Tinted
11d ago
If you chase off everyone who's emotionally vulnerable enough to be hurt, and also everyone who worried about hurting you to start with, you're left with the people who aren't either of those things.
Asymmetry isn't surprising under those circumstances. (And won't last if the same is also happening in the opposite direction. A much more complex question...)
Tinted
12d ago
I suspect it's more that 2010s blog feminism succeeded admirably in clearing the field of anyone who cared. In both respects.
I would agree with you if this weren't entirely politically irrelevant. It's the philosophy of vaguely autistic fandom guys. It's a story people tell themselves to play pretend. Your involvement in Democratic politics is as real as D&D licensed fiction. Nobody outside of here even hears you.
What you believe in died fourteen years ago. Get through the grief, cut it out of yourself, and go live.
I always wonder which people are really that historically ignorant. Noise, signal, so hard to tell. So little worth listening to at all?
This stuff kicked off at least as early as 2012, and it was more "nerd wars" and professor/student social media drama than politics to start with. (Tumblr isn't "big tech" either, though prior Twitter certainly made things even worse...) Trump is obviously a symptom of a problem that won't go away when he does.
The messaging coming from the Harris-Walz campaign has pivoted away from the rhetoric of civil conflict and toward the sort of calm, patriotic cheerfulness that typified the presidencies of Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
The presidency of Bill Clinton was also typified by blowjobs...
Sorry, I'm simultaneously discussing weird down thread. Weird is starting to sound weird. Weird.
Help
Can someone please explain why they take Noah Smith seriously? He's a colossal wonk and he looks like that weird Trekkie guy.
(This is a serious question. I've noticed a few people link him on HN too. He never gets a good reception.)
Tinted
3mo ago
I wonder about your background. Where have you "heard from many men" about having sex with random objects?
(Nah, autistic people aren't neckbeards. Autistic people are precious innocents. Neckbeards are creepy. Vile, dangerous, pathetic, gross, freaks...)
Tinted
3mo ago
Reddit atheists ended up being weirdos par excellence. (Even the Latinx ones.) I hear plenty about "cis gays" too.
Somebody'll manage if it's convenient.
Tinted
3mo ago
"Strategy" is saying too much. The people doing it aren't in control, and won't be able to stop it when kids start giving other kids beatings because of what they said. But it absolutely does nudge culture (and future actions) one way or another.
Most people on both sides definitely enjoy hurting people, also.
Tinted
3mo ago
I think a lot of "weird/creepy nerd" types who roleplay as Democratically influential are just in denial about where this is all going.
Do you actually believe that? It's such a weird thing to say. Doing that for real absolutely has big incel energy. And the movie's pretty neckbeardy even as a movie.
Tinted
3mo ago
Eh. You get what you incentivize. Is the ignorance here genuine or feigned? These guys always had a "we don't have enough kids" fixation anyway...
This only really makes sense if you assume there are only two sides. The eager willingness to play the "Republican talk radio" game ticked off people who needn't have been anything but friends.
Of course, it makes more sense if getting to hurt people is the point and the policy is just an excuse.
So that's what Twitter was on about last night. Nice to know I can stop feeling uneasy about the Kamala blowjob jokes.
Tinted
3mo ago
More books, less online. Some anime fandom around the edges. And I was never much of a gamer, unless you count Myst. But none of that mattered. You have the principle.
(Hear, hear! I think this is the first comment I've upvoted on this site.)
There's a lesson to be learned in the idea that justice and hate aren't so clearly delineated. It just needs to be contemplated by more people from more walks of life first.
Tinted
3mo ago
I agree with Scott that persecuting people won't teach them anything useful. I recommend a leaf from Ozy's book: separate them from their children, raise the kids in your own culture, use violence only when necessary to eliminate expressions of their culture that might contaminate the succeeding generations.
It's a long-term project, but historical precedent says it can be effective if you're organized and consistent about it.
Tinted
4mo ago
I think this is probably dangerous, but I also thought letting the SJ set hijack "safety" was dangerous. So neutral on the "it all goes away" front now.
(I am requesting you let me watch. Pretty please?)
Which would be more compelling if people weren't still getting fired because "it was obviously written in bad faith by a man."
Pity, where we've ended up. Oh well.
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