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Totally normal question to ask, regular poll choices

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

"yes - only child prostitute"

what-the-hell

[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 years ago

For ethical reasons libertarian-approaching b

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

as opposed to a child prostitute who has siblings

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Should move to Argentina, heard they're abolishing the age of consent.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm really hoping this is just some very dark humor

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Never bet against hell world.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They're reducing the election of a free market extremist in Argentina into "haha libertarians are pedos" jokes.

Indeed, the people most likely to be welcoming to them are market radicals and if your worldview revolves around "everything must be allowed", then legalizing that is likely to happen.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When I was in grad school, my advisor used to respond to any question that began "Imagine a possible world where.." by just stopping the questioner and saying *no, I'd rather not."

gigachad-hd

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Imagine a world where you didn't have to listen to these stupid questions

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Imagine the american president is 100 years old and dying of dementia. His last wish is one more genocide. Is it ethical for the Zionist Entity to do one?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago

if i ever hear someone say the phrase "free speech" again I'm dunking their head in the toilet

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

sneerclub had a moratorium on threads about her because she posts like this with fulltime dedication

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Too unsubtle about what the rest of the "grey tribe" wants.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wonder if he chuckled when he realized he could just shove Ron Paul in front of anything he wanted if he kept the last letter the same. Amazing wordplay.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The most euphoric STEMbros I've ever known insisted they were superior artists, poets, and writers to anyone in the humanities because the humanities taught nothing of importance that STEM couldn't produce with STEMlogic alone smuglord

Look upon the works of STEMlogic, ye underwater basket weavers, and despair smuglord

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

An increasingly hingeless tech bro trying to apply the golden ratio to sentence structure and create the mathematically perfect novel.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The CEO of "Soylent" bragged about developing a perfect dating algorithm that would ensure he would get laid by choosing the correct things to say in offline "dialogue trees." cringe

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I bet that dude thinks Persona is an accurate representation of how to make friends. Jfc

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

I've met people that actually fucking said that: that the Secular Calvinist Protestant Work Ethic, Animoo Edition shit pushed in some of those games was actually a basis for how to date and how to live life. You know, hustlegrinding their way to a harem that mysteriously doesn't seem to happen without hiring sex workers or going to magical rich people islands. epsteingelion

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What if the world was made of chocolate pudding

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

What if the pudding consents though

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

LSD and garden gnomes; not even once

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The infinite potential of the human mind and these fools are trying so hard to find justifiable ways to engage in csa.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

The fantastical Singularity(tm) of eternal life and godlike superpowers must maintain 1950s grillman aesthetics, including the normalization of hurting children.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

Suppose-

No.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

Hypotheticals were a mistake.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

:internet-delenda-est:

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Get a capital-R "Rationalist" talking long enough and they will eventually talk about any conceivable scenario where they think it might be okay to harm children. libertarian-alert

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Imagining the Make A Wish employee tasked with arranging this

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

The stress of having to find a new guy because the last one killed himself in prison must be immense

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't even know what the worst option is...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There’s a hidden assumption that they’re properly orderable. They are clearly non-transitive.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

That implies that we could use these options as an extremely cursed alternative to Rock Paper Scissors.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Isn't this literally the plot of a curb your enthusiasm episode

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Stop posting Aella this is her whole thing

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Argentinian congressional debates be like

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Liberals justifying their ideology: Imagine this hypothetical situation that has not happened and, even if it does happen, will always remain a weird anecdotal outlying edgecase. In this situation, would you agree with me?

Leftists: Graphs

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