Tiber727
20d ago
If nothing else, I would argue that the people who are racist against blacks are more likely to be found in the Republican Party and less likely to be actively criticized. In addition, if the Republican Party keeps discriminating against them as a group for the reason that they are usually Dem, it doesn't exactly endear them to the Republicans even if said discrimination would go away if they became solidly Republican.
Tiber727
24d ago
As far as I can tell, even the alleged racists themselves don't think it will happen. As far as I can tell, the people here see themselves not unlike a country about to fall and barely holding on. Conversely the left is culturally dominant, held back only by squandering power on absurd causes.
Tiber727
25d ago
You have to think of The Motte as a zoo. There are dangerous animals here, but they're in cages and can't do anything unless you jump in the cage.
It's not like the people you think are awful cease to exist based on the existence of the Motte. And yes, I certainly think some people whom I won't name are awful human beings. But sometimes I want to know how they tick. I want to know how they react to evidence which contradicts them. And often not responding is the best course, because there's nothing to be gained.
My question to you is what does "fighting" entail? There's never going to be a magical utopia where everyone gets along. There's always going to be some percentage of assholes. "Progress" is just a reduction in the number of assholes and the degree of their assholishness. But it can never reach zero.
There has to be a balance between advancing your beliefs and realizing that caring too much about the mere existence of distasteful things just makes you unhappy. There's no "killing" in debates, so the end result of debates is 1% of the time someone changed their mind and 99% of the time nothing changed.
The people here are extremely used to being told by other people they're bad people. They don't care. What are you hoping to accomplish?
The plot of the game revolves around lunafilament, a pretty much magical material with the potential to replicate anything. He was trying to make a robot to test artificial body parts so she was by design incredibly lifelike. Making a robot let him test that the artificial organs worked like organs, but as you say she was not a good test subject because lunafilament is toxic if inside humans and she cannot model that. I don't remember if it explained why can hack things.
But in all honestly, the plot of the game is super thin. Just enjoy your robot kid that does all the enjoyable things kids do with none of the parts that make you want to punch something.
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