I’ve never seen “dufus” spelled that way before, it’s immediately enticing.- like you hybridized the word with “Rufus”.

I don’t think you understand how insurance works.

Chiropracty isn’t “scientific”.

He couldn’t remember if he did or not, is the joke.

It is making mistakes, not lying. To lie it must believe it is telling falsehoods, and it is not capable of belief.

The Netherlands don’t have freedom of speech, though, so that’s immaterial. The closest thing they have is Article 7, Subarticle 3 in general, which only means they can’t legally be compelled to seek prior approval for speech.

No, they said what they were referring to: AFP saying things without confirmation.

I don’t think you’re gonna have an easy time finding people on Lemmy to defend Russia’s actions in this war.

I think you mean do know nothing.

No, it’s Newnew.

Or… well, on the ship itself it’s spelled New New, which is a lot saner and funnier than Newnew.

It’s currently the Ameican right, not the American left, defending Israel. And only Americans think “libtard” is a word.

What, even the ones predating locomotives?

Equating Israelis with Jews is, itself, anti-Semitic.

Communism is a hell of a drug.

No. The Libertarian party is the least coherent of the four, and you can’t count on any consistency in their platform. They seem to do zero policing of their candidates’ attitudes.

I think you mean false premise or argument from false premises. “A, therefore B”, even though A is false.

Who pronounces it m’kay instead of 'mkay?

But they don’t easily understand you. You’re being deliberately lazy and shifting the onus of putting mental work into the conversation onto your conversational partner. Now they have to work extra-hard to deciphwr your gibberish. The decent, respectful thing to do is treat them as an equal, and put an equal amount of effort into achieving communication.

Or I could just tell you to flarfle your garglax. Seems perfectly clear to me, so obviously you’re in the wrong if you complain.

So it’s conservative to refuse to ban tobacco? Do you agree with the general consensus that it’s also conservative to ban marijuana? How do you square those two attitudes, if so?

Same thing happens if you eat broccoli.