Theo. Enough with the devil's advocate. There's a point where you just go too far and look really really bad. Again, nobody is arguing any of the things you claim they are. You've created the most ridiculous of situations where, once again, it is only the most severe and ridiculous of conclusions. Nobody is arguing the things you say they are. That you have created this really extreme, ridiculous argument that nobody is making is the literal definition of what a strawman is.
2014 Gamergate: "If you want games without hyper sexualized female characters and representation, then learn to code!"
2023: "What's with all these massively successful games with ugly (realistic) women? How could this have happened?!"
On MMO-C we learn that Anti-Fascism is locking arms with corporations, the State Department and agreeing with the CIA, But opposing the CIA and corporate America, and thinking Jews have a right to buy land and can expect tenants to pay rent THAT is ultra-Fash Nazism. Bellingcat is an MI6/CIA cut out. Clyburn Truther.
And since I feel I'll have to explain it, I mean your victim card. Jesus Christ. From the person who acts like any time they stub their toe the cause could only be that Nancy Pelsoi must have broken into their house and moved their furniture around you really have zero room to complain.
I'll explain the actual issue most have with you, and it's not the strawman you've made to justify your massive victim complex. It's the lies, excuse making for objectively bad conservative behavior while crucifying any dem, arguing in bad faith, and plagiarism. All while you complain that people who call you out on this are just mad you don't have your bumper covered wall to wall with DNC bumper stickers.
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“Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.”
"Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."
Ambrose Bierce
The Bird of Hermes Is My Name, Eating My Wings To Make Me Tame.
Hell, I'm not even American. I'm Canadian. And a socialist at that. What allegiance would you think I have with the frakking Democrats? I'll shit all over people like Manchin. I'm not exactly a fan of Biden. About the only Democrats I really like are people like AOC and the Squad, and even there, they're pretty middle-of-the-road and only stand out because of how right-wing the Democrats generally lean.
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What the world has learned is that America is never more than one election away from losing its goddamned mindMe on Elite : Dangerous | My WoW charactersOriginally Posted by Howard Tayler
Most of us at my high school were pretty immersed in politics right from the start. I could claim it was because I started high school the year we had our first multi-party elections in half a century, so it was pretty much all around us - but then, politics are all around all the time now.
As somone who was reading newspapers in middle school, I was politically aware at 11-12 years old and it was pretty apparent Republicans and conservative ideals were shit. Assuming kids before 12th grade don't have political leanings is pretty naive especially in today's climate.
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Politics are tightly interwoven into life and have been forever. People just choose to ignore it.
Most people are not very political, older people often have the time and resources to be moreso, but even then generally I find most people refrain from political discussion. However, I would say most people begin to develop their political and ethical ideals in their adolescence, and I would even go as far as to say it's a part of the developmental process from child-to-adolescent-to-young adult.
Granted this, this is entirely anecdotal, but based on observing pretty much everyone I grew up with, most people within my generation and right before seem to have began developing political beliefs between the ages of 13 and 16.
It’s not just you. It has been studied. People’s political beliefs typically are established before their mid 20s and don’t change much after that outside of major events that force their views to adjust.
The whole, “people get more conservative as they got older” stuff was completely wrong, what they saw wasn’t people getting more conservative as they got older, it was conservatives just getting older.
Remember, the Republicans have lost every presidential election by will of the people but 1 since 1988 and that was Bush Jrs second term riding the coattails of 911.
Since we can't call out Trolls and Bad Faith posters and the Ignore function doesn't actually ignore it. Add
"mmo-champion.com##li.postbitignored"
to your ublock or adblock filter to actually ignore ignored posters. Now just need a way to ignore responses to them as well.
Least active sure. But claiming they aren't political or don't have leanings is just not true.
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My daughter's graduating class this year of 500, many of them were in political groups in school dating back to their freshman years. It starts early, especially these days with 24/7 information, instant access to it all and the recent attention to the political landscape directly affecting teens.
It probably doesn't help that the educational system is pretty awful when it comes to political identification. Heck most adults don't get the difference between a social democrat and a democratic socialist. It's always black and white capitalism best everything else bad not a lot of nuance teachings.
While it is true that the frontal lobe isn't fully pruned until 25, most of your mental capacity is on par with adults at around 15-16. A lot of your views and personality actually form under 25, and once you turn around 25-30 you're brain actually begins to slow down and relies heavily on what you processed between the ages of 15-24.
There are dumb, shitty, gullible people on the right and left--what's happening on the right is buy-in. In other words, they're on board with the lies, regardless of how preposterous or crazy, as long as it's in furtherance of the white nationalist authoritarian project. The persistent and condescending idea that it's primarily rubes and suckers is blinding people to what's really going on.
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. --Frank Wilhoit