The left were angry for less

If you want to wear a MAGA hat then do it. I'm left leaning libertarian according to the political compass quiz and I really see no need to say that "wearing a maga hat is asking for trouble"

"racist, homophobe, nazi, fascist"

vs

"NPC"

I commented about his use of Bess Kalb in his main line video today

Cringed a little.

what is bess kalb

Twitter user who used to harass trump until she got blocked

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/463065106889179136/501982012106735616/unknown.png

Was she the one who tried to sue

I'm not sure if she was on board with that

But she definitely built notoriety off of top responses to his tweets.

like anyone who obsessively replies to his tweets with a verified checkmark

i guess people do pay attention to them

I find the messages directly towards Melania particularly bothersome.

it seems to me to just be another troll on the internet

wait, did Tim reference this?

Not this, but referenced the person

who's now apparently a TV and Award Show writer.

haha

Go figure.

glorious

i should be surprised

And yet award shows are continuously reaching record lows

I WONDER WHY

gotta laugh

TIL a new quote. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/231391-because-if-you-don-t-stand-up-for-the-stuff-you

Thanks, Quartering, for reading a Kotaku article that had this quote in it.

And it's damn right. Principles are hard. It means sometimes you have to defend people and actions you hate.

defending an idea is not necessarily defending all that it may entail imo

for example claiming we should respect each other

there are limitations

I mean, that's pretty blatant.

same as free speech i suppose

I've finally gotten to where I can boil the elements of my prime principle down to a simple concept: Universality.

although i do defend the right of someone to say what they feel no matter what

i just don't necessarily defend their opinion i suppose, so nevermind

I will not condemn or attempt to revoke rights from someone based on a religion

i might actually

Because I myself would not want the same done to me.

it depends on what is going on in the religion, or what they consider to be

Instead, I will focus on the standards by which I, myself, would gladly be judged.

And that is action.

for example, Muhammed supposedly had married a wife that was not even a preteen when he was around 50

and many muslims defend that

Sure. W/E.

They can.

does anyone know what was in the tweet from hulu @Timcast did reply to ? it's been deleted and bot wasn't fast enough to copy it to twitter feed 😉

yeah i just think that you can't paint a broad swath over all religion being equal or free

there are cults and nasty ones

But you miss the point.

They can believe this happened. They can believe it's okay. I really don't care.

there could be a religion that is literally made to be satanic or evil to a cartoonish degree

The fact is if they try it

They should be punished to the full extent of the law.

No exceptions, no excuses.

@aukkras Hulu said not to culturally appropriate during halloween

so they can preach and defend it but it's okay as long as they aren't proven to copy it?

That basically sums up free speech, yes.

golly

And that's principles for you.

i agree with your principle

It's not always easy

But it's undeniably right.

but then we would be justified in watching people who identify with crazy ideas like that

ergo, we are justified in spying on all muslims if they say they worship a pedophilic warmonger

Free and open speech isn't for the sake of bad ideas to proliferate.

It's for the sake of bad ideas to be easily spotted.

If you silence a Nazi, you will lose track of them.

And that's when they're most dangerous.

yeah

Openly ridicule them and their ideas if you like

but there is a downside

But only actually *PUNISH* them if they act.

And when you punish them, make sure it's on a standard you would punish anyone else on.

Universality.

I'd base it on what I'd be okay with being punished on

I mean, that's a weird way to put it.

Usually people aren't okay with being punished

But you get the idea of it.

That is, if I suddenly decided to rape a child and force them to marry me, and guide an entire culture and religion to worship me

i'd also expect a very harsh punishment

The point is to develop a set of values that can't be used against you in a destructive way.

against me?

is there some sense of self preservation in our ethics and logic?

i thought it was all about the greater good

In a sense.

It's a counter point to the Left.

as in democrats?

Well, kind of.

The modern left in general.

right

They eat their own because they're unprincipled.

so, social justice warriors gone fascist

They create rules based on circumstances, not on anything universal.

The rules change constantly.

PC culture isn't based on any actual principle.

it's hard covering stories where i'm basically not allowed to have an opinion

i envy tim for that