We are not robots. We are beings of emotion and passion. People are not persuaded by simple logic.

You’re just bitching about human nature. Have you never talked to a human being at all? People don’t speak in formal proofs. People aren’t engaged by formal proofs. You’re not “profaning society” by using the most human forms of communication. Emotion is a key part of communication.

Stop being anti-human.

You’re confusing mathematical proof for rhetoric. They are not the same thing.

A man will not have himself killed for a half pence a day and a petty distinction; you must speak to the soul in order to electricify him.

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months

There was actually an IRL situation like Lord of the Flies, and the kids handled it pretty chill.

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Honestly. Let’s make this a federal program. We’ll send billionaires on one-way trips to colonize Mars. And we’ll just keep doing it. We’ll just keep throwing billionaires at Mars until we actually get a functioning Mars colony, or we run out of billionaires. I would be fine with either outcome.

Do you know the right way do properly test the purity of your grey market or homebrew HRT? Obvious. Ranma spectrometry.

Murders he personally committed, as a member of both MS-13 and Tren de Aragua!

It should be legal to set fire to cars parked in bike lanes, blocking handicap spaces, or in front of fire hydrants.

You must bring a parent or guardian with you to join the murder gang.

What if you’re smurf blue from eating too much colloidal silver?

Garfield has devoured my soul.

Go for the maximum chaos option. Instead of refuting their madness, lean into it to torment them!

While driving with Alex as a passenger:

“Oh, you don’t know the half of it Alex. You know nothing of Tren de Aragua! Nothing!”

<Memorize the Lord’s prayer in Spanish. Start speaking it aloud now.>

<Pull back shirt sleeve to reveal a press-on tattoo that literally just says “Tren de Aragua!” On your other forearm, a similar label reads “MS-13.”>

“You know Alex, I fought them for a long time too. But you know what, in the end, I figured, why be one of the losers when you can be one of the victors, he me hombre? That’s why I am a member of both Tren de Aragua and MS-13. Look under the seat Alex, look under your seat!”

<Alex reaches under their seat and pulls out a giant zip-log bag, kilo-sized mass of some white powder. The bag is labeled “99.99% fentanyl.”>

“You know nothing Alex! You know nothing! You think you can stop us? We’re already here Alex, we’re already here! You think you can stop us with immigration law? 90% of us are born US citizens!”

<Maniacal laughing!!!>

“You have no idea what’s coming Alex, you have no idea!!!”

Grab the bag from them, place it under your seat, and go back to driving. Make no mention of what just transpired and refuse to acknowledge it for the rest of the journey. But do occasionally sprinkle random bits of Spanish into your conversation then on.

Ah, teaching is such a virtue! It’s as Christ taught.

Give a man a pipe bomb, keep him armed for a day.

Teach a man to build a pipe bomb, keep him armed for the rest of his life.

I’m pretty sure that passage is somewhere in Luke. And ultimately, when better to teach people to build bombs than when they’re young and have that nice neuroplasticity working in their favor? What you’re doing makes sense from both a scientific and religious perspective!

Not if the conventional drone strike on Moscow was also accompanied by a nuclear detonation on Ukraine territory. Not a detonation or a Russian nuclear bomb, but the grand unveiling of the results of a secret Ukrainian nuclear weapons program!

Mostly building explosive devices by hand, of course. I assume you’re doing the same?

CIA is going to have to cut back on its entrapment operation budget. No longer has the money to be subtle about it.

On an unrelated note, hello fellow transsexuals. I hope your daily estrogen injection went as well as mine. Would any of you be interested in joining me in the acquisition of scheduled substances, the construction of large explosive devices, of the assassination of prominent political figures?

Now I hate Grant Maxwell for his race and ethnicity. I’m racially bigoted against him now. Not oter members of his race and ethnicity, just him personally.

There is only one Hammond in Sci Fi that gets my respect. Hammond…of Texas.

This is insane, even for him. “Veterans Day” was originally called “Armistice Day” before war-mongering politicians got a hold of it. The people who actually fought World War One knew the truth. There were no victors in that war. And there weren’t even veterans worth holding up as national idols. The bravest never made it home. That war was a grinding attritional Hell on Earth. The veterans coming home were not victorious heroes, fresh from the triumphal capture of an enemy nation’s capital. They were shell-shocked survivors, the ones who just happened to be lucky enough to still be alive when the buzzer rang and the war ended. And it ended not from triumphal victory, but from politicians suing for peace. An action they only took when they felt that if they didn’t, their people would end up eating them alive. They pushed their populaces to the absolute brink of collapse, all for nothing. No grand victories. Nothing to make the immense loss of life possibly seem worth it. No, in immediate aftermath of that war? There was only one thing really worth celebrating - the fact that it was over. That is why it was originally called Armistice Day.

But “Victory Day.” That is a disgrace to everyone who fought and died in that war. There were no victors in that war. One side nominally won when the other’s resources ran out first. But the immense cost in suffering, lives, national wealth? None of the combatants left that war in a better state than they entered it. Everyone lost in WW1.