pimento64

I felt like it was too hard to see the punchline so I fixed it for you

TempleOS is the one true legitimate operating system

In what way is any figure, real or fake (like 1.5 million), relevant to the thesis of my comment?

75–250K people who have no respect for their own time. The only countries of note that opposed the Gulf War were Libya and Iraq itself. I get "war bad" but why would you waste your effort showing up to protest a war that was sanctioned by every member of the Security Council and enjoyed almost universal support in the UN itself? If an American-led coalition intervention in the Middle East is more popular among countries that hate the United States than among members of Congress, it might be time to reconsider whether or not you're pissing into the wind.

Disinterested voters ultimately need to pull their heads out of their asses one way or another. We've been Mister Nice Guy with people who refuse to question the legitimacy of their feelings, and did it produce results? Care to take a guess?
It's time for the stick. When you tell someone they're acting like an asshole; when you tell them they royally fucked up, scorn their idiotic motivations, and then demand that they shape up; you at least treat them like an equal, a free individual capable of being selfish and stupid. Putting them on the level of children by coaxing and cajoling and borderline tricking them into insincere imitations of empathy, while stroking their hair and plying them with praise, is debasing. And it doesn't work.

It's a shadow, to mimic perspective

They had every opportunity, ignorance is a choice.

What needs to change is that people need to pull their heads out of their asses, instead of being self-absorbed pieces of shit who feel entitled to be neutral about fascism.

On an overcast day the Batter's Eye is entirely white, a pitcher's park if ever I've seen one.

Whatever you need to tell yourself to keep your conscience at bay.

And then Max got on TWA flight 400, and never appeared in the strip again.