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Both were kinda out of line, so it balances out.

No. It was a super tame joke, and Chris Rock was literally doing exactly what he was paid to do that night. In fact, he probably didn't even write that joke

Lots of LLM shills in these comments. I hope your work doesn't value reality/accuracy.

If you think communism is reductionist, then you might need to read more theory...

I'm just puzzled... I mean yeah, no shit, people read books out loud all of the fucking time, particularly before literacy became so common.

But what is the point? What is it that you actually thought I meant with my previous comment? That oral tradition didn't exist in the 90s? What??

Because it seems like that's the point you're arguing against.

I thought it was pretty clear that I meant more people tended to read than listen to audio books in the 90s. And that's how I interpreted the original comment.

"A little magical thinking" here and there is why Florida now no longer requires childhood vaccines for public schools.

We are seeing the direct results of normalizing pseudoscience and anti-intellectualism (which seem to be inexorably linked).

Read about the history of fascism, and the one and only way it has ever been able to be defeated.

They're telling the world that democracy will always devolve into fascism and Nazism.

I'm honestly not sure they're wrong about that.

malfunction

Ehhh... Maybe it just functions differently. Not really big on the negative connotation there.

The world would be a much more boring place without our autistic friend. They don't need a fucking "cure."

This is a bad take. The violence is here already dude.

It existed in the 90s and early 00s when I was growing up, before streaming tech took over audio books.

Just because the concept of reading books out loud already existed, doesn't mean that they don't remember a time when it wasn't more popular than just reading.

Definitely. However, they're all (to my understanding) based on some level of irrational, magical thinking. And that's bad for society in general.

People don't generally commit crimes or systemic injustice in the name of atheism though. That's a false equivalency.

Let's go ahead and get the, "internet atheists are cringe" shit out of the way so people can have an actual conversation maybe.