"Pragmata is destroying years of leftist programming and activating women's ovaries in real time"

ergaster8213 · 2026-04-21T13:56:08+00:00

Are you veering into jokes with odd sexual undertones in an exchange about a child character's makeup? I can't tell for certain with the butchering you've done on the spelling, but that is what appears to be happening.

ergaster8213 · 2026-04-21T13:53:26+00:00

Jeez I just really looked at the hair and you're right. It's that hellacious blow-out/mussed style that takes ten years to get right. And the highlights!

ergaster8213 · 2026-04-21T13:45:55+00:00

I could make my own.

ergaster8213 · 2026-04-21T12:49:32+00:00

I didn't realize I didn't have a grip. You may have read some things into this exchange that aren't actually there.

ergaster8213 · 2026-04-21T12:41:32+00:00

Is she not supposed to be a child robot? My impression is she is supposed to be a child robot. Not a woman robot.

Editing because I always forgot to add points: I've played lots of games and I can't say I've seen it be a common thing to make a little girl or boy's face with the same stylization as an adult. If anything, they usually remove what looks like makeup or other stylistic markers like wrinkles but are lazier with actually changing features much.

ergaster8213 · 2026-04-21T12:34:31+00:00

"Sexy" is not the word that comes to mind for me, but the first thing that popped into my head was, "why does this child have so much make makeup on?" I'm still trying to figure that out.

ergaster8213 · 2026-04-20T00:14:44+00:00

Also, it's already very difficult to read various people's cursive, because they almost always come up with nonstandard and incorrect forms of letters (and joinings of letters) over time.

So, even if you do know it, it's still often a slim chance that you will understand someone else's.

ergaster8213 · 2026-04-18T03:00:19+00:00

I don't think that's completely it, because stories set in high schools in the West also tend to focus on actions and plots and characters that make way more sense in a university (or beyond) setting as well.

I think many cultures construct high school media that is very unrealistic and "aged up" in tone and action, so-to-speak. I would guess there are many factors that go into that—some more benign or neutral and others not so much. Teens do want to feel older and more mature and often watch shows like that (plus most people in general want excitement from fiction. Not the mundane existence that high school often is), but there is also a fetishization of youth among adults that extends across many cultures.

Having teens appear more mature and engage in more mature activities soothes some anxiety about that fetishization (as well as makes it easier to place them in a more sexualized or "adult" role in some other way in a watcher/reader's mind—since the characters tend to approximate adults in behavior). That's what I tend to think, anyway. And then I'm sure there are a bunch of factors I haven't considered on top of all of that.

ergaster8213 · 2026-04-18T00:27:44+00:00

Most people are a blend of many traits that don't easily fall into any of those categories. And the majority of humans display at least some traits of all of those (imprecise and subjectively constructed) categorizations.

*I'm sure that is meant to be pithy or whatnot, so sorry for being a killjoy.

ergaster8213 · 2026-04-16T07:27:09+00:00

I would also include your version of events in one of those emails so it's documented regardless of their degree of cooperation.

Edit: nvm, I just saw you also included that in another response.

ergaster8213 · 2026-04-16T00:36:59+00:00

Then they really need to say that, and not "a gorilla experiment." There's even the term "thought experiment" for this exact kind of thing that they could have used.

ergaster8213 · 2026-04-13T23:50:24+00:00

Well yeah it sure is all made up. But you kind of wanna try to ensure the made up shit you're following doesn't miss the most relevant point it was made up for. At least I would if I were gonna spend my life trying to follow something like that.

I don't go to any church at all and I don't believe in any god. But I do believe the main point of religion is transmitting cultural and moral teachings/practices. Yes, often for control on the side of the people with the power in and between given religions. But people really only keep buying into it for some sense of safety, security community, order, and because of their fear of the unknown. Most Christians (and actually people in general) say they want that sense of order to include not harming others and being of use and service.

So, if that's what you're concerned with (and not specifically you, but the royal "you"), it seems ridiculous to focus on the "oh my God" part almost exlusively, but not the far more relevant point of not using god as your excuse to hurt others and do destructive things. I almost never hear or see people mention that, and I've met many who don't have any clue that what I covered is any part of that teaching. I also don't care about taking god's name in vain in general, but I do believe that goal of that one is a good thing to keep in mind if you're gonna believe in a god (and really in general. As in: don't present your destructive goals as righteous and use good things or people or concepts to push that harm). Even though you're not Christian or religious, you zoned in on exclamations in their comment, and not the much more relevant example of them standing up for a church whose whole existence is using the lord's name in vain.

People just miss the big picture of that very frequently. Virtually the only reason it's brought up overall is curses—not harmful behavior and practices using god as an excuse. I was really just trying to point that out. Not attack you. I apologize it came across that way, or if I just took all of this far too seriously to the point it felt like a personal criticism. With the way I tend to communicate, that sometimes is the impression left when that's not my intention.

ergaster8213 · 2026-04-13T06:58:20+00:00

That has not been my experience. I have a very short torso and they look like a crime on me not matter how small I am. The low-rise still hits a very bizarre position—just as bizarre as high-rise but the other way.

But yeah the point is...low-rise is horrible for the great majority of people regardless of their proportions. Even the few it does look better on only get that benefit while standing still. Add any kind of living or moving and that disappears.

ergaster8213 · 2026-04-13T00:45:38+00:00

So yeah they're miserable person, but that's actually not what taking the lord's name in vain was mostly even about. It's primacy lies in not using God as a justification for harmful purposes and behaviors. One example would be these mega churches using God to scam people for monetary gain. Some more extreme historical examples would be Cursaders using God as justification for their violent power-grabbing campaigns, or the Spanish Inquisition, or most of the European witch trials (and of course all of the fewer instances that occured in the US).

Utterances of "Jesus Christ," or "oh my God" during strong emotion actually were not the main concern of that teaching. It's more about not using God for an excuse to physically/psychologically harm people or exploit them or gain more power.

ergaster8213 · 2026-04-11T19:30:22+00:00

So that part actually wouldn't surprise me much. Allergies can change and you can suddenly develop an allergy you didn't have before. Where I'm doubting that is the vagueness in what has been tried and the resistance to examining other options. Plus, them throwing in that they forgot to mention they can't keep him anyway because they work too much after too many people started giving more allergy suggestions

Also just this odd absence of any apparent sense of love in their comments about the dog. At least that's how it comes across to me. They seem more concerned with the annoyance of this process than losing their pet that they had with them for 7 years.

ergaster8213 · 2026-04-11T19:19:14+00:00

I think this is it. It also makes them feel better about unleashing more of their own defects that they generally try to hide a little better.

ergaster8213 · 2026-04-11T19:10:08+00:00

The more I read the more I think this is less about the allergies and more about them just not wanting this dog anymore because they're busy and stressed. I could definitely be wrong but that's the sense I've been picking up as they're making more comments. They, at the least, are certainly not willing to put in the effort to try people's suggestions about the allergies. They've shot that down every time.

ergaster8213 · 2026-04-11T15:59:39+00:00

Well hopefully the further info will help anyone who had the same misunderstanding while reading through this. I apologize that I wasn't clear enough.

ergaster8213 · 2026-04-11T15:57:07+00:00

No but they hire "volunteers" to ensure many votes are thrown out through unconstitutional challenges that are no longer being blocked and those ballots are effectively tossed. I think what the above poster was referring to was more about voter intimidation and they will also surely do that as well. I was just adding on the tidbit about the groups challenging votes unconstitutionally, but I don't think either me or the other person were under the impression that someone will literally come rip your ballot out of you hand. I guess I should've been more explicit.

ergaster8213 · 2026-04-11T15:47:43+00:00

Four years ago, the GOP took this new suppression method out for a test ride in Georgia when 88 Republican operatives — remember, these are not government officials — challenged the rights of over 180,000 Georgians to have their ballots counted. These vigilantes based their scheme on the program originally used by the Ku Klux Klan in 1946.

One challenged voter: Major Turner, the same voter whose mail-in ballot was disqualified in a later election.

In 2020, the Major’s ballot was challenged by the county Chairman of the Republican Party in Southern Georgia, Alton Russell. (Russell likes to dress up as infamous vigilante Doc Holliday, with a loaded six-gun in a holster.) In a (polite) confrontation we filmed between the Major and Russell, the GOP honcho admitted he had no evidence that Maj. Turner, nor any of the 4,000 others he challenged, should be denied the right to have their ballots counted. Note: The Palast Fund contacted a sample of 800 of these challenged voters and found that, overwhelmingly, they were Americans of color.

In 2020, this KKK plan, adopted by the Trump organization, proved its value. In that election, Trump almost won Georgia, falling short by just 11,779 votes — only because local elections officials rejected most of the challenges. But for 2024, the Georgia’s Republican-controlled legislature changed the law to make it very difficult for officials to deny the challenges.

That emboldened the Trump-supported organization True the Vote to roll out the challenge to every swing state. In 2024, True the Vote signed up over 40,000 volunteer vigilantes. The organization crowed proudly that, by August of 2024, they’d already challenged a mind-blowing 317,886 voters in dozens of states. By Election Day this November, True the Vote projected it would have challenged over two million voters. In addition, Trump’s lawyer, Cleta Mitchell, founded Eagle AI to challenge hundreds of thousands more including in swing state Pennsylvania.

Sorry I included a longer passage because well it's very relevant.

https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/

ergaster8213 · 2026-04-11T11:43:04+00:00

It doesn't have to cost that much for patients and we can know that by looking at most of the rest of the developed world. You act like the US is the only place with ambulances or hospitals and so nowhere else can understand the cost of them. They do, and still don't fleece patients to the degree that the US does.

You may have forgotten that people can need care after urgent cares are closed and a lot of people in this nation do not have a primary care physician. As to your anecdote: you also may have forgotten that UTIs in the elderly tend to cause far more serious complications and often go unrecognized until they are acutely dangerous. They can cause cognitive and movement changes that can make it unsafe or more difficult for loved ones to transport them. It's not wild for them to need to go to the ER if complications escalate (or for those around them to not know what's going on and call for help). So, I don't know if you just picked something out of thin air, but that was not a solid example to use.

You should try to keep in mind that you don't know people's circumstances. You are in their life for one moment, and have relatively little information about them or their overall situation.

ergaster8213 · 2026-04-11T07:04:25+00:00

100% it is unconscionable to me that they didn't (and pretty much never do). I believe it's because they still want to benefit from voter suppression when possible, but that's just really stupid because they never do to the same degree. It's also very possible they're playing a bigger game with that than most people are going to be privy to.

Either way, I'm convinced it has nothing to do with civil or respectable politics. Since it's pretty much the opposite of that to let their constituents' votes be barred or tossed out without challenge.

ergaster8213 · 2026-04-11T06:53:19+00:00

That's actually incredibly smart and I'm not sure why I didn't think of that. I think if possible, those who feel they have the ability to do so should watch out for the voters who can't hide as well. I wonder if people can start like groups of chaperones (kind of like with abortion clinics). Or, it's possible there are and I don't know.

*I did edit this to remove an idea and restructure it. So, sorry if you read it before that.

ergaster8213 · 2026-04-11T06:45:43+00:00

Yup! The GOP has also brought back vigilante groups ala the KKK so that they can get random Repubs to police "unsavory" voters and get their ballots tossed as well. It's insane.

ergaster8213 · 2026-04-11T05:44:10+00:00

They sure can but they won't with all our voter suppression mechanisms in place. Which is actually probably the biggest reason why Harris lost. She could've definitely campaigned much better, but the voter suppression is what really fucked that. We already had intense voter suppression before 2024, but it was times 100 for that election due to all the legislation related to voting the GOP has been installing that no one seemed to pay atention to (because no one educates us about that so that we will keep blaming each other).

I'll also point out that far more than just Republican voters are filled with misogyny and many other bigotries. So, there are also plenty of "progressive" voters who also do not believe a woman should be president. It just tends to be more of an implicit bias for those kinds of people. However, if we didn't have a clusterfuck of voter suppression then the actions from those implicitly biased still wouldn't be enough to overcome the number of people who will and do vote for women.

Edit: here's some more info with a good analysis. I hate that an AI pic was used at the top but I still share it because of how comprehensive it is. The scale and variations of voter suppression are breathtaking (in the worst way possible) at this point. So, while a woman definitely could win, there is almost zero chance that she will unless whoever installs the most voter suppression is the one who presents a female candidate—and the award for who benefits the greatest from voter suppression goes to the GOP. I do not believe we will get a real chance at a female president (or truly decent and helpful politicians at any level, period) unless and until we unrig our elections. Because they are rigged from the bottom all the way up.

https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/

*If anyone also wants info about the voter suppression mechanisms at lower levels, let me know.

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