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ThisIsSin
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1mo ago
Remember: anyone who actually remembered what racism actually was retired by 2010 (assuming an age of 20 in 1950, they’d be 65 in 2015).
Thus there was nobody there to fact-check the sociopaths. Due to the conditions that enabled racism to be abolished not persisting, the sociopaths naturally re-instituted racism.
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1mo ago
Honestly, no, not really.
Non-dickgirls do have slightly exaggerated proportions, but there’s a lot more variety there. By contrast futa tends to universally be much more exaggerated than that.
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1mo ago
It just turns out that until about the mid-2010s
We have the iPhone to "thank" for that. The mobile VT-100 that a "smartphone" is becoming actually usable and cheap enough to be universal is what launched Reddit and Twitter (and to a point, Facebook) into the stratosphere. Phones before that were too slow, the screens were too small to sit in front of all day, and mobile data was too limited/expensive.
It's also why IRC had its resurgence [Discord is not meaningfully distinguishable from an IRCv3 implementation, complete with message persistence]- because you can be always online to answer questions in a way you actually had to be sitting at a computer to do before (which is why forums, then Digg/Reddit, took over from IRC in the late-'90s-early-'00s).
You can track the rise of the leftist moderator through that as well: if we assume that leftists are more likely to have fake office jobs, then the fact they're able to use their VT-100s at work bestows them a significant power advantage over rightists simply by being able to show up. Take that ability away and their advantage evaporates.
the idea of residential schools at the time was a rather progressive idea
Nothing has changed. The Catholics get it worse simply because they're the easiest target for Progressives to engage (for various reasons). They also tend more often to be actually located on the reserves.
there would be support for it among progressives
Progressives already act like this, with force of law.
What do you think "we'll send Indian Affairs CPS to take your kids away if you use their birth name at home" is?
What do you think "if you complain about the teacher's pet raping your kid, you'll be arrested" is?
What do you think "if you engage in your native customs, like letting your kid outside to play unsupervised, you'll be harassed by the State" is?
They'll beat the Indian out of colonize you eventually.
Remember, land acknowledgements are about forcing you to admit that these colonizers own the land.
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1mo ago
Do you remember that famous Tumblr post that went "don't listen to anything women-as-class say; you shouldn't assume they have any privileges over you, because you're not in the category they are designed to repress"?
Yeah, I have no idea why men would ever latch onto a movement that tells them that. Maybe I was wrong about the trans-feeders: you take any alt-right figure and make him incapable of directly saying women are at fault for this, and I think "just claim you're a woman, then you'll be allowed to act fucking normal" is what comes out.
Maybe the trans-feeders were directionally correct about men needing to be less accommodating. Shame they can't use any of it if they go all the way into eunuchry.
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1mo ago
Is it anti-male propaganda if you simply ignore men entirely?
Is it racist if there are no people of race X in the work?
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1mo ago
is short for futanari referring to a character with male and female physical characteristics, usually female anatomy and male genitalia
And more specifically/notably, hyper-exaggerated female physical characteristics (and also hyper-exaggerated dicks). Futa without these things is rare (though more generally that is what traps are, and why "draw a girl call it a boy" is a standard criticism of that subject matter).
but I wonder if part of it is a socialization, wherein younger boys surrounded by more dominant/aggressive males can not as easily adopt heterosexuality as the more alpha males around them
Are women who are surrounded by more dominant/aggressive males straighter than the average? That would be a point in favor of that hypothesis, and if we assume women who return to physically abusive relationships for the stated reason of "because I still love him" are telling the truth (along with, uh, every dime-store romance novel out there that's literally just this), maybe it's a data point suggesting it's correct.
Gay dating today in America is pretty frustrating because the vast majority of men do not see themselves as alpha.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this is because very few people today have any experience in the exercise of power (along with the standard reactions to people misusing it- which I believe is far less prevalent than people say it is specifically because "saw it on TV/read it on the Internet"). Old people will complain about "kids these days not knowing how to do anything" but their failure to make ranks available and fucking delegate for once means men and women don't understand what it means to be in the middle of the dominance hierarchy. My father failed to do that, my bosses all failed to do that, my friends fail to do that (and it has a very obvious negative effect on their kids). Nobody over the age of 40 gets it.
Oh yeah, and then you have the general room temperature of "beta good alpha bad", which is
identity politics as it’s defined by the left
because women-as-statistical-distribution are betas and vice versa for men. Which combined with the above makes the problem even worse. You can tell people how to exercise power that way if they don't know it, but you can't talk about it if you don't know they don't know it. And when the people in power really don't want anyone to discuss it (i.e. they're all alpha-hating betas) that obviously gets harder.
I read a story once about how in (either WW1 or WW2, can't remember) one of the questions a potential officer had to answer to be considered for the position was how he answered how he'd dig a trench. The ones that failed would start talking about dimensions, how deep, tactical implications, etc. [as if they were going to do the work themselves]. The correct answer was, is, and always will be "Sergeant, build me a trench!".
And while one can argue "well you know it or you don't" that's a cope answer, and we'd be better off population-wise if everyone knew at least a little bit of how to do that. If you shun selfishness qua selfishness you won't know how to use it correctly, rationally, productively.
That said it’s an effective strategy when a beta man fawns to you it’s very attractive but when an alpha fawns at you it’s rather irritating and awkward.
I think betas call that Nice Guy Syndrome.
It is nearly always an older alpha with a younger beta. Anecdotally I think these are the strongest types of gay relationships that there can be.
Yeah, straight relationships work like that too. People who pretend they don't are usually betas who actively resent being assigned beta at birth.
meanness or neoteny of face
I find it extremely odd that most of the more "alpha" women I meet (as in, they might as well be gay men in thought/action/general attitude towards life) have higher than average facial neoteny. By contrast, most of the "forever a beta, and very angry about that" women have very masculine faces (the 'model' look). I've come to find that I care about that more than if it's a woman or a man (and I suspect is where the "traps are/n't gay" meme comes from people who have also noticed this about themselves).
Relationships where someone is abusing the power of a stronger person really are toxic and it is up to the stronger person to assert their power in the situation if both parties want to come out with dignity.
I find this to be true in employer-employee and friend-friend relationships too. I find it difficult to deal with a lot of the time; while I eventually figured out my proper role in these relationships it took me way longer than it should have.
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1mo ago
I would not want Israeli chips in my smartphone.
You already have Israeli chips in at least one of your devices, most likely your laptop. (Intel has a fab in Tel Aviv.)
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2mo ago
openly gay people complained
What kind of openly gay people complained, the angry kind that will throw national security under the bus to win an internet argument, or the quiet ones [who are much less likely to take the government to court over getting denied a clearance for it in the first place]?
@thrownaway24e89172 more clearly elucidated the problem with this than I managed to- being Out and Proud is fundamentally at odds with having enough self control to shut the fuck up and not create problems for [from the government's viewpoint] fundamentally selfish reasons. Not being able to put your identity away on the clock, or worse, having a chip on one's shoulder about it (which is what "Proud" means), is the risk factor here.
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2mo ago
But open proud people are also denied.
If they're going to put being Proud before national security concerns (in the same way, and for the same reasons, that War Thunder players do it- because they're more likely to value winning an argument above national security) this, too, is the right call.
social justice is simply one of the many things Jesus would engage in during his time here on earth
The more I think about this the more I fundamentally disagree with this. Jesus accommodated every social standard of the day except for the ones he was explicitly sent to overturn [almost like trying to overturn others would be counterproductive in this regard]. You can see that by how He talks to women at fountains; but in other instances interacts and employs other women very, very differently (which then creates problems because you get selfish traditionalists going "haha Jesus patrolled thots lmao, I'll do the same thing to women I meet and claim it's correct because Jesus", and then 20 years later wonder why they can't get young families to come to their Church any more).
People want to appropriate Christianity to whatever philosophical ideology suits their worldview
Yes. If Christianity isn't social justice enough, then social justice can/will be added to Christianity to fill that void if the Church isn't prepared to deal with that. This is why young men went tradcath; they perceive (correctly) that Catholicism is the most alien to their sociopolitical adversaries and this is just a reaction to social [in]justice that targets them (for the same reasons that everyone on the losing side of oppression seems to become Christian for some reason, almost like that's by design; despite what Medieval mythology might have you believe Christianity really isn't meant for people who see themselves as winners, and those young men are eventually going to leave the Church because of that- it's exactly the same thing where [young women] SJWs are burning down their own churches in its name and forcing everyone out, as they simply want to win harder as is human nature to do).
and I just don't understand it
Moral superiority is one of the rungs of Maslow's Hierarchy (usually labelled as "security"). It's a thing most human beings have a psychological need for; evidenced by the emotion of disgust being universal to all cultures.
Some people are moral mutants and don't need that to function correctly (and can do things like answer "no" when the question of "aren't you just violating moral X for selfish reasons?" comes up, and be autistically/childishly 100% honest when doing so), but those mutants tend to fail to understand that moralfaggotry [I don't have a better word for this, sorry] is of vital importance for everyone else. This is part of the "struggle" that some philosophers and political thinkers talk about; I think one of them wrote a book with that title. It's a biological holdover, and you need some of it for social cohesion; most of what we see as traditional Christian morality is just playing to biological strengths anyway, so it makes having those morals both easy and as productive as you could make an emotion whose purpose is fundamentally destructive/self-preservatory.
[No, I haven't actually read the Screwtape Letters yet.]
Where you start to get problems is basically just the midwit meme where they're able to recognize "wait, all this moralfaggotry is fake!" (usually accompanied by "only God can judge me"/"in this moment, I am euphoric, ...enlightened by my own intelligence", which is why everyone else thinks [and 99% of the time, correctly] it's just people doing it for selfish reasons) but not capable of recognizing why it exists, or who it exists for, in the first place.
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2mo ago
for those oppressed by the principles of masculine competitive society
Fucking academics. Saying "men who are getting off using the mental/sexual pathways that [normal] women use to get off with, by projecting themselves onto the self-insert female character just like everyone who read 50 Shades does, maybe because a thing or combination of things in their brains makes that the more attractive option" doesn't need to be this hard.
But then again I'm also of the opinion that the real reason we don't have an accurate taxonomy of sexual behaviors is that we don't have the language to express them, they're all defined by their [statistical] normal distribution anyway, and then people just take language not meant for them and wield it as a weapon so maybe it's pointless anyway.
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2mo ago
how is furry masculine, how is dubious anime porn feminine?
Look at the faces.
Furry [well, unless it's actively trying to avoid this... and ends up looking like a girl/boy in a onesie] is typically so far divorced from facial neoteny it might as well be bara. Anime characters, by contrast, tend to have round faces and large eyes- emphasis is on soft/round/cute/happy, not hard/angular/ugly/angry.
(Western animation tends to have a mix of both- the largest exception to that was, of course, My Little Pony (specifically Gen 4), and now you know why 4chan liked it so much.)
Mind you, this is just the broad strokes of it- it's a lot more detailed (and honestly, a lot more normal) than I make it out to be- but these are the broad strokes as they relate to the people who are most taken by that stimulus.
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2mo ago
Really, I'm not entirely sure why this is an issue. Security clearance depends on a low blackmail attack surface, so as Puritanism [about what books one reads, in this case] in the population increases or becomes more powerful as a social force, things that wouldn't be an issue in more liberal times start to become viable blackmail avenues.
And yes, that means society is leaving talent on the ground; on the other hand, defending people who hate you is stupid and if their fake moral standards get them killed because of it, then so be it. Maybe the survivors will smarten up.
I mean, SomethingAwful was the original furry community. That should tell you all you need to know about how things were going to play out.
The fact that 4chan splintered from SA because of loli is similarly informative about the politics of its people, for good and ill.
Furries are hypermasculine superstimulus, loli (and shota) are hyperfeminine superstimulus, neither one wants to admit the obvious implications (though zoophilia is the lesser of those), and the narcissism of small differences does the rest.
(Actually, I wonder if that means diaperfurs/cub fans are more likely to be bisexual? Furries are generally gay and lolicons are generally straight, so maybe furry lolicons are more likely to be a mix compared to the average.)
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2mo ago
could also prevent any government agent from having a successful shooting of an innocent, that might work.
Rittenhouse is killed by government agents without the gun; they beat him to death with the skateboard. The problem with "gunless utopia" is that it makes mob violence a lot more difficult to resist.
For instance, if you have 30 KKK members coming to drag you off, or 30 Hutus coming to chop you into pieces for shits and giggles, a man with a gun can kill every single one of them given sufficient aim and time. The fact that a potential victim can not only resist, but resist in a way that makes him 30 times as strong on defense (but don't actually make him that much more powerful when attacking), is actually kind of a big deal.
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2mo ago
the combined rage and innovation of the new “guncels” will come up with a ranged weapon which is deadlier or safer, or both
Air rifles are very under-developed. US federal law has never considered them to be firearms.
Creating a fully-automatic helium-powered submachine gun that can push at least one 30-round magazine of 9mm-equivalent-or-better projectiles at lethal speeds is trivial with current materials science. The last time anyone seriously tried to make a military firearm of this nature was the late 1700s, though there are a few current manufacturers that make manually-repeating hunting rifles based on this concept.
Combining that with electronic controls (and a lack of NFA- so for this application computer-based fire control, full-auto, and integrated suppressors will obviously be standard) provides even more interesting options. Want to fire a non-lethal burst at a target before the next trigger pull fires a burst that's going fast enough to penetrate? That's impossible with a traditional firearm simply due to its nature but eminently practical with an air rifle (liability issues aside).
The only problem here is how you're going to turn that into a handgun, but cartridge-and-captive-piston storage technology might be sufficiently promising in that regard to obviate that concern as well.
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2mo ago
What’s something that’s grey on the outside and blue on the inside?
I think that's just called depression.
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2mo ago
If you're a white dude, don't go full cueball
What, you don't think having a hairstyle such that you can polish your head to a mirror finish is a good idea?
What if you get lost in the woods, need to signal for help, but forgot to bring a mirror or a flare gun?
The entire philosophy is based around respecting what consenting adults do. They're fine with restricting what children do.
- Define all X as not-human with some scientific-sounding justification ("brain not developed till 25", "they're closer to gorillas", etc.)
- Claim anyone who disagrees with that definition is in opposition to the Science, and are obviously just in favor of X freedom because they want to have sex with [more generally, exploit] the women in X
- Rinse and repeat for Y, Z, etc. until you've reinvented traditional morality wholesale (more popularly known as "intersectionality")
No, I can't imagine why any freedom-minded person would have any problems with that. From a liberal standpoint, the problem with this strategy in an illiberal milieu is that you can't really take it on directly, and liberals being mistake theorists (and their tendency to be sexual mistake theorists doesn't help that) generally fail to understand that.
Thus, they tend to get baited into attacking (2), when the actual answer is to either go after (1) [which isn't scalable and is still vulnerable to "why do you care so much about hoaxes?", where people who can attack (1) can still be somewhat-credibly accused of having the same motivations as the people who just attack (2) do], or seek/implement/maintain social conditions such that yeschad.jpg is a valid response to (2)- this is being able to respond "all of them" to "how many children have to die before people who have (and will do) nothing wrong will give up their freedom to X" criticisms of [insert civil right here].
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2mo ago
For a rather questionable definition of "works" and "great".
Most code I've asked it for (that I couldn't otherwise have written myself) has been wrong. It still can't make a functional regex statement.
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2mo ago
Maybe they were unaware of American and British developments in high velocity smaller caliber rounds.
They already had a perfectly serviceable intermediate round that they had only recently phased out- the 6.5x50mm Japanese cartridge. Soviets had Not Invented Here syndrome.
In a report used to justify the development of the 19th century .236 Navy.
Which they didn't continue with. Too much barrel wear- materials science and manufacturing tolerances just weren't there yet.
The advantage of going larger (and using shorter projectiles) means you don't get nearly as much barrel wear; to the point that you'll crack the receiver on an AK at the trunnion (a consequence of being one step removed from a bolt-action conversion) before you shoot the barrel out. This is why, when you compare 6.5 Creedmoor guns to .308, and fire the same weight of projectile, you'll find the barrel on the 6.5 will be shot out sooner- you'll also notice that all the other militaries that used 6.5mm cartridges underloaded them compared to how hot they would be loaded later on, and I think this has something to do with it. 6.5 Grendel guns have the same issue compared to 7.62x39 (though to a much lesser degree than 6.5CM), which is why the only military that uses that round is running a shorter 108-grain projectile (at 2750 FPS) rather than a comparable 124-grain one from 7.62x39 (running around 2400).
7.5 French uses a slightly shorter, lighter projectile compared to 7.62 NATO for similar reasons.
a really underpowered version of some 19th century round
.30-30 is perfectly adequate for animals in the 200-pound weight class regardless of how many legs they walk on. 7.62x39 wasn't even the first cartridge to copy that ballistic profile; that one goes to .30 Remington, then 7.35 Carcano (all 51-52mm in length- inefficient when you consider how much brass is needed to make those cartridges compared to 7.62x39, but all of them are exactly as powerful as they need to be).
It's also the most powerful intermediate cartridge; 7.92x33 (and later, .300 Blackout) is down 200 FPS from the Soviet round, and 7.62x33 (aka .30 Carbine) runs 400 FPS slower. But .30 Carbine is not really a 300 yard cartridge, whereas x39 has a much easier time of it.
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2mo ago
was entirely legal under British law at the time and now
Well, the world is a much less liberal place now. What the Junior Anti-Sex League says now carries de facto legal weight, in a way that people who grew up in the days of the Junior Pro-Sex League (typically known as "the 1970s") don't fully recognize.
Louis Riel did nothing wrong.
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