You have the same beliefs as your great uncle. That’s great. Does everyone have the same beliefs as their family members from 80 years ago?

Are you your ancestors? Am I mine?

Me: Just because MAGA’s ancestors fought Nazi Germans doesn’t mean MAGA aren’t fascists.

You: By that logic you are a fascist.

OK buddy.

I use the construction “Chekhov’s whatever” all the time to signify “something has been introduced so it will come up again later.” It’s a meme now. It has outgrown the gun.

OK, I’ll fix it for you.

You walk into a restaurant. It’s the only restaurant in town - indeed, your only available source of food at all. It has a menu of one dish only, changing every four years. It’s been hot dogs for the past four years. Not your favorite, but tolerable.

A sign posted on the door says that the menu should be determined by the will of the customers, and broadly describes a process for them to express their preference. In practice, two factions of chefs have emerged. They each consult with their own set of customers about proposed menus, and narrow them down to two final options. For some reason, Team Hamburger wants to put poison in the hamburgers, and their customers agree.

You sit down for a nice hot dog and say to your friend, “Not only do I think pizza tastes better, I think it would stand a better chance of averting a mass hamburger poisoning. We could change our minds about trying for hot dogs again.” Your friend retorts, “We are already committed to hot dogs. Stop talking about pizza. Pizza is impossible. It’s not going to happen. And frankly, that kind of talk makes you sound like you want poisoned hamburgers. You don’t want poisoned hamburgers, do you?”

A week later, pizza happens. Does your friend owe you an apology?

Then you’re right. It wasn’t disingenuous. Merely stupid.

"disingenuous

adjective

not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does"

Was this analogy sincere? Did you know it was flawed when you said it?

Did you mean the 25th amendment? Article 12 just describes the process for electing the president and VP.

“Gee I’m so grateful for all this trauma.”

No.

“What? This group of fascists has absolutely nothing to do with that group of fascists. This group’s ancestors fought that group.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case

This, but unironically.

Give shitty advice, get a shitty summary of your own shitty advice.

“If you’re not sure, better take the safer bet and nonconsensually burden some newly created living beings with the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to.”

Actually, you can disapprove of both hamas and the murder of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians. Simultaneously. Without self-contradiction, even. Give it a try!

You mean like in cartoons, if one hit to the head with a frying pan makes you lose your memories, another hit will make them come back?

And there were also Jewish supporters of the literal nazi party. So what?

So they are both, as individuals, senile old men. Shit choice, but if you’re going to vote at all, the vote you cast is ultimately for the administration that comes along with the individual. The old men are just the mascots.

No Such Thing As A Fish!

From the makers of BBC’s “QI,” a (nearly) endless collection of useless facts that will not change your life, but will make you more fun to talk to at parties. Not that you go to any parties.