Fruck
Lacks all conviction
Fruck is just this guy, you know?
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Fruck
Lacks all conviction
1yr ago
I know, I've bitched about them too. I think raggedy responded beautifully, because it doesn't really matter how guess behaves, what matters is how we react, and I think it's better to recognise potential pitfalls before they occur and talk about them cordially rather than waiting for shit to fall apart and picking up the pieces.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
1yr ago
Status is a person's placement in a social hierarchy. Most people don't think in terms of status, they simply feel shame or embarrassment when it is taken from them or pride and confidence when they take it. You don't need to think about becoming more popular by taking it from others - simply by being more popular you do so inevitably. Just because it isn't a concious effort doesn't mean you don't care about status.
Re banging your wife, we can add your peer group to the dynamic - do you think their opinion of you would change at all if I banged your wife in front of them? It might not affect their opinion of your competence, but I bet it affects their respect for you - but status is an element even between the three of us original parties - you me and your wife. If you walked in on that what would you think my opinion of you was? Would it be different from before you entered the room? What about your wife - if you saw that would you immediately assume she loved you as much as she did on your wedding day? If not, you do care about status.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
1yr ago
Which is why they were told dumb kids need the phonics method or they will be left behind. And did we mention which races have more dumb kids? You're not a racist are you?
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
1yr ago
No, I was guessing at the reasons he wouldn't take the plea deal. I didn't think it was necessary to ensure my hypothetical thought processes favoured accuracy over rhetoric.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
1yr ago
A button to set up a link would be a godsend here. It wouldn't have to be the fancy kind that does it all for you, just one that appends square brackets to a URL and then adds regular brackets afterwards for people to write in would make a huge difference.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
1yr ago
What's this? You again? I said good day sir!
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Fruck
Lacks all conviction
1yr ago
probably doesn't have merit.
This is such an immottest statement I almost want to report you. Not only are you being incurious, you are essentially calling your opponent a liar or an idiot, without any evidence to suggest they are wrong except an appeal to generality - which usually works the other way around (a statement being general implies it is so true as to be banal - which is definitely the case here, I doubt Unter expected any push back, when you zoom out far enough the only thing that matters is whether it helped you or hurt you). And all to avoid ceding a point! You are better than this bud.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
1yr ago
If you truly think it's so unlikely that a single kid anywhere will tap on a worldwide poll by accident, you're not worth more time anyway.
Lol so arguing about stupid hypotheticals on twitter is worth so much of your time that you are by far the most prolific poster in this thread, but I'm not worth your time because I asked you to prove one of your assertions (proof you are entirely incapable of providing)? Funny how I might be worth your time again if I randomly slapped at buttons in twitter polls though.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
1yr ago
Oh no sorry, I wasn't rebutting your 'people can't coordinate' argument, I am asking you to defend the multiple times you have added small children to this thought experiment to justify the blue pill.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
1yr ago
Is this a bit? I said it's not a big deal, you read that as me raging at you. I said it was an understandable error, you read me accusing you of abusing your power against anyone who sasses you. You rejected my explanation so hard you can't even read it. Why would I want any kind of dialog with you? Addressing what I say doesn't obligate you to agree with me, I agree. It kind of does obligate you to address what I say though, don't you think?
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
2yr ago
You're soaking in it mon frere! The “men with crushing anxiety” club is called The Motte, I'm convinced that describes the majority of our users, even some of those who vocally disdain the neurotic.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
2yr ago
So you banned them for a week because their post explaining how they wrote the op used language that sounded arrogant and impolite?
"You need to use your own words and speak plainly, and for doing so just now I'm banning you for a week."
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
2yr ago
And yet they remain the only multi platinum woman fronted arena rock band in existence. Whatever, enjoy Rumours.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
2yr ago
Are there any books or videos you would recommend to learn more about this stuff?
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
2yr ago
Oh you sweet summer child...
Is another example of a regularly successful attempt to affect behavior by shaming people from a position of unimportance. Is that not shaming in your eyes?
What is over the top is suggesting a barber would have "no idea" how to cut hair of someone from a different race. And then going on to suggest that this is a good reason for segregation, effectively resurrecting one of the most popular reasons racists had in the past for segregating schools and restaurants.
Edit: ignore this post, I'll delete it in half a day - I thought I had dreamed posting the other reply I wrote.
Edit 2: Actually, on second thought, I'm going to leave it here. I like how it illustrates my confident ignorance, lol.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
2yr ago
And it's the way he tells ya stuff. Like he's sayin it all nice, but then he's really stickin it to ya - like between the lines.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
4d ago
I'm being hyperbolic of course, because I was making a joke - it's a minor thing, but it actually physically hurts when you go from darkness to bright light. Like after taking off sunglasses or getting high beamed on the highway.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
7d ago
Did you ever play Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter? That had a really cool meta progression system tied to it, but the gameplay didn't really get fun until you got dragon powers - like 15 hours in. I wish more games did stuff like that though, Dead Rising lost so much charm when it dropped the time limit (although I still enjoyed the fourth game in a mindless way.)
I would also agree with the first version. Lockean/Millian liberalism is a meta-ideology built to maintain a balance between order and chaos, the left and the right, the conservative and the progressive. In doing so it ensures that the conservative doesn't make society stagnate and the progressive doesn't push so far ahead people can't keep up. It is not meant to be the dominant ideology, and as we have seen it has been coopted as a result of its rise to prominence.
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