GarbageShoot

In terms of near-human or above-human intelligence, I think the plot of the main quest line involves first contact, but in terms of player characters it is totally true that you can only be human, which was the main point.

I'm white and getting offended at "cracker" is comical. Furthermore, even if it's not exclusively directed at reactionaries, you are in essence conceding that the hypothetical you posed at the start is simply worthless.

I don't think Biden was memeing, but then again I seemingly don't know the context as well as you do. Could you explain?

It's not tolerated in person with an org member. If you're at a counterprotest or whatever and a PoC comrade calls a fascist on the other side of the line a cracker, there typically won't be a disciplinary hearing over it. Your comment is useless equivocating because it completely obscures the variety of different group dynamics that appear in person. It's not as though "cracker" was first said to a white person over AOL in the 90s.

There is "being white" in the sense that your society defines you as white and there's "being white" in the sense that you define yourself as white, identify with whiteness beyond recognition of the first sense, and seek to preserve whiteness. I won't die on this hill, but I think it's fair to say crackers are category #2 plus anyone from category #1 who gets offended at the word "cracker".

(unless thought experiments are bourgeois decadence, if so I will show myself out...)

No, but they can very rapidly fall into idealist question-begging, though it is worth noting that the prompt you are giving this comparison to is not clear enough to be a useful thought experiment even by liberal standards. It is just a hazy hypothetical.

And those Maoist groups (not all Maoist groups, those specifically) are welcome to implode

There are plenty of people who are interested in socialism, but if they show up to a socialist org and get called a cracker they'll leave. It's an insult.

We aren't a fucking org. No one is joining an org to come in and start swinging minute 1 about how akshually Stalin was Hitler unless they are joining an org that holds that stance to begin with. If someone does join an ML org and do that, they get what they fucking deserve.

But we are not an org, and them coming into some thread to take shots does not represent remotely the same opportunity to us that a new member does to an organizer.

What stands on trial today is the medieval German habit of speaking to each other as if no one else is listening. The German habit of making extreme statements irresponsibly, unthoughtfully, without expecting any payback.

No, the Third Reich was not conducting genocide. But its long-winded rant about “The Final Solution” is no longer a quaint side effect of our argumentative heritage.

--Some dude at Nuremberg, probably

Our boy thought he could be Syngman Rhee instead

Honestly I do wonder if it will condense into the North Atlantic Imperium in the future, but hopefully most of the EU states will find it more beneficial to keep a good relationship with rising powers

since it says that jesus gets to go to heaven but not, say, the jews he killed).

I don't think Christ canonically killed anyone, and God the Father is not the same as God the Son (though I will insist to my grave that the Trinity lacking the transitive property makes no sense)