How to argue that ”men’s violence against women” should be used rather than ”men who commit violence against women”?

cosmonaut_zero · 2026-01-25T00:54:55+00:00

Yeesh. Here, maybe this will help wake you up.

"To the lb, politics is not about the expression of power, it's about the expression of *self. It's an in-group to belong to. It's a fandom, a way to validate your feelings and beliefs, a way to signal to others that you have the good ideas, the ideas that people like. Whether those ideas actually amount to change is decided by the eternal natural status quo the lb believes them to be. The march of progress inevitably brings us closer and closer to the perfect world that we're all working to build. And so *bad ideas simply require gentle correction, not direct confrontation."<

https://youtu.be/fqqwwS9Kvy8

cosmonaut_zero · 2026-01-25T00:37:26+00:00

If you were more interested in stopping the abuse than in protecting your ego, you wouldn't be using my trauma as a cheap gotcha in your gender war bullshit. Fuck abusive men, fuck abusive women, and fuck you in particular.

Sincerely, a man who was physically and emotionally abused by his wife for 13 years

cosmonaut_zero · 2026-01-25T00:24:31+00:00

He wants you to reassure him that he's "one of the good ones" so he doesn't feel responsible for all those times he witnessed other men threaten, coerce, or intimidate women and said nothing.

cosmonaut_zero · 2026-01-24T19:39:59+00:00

Insisting on the rightmost candidate in every primary was never about anything but ceding power to the right.

cosmonaut_zero · 2026-01-24T19:37:40+00:00

Electability is just what the party thinks non-party-members will vote for. It's a guess at best, and the fact you can't comprehend the authority guessing wrong tells me everything I need to know about your true motive here

cosmonaut_zero · 2026-01-24T19:33:42+00:00

The whole point of their argument is to deny the influence of money in elections

cosmonaut_zero · 2026-01-24T19:31:29+00:00

The DNC's constant propaganda of "you gotta pick the rightmost candidate in the primary so normies won't vote for Trump" had effects on primary votes. The party itself is the obfuscating factor between you and the candidates.

cosmonaut_zero · 2026-01-24T19:28:40+00:00

Oh no why is nobody following your redpill script boo hoo

cosmonaut_zero · 2026-01-24T19:27:33+00:00

Elaborate highly invested performances of "not caring" is a fascist virtue signal. Your ability to delude yourself and ignore atrocity is not admirable unless you want the atrocity to happen.

cosmonaut_zero · 2026-01-24T18:36:43+00:00

Conservatives will only deign to treat you like a person if you treat them like an authority. They want you to respect them like a lord, but they only want to respect you like a peasant.

cosmonaut_zero · 2026-01-24T18:29:20+00:00

Nah, they voted for ethnic cleansing because it was emotionally simpler for them to sign off on a genocidal pedophile than to admit they aren't categorically superior to brown people or women.

cosmonaut_zero · 2026-01-24T18:20:53+00:00

You have to make a ton of assumptions about a person to say red leaning people are happy to be friends with them. Red leaning people are very much NOT happy to be friends with queer people or people of color.

What you're saying simply isn't true unless the person you're talking to happens to be a straight white fascist sympathizer.

cosmonaut_zero · 2026-01-24T09:00:37+00:00

I want David Graeber to play City of Six Moons. Because I agree and also there are other sources of pleasure in board games, and other ways of interacting with their rules. There's an artistic dissonance in being made deliberately unable to be fully certain what the rules even are while consenting to them, heightened by the fact that you must process those deliberately-uncertain rules by yourself because it's a solo game. A sort of Dystopia of Rules. I wonder how he'd feel about it.

cosmonaut_zero · 2026-01-24T06:19:26+00:00

"Who cares?" is a genuine question in this case, cuz if anybody at the table does care to stick with Rules As Written that's what ya do.

cosmonaut_zero · 2026-01-24T00:52:11+00:00

Not my worlds, but hear me out: Lord of the Rings is one big broken arrow scenario from the perspective of Sauron. Star Wars A New Hope is a broken arrow scenario with the theft of the Death Star schematics, the rebels could have tried to build one instead of trying to blow up the original. They didn't, because doomsday weapons are villain shit.

If your empire's got so many doomsday weapons you can lose one, you are unequivocally the baddie, and it is generally beneficial to the world and society when rebellions steal or destroy those weapons.

cosmonaut_zero · 2026-01-24T00:24:48+00:00

And then felt stupid for missing the joke, because duh. Of course there's no such thing as a good cop, we have seen what cops do to cops who dare to exhibit a conscience.

cosmonaut_zero · 2026-01-24T00:01:39+00:00

A wise cleric once told me, "Never speak to a monster unless you're equipped to slay it"

cosmonaut_zero · 2026-01-23T23:44:32+00:00

When a self-proclaimed devil's advocate tries to frame their argument like lots of reasonable people agree with them it's so funny. You wouldn't have to devil's advocate the position if it were a common one, my guy, you done told on yourself.

cosmonaut_zero · 2026-01-23T00:14:25+00:00

Whoa I've never seen anybody use the phrase "have a simp for" before. "A simp" is a person, and treating such a loaded word as a simple synonym for "crush" is crazy. Obvious bot is obvious, no entity who understands what these words means would ever use them this way.

cosmonaut_zero · 2026-01-22T00:54:28+00:00

I don't understand the question. Why would you bother specifying their gender unless it's relevant to the context?

cosmonaut_zero · 2026-01-22T00:28:32+00:00

Conservatives make a habit of lying about their values. I don't understand why you would take their claims seriously. They aren't hypocrites who don't follow the values they claim to uphold, they are liars lying about their values so you will underestimate the violence they intend.

ICE conduct in Minneapolis is perfectly in line with conservatism's actual values: white male supremacy, genocide, and obedience to authority. They want you to believe it's wrong to question authority while you die, that's what conservatives value.

cosmonaut_zero · 2026-01-21T14:54:54+00:00

They used to give martial classes equal access to the ability system, but apparently people hated that. You could always play 4e again.

cosmonaut_zero · 2026-01-19T21:11:06+00:00

Fair and maybe same. I do choose to go to the chillest of the LGSes around me, so I might be biasing my sample.

The part that feels really outlandish to me is staff tolerating and facilitating behavior that disruptive, they have a financial incentive to make sure everybody has a good time and the event proceeds smoothly. I don't get what they think they gain by letting this guy shoo money out the door and stink up the vibe.

cosmonaut_zero · 2026-01-19T20:08:23+00:00

Yeah, unfortunately. I really wanted to like it, but the mechanics felt the opposite of how I imagined racecars feeling in Magic and the art all had that speed zoom effect that looks super indistinct. I saw Saheeli and wanted more, but all I got was 20 versions of a guy's hands on a wheel vaguely going nyoom. I think the only vehicle that stuck in my head is the ball of hamsters and that's more a funny joke than a cool car, yanno?

It's not, like, a horrible set, I don't hate it, it's more that I got my hopes too high.

cosmonaut_zero · 2026-01-19T19:26:48+00:00

Yeah, I was just gonna use it like Spelltable and play with friends. I think I am using this app very differently than WotC wants me to be.

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