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Anyone one of us could have voiced our disagreement with each other in vitriolic ways yet only one of us did
He was warned and still opted for that instead of constructive and respectful dialogue.
Facts
And users will debate and mention perspectives regarding the long history of the human race over that. This what happens when you have people with diverse perspectives on a site with little agreement outside of the core site topic.
Decorum is a choice when in a debate that is not going to be finalized on a site with primary missions and people are discussing tertiary topics
By the same token, he's not wrong from a global perspective
He bloody well was wrong! I shat up this site for the better part of a month inundating this feed with counter-factuals to his islamist make believe reality, down to the granular detail that HIS culture was the victim of Arab conquest and suppression which was the very thing he was promoting as the answer to all of his ills. It was beyond irony! I showed him examples of horrific acts from Arab nations on peaceful people - he was blind to it to the point his racism and vitriol got the best of him when it came to site decorum.
I'm not sure how much more vitriolic you can be than saying white people are evil and locusts
You're not wrong from a "Protecting and maintaining the site" perspective.
By the same token, he's not wrong from a global perspective, about how badly "The West" or "White people" for short, have gone against the principles "we" hold up as a major component and driver of, "our" supposed superiority and material successes.
The US is speedrunning its fall from the peak of global hegemony. Sacrificing Lionsmane8 on the altar of... any of our supposed values, won't change much less repair this. It might work to distract us from our obligations to addressing it meaningfully however.
That was before the confusion, cancel the merch order or donate it to a clothing drive if it's too late
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@MentORPHEUS Being white is entirely irrelevant to anything that followed your first sentence. European expansion didn't happen because they were white, it happened because in a pragmatic and utilitarian universe where resources and security are paramount, Europeans had the initiative to utilise their environment to their advantage.
Have horrific acts taken place throughout the history of the world? Absolutely. Did any of it originate in someones mind from the void of potentiality because of their skin colour? Of fucking course not. Have some people leveraged and even promoted their position because of their skin colour? Yes. Is that a disprovable ideology? Also yes. So disprove it on those grounds - but don't castigate European success on those grounds - which is what his dogma was insisting on.
White people don't have a monopoly on horror. They aren't even the front runners in that category.
Read More@MentORPHEUS It survives because the "opposite" culture is observably worse. A viable counter culture is the only remedy, but they rarely arise absent massive societal upheaval. Now, Elon seems to think he might be it.......but..... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Anyway....
Conversely, take any of his posts and replace his words with "brown people" or "black people" and tell me how long you think i should keep up the content on here visible to all
I'm not saying change the message, i mean keep ver batim what he said just swap out races. How long in time should it have been kept up with race swapping? Or do you think it shouldn't have been taken down at all if the races were swapped?
I'm not sure how much more vitriolic you can be than saying white people are evil and locusts short of advocating for violence
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Agree and amplify isn't just for shit test. I've had great success using it for comfort test too.
My girl has a tendency to over react when things aren't quit going her way. I don't mean if I tell her no, I mean if she doesn't hit one note in her performance, forgets something for a trip or especially the meals she preps. Last nights she's "flipping out" over dinner before it's even finished.
The potatoes are trash they keep stick to the pan. Fuck. And the steak looks over cooked. Damnit Whittney. I know and the brocoli looks goofy. She continues on her rant while plating everything and as she hands it to me, I look at the plate, then in her eyes;
You're fucking right. This looks awful, should we just throw it out and order pizza?
My delivery is 100% serious but she knows I'm being sarcastic because she's lactose intolerant.
Almost instantly she goes on the defensive, Rude! You haven't even tried it. I told her neither have you. I didn't have to say the rest, she new i was referring to the rant I just listened to for the past ten minutes about how awful everything turned out, before she could even attempt to try the meal.
Dinner was fine. She even admitted besides the 10% of potatoes we lost to the pan, they turned out well. Steaks wasn't even close to over cooked. She ended up apologizing for being dramatic after the meal was concluded.
I just get so upset because I know I can do better.
I've found throughout the years, when your girl is being ridiculous, pretending to be absurdly ridiculous about the same issue, tends to put things into perspective pretty quick for them.
It can also put them on the defensive because, Hey, only I can critique the fuck out of myself. Either way the over abundance of my faux despair tends to cause enough of a jarring effect to break them out of their unnecessary tatrum.
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