then it’s definitely ALL CAPS: “WHY ARE YOU BLACK???”

“Your Romanian is great! When did you learn it?”

whether it is ok to label someone a Nazi because you disagree with them.

In that case, yes, it’s OK to call a nazi nazi.

I only ask that it’s kept civil and the debate is kept relevant to the subject

1. The general societal norm is that nazi shit isn’t considered civil and EM’s doubling down with nazi jokes eliminates the “awkward gesture” defense. So you are expecting civility from others while defending something you claim to consider hateful too.
2. Your priorities are extremely misplaced when this happens concurrently with the US federal government undergoing “ideological review” (their words).

I’m getting really tired of self-claimed “left wingers” advancing the alt-right agenda. You’re either a useful idiot, or dishonest.

yup. A good intellectual test would be asking whether people would draw the same conclusion on intent about the gesture if:

A) it were sexual coming from a person with a history of sexually harassing comments who provides a sexual joke for explanation B) it were a direct insult (like middle finger) from a person with a history of verbally abusive comments, who provides a fuckyou joke for explanation.

People usually have very little difficulty judging the intent in those situations.

me backing the freedom of speech. I don’t know why this is such a hard concept to grasp.

FYI, your comment history is public, so people have more context for your posts here than you assume.

The difference here is that you made a post against community guidelines. Where as in this case the guy seems to have been banned for wrong think.

Man, it’s such a shitty hill to die on.

1. When I posted, there was no specific guidance on “incest jokes” at r/Showerthoughts that I am aware of.
2. Normalizing nazi shit goes against most communities guidelines, somewhere around the general, “don’t post hateful stuff” requirements
3. If communities can have their own rules, they are free to ban people for hateful shit.
4. And yeah, Musk made a nazi salute, which at this point is a pretty objective fact (Tesla’s track record of racial harassment, EM’s track record of boosting nazi shit on X, EM renaming self as Kekius Maximus, talking about the “future of our civilization” while doing the gesture, repetition, and turning as per nazi protocol, etc etc.). The only things that are up for debate are A) why did he do it? B) Was he chemically impaired while doing it.

Hear me out. Let’s remove the politics from this equation for a second

Let’s say I stood on a podium, did pelvic thrusts and formed a V with my fingers stuck my tongue through them making circular motions with it, and when people got upset, I responded to with pussy jokes. Would you interpret my actions as an “awkward gesture”? You could, but people would consider you either a perv, or a troll. Same applies here.

So yeah, stop normalizing nazi shit.

It’s weird that this issue only comes up when it comes to defend nazi shit and not with other things. I’ll give you a specific example: I posted this on r/ShowerThoughts: “Incest is like pissing in your gene pool”. I think it’s pretty good, but mods deleted my post because it goes against community guidelines. If I got into an argument with the mods and got banned from r/ShowerThoughts, I wouldn’t be going around crying about “freedom of speech”, because it’s dumb, and communities have rules.

These arguments are always about normalizing nazi shit. Fuck that.

TIL, Thanks!

Competition from thinking machines is concerning, but happy for my Fremen.

My thread! Finally!

At this point I’m convinced that his obsession with X is that it’s the closest letter to the swastika. Just imagine: Space Swastika. Model Swastika. Swastika dot com. etc.

South African socialized under the Apartheid, sharing pseudoscientific racist memes for years, has eugenics and impregnation fetish, supports AfD and states they are the future of Germany and western civilization, renames himself Kekius Maximus, supports trump and does the salute towards the crowd right after saying that the “future of our civilization is [being] secure[d]” and then does it one more time facing der Führer. Whoever isn’t calling this out as a nazi salute is a nazi normalizer.

Hey MD: The fact that appointments we pay a bunch of money for are only 15 minutes is pretty fucked up in a lot of cases.

It is messed up, I agree. You can’t address much in 15 min. What you don’t necessarily see is the BS administrative burden that also comes with visits that may or may not be factored in to the face-to-face encounter duration.

Oh, and the fact that you all can cancel on us at the last minute with no problem, but if we cancel we get charged is absolute bullshit.

Not every practice does charge for cancellation. But if someone reviews your chart before the visit and you cancel the same day or night before, you might actually end up wasting provider time. Just an FYI.

it’s annoying that politicians don’t call it what it is: import tax.

Ha! Even more senators! Or should I say SANEators:D

yup. a good PCP is hard to find, and even harder to keep in America.

Not universal, but absolutely common, unfortunately. The standard is 30 minutes for returns and 60 for news, but in private practice they tend to cut it much shorter.

I know this is a popular notion, but have you guys thought about:

1. If the doctor sees someone who is 30 minutes late, their entire schedule slips. So y’all complain if they don’t see you if you are 15 minutes late (usually that’s the policy), but also complain if you have to wait.
2. Have you guys thought about that primary care appts are in 15-20min increments (30min tends to be generous), which means, they either don’t address your issues if they are complicated. Or they’ll tend to run late?

Many people have no transportation, and it’s even harder to make it on time if one’s sick, so it’s just the right thing to try to squeeze in those who are late, but y’all can’t have it both ways.

source: am MD. And yeah I rather run late but see everybody and address everything I can, than finish on time and help nobody/few.

Besides this being a distraction, it’s more likely that in this case Canada would end up politically annexing the USA:

• The 2 Senators and 50 something electoral votes for “Canada State” would mean that Canadians would end up controlling US politics. :D

Of course if one assumes that elections remain binding in the Turd Reich.