The alternative comic panel is:.
Mainstream media makes shit up.
Common Consensus agrees with made up shit.
Actual scientists and skeptics point out it's inaccuracies and falsehoods.
Shill Scientists create research that meets the made up shit.
Theres a herd of buffalo. They're stampeding toward a cliff. You're the buffalo stuck in the middle of the pack. Let's see you convince the others to stop.
Now imagine there's a human behind the herd intentionally driving them to that cliff, catching the stragglers.
Smart doesn't always win just because smart.
"A person is smart, people are dumb, panicked creatures."
Correct if they genuinely don't know they say nothing, because it leaves them open to libel/slander laws.
If they have a vague idea they'll list through every possibility like it's a top ten. This is why they sound like opinion pieces. (They are)
Then they have the unknown/mysterious/vague term use. They know and can't say (legal) or know and won't say (societal).
I remember seeing a tankie correctly identify the situation, but use a phrase for it incorrectly.
They were praising the scientists and teachers and how we need to protect them, because they'll be "first against the wall in these authoritarian times because they have power and skills to keep people free. And tell them the truth".
That came from a current teacher. Not realising they're the ones setting the communist regime up for rulership, not realising that yes they're on the wall first, but it's not because of skills or truth, it's because the propaganda machine is done with them, and they'll give away the secrets if left alive after the regime change.
They were right,but for all the wrong reasons.
Said it before and I'll say it again. Most trans don't want to transition. They want the middle ground so they can fall back on safety of being female and claim the supposed "power" of men.
This has caused the midpoint of transition to become the goal, instead of the opposite gender. So in their eyes, no representing someone who stopped half way is ist.
Even men's lives are made of compromise. The difference is, there's danger, threat and used to be free speech to preface those two, to enable true compromise.
Compromise without threat, danger or power is just kowtowing and pleading.
The "increase in reports of hate crime" to ttans people has nothing at all to do with the fact that it's been trendy for the last couple of years to do so, and nothing at all to do with the fact that the definitions of trans and gate crime have yet again changed. Nope not one bit.
As someone who "lives" in three places (nature of live in work), I'd love to see them argue I'm account sharing. Which is also a problem with their system.
They built their whole system on charging by the user (hence viewing device plans) and now they're changing the model entirely that it breaks their own system.
This is exactly why I don't mind the Brexit outcome. Was it "less beneficial" sure. But it was the ripping off of the band aid that was needed. Now all the other eu countries have seen that the wound hasn't healed and there are no plans to do so.
The big "four" that remain have finally seen all of the leeches circling .
Would love to see a proposal that allows it in reverse. Heh.