chuckleslord
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- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 4 hours ago:
I don’t disagree, but I don’t see how you can do that. Well, I kind of do, that’s by “taking the word back”, poisoning the meaning of the word or its association so that hateful people won’t want to be associated with it. I know it’s definitely not shaming people for calling out that it’s a dog whistle. Because, again, that puts the moral failing on the person calling it out rather than the people who gave it the negative association to begin with.
That quickly becomes “ugh, these fucking SJWs policing everyone’s speech” instead of “ugh, these fucking losers ruining perfectly good words with their hatred”, which it should be.
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 7 hours ago:
Never assumed this person was a bigot. The point being made is that “female” is now a dog whistle word for the alt-right. Dog whistles by themselves aren’t proof that someone is a bigot, but they are still words associated with bigotry.
You can’t control what words become dog-whistles (Jean-Paul Sartre quote “But they(anti-semites) are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words”) but you can acknowledge that they ARE dog whistles without it being some moral failing to point it out.
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 7 hours ago:
Who said anything about getting them to change? Getting mad at people because the word changed instead of getting mad at the people who changed the word is my point. There’s a reason why that word was targeted as a dog whistle, but it is still a dog whistle now and acknowledging that it is isn’t some moral wrong.
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 9 hours ago:
“Hey, bigots say this and it makes people sound like bigots when they say it”
“I used that word correctly and was told that it made me sound like a bigot. Maybe think about that?”
Cool, maybe get mad at the bigots who ruined the word for people rather than the people saying the word was ruined by bigots.
It’s like when people get mad at the r-slur being a slur now. Like, no, it was always intended as an insult based on medical language. It was always going to become a slur.
Now people are using the word female to both alienate and other women in their language and to “sound smarter” when showing bigotry. Also, you were probably told to not say it because they knew you were better than the assholes who say it in a demeaning way. Maybe… think about that?
- Comment on Nintendo GameCube is coming to Nintendo Switch's Online Membership 1 day ago:
And they’ll only port like 6 games, ever.
- Comment on Italy slams door on people hoping to claim citizenship through great-grandparents 1 day ago:
Fascists gotta fasc
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 1 week ago:
Car infrastructure was a mistake. Automation isn’t the solution, it’s less cars and car-based spaces.
- Comment on US retailers haggle with suppliers after Trump tariffs 1 week ago:
Rubbermaid, and that was two decades ago.
- Comment on Old photos in real life 2 weeks ago:
Little caprice. So… any time in the last 18 years
- Comment on Controversial question 3 weeks ago:
You’ve no idea why those voters didn’t vote. Disenfranchisement has been turned to 11
- Comment on Controversial question 3 weeks ago:
Cool definition. Still not a majority.
- Comment on Controversial question 3 weeks ago:
Define words however you want, that doesn’t make it true. A majority is 50%+1. Anything less is a plurality. More people voted for someone other than Trump than those who voted for him.
Beside the point, the original claim was a majority of Americans, and that isn’t even close to a majority anyways. Even with your funny definitions.
- Comment on Controversial question 3 weeks ago:
49.9% isn’t a majority. It’s a plurality.
- Comment on Controversial question 3 weeks ago:
Not even a majority of voters, let alone a majority of Americans. Just about 30% of adults in the US voted for trump. We still outnumber them.
- Comment on Anonymity for Everyone: Why You Need Tor 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for clarifying. It’s been a long time since I used Tor
- Comment on Anonymity for Everyone: Why You Need Tor 4 weeks ago:
… isn’t using Tor on the traditional internet a very bad idea, since it exposes all users to the tracking ecosystem?
- Comment on Never before had I felt intensely jealous of a tapir 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why do i see so many americans obsessed with the concept of "this is a thing that [Ethnicity] does" 5 weeks ago:
What the census means by “Urban area” generally boils down to is “the majority of the labor in this area working in a place with more than 50k population”. That is a better metric than “what’s the population of this city/ town/ community” since you can have small towns inside urban areas that are going to feel dramatically different than a small town with no direct connection to a nearby population center, but the small town in podunk Nebraska would have far more in common with a small town in podunk Arkansas than a nearby suburb.
- Comment on ZENSHU • Zenshuu. - Episode 8 discussion 5 weeks ago:
Hmmm… it’s unclear. Might need more proof.
She definitely loves him, though
- Comment on Damn Flash 5 weeks ago:
That’s Reverse Flash
- Comment on Netflix culls staff at Oxenfree developer Night School Studio 1 month ago:
Well, ya see, gotta reduce the number of companies. The less companies, the more the line goes up
- Comment on my version is better 1 month ago:
Nah, my shit is borderline unintelligible madness.
- Comment on nope don’t like it 1 month ago:
Nah, no point in taking about pure fiction, mate.
- Comment on ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online 1 month ago:
Fuck ICE. pieces of shit
- Comment on "Poetic take" on the state of the US 1 month ago:
But did you consider the letters from Paul? I can assure you, powerful rich people are definitely right according to Paul. Or, if not wrong, can be saved merely through their faith.
- Comment on The key is to match the 4/10 pain with a 8/10 high 1 month ago:
“Sneezing isn’t normal”
- Comment on Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to redefine open source so badly 1 month ago:
I mean, didn’t he famously steal the idea?
- Comment on I wonder how things are going in America today... 1 month ago:
They had a hard time selling Keira Knightley as her double because of it, but then George Lucas discovered padding.
- Comment on I wonder how things are going in America today... 1 month ago:
It’s supposed to be CO2, not CO.
- Comment on Miku care about all fans 1 month ago:
Right to left. Kinda obviously
