placed on was because the shitpost is ironically somewhat accurate. You can replace it with is if you'd like for the same meaning. On the other hand, everyone knows we're talking about Neil as there is no other relevant subject, so bringing attention to the word he doesn't really make any sense.

Perhaps it would read better if they had said "...he actually was an alien"?

Why would he be italicized? 'Was' would be italicized because the emphasis is being put on the fact that he actually was an alien.

This is fire.

That is the official website. It's linked on the wiki page for Kanye, and Kanye has advertised it on his Insta. I thought it was fake too because it's so poorly designed. You can't even see the price of the shirt until it's in your cart.

Yeah, the entire joke is a subversion of expectations. The only reason the joke works at all is because the format is being used "incorrectly".

I've never understood how one can just throw out half their holy book because their God (supposedly) decided to change the rules. This does not change the fact that he (supposedly) did these evil acts. If you just ignore the parts of the bible you don't like, God's a pretty great dude! An argument against Yahweh's character does not change depending on which parts of the bible are still valid, unless your claim is that the old testament was never valid. In which case, why believe any of it?

Regardless, even the new testament depicts a despicable being. Would it not have been easy, as an all-powerful and all-loving god, to tell people not to own slaves? But no, instead in the new testament slaves are told on multiple occasions to obey their masters. One can preach about love all they want, but when their holy book endorses slavery, I cannot take them seriously.

Regarding your last point, that's just false. I can criticize the Joker as being evil for killing hundreds, thousands of people. That doesn't mean the Joker or Batman are real. That's because I'm criticizing a being described in a story, not something I believe is real.

Edit: I, too, will extend my thinking here. If you believe in an all-powerful and all-knowing god, you need not even look any further through scripture for evidence that he is an evil being. He had the power to create any world with full knowledge of what would be to come, and the world he chose to make was this one. One rife with childhood cancer, slavery, starvation, torture, and natural disasters. This is not a world created by an all-loving being.

I do agree that not all Christians are inherently bad people, but I would be lying if I said I don't lose respect for anyone who can follow and worship such an awful and evil being as the Christian god.

Used to love the game Summoners War, but I had to quit for exactly this reason. Eventually I realized I was logging on for FOMO and that I had stopped having fun long ago.