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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Alright. Good luck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

You're trying to dismantle the echo chamber by amplifying voices inside to the point that they think what they're saying no longer or has never made sense, and by extension alienate folks outside looking in.

It sounds like an interesting strategy, and might be fun if that's what your about, but I doubt it's very effective. I think the risk of it backfiring is probably too high to see a very good return on your effort, especially without any way to verify positive outcomes. Maybe you're different, but I could also see the toxicity of the cynicism required to maintain the strategy decompartmentalizing and seeping into other parts of my life, potentially causing me to alienate my friends and family as well as affecting my mental health.

I any case, I got respect for anyone willing to stick to their guns for what they think is right, especially if it's for positive social change. I just hope you've weighed the consequences of your method.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Dude if you care at all about expanding your ideology beyond yourself, it behooves you to not be an insufferable jerk to literally everyone you talk to. Your demeanor completely undermines any effort you might make here to (perhaps even rightly) challenge the societal norms you deem inadequate, unjust, or otherwise bad. People will just assume you sit in a continuous state of masturbatory rage and dismiss anything you might have (even potentially of substance) to offer to the conversation. Frankly I'm not sure I've ever read anything in print which so clearly expressed an air of self-righteous smugness, save for perhaps something by Bill Maher or Richard Dawkins.

Figure out how and when ad hominem is appropriate. Learn how to disagree tactfully. Try to exercise some empathy, at least to the point of being able to connect with folks long enough to rattle off whatever rhetoric you have in the ol' back pocket.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

By that logic any depiction of any form of supremacy, or otherism as a concept, regardless of intent, is detrimental. So, homogeneity only? Commentary is an excuse? Critiquing about the problem is as bad as endorsing it?

It sounds like you're not mad at Fallout specifically, but one of the core tropes of literature as a genre, and basically the entire concept of social satire.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The narrative structuring around ghouls generally paints them as being unjustly denigrated, so even if they are race stand-ins it wouldn't be for the purpose of promoting white supremacism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

They have water at the gym

[–] [email protected] 104 points 4 months ago (12 children)

Dawg it's 95°F out with 97%RH cmon

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

The Establishment clause has applied to state law since 1947.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Cold Barqs from a can is soda perfection.

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