Lath

I’m no expert, but it looks like someone cut a gorilla out of one picture and pasted it over the lion picture.

I see a gorilla and a marmot ready to throwdown.

You know that scene with the guy on the castle wall in Monty Python and the Holy Grail that farts in your general direction?
Yeah, I giggled.

That I exist. And that we’re in a relationship.

It’s a love-hate thing. You wouldn’t get it…

Yeah, you can see all of those in our social media as well. A bit older now, but they’ve all been shared where appropriate.

Think of it like this:

• the other party has a known history of shooting anything that moves
• as medical volunteers they went there to treat the wounded, many of which are likely unable to evacuate, and they lack the resources needed to at least get them moving
• abandoning the wounded pretty much defeats the purpose of them going there in the first place

Symbolically, that’s part of the point.

Definitely would. The more accomplices, the better.

I was having a parallel Earth experience when I saw Italy didn’t have a far right representative blonde woman as a president. Turns out she was the prime minister.

That seems to be it. But why do I remember more words?

Dunno where, but another commenter said it was old communication equipment forgotten that could have been repurposed for bugging should anyone with the intent had access to it.

I wish them well.

Ah, mostly Spain and a bit of France. I doubt Spain’s going to budge. If they grant it, Catalans will also want one and no government wants to be the one who loses half the country to minorities.

I don’t know. Do they want to?

You’re right or wrong depending on the country in Eorope. Some countries offered migrants asylum, but the migrants left for UK anyway. UK’s fame is larger than life.

Yeah, if people could just gather together and demand that no one will own more than one media type to prevent this kind of monopolistic propaganda machine from forming, that’d be nice.

Spoilers are the worst.

Note to self: Find little joys in life that can’t be spoiled.

I understand that, I really do. However, what if you change nazi memorabilia with LGBT+ stuff? Is the bartender still correct in doing so?

Or change the LGBT+ stuff to any kind of recognizable symbols of a certain group. Is it still the paradox of tolerance or is it now the paradox of intolerance? Note that this isn’t something leading. I am asking as a question that I don’t know the answer to.

I know that some groups shouldn’t be tolerated in a society they want to destroy. But here’s the thing, we can’t not live with them. If we as a society, destroy or segregate groups of a defining nature, don’t we become exactly that which we claim to prevent? And once this type of action starts, can we be sure it will stop there? Who will be the judge, how will they enforce it and for whom?

Anyway, I understand the tale and it’s the bartender’s right to do so.

Most people do stop doing that as well. However, a tiny bit of resentment from being disallowed also takes root. More so when they believe it’s unjust. And if they encounter more and more of “can’t do this, can’t do that”, that resentment grows into something ugly. That ugliness doesn’t care if it’s right or wrong, it only sees oppression and develops into hatred. Which eventually turns into violence.

It ain’t right, but it’s how we’re built. We usually see in 1st person and can’t fathom what it’s like to be on the other side.

People just don’t understand. Because society prohibits exhibitions of hatred, those are most likely to seek out places that do allow it. The desired “freedom” aspect of society-free judgement is why you encounter them more often in these type of forums. And when you got there to “repress” them, it’s seen as the claws of society invading one of the few avenues that allow venting their frustrations.

Think of it like this, everywhere you go there’s rules, rules, rules! You’re stuck doing a job you don’t like to pay bills that keep growing, having to play nice with people you barely get along with 5 to 7 days a week and only an online forum to let you vent off your stress. But then some bozo shows up and yells “no, you can’t do that!”. Wouldn’t that just make you angry?

This isn’t about the correct thing to vent about, it’s about being allowed to vent. When you tell someone they’re not allowed to do something because it’s bad, it usually comes off as taking away their sense of agency, and that just makes them more hateful.