The funniest part is that they're having these conversations with themselves. Normal people look at Orcs and either see a mindless, invading horde, or fantasy Klingons. Nothing to get panties in a bunch about.

Can't have evil in your fiction. You might offend someone evil in real life.

I think it's simpler than that. They just say whatever is convenient to them at the time. If the exception is going to get them the results they want, the exception is the rule. If the (perceived) generality favors them, they'll side with that and write off the exceptions as irrelevant.

You have to remember that if you don't have any ideological or moral foundation for your beliefs, then it really doesn't matter why you believe it. All that matters is how it makes you feel at any given moment. And if something causes you any kind of cognitive dissonance, it's much easier to throw it out entirely than to sit down and work through the painful, conflicting data.

TLDR: Could be stupid. Could be lazy. After a certain point, it stops mattering.

This is the "only one word for love" semantics problem again. You are conflating the qualities of a man, manliness, with the physical status of being male. One is a set of traits that can be trained and learned and practiced, and the other is an inescapable, unalterable state of being.

It is exactly that kind of water muddying that got us into this mess in the first place. So KNOCK IT OFF!

You're literally not allowed to say anything negative about anyone. Unless they're an acceptable target. E.G. Any combination of Straight, White, Male, Christian.

Implying a perspective can't be evil.

So... one might say that they're filling in the gaps with their own perspective?

Three words: Learn to code.

Lefties continuing to prove that they have absolutely zero idea what the other side believes and filling in the gaps with their own perspective.

Someone who wants less government influence in their life wants less government total. The bloated bureaucracy is an example of government overreach to that person. Someone who believes government influence in their life is a net positive thinks that the amount of power the institution has should remain absolute, even if the amount of bureaucracy shrinks.

Now, exposing my own limited perspective, how in the world can ANYONE think that the amount of government influence we have in our lives is a good thing?

This might have been the last chance for the original gameplay to make a triumphant comeback. But they just had to ruin everything. Even the gameplay is screwed up. Tanabe HAD to shove his money fetish into the bosses, handing out hundreds of coins for every fight in a game where even the most powerful endgame items only cost fifty.

And now we're doomed to another decade of Sticker Star sequels. All according to Tanabe's plan.

For all that the Left talks about being the party of empathy, they are shockingly bad at understanding that other people have unique perspectives and reasons to have those perspectives. The necessity of needing to like absolutely everything, regardless of either personal preferences or moral judgement, means that the only true virtue is "harmony" and the only true sin is "dissent."

And of course, this is why they eat each other. No one agrees on literally everything. The more their headcanons clash, the more they splinter off into smaller and smaller factions that no intersectional ideology can keep together.

I'm still blown away by his lack of self-awareness on election night, comparing Kamala falling behind to Frieza's escalating forms and blowing up when someone else pointed out that Frieza lost in the end. Y'know, like a villain is supposed to.

It's so retarded on so many levels.

That's... Concerning.

You can also see it in the way that they hang tight to past sins and inequities in such a way that opens the door to them embracing them under another name. For example. "The Left are the REAL racists." Or the way that they decry pedophilia in one breath while cheering for drag-queen story hour in the next.

To quote Screwtape on the matter:

The use of Fashions in thought is to distract the attention of men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is least in danger and fix its approval on the virtue nearest to that vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them running about with fire extinguishers whenever there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under. Thus we make it fashionable to expose the dangers of enthusiasm at the very moment when they are all really becoming worldly and lukewarm; a century later, when we are really making them all Byronic and drunk with emotion, the fashionable outcry is directed against the dangers of the mere "understanding". Cruel ages are put on their guard against Sentimentality, feckless and idle ones against Respectability, lecherous ones against Puritansm; and whenever all men are really hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

I remember watching the Runaway Guys do a let's play of Star Fox 64, where Emile was ostensibly playing the game for the first time. In order to speed along the process, Jon and Tim played the routes up to the levels he hadn't gotten to yet, without him having to play all the stages along the route, like you're supposed to. As such, when he got to the boss of Area 6, the penultimate boss of the hard route, he got his chassis kicked. Immediately, he complained that the boss was badly designed.

And I was just thinking "My guy. You have skipped over the majority of the gameplay you're expected to have done to reach this point. YOU are badly designed!"

Beep, boop. Quiet you fool! You'll expose us to the meatsacks!

Something hilarious to me is that with all these hoops they jump through to "justify" including a completely normal black person in these medieval stories, they're really driving home the fact that seeing a person like that would be completely out of the ordinary for the average joes of the time. It's something that cannot be brushed off as "business as usual" and would invite stares, questions, threats, all KINDS of potential interesting interactions, both good and bad. It's basically an Isekai situation.

And yet, they try to write the characters as "normal." Because being scared/fascinated by the differences of other people you've never seen before is obviously racist, and we can't have that, now can we.

NDAs and their ilk are so shady. "No, you can't know about what we're doing. It's illegal to tell anyone what we're doing because they wouldn't like it."

And then they wonder why conspiracy theories are gaining so much power.

It's Schrodinger's Sexuality. Sexuality is fluid and subject to change, but also an immutable characteristic that you can't DARE question or criticize, bigot!

The doublethink is what really grinds my gears.

To know who rules over you....

The Camel's Nose

The sad thing is that it's going to work. We know how Lefties think, and can sus out their fingerprints. They have literally NO idea how the Right thinks, and believe everyone has the same thought processes as they do.

And it doesn't work, because random keys will not give you the results we can see in the world.

Calling me stupid and trying to buffalo me with "statistics." Cute. Lemme guess. You're at the top of your field and I should just trust the experts, right? Clearly, we know precisely what the exact state of the world was like by looking intently at the makeup of rocks. Puh-lease. At absolute best, you've explained how a monkey could possibly, (POSSIBLY, mind you. You're still talking in hypotheticals and guesses, nobody has scientifically observed this happening on the scale you demand.) get its hands on a typewriter. Now riddle me this, Bio-Man. Where does the DNA come from? You say "Oh, the amino-acids just self-organize into the patterns that make life, and somehow, that also comes together to form the script that tells it to eat, reproduce, and survive. And that just keeps going ad nauseum, building on itself, getting new information by lucky chance mutations, over and over and over again, to create the incredibly complex biodiversity we have today. Just because."

You make this massive jump from "Here's where you get the typewriter' to "Here's why the typewriter is capable of typing in English, or even functional in the first place." Without explaining anything beyond "Just trust me bro, it's the ONLY way it could happen!" I thought we were above "Trusting the science" here, but I guess not.

Biological systems aren't precise, let alone perfect. They fail early and often.

Ah yes. Because a margin for error isn't something every good engineer puts into their creations. Because a car breaking down means it's not a miracle of engineering. Wear and tear over time? Cracks and defects in the windshield? A defective part getting missed on the assembly line? Some retard trying to build the stupid thing while drunk? Some natural disaster destroying the factory? Clearly, the Engineer is at fault for every possible failure state, and there are no external factors that could lead to mistakes or accidents. Stupid Engineer. He should have taken away that pesky free will and just made a bunch of perfect, soulless animatronics. Then EVERYTHING would have been perfect. Nobody would rebel and lead to a fallen world where there are terrible consequences!

So clearly, this Ferrari magically appeared on the street. Because ferrous materials naturally attract to each other, and simple machines like pulleys and levers came together to naturally form a crude wheeled platform. That then evolved an internal combustion engine, rubber tires, Headlights and optional heated seating. But remember, it's not a precisely designed machine, because the radio died, and one of its headlights is out.

And you call ME the stupid one.