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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Genuinely a missing component of most debates:

Some questions have these things called "answers."

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

That’s fucking awesome

[–] [email protected] 132 points 8 months ago (2 children)

More debates need a simple "CAN IT"

[–] [email protected] 63 points 8 months ago (2 children)

More rough than "can it". Pretty sure the closer translation would be Shut Up.

I agree with it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

He said gueule, not bouche. It's the rougher of the two terms.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm not saying that's what he said, just another way to say "shut up".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yes, absolutely, its definitely the nicer way of saying it.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My French listening isn't that good yet. What does he say?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Effectively "shut the fuck up".

"Gueule" is a mouth, but that of an animal, mostly a carnivore like a dog or a reptile.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I couldn't catch it either, but yeah, that's rough. Definitely a step above "shut up".

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 8 months ago (3 children)

If only we did all politics like this.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago (9 children)

Maybe that is what we need to do. "Decide" on certain moral questions based on best scientific data and our values and sound arguments and then stop debating them. Unless new scientific evidence challenges those moral edicts.

Somehow we keep going round in circles as a civilization.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 months ago (1 children)

let's be honest if the argument about anything is religious the person don't have enough brain to debate anything

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I tend to agree, but as I've gotten older I've got a bit less strict with thinking all religious people are idiots.

But I'm still pretty fervently of the mind that dogmatic monotheism is honestly one of the — if not the — worst thing that happened to humanity.

The intolerance of narrow monotheism is written in letters of blood across the history of man from the time when first the tribes of Israel burst into the land of Canaan. The worshippers of the one jealous God are egged on to aggressive wars against people of alien [beliefs and cultures]. They invoke divine sanction for the cruelties inflicted on the conquered. The spirit of old Israel is inherited by Christianity and Islam, and it might not be unreasonable to suggest that it would have been better for Western civilization if Greece had moulded it on this question rather than Palestine.

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_monotheism#Violence_in_monotheism

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Quoth George Carlin... Commandment #11:

Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Similar mindset for me. You can have your religion, I don't care.

But like masturbation, keep it private or with specific loved ones, keep it out of politics, or any public sector, and DEFINITELY keep it away from kids since they can't consent.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

And hooboy do they love shrieking about consent

Until it's time to teach their 4 year old that thinking is for pussies praise Jesus

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