The campfires in Celeste are great. They’re such a peaceful respite after the intensity of the gameplay.

I think it’s a tactical error to let the right-wing fascists dictate your policies before there’s even a chance they get enacted.

I’m not saying fascists aren’t cruel, I’m saying they will be cruel regardless of any reactions from opponents. Will it maybe give them an excuse to accelerate their cruelness? Sure. But there’s no doubt that their reaction to Kirk’s murder will be to implement cruelty that they were already planning on implementing.

I’m not a fan of violence, but the right hasn’t given us a choice. It’s like if a woman got raped after slapping a guy harassing her in a bar. The rapist was gonna rape regardless, and the fascists are gonna be fascists regardless. It’s victim-blaming.

I definitely agree with everything you wrote in your second paragraph, it’s that first part I take issue with. The American fascist movement is going full steam ahead with their Nazi shit, and would do so regardless of Charlie Kirk getting murdered.

Will they try to make a martyr out of him? Of course they will.

I however disagree with the notion that Nazis wouldn’t be Nazis if opposition “took the high road” and debated the Nazis instead of responding to their violence in kind. The Nazis are gonna do Nazi shit regardless, and their justifications will always be bullshit.

Do you truly think the Nazis wouldn’t have imposed martial law if it weren’t for that assassination?

Wow if only the Czech resistance didn’t kill that dude, we could have avoided the Holocaust! The real fascists are the ones resisting fascism.

Sir this is literally just a shitpost

I hope a trans kid punches you in the throat.

This is a win, because there’s definitely no L.

You should see the windows xp source code

The rapidly dwindling sanity of windows programmers as expressed through code comments

I’d imagine half the users here have blue hair, piercings, white guilt, and pride flag bumper stickers

I am definitely the type of person you’re trying to describe here and I’m honestly just insulted you think I’d own a car. I cycle everywhere, thank you.

I do have a bunch of Pride stickers on my bike though, ya got me there!

“They put a single bike lane on a single street and no one used it!!”

I doubt many people would use a road for cars if there were only one and you had to drive on busy railroads to get to it. Same logic applies to a bike lane surrounded by car-centric infrastructure. You need a network, not a single lane, if you actually want people to use a means of transportation.

That’s ignoring the fact that drivers consistently underestimate how many people actually use the bike lane.

Seriously, half the fucking country lives in the Québec City - Windsor corridor and we don’t even have a high speed train there?? It’s a political issue, not a geographical one.

Nah, the point of a piercing is the end you stick in first.

Normally, laws have to respect the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

However, section 33 of said Charter is known as the notwithstanding clause. This lets government pass laws that ignore section 2 (containing such fundamental rights as freedom of expression, freedom of conscience, freedom of association and freedom of assembly) and sections 7 to 15 (containing the right to life, liberty and security of the person, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, freedom from arbitrary arrest or detention, a number of other legal rights and the right to equality).

I’ve literally never seen it proposed for any legislation which would improve society. It exists because comservatives at the time the Charter was introduced were uncomfortable with the idea they couldn’t pass legislation which restricts people’s rights.

When invoked, it expires after 5 years but this can be renewed perpetually, as far as I understand.

The equivalent would be downvoting a SA survivor for telling other women to be more aware and not to put themselves in a vulnerable position.

Yeah, that’s victim-blaming. I’m not saying caution is a bad thing, of course it isn’t. But what this kind of rhetoric does is frame things like the responsibility of the victims. That’s why the other commenter got downvoted.

They’re getting downvoted because what they’re saying is like the vehicular equivalent of asking a victim of sexual assault what they were wearing.

Cyclists (and pedestrians) are vulnerable road users around cars. Of course they should exercise caution! No one’s saying they shouldn’t! But going around and telling people biking or walking they ought to be careful isn’t the solution to the actual issue; that being the dangers of cars.

We need public transit, safe cycling/pedestrian infrastructure, car-free areas, and streets that aren’t designed like highways going through our cities. No amount of vigilance by vulnerable road users can surmount the utter state of our car-centric infrastructure and a single moment of distraction from someone driving.

I’m a very experienced urban cyclist. I’ve used a bicycle as means of transportation ever since I was 8 years old and cycling 5 km to school. I haven’t driven a car regularly since I last lived with my parents at 19.

I am super careful and defensive when I ride my bike. I respect the laws that make me safer, and bend those which don’t. My head is on a swivel. I generally feel comfortable even riding on busy roads with high speed traffic.

Despite all that, I still get a close call or two every single day I ride my bike. No matter how vigilant you are as a cyclist, it only takes a moment of inattentiveness from a motorist for us to get injured or killed.

It’s the best system when combined with strong regulation and good social safety nets.

Sure, it’s just too bad it’s also a system in which the most powerful are incentivized to cut regulations and destroy social safety nets.

This utopic version of capitalism sounds really nice, but it’s fully incompatible with the actual reality of capitalism.

Some people are definitely 100% gay, and some and definitely 100% straight, but I agree in that I think the majority of people could potentially be attracted to people of all genders.

I don’t own a car, but my bicycle is named Aneth. It’s French for “dill”, pronounced the same as the name “Annette”.

I like dill and “Aneth la bicyclette” rhymes.