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since communism cannot resolve internal disagreement and all of its perceived legitimacy comes from the claim to represent the unified and manifest will of the people, it cannot ever reach this point. communism does not allow you to take your ball and go home if you don't like how your time and resources are being used, it cannot possibly ever do that, because then communism doesn't have access to all of the resources to use them in the way that represents the manifest will of the proletariat.

it is impossible for a communist government to ever be comfortable enough to allow counterrevolutionary radicals to exist because their existence invalidates communism's claim on power.

That thing about how capitalism subsumes all criticism into itself is sometimes said as a critique but honestly that seems like a plus to me? Like can communism not do that?

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“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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the big franchise inspired by prince of persia was tomb raider

I recall several MS-DOS games that had overall time limits. most of them weren't good but System Shock was. Pathways Into Darkness had a time limit of five ingame days, consumed both in play and by resting.

the interesting thing about Prince of Persia is how few games copied it, like even its own sequels didn’t copy it, so it’s an acknowledged classic not just because it’s very good but also because it had so little influence on the genre it practically stands alone.

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what properties being copied are you thinking about

the interesting thing about Prince of Persia is how few games copied it, like even its own sequels didn’t copy it, so it’s an acknowledged classic not just because it’s very good but also because it had so little influence on the genre it practically stands alone.

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How (quantifiably) have the base rates of feminist or communist discourse changed over time across the internet at large? What gives you confidence in being able to track a rise or fall in these base rates, given that you voluntarily seek them out periodically for self-harm reasons, and go out of your way to attract communist and feminist hate-readers?

I don't understand what you mean by the changing base rate

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hey man i know the feminists are crazy but

eh. i can tell you to can it with the suicide talk, that it doesn't help, but i don't know how to reach you. i'm no good at pep talks and you're probably tired of hearing them. just live your best life, ok? i hope that means *something*

does the pep talk change anything?

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Since we followed each other we've probably disagreed more than we've agreed but I just wanted to say I'm glad to have you as a mutual and I consider you in any case a friendly face on the dash. Hope you're having a good one :)

it's not really a good one but it's not your fault and I'm trying to work on it, so thank you

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the issue is the grooming

it's terrible

comb your response's hair once in a while

Many issues with my response

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If you want to convince people to vote for you, you need to stop openly hating them. The social justice movement maintains that the most important standard of virtuous conduct is to "call out" hatred, so the open hatred the movement holds for white people and men can't be shrugged off.

Because the movements allied with the Democratic Party openly hate a very large portion of the population, that portion of the population does not believe you when you say they need to act a certain way or else be evil racists. You have spun up a very flattering story about how Trump won because he appealed to hatred, unfortunately, it's nonsense for two reasons.

One, it's obvious why "We hate you, Median Voter" is not an analogous strategy to "We hate those guys who are out to get you, Median Voter," and it's absurd to make the comparison. Do you actually, literally in real life believe that people wouldn't be more alienated by hatred aimed at them than by hate in general?

Two, that wasn't his strategy and wasn't why people voted for him. You say he hates Muslims and Mexicans and Chinese people. But the voters do not believe you when you say that. They don't trust you. When you and your allies claim someone is hateful, what it means about 90% of the time is "This person doesn't agree with every single one of my opinions about what is best for the demographics I like." They look at what you claim about Trump, and look at what Trump said, and immediately and correctly decide you cannot be trusted to determine who is hateful. You can't tell. You cannot tell the difference between "open hatred of this demographic" and "does not agree with every single one of my opinions about what is best for this demographic."

Because you're bad at cognitive empathy, you can't get a handle on the idea that people who don't believe in you don't believe you. You look at Trump making historic gains among Mexican voters, and you have to tell yourself a flattering story about how they were seduced by the hatred of someone else instead of thinking "Maybe they don't agree with me that Trump hates Mexicans."

OP, and you, needed to be more understanding of other people's opinions because you do not understand what those opinions are. You don't. And you have a set of goals that require you to understand other people's opinions in order to change those opinions. Your goals are materially harmed by your inability to understand those opinions. If you want to advance your goals, you need to stop telling flattering stories about how evil Trump supporters are, and actually try to understand the things they actually believe actually in the real world.

things we need to address:

gen z men getting pulled into alt-right pipelines through andrew tate, joe rogan, elon musk, jordan peterson etc

the gullibility and stupidity of half the country voting against our collective best interests

the broad effect social media has on public and common good

lazy minds and lack of empathy

outside-country interference (trump and elon’s connections to russia and the amount of bots from other countries spreading misinformation)

the long-term effects of AI and rampant disinformation

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The fact that he’s not actually struggling but just learned a habit from watching his human buddy snap bamboo is so precious.

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I once asked for a burger with no pickles from the Wendy's down the road, and you know how they wrap the burger so like it's easy to look at half of the burger by opening one flap, but you have to unwrap the whole thing to see the whole burger? I pulled over in the parking lot to check my order, lifted the flap, lifted the bun, no pickles, we're good! get home, start to eat it, motherfuckers put pickles only on the half you can't see when you check the burger like that.

I would start an entire tyrannical secret police that only exists to hunt down the staff of that Wendy's

it’s not that I want to be a brutal dictator who rules with an iron fist but if I was I would mandate the severest punishments for people who upload videos with missing or invalid metadata hoo boy you better believe it.

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if I was brutal iron-fisted dictator

if I say I want my burger plain and you put fucking pickles on it, exiled to the surface of the Sun

it’s not that I want to be a brutal dictator who rules with an iron fist but if I was I would mandate the severest punishments for people who upload videos with missing or invalid metadata hoo boy you better believe it.

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I just got into am argument with some dipshit on reddit who said mrbeast giving to charity was evil because he knew he'd get publicity and views from it; he said this meant he "always takes more than he gives" and had "stripped every ounce of humanity from the process" of giving to charity.

it's spite-cope. what matters isn't what happens, what matters is that it only be motivated by pure and selfless and messianic love for humanity. "I have pure and selfless love that I express by yelling at people for not being communists, so that means I'm better than people who have done more good because it was a good idea to do so."

another person accused me of loving the taste of the boot for saying that helping people is good even if he does so while making money. further evidence that no person who accused someone of being a bootlicker has ever had the slightest idea what the fuck they're talking about.

i was going to do a rant about this before seeing this tweet but imma just leave this here

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feminism's hatred for men is bottomless

there is nothing that happens or doesn't happen that is not both A: men's fault and B: proof of how evil and threatening men are. any metric by which men are better off is proof of how evil and threatening men are. any metric by which men are worse off is also proof of how evil and threatening men are.

there is nothing too incoherent, too obviously batshit, that feminists wouldn't agree with it if you just added "and that's why men are evil and stupid" to the end of it.

all is lost and suicide is the only escape. when I finally have the courage to escape from their hatred, they will make my death about them, and make it proof of how evil and threatening I was to them and proof of how victimized they are. but I won't have to suffer under it any more, so it's going to be your problem.

Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? (Celeste Davis, Oct 6 2024)

"White flight is a term that describes how white people move out of neighborhoods when more people of color move in.

White flight is especially common when minority populations become the majority. That neighborhood then declines in value.

Male flight describes a similar phenomenon when large numbers of females enter a profession, group, hobby or industry—the men leave. That industry is then devalued.

Take veterinary school for example:

In 1969 almost all veterinary students were male at 89%.

By 1987, male enrollment was equal to female at 50%.

By 2009, male enrollment in veterinary schools had plummeted to 22.4%

A sociologist studying gender in veterinary schools, Dr. Anne Lincoln says that in an attempt to describe this drastic drop in male enrollment, many keep pointing to financial reasons like the debt-to-income ratio or the high cost of schooling.

But Lincoln’s research found that “men and women are equally affected by tuition and salaries.”

Her research shows that the reason fewer men are enrolling in veterinary school boils down to one factor: the number of women in the classroom.

For every 1% increase in the proportion of women in the student body, 1.7 fewer men applied.

One more woman applying was a greater deterrent than $1000 in extra tuition! (…)

Since males had dominated these professions for centuries, you would think they would leave slowly, hesitantly or maybe linger at 40%, 35%, 30%, but that’s not what happens.

Once the tipping point reaches majority female- the men flee. And boy do they flee!

It’s a slippery slope. When the number of women hits 60% the men who are there make a swift exit and other men stop joining.

Morty Schapiro, economist and former president of Northwestern University has noticed this trend when studying college enrollment numbers across universities:

“There’s a cliff you fall off once you become 60/40 female/male. It then becomes exponentially more difficult to recruit men.”

Now we’ve reached that 60% point of no return for colleges.

As we’ve seen with teachers, nurses and interior design, once an institution is majority female, the public perception of its value plummets.

Scanning through Reddit and Quora threads, many men seem to be in agreement - college is stupid and unnecessary.

A waste of time and money. You’re much better off going into the trades, a tech boot camp or becoming an entrepreneur. No need for college. (…)

When mostly men went to college? Prestigious. Aspirational. Important.

Now that mostly women go to college? Unnecessary. De-valued. A bad choice. (…)

School is now feminine. College is feminine. And rule #1 if you want to safely navigate this world as a man? Avoid the feminine.

But we don’t seem to want to talk about that."

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creatureness confirmed

thinking about creatures.

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You discover that you have control over a certain thing, as determined by spinning this wheel. We're talking full-on magical girl/superhero/supervillain/your label of choice control.

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"childish" is the relevant quality

using stupid childish boo-light insults is the thing that makes you less trustworthy

saying "pedostani" is evidence against you because it's a lame "boo light" pun, like calling Israel "Isnotreal" or calling a sports team you don't like the "Kansas City Queefs." which is the behavior of someone who is not engaging with things thoughtfully but just looking for any justification for hating something and looking for any way to express hate of something. someone who thinks that's good is probably grasping at straws and not very critical of anything that justifies their dislike.

I will take your advice in the spirit of an autist being told "that was rude and you should not do it" about social norms which I must treat as near-brute-facts which I don't understand, from a trusted source.

Because the reasoning sounds fake.

Israel is one of the most real countries, actively country-ing, unlike places such as Belgium which is just coasting on internal habit and Euro pacifism, and "Isnotreal" is wrong but it sounds mildly childish at worst and mostly I just ignore it. I hear worse insults from my mutuals.