Idiotic Rants and random bullshit from a Gamer

Philosophy went to shit, so now I do maths. And I play a lot of video games. Also people say stupid things and I like to tell them why.

[anti-capitalistlesbianwitch]

Men Think #MeToo Ruined the Art of Flirting

If you're a guy who feels you can't get a date because of feminism, then you're not flirting right.

“I can’t date because of feminism” seems to be trending on Google, so let me be the first to say: Yes, okay, sure.

You can’t get a date because of feminism in the same way you can’t “date” because it is illegal to lock women in your bedroom and demand that they love you.

But if you are a man who can’t get a date with someone who actually likes you, it’s not because of feminism. It’s because you are someone people do not want to date. Possibly because you spend a lot of time whining about how women having rights has made dating impossible for you.

[shortphilosophygames]

Your metaphor implies that you do not understand what is meant by saying that #MeToo made dating harder. It has nothing to do with demanding love, it has to do with having the confidence to try to show your interest in a comfortable, balanced and understanding way.

The issue is that a small but significant minority of stories from the #MeToo campaign were about men who didn’t get the hint. This causes problems for the kinds of people who want to be considerate, because if not getting the hint will feel like harassment, then maybe it’s not worth the risk to flirt? Why would I take the chance that I blunder so badly that I hurt someone?

Don’t get me wrong, this is irrational thinking, and is entirely spawned from our insecurities. But it’s one of those very regular emotional responses, made worse for the kinds of men who actually do want to be considerate.

[itsnotjustpms]

I’d like to title this stream “Dear Geek Guys” - if you don’t like women in geek culture, get out because it’s not yours. Also, a well-read woman will ALWAYS school you when you try to act the misogynist so go sit down… and read a book written by a woman.

I’m not sure if the autobiography portion is correct though. I know there was a Korean woman who wrote a diary that was published…not sure if it counts as autobiography though, perhaps memoir? 

[shortphilosophygames]

The first error was that the first novel, as we would know it, was written by a woman in the 1000s. Really? REALLY? FUCKING HOMER’s ILLIAD, ANYONE?!

I don’t mind that you try to dive into the genetic fallacy as far as possible. Actually, I do.

[feminismwecandoit]

[shortphilosophygames]

If you find a Philosophical Encyclopedia and look up “False Dichotomy”, this picture comes up.

[loudlytransparenttrash]

“The NRA is responsible for the murders of innocent young lives! We must stop it!” says the young feminist on his way to the Planned Parenthood fundraiser.

[shortphilosophygames]

You say compare these things as if removing a glorified tumor is morally similar to shooting a child in the face.

Fuck you.

[alwaysbewoke]

For all the racists, sexists and haters of Black women who use the “I was just joking” excuse...

[accidental-muse]

“Just joking” is never an excuse. If anything, it tells me who you really are.

[polyamorous-miss-deactivated202]

Thank you. Now I have the words why “just joking” isn’t a joke

[theleftdoor-deactivated20240905]

This is a tactic used by modern nazis

Don’t let them get away with jokes or sarcasm.

We are on to you

[shortphilosophygames]

Holy fuck what paranoid nonsense. I am honestly surprised he was allowed to complete a degree in anything, much less in the application of humour.

Alas, he does what all academics and morons alike do, he uses his only tool and decides it can solve every problem. As it so happens, the crucial error is in numbers 4&5.

He has sufficiently argued, I think, that humour can and in part does provide the function of social group making and in-group/out-group delineation. However he has no reason to suppose this has any real effect. He has simply asserted that it CAN have an effect, then says it is not only  the most important effect, but also that this is the sole function of humour.

None of his further reasoning makes any sense given this observation. All of the following tweets can be explained by any such “intuitive” guesswork, and your reasoning would be as correct as some dipshit who thinks his degree makes him smart.

Clearly the only thing a degree does is make you confident that you’re smart, even if all the evidence is to the contrary.

[truechaosbahamut]

Socialism and communism are never the solution, they are always the problem.

The next time you forget that, remember Venezuela’s current situation; because 9 times out of 10 that’s what happens when socialism/communism takes hold. (the only exception is when a nation wises up and tells socialism/communism to fuck off before it’s too late)

Don’t be naive. Socialism and communism have no place in modern civilization. And yes, I’m lumping the 2 together because ultimately aside from some mild details there’s NO difference between the 2.

[shortphilosophygames]

On who’s definition is there no difference?

Yes, Marx and Engels thought Socialism was the authoritarian step towards “free” communism (think anarcho-communism). However, socialism is thrown around every time someone thinks a policy is slightly more left-wing than usual.

So, does Bernie Sanders advocate socialism? If so, your lumping together is a facile lie.

Does Scandinavia advocate socialism? If so, your lumping together is moronic.

I could go on, but I just wanted to say that while I accept that many communist or pseudo-communist countries prefer the patch socialism, there are many times the patch socialism is tossed onto anyone who advocates a tax raise of any kind.

(For the record, both Bernie and Scandinavia tend towards the category social democracy. This being opposed to technical socialism and communism [according to Marx and Engels] because it is democratic)

[sadgalrhirhix]

I don’t mean to sound ignorant but why are genderbends considered transphobic?

[thedeadflag]

There are a number of reasons offered, generally.

Now, I will open this with the concession that not ALL ‘genderbends’ are transphobic. 99.9+% of them, sure, but I’ve seen a few out there over the decade and a half I’ve been involved in fandom which…well, they were handled well enough to be given a pass.

But generally, the overwhelming majority of genderbends are transphobic, and as a result, genderbends justifiably carry that label. I’ll break down why after the cut

Keep reading

[shortphilosophygames]

This is one of the most retarded things I have ever read.

You constantly contradict yourself, you provide no consistent basis for rejecting, as you say 99.9% of all genderbends, then you provide no reasoning for what makes something acceptable genderbending (protip: when defining the limits of what is acceptable, DESCRIBE SAID LIMITS)

Further, the main and in fact only argument is against the name, as it apparently erases trans identity to use words. This should immediately be seen as abhorrently illogical, as you could simply define ANY term to denote the action. F.ex., I now will use the letter X to represent genderbending.

Is it wrong to X characters? Well no, of course not, because the only reason we have for believing this nonsense is that gender and sex should not be reduced to physical characteristics.

Let me make this absolutely clear:

You are objecting to people changing the physical characteristics of their characters and then denoting this change as significant.

Bravo. New heights of idiocy.

[ughfeministglitter]

Anti Feminists

Why do people find enjoyment in putting down women and trying to discourage feminists? How do you find enjoyment in discriminating people who are fighting for their simple human rights?

[listener-blue]

I don’t take the anti-feminist stance because I ‘enjoy’ anything.

I don’t enjoy seeing feminists telling lies about the society we live in, saying that men have had it better in every sphere of society throughout history.

I don’t enjoy seeing feminists treat women like babies, basing entire campaigns around the idea that women shouldn’t have their bad behaviour corrected because they can’t take criticism.

I don’t enjoy watching the cult of feminism, in which any woman who dares question feminist thinking is insulted and patronised. I don’t enjoy being told I have internalised misogyny simply because I have a different opinion.

I don’t enjoy watching feminism taking an unbalanced approach to gender equality. I don’t enjoy watching feminism erasing men’s issues while simultaneously focusing on non-issues such as manspreading and air conditioning.

I don’t enjoy the fact that feminism is hypocritical with its deep concern about the lack of women in politics and CEO positions but its seeming complete lack of concern about the gender disparity in construction, fishing and sewerage. I don’t enjoy the fact that feminism wants equality of outcome in the prestige areas of society, but men can continue to suck it up in the dirty and/or dangerous jobs.

I don’t enjoy any of this. I don’t enjoy being an anti-feminist. I take this stance because it is important. Because the flaws of feminism must be pointed out. Because I will not stand back and allow feminist lies to be accepted as unquestioned truth.

I don’t put women down. Feminists do that by telling us that we need feminism to give us a leg up, by telling us that without feminism we are nothing. 

I don’t discriminate against anyone. I simply point out what I see as the flaws in feminist thinking. Telling someone you disagree with them is not ‘discriminating’.

I don’t enjoy any of this. I wish I didn’t have to do it. But gender equality is important to me so I have to.

[offended--good]

^^^^^

[mostlysaner-deactivated20170116]

Feminists have put me, a woman, down.

I only put down the unfactual, unsupported claims that feminists make - not the other women that support it.

Although one should take note that I am not an anti-feminist nor a feminist. -queued

[ughfeministglitter]

First of all, I do not think that women deserve special rights or we deserve more. All I want is everyone, especially men, to treat us and our bodies with respect. I really don’t think you can just put every single feminist in a category, we are all still people with different opinions, all just fighting for respect. So don’t accuse me of arguing over air conditioning because that is ridiculous, not once have I spent my time thinking about something so insignificant. I spend my time thinking about more important issues, like for example, women being forced to marry an older man they don’t want to marry and then constantly being raped, those kind of issues are why we need feminism. Saying I’m a feminist and then talking about mens problems would be like walking into an English class and the teacher is teaching mathematics. I most certainly believe in gender equality, more than anything. But I am fighting for women, it’s called “feminism”, not “meninism”.

[mostlysaner-deactivated20170116]

And that’s the problem, your last sentence. You are only fighting for women. Why, I don’t know. We have more rights then men. You also referred to a SATIRICAL movement that is made to poke fun at all the failings of the Feminist movement.

I am fighting for both men and women, which is why I am a WRA and MRA.

[bandgirl132]

What “more rights” do we have? An estimated 400,000 untested rape kits, that have been linked to having a 99% persecution rate for the rapist when actually tested, (Thats an estimated 400,000 rapist still running around, by the way. Not to mention the hundreds to thousands that people never even report because victim blaming is so prevalent and people who are being raped, who are more often women (16-19) as we are, in one statistic, 4 times more likely to be raped than men. (( https://www.rainn.org/statistics/victims-sexual-violence )) ) just sitting around collecting dust? Or how most police only feel the need to test rape kits for strangers? Or the ones they “have the best chance of solving,” aka, they only test the rape kits linked to cases they think are easy. (( http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/23/how-the-u-s-ended-up-with-400-000-untested-rape-kits.html )) Or how we are constantly over sexualized and called “bitch” and “whore” and a plethora of other disgusting names when we turn down males? Or how in some parts of the world the women’s genitals can be sewn up to make her “more marrigable” (or whatever the word is) and then given to men almost three times their age for marriage, more often than not against their will? (I don’t have a link for this, my teacher gave a presentation on this last year and it kinda stuck with me) Or how after a rape, the rapist can now get court appointed custody of visitation for the child if the pregnancy is not terminated in some states? (i can’t find the link for this one)

These along with hundreds of other reasons that I shouldn’t have to point out are the reason we need feminism, which is the movement for equal rights for FIRST MAKING WOMENS RIGHTS AS EQUAL AS MENS. Men have so many more rights than females, if not legally then socially. Take Brock Turner for example. He raped an unconcious woman behind a dumpster and got called “an athlete that made a bad decision” instead of what he really is, a RAPIST. Or how he only got 6 months (which I believe got later reduced to 4 months) because “It will have a serious impact on his life.”

Feminism is damn right about female rights. Until they are equal to mens rights, Feminism will be focused on female rights. And saying youre “anti-feminist” is single handedly spitting in the face of the women who fought for just your right to own land or step outside of the house without male escort or to work outside of the house. To say youre anti-feminist is disgusting and says that you don’t care about making female rights equal to mens rights. Its saying you care more about men that already have it made than females who aren’t even being paid the same amount of money as men for the same job.

To be anti-feminist is to be ignorant. And it’s pretty clear your ignorance.

[shortphilosophygames]

Holy fuck, it took all of two seconds to see how up your own arse you are. It is the most vile idiocy of the modern age, this emotional pandering, this fucking blackmail of an argument.

In this case it’s even fucking worse because of the “400 000 untested rape kits” random word sewage at the start. What the fuck do you actually mean? What is the observation you are so certain demonstrates there are 400 000 rapists running around free?

Then you go through some hardships where women are more at risk in society, going so far as to explain them in terms only acceptable to your bullshit ideology, making every rebuttal seem like a rejection of the reality of these hardships.

I reject your explanation, and thus your remedy.

And you go on, listing fucking hardships in the world, tying them together in one big mess as if they are all explained by the same thing, and condemning the rejection of your explanation as “spitting in the face of women” who have fought for equal rights in areas where yes, we can agree things are bad.

The only plausible way of defending oneself against this slimy shit is to counter with how men have parallel, though not identical, problems to face, so as to show that there is another problem that explains your observation, not simply one for feminism to fight over. But even that can’t be done because it just sounds whiny.

Yes, laws regarding parental rights and duties (these two concepts ARE actually interconnected) are very poor regarding rape. This is why men also have to pay child support to their rapist if they choose to keep the baby, in some states.

Yes, people are very surprised that “nice” people they know are capable of doing disgustingly horrible things (explaining the retardation displayed during certain incidents of rape in the US).

So fuck you. You did not list nor even allude to any rights of law that women in the world we live in do not have. I agree, some backwards nations do have this disparity in actual rights, but you tie these in with the industrialized western world as if there is a trivial connection between the two. There isn’t.

You presumably grew up in a country where they didn’t mutilate your vagina at a young age to make your genitals look nicer. Well, take a good look at the nations and cultures that do, because that is what it looks like when your rights are being trampled over. Not when you are afraid to go out at night because the people who are violent criminals like to rape women, and murder men.

[ughfeministglitter]

And it took me about two minutes of reading that to see how ignorant and stubborn you are. We are standing up for one of the many problems in the world but because we don’t list and stand up for every single fucking bad thing going on in the world, that makes us bad people? Because we don’t mention the minority of men being raped (which I acknowledge, but at this moment I am standing up for women) and because we don’t mention every other fucking problem that you think we should be talking about, that makes us horrible sexist people because we’re standing up for a cause and honestly don’t have time to be list every bloody problem with the world. What about those rich ass people who basically bathe in money they don’t need and buy themselves luxurious things that they don’t need, they don’t spend their excess money on people living in poverty or the homeless or anyone who needs it more. So why, when we feminists are doing a good thing, standing up for ourselves and other women, saying that we have the right to be treated with respect and not to be violated, we are then told that we’re bad people and we’re sexist because we don’t talk about men 24/7. We’re doing something that needs to be done in order for society to run properly (think about it, we need feminism, if women never stood up for themselves and let men think that we’re sex objects, men would be raping 24/7 and no one would care) and then we’re being discriminated for it.

Oh look how fucked up society has gotten just because some idiots won’t admit that feminism is needed. Get off your high horse, feminism isn’t hurting you so why are you fighting it?

[shortphilosophygames]

It really is trivially simple.

You are not doing what needs to be done. Your explanation for the problem, i.e. what causes the problem, is incorrect, and your actions serve to further protect and uphold injustices that are based on these faulty premises.

It's not that you don't mention men when trying to fix women's problems, it's that you think the problem is women's problems. It's not that there are worse problems out there, it's that what is causing your problems, and the way to fix it is different from what you believe.

And the reason it pisses me off? Because of vicious emotionally laden bullshit by the likes of "men would be raping 24/7" if not for feminism.

Feminism is not only hurting me, it's hurting society as a whole with its maelstrom of crazy, unjust principles and interpretations. Being wrong is actually bad for the world in this case, because feminists are not afraid to act on these false beliefs.

[mioxenoblade]

I’d like to point out that actual studies have linked trans suicides to constant misgendering as a cause (one of, I should add), whereas affirmation of gender is known to do the opposite. So intentionally misgendering trans people is pretty much legit trying to kill them.

In other news, water is wet.

[trashrecognisetrash]

Where the study/source?

[mioxenoblade]

I’m uber busy at work and I don’t have the time to pull up the specific spot it’s discussed. But, look up the work of Dr. Ry Testa. He’s a trans man tackling these issues.

[tracyalexander-deactivated20201]

Someone who knows how to navigate resources and has the spoons and time try and find the paper, save trans momma the trouble. Sounds super legit though. Being misgendered almost always causes some dissociation and social withdrawal form me since it belittles my identity. I don’t get suicidal thoughts but I could sure as hell see how someone who does would be affected by that.

[transcabforcutie]

Hiya!  I’m hoping I could help somewhat. This is all the work Dr. Testa’s done.

Development of the Gender Minority Stress and Resilience Measure.

Effects of violence on transgender people. I think this is the one though; The relationship between gender-based victimization and suicide attempts in transgender people. Misgendering a trans person is a violent act. It’s an emotional abuse that cuts deep into who we feel we are at our core. We have enough to deal with internally, adding external voices to that can destroy us.

[pissed-monster]

@TERFs who insist misgendering is just ‘hurt feelings’

[shortphilosophygames]

You lot are aware that being sad is linked to suicides right? So it’s pretty much still just hurt feelings.

Also, fuck off, “legit trying to kill them”? That’s just retarded. Yes, by yelling at you I’m legit trying to kill you. If I buy you a car, definitely trying to kill you. Owning a car correlates with dying in a car crash.

[mioxenoblade]

why you so mad

[shortphilosophygames]

You just accused me of “legit” trying to kill someone by being mean to them, for political gain? That not a good enough reason for you?

[mioxenoblade]

Hey, I get it, you’ve got ~hurt feelings~ now but that’s only your own fault for being so sensitive.

[shortphilosophygames]

Exactly. And even though this spurs my sensitive skin, this is not an example of you trying to make me kill myself. As it apparently would be had you, for example, spurred my sensitive skin by misgendering me.

So, in addition to me being angry, you are wrong as can be seen by how any other instance of emotional upset, including me being angry. You being wrong is fundamentally more important than how you or I feel about this, and remarkably you brought up how I feel for some reason. Making you even more wrong.

[ughfeministglitter]

Anti Feminists

Why do people find enjoyment in putting down women and trying to discourage feminists? How do you find enjoyment in discriminating people who are fighting for their simple human rights?

[listener-blue]

I don’t take the anti-feminist stance because I ‘enjoy’ anything.

I don’t enjoy seeing feminists telling lies about the society we live in, saying that men have had it better in every sphere of society throughout history.

I don’t enjoy seeing feminists treat women like babies, basing entire campaigns around the idea that women shouldn’t have their bad behaviour corrected because they can’t take criticism.

I don’t enjoy watching the cult of feminism, in which any woman who dares question feminist thinking is insulted and patronised. I don’t enjoy being told I have internalised misogyny simply because I have a different opinion.

I don’t enjoy watching feminism taking an unbalanced approach to gender equality. I don’t enjoy watching feminism erasing men’s issues while simultaneously focusing on non-issues such as manspreading and air conditioning.

I don’t enjoy the fact that feminism is hypocritical with its deep concern about the lack of women in politics and CEO positions but its seeming complete lack of concern about the gender disparity in construction, fishing and sewerage. I don’t enjoy the fact that feminism wants equality of outcome in the prestige areas of society, but men can continue to suck it up in the dirty and/or dangerous jobs.

I don’t enjoy any of this. I don’t enjoy being an anti-feminist. I take this stance because it is important. Because the flaws of feminism must be pointed out. Because I will not stand back and allow feminist lies to be accepted as unquestioned truth.

I don’t put women down. Feminists do that by telling us that we need feminism to give us a leg up, by telling us that without feminism we are nothing. 

I don’t discriminate against anyone. I simply point out what I see as the flaws in feminist thinking. Telling someone you disagree with them is not ‘discriminating’.

I don’t enjoy any of this. I wish I didn’t have to do it. But gender equality is important to me so I have to.

[offended--good]

^^^^^

[mostlysaner-deactivated20170116]

Feminists have put me, a woman, down.

I only put down the unfactual, unsupported claims that feminists make - not the other women that support it.

Although one should take note that I am not an anti-feminist nor a feminist. -queued

[ughfeministglitter]

First of all, I do not think that women deserve special rights or we deserve more. All I want is everyone, especially men, to treat us and our bodies with respect. I really don’t think you can just put every single feminist in a category, we are all still people with different opinions, all just fighting for respect. So don’t accuse me of arguing over air conditioning because that is ridiculous, not once have I spent my time thinking about something so insignificant. I spend my time thinking about more important issues, like for example, women being forced to marry an older man they don’t want to marry and then constantly being raped, those kind of issues are why we need feminism. Saying I’m a feminist and then talking about mens problems would be like walking into an English class and the teacher is teaching mathematics. I most certainly believe in gender equality, more than anything. But I am fighting for women, it’s called “feminism”, not “meninism”.

[mostlysaner-deactivated20170116]

And that’s the problem, your last sentence. You are only fighting for women. Why, I don’t know. We have more rights then men. You also referred to a SATIRICAL movement that is made to poke fun at all the failings of the Feminist movement.

I am fighting for both men and women, which is why I am a WRA and MRA.

[bandgirl132]

What “more rights” do we have? An estimated 400,000 untested rape kits, that have been linked to having a 99% persecution rate for the rapist when actually tested, (Thats an estimated 400,000 rapist still running around, by the way. Not to mention the hundreds to thousands that people never even report because victim blaming is so prevalent and people who are being raped, who are more often women (16-19) as we are, in one statistic, 4 times more likely to be raped than men. (( https://www.rainn.org/statistics/victims-sexual-violence )) ) just sitting around collecting dust? Or how most police only feel the need to test rape kits for strangers? Or the ones they “have the best chance of solving,” aka, they only test the rape kits linked to cases they think are easy. (( http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/23/how-the-u-s-ended-up-with-400-000-untested-rape-kits.html )) Or how we are constantly over sexualized and called “bitch” and “whore” and a plethora of other disgusting names when we turn down males? Or how in some parts of the world the women’s genitals can be sewn up to make her “more marrigable” (or whatever the word is) and then given to men almost three times their age for marriage, more often than not against their will? (I don’t have a link for this, my teacher gave a presentation on this last year and it kinda stuck with me) Or how after a rape, the rapist can now get court appointed custody of visitation for the child if the pregnancy is not terminated in some states? (i can’t find the link for this one)

These along with hundreds of other reasons that I shouldn’t have to point out are the reason we need feminism, which is the movement for equal rights for FIRST MAKING WOMENS RIGHTS AS EQUAL AS MENS. Men have so many more rights than females, if not legally then socially. Take Brock Turner for example. He raped an unconcious woman behind a dumpster and got called “an athlete that made a bad decision” instead of what he really is, a RAPIST. Or how he only got 6 months (which I believe got later reduced to 4 months) because “It will have a serious impact on his life.”

Feminism is damn right about female rights. Until they are equal to mens rights, Feminism will be focused on female rights. And saying youre “anti-feminist” is single handedly spitting in the face of the women who fought for just your right to own land or step outside of the house without male escort or to work outside of the house. To say youre anti-feminist is disgusting and says that you don’t care about making female rights equal to mens rights. Its saying you care more about men that already have it made than females who aren’t even being paid the same amount of money as men for the same job.

To be anti-feminist is to be ignorant. And it’s pretty clear your ignorance.

[shortphilosophygames]

Holy fuck, it took all of two seconds to see how up your own arse you are. It is the most vile idiocy of the modern age, this emotional pandering, this fucking blackmail of an argument.

In this case it's even fucking worse because of the "400 000 untested rape kits" random word sewage at the start. What the fuck do you actually mean? What is the observation you are so certain demonstrates there are 400 000 rapists running around free?

Then you go through some hardships where women are more at risk in society, going so far as to explain them in terms only acceptable to your bullshit ideology, making every rebuttal seem like a rejection of the reality of these hardships.

I reject your explanation, and thus your remedy.

And you go on, listing fucking hardships in the world, tying them together in one big mess as if they are all explained by the same thing, and condemning the rejection of your explanation as "spitting in the face of women" who have fought for equal rights in areas where yes, we can agree things are bad.

The only plausible way of defending oneself against this slimy shit is to counter with how men have parallel, though not identical, problems to face, so as to show that there is another problem that explains your observation, not simply one for feminism to fight over. But even that can't be done because it just sounds whiny.

Yes, laws regarding parental rights and duties (these two concepts ARE actually interconnected) are very poor regarding rape. This is why men also have to pay child support to their rapist if they choose to keep the baby, in some states.

Yes, people are very surprised that "nice" people they know are capable of doing disgustingly horrible things (explaining the retardation displayed during certain incidents of rape in the US).

So fuck you. You did not list nor even allude to any rights of law that women in the world we live in do not have. I agree, some backwards nations do have this disparity in actual rights, but you tie these in with the industrialized western world as if there is a trivial connection between the two. There isn't.

You presumably grew up in a country where they didn't mutilate your vagina at a young age to make your genitals look nicer. Well, take a good look at the nations and cultures that do, because that is what it looks like when your rights are being trampled over. Not when you are afraid to go out at night because the people who are violent criminals like to rape women, and murder men.

[twin-city-ankh-and-morpork-deac]

John Cleese vs Extremism

“You can strut around, abusing people, and telling them you could eat them for breakfast and still think of yourself as a champion of the truth. A fighter for the greater good. And not the rather sad paranoid schizoid that you really are.”

[shortphilosophygames]

Proud extremist moderate. I strut around abusing people to make them more moderate.

[your-raifu-is-shit]

Any gun control advocates who bitch about gun owners not wanting to "compromise" are cordially invited to eat my entire ass.

Bullet buttons were the compromise we made in California and now even that got taken away.

Fuck anyone who supports this bullshit.

[scrawnyflannelman]

We’ve been compromising since the 1930s. We’re done with that bullshit.

[therevenantrising-deactivated20]

Exactly. The left’s idea of “compromise” is fucking over law abiding citizens for policies that don’t work to begin with.

Fuck that. I’m done “compromising”. Not one more inch.

[shortphilosophygames]

So… you don’t want to compromise? Tell me again how terrible it is of me to bitch about a view you actually have.

Just because you’re tired of the political battle does not mean you just stop making compromises. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

[therevenantrising-deactivated20]

A compromise means that both sides get something.  What is being proposed by gun control advocates is nowhere even close to being a compromise.

Let’s have a real compromise.  Repeal the NFA, repeal The Hughes Amendment, disband the BATFE, and then maybe we can talk.

Until then, fuck your “compromise”.

[shortphilosophygames]

Apply this to anything. I mean, literally any political dispute in the history of mankind. The metaphor is ridiculously different from reality.

You are not giving away any cake. This is not supposed to be a null-sum game, compromise is supposed to be a setup where, for example, you sacrifice a little so you, or someone else, can get a lot. To keep with the cake analogy, it would be as if you gave a slice of cake to some birds in the park. You would’ve enjoyed that slice, but not as much as the smaller, hungrier birds did.

Of course, sometimes it is a null-sum game. You can reject these on a more reasonable basis than “no more compromise”, and quite frankly your tumblr already does that.

[cougarsandlions]

Fuck off with this bullshit. The smaller hungrier birds have already gotten a cake and a half while I’ve gotten none. I’m sick of compromising my rights then have assholes like you come along and call me unreasonable

[shortphilosophygames]

You are sick of being like everyone else who tries to achieve something in politics? Tough shit, mate.

If you won’t partake in legitimate compromise you are being unreasonable. If you are consistently losing out in every compromise you make, the goal should STILL be to attempt to compromise fairly. You will have to give, or else assholes like me won’t respect or support your rights because, let’s hear it again, you are being unreasonable.

[cougarsandlions]

I’ve already partaked in more than enough “legitimate comprise” of a right image guaranteed to by the constitution. I’ve been more than reasonable for decades while assholes like you say that I’m not being fair. Fuck off with your special brand of bullshit. Every time we comprise people like you find something new to demonize. Like in the EU. Gun owners compromised over and over again and now the left are trying to take away muskets from law abiding citizens.

You are the ones being unreasonable. Gun control has notjing to do with comprise, it has everything to do with control.

[shortphilosophygames]

So... your defence of being unreasonable is that your opposition is unreasonable?

We're back to square one, two wrongs don't make a right. If you partake in reasonable and fair compromise, then you have done the right thing. If you refuse to do so as a matter of principle or because you feel slighted, then you are being foolish and unreasonable.

I strongly support your right to be suspicious of gun control legislation for the reasons you have stated. I condemn any blanket dismissal of compromise due to unfair play by the opposition, as has also been mentioned throughout this discussion.

[your-raifu-is-shit]

Any gun control advocates who bitch about gun owners not wanting to "compromise" are cordially invited to eat my entire ass.

Bullet buttons were the compromise we made in California and now even that got taken away.

Fuck anyone who supports this bullshit.

[scrawnyflannelman]

We’ve been compromising since the 1930s. We’re done with that bullshit.

[therevenantrising-deactivated20]

Exactly. The left’s idea of “compromise” is fucking over law abiding citizens for policies that don’t work to begin with.

Fuck that. I’m done “compromising”. Not one more inch.

[shortphilosophygames]

So… you don’t want to compromise? Tell me again how terrible it is of me to bitch about a view you actually have.

Just because you’re tired of the political battle does not mean you just stop making compromises. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

[therevenantrising-deactivated20]

A compromise means that both sides get something.  What is being proposed by gun control advocates is nowhere even close to being a compromise.

Let’s have a real compromise.  Repeal the NFA, repeal The Hughes Amendment, disband the BATFE, and then maybe we can talk.

Until then, fuck your “compromise”.

[shortphilosophygames]

Apply this to anything. I mean, literally any political dispute in the history of mankind. The metaphor is ridiculously different from reality.

You are not giving away any cake. This is not supposed to be a null-sum game, compromise is supposed to be a setup where, for example, you sacrifice a little so you, or someone else, can get a lot. To keep with the cake analogy, it would be as if you gave a slice of cake to some birds in the park. You would’ve enjoyed that slice, but not as much as the smaller, hungrier birds did.

Of course, sometimes it is a null-sum game. You can reject these on a more reasonable basis than “no more compromise”, and quite frankly your tumblr already does that.

[cougarsandlions]

Fuck off with this bullshit. The smaller hungrier birds have already gotten a cake and a half while I’ve gotten none. I’m sick of compromising my rights then have assholes like you come along and call me unreasonable

[shortphilosophygames]

You are sick of being like everyone else who tries to achieve something in politics? Tough shit, mate.

If you won't partake in legitimate compromise you are being unreasonable. If you are consistently losing out in every compromise you make, the goal should STILL be to attempt to compromise fairly. You will have to give, or else assholes like me won't respect or support your rights because, let's hear it again, you are being unreasonable.

[mioxenoblade]

I’d like to point out that actual studies have linked trans suicides to constant misgendering as a cause (one of, I should add), whereas affirmation of gender is known to do the opposite. So intentionally misgendering trans people is pretty much legit trying to kill them.

In other news, water is wet.

[trashrecognisetrash]

Where the study/source?

[mioxenoblade]

I’m uber busy at work and I don’t have the time to pull up the specific spot it’s discussed. But, look up the work of Dr. Ry Testa. He’s a trans man tackling these issues.

[tracyalexander-deactivated20201]

Someone who knows how to navigate resources and has the spoons and time try and find the paper, save trans momma the trouble. Sounds super legit though. Being misgendered almost always causes some dissociation and social withdrawal form me since it belittles my identity. I don’t get suicidal thoughts but I could sure as hell see how someone who does would be affected by that.

[transcabforcutie]

Hiya!  I’m hoping I could help somewhat. This is all the work Dr. Testa’s done.

Development of the Gender Minority Stress and Resilience Measure.

Effects of violence on transgender people. I think this is the one though; The relationship between gender-based victimization and suicide attempts in transgender people. Misgendering a trans person is a violent act. It’s an emotional abuse that cuts deep into who we feel we are at our core. We have enough to deal with internally, adding external voices to that can destroy us.

[pissed-monster]

@TERFs who insist misgendering is just ‘hurt feelings’

[shortphilosophygames]

You lot are aware that being sad is linked to suicides right? So it’s pretty much still just hurt feelings.

Also, fuck off, “legit trying to kill them”? That’s just retarded. Yes, by yelling at you I’m legit trying to kill you. If I buy you a car, definitely trying to kill you. Owning a car correlates with dying in a car crash.

[mioxenoblade]

why you so mad

[shortphilosophygames]

You just accused me of “legit” trying to kill someone by being mean to them, for political gain? That not a good enough reason for you?

[mioxenoblade]

I’d like to point out that actual studies have linked trans suicides to constant misgendering as a cause (one of, I should add), whereas affirmation of gender is known to do the opposite. So intentionally misgendering trans people is pretty much legit trying to kill them.

In other news, water is wet.

[trashrecognisetrash]

Where the study/source?

[mioxenoblade]

I’m uber busy at work and I don’t have the time to pull up the specific spot it’s discussed. But, look up the work of Dr. Ry Testa. He’s a trans man tackling these issues.

[tracyalexander-deactivated20201]

Someone who knows how to navigate resources and has the spoons and time try and find the paper, save trans momma the trouble. Sounds super legit though. Being misgendered almost always causes some dissociation and social withdrawal form me since it belittles my identity. I don’t get suicidal thoughts but I could sure as hell see how someone who does would be affected by that.

[transcabforcutie]

Hiya!  I’m hoping I could help somewhat. This is all the work Dr. Testa’s done.

Development of the Gender Minority Stress and Resilience Measure.

Effects of violence on transgender people. I think this is the one though; The relationship between gender-based victimization and suicide attempts in transgender people. Misgendering a trans person is a violent act. It’s an emotional abuse that cuts deep into who we feel we are at our core. We have enough to deal with internally, adding external voices to that can destroy us.

[pissed-monster]

@TERFs who insist misgendering is just ‘hurt feelings’

[shortphilosophygames]

You lot are aware that being sad is linked to suicides right? So it's pretty much still just hurt feelings.

Also, fuck off, "legit trying to kill them"? That's just retarded. Yes, by yelling at you I'm legit trying to kill you. If I buy you a car, definitely trying to kill you. Owning a car correlates with dying in a car crash.

[your-raifu-is-shit]

Any gun control advocates who bitch about gun owners not wanting to "compromise" are cordially invited to eat my entire ass.

Bullet buttons were the compromise we made in California and now even that got taken away.

Fuck anyone who supports this bullshit.

[scrawnyflannelman]

We’ve been compromising since the 1930s. We’re done with that bullshit.

[therevenantrising-deactivated20]

Exactly. The left’s idea of “compromise” is fucking over law abiding citizens for policies that don’t work to begin with.

Fuck that. I’m done “compromising”. Not one more inch.

[shortphilosophygames]

So… you don’t want to compromise? Tell me again how terrible it is of me to bitch about a view you actually have.

Just because you’re tired of the political battle does not mean you just stop making compromises. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

[therevenantrising-deactivated20]

A compromise means that both sides get something.  What is being proposed by gun control advocates is nowhere even close to being a compromise.

Let’s have a real compromise.  Repeal the NFA, repeal The Hughes Amendment, disband the BATFE, and then maybe we can talk.

Until then, fuck your “compromise”.

[shortphilosophygames]

Apply this to anything. I mean, literally any political dispute in the history of mankind. The metaphor is ridiculously different from reality.

You are not giving away any cake. This is not supposed to be a null-sum game, compromise is supposed to be a setup where, for example, you sacrifice a little so you, or someone else, can get a lot. To keep with the cake analogy, it would be as if you gave a slice of cake to some birds in the park. You would've enjoyed that slice, but not as much as the smaller, hungrier birds did.

Of course, sometimes it is a null-sum game. You can reject these on a more reasonable basis than "no more compromise", and quite frankly your tumblr already does that.

[black-to-the-bones-deactivated2]

Black North Carolina Student Passes Drug Test,no drugs found, still gets suspended for smelling like weed

Have you heard of it?

Even though school authorities never found marijuana on her and she passed a drug test, North Carolina student Jakayla Johnson received a five-day suspension because she smelled like weed.

Young black women face a unique struggle against severe punishment in schools. Extreme punishments like Jakayla’s lead to what some researchers call “pushout,” and interactions with the criminal justice system. Black girls are six times more likely to get suspended than white girls. Racial disparities in punishment are greater for black girls than black boys.

Jakayla’s case shows that, even when a black girl does nothing wrong, punishment can still put her at risk for being pushed out of the school system.

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This will follow this girl for the rest of her life. Prejudice and racism ruin lives.

[shortphilosophygames]

This puts things into an interesting position for me, because it explains, to me, what pisses me off about SJWs and their crusades.

I agree that this is wrong. Clearly, you should only get punished for doing something wrong, and smelling different is definitely not the way to go.

Then something happens where we diverge. Agreeing that this is wrong exactly as presented, with the assumption of the best possible intentions for everyone leads me to assume this person actually did smell strongly of weed. So what?

Then the further reasoning is this is a form of racism. Presumably because it is obviously silly. Why not assume, as I did, that the rule is silly? Why does the rule have to be racist for you to care?

Is it not, as is often mentioned in the incarceration debate, possible that black people are more often the victims of silly laws? This does not make the laws racist, especially not by design. There are silly laws limiting the freedoms of individuals, some of which apply more strongly to certain groups. Big fucking surprise.