sun_the_second
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sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
3hr 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
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4hr 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
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6hr 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
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7hr 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
1d 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
1d 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
1d 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
1d 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
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2d 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
2d 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
2d ago
I don't recall defending "Demonic pigskin". I defended "I will not be a slave".
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
There appears to be plenty of emotional reactions to all sorts of arguments here.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
If there was a similar argument on the "other side" that convinced me, it would be an argument on my side. I reject your attempts to shoehorn me as a leftwinger, whose arguments must be scrutinized for sincerity if they happen to oppose rightwinger arguments.
If you think there's no discussion with me because I'm partisan then there is no discussion to be had. If you have specific evidence of my partisanship then you can list that.
Is a particular black man responsible for a proportion of other black men victimizing someone or having gotten preferential treatment, that he should not argue for the bottom line of not being made into a second class citizen because of what the others did?
I think you're making the argument that currently, the powers that be are overly protective of the bad blacks in the way that they are not of bad whites. I agree with that assessment.
sun_the_second
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2d ago
Is it morally unreasonable for a group to assert that they will not be second class citizens?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
I do not care to project my position on every issue ever ahead of time to prove to you I'm not a committed partisan or something. You can check my post history if you're really curious and go with that.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
2d ago
You say all that as if "not being disenfranchised, particularly within the country they're very much not first-generation immigrants in" is an interest that's so uncommon and morally unreasonable for a group to hold that it can only be viewed with amused dispassion. "Look how politically effective their strategy is, asserting that they won't be second class!".
Again, most of those complaints sound like America just doesn't know how to build apartments. How come my country can build apartment blocks that don't shadow each other, and have soundproofing, and aren't dystopian pods 1 step across that you see in movies about South Korea or China, and can be afforded not just to rent, but to buy for many of the middle class?
One thing I'll give you is size of houses compared to apartments, but then again at some point I just don't see the value of having more space other than getting off on 'Murican gregariousness of life... and that point falls flat when in the same paragraph you're complaining that you can't afford a house. You got a family of 10 kids? Then sure, it makes sense to have a big house. How many families have 10 kids again?
I suspect most people live in apartments for part of their lives, and learn to hate them there.
I could possibly count on one hand the number of times where I've experienced something that could be fixed by having my own house in the 'burbs. Many things would be made worse. I'd need to drive to buy groceries, or to go to the gym, or do mostly anything that is done outside my own home. There'd be more shit to maintain. You can still have bad neighbors.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
3d ago
You should say what you believe in about yourself. This is, as far as I see, allowed and encouraged on this forum. "I will not be a slave" was not the bannable offense, "you cracker bitch" was.
There are many people here who I not only disagree with but find their propositions for what the world should be abominable and ridiculous. For some of them, I still hold the minimum of respect, and that is because they do not descend to shit-flinging. This is despite their projects being, in my view, more hopeless than yours.
It is not within your power to stop people from noticing that group IQ differences exist, and some of them will irrationally extrapolate them on all members of your group, in all aspects of life. Those people you can't change. Fortunately, what I see is that such people who zealously believe in IQ graphs and ignore anything in front of their eyes are in the minority.
What you can change is change how you act, and those whose view of black people is informed not just by IQ curve graphs, but also by their observations of how black people act, will see that you do not act as a racist would predict you do.
No, you don't have to plead that you're one of the good ones. You want to actually be one of the good ones. It's unfair that you might have to try harder compared to whites, but it's life. What appears to hurt black-white relations a lot in my observation is when you start seeing "being one of the good ones" as some kind of a shameful thing, a performance you must put on for the snobby whites, you start taking pride in doing the opposite of putting up appearances for the whitey, and then all of you appear worse than average.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
3d ago
Many such clauses.
and that all spirals down to simply assuming he isn't there.
If you don’t, then why do you expect God to?
Most prominent monotheistic religions say He is infinitely better than us, in all aspects which would include caring for lesser things.
If he isn't, one might suspect he isn't perfect in general, and that all spirals down to simply assuming he isn't there.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
3d ago
small
Get a bigger apartment.
dark
Try windows and/or electrical lights, as well as building apartment blocks that are naturally lit.
cramped
Get a bigger apartment.
noisy
Build apartment blocks where walls aren't made of cardboard, and/or police noise.
enter and leave by passing by multiple other neighbors
As mentioned by someone else, hating to see neighbors was historically not terribly common. If it's the quality of neighbors that's your concern, that's the problem of loose policing and selection effects cramming all the bad neighbors (correlating with poor) into cheap apartments because the cheap apartments and the ultra-expensive ones are the only ones that exist.
I must agree with the poster above, the American apartment hate is entirely a unique cultural thing, probably born of the abundance of land. Well, it doesn't seem that desirable land is abundant now, judging from all the complaints about lack of affordable housing.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
7d ago
This is pretty much entirely not what you claimed I said.
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.
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