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Never had a hate follower that I knew was a hate follower before. It's a weird feeling.

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I am slowly losing my mind over the shift towards video as the default media format.

I do not find this to be an efficient way to absorb information. I am bored and distracted by the time the largely unnecessary introduction is over. I can't use ctrl+f to find the specific information I'm looking for. If there are instructions to follow, I don't want to have to constantly pause and back up to the part I need.

At least give me a fucking transcript.

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treat black queers kindly and love us. that's all.

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I've been seeing a lot of posts about piracy lately and in light of this i do need to say something because I've been seeing a lot of misinformation.

anti-viruses, vpns, ad-blockers- none of these are going to help you here.

the first thing you're going to need is a good solid boat (preferably oak wood). you will also want some cannons and a plank depending on the sort of shenanigans you plan on getting into.

Also! Not once have i seen any of you talking about the importance of citrus fruits and vitamin C. antivirus doesn't prevent scurvy. come on you should know this by now.

this sort of misinformation is wildly dangerous and irresponsible.

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not to be all i told you so about ancestry tests but 23 and me went bankrupt and can now legally sell human genetic information to the highest bidder, as per their privacy policy which was signed by approx. 15 million test takers

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Being an asshole is not a badge of honor. It's more of an indication of emotionally immaturity and fragility than anything else.

We all get irritated and sometimes it's going to come out, but if you're going to commit to being an asshole you need to learn to live with the consequences.

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Oh, no, I get you, that's abundantly clear.

Since the things you say teach people regardless, I think it's important to point out that sometimes when people are trying to poke fun they're just being assholes.

Or like, to put it in terms that the "read what you like, who cares if you exclusively read kids' stuff" crowd are at a reading level to understand:

In the book "Green Eggs and Ham," the main character insists that he will only eat things he likes, and refuses under all circumstances when presented with an opportunity to try something new. At the end of the novel [spoiler alert] he agrees to Sam-I-Am's request and tries them, and he realizes that he was depriving himself of a favorite food for years, just out of fear of disliking something he ate. He learns a lesson, moving forward, that if he tries new things outside his comfort zone, that he may dislike some of them, but will enjoy many of them, and if he doesn't try new things outside his comfort zone, he will not like anything but the one thing he already eats.

Can you think of any situations in your own life where Sam-I-Am's teachings might be applicable?

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That's not the whole picture.

The problem is that sometimes it's the tool and sometimes it's the person using it.

Anarchists oppose state power on the basis that state power is in and of itself corrupt, regardless of whoever wields it. Put the best person you can find in charge of it and it's still state power, it's still designed in such a way where it's going to harm people.

So yeah, it is the tool. Some tools are just that dangerous.

An axe is a tool that people use to chop wood. You could use it to inflict pain and injury, but that's not why it exists, that's not what it's good for, and someone using it like that is intentionally choosing to do harm. It's the person using the tool.

Guns are designed to harm living things. They're dangerous in and of themselves, regardless of who is using them and for what reason. Accident, self-harm, or escalation, they present an inherent danger. It's the tool.

It's important to understand this if you want to understand how power works. We aren't perfect rational actors and sometimes the tool matters.

I hate using analogies generally but anarchists really act like a tool is actually the wielder of it

as if a gun kills people and not the person pulling the trigger

as if axes chop trees and not the hands bringing it against the trunk

idk i may be off in my analysis but from what I can tell they seem to believe state power runs the people in it not that people in the state run the state power

no i think you're pretty much spot on with this tbh

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Here's where the kind of responses above tend to fail too:

It's also important to not say things like

"i don't think you're merely missing the point, i think you might just actually be dumb."

and

"Babies understand this book better than this."

when you want to help educate people.

Because no one learns when the teacher is an asshole.

It makes perfect sense that a kid who grew up being bullied about food might read that in Green Eggs & Ham, no matter how hard someone wants to mock them having a wrong opinion.

If you want them to understand, you need to be willing to disagree with them and tell them what you think they missed *without* being a total ass about it.

Or like, to put it in terms that the "read what you like, who cares if you exclusively read kids' stuff" crowd are at a reading level to understand:

In the book "Green Eggs and Ham," the main character insists that he will only eat things he likes, and refuses under all circumstances when presented with an opportunity to try something new. At the end of the novel [spoiler alert] he agrees to Sam-I-Am's request and tries them, and he realizes that he was depriving himself of a favorite food for years, just out of fear of disliking something he ate. He learns a lesson, moving forward, that if he tries new things outside his comfort zone, that he may dislike some of them, but will enjoy many of them, and if he doesn't try new things outside his comfort zone, he will not like anything but the one thing he already eats.

Can you think of any situations in your own life where Sam-I-Am's teachings might be applicable?

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Reminder: you can always just stop hating and being an asshole. You'll probably even feel better about yourself.

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Brutalism isn't fascist or ugly.

That's just something that art snobs that don't know anything about politics or history say.

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Anti-voting rhetoric will be the death of the left. Literally.

Not a single fucking Republican voted to protect roe. It was fucking overturned in the first place bc trump got three Supreme Court appointments.

Every fucking thing wrong in this country is almost certainly the result of Republicans being in power. In 2020, Texas cut half of the polling places in black neighborhoods, and doubled them in white ones, regardless of population. It was Republicans bitching about mail in voting, and constantly, constantly fearmonger about voter fraud. Literally, their platform is about making civil rights harder to practice.

Would you like to know why? It’s because Republican politicians know better than anyone that higher voter participation means higher republican loss.

But what do I see from the online left, champions of the oppressed?

“Voting doesn’t do anything, the parties are the same, the system is rigged, etc, etc”

Don’t sit here and tell me you give a fuck about marginalized people if you aren’t ready to march your ass to the voting booth and vote out the party actively stripping their rights away.

Protest, donate, community build, unionize, and vote, vote, vote.

By the time direct action is the only option, it will be too fucking late.

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This is very much not true and you should refute this kind of misconception if you see anyone posting it.

Here's what actually happened:

The inciting incident that pushed the US into World War 2 was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941. Japan launched the attack on Pearl Harbor in an attempt to cripple the US pacific fleet and keep the US from entering the war on the side of the allies, because it was obvious to even common citizens that the US was strongly considering entering the war to oppose Germany.

In the years leading up to Pearl Harbor, the US was already debating entering into the war against Germany. Congress was arguing about it, regular people were arguing about it, but it was never about communism and it was always about whether or not we should get into a war with Germany.

There are two more simple proofs we can look at:

The nazis turned on the Soviet Union in June of 1941 and Pearl Harbor was just six months later in December of 1941. Not only does US aggression against Germany predate the nazis turning on the Soviet Union, there's literally no way that the US would have arrived at the conclusion that the fascism 'could not defeat communism' after just six months of conflict between Germany and the USSR.

Next, the US entered into the war with the attitude that the communists were our allies in the conflict. They were fighting with us at the time. While the relationship between our two countries was never great, we were decidedly allied at the outset of the US involvement in the war. It wasn't until after the war that the hostility really started to heat up.

@apas-95, I'd encourage you to retract this post and issue a correction to it. This badly misleads people about actual history. If you want to talk about the ways in which the US absolutely used WW2 to consolidate power, that's a reasonable conversation to have and it doesn't require any misinformation to have it.

Understand this: the reason the US ultimately sided against German fascism was because it failed. It could not defeat communism. When this became clear, the US came in, swept up the mess, and made sure that as much territory as possible was under its own control.

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“I report starving people cause they asked me for money”

kill yourself you disgusting lazy fascist colonizer asshole

You're fucking delusional if you think starving people have BOT accounts. The ones that send me messages and that do not listen to the fact that my blog says in 3 different places NOT to send me those requests, have ALL been spam accounts. That dumb shit cunts like you give real money to instead of doing anything of any actual value to give ANY relief to anyone from Palestine.

The fact that people like you exist, so up yourself that I am pretty sure you just mainline your own shit for breakfast, insisting that ALL these Palestinian blogs with stolen photos and who do NOTHING but post all day, and you go to a twitter account that also used those same pictures and they are something posting multiple times per minute but you wanna give them grace?

Do what the fuck you want with your money, but I think actually swallowing every nickel and penny you find is a better use of your time AND money than sitting here and defending bot accounts that no one is really attached to.

Nothing says "born a fuckwit and I'll DIE a fuckwit" more than that. Peace.

Edit: actually the fact that some of you guys give the girlfriend experience to these bots SO MUCH that I saw a list of "verified" tumblr users being shared that absolutely and unequivocally included impossible bot accounts is wild. Y'all will do anything other than give your money to a charity who can actually help people in Gaza.

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To give a little more detail about the misconceptions in this thread:

Lancer isn't utopian or dystopian. It's an anti-utopian setting, in which humanity has achieved a small degree of freedom and stability and is trying to fight for a better future for everyone.

The PCs come from a society known as the Union, which has finally embraced the principles that everyone should have their material needs met, worlds without borders, and that completely abolishes exploitation and slavery.

This comes at the end of a very long and bloody history in which the Union finally evolved into a form that abandoned the horror and authoritarianism of its previous eras, managing to establish a true and lasting peace on Earth and the core worlds.

The rest of the settled galaxy, unfortunately, is still a cesspit of human greed and exploitation. While the Union seeks to free all people through diplomacy, war still exists because there are still human civilizations that rule through exploitation and greed.

Which serves as an interesting backdrop for massive mech battles fought by heroes trying to find a way to liberate countless enslaved peoples while facing off against villains inspired by the worst depredations of the 20th century.

Anyone who describes the game as liberal hasn't actually bothered reading it.

i get hating lancer for being typical insufferable liberal fart-smelling and hand-waving so many things like the existence of NHPs and the weird "everything under the union is a utopia, except for the parts that aren't" but i think the most frustrating thing *alongside* all of this is the fact that it's genuinely well put together, in the aspect of game mechanics and readability and online tools (especially compcon).

yeah lancer is fucking fantastically put together as a game. so much depth and expression to character building, such elegant rules, and such a welath of excellent gm resources. i really loved my actual time with that game for sure. COMP/CON is i think the best online resource for any ttrpg bar none