mindbleach
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- Comment on Trump literally referred to himself as "King". Surely conservatives are against a monarchy forming? 10 hours ago:
Conservatives are necessary as a counterpoint to progressivism in general.
The fuck they are.
- Comment on What it means to sign Elsevier's Copyright Transfer Agreement 1 day ago:
Fuck the scansion on this format.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto FiveM Players Quit In Disgust As New Sources Corroborate The Rumors 1 day ago:
What the hell is any of this?
- Comment on Trump literally referred to himself as "King". Surely conservatives are against a monarchy forming? 1 day ago:
The whole Alt-Right Playbook series is incredible and necessary, but the more relevant video is arguably Always A Bigger Fish. Specifically for one point:
Conservatives are not failed liberals.
They don’t want what liberals want. That’s why they don’t do what liberals do. We keep assuming we must agree on certain topics - often because they say they believe in things we believe in - but if that were true then their actions would make sense. We wouldn’t be constantly baffled by their hypocrisy, asking over and over, ‘how can they say X when they do Y?’
The default approach is to point out these contradictions… as if they haven’t noticed. As if it will force them to reconcile their rhetoric with their behavior (or vice-versa). That never happens. They don’t fucking care. All of their stated ideals are ad-hoc justifications.
Everything for conservatives is in service to hierarchy. Words don’t mean anything except to signal loyalty or disloyalty to that hierarchy. They are shibboleths. Ducktalk. They cheer when Their Guy says the sky is blue and boo when Our Guy says the exact same thing. They proclaim themselves “rational” because obviously someone rational would want what they already want, and being smart just means working backwards for clever excuses. This is how reality works, for these people. All of their stated ideals are ad-hoc justifications.
And they think we’re the same way.
That’s what really connects us, across the aisle. We think they’re like us, and when they say they support democracy, we think they mean it. It’s why we’d say that. They think we’re like them, and when we say we want fair elections, they think we’re lying. It’s why they’d say that. All of their stated ideals are ad-hoc justifications. They say things we like to hear because it works. It has no predictive value.
- Comment on Trump literally referred to himself as "King". Surely conservatives are against a monarchy forming? 1 day ago:
In a very real sense, those people do not have beliefs. They think reasons are things you make up based on what you’ve already concluded. Business snubs their outgroup? ‘Well it’s their right to blah blah blah vote with your wallet yay capitalism.’ Business snubs their ingroup? ‘How dare they violate my right to blah blah blah political correctness gone mad.’ They decide what they want today and pick plausible justifications.
And in their minds, that’s what everyone else is doing.
Nothing they do makes sense without that context. You’re never really arguing with them because they don’t agree on how arguments work. Their conclusions do not follow a chain of logic from factual claims. You can completely dismantle their arguments, and then… they’ll pick new arguments. They’re just working backwards from the answer they want. And they think you are, too. Everyone’s just shuffling cards. No matter the evidence or the rationale, they’re not about to switch sides, because that’s what they think hypocrisy is.
Reminding them of their own arguments has no impact, because they don’t understand the concept. Neither the concept of saying something without meaning it, nor the concept of logical consistency. They think you’re suddenly choosing that argument - because that’s all they did.
- Comment on David Fincher goes full Fincher on Panic Room 4K. Check out his odd fixes 2 days ago:
It’s hardly Greedo shooting first, but - quit fucking with movies we’ve already seen.
- Comment on where?? 4 days ago:
Where’s earth
- Comment on I want to know. 5 days ago:
– Marcellus Wallace
- Comment on German Chancellor Rebukes Vance for Supporting Party That Downplays Nazis 5 days ago:
Too much indirection.
Vance is being a fucking Nazi. Fuck Nazis.
- Comment on Erasure 6 days ago:
We tried that.
- Comment on Anon describes the micro-celeb pipeline 1 week ago:
Listen - webcomic artists aren’t transing the genders for money and prestige.
Maybe straight people just aren’t creative.
- Comment on Anon describes the micro-celeb pipeline 1 week ago:
Coward.
- Comment on At this rate, why not. 1 week ago:
Drop a plate, floor breaks.
- Comment on At this rate, why not. 1 week ago:
I’m pulling for artificial diamonds. It’s the funniest solution: dumping truckloads of precious gemstones back down empty wells. Or burying them in the desert. Or I guess just handing them out for industrial uses, since even grinding them to dust isn’t the same problem as CO2. Have a free bucket of aquarium gravel, made out of worthless tacky gold.
- Comment on Ye Takes Back Apology and Calls Himself a Nazi in Social Media Rant 1 week ago:
We knew.
Take your meds, fuckface.
- Comment on Thank god "shit" is censored 1 week ago:
Cheers.
- Comment on Thank god "shit" is censored 1 week ago:
Aggravated I can’t find that feminization pipeline image that’s like ‘gay, super gay, mega gay, ultra gay… straight.’
- Comment on Patch this Bish! 2 weeks ago:
Trouble is, you can’t not.
- Comment on Anon was mysterious 2 weeks ago:
That knight got poo brain!
- Comment on Colours 2 weeks ago:
This is octarine erasure.
- Comment on Patch this Bish! 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on As Trump Attacks Diversity, a Racist Undercurrent Surfaces 2 weeks ago:
It IS racism. You fucking dolts.
- Comment on >:) 2 weeks ago:
Nobody suspects a thing.
- Comment on ‘We Have No Coherent Message’: Democrats Struggle to Oppose Trump 2 weeks ago:
Ah, you were one of the trolls telling people not to check a box to stop what’s happening now. Fuck off.
- Comment on ‘We Have No Coherent Message’: Democrats Struggle to Oppose Trump 2 weeks ago:
And even those are fundamentally different from the concentration camps that are about to happen.
- Comment on ‘We Have No Coherent Message’: Democrats Struggle to Oppose Trump 2 weeks ago:
‘Numbers were down’ is not the same kind of problem as fascism.
You know damn well which one thing sticks out from that list.
- Comment on ‘We Have No Coherent Message’: Democrats Struggle to Oppose Trump 2 weeks ago:
Do you remember the distant past of three weeks ago, when the boring major party was in charge, and only one thing was on fire?
- Comment on ‘We Have No Coherent Message’: Democrats Struggle to Oppose Trump 2 weeks ago:
A horde of dolts is setting everything on fire, and people are still mad the don’t-set-things-on-fire crowd have no exciting alternative.
- Comment on No, this is Patrick 2 weeks ago:
Cry about it.
- Comment on Lonely Bench 2 weeks ago:
The ones in uniformly inch-deep potholes?
