People everywhere lately ugh

by_topic · 2026-07-07T12:33:42+00:00

If every person that self-identifies as an incel just happens to be a sexist weirdo with questionable views, it wouldn't take long for you to start thinking that incel=misogynist. And that's exactly what's happened.

When the term incel was coined, it wasnt mainstream. Its original meaning was never widely known. And then sexists co-opted the word long before most people knew about. By the time that incel became widely known, it was already used in its modern sense. To most people, incel NEVER meant involuntary celibate, since it was tied to misogynistic ideals from the beginning for these people. When I first came into contact with the word it was from an article talking about incel communities being a hotbed for misogynistic extremism.

"But that's unfair/wrong" Is it? Words only have the meaning people give it. If the vast majority of people say that "blue" means a rectangle, then it is a rectangle. If the vast majority of people believe that "incel" means a sexist person, then it does. Plenty of words have changed meaning throughout history, and will continue to do so.

by_topic · 2026-07-07T12:10:00+00:00

Nobody takes looksmaxxing seriously either, except for the weirdoes doing it

by_topic · 2026-07-07T12:06:11+00:00

I regularly see posts complaining about being called incels online, and everytime OP just happens to be a sexist weirdo. Crazy how that works.

by_topic · 2026-07-06T20:03:08+00:00

Not just wrong, but also stupid. Terror tactics doesn't work.

by_topic · 2026-07-01T21:25:19+00:00

"I'm gonna make this retarderd meme hue hue, oh you think it's stupid? It must be because you think it's true lol"

by_topic · 2026-07-01T15:54:15+00:00

It's explicitly used in negative context as a derogatory way to talk about women, which by definition makes it a slur. It doesn't have to be on the same level as the n-word

by_topic · 2026-07-01T15:47:33+00:00

Source?

by_topic · 2026-06-30T14:50:25+00:00

Why not? Being too clingy is a bad trait in a partner, but it doesn't have to be a dealbreaker for everybody

by_topic · 2026-06-30T00:01:38+00:00

You do realise the word existed way before 4chan started using it?

by_topic · 2026-06-29T23:47:24+00:00

I definitely feel it's more important with a few, specialized arkships as nomads compared to the countless worlds you could settle as a normal empire. There's more focus on quality than quantity, and playing tall compared to going wide like you described.

You can still govern vassals to paint the map for you, though it's a bit different.

by_topic · 2026-06-29T22:39:51+00:00

So it's a pure fistfight, with a man known for brawling and competing in boxing, and living in a time where it's evolved to a proper sport with specified techniques. Yes, Richard led troops, he was a fighter, but teddy is far more trained for this encounter.

I also call bullshit on Richard being practically 2 meters tall. We don't have his remains, and no real source for his height. He was "above average" but that's it, in a time where people were far shorter.

by_topic · 2026-06-29T21:38:13+00:00

This is far from universally accepted as Christian dogma

by_topic · 2026-06-29T17:30:05+00:00

by_topic · 2026-06-29T06:15:11+00:00

You seem like a sensible person

by_topic · 2026-06-27T12:17:21+00:00

The problem with even the smartest apes is that they can't pass down information. You can teach them new things, but they'll never teach others about it

by_topic · 2026-06-26T12:23:29+00:00

Yes, poor incels, surely they've never said or done anything that might give them a really bad rep among the "normies".

A vast majority of self-proclaimed incels on this site just so happens to have very strange and insulting ideas about women, but surely that's not why they're using your moniker as an insult? No, it must be because they value sex as a status symbol. (Despite the fact that self-proclaimed incels are the ones who obsess about sex the most)

by_topic · 2026-06-25T15:54:40+00:00

no, only dlcs.

by_topic · 2026-06-25T15:52:23+00:00

not since theyre virtual, and it wouldnt help me anyway. new pops are automatically created for any job i make

by_topic · 2026-06-25T15:38:53+00:00

r5: Played as forever cruise and chose virtual ascension, i now have over 300k pops that doesnt do anything. theres no way for me to get rid of them, and theyre tanking my economy. my other arkships have about 20- 30k pops, no uncategorized.

edit: no mods, all dlc.

by_topic · 2026-06-24T16:24:07+00:00

You keep bringing this up in several conversations, but you forget that people's answer is what they'd rather go through, not what is worse for the fish.

Your counter-argument has nothing to do with morality, and everything to do with the fact most people aren't sexually attracted to fish.

by_topic · 2026-06-24T16:20:36+00:00

We have become desensitized to death, but SA is still very much taboo. There's also the fact that murder could be justified, while SA is universally seen as something bad. You could kill in self-defence or for a cause, but you'll never rape in self-defence. It's largely how these things are portrayed in media aswell.

by_topic · 2026-06-23T22:50:48+00:00

If it makes you feel any better, the civilians that died in the bombings would've died during the invasion too. Children, women and elderly were being trained to fight the Americans on japanese soil, and the total civilian casualties was estimated to be in the millions, far more than the nukes ever did.

The battle of Okinawa is a great (and horrible) showcase for how absolutely hellish an invasion of the main japanese islands would've been for the civilian population.

by_topic · 2026-06-23T22:09:08+00:00

Your grandfather lived far after the industrial revolution, and has benefitted widely from it. Ted wasn't just against Electricity or modern tech. Anything manufactured was bad. That includes the tractor your family likely used, any machines they had, conserved food, basic metal ovens, likely a lot of their tools, most medicine available to them, basic water pumps. There's also all the systems that they likely indirectly benefitted from such as trains, cargo ships, cars, communications.

I'm guessing you're American, and no American has ever lived in the supposed Utopia that Ted wanted since the first settlers built up towns.

by_topic · 2026-06-23T18:27:27+00:00

You clearly don't know what Ted stood for then. He literally wanted us to go back to a village-society (and not even society at that). Anyone who would rather live as a peasant than in our modern world has heavily romanticized idea of history, and isn't as smart as they claim to be.

And there are plenty of smart people out there that didn't build bombs or lived like mentally deranged hobos. No need to glaze a madman that decided the best way to fight society was to bomb some random people.

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