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actuallyaseal wrote

I don't know. Are we landing while being talked through it by someone who knows what they are doing. If so I think I'm less likely to crash an airliner doing a category III landing. Just tell me how to program the autopilot for a landing and hope nothing that requires human intervention happens.

But without outside help, give me the Cessna. I'm much more likely to get it low and slow enough that when I eventually slam it into the ground the resulting crash won't be fatal.

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ActuallyOpposesFascists wrote (edited )

I think you are talking about MSG, monosodium glutamate, and it is not a condiment. It is a negative, brain-damaging, body-dehydrating ingredient that is sometimes added, by disreputable companies, to industrially-produced products that are sold in the "grocery section" of some stores. It is never sprinkled onto the top of food from a "shaker bottle", unless the bottle is a pre-packaged producf made by a disreputable company who attempts to "lie to" you by writing the name of something that IS a condiment, like "garlic salt", on the front of the bottle, inatead of honestly and correctly labeling their product, "garlic salt with MSG and silicon added".

Also, the above commenter specifically wrote "Metal Gear Solid" before she wrote the acronym, so if the toxic additive was indeed abbreviated as "MGS" instead of "MSG", it would be clear that no toxic additive was being talked about, because she was instead talking about a different use of this acronym. (Also, as far as I know, "MGS" is not "an acronym" for Metal Gear Solid, so that you could randomly say it anywhere in any topic about say a random anime, and anyone would be expected to know what was meant by it. As far as I know, the user was just spontaneously doing an acronym for her own individual comment, personally. Otherwise, she would have been able to use the acronym the first time, instead of typing out the complete name of the video game series first.)

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ActuallyOpposesFascists wrote

....That's literally most people until some time less then 10 years ago. It still even now is literally the majoity of Generation Y. And possibly most of Gen X too to a lesser extent. I'm sure about Gen X. But Generation Y, they used to literally claim to ban anything even slightly political from IRC chatrooms, even though there was nothing contentious at all and also we were like 15-20 years old (an age when you're SUPPOSED to be too young to know or care about politics very kuch anyway) - which means the complete extent of any possible "political" discussion would be like

Pikachu3487: I'm mad that George Bush wants to have a war [angryface]! Wars kill people [angryface angryface]!! ApricotDressing: he wants a war because they killed us first stupid MegaMan22: Hey anyone found that ROM by Danger66 yet? JeebusHugs: Bush is mean anyway SteelJack: No but I found these really cool sprites that would go great with it.

.....And that's literally the entire extent of any possible "political" conversation that could have happened in chats of unrelated, nonadult message boards at the time. Yet it was marked as "banned", or else a bunch of random "chime in" people saying not to talk about it.

Majority of Generation Y is basically still the same way. They'll obviously have at minimum vaguely heard of it, because everyone uses the Internet ESPECIALLY GenY geeks. (I assume also every other member, to some extent, by now.) They might even have an opinion. But they sure as fuck won't purposely mention it or extoll in detail, at a random unrelated tournament or LARP session or party with 20 people there and everyone there is part of GenY, because that's fucking weird and also there could be a crazy person there who would try to debate you about it or start yelling at you for it. This is true even if you are also a member of some kind of touring adult debate club where you regularly talk with lots of well-crafted arguments about your opinions, like American Enterprise Institute.

This also semi/somewhat true about "everyone" in society in general, except that you COULD occasionally casually mention something political if you want to, because that shouldnt really result in any sort of screaming or hostility in most situations, unless its because someone is extremely and illegally abusive about basically every other topic that exists too.

What the hell is wrong with saying what your political belief is while also living your life normally like a normal human being among 7 friends, 3 relatives, and 20 or 30 members of some kind of club or performace group or something (like a gardening club)? You can easily vote for Democrats or Republicans - or even parties that "no one has ever heard of" - and watch every single bit of poltical content that you want to, or even read "unusual manifestos" and follow a bunch of "essayists" who's writing literally just completely ignores the existent of whatever "setup" and "common political parties" that you have in your country or in the world. Tries to invent a brand new "government" for their 50-person commune completely by itself, or uses ancient and historical philosophers a lot in their ideas instead of political speakers. You can easily do all of that, and also never scream at anyone about it and even never join a protest. You could also do all of that EVEN IF YOU WOULD JOIN, AND BE ONE OF THE LEADERS OF, an actual militia, if one ever began to exist that would accomplish your beliefs and that also had enough willing participants - you would join the militia, but it doesnt exist, but you wouldnt join the protest that just uses signs. Or, you could be someone who WOULDNT join a militia, because your political beliefs do not involve overthrowing any government and/or your personal beliefs do not involve violence and/or you do not personally have the physicial and mental capacity to join a violent group, even if you would hope for said group to win after they are formed.

You can have LITERALLY ANY BELIEF YOU WANT OR HAVE and never scrram at anybody whatsoever, and never bring up unrelated topics in unrelated places ever. This is literally how society has functioned 99% of the time for two entire centuries. (Well, okay, 95% of the time, since there was the first civil war. But also 99.9% of the time for the past one century.)

And you can DEFINITELY DEFINITELY DEFINITELY DEFINITELY do this if your belief is so incredibly vague and benign as "being on the left". You could literally support the existence of every single government agency that currently exists in every Western country, and every single war America has been in that was widely publicized during the past 50 years, and recieve 100% of your news solely from MSM and have also not watched or heard about new political news basically at all since 2004, and still be "on the left". Hell you can almost be "on the left" when you're 4 and your mom gives you candy often and you see another kid ask for $1 to buy a lollipop and his mom says no meanly and you let him have your lollipop because you have more candy in your life then he does. You sure wont be yelling at people at parties then!

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ActuallyOpposesFascists wrote

Russell Brand is literally on the left. He's extremely difficult to listen to, both because of the accent and also because he doesn't talk "directly" enough into the point in the title of any video. But whenever he either talks with, or an experience of talking with him is talked about, it is always including "we disagree on so many things", with Russel often adding "because most of my opinions are more left", or mentioning a specific more-left thing that a less-left discussion partner disagrees with. The biggest problem with trying to listen to Russell is that it's mostly very strongly about "why you should meditate", or long, very detailed explanations about "visions for an alternate society" which are also difficult to listen to again because of the way he talks. Most YouTubers who were explaining "a vision for an alternate society" in high detail would actually write a script. Due to this, it's very difficult to figure out EXACT things about Russell's political or anti-political beliefs, but it is easy to figure out that he most definitely is not "politically right". And also that his ideals are about "peace and harmony", like a hippie.

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