I dunno, that sounds like a fast track to being the subject of a murder mystery. I think I’m good.

You’ve never heard of the Trans Siberian Railroad Orchestra?

Being an ethical person precludes most ways to get rich. It’s a much longer process when you’re determined not to exploit people or the environment.

Uh, no. I just have the ability to look up definitions. The word means what it means

Google “ferengi rule 34”

I dunno, SpongeBob occupies a sizeable fraction of successful memes

Not really, no. Words have definitions. It’s not a "semantic argument’ to clarify the definition of a word. It’s not “no true Scotsman” either, that’s when you define a group by some unrelated or incidental quality. What I’ve referred to is the definition of a tankie. The quality described is neither unrelated nor incidental.

Well, the tanks are replaced with ICE vehicles

It’s not that weird if you remember money

The theory I’ve read is that lots of people are into a bit of the taboo/forbidden partner aspect of an attraction they have toward a real person in their life: their neighbor, platonic friend, co-worker, etc. But most of these connections don’t really feel all that taboo when it’s someone else, so the “step-” angle is just a generic stand in that carries the forbidden aspect without going too far.

Clearly they meant Non-Alcoholic

By “misspent”, are you referring to those deposits?

“Every anecdote that challenges my biases is a lie”.

Bad faith bullshit

I have deliberately avoided interacting with people like that for a while, and I don’t really feel like digging back like a year to find a specific examples, especially since you came out of the gate unshakably convinced that it never ever happens.

But I assure you they exist. No I’m not generalizing pro- Russia/China sentiment. I’m talking about people who advocate the forceful spread of their ideology through violence.

Is that why Jews say “la chyme” before they drink, since it’s going into their stomach?

You would be incorrect, I do no such thing. I’m speaking about a specific phenomenon, as I described.

I wasn’t talking to you

Unfortunately not, I have had conversations with them. And I know your next line is going to be “But they’re just trolling, no one really thinks that”, and I call horseshit. That “trolling”, when so religiously adhered to, inspires weak-willed onlookers into sincere belief.

What about Keynesian-style pizza?

That’s exactly the complaint against tankies. Tankies are specifically authoritarian “communists”, who defend the violent enforcement of “communism” by authoritarian states. Tankies explicitly want to control others who do not share their beliefs, that’s the material distinction between a tankie specifically and a Communist in general.