Capitalism has nothing to do with Nazism. If you find a capitalist throwing a sieg heil, they’re a Nazi. If you find a Buddhist or a Marxist or a Christian or literally anyone working with people who throw sieg heils, they’re a Nazi. If you (the general you, not you specifically) find yourself continuing to voice support for a president who didn’t immediately get rid of Musk after he sieg heil’d on TV TWICE, you’re a fuckin Nazi.

Nobody should have to tell you this.

I don’t concern myself with the opinions of Nazis or Nazi collaborators. Get fucked.

These things are not comparable. This person you spoke to has urges, not beliefs. He clearly doesn’t believe it’s right to want to fuck kids. Nazism is a personal political view, and that view includes the belief that I don’t have the right to exist. That the people I love don’t have a right to exist. That is not an exaggeration, that is a fact, and you have to accede it as reasonable to work with someone who believes it. I do not, never have and never will, and I’m sick and tired of people pretending like a Nazi will just up and abandon the monstrous core principles of their entire platform. You will never budge them, they will only drag you down to their level if you try. Other opinions are fine; Nazis are not.

The correct answer is “Ten Nazis”. We are clearly not on the same page - yours has a swastika on it.

You, and most others, have clearly forgotten that there is a line and that line is Nazism. Not “everyone is a Nazi”. Just the ones willing to sit by quietly and let them advance their agenda, instead of loudly and violently fighting them at every turn. You might not be able to admit it to yourself, but I don’t concern myself with the opinions of Nazis so I don’t really care what you think about the fact.

“Underage” is a legal colloquialism, so yes, I answered in the context of the comment I was responding to. After all, who sets the age benchmark to determine what is under and what is over age? Please do me the courtesy of taking context into account, if you don’t mind; this is a discussion, not an outrage contest.

Unfortunately this is incorrect as far as these ideologies go. They’re fundamentally incompatible with the principles of a free democratic society and so cannot be tolerated by anyone who claims to uphold the values of a free democratic society. If claim to uphold those values, and you’re sitting at the table with those people: No you fucking don’t. “Good person” and “correct” do not enter the equation at any point.

No need, the answer tells enough.

The autistic trait that comes back to bite me most often is the unshakeable confidence that if I just show someone the truth, they’ll believe me.

This has bounced around in my skull since I read it in a meme here. I hate how true it is.

You really don’t see what’s happening around you?

Let me just make sure we’re on the same page with a little maths problem: you have nine people and a Nazi eating dinner at the table together. How many Nazis are at the table?

Learn to share the road, mate. England’s not that big, you can slow down and get where you’re going with plenty of time to spare.

Do you have plans for how to deal with his body aging and becoming infirm quite a long time before yours?

I think more relationships have been based on power imbalances than “love and connection”, if we’re talking about all of humanity across the whole of human history. That’s the problem with talking about tradition though - you gotta get pretty specific. Whose tradition, starting (and maybe ending) when?

June 2023 makes her 16, which is over the age of consent in many countries. It might not be the case in yours - it’s not in mine - but that doesn’t mean it’s illegal where they are. Context is important.

What kind of recourse would you have in that situation, if the world were still sane? Would your supervisors hash it out, would the judge to look at the case and throw it out, would you even expect it to get all the way to court, etc?

I take the view of the social contract: if they won’t respect the rules and are impolite to you, they forfeit their right to politeness back. You’re perfectly justified in hanging up on someone if they’re so rude as that.

It’s also true they’re just doing their job, but that just makes it more okay to hang up on them. If anything, you’re helping them hit quota by letting them move on quickly. It’s a service!

PP doing PP things, like assuming he’s at all relevant after getting his teeth handed to him in the election.

Everything you say here, I have felt and am feeling as well. Before the pandemic I went out with friends and had fun. Now it’s so hard to deal with other people, it makes me so tired to fake being like them, and I beat myself up when I realise I didn’t mask well enough. It’s like the pandemic made my symptoms worse, but I think it’s just lack of practice. Also maybe burnout over everything else going on in the world.

You’re not alone bud; now you know why things have been so tough your whole life, just like us. You’re part of a big cool club 😂

Has he tried telling them to eat the tariffs?

Announced via Signal?