I wish I could be as optimistic as you are.

Buy them up and send them to Ukraine or something, idunno. That’s above my pay grade.

I only mean unfortunately in that there is seemingly no incentive for those people to show proper respect for a flag that they claim to worship. The code is just a kind of etiquette, which is only reinforced through a kind of peer pressure, and the people who actually respect what it stands for have no real way of shaming those who wear it on their underwear – because they just don’t care.

They’ll just migrate deeper into the country then. It’s too gradual to take care of much.

Can the rest of the country have a standing quarantine of Florida?

What’s more likely is that one day, when the classroom is crazy, they will leave their gun storage unsecured, and a 7-yr-old will find it and shoot their friend by accident.

I give it six months tops before some poor kid gets shot with one of these teachers’ guns.

My entire mortgage is his fucking interest payment, but if I stop paying the fractional payments on it – which this asshole spends in a day on overcooked steaks and too-long ties – they’d take my house. Start fucking taking his stuff, goddammit.

Lol, you think there are any social programs left after these chucklefucks are through.

Unfortunately this is just a guideline for conduct within official institutions, and has no bite of real law. It’s predicated on respect, a word these people wouldn’t understand.

Read up on the paradox of tolerance.

I agree about punching them in the deepest hole.

That’s amazing.

Sprinkle in a little bit of “Loser” by Beck.

Finally a good grounded argument against Swift.

So it’s basically like when Elon Musk was whining about the same thing, and people made a point to spam his plane’s movements everywhere.

Well this clears everything up.

Empathizing with individuals is built into how the human brain works, because we can theoretically do something about the plight of a single person - at least, this was true in an age before mass communication, when our world was only as large as the people we interacted with. It was mutually beneficial for humans to develop an instinct to help those in their own social group, because it was more likely to result in one’s own DNA being passed on.

Hearing about the problems of large numbers of people doesn’t click the same way for us because, for the majority of human history, it didn’t affect one’s ability to further one’s genes. Aiding some random person from a distant tribe just doesn’t figure into an individual’s reproductive fitness. We don’t have an instinct to help people we don’t know, especially when they don’t have a name and a face. And so it’s not ingrained in us. It has to be taught.

They probably did this in a small classroom with doors and windows closed, and let the kids gather close. Should’ve used the gym.

It’s easy to remain undefeated when you don’t fight.

For example, I am undefeated in heavyweight boxing, MMA, and cheese rolling.