UnoriginalMind posted:

C'mon man, we can rip on Justine Tunney for good reasons, let's leave her gender identity out of it.

She does support crazy misandrists though, which I was unaware of. It's a layer cake of loving bonkers!

Silver2195 posted:

That came out decades after Iron Dream, though.

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

I'm really glad I don't spend much time on tumblr since as far as I can tell Undertale has become the new Homestuck in terms of godawful fans ruining everything

I liked the game and I have intentionally avoided everything else related to the game for that reason

hackbunny posted:

What on earth gave SA its reputation as a leftist site. Have these people ever been in GBS

The Vosgian Beast posted:

Cingulate Forced My Thread Gay

hackbunny posted:

Someone (Parallel Paraplegic?) theorized that the obsession with "traps" stems from the idea of creating women untainted by innate "dirty" femininity, and I was trying to agree with him. I don't think the alt right is entirely composed of 100% heterosexual men as commonly assumed, I think they have a certain degree of variance, that tends to manifest in unique unhealthy identities like "trap" (the tumblr left doesn't have a monopoly on unique unhealthy identities) because everything has to be framed in a certain ideology

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

It's pretty well known that there's a lot of people who consider themselves to be 100% completely heterosexual on 4chan who find traps attractive but insist it's 100% completely straight because they have a "girly dick" or something. Like it's common enough to give rise to several memes.

EDIT: wait Cingulate is agreeing with someone here I am not used to that and thought I needed to make a counterpoint

Cingulate posted:

... You're a sexologist?

That's cool.

Or are you just saying you watch a lot of porn?

hackbunny posted:

What other outlets for intimacy are left for them though?

Terrible Opinions posted:

Don't worry eventually you'll outgrow shame and become fishmech.

Peztopiary posted:

Cingulate, are you British? That'd explain so, so much about how you post.

pookel posted:

Well, in theory, the idea is that people sometimes do good things in order to make themselves look good rather than out of altruism. This seems reasonable on the face of it; the problems comes in when you start applying that to everything you disagree with.

Cingulate posted:

FWIW, I don' think signalling is a prominent concept in psychology - it's economics or evolutionary biology.

Qwertycoatl posted:

They misuse the term "signalling" anyway. I'd love to see a NRx shitlord say "the stripes on a wasp are just signalling, so they can't really sting" and then poke a nest.

LordSaturn posted:

I hope I can elucidate this for you: It is a common Neoreactionary tactic to take some unsupported bias of their own and align it with some actual scientific phenomenon, usually biological, to better pretend their bias is a fact of nature. That is what Virtue Signalling is, rhetorically - taking "I don't think you're REALLY a good person" and aligning it with "you only act good because makes you more likely to reproduce if you do."

That is what people are trying to tell you.

Cingulate posted:

pookel posted:

Wait what? No, Alice isn't a boy name. Unless you're trying for a "boy named Sue" thing.

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

That's an incredibly good and accurate description of channers and I am going to steal that.

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

I mean even back when I was on it (god was it seriously almost a decade ago jesus) that describes it pretty well, at least that's the impression I always got. 4chan was the secret cool kids club where there were no rules - everyone said the most disgusting and terrible things they could because they could. Most people didn't even necessarily believe or (explicitly) endorse anything they were saying but this was a place that existed so that people could say literally whatever they want and face zero consequences by design and therefore you should say extreme things. It definitely makes sense to me that, from that vantage point, everything else seems artificially tame - people only aren't acting like that all the time because if society's rules, and being offended or taking things seriously is only for people who don't ~get~ that the internet is just for lulz.

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

Yeah as far as I can tell the transracial otherkin type of tumblrite is almost entirely composed of young people trying to come to terms with their own identity and society as a whole and growing up and all that junk.

However I don't know if the alt-right is that much older. I guess the "figureheads" (if you can call them that) tend to be, but I just can't see older people going to /pol/ in any sort of large numbers.

McGlockenshire posted:

If you haven't seen the "Final Statement on the LambdaConf Controversy", it's worth clicking into if only to read the headings and look at the diagrams. Those loving diagrams are the spergiest social interaction sperg that has ever sperged in the history of all sperglords, and I say that with "sperg" being a loving insult.

I don't understand the conclusion they've drawn from their logic. If you recognize a diversity problem, and then actively take steps to encourage diversity in your participants, why would you maintain an invitation to someone that has positions that are actively opposed to the diverse audience you are trying to attract? That position might make sense if the conference was about diversity, but given the social climate of the diversity problem itself, can't they see the problem they've stepped into? This is not a place where maintaining internally consistent logic is the correct choice, because social interaction is not a problem you can solve with beep-boop logic.

McGlockenshire posted:

I'm glad that you have had a good level of success navigating social interactions that way. I am not professionally diagnosed as being on the spectrum myself, nor do I self diagnose as being on the spectrum. Instead, my social handicap is an extreme fear of embarrassment. In my experience, attempting to apply state machine logic to individual social interaction can work if the interaction will be a predictable one. I have never found success assuming logical flow of conversations that aren't about a predictable subject, and I consistently misjudge and stick my foot in my mouth. If this is one of those cases, I apologize.

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

Completely off topic but have you heard about that experimental treatment using TMS that's allowed at least one guy to sense emotions for the first time?

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

I threw that Homestuck jab in there because there was this incredibly stupid PBS Idea Channel thing titled "Is Homestuck this generation's Ulysses?" or something like that.

Peztopiary posted:

Fishmech is actually a good poster. He's a better mod though.

Cardboard Box A posted:

I always assumed that photoshops of anime girls wearing trump hats were making fun of trump, but clearly I was wrong. We got a real life anime-loving nazi trumpeteer folks.

Woolie Wool posted:

Does Aurini pitch shift his voice? I find it distinctly unnatural sounding, and it would fit right in at his history of being a complete poser who pretends to smoke cigarettes, pretends to drink whiskey, and pins a target on his wall where all the holes are from a BB gun and none are on target.

e: oh my god Aurini posts on NMA I can't breathe from laughing so hard why haven't I watched hbomberguy videos before

Count Chocula posted:

I love Phil, but this blog is starting to pull me into Nick Land and Eugene Thacker's maw, and reminds me strongly of other depressed Lovecraftians I know. I'm still going to buy the book, but it's disturbing stuff for a guy I got into because of comic book wizards and Dr. Who.

Fututor Magnus posted:

https://twitter.com/Status451Blog/status/726155900365447168

The Vosgian Beast posted:

Wow! Even the description of this video is a fallacious lefty straw-man! I'm neither an AnCap or an MRA, you ninny! But you really do have the most annoyingly slimy, weasel-like face and manner to you.

I initially wondered whether this would actually dignify a video response. But then I fast-forwarded through this absurdity and found there was nothing to respond to. Furthermore, a response would require that I care enough to watch the entirety of a 15 minute postmodern pile of ad hominem garbage, where reality is shaped by opinion and emotion. Obviously there would be no getting through to you and your Borg audience, whatever I said, but I would make you look like a twit to the world at large, and that would be fun!

P.S. I'm sure your servile deference to women gets you no respect in practice, even as you lie about the notion that this stay-at-home dad thinks women have no rights. Meanwhile I'm very happily married, have two wonderful daughters, and unlike you I don't think that marriage is some sort of bourgeois trap of false consciousness that stands in the way of your creepy communist orgy cult. But good luck lying about people to get in the good books of feminists that are too sociopathic to ever love anyone but themselves. I'm sure love will find a way though, and all that!

P.P.S. Nice intro! Who wrote it?

P.P.P.S. What a lovely middle-class, bourgeois house you have, you northern man of the people! As a side note, I control this thread. So don't bother trolling it lefties, unless you want your comment removed, and your account blocked.
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Halloween Jack posted:

I'm immensely tired of douchebags who try to pull the trick where if something gets a positive response, they meant it, but if it gets a negative response, they claim they were just taking the piss and you're a puppet dancing on their strings. It was obviously bullshit when Boyd Rice did it.

Patrick Spens posted:

How is it possible for you to be this bad at reading?