I do not demand evidence that Ruasel’s teapot is not orbiting Jupiter. It’s clearly not and anyone who thinks it is is a quack.

Well after so long there’s nothing left of the fragile silicon storage mediums, so as far as we can tell civilization basically ended in the late 90s as everyone moved to the mysterious “.com” which we assume to be a euphemism for death.

I am certain that Russel’s teapot is not orbiting Jupiter.

If you want to hypothesize about the existence of some kind of demiurge then that’s one thing, but religions are about some really and weirdly specific gods with very specific rules and systems and laws without a shred of evidence for anything.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

A school dance isn’t just a date, it’s a social event. The US doesn’t really have a lot of public social rituals, so a school dance is a unique kind of social experience that doesn’t really exist outside of school. It probably wasn’t as big when there were town festivals and church holiday events where everyone knew each other, but over time the school dances have become the only thing left.

I want to see what comes next.

We live in interesting times!

Chemical fertilizer. World population would probably be half the size without it and starvation rates much higher.

Private health insurance.

Shampoo and conditioner with vitamins in it.

Your hair is dead. It can’t metabolize anything.

When you’re bored every second feels like an hour.

When you’re dead time just flies by!

True, I’ve lost consciousness due to the heat before so it’s not a safe work environment.

I guess I’d rather die than be bored.

Gawd I’m so glad I work in a factory.

Y’all’s jobs sound fucking awful lol

Physically writing things helps encode it in my brain, but in all other ways digital records are superior.

Kinda want one of those smart pens.

Sure, but you’re implying that not being part of the ruling class absolves you from any guilt or responsibility.

No, I’m implying that the ruling class has unique guilt and responsibility, which is nontransferable to their subjects. I never said we have no responsibility. I only contend that holding us equally accountable is mystification; it obscures the uniquely horrible actions of the ruling class. They’re the ones who deserve to be tried for their crimes, after all.

By flattening society, by holding the least of us accountable for the crimes of our rulers, you actually make it harder to hold anyone accountable for anything at all.

Or do you think the Red Army should have executed all Germans because a minority of them voted for Hitler?

Sovereign Citizen could be a wacky villain.

Don’t act like being German gives you some kind of unique perspective. Hitler was inspired by the US exterminating it’s Native population and by the US reservation system.

There’s a clear difference between living in society and ruling that society.

Okay, what if Spiderman, but he’s actually public enemy #1 and webs up brutal cops?

As far as I know, only about a third of people in the US back then ever owned slaves.

Okay? We’re talking about the Founders, and they owned slaves. They were directly responsible for it, they had their own plantations. Comparing that to bystanders and voting and buying local and being complacent is absurd.

Are you perhaps under the impression that all Americans in 1776 were Founders? Because generally when USians talk about our Founders we’re talking about the people at the Constitutional Convention and terroist organizations like the Sons of Liberty.

“Just not by us directly” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. What the fuck is this “us” shit? I didn’t choose to enslave anyone and I have no power to free them. Equivocating being forced to participate in capitalism with directly owning a my own fucking plantation is just mystifying history - just edgy nihilism.

The Founders were among history’s monsters and you need to stop trying to protect their legacy by painting us with their brush. Chattel slavery was a uniquely horrible institution and its end mattered.

They also raped and tortured their slaves.

Please don’t pretend like people buying the only clothes they can afford is in any way comparable literally owning chattel slaves.

They had slaves.