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Things I've noticed happen in the general vicinity of my posts:
- Fundie nutjobs reduced to curling up in a little ball, plugging their ears, and spewing either contentless religious copypasta (Freeman) or barely-coherent amateur apologia (Bot).
- The Shitey Uzzard degenerating into mudslinging and pretending (badly) not to care when defeated in arguments...every single one of them.
- Insecure manchildren accusing me of being a transsexual (some random AC) on one hand, and on the other, an actual transwoman accusing me of being a TERF (Kurenai).
- Creeps like VLM, KHallow, JMorris, Entropy, and all their kind simply giving the hell up and abandoning ship when faced with a proper down-smacking for their fallacious sociopathy.
When you have people on the fringes everywhere angry with you, each of them accusing you of the precise opposite on the spectrum they hate, you must be doing something right. In all my time here, I've never gone in for trolling, deception, or shitposting. I've always stood for what's right, and took the fight to those who would try to spread their noetic poisons, fighting it everywhere it appears for the sake of anyone unfortunate enough to encounter it, knowing full well the originators of such poison are by their own choice irredeemable, certainly so in this lifetime.
And my approach drives them nuttier than squirrel vomit.
Well boo fucking hoo. When someone on here tells me I'm bitchy or angry, I just laugh, because what they really mean is "you're making me uncomfortable by exposing my bullshit in such direct, uncompromising, profanity-laced ways." It's pretty obvious the accusations of being a transsexual come from sheltered, misogynist little manchildren who can't handle actual women speaking the plain, unvarnished truth to them, because they have so little truck with the opposite sex they've never seen it in the real world before. No, this insult to their manly honor cannot stand! ONLY another man could POSSIBLY have the balls, literal balls, to stand up to them! (And of course the kind of person who'd make this argument lumps MtFs under the heading of "man." I don't, though I do draw an important distinction between transwomen and cisgender women because, frankly, they are never going to know what it is to have a period or risk being pregnant).
Time to put on your big-boy undies and join the adult world! The toughest people I know are all women, including my own mother and some of the nurses at work. I'm a marshmallow compared to them.
And I don't regret anything, as painful as it's been sometimes. Am I a "nice girl?" No, and haven't been for several years, and you know what? It's better this way. "Nice girls" get used and taken advantage of and thrown away and never have their needs met. "Nice girls" are the permanent victims of tone trolling by people too frightened or too weak to deal with them as the full human beings they are. In this place, at this time, as this site sinks further and further into RWNJ decay, all it means is I'll fight all the harder.
What I hope this does is encourage the people on here who still seek the light to defend it. Hit back. We're seeing on a number of scales, from the President's capitulation on his stupid bullshit shutdown right down to the examples at the head of this post, that the sociopaths are like any bully: weak, cowardly, amoral types who don't expect and can't handle sustained, principled pushback. Part of it is that evil simply can't comprehend good, but mostly it comes down to how bullies work and have always worked. Anyone who wants to join me in fighting the good fight, please do: we've seen that it works.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by YeaWhatevs on Monday January 28 2019, @04:46PM (6 children)
Back when I was younger and angrier, I used to get in people's faces too. It does shut them up, and if your goal is to shut them up, or attain another goal by means of shutting them up, then by all means, go for it. Also, sometimes it is necessary to display anger, it signals your are serious. I am completely in favor of "winning" an argument as a means of carrying out my will.
It doesn't mean I (or you) are right though. Maybe you don't care. You just want to win the argument. That's fine, you're not alone. Don't mistake that for being right. Being right is reserved for good outcomes. Despite my best efforts, the end result can turn out other than my calculations indicate. I can be wrong. I'm not perfect, I'm OK with that.
Not every plan can be tried. I don't get a chance to try the other multiverse if one idea doesn't work out. So sometimes I do have to shout someone else down.
Before I do though, I try to make sure it matters. Just try to keep that in mind.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Monday January 28 2019, @05:28PM
You gotta be trolling. In the almost inconceivably unlikely event that this isn't a poor attempt at a troll, could you be any more superficial? I guess your nick says it all.
She's right because people are dying as a result of the policies she opposes that others on this site support.
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Monday January 28 2019, @05:36PM (4 children)
On reflection my post was a bit knee-jerky / snarky. You're trying to give advice. I just can't really relate to the "try to make sure it matters" when to me it seems obvious that this stuff matters a great deal to Azuma. Tackling unnecessary poverty and inequality is about helping people and reducing suffering--I'm baffled why you might think that this might not matter.
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(Score: 2) by YeaWhatevs on Monday January 28 2019, @07:11PM (3 children)
"that it matters", in the sense that if I tell you you're an idiot for being insensitive to X, is that really going to improve that situation X? I would rather just devote my energy to something else.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by acid andy on Monday January 28 2019, @07:32PM (2 children)
I think the idea is that an impressionable someone who is still sitting on the fence, yet to full form their own political views, might lurk on this site or come across it in a search. In which case, calling out perceived injustices or selfish ideologies would be worth it. How can we improve (or slow the decline) of our civilization if we're not willing to argue with our opponents (no matter how heated things get)?
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(Score: 2) by YeaWhatevs on Monday January 28 2019, @07:41PM (1 child)
Fair enough.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Monday January 28 2019, @07:51PM
Thanks for the acknowledgement and apologies for being unduly aggressive. I'm a moody SOB today.
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.