Oh for fuck sake, I’m out. Why the fuck am I still even in this conversation this is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever been a part of. I guess that’s what I get for trying to explain a joke to someone.

I mean it’s not a great joke. Maybe joke isn’t even the right word. They were just being facetious. At most it elicited a “heh” under my breath. But I’ll try to explain it…

The initial comment it was replying to was exaggerating for comic effect. Obviously the chart doesn’t mean people in those areas can’t form human relationships (or whatever it said).

The next person considers themselves an introvert, so they took the previous exaggeration, and being facetious, they quipped that they knew they liked it for a reason. That reason being that it’s a place with introverts. Like themselves.

We know that the exaggeration was obvious, so we know that the reply was attempting to play off of that.

If the joke were funny, explaining it like this would have ruined it. It’s not funny so I had no problem explaining it lol

Edit: It has become clear to me that I should never have entered this conversation and I regret it.

Tree law in the US can also be pretty intense. I think it varies by area though.

astrology when done well can be scarily accurate.

LOL no.

Yeah I read the first sentence of the post in the image, and closed the page. No, the movement of the planets doesn’t mean Trump is declaring martial law on 4/20. For fuck sake…

My thought as well… There is a small chance that it was for a private firm, but I imagine most jobs like this are government.

Even if it was private sector, eliminating this regulatory enforcement avenue lowers the demand for this kind of work, so it could affect people’s jobs there as well.

No need for a contractor to sub-contract you to take soil samples if there’s no regulations surrounding soil composition!

Does he… not know about climate change? lol

Sure, but there’s a difference between trying to look strung out for a fashion statement, and literally trying to get AIDS because it’s your kink.

I agree… Though I had to rotate that one 180 degrees to properly see it ;)

It is an oxymoron because tankies aren’t authoritarian. Tankies believe in collectivisation of the means of production, democracy in the government and in the workplace, maximal freedom speech and of arts, and welfare for everyone.

Lol… And all of this is cleverly defined by the easy-to-remember term “tankie”. Because when you think of tanks, you think of collectivism, freedom of speech, and everything else you said. Give me a fucking break.

What separates tankies from other leftist ideologies is the authoritarian part. Tankies are authoritarian leftists.

And they’re “libs” because you say so, because they don’t pass your purity test.

Fallacious as fuck.

The people who dislike tankies are almost exclusively actual communists and Marxists and socialists and anarchists, and generally people of the left who are in any way knowledgeable about history or politics. No else even gives a shit about them.

Exactly. I’d say that its likely most everyone else has never even heard the term.

I’m as socialist as they come and I will forever say fuck tankies.

You just failed their bullshit purity test. In their mind, this means you’re just a “dirty lib”

“Jawn”

Well if it wasn’t funny before, it certainly is now after this dissertation…

I think you’re over analyzing some random throwaway line. It was immediately apparent to me that the commenter was being facetious.

Northeast US left off because they just say “Yo asshole”

It’s one of the few sources that I’ve blocked on my google news feed. I just can’t, even just reading the headlines would just ruin my day.

How, exactly, were any of them meaningless? They’re statements describing the views of actual people (and a lot of them are here).

If you don’t want to lose any little hope you may have in humanity, do not look up “bug chasers”

What a clever, pithy response. Not like you could address the actual content of the comment because… Well you know.