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I get that, and to be completely honest I'm having some trouble articulating where I see the difference, but it just feels wrong to me to absolve Trump supporters of any more than a small fraction of their guilt that way.

I believe, and this is most certainly a bit naive of me but unfortunately not something I can let go of easily, that as an adult you have a responsibility to sincerely evaluate your world view, actions and opinions, and understand how they impact the people around you; this is the thing that is physically near-impossible for citizens of a media-blackout North Korea, but not for internet-connected Americans.

Even if you listened to only right wing media, the subtext of what is going to happen to people under their reign isn't exactly subtle, so it's hard to argue ignorance there. To the contrary, the idea of some group of "others" having pain and violence inflicted upon them is so core to the GOP platform that I really can't find much sympathy for those who support it even if they have been dealt a terrible hand by the system; they do not try to make the world a better place for everyone, they just want to be the ones who get to do the oppressing.

I know it's not always that simple and there's other extenuating factors, but from my moral perspective I just cannot find any justification for it where there isn't still a key responsibility coming from the person themselves.

I don't know if you can quite make that comparison. North Koreans don't really have a way of informing and educating themselves out of this belief. Adult Americans, while also preconditioned by a purposefully weak education system, could know better if they chose to seek out more perspectives.

Do people not know this copypasta anymore lmao why are you catching heat for that

Is that more of a 'big expensive city' thing or is $65k generally considered low in the US? I'm not from there so I am trying to put that into perspective

I built a Discord bot a while ago that I later added a Patreon for, which adds some extra features. I don't make a lot of money with it but it covers the hosting costs and leaves enough for an extra night out every month.

looking at files inside the temp folder … otherwise known as … are you sitting down? You really should sit for this … temp files!

The point OP is making is that those people would not put 2 and 2 together to understand that the files they were looking at are called temp files, just because that's the folder they found them in. They may not even remember the name of the folder, only that it contains a bunch of files with a prefix they're now googling.

Not sure why I'm bothering explaining this to you, the way you responded makes you look absolutely insufferable, but maybe someone else who comes across this will find it useful.

Asking someone their country of residence is privacy intruding? Lol

I am from Germany

If you were really from Germany, you'd never have given that much personal information up voluntarily!

Walter Masterson makes similar content sometimes which I've been enjoying instead. His channel is a lot more opinionated overall though, and he makes better use of the political platform imo.

This isn't about responsibility, it's about preventing suffering. If you could prevent a genocidal leader from being born, which you knew would save hundreds of thousands of innocent lives, why wouldn't you? Because it's that person's "responsibility" that all of those innocent people died after all?

Nur noch eine Überwachungsmaßnahme Brudi, dann wird's bestimmt besser

I'm too terrified of dying to an irresponsible driver, so as much as I would like to bike everywhere, I'll keep taking the metro for now. They're adding more and more actually decent bike lanes so hopefully one day...

Why couldn't they just serve the comments to each client with the ad-adjusted timestamps already? The only thing the client has to request then is the comment page it wants to load, and some unique ID for which the backend remembers which ad version it's associated with.