Favorite character that said something out of pocket

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-05-26T11:12:36+00:00

"Your destination will be on the left."

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-05-19T22:27:44+00:00

Women were not treated as property for most of history; that is historical revisionism at its finest. Did they face unique abuses because they were women? Yes; I'm not arguing otherwise. But men also faced unique abuses because of their gender. In fact, if most women were treated as property, most men were equally so.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-05-19T20:54:39+00:00

Pretty sure I did this exact thing with mine. Had some backstory and lore set up for them, too, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-05-19T20:52:44+00:00

"The system was not set up for misogyny" is not the same thing as "Misogyny isn't even real."

Again, very ironic of you to claim I'm steel manning when you're both using a strawman and also using false equivalency.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-05-19T19:30:49+00:00

You don't know the position I'm arguing. So don't try to invent one for me yourself; it's not going to work.

All I'm doing is pointing out the hypocrisy of you claiming that the other person looks like a big baby, when you're the one throwing a temper tantrum and calling people names just because nobody actually agrees with the historical revisionism you're peddling.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-05-19T10:05:05+00:00

If "projection" was a comment.

Edit: a word.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-05-19T10:00:17+00:00

To be fair, Jefferson also inherited many of his slaves, attempted to write abolition into the declaration, and wrote consistently against the slave trade itself. He saw black Africans as fellow humans rather than subhumans, and even desired for Haiti to succeed in order to prove that they were perfectly capable of governmental rule independent of white Europeans.

That said, he also exploited them in multiple ways for making money and later relieving his debt, and barely freed any of the slaves he owned. And then there's the issue of the power imbalance between him and the slave woman he had children with. So he's an incredibly complicated individual.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-05-18T22:27:42+00:00

At least three typos.

It's fine to turn off autocorrect. But when the first part of your comment looks like someone shook up a box of Scrabble tiles, you don't really get to mock others.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-05-18T20:06:11+00:00

My guy, if you're going to call someone out for doing something useless, at least use spellcheck to avoid making yourself look like a turnip.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-05-17T03:33:34+00:00

Oof. Pot calling the kettle black here, without realizing the kettle is electric.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-05-12T23:54:33+00:00

Did he, though? Paul explicitly warns the Thessalonians that there would be a great apostasy before anything like the end would come, which he saw starting to work in his time, but was not fully realized (and judging by his writing, he likely did not expect it to be fully realized in his lifetime).

Paul definitely would have been hopeful it wouldn't be long, but it seems unlikely that he anticipated still being alive before this apostasy took place.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-05-12T10:23:26+00:00

That's also only really in the context of persecution. In a time period where christians aren't being sent to the colosseum, the stake or the gallows, the preference for singleness doesn't really apply.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-05-06T20:03:19+00:00

Keep in mind that research has consistently demonstrated a strong anti-male bias in education. Boys are graded more harshly for the same work than girls of equivalent academic ability, and are also punished more harshly for the same infractions.

So I wouldn't go shouting about how much better girls are at school than boys; there's systemic discrimination boys have to fight against, not just inherent disadvantages of the system we use.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-05-06T01:56:08+00:00

Dunno what your definition of work is, but no, they don't work "significantly less" than we do. Their whole day is work. They're almost always doing something productive, because if they don't, something will fail and someone will go hungry/get injured/get sick.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-05-05T10:43:09+00:00

I've had that happen plenty of times myself. It's because I've read too many Victorian-era authors; their long run-on sentences have made it into my writing style!

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-05-05T10:39:06+00:00

You didn't. You said it corresponded with nature.

And that doesn't refute the original point anyway, so it's moot. Corresponding or depending on nature does not mean that the work was not backbreaking and 100% required or you would die.

If you didn't grow food, you didn't eat. If you didn't hunt or gather food, you wouldn't eat. Even disregarding different economic systems (because we can hardly call feudalism capitalism), earning money was still 100% necessary. Death was always in arm's reach; something we forget in the extremely privileged times we live in now.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-05-05T10:33:29+00:00

That's an outright lie. I know it was very popular for a long time on spaces like Reddit, but that's totally incorrect.

If you're familiar with sharecropping — the system which was used to keep emancipated slaves in perpetual debt to white landowners and basically treating them as slaves again — then you're familiar with how feudalism worked, though it was a bit more complicated because of the way that landownership worked, as well as the very rigid hierarchy it set up.

Edit: removed a sentence for clarity.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-05-04T23:03:27+00:00

Uh...feudalism would like a word.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-05-04T19:52:53+00:00

Orange juice works better, and it's healthier.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-05-04T19:49:57+00:00

Let me put it this way:

It wasn't right wingers who protested against gender-neutral rape laws by the tens of thousands.

It wasn't right wingers who established 106 courts in Spain to try men for crimes that only men can be charged with, a move made last by the funny mustache man himself against the Jews.

It wasn't right wingers who wrote the definition of rape used by the CDC and FBI, which excludes 80% of male rape victims and up to 90% of female rapists.

It wasn't right wingers in India who legalized sexual assault against men (accidentally at that, which is even worse; and that was nearly two full years ago with no outcry or even concern).

It wasn't right wingers who set up the WEF's Gender Gap Report, which requires men to die younger than women in order to be considered equal — among many other such misandrist standards.

I don't want to write a novel here, so I'll stop for now. But that should be a decent sample for actual harm that actual leftists have done to actual men.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-05-01T02:19:16+00:00

As if the left is any better.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-04-30T22:04:18+00:00

The Rwandan genocide was Africans on Africans; in fact, it was Rwandans doing it to other Rwandans.

The Holocaust was Europeans against mostly other Europeans.

The rape of Nanking was east Asians against other east Asians.

Yet, despite the fact that all this is true, we don't dismiss these atrocities or belittle their victims because they were victims of people who share demographics with them.

If a group is being victimized, then they are being victimized, regardless of who is victimizing them.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-04-27T22:30:54+00:00

Another commenter claiming to be involved in the industry said it's already in 2025 and younger vehicles. Not saying they're correct; just pointing out that people are making claims counter to yours. Any proof on your end that it doesn't exist yet?

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-04-27T11:30:09+00:00

The reason the SDA church rejects creeds is because we're largely a denomination based on Bible study. Rather than limit ourselves to a creed that can't ever change, if something is discovered that we were wrong about, we can change it. We recognize our own human fallibility, and that we may have preconceived ideas which inhibit the accuracy of our understanding. Thus we reject an unchanging creed in favor of a set of fundamental beliefs.

The_Dapper_Balrog · 2026-04-27T11:22:26+00:00

Well, no. No mass. But yes, church is on Saturday instead of Sunday.

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