Syringe

Fuuuuck... Just rolling out the deep cuts

I was thinking this too. Also, not EVERYTHING needs to have a love story jammed into it. There are so many situations that you can tell they shoehorned one in in order to pull a specific demo and it's totally not necessary for the story

It's... Hagerstown. It's completely unsurprising.

It's where one of the big prisons is. When people get out, they get stuck there for one reason or another. Halfway homes and POs are there, they don't have anywhere to go back to, your prison bodies live there now. A bunch of reasons.

It's not a particularly violent place, but it sort of is like a whole city compromised of Florida Man, but without the publicity.

Two of our the branches of government have been captured by foreign interests in an active effort to destroy Western hegemony. The third branch WAS captured, ala Donald Trump, but democracy FINALLY did it's job in 2020. These idiots are trying to destroy the US and it's working.

All logical fallacies are still in play

If I had to guess, this would be more about putting the breaks on genocide by giving us a hand on the wheel. Given how the Biden admin has handled Ukraine, I'd say that their team has been very pragmatic about escalation.

That said, we just got out of one pointless forever war in Afghanistan. I don't think we need another.

It's a strawman designed to get you to defend an entirely different topic so that he no longer has to defend his indefensible position.

It's an argument manipulation tactic that you should call out directly and aggressively when you see it in the future.

It's more evidence that the platform is being run by investors that don't really know what they're doing. Reddit was a great platform, but instead of spending energy to "fix search" or "build better admin tools" they put their focus into buzzwords and ads. The NFT profile snoos, the crypto approach - is just pandering to the idea of an IPO so that they can all dump their stock and make a buck. Likely used engagement numbers from before the layout changes to pitch advertising without updating them as to how engagement has changed.

If they had any intention of running the platform long term, they would balance the experience that Redditors are used to with a sober approach to advertising. They would create meaningful community features and charge for them as a community add on (such as a community event calendar that ISN'T Facebook, community marketplaces, association management, etc.) With the audience and reach that they have, the long term profitability of the platform was almost assured. They would have adopted federation in order to aggregate even more content. They would have rolled their own AI instance into their search and community recommendations instead of freaking out about it. Instead, we got NFT avatars that literally nobody asked for, because crypto bros.

Fwiw, the site has shit the bed. There isn't nearly as many active users as people seem to think. There's... A LOT of very obvious bots. New communities that being floated now are clearly gaming the algorithm. It's very obviously different than what it was.

Because SEMPER FI !!! OOORAH!!

We're not doing laws anymore. Just for the poors

You've clearly never taken for the ole' poutine scam. Everywhere you buy poutine, they tell you that "this isn't REAL poutine. You've gotta go to __________". It's always somewhere else. This poutine is in another castle. Don't fall for it. It's all so they can tell sell more plane tickets to Montreal.

I like your rationale here. It's a good reason and it makes sense. Thanks for that

I don't like the part that it's taken the justice system 30 years to start dealing with this clown. If it were anyone else....