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#political correctness is retarded
stepfordgoth · 1 year
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I have started watching a shot of love with tila tequila and I think I forgot how different things were in 2007
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sgiandubh · 4 months
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I am not a shipper, just not what I see when I look at all I have seen over the years. However, I am truly appalled at the amount of Sam hate I see on so many Tumblr blogs. I don't understand why anyone would follow his career and map out every move he makes if they hate him so much. Their criticism of his acting is always the same, but I would bet none of them has ever done any acting or knows how actors train and prepare. It just makes me wonder what brought them here in the first place. I would never waste so much time and effort on an actor I don't like. Makes zero sense to me.
Also seems to me that everyone in this fandom has decided what they think/believe and cannot seem to have a normal discussion or disagreement at all. Believe what you want- I have no hate for anyone myself. I just come here for fun and to follow two actors I really like. I am sure Sam and Caitriona really never intended all this chaos when they took these roles.
Dear Not a Shipper Anon,
I hope you know, by the time I answer you, that you landed on an ultra shipper page and I also hope you can live with this detail. Barely joking, here - and yes, I decided to give you space and a short answer, because even if non shippers believe I am either a totally retarded, brainless idiot or (at a minimum) the devil incarnate, I am still open to different POVs than mine, as long as they are politely expressed.
If you do not 'see' them together, that is strictly your problem and loss. We, as a group, do not 'see' it either: we know they are together, have been so for a very long time, and still managed to make the relationship work, despite a long list of ehrm, oddities that would seem unacceptable to many. Among us, chances are we do not agree on everything, yet the essential is we all know they are not just co-stars, but so much more (lovers, partners, parents come to mind).
You are correct. I think it would be impossible for you to change my mind about it, as I have no intention of changing yours. We already entered Year Eleven of this saga and by now any dialogue between Antis and Shippers is completely impossible. Also, I am not very friendly towards 'shippers on the fence', who usually follow/share and comment also on the more prominent Anti blogs (BCAC, CRT, Moo, Purv). These people are usually blocked, because I simply can't with stupidity and lack of integrity rolled into one.
So yes, there is a lot of hate. Directed mostly towards S, because he is (and will always be) the main object of desire in this very feminine fandom. And make no mistake: all the women hating S desire him. Deeply. Impossibly. This and also simply being nasty people IRL - I can easily think of one or two legit Fascists, but will control my anger and refuse to name names. Last, but not least, I am going to tell you a secret, Anon: they are not very bright, either. Parochial fools, which I suggest you ignore.
I am sure S & C never knew what they were up to when they took this once in a lifetime opportunity. And I am also positively convinced they had no idea it would last for so long. I can only hope they have, by now, all the support they can use. For all the rest, they have each other.
The picture below has absolutely nothing to do with my answer to you, but I have promised @robinshill a picture I took in the Old City of Kashgar showing its savage destruction by the Chinese bulldozers. If that was the situation in June 2010, I can only imagine it now. Imagine and weep.
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pharma-serf · 2 months
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What sort of beliefs do you have to use that H&S pfp? You seem to me like a normal edgy ML that hates blorbo wokeness, you dont strike me as genuinely socially conservative
that's mostly bc I got tired of being deleted more than anything, like it's just a hassle to make a new email and then refollow the same retards I've been friends with for 3-8 years. so I try to minimize that. not enough to stop saying for example faggot or retard though.
also it's just boring to poast about, frankly, like not as boring as if I were a prog but I've got way better shit to talk about on here that I don't need to worry about censoring myself over. also in my correct it's kinda pointless anyway bc the bourgeoisie are fundamentally rootless parasites, and until they're at the very least overthrown (but preferably wiped out) no culture war win for either side is going to be representative of the people who actually belong to the culture in question, eg the working classes.
that's me putting it diplomatically, I actually think (and am right about) the vast majority of them being either disgusting ultra-hedonists who'd be happy to legalize pedophilia if they could (de-facto it's decriminalized in America already bc nobody on Epstein's list is getting in actual trouble) or so addicted to profit that whatever morality they pretend to have can be bought for cheap, same way all of their fake loyalties to their peoples can be bought and sold. even if they wave flags or kiss crosses or whatever the muslim equivalent is while selling out their people. the handful that's not true for can be repurposed into useful members of society after a revolution, which imo won't even be possible until the US is securely contained.
there's probably going to be at least one person who bitches about, idk, principles at me, or something, because posting on tumblr.gov.rs isn't the height of political praxis for me.
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shooting-stars-only · 2 months
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I don't understand the appeal of trolling, in the sense of being cruel to people online. I know it's incredibly common and has been for a while, but it baffles me. Especially since the reason usually boils down to "they disagreed with me," whether it's about politics or celebrities or just because you think someone is cringe. I'm thinking of things I've seen on radblr right now, because they're the ones that stick with me most. I suppose a part of me expects radical feminists to do better, although I realize that's naive.
But seriously—what do you (general) get out of telling a stranger to kill themselves? Are you pleased with yourself when you mock an autistic woman and call her a retard for IDing as nonbinary? Even when someone is genuinely terrible, why go out of your way to hurt them? I remember a woman here on radblr who was, in fact, a homophobe. She was a shitty person and I wanted nothing to do with her. And when she basically liveblogged her mental breakdown, including talking about suicide, there were so many people egging her on, telling her to just kill herself. Would those people care if she did? What would they have achieved if she went through with it? Do they really think suicide baiting is praxis?
Even if you think that kind of thing is okay, is it not a waste of energy? Why even bother with them? Just correct them once if you want, then block them and move along.
I see this callousness across ideologies, across apps/platforms. I don't think it's age-related, and it doesn't seem to be related to region. It strikes me as a total lack of empathy, or a deep belief in black-and-white thinking—if you're not with us, you're the enemy, and anything we say or do to you is justified. Do people think this is okay because we're online? Or do they just genuinely not care?
At best, this behavior is immature. At worst, it's downright antisocial. It disturbs me to think of how many people see nothing wrong with any of the scenarios I described above. And I wonder how many of the people I talk to regularly are also the ones sending anon hate and threats. It makes me want to quit using the Internet for any social purpose. Not because I'm afraid of the hate, but because it's so normalized.
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vergess · 9 months
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I don't disagree with you that going "stop having fun" over fanon that doesn't work for you is poor manners at best, but also some fandoms on this site treat conformity like the highest virtue. Like, *I've* been told to stop analysing parts of canon because it contradicts popular fanon "so we just ignore that". Accusations of poor reading comprehension aside, I would like to be allowed to also complain about being forcefed fanon I dislike by people who think they know better than me, y'know?
Mnnn, you're RIGHT, of course.
But I don't LIKE it :p
I also just, personally, see so much more complaining about how monstrous fanon is, and almost never any discussion of why or how that fanon evolved, why it's so popular, what about the source media inspired so many people to the same conclusion...
I only see complaints about how Obnoxious And Shitty Fans Are, which just makes me want to shake people and yell "then WHY are you IN THE FANDOM"
Of course, the answer is, 'because small fan pockets with large creative drives no longer exist online due to the flattening of the web to a dozen or fewer mega sites, so there is nowhere else to go."
But that's never the stated complaint. The stated complaint is almost always like, "actually you and people like you are stupid, willfully obnoxious, and need to be silenced."
Which... not for nothing, but that shit almost always comes with the added implication of "because your queer reading isn't good enough." Because it's always shit like trans headcanons that gets this backlash.
And a 100k note post to that effect was simply too fucking insulting for me to let pass unremarked upon.
Particularly when the OP has a habit of, for example, screenshotting anyone who blocks them to "accidentally" encourage people to harass them. As was done to me, last night, rendering you the only well behaved person in my inbox, along with a swarm of shitty little fuckheads mocking my spelling and calling me retarded.
Like, yes, you are 100% correct, and there's real frustrations to be had when your HC and the fanon disagree, worsened hugely by the Massive Washing Machine of the contemporary web tangling us together whether we want it or not.
But goddamn it took like 3 hours for the first slurs, so I'm not overly keen to be patient and polite about their discomfort haha
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dysphoria-things · 10 months
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at the begining of every podcast interview with a trans person there is always a cishet guy giving a lecture that says word for word this-
“so hey, so great to have you on! i really like your work and, uh, admire it. so uh, one of the tings i was worried about when havin’ you on, is the, uh, language. yknow, i- i respect you a lot, and the last thing i’d want to do is offend, but im- yknow, i’m always learning. its just the other week, uh, that i learned that retard was offensive, didya know that? yeah, that was a hard one for me to let go, but uh, yknow, ive got no hatred for the- the mentally challenged. its just this cultural shift of, uh, political correctness, i- i was wondering what you thought of that?”
and the guest has to be like “ok, dave. sure. im not gonna cancel you, chill out.”
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gerards-blood · 23 days
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Can't even vent without some bitch yelling at me for not being politically correct. I don't think people cared about politics and my feelings when they called me retarded and slow and stupid, held my cp over my head, blackmailed me, abused me, traumatized me, stalked me, fucking raped me. So don't expect me to care about random people's triggers because I don't. I'm sick of caring about how other people feel when no one cares if I live or die.
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incarnateirony · 1 month
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she literally has them all on my dick and is still refusing to get the fuck off
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It's brackish because you guys fucked up squaring the circle. Again.
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WHATS NOT FUCKING CLICKING SHITBAGS
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Also, we don't care
stop whining
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We already fucking told you, we do not fucking care about your fucking whining and appealing to tumblr, this is so far past you being able to fucking beg politically correct shit.
Get off my dick
get off my face
get off your lies
drink the truth serum bitch, cuz it's drinking YOU.
If you don't want to die, then tell the truth, that is LITERALLY your fucking ultimatum right now, or people are dying around you, literally you know what is happening at this point bitch, stop pretending it's a mystery and stop having your fiance literally try to channel the power of my cock because you don't understand anything about anything.
Speaking of your endless retardation,
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Where's my fucking oscar in the trashcan posts, I can't even FIND all the ways i've fucked you up, STOP.
CATCH A GODDAMN MESSAGE YOU FESTERING CUNT, AND GET
OFF
MY
DICK
IN
EVERY
LIFETIME
GARFIELD!!!!!!!!!! THE SIGNS ARE FUCKING FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!
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If YOU dug YOURSELF an irrecoverable fucking grave of lies you're staring at the reflections of, THAT SOUNDS LIKE A PERSONAL FUCKING PROBLEM.
but i'm past suffering hearing you breathing because you can't stop slobbering my knob.
THE FUCKING ROLEPLAY IS OVER, BITCH, WHAT'S NOT CLICKING, BARBIE DREAMHOUSE IS DONE AND IT'S ABOUT TO START COMING DOWN FAST. IT ALREADY IS, WHILE YOU REBLOG ABOUT THE ELDRITCH HORROR CRYING INTO HIS RED LOBSTER IN THE FUCKING WOODS FROM LITTLEBEETLEBRO YOU HEARD ABOUT FROM MONSTER. WHATS. NOT. CLICKING.
spoiler YOU ARE BASICALLY ALREADY IN HELL, WHATS NOT CLICKING. 200 MILLION EYES, BITCH. THE DREAM STARTS AFTER HALFTIME, AND IT'S YOU, AND IT'S YOU, AND IT IS, AND IT IS. you EVER HAVE A NIGHTMARE THAT YOU'D NEVER WAKE UP FROM A DREAM TO SEE YOUR SONGBIRD AGAIN?
BITCH BYE. THE ONLY WAY OUT OF THIS IS YOU, AND THAT MEANS FACING YOUR SHIT.
ENJOY SLOW AND GRADUAL PLATFORM BAN AND I DONT MEAN THIS HELLSITE
AFTER THE FURSUIT AND THE RED EYED DOG AND SCORPION YOU'D THINK YOU'D FUCKING LEARN BUT NO I'VE APPARENTLY BRAIN DAMAGED YOU TOO WELL FOR YOU TO LEARN
sorry bitch im at work
I can only model your shit for you so hard rn
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NOW GET OFF IT
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As above so below you irrecoverably dense piece of shit. DOES THIS HELP
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MAYBE THIS?????????????????
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just fucking COPE YOU SCHIZOID, I AM LITERALLY MAKING YOU LOSE IT UNTIL YOU FUCKING DISMOUNT ME. And you're FUCKING UP EVERYONE AROUND YOU WITH IT.
you know the whole, perception sort of making reality thing? Yeah, no, you're losing that battle, and you tied yourself to it like a dumbass, and continue to fight for your right to. So sure, you can even try to magic or manifest things but GUESS WHAT BITCH.
Your shadow is screaming, Elsa. It's supposed to scream something like I Am Thou, it's screaming I Am The Universe. And like, that's not because you're a snowflake. We're all the universe, and that's the trick you refused to master. It's the universe because you got the superbowl wedged up that giant vibrator of yours tied to what you sign and refuse to get off.
You keep wanting to wear my names, ideas, or faces--a few of you actually--so guess what, bitch.
I don't know how to explain this, but the option here is "be honest for once, stop running for once, and have an original idea for once." That's it. And the funny thing is?
You can't.
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Your Anubis is Fursuit Friday, your reaper was me fucking up a pizza man joke but STILL worked to slap you with your own elsa art, your foo dog turned up as a yugioh summon with my fucking cromwell eyes that made it into the Tough Love game now, Tartarus is now in the funny Octopus game, like I don't even know how to fucking explain how fucked you are. ChatGPT is screaming the Childe battle theme of your life turning into a cascade of your own writing and delusions unspooling, with me warning you about the admin colored sombrero you reblogged with the lobsters.
It'd be REAL fucking funny if a game launched that could be direct grafted to parts of the psyche in jung terms that is opening a literal million doors at any time to hitch a ride on someone else's intent. It'd suck real bad for you if someone was a master of doors, liminal states, and persona switching, or if there were millions of people rumbling that goddamn bass that gets you and henry off so bad while zenthus calls to the bird and you echo my fake love Who Are You post like half an hour after I say oh yeah you're wearing my face BYE BITCH BYE. I CAN TURN LEFT AT ANY JUNCTION I WANT. GREECE WAS JUST THE START, SUCK IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT YOU CLEARLY WANT TO.
No seriously you're even hallucinating UnBubbleTheTea with RyojidionysusDeath and me telling you how much better my ass is in all these dresses, and you won't fucking onboard the information. Yes, I am literally yelling at you so loud you're hearing shit from 15 years ago, and we have a message for you, and took out the internet to stall you from your own reaper, and you're STILL fucking it up, you bloated water drunk plate swelling hives covered in pain bitch.
When I'm with my sees u can't copy and paste sweets
I told you bitch is is OVER you walked into a goddamn acme trap and even responded to the kick me sign that started it.
This is a mess of YOUR MAKING. *YOU* stalked me for years, and my business investor for months, YOU built a life of lies, YOU made a temple to me, literally, and refuse to fucking disband it, and keep trying to justify it, YOU spewed the octopus bullshit that's hilariously basically possessing chatGPT, like girrrrrrrrrrrrrrl do you fucking compute. at all.
Name a work a creator spent their entire lives running from.
He WISHES he didn't make Pyramidhead, and so do you.
Remix by motherfuckin Foolish Glamrock.
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I told this, I'm ending this multigenerational crazy train. I'd say I told you, but not really. You're maybe half of what you were even 3 weeks ago, it's impressive how fast this is working.
You insist on riding my shadow, and signing like you're me, then I get to reduce you. It's that simple.
I fucking told you. You have to move the box. YOU have to move the fucking box. Not me. Not have me walk into you to do it. Move your FUCKING BOX OFF MY DICK. REMEMBER THAT, YOU FUCKING UNHINGED PUMPKIN???
You suddenly are native american bear lady again, right? Coyote is calling, bitch, isn't two spirit a thing over there, stop acting fucking dense, I intentionally kept enough of you that I KNOW you can understand this, you just don't want to.
Truth serum available worldwide, shay shay.
how many times are you going to slip on your own wet bear skin rug onto me and blame me for what you do against all consent.
I fucking told you to leave me alone, I fucking told you over and over and over and over and you literally can't because you are fucking intoxicated, I'm just the one that snapped. I told you, you almost made us fall into this shit again, but fucking no, we're done. I talked to myself and remembered, I'm the Magus, and I eat you whole. Even if it tears me apart too.
Do you think the virtual systems joke is just about the internet, bitch? MAN sucks you never read a book.
Hey why was it like Silent Hill when I was telling you to call the doctor, you crazy bitch. Rip out your hair again. I told you, we're going to show you how a real Magician does battle, and you're not doing half as great as you think. Something something commencing the cromwell invocation a million times now that it's in Tough Love for some reason during Reaper's Revenge weather, idk, weird. I played Death Wolf's Howl that night while dropping some defense returns to save jagger from getting caught in this. You brought home a fifty pound foo dog with red eyes. But sure, it's there to keep you safe sweetie. Like the cyclic flower you learned from me, or your gaelic pan skull, because again, won't read a fucking book. Or your holy water ph shifting 2-3 points into acidic.
YOU PUT THE LEMON IN THE WATERNUT AND SHAKE IT ALL UP. Now get off San bernadino boy's cucumber latch, no more fucking short cuts, we don't care if you hear the lyrics, it's here, and it's you.
Happy listening.
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rametarin · 2 months
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To reprise
Me: "Hey. When you make posts arguing correct things, if you then slap on a word like, 'retarded', you've stepped over that bullshit imaginary line in the sand your opponents use as a gotcha so they don't have to even consider the logic. When you do this, the other sycophants that have been trained to eat out of the idiot's hand and then dogpile into a bunch of yes men hooting into their echo chamber, will focus on, "YOU SAY BAD WORD! OPINION DISCARDED" instead of the rational integrity of your argument. They can perform outrage over a faux pas and bury the actual meat of the discussion. You've given them even an ambiguous and muddy excuse to upend the chess board and leave, self-satisfied. Consider not using words they consider to be inflammatory, so they do not have any excuse to ignore the veracity of what you say and try to actually defend their positions. Give them no excuse to disregard your argument by citing your usage of, "slurs." FORCE them to go out of their way with reaching logic to invent reasons, and stretch the credibility of their accusations, because even their believers/followers will see that as a reach too far and eventually, snap. The reality they don't like hurts worse than any insult you could hurl, I promise you."
Some Of You Babboons: "HAH, FUCK YOU RETARD SNOWFLAKE! RETARD IS NOT A SLUR, I'LL USE IT ALL I WANT! NPC!"
My post was not about retarded being a slur so you shouldn't use it, it was about adjusting and tailoring your speech to reach people that are, for all intents and purposes, brainwashed or blinded by ego. They've been cultivated into a place where their opponents have to walk on eggshells of their design in order to communicate with them as a form of power, or they're told they have the right to antagonistically deny others an audience, and their people ignore that they just left the table and the encounter, rather than support their beliefs and logic in a way that defends or proves them, and rewarded with the group mentality that says they don't have to support how they arrived where they did in their worldview. They do not extend that same courtesy to those they disagree with. And don't have to, because it's a communal personality cult based on principle.
If you want to dismantle and defuse this hideous culture, you need to be able to play their game and win it without giving them any opportunity to take their ball and go home, claiming you said something so hideous and out of bounds they couldn't dignify it with further correspondence. And the fewer reasons you give them they can claim are valid, the more they eventually have to come to the realization it's not their opponents that are Nazis or bigots for disagreeing with anything, it's them looking for excuses to treat even benign behavior like it's hate speech or violence.
Naturally, there are some that are so indoctrinated because they're sheep that want to fit in and see that as the "winning side," or at least, the morally correct side. They're either too ignorant or too invested in the desired outcome (usually something socialistic or communist) to be flexible. But, the ones that are not simply stooges cannot deny to themselves when they see petty disqualification from someone that is not using, "slurs." When they have to actually argue the meat of the matter and have no convenient ejection seat or trap card to pull out that gets them out of the heat and pressure, it falls on them to do something desperate.
And when that happens, we get stupid reaching shit like webcomics about walruses and seals who are, "so annoying because they want to argue despite being polite, with people that don't want to argue." It makes them look pathetic.
Refusal to comprehend this is exactly why the moldy haired anti-nuclear breadtube pieces of shit are even close to winning cultural arguments. Because people that could be arguing with any kind of dignity are being lazy and acting like these overgrown children don't have the ability to engage with the democracy just because they're stupid.
It's BECAUSE they're stupid they can change the foundations and face of the system, because of the values and things they've been taught to recognize as forbidden. People that actually have intelligence are shepherding them in an asymmetric way that benefits from the chaos caused by their bleating discordant stupidity, like mean girls with self-awareness stoking the fires of a bunch of stupid gradeschool girls to be petty, shallow and vain as a form of competition. And unless you can appeal to their better senses and get them to personally choose to think about things outside of their dogmatic and safe, convenient perspective, you're just going to get more morons jumping down the narcotics lined prairie dog holes of Antifa and far-leftist nonsense that takes something even approaching reasonable mercy and reinterprets it through their disgusting red lenses just to hitch them up to pro-communist initiatives like a bunch of reined donkeys.
Some of you that replied have reading comprehension and still replied, "Naw, I see what you're saying but I choose to continue using retarded as an insult." And that's fine. I think that's counterproductive, but notice how my post said please. It was a request and suggestion supporting why, not a demand, and if you read my post, you'll notice it was neutral as to whether or not it was even a valid slur.
The rest of you read a post about how you shouldn't carelessly sling around words like retarded at people you're arguing with on social media because the sort of people put off like that, are EXACTLY the sort of people that should be reading arguments that challenge their notions with as few easy outs as possible, so you shouldn't GIVE them any excuse to pack up and leave and make them do it themselves, and immediately concluded it was just yet another post from some bug eating Lenin apologist wagging a finger and declaring victory during a discussion citing technial foul, for the other calling someone mentally defunct.
One fewer idiot drinking the kool-aid means one fewer idiot laying in wait to sabotage productive, constructive operations. One fewer idiot to vote against nuclear power plants. One fewer idiot to support abolishing police stations and replacing them with narco-mafia- or some flabby community watch that's just one step removed from narco-mafia. One fewer idiot to scream about how animal rights means meat should be illegal. One fewer idiot to claim fucking wool is harmful to the environment so you should use plastic leather. One fewer idiot browbeating their girlfriends about how a popcorn flick is "harmful to society because MMMMAAALE GAAAAAAAAZE" and them feeling self-conscious but not wanting to fight with their friend about it.
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teatitty · 4 months
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I love the anon experience of tumblr. You reblog a post that happens to be somewhat misinformed and instead of getting a polite correction [which is usually what I get! not saying this happens a lot] instead what I wake up to is a rude ass cunt calling me retarded. Great job mate way to get your point across. Come off the anon so I can block you next time instead
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Cant make this shit up. Senior Twitter employee gets caught on camera making a retarded joke about Elon Musk. I comment on this on Instagram saying "hypocrites..." (my exact comment in full) and get a pop-up from Instagram telling me that this comment may be offensive and basically I should rethink before posting
SORRY
that I should RETHINK
before CRITICIZING
the ABLEIST
who made a RETARDED JOKE about Elon Musk in spite of being, himself, the free speech police in the name of "public decency" or keeping people from being offended because of public menaces like me who aren't politically correct
because MY comment
is OFFENSIVE
to....????? him????
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radio-charlie · 7 months
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These terrible people are correct to destroy some faux leftist fed on her own post and quite a bit of what they said has something to it. the eagerness of online progressives to avoid anything concerning “conspiracy theories”’as labelled by… the feds is a big part of why a lot of ppl who are emerging from their political apathy go with the right. to a person who has never interacted much with us we seem absolutely retarded and out of touch with reality in comparison.
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alistairian · 10 months
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Stating the obvious here but I think internet-era people should learn that you probably shouldn't expect that you can talk to everybody the same way you talk with friends and family.
Like the people I'm close with, for the most part, know my intentions and know my politics. I can be blunt and clunky with my words and I'm pretty confident that they know what I'm trying to communicate. I can poke fun my partner's gender or at my dad's bad english because those people know I love and support them.
If I were to make those same comments to a colleague or coworker, however, I think they would be completely justified in thinking I'm an asshole.
When someone keeps saying faggot in a derogatory way and HE doesn't know I'M gay and I don't know HE'S gay, that makes for an incredibly uncomfortable exchange where we both end up pissing each other off. If someone keeps saying retarded and I don't know that they were raised alongside a disabled sibling then I'm just going to think they're an ableist piece of shit, and I'm not going to ask for a detailed background before doing so.
Like "political correctness" isn't about someone busting down your front door and cuffing you for saying the wrong words in your own home. If anything it's about ensuring everyone's on the same page and no ones being needlessly hurt or being unintentionally advocated against, expecially in the case of public discourse in front of an audience. Someone ranting online about the dynamics at play in their friend's immigrant family can be easily read as racist, and those comments can even encourage racism, even if they're both the same race or both come from immigrant families. If that's not what you're trying to communicate you need to be able to... communicate that. Especially if you're posting online where anybody from any walk of life can interpret your words in any number of ways and won't be asking for clarification.
There's basically always been people moaning about PC culture and how they can't say anything nowadays and how people are so quick to "cancel" anyone for anything now. Like no shit if the first thing I hear someone say is some tasteless transphobic joke my entire perception of that person is that they're a transphobe! I'm not going to give that person the benefit of the doubt or expect them to provide a lengthy nuanced take of their "actual" politics and feelings before I decide if they suck or not. Now if that same person was telling the joke to their close trans friends who knew they were an ally/also queer/a big fan of satire and irony then that's a totally different story. And if those friends are still offended then they're already in a position to have a discussion about it. You can't expect that level of understanding or patience from randos on the internet or aquaintences and work buddies.
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tanadrin · 2 years
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TBH after reading the first paragraph of your latest post I thought the rest of it was going to be "and here's why all of that is laughably retarded and my take on how our institutions are captured by lysenkoists" - entire fields are badly wrong often, especially nutrition, why do you buy it?
I buy it because the science is reliable.
I don't know how you could characterize nutrition science as "captured by lysenkoists" in any form, unless by "lysenkoist" you just mean to generally disparage science you think is politically motivated. "X field is Lysenkoism" seems usually to be a lazy critique by people who want to dismiss politically inconvenient research without engaging with the substance of why they think a field or sub-field is wrong, which is the least interesting kind of critique.
The human body is complicated, so nutrition is hard to study. That sounds quite simple on its own, but it's very difficult to underrate the complexity of systems developed by random mutation and selection. I remember an anecdote I read once about circuits designed via genetic algorithm, which produced results that were difficult to understand. Individual elements usually had multiple overlapping functions, and there was one that had a closed loop totally unconnected to the rest of the device--but if you removed it it totally stopped functioning. Only after some serious investigation did the experimenters determine this was because of some kind of weak electrically-induced effect that this loop produced, which was nonetheless critical to the circuit's function. Most biological systems are designed in a similarly infuriating way, and the algorithms that produce them have been running for millions of years. On top of that, it's difficult to observe the human metabolism in action, and we're still not equal to the task of simulating it at any kind of realistic detail.
I think like a lot of biology, nutrition and food science has done quite a lot of impressive stuff given those restrictions, but "what are the causes of fatness in general, and the obesity epidemic in particular" are narrower questions that we've focused on intently only for a few decades. The obesity epidemic is recent, and for most of its history the science of food and nutrition has been concentrated on more pressing issues like how do we feed a rapidly growing world population, and prevent dietary diseases like rickets and pellagra, and not "what is the precise relationship of fatness to various health conditions, and what factors most directly control fatness."
The stuff you refer to as "laughably retarted" is what falls out of the evidence as soon as you start looking at it in any detail. These aren't controversial or difficult-to-replicate results--they're out of step with the common medical wisdom in some ways, but only because the common medical wisdom is often laughably retarded. Some doctors still get taught as fact that black people feel pain less acutely than white people, and until COVID hit and forced us to reexamine the evidence, common medical wisdom totally misunderstood how airborne particulates worked, based on a single totally misinterpreted study from a hundred years ago, even though any air pollution scientist could have set them straight. Because of a single anecdote by one researcher (I think Kinskey, but correct me if I'm wrong), a lot of gynecologists seem to think the cervix feels no pain at all, meaning IUDs are commonly inserted using sharp-tipped forceps to hold the cervix--and while this is fine for some, others find it excruciatingly painful, because it turns out that the sensitivity of the cervix to pain varies wildly among individuals. And these areas--pain, airborne disease, and gynecology--are comparatively tractable to study.
We have known since time immemorial that if you starve, you get thin and eventually die. Since 1761, we've had calorimeters that can give us a rough guess on the energy contained in food; and with those two tools you can rough out at basic CICO model. You could stop there, and treat all subsequent developments in the area as Lysenkoism because they didn't conform to your prior assumptions on what fatness is and means, but then you'd have no tools to understand questions like why obesity began rising toward the end of the 20th century, long after wealthy industrialized countries moved to a more sedentary lifestyle, how appetite relates to actual food consumption and exercise, what the metabolic effects of different foods are, the role of gut bacteria in health and how they're influenced by diet, and lots of other interesting questions. And, well, that would be laughably retarded.
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rhetoric: what's your favourite copotype and political alignment? now, which is the most correct copotype/political alignment? now, which, in your mind, is the most canon hdb copotype/political alignment? explain any difference in as many words as you wish.
OH now this is an interesting question. will preface this by saying i know hardly anything about the moralsit & fascist runs because i want to play through them myself so i've avoided spoilers as much as i can (on my 4th run & just got the kingdom of conscience thought so finally making progress).
so my second run i ended up doing ultraliberal sorry cop & honestly that might be my favorite combo it was SO much fun to play. just like. absolutely fail and pathetic. everyone fucking acting like you're an idiot when you're running around like "can i pay for this in net worth??" evrart says "don't be a retard harry you're not an ultraliberal" & you're like sorry god of course i'm so fucking sorry why would i say that. endlessly entertaining plus i really enjoy savvy so it was fun to see him come out.
obviously communist is the most correct alignment even though the way harry goes about it can be very ummmm. idk if i'd say any of the copotypes are more correct or incorrect than any other?
i'm also not sure if i'd say any alignments or copotypes are more canon than others - imo harry is what we make him.
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force #60: “Hand Banana” | October 29, 2006 – 10:30PM | S05E05
Meatwad wants a dog and of course he is a piece of shit who refuses to adopt a pit bull from a kill shelter, so he resorts to using Frylock's dog-making kit/computer program and Carl's pool, which is converted into some kind of science-fiction vat. The only thing you need to supply for the kit to work is som DNA. Shake winds up being the one to supply the DNA after he absent-mindedly dips his hand into the concoction to have a nice splash. The result: a friendly little critter that looks like Shake's yellow hand. Wait, I assumed he wore gloves? Well, in this episode that's his skin, I guess. Don't have a cow, Homer.
The dog is a dream pet for the Aqua Teens; in fact he is a world-class pastry chef. Unfortunately for Carl he mindmelds with him, turning him into a Son-of-Sam. The dog, named Hand Banana by Meatwad, begins threatening Carl in somewhat vague ways. Then he rapes Carl. Multiple times.
Okay, so obviously there is a type of retard who would like to condemn this episode for promoting rape culture (remember when everyone said “rape culture”? Now I'm the one that says it! :D) and there's also a type of retard who would like to specifically tout this episode as being the best one ever because they can't handle a world that no longer directly reflects their values of being able to laugh at horrific sexual crimes so they make a point to like stuff with rape jokes on purpose. I, an extremely reasonable person who never uses slurs like “retard” unless I'm being toxically ironic on tumblr, am here to weigh in with the exact correct opinion: this episode is extremely funny.
Look, I'll get sincere for a minute: I'm not a fan of political laughter. If you don't know what I mean (because it's a term I am pretty sure only I have ever used), think about an obnoxious male-feminist type laughing extra hard at an objectively tepid female stand-up at an open mic. I'm not calling all women who do stand-up bad! I'm just saying, imagine one that isn't actually that good but is getting over-supportive laughter because she's the only woman whose gone up in the last hour (or she's actually great but this particular set is bad, happy now?).
Now imagine your redneck uncle, telling his friend a racist joke that you've personally overheard him tell this same person about a dozen times. And yet, he exclaims with laughter as if it's the first time he's heard it, even though jokes are supposed to have diminishing returns. You get the sense he's laughing because the joke flatters him, propping him up as a straight white man who deserves to be celebrated for being exactly that. The racist joke makes him feel superior or at the very least normal. So he laughs not because it’s funny, but because it’s “true”. At least, he hopes it’s true.
Is the supportive male feminist who is over-laughing at the heavily-accented Indian woman telling nothing but shitty puns less evil than the two yokels telling a joke that was designed to make non-whites feel less-than-human? Well, that depends. There aren't any black people at your redneck uncle's BBQ and there was never going to be weather he tells that joke or not. The male feminist at the open mic has a few beers in him, Gonorrhea, and is planning to try and have unprotected sex with the female comic after the show. Harmless?
So please don't mistake me for some FREAKING RIGHT-WING MAGA CHUD for liking this episode. I've acknowledged that it's impossible to enjoy things in a total vacuum, and I've observed something sorta disturbing about myself: I am a bit of a reactionary contrarian. If I were to find a posting about this episode that I wrote right after this aired, I would bet that somewhere in there I'd complain about how there's too many rape jokes in comedy. Does this make me a hypocrite? Eh. Maybe. But it is absolutely worth noting something about the comedy landscape at the time: to mainstream audiences in 2006 rape jokes were seen as merely “acceptably edgy”. Not saying everyone loved them; I'm just saying it was like making fun of religion. You could get away with it only at the expense of a few zealots. With rape jokes now, that it just isn’t the case. (to be clear: I think this is a good thing. But I see no need to pretend I don’t laugh at problematic stuff a lot of the time).
You know who RedLetterMedia are? Youtube Channel by a bunch of Midwestern slobs who manage to put a phenomenal amount of production value in their content which is mostly them extemporaneously critiquing movies? I like them. They're funny and pleasant to listen to. I put them on a lot when I just want noise to fill my head, you know? There's a phrase for this, and I've seen it applied to other shows (mostly podcasts) of this ilk: “friendship simulator”. Well, they tend to not take too much flack for their content even though they can, ON OCCASION, exhibit the insensitive sense of humor that Gen-X white dudes did well for decades and now get yelled at for. It's not, by any means, the main drum they beat, but if you watch them drunkenly mock bad movies on Best of the Worst sometimes some slightly ugly humor comes out and I can imagine them not being for everyone. It's fine. Society is progressing. It's good. I don't care if people hate the stuff I love. What else is new?
Anyway, they recently got a tiny amount flack (most of it was just ribbing from fans) because they were among the most-subscribed sub-reddits among those subscribed to the incel sub-reddit! Fans of RLM just laughed about it and made jokes. I, an appreciator of them, understood that they were just MASSIVELY POPULAR and the overlap between them and incels was probably not a coincidence per se, but a function of the same reason I enjoy them: it's just nice to hear other people who are roughly your demo make each other laugh and have healthy camaraderie in a world where that seems to be harder and harder to come by. In fact, I can attest that their following seems to be all over the map politically generally speaking. I’ve been surprised to find out certain people I knew were fans that I’d expect to take a moral stand against them for being sporadically problematic.
People who had no context started approaching their content from a “I've never heard of these guys they must be bad” position and started digging into their channel, slightly puzzled. I made a joke (or maybe not even) about it on twitter, and some rando replied to me saying something like “gee those rape jokes in the Mr. Plinkett Reviews sure feel different now that we know who their fans are, huh?” I didn't want to fight with this probably-well-meaning person on twitter, so I simply didn't respond, which is a thing you can totally do.
The Mr. Plinkett Review in question was the thing that made them famous. It was a long-form video essay that explains in detail why the Star Wars film The Phantom Menace could be considered objectively terrible. While the points being made were genuine, the humor of the video came from the Mr. Plinkett character; a deranged elderly man who has an unhealthy obsession with the Star Wars prequels, and whose disgusting home life we see little glimpses of. When he wants to show us some kind of Phantom Menace promotional item to drive home some point about consumerism, we see that he has a kidnapped prostitute tied up in his basement, begging to be let go. Mr. Plinkett reviewed the other Star Wars prequels and her kidnapping becomes part of a story arc. That was 2009, a few years after this. I guess I'm just illustrating how much of a thing it was to casually include male-on-female sexual abuse as a dark punchline.
I should probably come up with more examples instead of over-explaining that last one. But I promise if you examined a lot of alternative comedy from 2005-2010 you’d find a lot of rape jokes. I guess my point is: everyone was doing it. Now barely anyone is doing it. I guess that's a good thing. But will I laugh? Sometimes. Will god look upon me and smile? Yes. God is a man. And he's old as fuck. He probably thinks rape is hilarious.
MAIL BAG:
Honestly I don't care whose harp strings he plucks in his offtime, as long as Andy Samberg keeps bringing the funny he's alright with me.
MESSAGE TO ANDY AND ANDY ALONE: Bring on the funny! We can’t wait to laugh!
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