vexingsibilant asked: So Tasmania was Australia's prison colony? What if Tasmania makes its own, slightly smaller, prison colony island, and then each subsequent one continues to do so, infinitely
Back when I was 11 I had a minecraft gf with this same haircut and occasionally we had sex which was possible when she was in bed and I would stand on top of her and pound the shift key until my finger was broken.
i hate white men who say they’re ‘playing devil’s advocate’.
i’m like: the devil already has lots of advocates, and they all look like you, and this isn’t a fun game.
They Might Be Giants said: You can’t shake the devil’s hand and say you’re only kidding.
Let’s chat about what a “devil’s advocate” was originally.
When the Catholic church wanted (wants? not sure if this is still practice) to canonize a candidate for sainthood, they assigned someone to argue against canonizing that person.
This person’s job is to try to dig up dirt on someone they literally think should be a saint.
It was not arguing excuses for, like, Nazis.
H.W. Fowler wrote, “far from being the whitewasher of the wicked, the [devil’s advocate] is the blackener of the good.”
This term got totally twisted around because hey, here’s a term that lets me argue an abhorrent position without having to take the consequences of it.
Let’s stop using it this way and stop letting people use it this way.
