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left wing arguer: okay tumblypoos what you just saw right there is called "dogmeating". it's where somebody will present contradictory evidence in order to make you unsure of your beliefs and it's a classic abuse tactic

right-wing arguer: will no one rid me of these troublesome immigrants

centrist arguer: nobody knows for sure why you shouldn't be allowed to disagree

st-just

One of the stranger tropes of tumblr (and like, to a lesser extent general) discourse is like - anger or disbelief or outright contempt/mockery for someone whose suffered a traumatic experience or serious misfortune that was not the most statistically likely course of events to occur and/or that is counter to the narrative they find politically convenient? Well mostly that last bit, I'm sure.

On the most zoomed out and least loaded level I can think of, it is basically axiomatic that large military operation by any organized and armed force will commit some atrocities. It's one of the reasons people say (but mostly don't believe) that crimes of aggression are the most serious and foundational war crimes of all. Despite this, basically no one on here who has ever picked a side in a conflict as 'the good ones' seems capable of accepting their guys might have done a massacre or tortured prisoners or abused civilian populations.

Certainly people seem incredibly resistant to accepting that states or administrations (or even specific policies and projects) that they consider praiseworthy has some price in blood and tears. The reaction to first-hand accounts of said price are usually reacted to as entirely bad-faith propaganda.

To instead use as personal and loaded an example as possible, see the intense emotional investment a certain number of people have in women being Safe and incapable of being abusive in relationships.

argumate

there's a particular breed of twitter/youtube account who has been posting RUSSIA IS SO BONED once a week since 2022 and their posting frequency has increased to every couple of hours in mid-2026

argumate

France Just Dealt Russia a DEVASTATING Blow Satellite Imagery Just Confirmed Putin's Worst Nightmare Russia Just Got Some TERRIBLE News The Situation on Crimea Has Become Truly Insane Russia is Now Fleeing the ENTIRE Sea of Azov (75 Ships Disabled!) Russia Has Gone Completely Insane Ukraine Just DELETED Russia’s Shadow Fleet Russia is Threatening to “Use the Nukes” Again (lol) Russian Society is Completely Unraveling Russia is Completely Folding Right Now Russia’s Military Has Begun Abandoning the Front Lines Putin's Closest Ally Just Betrayed Him Russians Are Now FLEEING Crimea in HUGE Numbers Russia's Propagandists are Panicking About Crimea Right Now Ukraine Just Warned ALL Russians to FLEE Crimea (while they still can) Ukraine Just Triggered a MASSIVE Fuel Crisis in Russia Something BIG is Brewing in Chechnya Right Now The Belarus Situation is Becoming a BIG Problem for Putin Russia Just Lost Their Most Important Leader (more important than Putin) Putin's Response to Armenia's Election Was Absolutely INSANE Putin is FURIOUS as Elite Russian Soldiers Flee Their Positions Russia is Preparing to Sacrifice 1,000,000 More Men The Situation in Crimea is Spiraling Out of Control The Ukraine War is About to Get MUCH Worse for Russia Putin Just Had His Worst Day of the Entire War Sweden Just Dealt Russia a DEVASTATING Blow Russia’s New War Strategy is Already a MASSIVE Failure Russia Just Made The Most Desperate Move I've Ever Seen

my man I know Russia is struggling but you have to pace yourself, you blow all these titles now and what are you going to have left when the war continues three more months, this is like those Iranians who kept posting AI videos of Tel Aviv in flames back in March, exercise some restraint!

sequel2heaven

Literally this

argumate

lol that's hilarious, and it doesn't matter if they were posted over one week or over five years, it's funny either way

walliard

Posts I can't believe didn't originate on tumblr.

fuckyeahcalculus

Weierstrass functions, first published in 1872, are continuous everywhere, but differentiable nowhere.

aurpiment

“It’s easy to assume”: someone’s misconception is about to be amiably corrected

“It’s tempting to assume”: someone’s assumption is about to be criticized

“It’s comforting to assume”: someone’s assumption is going to be read for filth

parkchanwoohoo

I saw a post on a terf blog before I blocked it from someone being like "Ummm is anybody else really concerned about the rise of antisocial kinks like pissing" and it made me laugh so hard I almost did a little antisocial kink myself

argumate

huh you would think that a left-wing worldview would attribute difficulties to societal structure, while a right-wing worldview would attribute difficulties to flaws in the individual, and yet.

jambeast

Just a matter of attributing flaws in the individual to 'mental illness' vs attributing flaws in the individual to 'the same but with a less sympathetic framework'

today-tastes-like-honey

I don't like thinking of Star Wars as one canon, I think. On their own, most of the comics, shows, and films work fine, and some (OT, PT, etc) work in context with one another, as well, but as a whole, it's kind of not very good bc the characters were developed, and so was the world, to the point where the original essence was lost.

Yoda doing a little astral journey and having a talk with Ezra takes away from the character's isolation on Dagobah. If he was able and willing to mentally travel the galaxy and train jedi without getting caught and killed, those 20 years in the swamps become almost a sort of vacation or a retreat rather than him hiding from his pursuers in a place no one would think to look for him. The gravity of his story is diminished by this, in my opinion. BUT it works in Rebels, if you take it on its own. It's a cool moment.

Vader in the comics is an invincible monster who would easily take down the whole of the rebellion as it is presented in A New Hope within like, two years on his own. He is feared by all across the galaxy, and well-known for his supernatural abilities, cruelty, and rage. Vader in ANH is some (high-ranking, capable, obviously very dangerous to our heroes) guy whose magic powers are considered superstition by imperial officers who haven't been working with him that long, who gets shot at by Han and immediately leaves the battle. These are both very cool characters in their own right; they're just not the same character to me.

Kenobi is a very cool show! It's one of my favourite Star Wars shows. I don't think it works at all in connection to the Original Trilogy. "We meet again, at last. The circle is now complete. When I left you I was but the learner. Now I am the master" implies very heavily to me that they did not meet at all between the initial betrayal and the reunion on the death star.

Like rather than a story with a canon, I see it all as "legends" about the same mythology, so to speak. Makes the whole thing more enjoyable for me.

monstermonger

School For Dragon Babies (1884) + Seminary For More Advanced Dragon Babies (1892)

by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

beemovieerotica

weiszklee

Actually, if you treat men with hostility by default, that's misogynistic because you think women can't take your default hostility.

milliebobbyflay

people like saying community when they mean demographic

nyantara

me: man i think it depends

prokopetz

I understand that you were aiming for a morally grey protagonist, but in practice what you've ended up with is more of a moral beige.

prokopetz

@ancient-tree-with-deathwish replied:

how do you distinguish grey from other colours beyond black and wite?

Distinguishing features of moral beige:

The protagonist is constantly agonising over Hard Choices; however, circumstances always conspire to prevent them from actually having to make those choices, so in practice they're just angsting over stuff they might have done.

The text exhibits a recurring pattern whereby the protagonist seems to to have made a Hard Choice, but new information is reliably revealed shortly thereafter which retroactively establishes that whatever they did was the morally upright course after all.

The protagonist's moral impulses are straightforwardly heroic, except in one specific context which lacks any clear real-world analogue; for example, being prejudiced against telepaths.

The protagonist's actions are consistently reasonable based on the information available to them – they're merely operating on bad information basically all the time due to a bizarre conspiracy and/or a series of increasingly implausible misunderstandings.

The protagonist always ends up doing the right thing (for some fuzzy value of "right"), but, like, they're really grumpy about it.