#antinegationism

[rhetoricandlogic]

A really well working search engine for your tumblr-blogs. Never heard of this thing before and found while searching for something else.

(c) by @antinegationism

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We have plenty of evidence to suggest that they are useful in the modern world though. Like, the fact that they are often *used*. Just ask a politician. Or anyone in marketing.

US Presidential candidates use the electoral college to get elected, such as by maintaining the Cuba embargo to placate the Cuban exile bloc in the important swing state of Florida. Is that evidence that the electoral college is useful? I don’t think so. The fact that it’s useful to take advantage of the shape of the landscape does not mean that the landscape’s shape is useful.

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

Tell me about your day.

This is a strange question, because I feel like I'm being asked "Tell me about your day," in a mocking tone of voice, or in a tone of voice that implies I'm a child who has never done things like "Tell me about your day." In fact, I'd like to state that I'm in my mid-twenties, and have been for some time. "Tell me about your day" was something I was asked to do as a child, and back then I would have been in elementary school. I would have been around 8 years old. I can't remember if I was asked to do this the first time in Grade 2, or if it was one of many Grade 1 requests, but I do remember that I was sent to Grade 2 for this purpose. My memories of "Tell me about your day" aren't very detailed, but they do indicate that this was a pattern that continued, and that it started around the time I was entering first grade.

I had been asked to do things like "name three vegetables" and "tell a story" at this point, and I'd done so, but when I was asked to "name three of my favorite vegetables," I guess I was stumped. I had "stunk to high heaven" a lot as a kid, so I picked on vegetables very rarely.

"That's a silly answer," the adults told me. "Go up to the front, and tell the teacher about the first vegetable you see. Go on. Go."

So I took my bike up to the front of my elementary school, and there was a playground there, and I went to the swings and looked at them, and one of them reminded me of my grandmother's orange tree, and I rode back to the playground and told my teacher what I had seen.

"You like your bicycle, okay," my teacher told me. "We won't ask you to name your favorite vegetables anymore, because you're seven years old now, and you don't have to answer to things like that."

I don't think I was asked to repeat my "favorite vegetables" answer. I think this was the last time I was asked.

[generalchelseamayhem]

Eron Gjoni’s legal case is still a thing.

Full story here; archive here.

[generalchelseamayhem]

Look at yourselves, InternetAristocrat and MundaneMatt — you, who decided immediately that for whatever reason Anita Sarkeesian must be dragged into all of this. You, who decided that because one voice of SJ had been rotten and misleading, so they all must be. Look at yourselves, who made an open call to arms for a war I repeatedly told you need not be at all. ... Look at yourselves, you late comers with legitimate concerns, who decided to ally with a mob glued together by disdain for anyone professing values too far to the left of their own — a mob you knew shared your interest of “reform in games journalism,” even though you knew your definition of reform was “transparency, and mindfulness of the effects of nepotistic coverage on a budding industry with a structure not previously accounted for” and theirs was “stop whiteknighting.”

- And towards the other side, Eron Gjoni is equally harsh.

[generalchelseamayhem]

So yes, if you so wish, you can ignore or presume my motivations and discuss at length that one person who did one thing that lead to some harassment, and debate the effectiveness of his attempts to make sure that harassment didn’t get too bad. I was certainly aware of the potential for things to devolve. But when you’re done mulling over the intricacies of that, maybe you’ll decide next to take a critical look at all of the other things that lead to an increase in that harassment; and before you point to 4Chan, please take a moment to look at yourselves. And — with the exception of personalities like Jim Sterling, TotalBiscuit, Stephen Totilo, and the General Manager & Publisher of Defy Media — I mean all of you. Take a moment to look at yourselves; all of reddit, the forums of Rock Paper Shotgun, Penny Arcade, Something Awful, and countless other avenues of general discussion which decided and insisted on everyone’s behalf “there’s nothing important here to talk about” around an issue that spawned countless discussions about abuse, integrities of public personalities, the rigors of the publications that informed millions of people’s purchasing decisions, the nuances of problems inherent in the structure of the indie scene, and the growing gap between the ideals of producers and consumers which gets wider with every attempt to bridge. Look at yourselves, you shelters of public consensus — you were the first line of defense — you could have been the avenues for level headed discussions. You could have been the nests to foster a cacophony of reasonable opinions armed and ready to drown out and shout down the pointless harassment of brasher voices with more productive trains of thought. I don’t know if you all just failed to think ahead, or knowingly chose to cover your own asses, but I can’t put into words how my heart sunk when you faltered. Because your decisions meant 4Chan would be left as the only avenue of discussion — and they would be completely free to set the tone however they desired. When you quickly decided to ban an entire topic, what made you think everyone else wouldn’t follow your reasoning? Where did you think the discussion would go? ... Look at yourselves, devs within the indie scene — who saw the oncoming horde and declared solidarity with a person that if you actually took a moment to consider, you would realize you have no substantial reason to trust. And if you knew the things she’s told me about you, you would have substantial reason to distrust. You, who saw an angry mob of harassers, and somehow decided that forming another angry mob would help. You, who didn’t stop to think that forming one army to counter another was less likely to prevent harassment, and more likely to start a war.

- Eron Gjoni, who sure is being the World's Best Human Being right now.

[piratequeenpep]

So my friends and I were discussing this whole situation and I had to make a diagram. This is a visual aid to help explain how chronic manipulators (aka, emotional abusers, malignant narcissists, etc) will try every angle they possibly can to reach their desired outcome; shifting and changing as their previous angle becomes unworkable or isn't having the effect they desire, regardless of whether any of the angles contradict each other or are even truthful in the slightest. 

A lot of us have been in incredibly similar relationships, so it's been very cathartic to read your story and to see a moment where an abuser isn't just going to get away with it.  Thank you so much for posting your account of everything. Hope these get a smile like this out of you and don't just add salt to the wounds. 

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antinegationism reblogged your photo and added:

What’s this modeling?

it’s the real part of z ↦ z^2 + e^it iterated 8 times. If it’s modeling anything I don’t know what that would be.