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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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Everyone acting like its okay to burn up teslas of uninvolved people because you disapprove of what Musk is doing. Then you should have no argument against pro-lifers burning down abortion clinics because they disapprove of what the doctors there are doing. Just saying.
One holds human beings in distress, and the other a garbage vehicle. Your comment is disgusting and shows how you value life.
You know what, the first time, I totally read your comment completely different than how you meant it. So my previous reply would have been different.
Even so, my comment was not disgusting, it was just using logic.
Do you know what? No, you obviously don't, and it's sad.
I wish that you would see the fallacy of your argument, but a cult of personality has you captured.
Empathy and reading a room are not some of your strengths.
Good day.
Or maybe a cult of personality has you captured, preventing you from being able to see it from both sides point of view as I am doing.
You don't have to agree with the other side in order to see it from their perspective.
I agree. It’s a false equivalency.
It’s super similar to the idea behind the original tea party. They didn’t do insane shit like burn down buildings with people inside, they tossed tea into the water. If we could do something similar, I’m sure we would.
So edgy, please i can't take it anymore.
Sorry I cant hear you over me enjoying the sound of beautiful flames on Tesla. Gives me asmr tingles.
Yeah, burn them at the dealership instead!
Please dont. Find other ways to destroy them than fire if you want to, but fire endangers fighterfighters etc. Dont harm the working class to own the billionaires.
So, bricks and potato guns are fine, then?
Counterpoint: fire
Everyone acting like it's okay to throw eggs at billionaires' yachts because of wealth inequality. Then you should have no argument against rich kids throwing caviar at homeless shelters because they disapprove of being asked to share. Just saying.
What an infinitely stupid response. The proportion of rich people owning a Tesla with respect to all Tesla owners is vanishingly small. When you burn a Tesla of an uninvolved person, you are costing them tens of thousands of currency and are probably destroying their only car.
Their comment is still infinitly more humanistic than yours.
What is a straw man argument?
I'll take Potent Potables for $800 Ken.
Ah yes, the tragic wave of innocent Tesla owners having their daily drivers ritually torched by angry mobs. Definitely a real thing, definitely not just a few dealership lots going up in smoke under extremely convenient circumstances. Definitely not insurance fraud from a company that's hemorrhaging value and propped up by enough tax subsidies to fund a small nation. Let's all clutch our pearls and act like someone's grandma just lost her only ride to church. You good, or do you need a GoFundMe for your imagination?