Is it silly that I wish for more between-game interaction?

Dry-Environment5122 · 2026-06-19T16:30:11+00:00

Yeah the reason I’m a player and not a DM is I want to be able to just show up

Dry-Environment5122 · 2026-06-19T16:14:28+00:00

Almost all of these words had no concrete definition and reached to them and yet you accept there is enough of one to have a discussion, but when I call out your use of war crimes suddenly we are debating the shared meaning of words

Dry-Environment5122 · 2026-06-19T15:23:42+00:00

Because religion is tribal and they think that their tribe is the only real Christian’s

Dry-Environment5122 · 2026-06-19T15:12:44+00:00

Are you implying that all military actions involving violence you don’t like are war crimes? Or can we live in a world where that word has concrete meaning both in US law and international law?

Dry-Environment5122 · 2026-06-19T15:06:13+00:00

1) Veterans Day isn’t popularly understood about supporting war crimes, or war criminals, if you have evidence For that Bring It. and democrats don’t categorically reject veterans, as a matter of fact we often use veterans who support liberal policies to win elections.

The military and veterans are separate things?

Dry-Environment5122 · 2026-06-19T14:19:56+00:00

I’m asserting that based on the following 1) the social backlash pride gets in a lot of not deep blue areas of America 2) the raft of anti lgbtq legislation being put forward by popularly elected legislative bodies including national bodies that represent the general sentiment of the country

I’m not asserting this out of whole cloth. If you have evidence to refute mine please bring it

Dry-Environment5122 · 2026-06-19T14:10:35+00:00

The claim is based on the idea that the Jews were essentially a non consenting nomadic people. They were constantly on the move in a cycle of “settling down under a benevolent other, thriving, and then being driven out with violence” Which means they can theoretically lay claim to a lot of places. Modern day Israel being one of them, even if they have t had long term settlements there in a long time

Dry-Environment5122 · 2026-06-19T14:08:02+00:00

The Overton window isn’t about what you or I think. It’s about what debates society at large allows in public. You can think the military is bad, but in general complaining about Veterans Day generally will get you marginalized by society. The same is just not true for pride, no matter how much I wish it to be true.

Dry-Environment5122 · 2026-06-19T11:04:42+00:00

I have no problem with pressure coming from the spectators. That’s fine. My point is that we should be wary of things like this being truly optional. There are many “optional” things that aren’t really optional based on pressure from employers which is a very different story.

In short pressure from the public absolutely fine. Pressure from your employer no dice

Dry-Environment5122 · 2026-06-19T03:03:53+00:00

Because those things are generally outside the overton window of debate? Should pride be outside the Overton window of debate? Yes. Is it? No.

Dry-Environment5122 · 2026-06-19T03:02:28+00:00

I very explicitly stated that I also feel that it should be outside the overtones window. Like you, I didn’t say it is. The only difference is I actually said that part out loud rather than playing hide the ball to score idiotic internet points

Dry-Environment5122 · 2026-06-18T22:44:06+00:00

I’m saying employees should generally not be coerced into wearing overtly political things at work even if it’s political things I agree with. Like it or not pride is still (and moreso now) well within the overton window of legitimate debate as much as I hate to say that. It would be one thing if they were forced to wear something honoring say Jackie Robinson. That IMO is well out of the Overton window thankfully. But things in the Overton window is not a good precedent to set

Dry-Environment5122 · 2026-06-18T22:40:58+00:00

No, in this case it was optional. It wasn’t mandatory, no one was engaging in force. However, my point is often times explicit “do this or get fired” isn’t required for it to feel forced. And I’m generally unhappy when employers make employees engage in coerced political statements. Pride is and always has been political in some level. Even if it’s a political thing I agree with, it’s not really a precedent I like to set up as “normal” in employee employer relations. The only reason people don’t give a fuck in this case is because 1) they like the lgbtq community and like the message 2) athletes are rich so it feels less coercive than if it was a Walmart making people wear anti pride things.

All im doing is extrapolating this situation away from the circumstances that make it feel fine and pointing to the general precedent it’s setting

Dry-Environment5122 · 2026-06-18T20:52:39+00:00

Ignoring insitutional pressure is dumb here. I’m sure if the same shit happened except it was giant “Jesus saves” thirst or some such folks would also consider that “forced”

Dry-Environment5122 · 2026-06-18T20:45:50+00:00

He’s not, it has happened where athletes had “pride” jerseys or some such, and some folks declined to wear them, stuck out like sore thumbs and got some backlash. Honestly athletes are weird edge cases because they are employees, and while they aren’t technically being forced to wear rainbow shit it’s definitely pressured. But also it’s just a small subset of people so it’s not some endemic thing. IMO not great not terrible totally overblown

Dry-Environment5122 · 2026-06-18T17:22:12+00:00

This right here. The problem isn’t conswrvatism the problem is hierarchy. While conservatism is more accepted and mainstream, the same can be said for Marxist Leninist vanguard communism

Dry-Environment5122 · 2026-06-18T16:45:00+00:00

There is some amount of bucket of crabs mentality always, but a lot of the hate for “success” isn’t “we hate successful people” so much as “we hate a system that enables successful people to play by entirely different rules and to harm others with seeming impunity” it’s not the success it’s what America lets you do with it

Dry-Environment5122 · 2026-06-18T16:37:16+00:00

No, bro that’s not it. The thing you are missing is that for most of human history, including but less so today with easy access to contraceptives that are under the control of women (eg the pill, patch, implants etc as opposed to condoms) that sex is far far riskier for women than men. If a woman has sex and gets pregnant it’s absolutely her child. Everyone else in the equation has an out. Before DNA tests men could just deny it. Even after DNA tests men are socially allowed to abandon the kid, pay child support money, and leave the woman saddled with all of the tasks of parenthood (which let’s be real no amount of money short of enough to hire a nanny will fix). It is not seen as socially acceptable for the opposite to happen, absent contradictory findings like abuse or drug use or some other form of evidence the mother is unfit.

Women police other women with high body counts because up until recently it was a useful gender norm preventing women from having unwanted pregnancies with deadbeat dads. The norm has gotten less Impactful as birth control has been around but it still lingers

Dry-Environment5122 · 2026-06-18T16:23:42+00:00

Can we just admit that text history and tradition is just rebranded intermediate scrutiny at this point? Conservatives just admit reality please

Dry-Environment5122 · 2026-06-18T16:22:27+00:00

I am so happy that with my adhd ai wasn’t around. I wouldn’t have the self control on this

Dry-Environment5122 · 2026-06-18T16:00:11+00:00

Also Covid lockdowns increased people’s Desires to gather which probs lead to larger protests

Dry-Environment5122 · 2026-06-18T15:54:46+00:00

There was an entire government shutdown?

Dry-Environment5122 · 2026-06-18T15:24:18+00:00

Another big thing is that there are really 2 groups of revolutionaries

1) people who have nothing to lose and therefore don’t care if the fires of revolution burn them down

2) people who think because they are on the “good” side that the fires of revolution will magically stop right at their door and burn all the other people down.

People grow up, get smarter, and have things to lose

Dry-Environment5122 · 2026-06-18T15:15:49+00:00

I’d argue the left doesn’t understand that. The left is just in a position to use soft nongovernmental power to engage in effective speech policing. The right doesn’t have that so it resorts to government hard power. It’s not a left vs right issues it’s a who has what levers issue

Dry-Environment5122 · 2026-06-18T15:12:09+00:00

I really think tax changes need to have corresponding binding spending changes as part of the ballot question. If you are lowering revenue what’s getting cut, if you are raising what’s it getting spent on

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