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by yew 1y ago
> I am well past the point in my life where I engage with that sort of noise in any good faith[.] One must certainly agree that there's no point engaging with this in good faith.
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by yew 1y ago
Nah. The people writing racist fanfiction on AO3 are equally beardy, and those are mostly women. It's just the standard weirdos/creeps problem.
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by yew 1y ago
Fictional things can't lose elections, silly.
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by yew 1y ago
> Power corrupts... "And absolute power is kind of neat."
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by yew 1y ago
Evidence is socially constructed. It's the view of the public that neckbeards and debate-bros should be expunged. This isn't a debate.
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by yew 1y ago
Sounds like Pearson here needs a few years to cool off, reconsider getting involved with this kind of provocative troublemaking.
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by yew 1y ago
Ah, sorry for the confusion. I'm not advocating group solidarity. ("Group" and "solidarity" are such fuzzily broad terms. But I think, not in the sense you intend. Real humans are, of course, social creatures.)
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by yew 1y ago
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by yew 1y ago
Meritocracy isn't real and hard work doesn't work, but there are lots of real factors under your control. Vote in your own best interest. Get involved in politics. Favor class, gender, ethnic interests. Sharpen your social skills.
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by yew 2y ago
"No, John. You are the neckbeards." And then John was an incel.
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by yew 2y ago
I think we should probably ban reading old books. They seem to infect people with bad ideas.
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by yew 2y ago
> "How Americans edit sex out of my writing" Reading, I would say that the author isn't really "European" but rather a sex pest trying to sell an American audience the exoticism of "Europe." (See Neil G
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by yew 2y ago
(Unsafety and fear always motivate silence and action. You might expect certain people to understand that better than most.)
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by yew 2y ago
Not particularly. The matter is no longer up for discussion. Silence and action are best.
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by yew 2y ago
Hm. I see them as connected - "we must confront our problems domestically before we fight them abroad."
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by yew 2y ago
> The progressive left’s recent deviation into science-mongering is so hot and heavy with irony that it can be difficult to hold onto it long enough for serious examination. We may at least say that it represents desperation, and a tragi
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by yew 2y ago
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by yew 2y ago
Everyone who ever read that stuff needs the Larry Garfield treatment...
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by yew 2y ago
Meh. The neckbeards deserve it.
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by yew 2y ago
He collected the cars and wrote about the (non-fictional) drugs. He wasn't an exhibitionist, as far as I know, so you'll have to infer what you like about the middle one from his writing. Some related reading: https://w
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by yew 2y ago
Banks had very "fast cars, chicks, and drugs" tastes - a "bro" if you will - and much of his work is basically James Bond stories. I'm not sure the fans are surprising.
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by yew 2y ago
Really? Doesn't everyone occasionally pretend to be a Turkish gamer on Tumblr? It's normal where I'm from...
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by yew 2y ago
The most important lesson of the 2010s is that neckbeards and g*mers whine online, but they can't stop paying.
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Most couples just can't be happy(woodfromeden.substack.com)
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by yew 2y ago
The neckbeards are leaking again. Someone go beat them with a spanner.
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by yew 2y ago
This seems rather confused. The author writes about the movement to remove tech bros, but then also about the "independent web" - a movement certainly made up at least substantially of neckbeards and tech bros. How do these fit to
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by yew 3y ago
Who cares about frozen fruit? Sheer irrelevance.
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by yew 3y ago
There are degrees of enforceability. When I was first getting online, the expectation was that you at least had to be bright enough to lie about your age. Now I have to occasionally prune my timeline after it fills up with "literally a
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by yew 3y ago
Probably worth noting that the linked article claims that "Israel [...] its now-clear slaughter of many, perhaps most, of the Israeli victims on the day of the raid." Whoever wrote this definitely deserves to be (permanently) de-b
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by yew 3y ago
(Though most of the mad little losers are culturally Christian whatever they call themselves, so I suppose you're right in that sense.)

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