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When you attribute misbehaviour to an entire demographic, you defend and excuse the specific people misbehaving.

If you think all politicians are corrupt, you can't punish one of them for taking bribes. You can't even vote to replace them with a non-corrupt politician. And the same logic goes for any problem with any category of person.

I don't think men saying out of pocket shit to me on the internet is because they're men. everyday billions of men wake up and don't say out of pocket shit to me on the internet. this is clearly an active choice

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Wow.

I'm honestly amazed that you exist.

Ask the people who support "armed resistance" for Palestinians to get their "land back" if they would also support Jews doing domestic terrorism to get their homes back in Germany, Poland, Yemen, Iraq, etc. and you will have your answer of what they actually support.

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So you think it's a statute of limitations situation?

Palestinians had every right to fight back when the Nakba was in full swing, and the ones currently being dispossessed by new settlements have the right to fight back as well, but after a few years or decades people should give up and accept defeat?

Ask the people who support "armed resistance" for Palestinians to get their "land back" if they would also support Jews doing domestic terrorism to get their homes back in Germany, Poland, Yemen, Iraq, etc. and you will have your answer of what they actually support.

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I wonder what Social Justice Wario is up to these days.

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Was this actually you, or are you doing a bit by saying it was?

I got posted on Reddit

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That's an exaggeration, he only ever had seven dicks.

The Exalted 3rd Edition crew very slowly going through the game's corpus and retconning all the big gross monster dicks one pestiferous shlong at a time.

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Loving it.

I love going to bed early

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There was an earlier conversation about boxing styles that felt significant to me. Aster wanted to be a boxer-puncher, in imitation of the Legend, but it was plainly obvious to everyone else that she should fight as a slugger. I think the lesson here is "stop trying to be someone you're not, play to your own strengths".

The cardio thing is probably also relevant, since that was also set up earlier.

Since you kind of perfectly called Aster losing to Dove do you know what her flaw is or what she did wrong? Besides Stryker possibly setting her up to be humbled which is what I think.

Could be anything, really, but three possibilities come to mind

Her stamina is bad. It was mentioned several times during the fight and is the reason she had to use the Star Punch before Dove was weak enough for it to finish him.

She relies too much on the Star Punch. Dove got up, but he was still badly hurt. Aster could maybe have won from there but she just kind of accepted death.

Her "I'm just here to have fun" shounen jump cockiness. This kind of is the same as point two; she never seemed to consider anything was going wrong until the Star Punch failed. Aster has been pretty consistently treating this as a game to enjoy.

If I had to guess, it's 2/3. Even though the lack of stamina was the technical reason she lost, Stryker set this fight up to teach Aster a lesson and I don't think the lesson is "Work on your cardio". If she fucks around in boxing she's going to get hurt, and she can't be thinking of the Star Punch as an "I Win Now" button. She's gotta lock in.

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It's not going to be "lost" in pits of corruption and abuse: it's being deliberately spent on pits of corruption and abuse.

trump's big beautiful bill, which just passed congress, expands ICE's budget from $9.6 billion to over $170 billion, of which $45 billion is appropriated for new detention centers. not only is this budget bigger than the budget of the federal bureau of prisons, but it's greater than the military expenditure of all countries besides america and china ($246 billion), giving more money to ICE than the russian military receives ($129 billion). it will completely remake american society

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I wouldn't say encouraging and positive; I'd say morally upright. Gloomy is fine.

And it's not bullshit just because it doesn't promote complete spiritual enlightenment. You don't have to lie about it: in fact you really shouldn't, because people will see through you.

This isn't just a lesser evil thing. Even if I had mind control powers and could make people stop wanting identities, I wouldn't. There are many many people who work hard to make the world a better place because that's what their identity requires. They want to be good parents, or good janitors, or good citizens, or good whatevers, and so they need to behave well.

Would a world of Nietzschean ubermenschen actually be better for everyone? I'm inclined to doubt it.

Anyway, I don't think either of us is above pursuing an identity. In another post you talked about aspiring to be a good older sister; that's exactly the same kind of thing as aspiring to be a good man, except rarer.

As for astrology, it's a particularly bad way to pursue an identity. I think professions usually make particularly good ones; trying to be an ideal mathematician / shoemaker / manager / whatever seems to bring out the best in people. And professions are mostly self-chosen, which helps a lot with the bigotry that identity formation can lead to.

every time someone is asked to describe what they consider to be positive masculinity (hardworking, protective, whatever) they are at a loss when the follow up question is "okay but what makes these positive characteristic masculine? women have them too"... it's almost as if it's all patriarchal bullshit lol

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If people actually started self-defining based on their Melty Blood mains, I'm pretty sure main-ism would soon become a serious problem alongside racism and sexism.

Full self-actualization for everyone is absolutely not going to happen, and billions of people will continue to shove themselves into whatever person-shaped boxes they can find or make. It would, I think, be helpful for society to offer the best boxes it can.

every time someone is asked to describe what they consider to be positive masculinity (hardworking, protective, whatever) they are at a loss when the follow up question is "okay but what makes these positive characteristic masculine? women have them too"... it's almost as if it's all patriarchal bullshit lol

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Many people feel a deep need to label and define themselves. I'm this gender, that nationality, this religion, that social circle, this psychological diagnosis, that Hogwarts House, this Myers-Briggs type, that sexual orientation...therefore I should behave in such and such a way, emulate such and such role models.

On some level it's probably more authentic to exist as a purely singular entity, to channel God and declare I AM THAT I AM. But most people ain't gonna.

every time someone is asked to describe what they consider to be positive masculinity (hardworking, protective, whatever) they are at a loss when the follow up question is "okay but what makes these positive characteristic masculine? women have them too"... it's almost as if it's all patriarchal bullshit lol

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I think many estranged families would be happier if there was a convenient way to break off contact that didn't look deliberate. A way to avoid your mother that lets you pretend, to yourself and to her, that you totally wish you could see her every week.

Something that gets really lost in a lot of discourse is that what we would now call 'going low-contact' or 'going no-contact' with your family used to be so completely within the normal range of familial contact that there wasn't even a term for it. Sure, in the pre-IM pre-social media days some people were calling their parents daily, but I'd wager the vast majority of people were not. Long distance calling used to be quite expensive, after all. If your kid went to the big city to seek their fortune you might hear from them every few weeks, or every month, or once a year, and that wasn't particularly odd. This was even more the case before telephones were common, of course - people would send letters, but definitely not more than once a week and probably a lot less. It was just a normal, accepted fact that you'd hear from some family members who lived nearby often, and some who lived farther away very rarely.

The minimum amount of contact with family that is expected of people in the groupchat-facetime-instagram era is so much higher than at any previous point in history. The ceiling is about the same, since then and now multiple generations often live under the same roof, but the floor is higher by orders of magnitude.

How many adult children who are 'no-contact' or 'low-contact' now would also have been the ones who moved to the city and sent a letter every three months then? Is family estrangement an actual current problem, or is it just an illusion caused by smartphones?

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A confession from the defendant is always a lot more convincing than an accusation from the prosecutor.

Similarly, I don't take accounts of Hamas atrocities from Israeli sources very seriously. But if they're corroborated by Palestinians, it's another story.

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The policy in question seems straightforwardly good, at least from the description in that article. The property tax assessment cap he's talking about looks quite unjust, and changing that is not racism.

But obviously, whenever you implement any kind of redistributive policy in America, the people losing money will be whiter than the people making it. Because in America, rich people are much whiter than poor people.

It seems your objection is just that he's acknowledging that obvious fact, instead of politely pretending that the rich people he wants to tax more and the poor people he wants to tax less are the same colour on average. But of course he's going to acknowledge it; no doubt he thinks that difference in colour is part of the reason an unfair property tax assessment cap was implemented in the first place.

Zohran Mamdani has some interesting policies that I would be curious about… if he wasn’t explicitly anti White and anti Semetic. “no social services vs no social services for you” strikes again.

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You are confusing in a way that intrigues me; please tell me more.

For many years, critics of rationalism have been decrying it as a sinister right-wing movement in disguise. The critics are pretty much all actively left-wing, so whenever they see a problem they automatically interpret it through the lens of the left-right war that rules their lives - and arguably the world.

But when rationalism finally spat out something truly horrible, it was a bunch of far-left transgender vegans doing the killing. Because the problem with rationalism was never actually a left-right thing. That lens only ever clouded people's view of what was actually wrong.

Which makes me think. Do I ever do the same thing? Take a story about the world as a whole, apply it to some strange little corner of the planet, and mangle my own understanding of what's in front of me by doing so?

And if I am doing it, how could I tell?

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Am I the only one who actually likes it here?

Stanford paid 35,000 people to quit social media. This was the largest study on emotional health in history. The results were so shocking, scientists called it "comparable to therapy."

Null effect? Damn