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i think of demons posted:I just didn't listen as I wasn't that interested and get irritated when anyone has anything but venom for Heidegger A Heidegger-fucker like Arendt must be impossible for you to discuss, then
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# ¿ Jul 12, 2020 23:09 |
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# ¿ May 11, 2024 16:55 |
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Clibanarius posted:There's some chud out there who has, like, 15+ hours of bitching about The Force Awakens (and TLJ + TRoS?). I think I'll just listen to that twice. It'll be less toxic to my brain. https://twitter.com/JennyENicholson/status/1191602307579838464 Mauler is hilarious, but not for the reasons he thinks he is He's purestrain Logical Rational I-don't-have-opinions-I-state-Facts Guy, and spends literally all of his time talking about why The Avengers is objectively the greatest film ever made (and how women
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# ¿ Nov 19, 2020 19:34 |
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The mash-up Tumblr/Karen-asking-for-the-manager energy is strong on twitter today
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# ¿ Nov 20, 2020 01:38 |
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Panzeh posted:efap is something even worse- 11 hour streams of 6 people really badly joking around and sometimes vaguely being on topic about the title of the video, they call the format the superchat Uh, I think you'll find that the Robot is perfecly objectively correct and has no opinions and only states Facts about Art and Movies and what is Good and Bad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjCEaE5kvb4
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# ¿ Nov 20, 2020 01:42 |
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It'd be cool if we could just, like, accept that the rules and traditions of clan scorpion from legend of the five rings exists now, and some of us are just going to keep wearing more and more elaborate and intentionally unnerving masks everyday for the rest of our lives, and will, in fact, be very offended if you ask us to remove our masks.
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# ¿ Nov 29, 2020 01:21 |
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fr0id posted:gently caress JD Vance forever quote:After graduating, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps[15] and served in Iraq, performing public affairs activities.[16] Vance later received a B.A. degree in political science and philosophy from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.[8][17] At Ohio State, he worked for Republican state senator Bob Schuler.[18]
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# ¿ Nov 29, 2020 01:28 |
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Goast posted:wasn't one of the crictical roll guys a sex pervert but not in the cool way quote:Why do we not talk about Orion Acaba or Tiberius Stormwind? And then there was the scandal where an internet person tried to hire themselves as a sensitivty reader for the podcast, and threw a temper tantrum when no one on the show wanted to accept said offer to join the cast and have control over what happened on it, resulting in this very carefully worded legal statement: A bit interesting that someone with supposedly extensive experience being bullied online would attempt to online bully their way into a job, but (probably) not a sex thing.
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# ¿ Dec 4, 2020 13:33 |
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Halloween Jack posted:Jesus Christ, you don't have to give absolutely everyone the time of day because they said you "silenced" them or whatever on the Internet. I'm guessing they threatened to sue for breach of contract, CR called a lawyer to certify that no breach had occured because there was no contract, and the person parasocial relationshiped into a meltdown. It's not too uncommon for online folks to have a person glom onto them and refuse to let go. And I can see how someone would fall into the trap of chatting with someone online for a while, telling them all their darkest secrets, looking forward to chatting more, and making more out of the relationship than there was on the other side. See also, people falling in love with their therapists and all the ethical training that is supposed to keep the therapist from getting hurt or taking advantage of the situation. Philosophy Tube did a pretty good video on this subject and how he deals with it. Ollie Thorn posted:I've done a few videos about mental health, and very often people write to me saying that they've been helped by those videos or even occasionally that those videos saved their life, which is an awesome and humbling thing for someone to tell you. But some people will message me their entire medical history, often detailing their mental trauma at great length in rambling, unstructured prose like a Ulysses of suffering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IG0Y63LkDM
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# ¿ Dec 4, 2020 19:39 |
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MonsieurChoc posted:I've been meaning to check out Pynchon for years. Which one would be a good start? V. (1963) is an interesting first novel that meanders a lot but does some neat stylistic and structural tricks that will feature more prominently in his later books. Crying of Lot 49 (1966) is a pot boiler he wrote for some quick drug money, but it's a fun paranoid romp. Gravity's Rainbow (1973) is his magnum opus, and he threw every crazy idea he had into it. It makes a lot more sense the 2nd time through, but I'm not going to seriously recommend anyone actually do that. If you like crazy WWII stuff, you'll enjoy it. Slow Learner (1984) is mostly interesting for the introduction, wherein he tells you that basically all the stories (the early ones he published before V.) in the book suck real bad, and he wishes he could have written them better, points out all the plot holes, errors, and stupid bits, but then says basically since people were clamoring for easy access to them, so here you go, enjoy the trash feast. Vineland (1990) is Crying of Lot 49 through the lens of the 80s looking back at 60s nostalgia, and is just as cynical and paranoid as that should be. It wasn't the next Gravity's Rainbow, which is why reviewers were pretty disappointed after waiting 17 years for his next novel to come out (he was also writing Mason & Dixon and possibly Against the Day during this period), but I liked it. Mason & Dixon (1997) is an interesting take on the historical novel and, unlike most of his other books, not so much a paranoid romp as it is (literally) a story being told to some kids (and the assorted adults who enter and leave the room, with the story changing depending on the narrator's audience). Some very nice bits about male friendship and some nasty bits about the nature of empires, in the same dosage. Against the Day (2006) is, in my opinion, his most accessible long novel. It's a great story about why the modern world is as terrible as it is, and how good people have fought tooth and nail against it for very justified and persuasive reasons, coupled with his typical silliness and love of adventure stories. Inherent Vice (2009) is like a redux of Crying of Lot 49. If you enjoyed Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, or Tom O'Neill's Chaos, you'll probably enjoy this one. Probably the best Pynchon to start with. Very good movie adaptation, as well. Bleeding Edge (2013) is Pynchon's take on 9/11, and it's very odd seeing his kaleidoscopic approach applied to the modern day. A very C-Spam meets YOSPOS novel. Farm Frenzy posted:he said theres no documented proof of the pop cultural depiction of trafficking where its children being snatched off the street and stuffed into shipping containers People thinking of trafficking tend to assume it's like this godawful thriller from 2008, where the evil bus driver has a complicated scheme to kidnap women from airports, murder a couple guys in the process, and then ship the one healthy woman to east asia on a container ship. See also films like the pretty entertaining Lian Neeson thriller Taken, where basically everything the protagonist wants to happen happens so he can tell his daughter I told you so for disobeying him, or the disappointing torture horror Hostel series. The reality is somehow even more depressing and disgusting. You can just go to a poor rural neighborhood most places worldwide and find someone who'll sell you their daughter or sister for not that much money, or find a girl willing to accompany you for the same relativly small amount of money. No need for elaborate kidnapping schemes when you can just pay a couple thousand dollars to the right people, toss a college sweatshirt on the girl so she "looks 18", and take her with you on the airplane. At worst (again, relative use of "worst" here), you get lonely and vulnerable girls who get catfished by a guy to come "live with the guy who loves them" a couple states over or to eastern europe or whatever, sort of "trafficking themselves", and for the cost of a plane ticket it's the pattern of abusive relationship where she needs to prostitute herself "just one time" because "they need the money" and "she owes him" and poo poo spirals down from there. gently caress. I'm depressed and angry just writing that.
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# ¿ Dec 8, 2020 06:16 |
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Uhh, yikes! This certainly went places...
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# ¿ Dec 23, 2020 08:23 |
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MikeCrotch posted:Also for reference lots of countries used the £sd system back in the day, often because they were colonies of the UK. The US decimalised 10 years after the country was founded i.e. 190 years before the Brits lol I wish more countries would use an LSD system for... well, everything.
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# ¿ Feb 18, 2021 18:08 |
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Gio posted:pure speculation, all just gossip but i kinda got the impression virgil was a bit of a punching bag behind the scenes and got fed up with it. I have no idea where you'd get that impression. Justin seems chill when his friends talk about him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iaf7AfCETQY
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# ¿ Mar 18, 2021 05:59 |
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xtal posted:I only just learned about NFT, what's NPR? not much, what's NPR with you?
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# ¿ Mar 19, 2021 17:00 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:Wynn is trying to pass off those phrases as cliche and annoying Is there, like, any evidence whatsoever that these turns of phrase originated in AAVE? Just even, you know, a smidgen? Or is this another case of "Racism is bad, therefore anything bad is racist"?
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# ¿ Mar 21, 2021 05:00 |
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uber_stoat posted:every time Noah's name comes up i have to restate that he wrote an entire book about how people own him online. like a third of it was about Freddie De Boer. Berlatsky is a baffling person https://twitter.com/SpacePirateJB/status/1205982812483899392 https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1206018871779561472 https://twitter.com/pixelatedboat/status/1183199943609081856 https://twitter.com/golikehellmachi/status/1338621988974170113
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2021 21:58 |
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some plague rats posted:Yeah one of my favourite bits of Felix lore is that his ideal woman is a cruel blond WASP who hates him So Felix is the millennial James Carville?
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# ¿ Mar 26, 2021 02:54 |
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Does she study the genocide of females, or female committed genocide? It's unclear
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2021 17:01 |
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Zedhe Khoja posted:goddamn yungchomsky https://alittlebitofrest.com/2020/07/26/sadcast-show-notes-yung-chomsky-menswear-the-left/ quote:What is so intriguing about YC is that he represents the intersection of classic/vintage menswear and left-wing politics, at least in terms of his online persona. In reality, he’s just a Marxist who happens to be one of the best dressed people I’ve seen. quote:47:50- Dressing on The Left quote:5:40- Aesthetics
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2021 05:18 |
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xtal posted:This is the most literal example of boot licking in this thread yet When a person is a thirst trap, they're going to attract the thirsty.
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2021 05:32 |
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Liz is right about the New Soviet Man ideal. Read theory and lift weights
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2021 21:37 |
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Lil Nas X go on cumtown https://twitter.com/KaitMarieox/status/1376375609555886080
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2021 22:01 |
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THS posted:i really dont get the nick land stuff Basically, Land is one of those guys who is pretty good at identifying problems, but the analyses he makes and the solutions he comes up with are bat poo poo and wrong. Like, in the following, he makes an almost Marxist point about socioeconomic status and inter-generational wealth, but alongside it is happily rubbing his hands thinking about the "refuse" being taken out. Tl;dr: rich people only mate with other rich people, and this is good, because poor people are poor and therefore bad. Rich and poor are races now. Nick Land posted:While I generally seeks to spread dismay whenever the opportunity arises, I cannot pretend to a huge obsession with what might be described as ordinary racism. When perusing the thought-crimes of the mainstream racist community, it is continually afflicted by a sense of overwhelming unreality. This is not (of course), because races do not exist, or do not differ significantly, or … whatever. The most politically incorrect cognitive position on almost every point of this kind is reliably closer to reality than its more socially-convenient and comforting alternatives. https://web.archive.org/web/20141007023855/http://alternative-right.blogspot.com/2014/10/hyper-racism.html
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2021 17:53 |
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Danger posted:Aberration in the Heartland of the Real Oh my. Ordering this right now, and looking forward to the inevitable TrueAnon episode on the subject
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# ¿ Apr 3, 2021 04:42 |
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It would be simpler for her to say she's writing yuri or class s, but that doesn't check enough boxes for non-weebs quote:In order to pass the Bechdel test, fiction films have to meet the following three criteria: quote:It’s also where numerous selections pass the Bechdel test (movies like Christine and Sand Storm, in which two women talk to each other about something besides a man) and, in honor of the director and Sundance alumna Ava DuVernay, what might be called the DuVernay test, in which African-Americans and other minorities have fully realized lives rather than serve as scenery in white stories. quote:The "Mako Mori test", formulated by Tumblr user "Chaila" and named after the only significant female character of the 2013 film Pacific Rim, asks whether a female character has a narrative arc that is not about supporting a man's story. Comic book writer Kelly Sue DeConnick proposed a "sexy lamp test": "If you can replace your female character with a sexy lamp and the story still basically works, maybe you need another draft." quote:The "Vito Russo test" created by the LGBT organization GLAAD tests for the representation of LGBT characters in films. It asks: Does the film contain a character that is identifiably LGBT, and is not solely or predominantly defined by their sexual orientation or gender identity, as well as tied into the plot in such a way that their removal would have a significant effect? quote:Contemporary shows are either essentially all-male, like "Garfield", or are organized on what I call the Smurfette principle: a group of male buddies will be accented by a lone female, stereotypically defined (...) The message is clear. Boys are the norm, girls the variation; boys are central, girls peripheral; boys are individuals, girls types. Boys define the group, its story and its code of values. Girls exist only in relation to boys. Also, https://twitter.com/guillotineshout/status/1378477953634467850
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# ¿ Apr 4, 2021 15:04 |
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Halloween Jack posted:It's funny how much stuff in these "activist" circles comes from a random Tumblr post. This is a problem with Tumblr that Dale Beran identified in It Came From Something Awful. quote:Posts endured for years, bouncing around the site to be polished, well, like gems in a tumbler. Often this replication made the images and memes funnier or more interesting. But this also meant that many posts were argued over and annotated with each reblog. Even stranger, the annotations rarely ran on forever, as one might expect. Eventually, the various sides in the dialogue reached a consensus and what was then reblogged was like a rabbinical commentary, a settled piece of cultural law. quote:The same dynamics occurring on Tumblr are perhaps best shown in its relationship to an episode of the dystopian science-fiction TV series Black Mirror titled “San Junipero.” In the piece, a young interracial couple fall in love in a montage of hyper-real retro settings, pitch-perfect replications of the glamorous backdrops from classic movies of the 70s, 80s, and 90s. And here’s the twist (spoiler alert!): they are meeting in a networked virtual reality simulation. Though they appear as teenagers, in real life they are very old and using the fantasy realm to explore their sexuality in ways that were not possible in their own lives. The story ends when the two lovers, facing death, upload a copy of their consciousness into the simulation. There, the computer replicas of their brains endure together forever, dancing and partying in paradise. To inform us the couple are enjoying an afterlife of truly eternal love, the 80s ballad “Heaven Is a Place on Earth” blasts over the scene.
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# ¿ Apr 5, 2021 03:56 |
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Xaris posted:is that book any good? I really enjoyed it. I know nothing about the author, but, having lived through it, everything checked out against my memories, and his analysis of the situation seemed pretty c-spamish. Beren is not too big a fan of consumer culture divorced from any actual material progress quote:Those agitating for radical change believed they were affecting reality, when in fact they had received (and were often satisfied with) radical change only within the confines of a simulated fantasy world.
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# ¿ Apr 5, 2021 04:35 |
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Pirate Jet posted:tumblr was never actually that popular, it was bought by yahoo for 2 billion and then sold for like 20 million. it was just a hot target for internet mockery because its users were especially silly and dumb. dashcon is one of the funniest ways the internet has ever broken into real life, but it’s odd that the lesson that people take from it was that tumblr is this massive corrupting force and not that it was a minority of crazy people too small and too stupid to handle a convention center for a weekend Barack Obama became president because of Star Trek: Voyager Donald Trump became president because of Gamergate We live in a timeline where the stupidest butterflies cause the stupidest tornadoes, and pretending that numerous deleterious things in modern liberal culture didn't originate or get popular on Tumblr and spread from there is a bit naive
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# ¿ Apr 5, 2021 15:41 |
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:hasan is hot tho This Is the Ideal Male Body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like
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# ¿ Apr 6, 2021 06:31 |
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crazy eyes mustafa posted:vaginas are gross. me, I only suck dick
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# ¿ Apr 6, 2021 15:15 |
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https://twitter.com/ThiccStauskas/status/1377280263890341891
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# ¿ Apr 7, 2021 03:29 |
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lumpentroll posted:just nothing but stav laughing https://stavbot.github.io/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arw4KlfxHrs
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# ¿ Apr 8, 2021 15:54 |
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Gripweed posted:That was a pretty funny combination of making a really lame tweet to your self-selected terrible audience. One of the Mcelroys was like "Harry Styles is so cute! Everyone thinks I'm bi but I'm not even though I'd be really good at it tee hee" and an hour later had to publicly apologize for doing bi erasure and being a bad ally. The internalized toxic masculinity is strong with their fans, apparently.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2021 16:00 |
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THS posted:on an aircraft carrier Only if we get to have tank club after school
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2021 05:39 |
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Malleum posted:the reason the video is so long is because she goes through some insane person's twitter thread that catalogued all the supposed injustices that she got away with and while thats insane, so is compiling a huge list of specific grievances from 10 years ago I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Some folks think that clout and popularity work by Highlander rules, and that if you can take down a popular internet figure, you will gain all their followers
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2021 05:09 |
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some plague rats posted:Quickly before I get probed again someone tell me the single best cumtown ep Pussy for lobster
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2021 05:10 |
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Deified Data posted:In podcast-related news Robert Evans was weirdly insistent on driving home the anti-semitism of Marx and the left of his time in an episode about the right-wing conspiracy theory, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion Shame that one was already done better by some superior podcasters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8h0Q5TwwgY
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# ¿ Apr 20, 2021 06:00 |
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MeatwadIsGod posted:"Please don't read these texts or you might realize Jacobin sucks" Time spent with the primary sources and interpreting them for yourself is time spent not obeying me, the smart person with all the answers
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# ¿ Apr 22, 2021 16:40 |
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Halloween Jack posted:Is there some straightforward argument that cuts through this bullshit, or is it like libertarians with the crony capitalism thing, where it's an article of religious faith? I find repeatedly asking for more and more details and more and more clarification whenever they bring something up, really letting them get lost in the woods of details, especially when they use weaselly words like "capitalism" "socialism" "essence" etc. Sort of a reverse gish gallop, if you will, because if they're so smart and understand this so well, why can't they get you to understand it? Doesn't work on everyone, but it at least lets everyone around listening "enjoy" the slow decline into inevitable racism.
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# ¿ Apr 23, 2021 06:39 |
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i say swears online posted:wikipedia > wookieepedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWuPOKWrjAk
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# ¿ May 2, 2021 16:04 |
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# ¿ May 11, 2024 16:55 |
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What... even is that weapon he's holding on the right? Looks like one of those overbuilt video game guns cosplayers carry
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