sun_the_second
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sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
4hr ago
Many regulars are indistinguishable from trolls, if their median post was their first they'd be filtered. I say there's nothing wrong with letting in some fresh troll blood.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
19hr ago
In gaming it's more like "high-skill players are not entitled to infinite noobs to stomp". Noobs don't like getting stomped, and it doesn't seem to be good for long-term playerbase vitality. High-skill players can always have as high a winrate as they want against bots.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
19hr ago
You could do welfare/tax incentives for girl children only.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
19hr ago
I mean, even if the top players think smurfing is lame (they are motivated by their competitiveness and do not desire weak opponents), there are still smurfs who are skilled enough to stomp on weak players and driven enough by the desire to simply win, no matter against whom, to do so.
I don't think the metaphor applies to men striving to get women anyway, because most men don't appear to be competitive with other men on this. They want a partner above some baseline level of beauty, and would take several if they can get away with it, but competing with other men is not a motivation. "Trophy wives" only appear to be a male status symbol among the very top elites, who appear to be pathologically driven to competition in as may small ways as possible.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
20hr ago
I think when encountering Chad "smurfing" in person, i.e. someone from a high-status environment coming to a lower-status one to fish for girls (or even just coming there without the overt intent to steal mates), men did react with hostility historically. The city boy among the country boys; the student from an elite school among the kids from a merely "decent" one, etc.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
20hr ago
Women that are both psychologically and physically fit for a job involving subjugating men through overwhelming violence appear to be very rare, even with guns as the equalizer. I suspect the number of men such a society could control would be too low to do all the hard labor, or else it would be the men in the military who would be the actual slavedrivers.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
20hr ago
Unlike the harem world, men probably wouldn't vote for that one.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
20hr ago
This appears to me to be like the thing with "economically viable oil fields". If we run out of economically viable oil fields, we don't run out of oil. We just move on to the next most viable oil fields. Similarly, many jobs appear to employ primarily men at the moment because a) women are less efficient and currently not economically viable; b) many of those jobs are shitty and men complain less about them. That doesn't show that women are physically unable to perform those jobs.
There would be some productivity hit, but I struggle to see how the market that can afford to pay so many people to do so many vastly less fundamental bullshit jobs couldn't absorb that hit without total society collapse.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
20hr ago
I suspect that much of that can be handled. Workloads adapting for lifting smaller weights at a time where before the weights were as large as men could afford to regularly lift; using more teamwork; employing the stronger women who can actually lift 50 pounds.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
20hr ago
Women would probably get jealous at this state of affairs. Many women would think, "why couldn't I have been born a man?" It wouldn't look like a feminist utopia.
They already say all that. Why should we actually give them the low-status male slave class? Go, 1/10 gender ratio fanfiction made reality!
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
20hr ago
I recall the Chinese did infant sex selection, and that it didn't require Nazi camps, merely incentives aligning the right way. Their efforts resulted in demographic horrors because they selected against female children, and women are the bottleneck for reproduction. I'd like to hear the actual arguments against OP's proposal without devolving into "that's Nazi shit", or else I would like to see actual Nazi shit such as proposals to expel Jews/blacks treated the same way.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
1d ago
It's hard to explain in unimpeachable terms why Groundhog Day doesn't count as timeloopslop. I suppose one aspect is that it was literally the first, or among the first examples. The trope hadn't yet become a boring device for gaining power and waifus and actually had themes to explore. It's also a work where the anomaly encompasses the entire work, rather than being a vehicle for other plot points. It's not a deus ex machina if a deity suddenly interfering is what kickstarts the plot rather than solving crucial parts of it.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
1d ago
Naturally, I suspend disbelief when reading most literature. However, suspending disbelief for increasingly formulaic and lazy disbelief-inducers gets boring.
If an apple fell up once so conveniently that the entire plot happened (and it was never explained), I'd consider that bad writing unless, I suppose, the irony of this one unexplained anomaly is the entire premise.
If there are apples falling up periodically yet it's never recognized or addressed in-universe even though it drives the entire plot, again, bad writing.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
1d ago
You can "not justify" something in the sense that we don't know a justification for why gravity exists and works the way it does, and you can "not justify" something in the sense that despite everything we've been told about gravity, an apple falls up instead of down.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
1d ago
There's crime against the outsider, which is merely warfare, and then there's crime against the ingroup. From what I have seen most leftists are firmly against the latter.
To the extent people don't agree with the Caesar's definition of criminal, it is the failure of the Caesar to unite his subjects into a coherent ingroup.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
1d ago
Isekai is usually a thin excuse to put a protagonist most palatable to the modern audience - a modern person - into a wholly alien setting (making the setting "modern world but changed" would require extra work on integrating the changes while keeping the MC relatable). This is seen as immature reading.
It also intersects with tropes such as power fantasy (protagonist has some power that puts them ahead of natives, usually not gained through effort).
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
Sounds like the progressive arguments are being defeated by a tool that has nothing to do with HBD and everything to do with your interlocutor's "just arrest people who do crimes".
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
3d ago
Or maybe the man is actually a devout feminist. A true believer who legitimately thinks that "Men are dangerous" is an important message that must be spread in order to turn society into a better place. It just seems insane to me that an adult man would believe this. Surely he must see that his warning implicates himself and his friends as dangers to women as well. Do men like that even exist?
Don't traditionalists essentially come from the premise that men are dangerous (and should strive to be besides), and thus men should have a framework of mutual respect and women should stick with men that have personal reasons to protect them (fathers/vetted husbands)?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
3d ago
People organize into groups, and groups oftentimes take on an unlife of its own that is stronger than any individual's decision to continue to put forward the group's goals or not.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
3d ago
What is the HBD argument that would defeat "the cops are racist to black men so they police and sentence them harsher in the same situations"?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
4d ago
Prejudice is when you judge someone before they actually do something. Postjudice is when you do it after they do something.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
4d ago
I've stated my case in the very comment you actually started replying to me from.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
4d ago
I don't recall defending "Demonic pigskin". I defended "I will not be a slave".
Oh no. Not the right wing trolls patch! I, a devious left-wing wrecker, could never benefit from flooding the Motte with low-quality right-wing discourse!
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