Prowl sent them to Earth to help Optimus' team with the resurgence of con's with Megatron's return and they have been running late. SOMEONE was being picky on their alt modes (it was both of them, they were both being picky) but are currently driving their way through Missouri.
too many people are under the impression that the holocaust is well known because they think it was white on white violence and not because the nazis fucking invented murder factories
Masculine/gnc bi women don’t deserve to be ridiculed, belittled and used by other people. It’s okay to stand your ground, express your discomfort, shut down people who don’t respect you and have boundaries and you can allow yourself to be vulnerable and have people who love you by your side at the same time, it can be a work in progress but it’s more than achievable.
”You don’t think TIMs should participate in women’s sports” Dude, I don’t think men should be coaching women’s sports. Women’s sports are not a dumping ground for mediocre men who couldn’t hack it in their own leagues.
Proper sex education doesn't mean shit if the students have round the clock access to rape porn rotting their brains and their idea of a healthy relationship. Teaching kids how to use a condom doesn't mean much if porn is teaching little boys how to slip off the condom. Teaching girls to speak up and set boundaries doesn't do anything if the boys are learning from porn and online forums that when a woman says no, that means keep going.
To stop the ship from sinking, we have to plug the leak first. Bailing out the water is great but it doesn't do much if it's coming in faster than you can get it out. Kids are accessing porn earlier and earlier, their first thoughts when you mention "sex" or "relationships" is stuff they see in porn. We can't have a generation of people able to have healthy, safe relationships until we get rid of porn.
I'll admit it — sometimes I get so locked in on deconstructing fake narratives that I walk right past the obvious.
Today I broke down Governor Mike DeWine's argument that businesses need the labor — the same justification we've heard for years to excuse what shouldn't be excused. Never mind that the President acted lawfully on TPS and the Supreme Court backed him up.
But a follower spotted the gold nugget I stepped over: DeWine says the Haitians bought houses. Meanwhile, young Ohioans — young Americans — can't afford one. So the fair question is simple: what made that possible, and what role did taxpayer dollars play?
I think "house" is a little bit generous when it comes to most dwellings in Haiti. Almost half of the Haitian population lives in rural areas, where a "house" is often defined as a small, two room shack made of mud and thatch with a sheet metal roof. The majority of these houses do not have running water or indoor toilets, the "kitchen" is often outside and not attached to the dwelling either. These dwellings often have no electric, no insulation, the windows have no glass, and because there's no electricity, no refrigeration or freezer to help store food. They aren't buying proper houses the way we would consider, they aren't even buying trailers. It's literally a mud shack.
In urban areas, most of the population lives in a similar fashion, with most dwellings actually built by the people living in them. So to say that Haitians are "buying" their houses is also a bit of a stretch. They're likely not purchasing the structure the way those of us in North America would when we buy a house, rather, they're purchasing or bartering for whatever materials they can't scavenge to build their dwellings.
Your hatred for men is seeping into how you view the even more entitled and delusional men so you should maybe like, idk, just love men unconditionally no matter what harm they have caused or will caused bc it hurts our...I mean their...feelings! >:(
Words like "racist" and "fascist" end arguments before they start. Learn why these terms work like spells, and how to stay calm when they're
By: Peter Boghossian
Published: Aug 11, 2026
Abracadabra
There are magic words. But unlike fake, childish words like “Abracadabra,” “Open Sesame,” or “Presto Chango,” these magic words actually and immediately affect people’s behavior.
When you utter these magic words, you silence and smear your ideological enemies, relieve yourself of the burden of thinking and making arguments, signal your righteousness to others, and shut down opposition, among other useful spell effects.
In the West, this modern arcana is geographically anchored; that is, the spell works better in some places than others. Here’s a brief list of those words and their seats of power:
Word: Far Right*
Geographical Seat of Power: Western Europe
Word: Racist
GSP: North America
Word: Bigot
GSP: North America
Word: Nazi
GSP: North America and Western Europe (esp. Germany, Austria)
Word: Homophobe
GSP: North America and Western Europe
Word: Islamophobe/Islamophobic
GSP: North America and especially Western Europe
Word: Fascist
GSP: North America and Western Europe
Word: I’m offended
GSP: North America
*The most powerful and felling of words in Western Europe
Of course, the right has its own repertoire of conversation-ending spells. The dynamic is the same; only the vocabulary and the geographic distribution change. In the US especially, words like “woke,” “groomer,” “Marxist,” “deep stater,” “RINO,” “cuck,” and “globalist” are routinely cast to silence opponents, signal tribal loyalty, and end discussion without engaging the actual argument.
Magic words can be uttered at any time. However, there are certain instances when adepts find them most useful. For example, they are especially useful when the caster is directly confronted with facts and evidence but does not know enough about a topic to speak intelligently about it; when other people who share their ideological commitments are present and the caster wants to elevate their status among them (virtue signaling); or when the caster simply seeks the dopamine rush of righteousness.
Kazam!
What is particularly remarkable about these words is that even people who reject the fundamental assumptions embedded in them (for example, those who are not fearful of gay people yet are still labeled homophobes) still yield or fall silent when the words are cast. Here’s what that looks like:
[WORD] [Kazam!] [Silence. Or sustained bitter denials. Or frustration and lost tempers.]
Behold their power! They cause otherwise reasonable people to act in unbecoming ways or to become bizarrely deferential. If nonmagical words like “mollusk,” or “meteor,” or “bicycle,” were cast against the same people in the same accusatory tone, perhaps they would pause out of confusion, but they would not stop presenting their argument or openly conversing about an issue. They would not be cowed. They would polymorph into sheep.
Alakazam
Most people do not know that there are ways to increase your saving throws or even counter the debilitating effects of these incantations (when the smear is offered as a substitute for argument rather than the product of one). If magic words are cast against you, here’s a simple Do and Don’t list.
Do
Recognize that the person is likely prioritizing tribal signaling over evidence.
Keep talking, unabated. You may also look directly at them and say something like, “Who I am or am not has no bearing on my argument. If you’d like to participate in the conversation, address the argument directly.” Then continue speaking.
Shift your focus and speak to others present.
Keep your composure.
Don’t
Stop speaking.
Ask for evidence of you being “far right” or “Islamophobic” or whatever other aspersion. These accusations are not about evidence. They’re about silencing you.
Attempt to change the other person’s mind.
Lose your temper or show frustration.
Adopt a posture of superiority. Just because someone levels a baseless accusation against you, that does not mean your position is correct.
Pity the caster. Just carry on.
Imagine this: You’re mid-sentence explaining recent immigration data when someone interjects, “That’s far-right!”. You look at them and calmly reply, “I’ll give that response no countenance.” Then you turn to the rest of the room and keep making your point about the numbers without missing a beat.
If you follow these basic Dos and Don’ts, you will radically decrease the likelihood these words will affect you. However, like anything else, practice is required. Finally, if you forget everything on this list, just remember one thing. Keep your cool.
P.S. Hocus Pocus, Sim Sala Bim, Shazam
How to deal with magic words is just one of the things I’ll be talking about in my upcoming university tour, Rationality Under Pressure. The tour is scheduled for November 2026. I’ll be conducting Spectrum Street Epistemology, offering tools for productive conversations, and giving specific techniques for keeping your cool when you’re under stress.
If you’re a member of a student group or an administrator and you’re interested in hosting us, please visit
https://www.nationalprogressalliance.org/contact/
This is just a teaser. I’ll write more about this as the date approaches.
In the end, the point of these Dos and Don’ts is not to “win” against the caster or to score a moral victory. It’s simply to refuse to let the spell dictate the terms of the conversation. When the magic words are uttered, rationality under pressure means keeping your composure, continuing to speak, and insisting that ideas, not labels, remain the subject. That discipline is exactly what we will practice on the Rationality Under Pressure tour.
Wonder why is that gay guys are allowed to complain about trans on Reddit while any subreddit critical of tims or trans issues made with women in mind gets shout down, could it be that men always give other men a free pass and that gay men are more likely to complain about tifs not tims... Nah that can't be...
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