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Quality Contributions Report for June 2026

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Contributions for the week of June 1, 2026

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@magicalkittycat:

Contributions for the week of June 22, 2026

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@FiveHourMarathon:

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@ThisIsSin:

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Contributions for the week of June 29, 2026

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Amusing to me that magicalkittycat got mass downvoted without substantial rebuttal to his post for expressing what I thought were very reasonable points, but also got an AAQC on the very same post. Not sure what so many people found so objectionable with the original post.

I generally don't downvote and don't like the downvote brigade, but it's not a very good post, and one of a pretty long series of not-very-good post of a similar type magicalkittycat makes. The "victimization crisis" is just unfounded Bulverism, the "presumably there should be mass desire for movement somewhere if we're fucking something up in a significant way and we just don't see it" is one in a long series of actively refusing to see the evidence in front of his own face, and it doesn't actually interact with the claims of the post it's reacting to so much as just pretend that they didn't real to start with.

Which is why he didn't get responses: there's not much point in trying to debate with someone who's just going to deny the potential relevance of any evidence (this is, afaict, the last time I did downvote him) or going to duck out the second his point is demonstrated as vacant.

The victimization crisis and surrounding issues is something that's been talked about for a while.

https://putanumonit.com/2020/09/12/against-victimhood/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_Victimhood_Culture

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/17/caution-on-bias-arguments/

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/f3zeukxj3Kf5byzHi/underdog-bias-rules-everything-around-me

Including as you can see, in other rationalist communities! It's literally one of the main motivators people will bring up for woke culture, an obsession with who is the greatest victim.

The victimhood obsession is what losers and failures use to cope when they don't succeed. "It's not my fault I don't got a smoking hot babe, it's cause society just hates men", "it's not my fault I didn't get that job, they're racist against black people", etc etc. Online discussion has been consumed by whiners, in part cause the whiners don't shut up while us doers spend most of our time doing.

the "presumably there should be mass desire for movement somewhere if we're fucking something up in a significant way and we just don't see it" is one in a long series of actively refusing to see the evidence in front of his own face, and it doesn't actually interact with the claims of the post it's reacting to so much as just pretend that they didn't real to start with.

Because in the modern day in first world nations, most victim complaints are not real. I literally went over in several ways how us men are far better off now than almost any other point in history. Even most of the losers are better off in many areas, the poorest and laziest NEET won't die of starvation anymore. I had an aunt go crazy and live on the streets for like a whole decade and she still had food, clean water, access to healthcare, a cellphone, etc.

Because in the modern day in first world nations, most victim complaints are not real.

Real or not, they are used because they work. You will never convince people to stop whining about being victims as long as rewards - material, social, or political - flow to those who claim victimhood status.

I'm standing by the stairs. What now? Will I get my victimhood rewards?

You will be protected from the Terrible Secret of Space

That's it? A very vague reward. Don't you have something more tangible?

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