I couldn't resist immediately checking what the retards on the NBA board on plebbit were saying about this. Legit the comments there might have given me cancer. The sheer lengths to which those retards will go to twist their minds into a pretzel to think that things like this aren't more common post vax....it's borderline impressive. But kind of horrifying when you stop and think about it.
It's frustrating when so much of the time it isnt even just them disagreeing with us on fundamental issues, it's just them being blatantly retarded. Not being able to understand that that has nothing to do with the type of censorship that is normally discussed in the political arena means you are so retarded you don't deserve to be able to vote.
Funny that you say that though, because I literally just responded to someone on plebbit 5 minutes ago who said I'm advocating against free speech for saying it's a net positive if twitter collapses because it was a leftist cesspool before.
Hate is a strong word but he grates on me a lot at times that's for sure. I feel a bit guilty about it because from the outside we look like good buddies since we often get lunch together but internally half the time he opens his mouth I'm just like "ugh."
I can see why you would think that. And if I saw someone saying this without any knowledge of the person I would probably come to the same conclusion. But trust me when I say this dude's memory really is that bad.
He's the type of guy who if you are around him long enough will tell you the same story 3 times in one week thinking he didn't tell you yet. And, the most frustrating part of it, sometimes he gets the details of his own stories mixed up and I have to correct him because I've heard it already....
Sometimes it's easy to forget just how dumb normies can be....
Yep. Fortunately this specific dude doesn't vote, but plenty of people at his level or worse do.
To add onto this, some people aren't just conformist, they're retarded on top of that. I have a coworker who would be best described as "NPC-lite." He will believe most things unquestioningly. That includes when I push back on his occasional NPC-like remarks, we will often discuss and he will admit he isn't super knowledgeable and that what I'm saying is probably more close to the truth
And then a couple weeks later the same topic will come up and he will spout the same NPC talking point that we had already came to a mutual understanding were BS. He will just completely forget entire conversations. That's just a specific example, but I've had similar experiences with multiple people. It's like they don't even have the baseline mental capacity required to be non-conformist.
twice-divorced beer belly trolls with yards full of rusted cars
Lmfao so specific yet so true
Yooo OSRS let's go lol. Make sure you are using Runelite. The official client sucks ass in comparison.
It's not impossible, but I dont consider that likely. It would put too much of a spotlight on a topic they would prefer most normies remain ignorant of. For all the talk about election fraud and fortification that might happen in these circles, the average American normie can't even tell you what ballot harvesting is. They would prefer to keep it that way.
The thing is though, there are plenty of states where, as bonkers as it sounds, ballot harvesting is perfectly legal. Immoral and a huge security risk? Absolutely. But legal. In places where it isn't I totally agree though.
but I cannot fathom how anyone could fail to see a good-faith objection to producing or consooming sexualized images of fictional children
For me I can certainly understand how one could object in good faith. My issue doesn't come with "I think this is bad." My issue, and I suspect it is similar for most others, comes due to the fact that those objections are always a razor's edge from the continuation of "...and I think it should be banned."
Add in the context under which this discussion tends to be had. Things like anime and manga have held out against woke retardation and caving to moralist retards much better than other mediums. There's a general consensus that all it will take is a single major crack to form in that armor before the floodgates open and a lot of good shit gets ruined.
All that to explain why virtue signaling how much one hates lolis is irritating.
I'm beginning to think "don't trust anyone who vocally hates anime lolis, because they're guaranteed to be a fucking pedophile" is becoming an iron law.
I understand the sentiment but it depends on the context. There are many factions.
If the person is very vocally anti loli and is a leftist, then 95% chance they are either a pedo or just a fat ugly feminist who doesn't like things that guys find cute. If they are more right leaning then its likely they are just beating the moralistic drum over it because they consider it analagous to CP; it's annoying and they're dumb but I wouldn't consider it likely to be projection in their case.
A gross oversimplification but over the years it's hard not to notice these pretty noticeable groups.
I never said or implied there aren't instances of people bringing up loli in a non-negative light. What I said was that people have made anti loli posts that aren't just merely in response to pro loli posts.
But you seem to be pretty emotional about it so I don't expect you to be able to comprehend that level of nuance.
They'll complain about underage, aka 16-17 anime characters too, then about just any "young looking character
It has been moving this way for a long time. Paying attention to various sites over the years where user-added tags are a critical aspect of how to search and find things has shown a very clear trend of the "loli" tag expanding in scope over time. It used to be just blatantly pre-pubescent girls. Like 12 and under. Now you are liable to see the tag on anything where one could potentially suspect a girl to be under 18.
Loli is absolutely what they want to be the first major domino to get their foot in the door to police anime. It's absolutely reasonable to think its disgusting but anyone letting them take an inch is a fool because there is zero way it stops there.
Only in response to others
Perhaps in this specific thread, but if we are talking about the board in general, there have been some posts over the months that aren't just made in response to that guy. I specifically remember people whining when they realized the people who want to desperately distance themselves from loli stuff as much as possible as some weird virtue signal aren't a majority on this board.
As someone who is peripherally familiar with what stable diffusion is, but hasn't kept up to date on the news surrounding it, could you or someone else chime in regarding what type of censorship was present in 1.5?
Boomer meme but I would be lying if I said it didn't make me exhale through my nose faster than normal.
Is "gender change" even the best option for that very small minority of people? Admittedly I'm not well read on it, but I would wager therapy aimed at making them accept what they were born as would be much more effective than chopping off their dick and calling them a woman.
Hahaha lmfao now Razorfist of all people is a grifter. Everyone I don't like is a grifter!
Tales of Symphonia
Runescape (+Old School)
You have much more faith in the intelligence of the average normie than I do. While surely some percentage thinks like that, most, if not all of the ones I personally deal with are true believers.
Hurr durr touch grass! Definitely gets chalked up as one of the more retarded redditisms of the last couple years.
A mix of twenties and thirties. Perhaps some late teens as well. Funnily enough there was a kid who couldn't have been older than 14 who went on about how Koreans are subhuman lmfao that was hilarious. But a lot of the 20s and 30s seemed just as infected with the various cultural pathogens we lament over in the west.
Given, there is absolutely a significant skewing due to the fact that most of these interactions I'm recalling are through discord. I guarantee the general population is less cucked, but in order to withstand that level of infection they can't just be passively not cucked, they need to be actively based.
Good. We need the small few that have actually gotten in to act up as conspicuously as possible to help continue to turn people against further immigration from shitholes. Letting a bunch of temporary summer workers in from the Phillipines is one thing. Opening the floodgates for hordes of permanent immigrants from shithole countries like you're Europe or something is completely different.
That isn't a very fringe opinion when it comes to leftists. Quite common actually in my experience. I've heard people say similar things in real life. Sometimes I take solace in thinking certain things are just for crazies on the internet to say under conditions of anonymity, but people are crazy enough to think that one is a normal thing to say.