Starfield: Pay $60 to get nagged at by women and homosexuals (apparently)
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I actually like his rhetorical tactic here. Probably because he's a "Useful Idiot", but you can see the utility of Leftist Rhetorical Warfare when used against Leftists:
Cut the emotional attacks off before they happen, show that you see them coming, demand respect (tone police as necessary).
Use "Lived Experiences" as a weapon. Lived Experiences can't be invalidated, only dismissed. Hence, dismissal serves the opposite emotional purpose and re-enforces the point of the complainant for having their "Lived Experiences" dismissed. This is also a good time to inject an argument of "inclusiveness".
Total rejection of dispute by demanding adherence to a specific set of premises. Now, normally the Left sets the premises way to far as a matter of conquering opposition (Trans Women Are Women). He's setting his premises within a reasonable base line: "verbal abuse without the ability to respond is not acceptable"
Using the weapons granted to you, and wielding them to maintain argument in the bound you set.
This is my favorite. Absolutely zero-tolerance for the mud-slinging and character assassination that is going to happen when the Left attacks.
I grant you that all of us engage in mud-slinging here. But no decent person here is going to stand here and say that due to someone saying, "shut up fag" should someone get removed. We're operating on a completely different level. But you'd better fucking believe that the Leftists in the Steams forum are absolutely abiding by OP's argumentation.
"You are making people uncomfortable by using transphobic words like women instead of womxn. We don't tolerate hatred here. So go and fucking kill yourself, sweaty." is the very definition of "Repressive Tolerance" that the Left are operating under; and it's their first reaction. So counter it by tone policing them by saying their inevitable personal attacks (and attacks on character) are invalidating your lived experiences and won't be tolerated.
Unfortunately, it doesn't matter in the slightest, because leftists don't have principles, much less consistent ones. The only time leftist rhetoric works against leftists, is if it's used by a leftist, against a leftist, arguing for a leftist policy or belief...and the arguer has to be higher on the progressive stack, or arguing for a policy/belief that is higher priority.
It's almost completely useless for a non-leftist, because as soon as they see a "right wing" (non-left) position argued, they jump down your throat regardless. You're a racist, a bigot, a Nazi. Doesn't matter how much leftoid-speak your couch your statements in. Heck, he starts off with using phrases like "ugly women" and "all the dudes are gay or black." No amount of rhetoric is going to stop the cultural locusts from jumping down OP's throat on this.
I noticed that, too.
I wouldn't doubt it if this is actually an elaborate 4chan troll, because he's using all of the Leftist language against them to preemptively safeguard his argument.
I applaud him that much.
But I wouldn't doubt it if that thread gets quickly locked by the mods before normies passing by start "noticing" the trends in the game he brought up in his post.