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Yes, the term is hanging in there (and could do so indefinitely) even though Google stopped giving decent results several years ago.

Yes, terrible to “attack” the poor guy like that. He’s just concerned for the level of the discourse, poor thing.

https://kbin.run/m/[email protected]/t/602314/Kyle-Rittenhouse-criticized-Donald-Trump-So-conservatives-said-he-s-transgender (ctrl-f the name)

This you? Specifically: this you, arguing in a way that instantly, grossly obviously outs you as a troll. Not only the intensely weird way you’re defending a murderer, but the intensely weird ways you’re going about it. I’d elaborate, but don’t feel like educating trolls.

So there’s the answer to your " genuine " question. Of course, you remain free to ignore this terrible unprovoked attack from my side and pretend I’m quivering with rage, if that makes you feel better. :)

kbin.run although the missing instance blocking is really starting to get on my tits.

I’ve been hearing reports that “the market is way down” (due to Kamala/Democrats/god knows what else)

And how would you estimate the likelihood of any part of it being… uh, true? What are they basing it on, does it seem to check out with reality?

I mean, surely these allegations wouldn’t, in a truly shocking twist, have come from their (notoriously pathologically dishonest) political enemies, right?

Not a slur. Not even close.

What it is is an omnipresent, versatile, variable, nuanced word, that someone apparently started using “politically” like fifteen fucking minutes ago - I don’t see that as a compelling reason to hustle to change my lexicon, and wouldn’t advise anyone else to do it either. It is literally playing into their dogshit tactics: “validating their view” is, respectfully, not a good argument if we’re talking about the American right which I’m going out on a limb and assuming we are. This is because their “view” (like many of their imitators) is “I will bitch about everything I can possibly pretend to take offense at, or else make something up”. Therefore, allowing them to dictate your vocabulary (extremely and intentionally hypocritically, between the incessant bitching about “political correctness”) seems like a losing or at least pointlessly annoying proposition. You are playing chess with a pigeon, it will shit on the board and strut around like it’s won.

If they didn’t want to be called “weird”:

1. Maybe they shouldn’t have been weird

2. Maybe they shouldn’t be whinging about it from the #1 spot on the podium of irrelevant namecalling and shit-flinging kindergarten/zoo tactics.

3. Tough shit lol

4. GOTO 3

The Harry Potter main series, for which I have a major case of nostalgia. I’ll happily and accurately slag JKR off for being a dimwit with terribly stupid opinions, who would need to be both smarter and more committed to make her “make it up as you go along” worldbuilding make any sort of sense at all. Which, bluntly, it doesn’t.

But considering how much of a turnip she is, parts of her worldbuilding is strangely compelling while others fail basic self-consistency.

Ssssshhhh, for god’s sake don’t give them any ideas.

Not at all. The guys designing the early drafts of the applicable laws seem to never have considered a convicted felon persuading millions and millions of people that it, or his active prison sentence, doesn’t matter because PwN tHe LiBs. Frankly, how could they?

Psychiatry could learn a lot…

Industrial strength cognitive dissonance, the only thing involving cognition they’re good at at all.

Yeah, but it’s not the gotcha you think it is. The entire right-winger thing is whinging about everything being someone’s fault. Particularly de gubmit. Even in cases when they are in a majority in said “gubmit” at the time, and have been for nigh on a decade.

Point is, you are implicitly giving these cretins too much credit in the rhetoric they use. It’s not meant to make sense. It’s meant to rile up rednecks/whatever-other-relevant-stereotype.

What

Pop-up riddled shit that annoys anyone who tries to read it. Substack is apparently riddled with Nazis, but then that was a characteristic I heard here, so take that with a pinch of salt.

Maybe github pages?

Winning is relative, they can’t stop distribution if the creators are careful about it.

If magnets, then there’s less info in the link itself (compared to a .torrent) and that needs to be located. If availability is shit, that will be hard/impossible.

BlockTube makes it possible to hide stuff you’ve already seen, among other things. Presumably it works by video ID, so thumbs and titles don’t matter. If channels keep reuploading the same shit… just unsub, I guess.

No, and if that is a powerful feeling (not “I’m autistic and see things differently”, but “normal reality does not apply to me” somehow) then it might be something to check out with a medical professional.

Yes, but then people can’t have a nice whinge about it.

On the other hand: HTTPS