PeriodicallyPedantic

Ah yes, the anti-vegan. Nearly as annoying as the vegan.

I have the same advice for you as I have for vegans: let people eat what they want to eat, mind your business, and keep your preferences to yourself unless you're asked.

That said there is some irony here because you're framing this as unreasonable, but we do this all the time with other humans. As an outsider you should treat members of a group differently than they treat each other - unless you're saying white people should be allowed to drop N bombs lol

It was hyperbolic.

Maybe "options" was a bad choice of word.

These are things we're talking about and just because we're talking about a thing doesn't mean we are bound to choose it if given them as a choice.

I can say that I hate one thing more than another thing without ever being forced to choose either of them.
Just like in my example I'm not forced to run over a child's foot just because I spoke about it.

And besides sometimes you ARE forced to choose between a list of bad options. Especially in politics. There is certainly a "least bad" option, and treating everything bad as equal is, like I said before, how monsters get power.

I refuse to believe that these are the responses of someone having a good faith discussion. You're clearly trolling, but idky because you're not being funny or clever. You're just making tangential nonsense arguments for no discernable reason.

That's such a cool story.

Too bad this isn't a discussion about that option. We're discussing the difference between option 2 and option 3, or the lack thereof. You can talk about things you don't want to choose.

Dude, wtf man. This isn't complicated, I don't know why you're having such a hard time of it.

Guess what?

You can rank a list of things by preference, even if it contains more than 2 items and multiple items are bad.

Let me give you an example:

1. Give an innocent child a candy
2. Run over an innocent child's foot
3. Blow up an innocent child with C4

2 of those options are bad and indefensible, but between the bad options, one is certainly worse.

Come back to me when you have an argument that stands up to a light breeze, your "all bad things are equally bad" routine is the kind of nonsense that allows monsters to come into power.

As a Canadian: fuck American products. Y'all want a trade war with us, fuck your shit.

All that to say, it's understandable to be angry at and suspicious of products made by antagonistic nations.

Oh shit. Time for a sneaky edit

Good thing I didn't say that.
Too bad you missed when I called both "bad"

Two things can both be indefensible, and yet still one is preferable. Although you lead with "and", you seem to be suggesting that this isn't the case, which is a wild position that doesn't hold up to even that barest of scrutiny.

Sure, if you use your own alternative definition of the terms, then all bets are off.

Authoritarianism is about how you're pressured or forced to do things, and left/right is about what those things are.

I know that if we get too nuanced about all the many many dimensions of politics, then we'll spend so all our time fighting semantics and get nothing done. But if you simplify down to a single axis then the terms lose all meaning and you likewise can't communicate anything of meaning.

When people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.

The authoritarian left is bad
The authoritarian right is bad
But if you think that the two are equally bad, then you're wronger than wrong

Coming from the other direction - when someone ackshullys a parson, but the person was using the phrase correctly.

I had to explain to someone online today that "liminal space" had multiple meanings, and it didn't only refer to spaces you transition through, and the spooky "liminal space aesthetic" is a valid and coherent use of the word "liminal" and the term "liminal space"

I meant with the servers too, not just an empty rack.