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Then why do it? You're the only one in this whole thread with any issue, unless you can point to someone else who has had it. The most desperate form of deflection was using upvotes/downvotes as a point like populists always do.

But they aren't the only person here with an issue. My comment wasn't as confrontational but I also clearly raised a red flag at the question being asked and the reasons people start asking these kinds of questions. I also see what you're doing. I just don't want to spend the next week doing this thing you're calling a debate.

Is there anyone with an actually viable path in? McCarthy only got in because he agreed to let them do this embarrassing thing to him whenever they wanted and the guys who imposed that before are still seemingly able to do that. I dunno if JJ has a better shot or what, it kinda seems like you'd have to be unwell to even put your hat in the ring.

Right, people miss this but its literally one of the basic ideas of capitalist production. Mom and Pop might be nice people but the market WILL destroy them if they don't participate in the most cutthroat practices to stay competitive. Forces are at play that supercede the morality of any actor.

Because the two things aren't actually the same and because of what it means in context to oppose a culture vs. a cult. You might oppose scientology in a variety of ways, they have a leader, buildings, staff, bank accounts, a documented history of infiltrating the government and harassing people, a curated list of members etc.

A cult may or may not have all of those but they're a different kind of thing than a culture. Cultures are social categories that encompass a much wider range of human behaviors for one, they include things like sport and art and language. Festivals and practices and food and manners. They're things a human can't really help having even if you can choose to adopt parts and change others. Religion, which is a thing you seem to be conflating with culture, is just a part of culture. Egyptian Copts have Christianity like many Americans. They are also very different culturally.

But the bigger reason people should be very careful when people start criticizing culture is because we know what that means. What does one do about "cultural Bolshevism?"

What do conservatives actually want done about "Black culture?" What did bringing "culture" to the "savages" mean? How does someone stop being from a culture?

We know how those questions get answered. And that tells us something about why those questions might be asked in the first place.

I don't see the headline in the link. Am I just missing something?

It really shouldn't be complicated. If you live somewhere you need to be able to politically represent and defend yourself in some recognized way. The alternative is to grant that there is a discernable class of scapegoats that can be blamed and punished by everyone else without any recourse.

What's the right amount of misogyny and eugenics to be perfectly balanced and reasonable? I feel like being biased against those things is actually good.

Good thing they defederated from Hexbear. Otherwise authoritarian misinformation and propaganda might have run wild on their trans friendly instance.

Glad we were able to clear up the misunderstanding. Yamdre still seems sus but I appreciate the clarification of your position.

So you just incidentally defended "yandre" in this context because you really like informing people that "yandre" isn't always sexual? You're just a normal non- sexual yandre enjoyer who accidentally stumbled into a conversation about a weird pedo game and felt the need to clarify that this um... genre... is not necessarily sexual by default.

Sure I guess. Can you see why in the context of the thread it could be interpreted as a knee jerk defense of the yucky thing being discussed?

I mean looking at your comments you're technically correct I guess. What was the purpose of coming to the defense of "yandre" though? The guy and his game seem to be if everyone else in the thread is to be believed, I'm not sure what defending him accomplishes.

"She may look and act and speak like a child but rest assured, she is actually an ancient being, ages old beyond time."

-a totally normal type of guy