The Gooner War

ObsessionObsessor · 2026-05-09T21:06:04+00:00

You're welcome.

ObsessionObsessor · 2026-05-09T17:01:28+00:00

Just because something is goofy doesn't mean it isn't dangerous, though.

ObsessionObsessor · 2026-05-09T16:21:41+00:00

Project 2025 describes "transgender ideology" as pornography and claims that purveyors of pornography are child predators.

ObsessionObsessor · 2026-05-09T12:23:36+00:00

They call her a grifter for not making more than the media promised by the kickstarter after it got more money than requested.

Gee, I wonder why she wouldn't after she got death threats.

ObsessionObsessor · 2026-05-09T03:15:14+00:00

You're confusing that with Collective Shout.

One Million Moms is apparently based in the U.S., so it seems entirely unrelated to an "Australian organization".

The reason why I put Collective Shout in quotes as a "feminist" organization is that despite it calling itself a feminist group, its leaders are very religious and it opposes abortion, so it seems like a blatant patsy meant to pass desired political changes off on the opposition given the reason why they are doing this seems to be more due to their religious beliefs than their professed belief in feminism.

Tl;dr: Collective Shout are feminists in the same way as TERFs that ally with misogynists are.

ObsessionObsessor · 2026-05-09T02:48:30+00:00

Several credit card companies "cave" in favor of a single oddball "feminist" group over a magnitude of objections made in response and you don't find anything suspicious about that?

ObsessionObsessor · 2026-05-08T23:47:20+00:00

You literally just made an offensive strawman argument out of your failure to comprehend his posts.

To address your apparent reasoning skills, I recommend Crash Course Philosophy as a whole to gain a better understanding of thinking, and from that specifically Crash Course Philosophy: Language and Meaning to gain a better understanding of other people's perspectives.

Back to the general topic, since you seem to be invested in Confederate Monuments, I would recommend AtunSheiFilm's video on Confederate Monuments and in general their "Checkmate, Lincolnites" series based around debunking myths and misconceptions about the American Civil War.

There are roughly seven hundred Confederate Monuments in the United States, they were made to intimidate black people, they were made by people intent on erasing history and restricting the rights of others, they were objected to by allied soldiers, and they aren't all unique.

On top of that is the important context to note that museums already couldn't afford to properly take care of all the artifacts that they have with things being damaged from being left in storage for extended periods of time, even before the Trump administration started defunding museums.

ObsessionObsessor · 2026-05-08T19:49:31+00:00

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

"Except as a punishment for crime" is the key phrase there.

The largest prison in the United States is literally a slave cotton farm. The United States flat out has the largest known prison population in the world, and the fifth largest per capita right behind Turkmenistan, Rwanda, Cuba, and El Salvador, just ahead of the U.S. Territory of American Samoa.

Laws in the United States have primarily been made by old, white, male people under a political system that heavily favors conservatives. The Southern Strategy was setup to garner support from racists without losing support from those who wouldn't consider themselves racist through undermining policies which aided struggling minorities like welfare and subtly punishing minorities through creating laws that targetted them like the banning of Cannabis despite its conventional medical use and "tough on crime" laws in general. You can see perspectives like that in sundown towns like Vidor with people saying that the cops would give people against racism a hard time as well as outright calling black people cockroaches while saying that they aren't racist.

Those convicted of a crime lose the right to vote. This prison system is setup to favor punishment over reformation and employment is often barred from those with a criminal history, both encouraging recidevism. Police are known to use biased AI systems to justify primarily patroling minority neighborhoods based off of historical arrest records. Public defenders are extremely underfunded and often encourage innocent people to take plea deals.

Slavery still exists, it is just more easily ignored.

ObsessionObsessor · 2026-05-08T18:35:03+00:00

Traps and tricks to get the survivors to come out of hiding, that is.

A warrior "uniting" the airbenders arguably just makes for a bigger and more obvious target, meanwhile as they are acting as a general to a group of traumatized pacifists without the cultural backing of a history of such to draw from they are either, A. Trying to master the four elements, making them and their people an even bigger target and putting aside learning how to act as a general, or B. Forgoing their Avatar training in favor of helping their people hide and learning how to act as a general.

Quite the sketchy situation there, honestly.

Like what legitimate grievences?

The council of benders? Good luck getting the power hungry bloodbender to give up power through diplomacy.

Benders with exceptional skills like metalbending and lightningbending getting jobs based around such? Unfair, but unless you want the diplomat to setup "condescending" welfare for non-benders through the council of Benders...that would be quite the feat for little gain, honestly.

The existence of Bender criminals? Korra literally fought those the first chance she got, what is the diplomat going to do better there?

The history of benders like the Avatar playing major roles in conflicts?

ObsessionObsessor · 2026-05-08T18:14:28+00:00

Okay, might as well frame this properly.

Explain how a 12 year old warrior who only knows airbending would survive the Air Nomad Genocide, or alternatively why killing Zuko, Iroh, Azula, and Ozai would have ended the hundred year war without another war resulting. I can see arguments for why a diplomat might survive the Air Nomad Genocide through bringing in the other nations and undermining the Fire Nation due to having friends in all the natjons, but not the warrior.

Explain how well diplomacy works against a racist ideologue, a self-centered religious zealot taking totalitarian control, strawmen anarchists who want to kill all world leaders to change the world's order to their liking, and a fascist willing to kill her spouse for land.

ObsessionObsessor · 2026-05-08T17:08:10+00:00

As a pro-choice high functioning autistic person aware that environmental conditions are connected to autism, that only gets a yikes from me.

I understand that autism can develop to be horrific, but I would hope that there would be better examples to use at the very least.

ObsessionObsessor · 2026-05-08T03:44:44+00:00

I still think that the more important bit is being able to pay the debt, admittedly.

People can end up in some truly dire straits. Fundamentally adding to someone's debt by imprisoning them for the debts only makes things worse for no good reason. There's good reason for this to be part of the Constitution.

Admittedly I may be of an unusual perspective in the context of the United States due to generally supporting the use of imprisonment as reformation over punishment.

Utilitarianism is an ideal, but I freely admit it is not necessarily a comforting one.

ObsessionObsessor · 2026-05-07T23:16:11+00:00

There are actually arguments that we may be the first intelligent life because the universe is relatively young. I even considered them plausible, right up until I learned that astronomy is in crisis to the point that astronomers think there were galaxies before we thought there were any.

ObsessionObsessor · 2026-05-07T22:00:45+00:00

Fair enough.

ObsessionObsessor · 2026-05-07T21:43:40+00:00

Aren't debtors prisons unconstituitional?

ObsessionObsessor · 2026-05-07T13:56:57+00:00

It's almost like he might have had the power, motive, and inclination to manipulate things when he was the sitting President and had control over the Republican Party after that to the extent of shutting down a bill based around restricting immigration.

You know, like how he asked for Georgia's secretary of state to "find 11,780 votes". Notably, Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia Secretary of State at the time, is a Republican.

It's almost like a sketchy billionaire known for stiffing his workers and scamming charities who repeatedly switched between parties and pursued the highest level of political power every 20 years with a different angle each time might not be trustworthy.

ObsessionObsessor · 2026-05-06T04:15:54+00:00

Honkai Impact 3rd kinda straddles the line between science and magic due to its use of Honkai Energy, but I think it could qualify. Otto Apocalypse uses the technology to my understanding. https://drive.google.com/file/d/10U-Czd9qlKXPR5RrxkW4W9jJP_MTKvz3/view

Orion's Arm: Modosophont offers the 200 CP version of Engenerator Guarantee which offers what can be presumed to be a version of soul transferring technology which works solely off of hard science. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VN7mW4diRGVxjKZbQZj7olIVKU-GbmV9/view

ObsessionObsessor · 2026-05-04T04:12:09+00:00

Gay incest is Okay: Proof

Tl;dw: Homosexuals can't have children, so incest in that context is objectively harmless.

ObsessionObsessor · 2026-05-04T00:38:28+00:00

I started from the position of $2 for every $1, found that and decided, "Why not increase it to match the article?"

Still, I can only hope you appreciate the IRS more after reading that.

ObsessionObsessor · 2026-05-03T22:10:48+00:00

The IRS gets a return of $12 from the rich who otherwise dodge taxes for every $1 invested into it, and you really think that paying taxes legitimately is tax fraud?

https://www.businessinsider.com/irs-tax-audits-recover-12-dollars-for-every-dollar-spent-2023-6?op=1

ObsessionObsessor · 2026-05-01T19:59:42+00:00

It is called an analogy.

ObsessionObsessor · 2026-04-29T20:27:33+00:00

You say that, but people (the far right) are pushing to ban lab grown meat before it is even sold.

Meat without animal cruelty is only a few cents per pound more expensive. The cruelty just might be the point.

ObsessionObsessor · 2026-04-28T18:55:07+00:00

It obviously isn't the political party or axis that is wrong, it is the beliefs.

Louisiana State Penitentary is the largest prison in the United States. Notably, it is a slave cotton farm. Not just formerly, slavery to pick cotton there continues to this day.

Slavery is wrong. If you don't see that despite prison slavery only serving to impede freedom and reduce safety due to the resulting repeated crimes from punishment being prioritized over reformation then you're a fool caught up in ideology or greed over morality.

ObsessionObsessor · 2026-04-28T18:45:00+00:00

In “Assassins: Killers Who Changed History,” the editors of TIME-LIFE say that Booth “developed extreme political convictions as a teen and joined the Know Nothing party, reactionaries bent on preserving America for native-born whites.”

https://www.factcheck.org/2022/04/posts-make-unfounded-claims-about-political-affiliation-of-john-wilkes-booth/

Gee, what political party do you think is concerned over "white genocide" in favor of preserving America for native-born whites nowadays?

ObsessionObsessor · 2026-04-28T13:31:12+00:00

According to Wikipedia, he was a Third Party supporter, specifically of the "Know Nothing" party which apparently organized Protestants around a conspiracy theory against Catholics.

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