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Drynwyn

managing to vote rig in favour of democrats in a hardcore red state think for a moment whose votes are more likely being used to wipe ass traditionally? american authorities get a lot of yesmanish tribalistic compliance out of fear of the other brand of corporate whore but sadly when cornered by ab...

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DemonFiren wrote:
Incomptinence wrote:the only thing that can stop a bad drone with a drug

IS A GOOD DRONE WITH A GUN!
i sexually identify as a downscaled attack helicopter with a remote control

you can remote-control me tbh

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ThanatosRa wrote:
Drynwyn wrote:
ThanatosRa wrote:So. Um. How do we fix the US without scalping DC.
scalp DC
Pls no. No violence. But that is also how desperate and powerless I feel.

i concur; minimize violence. i just count DC's violence as violence.

Drynwyn

ThanatosRa wrote:So. Um. How do we fix the US without scalping DC.

scalp DC

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can I play it while drunk as hell yes and you should you can even make a drinking game of it- lose a clone, do a shot mutant power backfires, take a drink R&D equipment malfunctions, take a drink Mandatory Hygiene Test occurs, take a drink of something with a high enough alcohol content to be s...

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"They believed it in the past" is pretty much as substantive an argument as "the bible said it", especially with how constantly things believed in the past were so extremely wrong. Again, my argument isn't actually "they believed it in the past", but XSI brought it up ...

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They also believed the sun was pushed by a giant shit beetle i don't think it's controversial to say that ancient people had a better understanding of their own minds than astrophysics of course, that doesn't "prove" anything- but by and large I think that the position "transgender p...

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Did someone say... PARANOIA??? I've GM'd paranoia extensively in the past, including for some people who hang around here. First: Have the players roll the dice. Then, whatever you want to happen, happens. Second: Set the players up to fail. Paranoia, at it's core, is a game about shifting the blame...

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They knew that way back in ye olde medieval times A fourth son was considered likely to be gay, and any further sons too. Today we know this is because of hormones from pregnancies and the female body adapting to said pregnancies by producing more female hormones to deal with it Which gets carried ...

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It bears mentioning at this point- being trans may have a strong biological origin. The uncomfirmed, but rather plausible, hypothesis is that changing hormone levels in the womb, or hormone levels above one signaling cascade threshold but below another, coupled with particular genes, can result in a...

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I remember seeing some post from 4chan ages ago that expanded on the whole "there are no girls on the internet" thing and pointed out that when all anyone ever sees of you is words on a screen, or an avatar that you can freely change at will, gender becomes completely irrelevant even if i...

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I have no horse in this race but in my mind, there's no difference between sex and gender. You can look like, identify or act as one gender but DNA is set in stone on the matter. Rare genetic anomalies are a different topic and are so rare they're not worth talking about But that's not accurate. It...

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Tl;dr nonbinary genders don't exist would you please inform me how you drew that conclusion from my text, because that's not what I said actual tl;dr first premise: gender is a construction, not a concrete thing second premise: as a consequence, we have the power to construct additional genders con...

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Jokes on you, it'd be nigh impossible for more minorities to be near me. videosnip There's a distinction between "gender" and "sex"- at least, as used in academic, and to some extent common language. Firstly, you can say "Gender is what's between your legs", and that c...

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Incomptinence wrote: More minorities should be near Malk upsetting him something awful

i concur

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we get it you're all very good at performative detachment

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While it is true that there is discrimination and this can give them problems, it seems to be mostly the opposite with the 'minorities' being a protected class that can do no wrong in the eyes of the gov/law. Which in turn leads to many of them just not trying to integrate or even bother following ...

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The experiences you're talking about don't occur in a vacuum, though, XSI, even though it's true that some people (though far from all who hate them) have negative experiences with minorities. Minority races experience discrimination, which drives them into lower classes and social isolation, which ...

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Oh, another thang. Drynwyn, one scary media based cultural synthesis was an advert by I believe a minor Swedish political party (hey, Fwoosh brought the country up so it's relevant!) was I think titled "the New Swede" and at the end of it, they did a reveal of a Middle Eastern woman in a ...

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I don't really see how familiarity can help with overcoming division caused by multicultural or multiracial societies mainly because unless you get a very generous split of two types at minimum, I don't see how familiarity will be achieved. There is mistrust between genders and we have an almost ev...

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Surely it does naturally create division? Like goes with like? Anything that is not like has a harder time to mingle? I assume Switzerland might be an example of differing languages and (I assume?) custom being able to work together happily and quietly as a country, though I know nothing of them. I...

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I do not think multiculturalism is not bad. I dislike imported American culture because it causes people to protest Murica's president and be greatly aware of American issues as though they were our own. [snip] It all gives uncomfortable 51st state vibes at worst (ha ha ha our prime minister's bein...

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muh multiculturalism is evulz is the identity politics of the right

both have barely any relevance to your life beyond the most utterly tangential, unimportant relation, it's just something people with an agenda tell you to look at while they fuck you in the ass

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If your post has a scrollbar you are wrong Not everything that is true is simple or obvious, or can be explained succinctly without providing misinformation. Some things that are true are even counter-intuitive! "If your explanation is lengthy, it is therefore wrong" is neither obvious no...

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Aren't there also theories of centralised and devolved industrial control for the state in communism? Do any of the models have the workers own the factories instead of the state or is that supposed to be anarchism? I get confused with how communism sounds like fascism in practice, especially when ...

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hum i dont think too many regulations equals communism Communism is also known as a command economy, where the government controls all the manufacturing and commands them to produce so much of this and that. Can't get much more regulated than that. You're thinking of Leninism/Stalinism, which are p...

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i miss my old snowman christmas avatar

lost my copy in a damn hard drive failure

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App doesn't even work that well at removing makeup. It just takes the face and makes it less attractive-looking. Which... I mean of course that's going to be accurate, the whole point of makeup is that it looks nice? I have to question the sample selection methods of the survey associated with this ...

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on a scale from "you might last ten minutes" to "jesus christ deitus what are you even doing," how fucked am i https://i.imgur.com/JEu3T2x.png pretty solid if you just want to survive max dodging and take the Traceur profession you can start with a dodging of 12 and just be unfu...

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CosmicScientist wrote:Sounds like labour here, their voters and brexit. I'm not sure if there is a party you can trust the intentions of.

You can be sure there isn't. Political parties are not, as institutions, capable of having good intentions.

Have a handy SMBC:

Spoiler:

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Any political ideology that centers around "finding the right people to make Glorious Leader" isn't going to work long-term and produce desirable results. That goes for statist communism, fascism, pretty much any authoritarian system really.

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Facist regimes actually end up pretty nice after they get done shooting Restrictive, but nice enough More nice than the millions dead and poor after an attempt to go to communism Well, until you turn all of europe into a warzone and blame ze joos, anyway Nice is not a meaningful category without fr...

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Failing an escort objective loses you some points but if you try to escort them and die you get jack shit and just have to start over. Oftentimes killing them for an easy completed objective, even if it is a failure, is the smart thing to do when you are getting your ass kicked. Fuzz is an old vet ...

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so long as the chemists/other unimplanted crew can assume that security is out to murder them and respond with their own lethal force after security declares "Do this or die", seems fine.

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big data is the only credible threat to democracy in this day and age Big data is merely the latest manifestation of the age-old threat to democracy- the unequal power relationships that corrode the idea of equal representation. Consider: if there existed no class of empowered individuals, with the...

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I think Ethereum is a better investment at the moment.

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would participate but i am contractually bound to this avatar

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CosmicScientist wrote:What was the shouting about?

reportedly, mostly "we don't like white supremacists much"

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i can't trust any system that makes money from practically nothing Ah, but it is merely an illusion, albeit one facilitated by both society and the nature of money, that the capital investment itself produces money. In reality, you are simply purchasing the right to a certain fraction of the surplu...

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Every viewpoint is worth listening to Not every viewpoint is worth risking your life just for listening to it Seriously, don't place yourself in harm's way if you can avoid it. If a bunch of LARPing commies is enough to make you fear for your life, its time to reevaluate your life. Last time larpin...

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In order to even consider that I don't myself exist, I have to be able to exist in order to refute my own existence All you know for sure is that SOMETHING exists, you can't say for sure it's you! Descartes was a moron. Descartes was like Plato- he was a very clever person who's notability is only ...

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Anonmare wrote:In order to even consider that I don't myself exist, I have to be able to exist in order to refute my own existence

All you know for sure is that SOMETHING exists, you can't say for sure it's you!

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Anonmare wrote:>Implying Humanity is real
>Implying that any of you are real
>Implying that I'm not the only person who really exists and isn't a mindless automaton who acts like it exists
Step it up

>implying that you yourself know you exist
your consciousness could be illusory

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Because just because some people in a group aren't bad, when a fair chunk of them are it reflects poorly on the group as a whole, and there's no reason to not condemn a group based on the actions of the people in it. If that is the case, I could reasonably condemn: Democrats, Republicans, /tg/ stat...

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A) I would be quite willing to argue a position that people have to be judged as individuals, not as members of groups. In the abstract, at least, that seems totally tenable! B) I've not said that a disputed leader isn't a leader, but I don't think you can even point to a disputed leader of Antifa- ...

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It would be fair to say, of course, that a large number of Antifa members support the overthrow of the US government- but I don't think it's fair to claim that about the movement as a whole. It's still an organization that a military officer has no business being anywhere near. I made, and continue...

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It would be fair to say, of course, that a large number of Antifa members support the overthrow of the US government- but I don't think it's fair to claim that about the movement as a whole. It's still an organization that a military officer has no business being anywhere near. I made, and continue...

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An NTS fallacy involves stating that a given attribute is not an attribute of X, then defining X such that it does not have that attribute or amending the definition of X to exclude those who do have a that attribute (in essence, it's a circular argument.) Let me set forth clear standards, and clear...

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I'm going to form a group called the Kitten Cuddle Club. The Kitten Cuddle Club is going to knock over grocery stores and steal their money. Our publications and public website will state our mission to cuddle as many kittens as possible. Clearly we're actually a group about cuddling kittens that p...

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>contemplate the validity or invalidity of authoritarian organizations such as governments compelling participation in the structures they create by acting to suppress and destroy reasonable alternatives- an act that is by itself negative but perhaps not unjustifiable- and whether or not a concept o...

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