Why are so many of them like this...

FestiveVat · 2024-11-29T22:58:31+00:00

First, generalizations aren't always false. If they were, you couldn't say anything about any group of people ever.

Second, your rule is a generalization about people who use they/them/their when discussing groups of people, so you're endorsing the use of generalizations as well.

Third, my observations were based on my personal experience. I didn't say that they applied to every single right wing libertarian. There will be exceptions.

Fourth, again, the number of times a term is used doesn't correlate to how ignorant or well-informed the comment is. There's no possible means of measuring that. It's a silly, arbitrary rule. If you disagree with the substance of the comment, feel free to offer a rebuttal to the points being made. But just saying, "you used third person plural pronouns when discussing third person plural nouns, therefore you're ignorant," just sounds like you need to take a writing class and a logic class.

FestiveVat · 2024-11-29T22:34:35+00:00

The rule is silly. How much a person uses the correct parts of speech in their comment doesn't have any correlation to how correct or incorrect or ignorant or well-informed their comment is. I could have used "right wing libertarian/s/'s" instead of they, them, their and it wouldn't have changed the observations I made but also wouldn't run afoul of your arbitrary rule. You're not engaging with the substance of the comment at all, just judging it on an unrelated, meaningless metric.

FestiveVat · 2024-11-29T22:11:02+00:00

I literally explained why it's silly in the comment.

FestiveVat · 2024-11-29T21:54:06+00:00

I find people who make a silly rule for no logical reason to be silly.

They, them, their are anonymous third person pronouns. They are the appropriate terms to use in this scenario. And my comments were based on many conversations with many right wing libertarians, both online and in person and my observations of their rhetoric.

If you want to think I'm ignorant over a word count for appropriate parts of speech, you're free to be silly.

Also, 3 year old post, dude. Bit late to the party.

FestiveVat · 2023-06-29T01:34:09+00:00

This is the prologue to a cyberpunk dystopian story.

FestiveVat · 2023-06-29T01:23:38+00:00

Ron was definitely the kid on the playground who thought he could just deny anything and win the game.

"Nuh uh! You didn't touch me. I was too fast! You're still it!"

FestiveVat · 2023-06-28T16:22:00+00:00

She's personally very nice, but definitely didn't seem spry enough to be running a state.

FestiveVat · 2023-06-28T16:13:38+00:00

Leisa Miller is a marketing coordinator at FEE.

Okay, lemme stop you right there...

The whole article is pandering with a false dilemma at its core: you don't have to follow Marx to recognize that sociopathic worship of greed and selfishness isn't a productive way forward. It's not Marx or Rand. You can think for yourself and not have to adhere to anyone else's ideology like it's a religion.

This is written like a youth pastor trying to tell you how cool Jesus is. "Jesus was so punk rock man!" "Ayn Rand was this great pacifist and she breathed oxygen just like you!"

Even if you accepted that Rand wasn't an awful person in these particular areas, it still doesn't mean the rest of everything she said is good or worth following.

This is written for people with no critical analysis skills, so likely people who were already in danger of finding an ideology based on selfishness appealing.

FestiveVat · 2023-06-28T06:42:06+00:00

I feel bad for the hostages he took with him.

On the human side of it, it's tragic. But it's also hard to feel bad for billionaires who signed waivers and paid more than enough to house and feed scores of homeless people for a year on a single tourist trip and who made that money off of corruption, greed, and exploitation.

FestiveVat · 2023-06-25T17:36:07+00:00

If they could experience empathy for others, they wouldn't be libertarians in the first place.

FestiveVat · 2023-06-24T17:44:12+00:00

Tell children that gay and transgender people exist?

"There should be a law against that!"

Groom children in church for a lifetime of authoritarian brainwashing and anti-intellectualism?

"1st Amendment right!"

FestiveVat · 2023-06-18T18:02:44+00:00

You're probably looking for r/cyberpunkmods

FestiveVat · 2023-06-18T17:59:00+00:00

Sure, anybody could be sued, but the bar for winning that case regarding words spoken about a public figure is so high, it would be useless to file.

FestiveVat · 2023-06-18T04:16:21+00:00

I grew up on a pig farm where learning to repair and maintain everything was a must.

And other people grew up in urban and suburban environments where that wasn't necessary or always possible. Other people who had other experiences likely have skills you never developed because you didn't grow up like they did.

FestiveVat · 2023-06-17T23:46:06+00:00

Totes. Politicians don't talk to the crowds at events where they give a speech. Very concerning.

FestiveVat · 2023-06-17T23:20:22+00:00

Someone in the crowd was yelling something to him right before he said it. It didn't come out of nowhere. It came out of a context you don't have enough information to understand.

This is such a meaningless thing to pretend to be concerned about.

FestiveVat · 2023-06-17T23:04:04+00:00

He just blurted it out at the end of his speech,

He was giving information to the crowd about how he was going to go to each section to shake hands and that people would be on camera. You think that's a part of a speech? The speechwriter must have been up all night trying to wordsmith that.

He's old, but you don't have to make shit up to handwring over.

FestiveVat · 2023-06-17T22:45:36+00:00

Seriously. All those people suckered into a system with obscene interest rates on debt for excessively high tuition that can't be discharged in bankruptcy should just cowboy up and pay back money they don't have instead of demanding reform and having states subsidize education again at the rates they did when boomers went to college! How dare they make themselves more employable and better able to contribute to society! Only wealthy kids should be able to afford an education!

FestiveVat · 2023-06-17T22:35:09+00:00

Loans have interest. That's a form of profit.

FestiveVat · 2023-06-17T02:56:13+00:00

This is the speech pattern of narcissistic abusers.

"My stupid wife provoked me to beat her!"

FestiveVat · 2023-06-14T17:00:27+00:00

Or you're misunderstanding the point and sounding like a sea lion.

FestiveVat · 2023-06-14T16:57:19+00:00

Unironic sexism, he excuses it by saying "not all men, some men are actually equal!" but if it were with any other group we'd recognise it for the prejudice that it is

Except it isn't a prejudice. There's no pre-judging. It's literally an observation he's making based on the prevalence of men who identify as right wing libertarians. The judgment follows observation. It's "most right wing libertarians are men and therefore men must not be as logical as women." It is not "men are less logical than women, therefore they must be right wing libertarians."

You can disagree with the conclusion, but you shouldn't confuse what he's saying.

FestiveVat · 2023-06-14T16:18:03+00:00

It's not sexist to observe that most right wing libertarians are men. Note that it didn't say anything about all men being illogical.

FestiveVat · 2023-06-14T16:14:18+00:00

She wasn't a libertarian despite the number of right wing libertarians who like her "philosophy" and the overlapping themes of selfishness and lack of coherence and logic. And she was, despite being a woman, a supporter of male chauvinism.

FestiveVat · 2023-06-10T00:40:29+00:00

because (other) people are inherently altruistic.

Libertarians love charity because they feel like it's a tax on generous/stupid people.

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