People in the know understand why we tell crazy people they’ve been on the Kool-Aid.
Because you're unaware that Jim Jones was a cheapskate and bought knock-off "Flavor Aid" instead?
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As an engineer he approach problems with a practical to find the solution, but sometimes there are no practical solutions and people just need comfort/inspiration from their leaders.
Reminds me of that time on Star Trek: Lower Decks when Rutherford, the engineer, tried to switch careers:
The annoying thing is that they held us hostage for our free labor, but the results are proprietary for Google's benefit only.
That training data ought to be forced to be made freely available to the public, since we're the ones who actually created it.
You don’t want the stock market destroyed. That is how retirements are funded as well.
Thus illustrating [one of] the ulterior motive[s] behind replacing pensions with 401(k)s.
If you’re trying to affect public opinion,
Yeah, and they're not.
Throwing soup on art.
They did no such thing! They threw soup on glass, harmlessly.
Why are you lying about both their motives and their actions?
Okay, let me be clearer: they didn't vote to "approve" of the protestors. They voted to accede to the protestors demands even though they fucking hated MLK, because they had no choice.
What part of your study is measuring an irrelevant thing do you not fucking understand?
*immoral
We're talking about intentional acts of evil here, not just disregard for morality.
What the fuck are you even talking about? Do you think the Civil Rights Movement succeeded because White Moderates "voted" in favor of it?
No, the Civil Rights Movement succeeded because the massive disruptions it caused made it clear that trying to preserve the white supremacist status quo would no longer be possible, and that the only alternative to negotiating concessions to the likes of MLK and the NAACP would be having to deal with the likes of Malcolm X instead.
Similarly, Just Stop Oil's path to victory has absolutely fuck-all to do with popular "approval" of their tactics, but everything to do with becoming so disruptive that it becomes worth it to capitulate to their demands to make the protests stop. Just Stop Oil is trying to be the Malcolm X of the climate movement. They don't want your approval, and they don't need your approval.
Spamming the false notion that approval matters all over the thread is nothing but the reactionary pearl-clutching of a concern troll.
Why? Because they got some glass dirty?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16756563
Source: Imperial War Museums
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a battle scene set in a British village street, featuring a dismounted Territorial Army cyclist, in uniform and chin-strapped forage cap, loading his rifle. Behind him stand two more members of the battalion, one firing his rifle, the other placed his bicycle against a wall. In the background, the remainder of the battalion come to join them.
cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/3784650
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Short answer: no, there really aren't.
Long answer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGn9T37eR8