It's RATM dude, every fucking chord they play is a political chord.
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Remember kids, the first time you notice someone mention something is also the first time they've ever thought about it.
Another successful commenter instantly becomes a thinking expert
Not me, my dude! No thoughts forever!

Note that below, I am saying that Dave is using the informal logical fallacy argument from authority. He thinks that a "succesful" musician isn't a political expert, and therefore, their opinion may be ignored. Meanwhile Tom Morello is saying the opposite, that it doesn't matter.
One basic problem with argument from authority, where the person making the argument is not the authority themselves, is that they are saying that they themselves cannot make the argument. So, how can they know whether to trust the authority that they trust?
It's not a bad default position to defer to an authority on a subject that you know little about, but that is not an argument that you should use to counter other people who have an argument.
I really appreciate your thoughtful posts, always happen to learn something and/or glean some perspective. Have a great day!
aside from his own "authority" though, Tom Morello gives no argument aside from "it's obvious". So not a great argument from them either
The thing is… RATM was always raging against the machine of trying to help people. Not that Dems are trying to be helpful. They want the status quo. But stupid fucking right-wingers can't intuit what it means to say that, "Some of that workforces are the same that burn crosses." They only hear, "Fuck you, I won't do what you're telling me."
It's like thinking Vader is the hero for throwing the emperor down the shaft. No, the Jedi was the hero. They're basically illiterate.
Edit: Literacy has more to do with comprehension of a sentence than sounding out words, though we're pretty terrible at teaching that.
1 hour ago my ass. This is old, unsure how old, but i know its been on the internet for some time.
Screenshots, how do they work?
There are a bunch of goofballs on Lemmy and it is honestly really hard to tell who is joking on a meme or shitpost community from someone who stumbled in there all serious.
"Oh shit, what community did I post this to? Fuck it, we roll."
Yeah, I got destroyed by forgetting I wasn't in green text and said something was fake/gay to be all /s, and I was totally in the wrong community and got obliterated in the replies.
I accidentally replied to a post on womenstuff browsing all. Then I replied to OP saying sorry, realized that wait I just broke the comm rules again, and deleted all my comments in a slight panic. Oof.
If you come into a post on that community from a feed on Voyager app, there’s no immediate way to know. Yes it’s pinned, but you need to click into that community feed or sidebar to find that on mobile.
I have no problem with the rule itself, but there’s a user experience journey that causes the rule to keep getting broken unintentionally.
All to say, don’t sweat it.
Yerp. Poe's Law is a sunuvabitch.
Everybody knows how screenshots work. The problem is social media's asinine policy of using relative times instead of absolute timestamps for some bullshit reason.
Put the blame where it belongs.
Ya, it's from 2020
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As a former owner of a trash dishwasher I can confirm yoh can rage against the dishwasher as well as the system of oppression that gave you the dishwasher
It must be so weird living in the head of a MAGA. They seem to be constantly bewildered by the most obvious of things. But I suppose that's what happens if you live your entire life within a 80 radius of your house and have never left the state.

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