Haaaave you met Baptists?

You and I listen to very different metal if simple, groovy, and infectious describes what you’ve heard. I’ll give you “gets you moving” but only towards the direction of the pit. What bands are you referring to?

Is Limp Bizkit your idea of metal? Three chords doesn’t even get me halfway through the first measure. Truly confused at this take.

We need more Gandalves and less Sarumen.

That much rotational energy tends to keep rotating, even if that means ripping the entire seized gear box off the fuselage before taking out the tail boom!

Yeah, these assholes made me engage with them!

Yeah, I’ll give you that one.

They’re not sitting outside of a Starbucks on a cell phone

My dude can we not gatekeep homelessness‽ Lack of a home in societies with abundance is a systemic issue stemming from the diversion of tax funds away from supporting those who desperately need it. Just because the Starbucks people are human enough to give the guy a cup of coffee while he charges the best chance he has at getting the support doesn’t mean he is the problem.

Dehumanization of any population is the issue. Your neighbor is not a subhuman to you, nor you to him (I hope) but suddenly the neighbor a few blocks down is a subhuman? What’s the local “radius of exclusion” before we start othering more humans?

bring back McCarthyism

Fuck outta here with that authoritarian bullshit. You truly want to hold millions of people responsible for falling victim to Zuck getting high off Cambridge Analytica and globalizing the flood-gates of shit spewing? Content serving algorithms have torn communities apart, promoted violence and hate world-wide for most of the past 20 years. That’s plenty of time for ‘re-education’ and here we are reaping the benefits.

Hurt people hurt people. Human billionaires hurt society. Generational wealth oppressing generational trauma. Authoritarianism leads to the same power imbalance, and purging ideologies is anti-human.

This was what I took away from his comment as well. His personal experience with physical abuse likely lead him to interpret “slapped upside the head” in a more visceral way than I think OP intended. The jump in ‘rhetorical spiciness’ tends to prime the reader a certain way. He expressed his doubt and confusion but only after bringing up a seemingly unrelated (and potentially bigoted) example.

I mean if you think about it all of human history has been A-B testing different societal feature sets in different regions.