Being a contrarian feels badass when you're a kid, or just starting out in your study of the form. I get it. But it's a short step from there to cynicism and unreason, and you may not notice yourself taking it.

Ironically, a story as idealistic and light hearted as Everything Everywhere might be very good for you, if you take it to heart.

That's how you get Mandela Effect'd

When Eli Roth turns Hitler into chili at the end of Inglourious Basterds. A lot of excellent Nazi-killing in that movie, but what could top masscring Hitler like he's Sonny Corleone?

Black antisemitism isn't doing Kanye any favors now, is it?

Nope. Every prison sentence takes away your livelihood.

Yes. He should lose the ability to provide for anyone including himself, until his debts are paid. That's what a deterrent is. What do you think happens to families when their provider goes to prison?

People need to see the wasteland that was made of Alex Jones' life and decide never to do what he did. That's the whole point.

It's a mansion. It's fucking crazy.

It would be blatantly unconstitutional to have an official government position on witchcraft, per the First Amendment

Gonna go out on a limb here and assume "bad"

Why? It's more expensive, meaning more profitable, to keep people "alive" as long as possible

In a perfect world, most people would die by assisted suicide, right? Comfortable and in control of their own lives. I get what you're saying but that's not an inherently scary statistic.

"You're offending my Tokyokan guest!"

Hm. You seem to have been downvoted like crazy to the point where you deleted, or perhaps "shut down," your own position.

Don't try again.

"I finally saw the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan. Is that what people were so freaked out about? It was like five minutes long! Those guys didn't have to be there, they could have turned around"

We try. But the churchies and Republicans actively campaign FOR reckless reproduction, and unfortunately a lot of people agree with them.

The idea is to reduce harm. You know how every time there's a school shooting, we collectively refuse to do anything about the availability of weapons because we prefer to tell ourselves the violence is a result of poor mental health? Well, bullying is one of those things that damages the mental health of children.

I just had to try to convince someone that it's good to feed children. That might be a new low. Oh well, this is America.

Look up criminal convictions of elected officials by party. Have fun.

That's odd. So the law abiding gun owner killed people, but the criminal didn't. You sure this is helping make your point?

I'm not familiar with that name, who did they kill?

Of course they are. Just imagine if Kyle Rittenhouse had had to acquire his hunting equipment on the black market.

Oh, I don't believe it at all. Laws work. Drunk driving still happens, but less. People put effort into preventing, policing, and punishing it. People who might have driven drunk will reconsider because the law makes it a bigger risk.

When people claim that gun control won't reduce gun violence, they are wrong and they know it. They know it will make weapons less available and the associated death less common. If they really believed the laws would be ineffective, they wouldn't cry about the laws. They're just gun worshippers who don't like the idea of their faith being regulated.

There are no perfect solutions. But when we try, things get better.

Exactly, so who cares what the laws are? So stop bitching about gun control. It won't prevent whatever senseless violence you eventually decide to inflict.

What's stupid about it? Pregnancy kills a lot of people every year, especially in America as compared to most modern nations. Abortion as self defense is a perfectly reasonable case.

Think of abortion as protecting private property. If someone's in your garage and you don't want them there, you can shoot them. Now imagine someone's up your ass without you wanting them there. Don't you have a right to remove them?

What's the big deal? I've been repeatedly assured that laws can't actually prevent people from getting their hands on weapons if they really want to. Just do that!