3. Your opposition has empathy

A couple things stand out to be from that response:

1. the original post doesn’t mention Republicans at all. It’s like someone making a post against dictatorships and getting an essay and how “these anti-Trump posts are unhelpful.”
   If something so cartoonishly stupid or evil is so clearly about a given group or person, that’s an issue.

2. the reply literally says “they don’t want leopards eating faces, they just refuse to listen to people trying to stop leopards from eating faces” which for all practical purposes is the same thing. “We literally tried to stop this exact thing from happening that is now happening to you, and you refused to listen and made fun of us” is a fair criticism to make.

3. “they believe bad things will happen anyway” except the bad things that are currently happening were not happening before, and they were predicted to happen by the people trying to stop this that weren’t listed to. Citizens who haven’t been charged with crimes weren’t being deported before Trump took office. People said Trump would be a dictator and where dismissed as “fear mongers” by the people who thought "bad things happen anyway, don’t fight it’, and through their actions actively helped bad things happen. Which brings us to:

4. what are they suggesting people do? Pussy foot around the most aggressively rude and ignorant people who not only refused to listen but actively insulted those who tried to warn them this would happen? You think these people are going to listen if you keep turning enough cheeks? Man who’s wife was deported doesn’t regret voting for Trump

You try to meet someone supporting a fascist regime half way and they start stepping backwards. These are the people that when “first they came for the socialists” they cheered and celebrated. Next when they come for them I’m going to speak out, but I’m also going to tell them “this is the exact thing people were trying to warn you about!”

The UK maintains non-science-based standards

Maybe look at who is in charge of your health department before your start complaining about “non-science-based standards”

“If we stopped testing we wouldn’t have so many positive cases”

This is hardly new.

There’s nothing else that makes sense

Do not attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.

I’m not saying these aren’t malicious people, but the explination that makes the most sense is that they are, in fact, that stupid.

WINE works surprisingly well too. I’ve seen people talk about gaming on Linux using Lutris or launching it through Steam as a “Non-Stean game” but I just put my files in my WINE directory and have better success.

I got a dual boot going so I could try Linux and have a windows fallback. Mint went so smoothly for me I never used my windows boot.

I guess the idea behind a “measles party” is to introduce the virus to the child’s immune system so that they can develop antibodies for it?

Damn, if only there was a safer way. Like if a doctor could introduce a very small amount of the virus to the child’s immune system. Do you think a dead virus would be enough for the immune system to learn what it is and how to fight it? Why aren’t scientists working on this?!

-complains about people being uniformed.

-Does nothing to inform them.

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

There’s no way this should be a profitable course of action. If I was paying for no Ads and started getting Ads I would immediately cancel my subscription and go somewhere else.

Unfortunately too many people are good little consumers who just don’t care and it doesn’t even occur to them to stop paying and demand better.

RIP SkaveRat

This is one of my favorites: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2521

“The squeaky wheel gets the grease”

“The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.”

Cows are the most fit for their environment. Their environment being a useful and sustainable food source for humans to cultivate.

If you can disrupt businesses enough then the oligarchs holding Trump’s leash will start telling him to behave.

https://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1&From=RUB&To=USD

3. People stopped consuming New Coke

As long as people do nothing other than complain and continue to use the product they have no reason to change.

Another helpful phrase: “Am I being charged with a crime or am I free to go?”

Yes, if that were to happen it would be a big blow. It hasn’t happened despite all the things, so I’m not holding my breath.