• skisnow@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Most of what makes these “bad times”, involves the existence of massive dickheads like Laurence Fox, who think that strength is the same as bigotry.

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    3 months ago

    Stupid men like oversimplified phrases that make themselves think they’re better than others.

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      smart tech makes dumb people, dumb people make dumb tech, dumb tech makes smart people, smart people make smart tech.

      … i like this oversimplification, and can contrive calling myself smart from it.

      so i must be a stupid.

      wise tech makes wise people, wise people make wise tech.

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      are they even better than others, by their own logic? they make it sound like a natural cycle, where the hard/softness of people is a natural consequence of the times which made them. the times are just a natural consequence of the hardness of the people.

      with this framework, if times are bad right now, that can’t be some great moral failing, after all the people allegedly responsible, did not chose to make them so, and anyway, the times will get good again soon enough, … and then go bad again. it might just suck to live through the hard times.

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    It’s funny that Laurence is about as soft a lad as they come. His entire acting family is so obviously posh and pampered that they all have to play Malfoys, but the rest of them just get on with it instead of coming out with cry-baby shit like this on the regular.

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      3 months ago

      I think the sticking point would be the “hard [people] make good times” assertion. Hard (read: traumatized) people tend to be assertive and aggressive in positions of leadership. While that certainly can create change for the better, that change is far from guaranteed.

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        3 months ago

        Trauma’s no magic wand that makes people hard. It’s not always true that what does not kill you makes you stronger.

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    3 months ago

    This is patently inaccurate. If anything, bad times make soft men, in many of us desperate crave someone to protect us, with whom we feel safe to be soft with. And then, of course, soft men makes hard men

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      3 months ago

      I was once told that blowing is gay.

      … The guy was serious. Not using a euphemism.

      If he saw it, he’d leave it be, not wanting to be gay.

      XD

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    3 months ago

    So… we are in bad times… and bad times make hard men… and “we need MEN”… and grindr’s going to make men hard…

    Just trying to follow the logic…

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      Unfortunately the saying refers to soft men like Trump et. al., not femboys.

      God I wish we had a femboy president and cabinet… I’m not even attracted to them. I just know they’d be infinitely better than the fucking fascist cheeto et. al…

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          Eh… I’m aware how insufferably ‘bottom’ many of them are. To want to be a nazi whilst being a type of person they would likely dislike is … pretty strong bottom energy.

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            pretty strong bottom energy.

            It’s not only about bottoms tho

            There a lot of people in LGBT+ community that supports islam\sharia law. Amount of people that are simultaneously in those two circles is surprisingly high. Same with women and sharia law actually. You would think they understand that it basically a suicide - but here we are. Sadly, don’t have exact numbers, maybe that just vocal minority, who knows.

            I mean, even if we talking about politics - there a lot of people who supported Trump for example. Same people then complained, that their group (LGBT+, farmers, etc) was negatively affected by his politics. Leopards do what leopards do.

            Also, in my birth country russia (I hope it cease to exist), all that fascist “z” movement rise so high, that many communities like furry, anime, mlp, etc. became toxic waste. Sad thing really, you see how people support same regime, that prosecute them.

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              Yea, it was partly a joke. I will never understand how people, especially minorities, can look themselves in the mirror after voting against their own interest. Not even in a greedy way, but in a, “what the fuck did you think would happen?” sort of way.

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        This is still not the criteria to decide who decides…

        … Nor correct reasoning. Femboys can be fascist too. These are not mutually exclusive sets. So no, you are in error asserting you know they’d be better, if you’re saying they’d not be fascist. Power corrupts, and corrupted feboys may be a devil we don’t know. I’d rather not have a devil making machine. No matter which flavour of devils. I do not want a devil making machine. Putting women in power, did not mend it. Putting “black faces in high places”, did not mend it. But putting femboys in the power structure shaped for fascism, is going to mend it? May be yet missing the lesson to learn here. ~ Sorry Martin Luther King. I’m tryin.

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          I’m absolutely positive there are fewer femboy fascists than Republican fascists.

          My comment is not about the most ideal government, nor about power structures, but a direct comparison of two specific things.

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              A gamble with better odds than the 100% chance we currently have… How fucking dense can you be?

              It shouldn’t be fucking difficult to understand that a gamble is better than a guarantee.

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                Your aggressive ad-hominem, and moved goal posts, is uncompelling. Sorry I’ve failed to help elucidate the epistemics here for you, past your apparent identity attachment with this that’s causing such a social-dominance limbic-reaction occluding critical thinking, but given that reaction, I’m losing confidence in my abilities to cut through the emotion to get this correspondence back to the simple logic, and shan’t even try. Hoping you find the way to feel better.

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                  lol good job failing to understand the most basic facts of reality, let alone anything about biology, but nice attempt to sound smart. You’re the biggest fool I’ve seen on here all week.