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Blue Check (he/him): "I finally figured it out: Bitcoin is weaponized toxic masculinity. Same exact vibes as frat boy rape culture. The cruelty is the point" (web.archive.org)
posted 5 years ago by YesMovement 5 years ago by YesMovement +47 / -0
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– Six_z3r0 34 points 5 years ago +34 / -0

"Jesus fucking Christ you pasty faced no chin having carbon sink, I just want water and sun, not to hear you fucking sing Adele at me for three hours while you sob in a tub of ice cream."

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– Wizardslayer 8 points 5 years ago +8 / -0

His wife's boyfriend gave up on teaching him how to shave and told him to just grow it out.

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– CarmenOfSandiego 3 points 5 years ago +3 / -0

Relevant

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– Richard_Dangler 25 points 5 years ago +25 / -0

I'll never understand how people get this retarded.

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– TentElephant 27 points 5 years ago +27 / -0

Academia

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– Kweebecker 18 points 5 years ago +18 / -0

It takes education to make someone this dumb. This sort of thing doesn't happen by chance.

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– cartoonericroberts 6 points 5 years ago +6 / -0

They really don't have a theory of mind for anyone who isn't a progressive.

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– dzonatan 4 points 5 years ago +4 / -0

Spectacle to distract.

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– Dereliction 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

It takes training.

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– Gizortnik 15 points 5 years ago +15 / -0

Exact same vibes as frat boy rape culture. The cruelty is the point.

These people have never interacted with fraternities. Ever.

Most frats, first and foremost, are boring. They are typically small male social organizations that wealthier men founded a few decades ago in order to develop social networks, and teach basic-bitch developmental lessons. They also drink, and "like beer".

The more party focused frats don't give a shit about anything.

When it comes to hazing, these people don't know anything of the sort. Veterans would talk to me about how their Frat """"initiation"""" was either silly to the point of being a fun joke, or so dull and non-confrontational that one of them literally fell asleep. I've seen way more dangerous hazing in a barracks.

Part of this comes from the fact that every fucking University has major regulations on the conduct of fraternities and sororities, and violating those regulations means you get your funding cut. Fraternities that lose their funding have to go through an arduous process to even smell potential funding again.

In order to ward against this, many fraternities and sororities have their own internal judicial process to sanction members and review conduct.

These people's only concept of fraternities either comes from their own incestuous media portrayals of straw-stereotypes that they invented. Or from movies from the 1980's.

If crazy shit's going down at a party, it's because it's an unsanctioned event by private individuals, or by a fake fraternity that doesn't have any recognition, funding, or legitimacy.

"Cruelty is the point" why would that ever be the point of any of these groups?

Let alone Bitcoin?

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– Wizardslayer 11 points 5 years ago +11 / -0

Yep. Hazing is basically designed to weed out people that can't take a joke or get violently confrontational over minor things. It is the simplest test to see if someone is a raging asshole.

Put a bunch of hot sauce in someone's beer when they're not looking. If they laugh it off go "fuck you, guys" and get another beer, they're a normal person that you can hang out with. If they flip the fuck out, knock over a table and want to fight everyone you know not to keep them in your circle.

So people like this are either the above mentioned assholes or I would take it a step further and say they never had any real socialization with guys and find the concept foreign, or that they're overly sensitive or have other deep rooted issues, or a combination thereof.

They don't understand that guys hanging out is a game of bullshitting and trading insulting. From an outside perspective the closest group of guy friends will look like they can't stand each other because it will be a constant stream of insults. But internally that is a sign of trust and camaraderie.

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– Gizortnik 5 points 5 years ago +5 / -0

Hazing is basically designed to weed out people that can't take a joke or get violently confrontational over minor things. It is the simplest test to see if someone is a raging asshole.

I'd say it's also supposed to be a 'right of passage', but there's no question that people take it way to fucking far.

I never really liked the "Blood Stripe" hazing of kneeing the fucking our of someone in their leg. There were no shit instances of people's femur's being shattered after 30 fucking knee-strikes.

There's a fine line between a tradition that costs nothing and has no value, and a hazing ritual that really only breeds resentment because it's being repeated as a form of punishment that other people 'finally' get to inflict on others.

So people like this are either the above mentioned assholes or I would take it a step further and say they never had any real socialization with guys and find the concept foreign, or that they're overly sensitive or have other deep rooted issues, or a combination thereof.

It's a big tell. It's why I described in a different comment that the way schools help 'socialize' kids who are being bullied is that abuse and victim are exactly the same and will be punished the same, so over-reaction is just as appropriate as complete inaction. If a kid gets punched in the face, you suspend both the bully and the victim for fighting. So he learns to do whatever he can to send a message. Suddenly the victim gets punched in the face, but the bully is left with a broken orbital bone from being hit in the eye with a chair. Now the bully is suspended, and the victim is in Juvie.

They don't understand that guys hanging out is a game of bullshitting and trading insulting. From an outside perspective the closest group of guy friends will look like they can't stand each other because it will be a constant stream of insults. But internally that is a sign of trust and camaraderie.

My most popular post on Reddit was trying to describe this on r/Women

Looking back on it, the (fairly toxic feminists) women on r/Women didn't say a fucking word about it. But the men watching r/Women were interested in understanding Socialization that they hadn't experienced.

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– Wizardslayer 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

I like the ball analogy

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– Gizortnik 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

Thanks

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– realerfunction 12 points 5 years ago +12 / -0

you deserve cruelty for being this dumb, even as an act.

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– cccpneveragain 4 points 5 years ago +4 / -0

I'm not nearly stupid enough to figure out how they'd explain it away, then his follow up comment makes it worse. All I get from it is I have no fucking idea what he's talking about but he apparently doesn't like Bitcoin as he called it a leftist naughty word.

Crypto market does feel like the dot com bubble a bit to me, but I can't decide at what point of the bubble we are in.

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– BulbasaurusThe7th 3 points 5 years ago +3 / -0

What cruelty is there in Bitcoin? Now I don't know much about it, but it's not like you have to murder people to get Bitcoin. What does this even mean??

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– Soup_Navy_Admiral 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

What cruelty is there in Bitcoin?

It's got numbers 'n' math 'n' shit.

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– cartoonericroberts 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

I'm assuming because it uses electricity which mostly comes from fossil fuels and therefore is "killing the planet."

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– ah_hell 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

"What if C A T really spelled dog"

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– deleted 3 points 5 years ago +3 / -0

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