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Usually. But if the premise is particularly stupid I might choose to prompt the speaker to actually think about what they’ve said for a moment.

Or you could just read any of the numerous other comments here which offer other explanations.

Do you seriously need someone to explain to you why there are multiple words with similar meanings in the world?

Hear me out:

Maybe everything isn’t some conspiracy to hate others.

Well they’re the only ones that matter, after all.

I went into one of their “churches” once to ask what they were about, and they literally would not tell me anything unless I either bought a book or stayed there to watch a video along with them.

I had a friend who was absolutely determined to never work for anyone else, and so he taught himself how to make wire-wrap jewellery to sell. It’s far from an easy thing to do, as he was incredibly motivated and spent most of his time working on it, but if you really do want to, there are ways that a person can support themselves through their own direct actions.

And yes, I second others that suggest you really should spend less time on social media.

I’m talking about how the united states would gather AMERICAN CITIZENS who have comitted no crimes whatsoever, send them to camps, and have them mass killed

User name checks out.

Because society is so terrified of the technologies we have created that it has adopted the ideal that everything needs to be perfect right here and now, and so any deviation from acting out that Utopian fantasy is met harshly, even though it’s obviously not true to any rational person.

Many of us heard it back in 2016, but the media ran a smear campaign when we attempted to identify that we were life long liberals who could no longer support this sort of insanity, by tying the term “alt-right” to actual Nazis.

Toootally not a cult.

Anyways, lets share tips on getting rid of our families!

Not at all. I just stuck to much simpler, and less enjoyable/healthy, meals most of the time.

During the lockdowns I learned to cook for myself, and now I eat better, cheaper.

Have you not been paying attention to practically every progressive issue in the last decade? Pretty sure the people actually making decisions about what gets promoted on social media aren’t your friends.

This is a GREAT idea!

Saw a great idea recently:

Write down all your fears for what will happen over the next four years. Then, re-read your list every few months and check off everything which has actually happened.

At least around here, if you go to some of the places frequented by office workers downtown the prices are extremely low and the quality quite high. I imagine they do very well on tips.

No voter ID is super weird to me as a Canadian.

Because people have forgotten that bad actors exist.

studies have suggested that fluoride is a human developmental neurotoxicant

Literally the first part which you bolded says quite plainly that there are, in fact, studies which suggest that it is. I’m not here to debate whether or not it actually is, but rather to attempt to show people that they should take a second look before dismissing concerns as entirely baseless, as though they have all of the answers. This is about the difference between treating science as a religion, compared to actually being capable of reading and understanding that there is no hard consensus on many issues.

It’s literally not misinformation though. The very first line quite clearly states that there have been multiple studies in recent times which characterize Fluoride as a neurotoxin. This sort of behaviour, deliberately lying about the content of scientific research, is exactly why people are losing faith in our systems.