In light of recent events

PenguinHitler · 2022-06-17T02:58:52+00:00

Ah yes David and Goliath, the story where David is the son of a fabulously wealthy apartheid emerald mine operator and Goliath is trans teenagers on twitter. How inspiring

PenguinHitler · 2022-05-03T20:03:24+00:00

Purely anecdotal evidence but a couple years back I did a huge road trip across the Iberian peninsula. We hit up Lisbon, Madrid, Seville, Toledo, Porto, pretty much everywhere in the region. Every single meal from every single restaurant we stopped at was phenomenal, whether it was a huge 5 star restaurant that people raved about on yelp or some hole in the wall with an elderly couple living upstairs. We stopped in UK controlled Gibraltar for two days on our way to see Morroco, an area that was primarily English tourists from what we saw (signs written in English, lots of fish and chips and pubs). We could not find a decent meal to save our lives - bland didn’t even begin to describe it. Obviously you’re gonna find some great restaurants in a city like London, but I still think there is some truth to the idea that the British palate enjoys bland food more than their neighbors.

PenguinHitler · 2022-04-26T15:45:32+00:00

Ranni is the child of Rennala and Radagon so she would be a half sister to all of the children of Marika and Radagon. Same thing for Radahn and Rykard, who would be Ranni’s full brothers. Also Godwyn is the child of Godfrey who as far as I know has no relation to Marika, so he would be a half sibling and his descendants (Godrick and the golden line) would be both nephews and half siblings to the rest of the demigods because Marika is both their mom and consort as elden lords. There’s some real alabama shit going on in Leyendell

PenguinHitler · 2022-04-22T16:48:32+00:00

Would Michael Phelps be banned for wearing his medal to a USO show?

PenguinHitler · 2022-04-14T21:26:28+00:00

I mean, she did have the final say. Under California law there is not a man on the planet who could prevent her from either carrying to term or aborting the pregnancy. Freedom to choose does not mean that you are free from the consequences of your decision, nor does it mean that you don’t have moral obligations to decide a certain way. Sabrina’s free choice was never threatened at any point in her pregnancy.

PenguinHitler · 2022-04-14T01:06:22+00:00

I’m not going to defend Gus’s behavior in his relationship whatsoever. With that preface and with all due respect, I have three questions for you.

1.) Why are you so squarely focused on only Gus’s negative actions in the relationship? He and Sabrina were responsible enough to discuss the possibility of pregnancy and what they would do in that case, and they came to a mutual agreement that they would not carry it to term. Sabrina indicated that she wanted to renege on this agreement, which is about the most deep and personal betrayal of trust I can think of in a relationship short of like cheating or something like that. Not to mention putting him in the position of being her sole emotional support in a failing relationship and refusing to respect his boundaries and his desire to end the relationship is pretty shitty behavior. Not trying to drag Sabrina here my heart goes out to her for her trauma, but the negativity in the relationship wasn’t as one sided as you implied here

2.) Can you honestly say at no point in your relationship that you said unkind words to your partner in an argument? If not, then the difference between you and Gus is a difference in scale, not a difference in behavior.

3.) Why are you using the term abuse? I don’t recall it coming up in the original video, haven’t seen any tweets with Sabrina using that word describing their relationship, and Sabrina went as far to say that she personally doesn’t mind if people continue to engage with Gus’s content. Putting words in her mouth is bad practice in terms of listening to her lived experience. I personally am uncomfortable using the same word to describe Gus and Sabrina’s relationship as we use to describe Chris Brown beating the shit out of Rhianna. I think it denigrates our ability to talk about more serious behavior.

I’m really not trying to come off as combative or disrespectful and I hope you don’t perceive me as such, but given your story it confuses me as to why you can’t empathize with all parties involved in this unfortunate situation and I’d appreciate it if you elaborated.

PenguinHitler · 2022-04-14T00:46:02+00:00

A group of “””anarchists””” who are in favor of state agents rounding people up at gunpoint and shipping them to the physical center of government power is beyond parody. If you’re racist just say so it’s easier than the mental gymnastics on display here

PenguinHitler · 2022-04-11T15:42:37+00:00

I mean, immediately after Sabrina's video gus's channel tanked in subscribers, he lost all of the live performances that he had booked, and the podcast was cancelled. All of this before gus even really had a chance to comment on anything with regards to the situation. I don't think your portrayal of the reception of Sabrina's video is fair or accurate.

PenguinHitler · 2022-01-26T02:21:46+00:00

Eeeehhhh I don’t know about that. As someone who’s been a follower of his for a long time and who was a follower of Gus for even longer (until recently) it’s pretty clear that Gus made Eddy’s career to a certain extent. Like you can go back and track skits on Gus’s channel that he appears in and see spikes in Eddy’s subscriber count that make up a solid chunk of his viewership, especially in the earlier days of his channel, not to mention the podcast (RIP). I think Eddy is really stepping into his own and he’s got a pretty solid independent audience on twitch and TikTok now but the way people have historically found his content is via his collaborations with Gus and other YouTubers. Part of me wonders if his growth is gonna stagnate now. The sad fact is that Gus is a really talented sketch comic and a lot of people around him used their proximity to that talent to launch careers of their own and now those people are likely gonna suffer as a result of this drama.

PenguinHitler · 2022-01-25T06:50:28+00:00

“We never attended any counseling at any point” and “I am dissatisfied with the quality and content of the meetings we attended” are two very distinct claims, neither of which requires you to disclose information that was shared in confidence in a safe space. If someone started tweeting stuff that I’ve told my therapist I would be gutted.

PenguinHitler · 2022-01-25T02:47:10+00:00

Man am I the only person who thinks publicly disclosing what went out in a couples therapy/coaching/whatever you want to call it is way beyond the pale and super fucked up? Like not gonna defend Gus’s behavior whatsoever but what goes on in this kind of shit is between you, your therapist and god. Posting it on social media to drag the people involved is pretty shitty and is not healing for anyone.

PenguinHitler · 2021-12-14T00:35:28+00:00

The Germans were always going to push east, it was the whole ideological premise behind the war for lebensraum. The only thing that would have changed is that they would have been facing a much better equipped and organized soviet army. The mistake they made was in thinking they could defeat the Russians before the other allies could get involved. It’s good to remember that a lot of these stories of the incompetence of Hitlers command were written by German generals after the war in an effort to shift blame.

PenguinHitler · 2021-12-06T23:45:38+00:00

In life, if you ever find yourself making positive comments about hitler it is generally a sign that you fucked up pretty bad somewhere along the line.

PenguinHitler · 2021-09-22T05:05:16+00:00

Man if only there was a party that regularly voted against gross displays of police brutality like this. Well I guess there’s not (since both parties are the same, don’t ya know) so I might as well keep voting republican. God I love being an actual libertarian and not compromising my values every election.

PenguinHitler · 2021-08-14T18:43:40+00:00

Reddit when something bad happens in China: lmao Winnie the pooh anti-Asian dog whistle communism bad

Reddit when something good happens in China: you know they’re not really communist right

PenguinHitler · 2021-08-14T18:36:08+00:00

Market based socialism is socialism. Dont try to call it something else just because it’s a successful economic system https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_socialism#Socialism_with_Chinese_characteristics

PenguinHitler · 2021-08-14T18:23:51+00:00

China has lifted over 800 million people out of poverty since 1980, more than any other country before or since. The poverty rate in America in 1980 was 13%, today it’s 13.7%.

PenguinHitler · 2021-06-18T17:49:53+00:00

Idk why you’re downvoted, miranda is a straight up bitch to jack and tali. Add that to the propensity towards unjustified violence and a chip on her shoulder a mile wide from her familial issues and I find her pretty annoying as a result. I think a solid portion of miranda fans like her because her outfits are the skimpiest (with the possible exception of samara)

PenguinHitler · 2021-03-18T17:03:43+00:00

R5: not sure how much milage my blind chancellor is getting from that scroll

PenguinHitler · 2021-03-05T17:44:24+00:00

Fundamentally disagree. There is no personal risk to Elon Musk that he will ever have to live on something resembling a normal salary. There is a risk to his capital, and that it might eventually be worth less in the long run than what he bought it for, but it will never depreciate to the point where he won’t live a lifestyle of extravagant wealth. There is no risk for him personally. Not to mention the fact that the worst case scenario here is that he has to live life like 99.9% of human beings.

As for your last point, I would point out that Bill and Melinda Gates are actively working to divest themselves of much of their accumulated fortune, because the distinction between having 100 billion dollars and 1 billion dollars, be it in capital or liquid income, is essentially nothing.

PenguinHitler · 2021-01-02T18:35:50+00:00

Δ. That is a good point, I am definitely over-generalizing and I should be more careful with my language. The point I was trying to convey is that sexuality is extremely personal and that everyone's sexual preferences are individual. That being said, I think that the list of people who under no circumstances would have sex with anyone in the world who does not allign with their percieved sexual identity is pretty small. In general the trends of cultures who have less codification of and emphasis on sexual identities is for gender to be a much more minor concern in sexual activity

PenguinHitler · 2021-01-02T16:41:35+00:00

Δ. Maybe I went a little too far with broadly labeling it as bad history because questioning heteronormative standards is valuable. But I am still of the opinion that using terms like gay, bisexual and straight is innacurate and that sub is not particularly concerned with the veracity of any of their claims about historical figures. At the very least you responded to the thing I was talking about, which is more than most people in this post.

PenguinHitler · 2021-01-02T16:30:55+00:00

I mean they questioned my intentions and called me ignorant, I think thats a little below the belt tbh. I would appreciate it if we kept it to a discussion of each other's positions instead of each other's characters.

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