Yeah, I feel like flared scrubs is a logistics problem. That makes good sense.

I work about 1 metre down from where I sleep (one of those loft/sleeper/desk combos where trousers only even matter during certain teleconferences, or if someone insists on watching. Nearly all my trousers are flared, because if I trip, people don’t tend to die (I’ve had no reports of that, anyway), and I also never needed scrubs. I barely need trousers on occasion.

Sorry for the demise of your fashion, but you certainly look cooler than I ever do, so there’s that.

This makes me far more angry than this image would have you believe.

Something something sparkling conservatism.

Yeah, we can see that’s what you’re in. Thanks for acknowledging it.

The word ‘pussy’ as a pejorative predates its use as a slang for female genitalia. It actually originates from ‘pussycat’, as comparing a person to a jumpy and easily scared feline. Any misogyny attached to it is extremely recent and performative.

Man, you’re all over this thread not knowing what words mean.

It’s not misogynistic, but this one does have that root:

Stop being a cunt. (And I say that as a woman.)

Being Jewish isn’t a shield against being ignorant, ffs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews

Nobody is making assumptions here but you.

Your comments have been very clear.

If you’re actually Jewish, you should be far more careful with the word ‘fascist’, and you should learn about history before throwing that word around. Fascism is happening now, so being judicial with that word is more important than ever.

I’ll remind you of your comment that sparked this subthread.

I said Kirk was a fascist, and you said: ‘Hilarious how the people saying he was a fascist are themselves the fascists’.

Anyone with a brain would easily see you’re saying I am actually the fascist. Would you like to try again?

I’d love to have a conversation with you about this, but we both need to be honest.

No, I can’t name any fascist movements that didn’t end in violence. That’s why it’s so terribly deadly, and why we can’t allow it to fester. They don’t start with violence, though. They start with populism.

Can you please explain what about my comment made you say it was fascist? Are you still confident you know what that word means?

e: now you’ve run away, and are trolling others in this thread instead. I hope someday soon you’ll try to learn something rather than insisting on your own ignorance. We’ve all been wrong. It’s okay.

So you agree that fascism is far-right, authoritarian, and ultra-nationalist, you’re only haggling that it’s ‘by force’.

Can you give me any citations that say fascism is only fascism once it uses force?

I am not throwing around that term, I assure you, and it seems so far that you don’t actually understand what that word means.

It’s a political ideology, nearly the opposite of socialism.

So, again, can you explain why you said my comment was fascist? By your definition, I did not use force. What about my comment, or my ideology that you seemed to get from it, was fascist?

Okay, thanks.

But a fascist by definition (not our own personal meaning, but the actual meaning) is:

‘a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement’

and that’s how I was using it. By that definition, which is the standard definition, Charlie Kirk was a fascist. He would have agreed with all of those things: he was far-right, authoritarian, and ultra-nationalist. (e: and I can give you examples in his own words where he proudly agreed with those things)

So, I am using the actual definition, where you are using your own personal definition.

Now, can you explain how I am a fascist?

Okay, let’s talk. Can you define ‘fascist’ for me?

What is fascism?

e: I had asked people not to downvote my interlocutor in order to foster conversation, but nevermind; this isn’t going anywhere.

I will not celebrate his death, but I can’t muster up any sympathy for the fact he can’t spread this disgusting, hate-filled vitriol anymore.

If you think he was anything but a net negative to society, corrupting young minds and fostering vile ideologies, you can kindly go fuck yourself.

I am not happy he was killed, but I will not mourn a virulent fascist.

Aye, Charlie, you were dealing with MAGATs, vermin, and swine, but enough about your followers.

Honestly, this sounds to me like something a sociopath would say, which is why I don’t buy it when these people are using the ‘full context’ defence here.

The difference between empathy and sympathy is subtle, yet important, and (I think) exposes that he was a sociopath.

I’m not sure how to explain what I mean other than that sympathy is passive whilst empathy is active. Sympathy exists at arms length, whilst empathy is truly felt. Or, perhaps, sympathy is cerebral whilst empathy is emotional.

Does that make sense? I think sociopaths can understand sympathy, and maybe can tell themselves they ‘feel’ it, but empathy is a foreign concept – and in Charlie Kirk’s mind, a weakness.

So, for me, the context actually makes this quote worse.

Context: https://bsky.app/profile/lillypip.bsky.social/post/3lyo2aq7qy22l

Not a bad crossview.

Your other left.

I didn’t shop anything out – I got this from a ‘best of’ list. Thanks for the context!

Yeah. He lived a long time only to be hauled up like that. :(

It smells like green.