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  • Growth mindset vs fixed mindset. If you tell a kid they’re smart when they succeed and they don’t get an A, they think “oh, this means I’m actually not smart and I never will be. If some people can be naturally smart, I guess I just naturally suck as a person”. If you tell a kid that hard work gets As and they get a B, they think “oh, I just need to work harder and try again next time”.






  • I put a “honk if you’re horny” bumper sticker on it and then some jerk followed me around honking for days. He said he was so horny, his stomach hurt. He even sat behind my car honking at my mother’s funeral until I gave him one of the porno mags from the boot of my car.






  • You’re splitting hairs here for the sake of winning an argument. There’s no practical difference between cruelty and torture to the people suffering it. “Oh and don’t worry about it, because it’s only hundreds, not thousands in this particular torture cruelty facility”.

    And as far as genocide goes, you’re moving the goal posts here, but if we’re playing that game, the native Americans might have something to say about that.

    I mean, going back to the original argument here, my overarching point is really that people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones and the US’s track record of authoritarianism and human rights abuses is comparable enough to make them just as untrustworthy at the most and certainly not in any position to criticise a state who is trying to manage billions of people at the least.


  • People aren’t tortured with an iron maiden, but when you have conditions like under trump in 2020, and the suicide rate in ice detention jumped 11 times higher than the previous 10 year average, I don’t think you can suggest ice detention is that far away from concentration camps.

    Also, Gitmo isn’t for enemy combatants - they can chuck anyone suspected of terrorism in there, even US citizens. It most definitely isn’t exclusively “war crimes”.



  • I’m not sure that’s a bar you even clear, given the ice “detention centres” you set up domestically and places like abu ghraib or Gitmo you run on foreign soil. And as for criticising the government, what’s the practical use if a felon and a billionaire can rig your election without any repercussions anyway?

    “I can call trump a criminal online, that’s freedom right there!”

    “Will he actually be arrested?”

    “Well no, but it feels good to say it”