When I see something like this, I just assume that the poster is a pedo worshipping conservative clown that thinks Joe Rogan is the height of intellect and washing your own ass is gay.

Especially considering that meanwhile in actual reality, men and especially white men, are the biggest pearl clutching fucking babies on the internet right now.

Why do you need someone or something else to do this work for you?

Lmao way to turn that on me, good one. I’m literally talking about the people who can’t just scroll past or block something without needing to act like it was forced on them. The people who campaign to cancel Netflix over 1 show out of 1000s that they could’ve just scrolled past. The people who live in an era where you can follow exactly what you want online, and watch and listen to exactly what you want on streaming, but still complain about having the wOkE aGeNdA shoved down their throats because they’re incapable of wiping their asses (or they think it’s gay).

Trust me, I’m not the one with the problem of inserting my business everywhere that I don’t belong. I’m not going anywhere near incel forums, or manosphere support groups, or to tell people how fucking stupid their hobbies are. And knowing these people, I’d get banned quickly if I did because they’re the biggest pearl clutchers of all. This problem is entirely one sided and caused by certain types of people who are more emboldened than ever these days.

Personally I think that this Reddit style is an upgrade design wise. And as far as recognising people goes, I’m using an app that lets you tag users (Summit) and this has gone quite a long way. It’s also made the start paying attention to other usernames to an extent, so if I notice that someone often posts content that vibes with me or whatever, I can give them a ⭐ or something.

What I do miss from the days when forums were dominant is that people stayed in their lanes a little more. A particular forum or board or even thread is for a particular topic, and people who derailed or came along just to insult and shit on everything were dealt with, without this crying about ‘free speech’.

Current day social media has spawned a bunch of people who feel entitled to say whatever they want to whoever they want in any space they want, and cry about blue haired SJWs or something if there’s consequences. And they act like the internet used to be this place where forum moderators didn’t rule with an iron fist, or like the ‘real world’ is somewhere that you can behave this way without being punched in the face.

I just think a lot of problems could be solved if jocks went back to discussing sportsball and cars and stayed in their lanes, instead of considering themselves to be experts on biology and sociology and vaccines. There’s a fine line between ‘free speech’ and letting the inmates run the asylum, and the last 10 years have proven that.

Basically what I miss from the forum days is that back then, the conspiracy theorist idiots would’ve probably been banned, and would’ve stayed in the fringes of society instead of going mainstream.

Don’t think there’s one source. It’s been all over the internet for the last two days. Here’s an article not even mentioning the outfit, featuring a different shot and a video clip: https://www.rawstory.com/backlash-emerges-after-trump-criticizes-marjorie-taylor-greene-online/

According to this random website (just one of the first results on Ecosia): “While clowder is the most common collective noun for cats, a group of cats is also called a cluster, litter (kittens of the same mother), destruction (wild cats), or nuisance.”

First time I’ve heard any of those apart from litter, personally. There’s also a pride of lions.

Yeah I saw someone say that they’re a nurse who deals with dementia patients and that people with dementia are basically putty in the hands of anyone with a vibe of kindness or empathy.

Yeah I was just coming to say as well, the biggest issue with this is mods.

And in games like Stardew Valley, the other issue is the game seed. If you keep using the same save, a lot of the same ‘random’ events will occur.

To be cliche, probably the Bethesda style character creation, just because you can tweak so much. That’s probably the best I’ve got because my current laptop is a potato and Skyrim is about the most intensive that it can (barely) handle.

A huge issue I have with it though, is that after all that tweaking and fine tuning of your character, you can’t save or load templates. So sometimes I’ll spend ages creating a character, start the same and play for a bit, then for whatever reason decide to start again an hour later (regrettable choice, a faulty mod etc.), and now I have to create a character all over again. At that point I just choose basics and hit play.

This is an annoyance to me in all games with character creation though. Even something simpler like Stardew Valley, especially if you’re trying to get the colours just right.

If you’re going to give us the ability to create and fine tune personalized characters, let us save and load them, god damnit.

Yeah to be completely honest, I would have good intentions but also probably leave this world a burning wreck afterwards. To use the latest movie for an example, I would probably be part Superman and part Hawkgirl. I would be trying to do good but also I’m not an alien trying to get people to accept me and like me, I’m a native that’s sick of this shit. So I would also be dropping certain people from high places.

And I definitely wouldn’t not interfere with world politics. I’ve even thought about it. My first move before introducing myself to the world would be to find where all the nukes are, and hit everywhere as quickly as possible and leave them on the moon or something until I figure out what to do with them. Then I would get all of the ‘strong’ men and nazis and religious despots and traitors of the free world together in front of cameras and make a human centipede out of them without any surgery, and without a mouth or backside so that it’s just an ouroborous of its own shit.

Then I would just stick to crime fighting and ruining Lex Luthor’s day and shit and keep an eye as people chose new leaders. And if leaders that aren’t there to serve the people start taking over again, it’s ouroborous of shit time again. Or something worse.

I dunno, I think she fits in nicely with the rest of the reality TV stars, news readers and podcasters cosplaying as politicians. What were Trump’s actual credentials? Bankrupting casinos and saying “your fired” on the Apprentice?

I agree with most of what you say but I think it’s both. People are tired of voting and paying taxes when it all seems to just go towards paying rich and connected people bloated salaries to blatantly sleep in parliament in front of cameras. But the wealthy elites harnessed that and took advantage. And infected conspiracy theory circles and started putting so much bullshit out there that ‘truth’ seems to be optional these days.

I’m showing my tinfoil hat here but in my view this started happening some time after the Arab spring when powerful people shat themselves and realised how powerful social media could actually be.

Trump was totally packaged as a rebel and a renegade coming to change the system. Around 2015 I remember even ‘progressive’ minded people saying things like “he’s a businessman, not one of these useless assholes, he’ll get things done!” In South Africa, there was the same rhetoric surrounding Cyril Ramaphosa in the beginning.

I don’t want to sound like self aggrandizing asshole here but I think that maybe people in general are even less smart than I thought. Because just before everyone started thinking that capitalist businessmen were going to save them, social media was all about Anonymous and Zeitgeist and how awesome socialism is and how much capitalism sucks. And seemingly overnight, while still looking for the same kind of change, they fell for a slimy capitalist swindler selling that change.

Honestly my sincere hope and probably the main thing keeping me going is that this all collapses under the weight of pedophiles and incompetent podcasters and news readers put into positions of power, and then the pendulum swings back and we get the change that we actually need.

Sounding more like a Snyderman fan than a Superman fan, to be honest. An elseworld story now and then, or an edgelord deconstruction or two is great but the fantasy is that Superman has all this power but still uses it for good.

Turning into a dictator is weak and easy shit. It’s probably what every fucking manosphere clown would do. While going “don’t blame me, it’s just my biology! Hurr durr! I’m simultaneously logic and rational and superior but also a fucking ape that can’t control myself! Hurr durr.”

What makes Superman special is that he has all of this power but still has actual morals and values and empathy without the only thing holding him back being the law.

Because they picture in their minds of the hivemind known as “women” only wanting tall boyfriends.

As a non-American looking in from the outside, from what I can gather in progressive online spaces, people are sick of career politicians in general that don’t have any actual morals but are instead driven by marketing and advertising. This is a problem not just with the US Democrats but with the old guard in general worldwide.

That’s part of why the door has been opened to right wing lunatics in the first place. Around 10 years ago, a lot of people thought Donald Trump was the “anti establishment” pick. As insane as that is to reasonably well educated people, simple people with shitty lives believed that this upstart really would “drain the swamp”.

It’s also part of why the career politicians aren’t doing much to stop it either. They see the numbers on their marketing graphs, so they’re evolving into another stage of parasite that can feed on the new generation.

There’s no doubt in my mind that it would be a tougher battle for a woman than for a man in the USA. But also, they would stand a much better chance with someone like AOC than someone like Clinton or Obama or Harris. Because people are fucking sick of corporate undead ghouls whose sole purpose is to keep the Overton window in place.

I know that someone here is going to call AOC a sellout or something but come on, your anarchist socialist utopia is even further away now that the christo-fascists have undone so much progress. AOC is a thousand times better than almost anything else you’ve got right now.

You need more women with AOC and Jasmine Crockett energy, and less with Joe Biden energy. Someone to knock these christo-fascist clowns the fuck out on the mic and on social media, and to inspire people. Not someone that’s going to go “oh well I tried nothing and now I give up” and fucking bore everyone to death.

Pretty sure it’s this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Adams_(commentator)

Reading about him, it still seems like one big joke but that’s a hell of a long time and a lot of dedication to the joke. It’s all pretty absurd. The problem with this kind of shit is that it makes us all look like clowns because what should be obvious sarcasm or joking isn’t such a clear thing anymore. Not in the current era of stupid.

Found him.

Yeah this one could be satirical. Although it’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference these days. And also, history has taught me that people who spend a lot of time making ‘jokes’ about it, often turn out to be only half joking. Like how online circlejerk communities seem to always turn out to actually just be a bunch of bigots hiding behind the ‘joke’.

There’s definitely another dumb asshole that I see around who also has (alpha male) in his username who I’m sure is quite serious. If I had a stolen screenshot handy, I’d post it.

Yeah exactly. This manosphere ‘alpha’ shit is insecurity and fear packaged as ‘masculinity’ by a bunch of jocks that think it’s gay to wash their asses. It’s an absolute sad joke.

I’m confused why you apparently doubt that puberty affects teenagers in high school

Can you read? If you could, you’d probably be less confused.

can’t erase the effects of male puberty

You say that and then jump straight to an example of a teenager in high school. Clown. This is why trans kids are given puberty blockers in more enlightened places. So that their teenage puberty doesn’t take hold before they’re old enough for bigger steps. But you probably want to end that too.

It seems you’d really like me to be somebody else, that you can rail against for other opinions. It feels good when you can properly hate someone with moral conviction.

I’m thinking that you’re exactly what I think you are.