What a hero

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Do you think this was a photoshop or an AI generated image? The original image has got to be rather old if it’s a photoshop since he doesn’t look like that anymore

It probably was a 1 month ban (30 days) so just an unfortunate coincidence

lol no. Photographs can easily be faked, especially with modern technology. Defer to those who have applied the scientific method, who have done solid research, and even do those things yourself to cross-reference; you should really know scientific literacy by now.

“Guy who does actual literal magic” is never real. “Guy who alone violently killed numerous women in London 1888-1891” (AKA Jack the Ripper), as a counterexample, is plausible but (as far as I know) has yet to be proven or disproven by historical evidence or other scientific means as to if it was one killer or multiple killers. “Guy whom historians generally agree did XYZ and had such and such characteristics based on their study of historical evidence and use of the scientific method” is virtually guaranteed to be real within a level of approximation (as in, even if we don’t know John Doe’s middle name was Jack, John Jack Doe still existed but only slightly different from how we know him).

taken to it’s logical conclusion - leads us to believe virtually nobody existed prior to that advent of photography.

That has the logical weight of Last Thursdayism or The Truman Show Delusion. Like technically it’s possible, but there are way more assumptions being made about what it obscured than there are assumptions being made about what is observed.

Unfortunately there really are people who lack the critical thinking skills to recognize that historical evidence and the scientific method are valid methods of understanding truth in the world and they instead wallow in their baseless preconceived notions

The problem is that they believe their in-group to be categorically innocent. They have a double standard of when a rightwinger does X then it’s good, but when anybody else does X then it’s bad. And when they are lawmakers and judges doling out who gets affected, they will keep their in-group clean.

Just because Spider-Man 616 isn’t real, doesn’t mean Spider-Man 199999 is real

Which one are we talking about here? /s

Oh yes, I am aware. The person I was replying to had implied that step 2 didn’t exist at all so I was making a more broad statement.

I do realize your username is literally GuyFawkes. Nevertheless, when somebody is doing wrong, the first approach should be to use reason and empathy as a point of argument. If that fails, then work to starve the oppressor of what they seek to exploit until they find that pursuit to be no longer in their interests. If that fails, then use whatever means necessary to ensure oppression ends and human rights that were once willingly suppressed instead become guaranteed.

Solution: sacrifice the richest people until their wealth adds up to $37 trillion and maybe a few more rich people just for extra security

Or scientific notation

I didn’t sign no doggone social contract

So would an oppressive government be able to simply set up their own instance and identify the IPs of lurker dissidents based on what they up/downvote?

Oh, I didn’t mean his word salad specifically

Careful not to condemn word salad on the Fediverse or else you’ll get downvoted and told that it is completely comprehensible regardless of any grammatical nonsense.

No worries, Batman has a kryptonite contingency plan for if/when Superman were to turn evil

I fed a hundred 5 star chefs’ dinners to a dog and then the dog shit them out but I still made the dogshit

A fuckup that specifically in line with what the Führer wants is no accident

They adapt into more extreme forms of assholery, whether they recognize it or not