• Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    Saw an idiot on social media say, “Sometimes you have to knock it down to rebuild”, in response to Trump killing the Department of Education. I asked him it he figures Trump has a concept of a plan to rebuild critical institutions.

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      2 days ago

      Accelerationist claptrap. These people have given up hope for real progress, so they’re going to hand over full control to the billionaires to see if that fixes things.

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      I have begun entirely rejecting bullshit mantras that begin with “Sometimes”.

      “Sometimes” is dismissive self-justifying word salad. Give a confident, circumstances-based ideology, or shut the fuck up.

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        Never really thought of the effect that “sometimes” has on a sentence, but now I see your point. God dammit, I think you’ve infected me with your knowledge. I hope the “sometimes” cop-out is not as wide spread as I fear…

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          2 days ago

          It’s 80% of the mantras of villains in fictional media. “Sometimes babies must be killed etc etc”.