Or maybe they’re just genuinely a fan?

Aha! Yes, I like that :D

Not sure i get that one

Omg I’m so sorry 😭

Man, you’re probably right!

Me and my friend were once making weed puns out of country names. Examples:

Kush-ia

Ting-land

Pot-land

Scales

G-gypt

Slizz-rael

Gyal-estine

High-na

Blur-many

Grow-land

Bar-gentina

Blue-kraine

Spliff-uania

You get the idea.

Well, we had a third friend who hadn’t joined in yet. We asked him if he had any ideas. Bro didn’t get the assignment. His contribution?

WeedSpain

Socialism is democratic

I will only ever explain myself once. If the person I explained myself to seems to completely misunderstand me, I’ll just shut down and search for an escape from the conversation. I’m just so used to never getting through to people, and being misunderstood. No, I didn’t mean to upset you, and you insisting that I did is getting us nowhere. Accept that I’m sorry.

But no. Never happens. So I barely try any more.

Sorry, I got the title slightly wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_You_in_My_19th_Life

By that logic you could argue that no one should be able to get compensated for their skills in an open marketplace.

That doesn’t seem to track, to me. Maybe it would be better if the huge amounts of money generated by films were shared more equitably among the cast and crew?

The actors and athletes get paid a lot because someone is willing to pay that money, and they are willing because only a miniscule part of humankind has exceptional skills/talent. Most people are average in every way.

This assumes that these people are indeed genuinely exceptional, in some sort of superhuman way. Do you think the selection process for actors and athletes is both extensive and foolproof enough that you can guarantee that all and only the best and most talented people in the world get recognition? I know for sure that, for example, there are plenty of amazing musicians out there that haven’t even crossed the radar of any music agencies. Surely the same is true of actors and athletes. No, the majority of actors working today are the result of nepotism and a narrow focus on what counts as talent - are the camera workers not talented? The people making the sets? The costume designers? Etc etc.

The K-Drama “See You In My Next 19th^*Life” explicitly is about this, actually

Understood, easier to keep thinking you’re 100% right that way.

I agree that it’s wrong to support genocide or vote for genocidal candidates.

It is a simple description of your erratic behavior

You are actually incapable of admitting fault, aren’t you?

Notice that I didn’t actually deny acting manic? Just like I never denied the behaviour that made me appear like a liberal. I only deny being a liberal, because I have thoroughly rejected the ideology - quite some time ago, in fact. Many years.

No, what I take issue with here is your use of an ad hominem, unjustified, and not even batting an eye at the sheer audacity of it.

Oh, brother. Ffs. I’m talking about wielding psychiatric diagnoses. It’s a blatant ad hominem.

Sure. I fucked up bad enough that you ended up thinking I’m a liberal. I can admit that.

Now what? What’s the point? Because when I read back through the thread, you did indeed come in and say it’s easy to just not vote for genocide. And sure, I guess you could just not vote, or third party. But you don’t actually think that someone other than them will win, do you?

Something other than voting is needed for the genocide to stop. Real action needs to happen. People need to organise, agitate, demonstrate, prefigure - and that’s just the start.

Surely we agree on this? If not, then what’s the point?

And yet you continue…

You are describing your process of making a guess.

…yes? I guessed at your intention.

You are leaving out the part where you have been corrected

Because that’s not the part of the dialogue I am presently describing. I am explaining my initial assumption, because you are trying to claim it is a new invention.

are now doubling down on the truth of your guess.

…no? I’m just explaining what it was. Why do you think I said “what looked like”??

It’s not overly literal to know that rhetorical questions are for making a point, not asking you a question.

Yes - and then?

Yet again the basixa taught to children are something you think is just doo dang literal.

Sticking to the basics is taking it too literal, yes.

Anyways, the purpose of my rhetorical quest3 is for you to take a little time, do some self-crit,

I admit I haven’t communicated very well, but perhaps you also need to reflect on your own ability to listen. Communication is two-way, and I have not made it impossible for you, despite you gesturing in that direction.

the similarities between your behavior and those of genocide apologetic liberals

I think you’re projecting that. I have not once ever provided genocide apologia and nor do I ever even remotely condone it. I think you’re assuming intentions I don’t have, and I would prefer for you to not do that. My only point I wanted to make is that the coming US election is very unlikely to result in anyone other than the two imperialist, genocidal parties winning. I interpreted your rhetorical question as shaming anyone who votes for either of the two obvious potential winners.

Maybe this appears to you as me “defending” the Democrat party. They don’t deserve defending. The only positive I can offer is that their domestic policy is less dystopic than the Republicans - but that’s not a high bar. It’s still more capitalism. No, I do not actually condone them. I just think it’s naive to think anyone other than the Ds or Rs would win.

I am not seeing any accounting of my blatant point in your responses.

What blatant point is that? That you think I’m a liberal? There’s no need to “account for” that. It’s just false. You might as well call be a Martian.

You have missed it all, apparently.

That’s nice of you to say.

So I will wait for you to engage with it and I will be dismissing your attempts to steer this in your various confused directions.

I’m not “steering”. I’m answering and trying to actually engage in a dialogue with you. “Dismissing” that just means you’re dismissing understanding.

It doesn’t take a specialist to recognize manic behavior.

It’s not your credentials I’m calling into question.