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Cake day: September 28th, 2023

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  • Great point but I don’t know if we should keep that hard and fast rule. Please discuss with me but I think intolerance might have to only be chided and not outright rejected in order for change to occur. You don’t invite a Nazi into your house and pretend genocide is okay but if you’re trying to change them you can’t kick them out when they express insane views or we’re back to square one because they will say unacceptable shit. Don’t tolerate it but don’t exorcise them from your space unless you’re doing it for yourself right?


  • These are people ostracized from less extreme groups. The only places they find acceptance is with people like them, leading to an echo chamber where the most insane ideas can fester and grow. I think the solution to the issue of having extremists among us is to do the hardest imaginable thing and accept them into our communities and keep it positive and short when correcting things. “I hope that kind of thing doesn’t hurt a lot of people.” Or whatever. We’re silly animals who will do anything to be accepted by our chosen group including learning to think differently.







  • I think this is a great way to draw the public eye when they would otherwise be ignored. These stunts have granted them so much power and reach. They may even be doing everything right. Why not deface shit and inconvenience people if it gets people talking about it? I’d choose to be hated if it made a change. There are so many protests today that don’t even make the back page of the news. You know what has a chance of making the front page? Violence and things that piss everyone off. Gets people talking. Asking why. They walk a very fine line. You can’t go too hard on hitting oil execs directly or you will be stopped and you can’t do quiet protests or you will not be heard. This could be the conclusion of the most harmless way to achieve their ends even if it doesn’t pan out the way they want.










  • Look. If we boil that whole newspaper can of worms down the message looks a lot like “you guys are average and average is stupid and I’m smart.” I’m sure with your sense for context you can see why many would conclude that you’re still being an elitist asshole.

    You can insist it’s true- hell, it may even BE true but that’s still no excuse for being a goddamn prick. Which is way worse than having reading comprehension skills or whatever.


  • Man you’re being kind of a dick. Not saying it’s a bad take but you should save the snapping for assholes and not people confused by an argument of little context combating a view that’s only implicitly expressed by an image.

    You can do the same thing without being vague and making people wonder if they’re missing something by saying “many people think you should just keep your head down at these gatherings but…” and by removing the confusing quotes.

    And drop the elitism. That shit looks bad on people that have earned it. It looks worse on someone from the internet who made the error of splitting overestimate into two words within their own self-fellating intellect based burn.

    Just fucking chill out and feel free to DM me if you need to talk about something.