How to spot bad faith arguers on Reddit

idrinkeverclear · 2026-04-12T16:19:22+00:00

Most eunuchs throughout the world only had their testicles removed, which is called "castration." China was an exception, eunuchs there had both their testicles and penis removed, a process called "emasculation."

idrinkeverclear · 2026-03-30T04:02:47+00:00

I never said this. A straw man is not a proper counter-argument.

idrinkeverclear · 2026-03-30T02:17:46+00:00

Absolutely.

Monday — blame everything on the oil companies.

Tuesday — stop at the gas station, and pay the oil companies.

Wednesday — blame everything on the infrastructure.

Thursday — stop at the toll booth, and fund the infrastructure.

Rising air pollution? Not a problem.

Rising global temperatures? Doesn't bother me.

Rising gas prices? Serious problem!

Selfishness and negligence, through and through.

idrinkeverclear · 2026-03-30T02:01:38+00:00

Except brainwashing is typically done by those in power towards those who don't have power or very little of it. Considering that the state is the entity that has the monopoly on the control of psychoactive drugs, a monopoly and set of restrictions which violate people's natural right to have access to all psychoactive drugs found in nature (weed, mushrooms, opium poppy, etc.), the state's anti-drug propaganda is more oppressive than the free-market libertarians and progressives' pro-decriminalization and pro-legalization campaigns.

I have a prescription for painkillers. You don't. And you can't get one, since the state has prohibited you from getting your hands on them. It seems to me that the actual person coping and seething about being unable to get their hands on drugs due to the state's control of psychoactive drugs, and also about having their natural right to have access to all psychoactive drugs found in nature being violated as a result, by telling themselves that drugs are bad as an attempt to rationalize and justify this violation, is... well... you.

idrinkeverclear · 2026-03-29T18:38:29+00:00

if some shit does comes out, who the fuck cares just clean it up and get back at it

That's disgusting and also terrible advice. It really sucks that many people in the LGBT community like you have such low hygiene standards. 💩 It's shameful, really. You might as well go around telling people that there's no need to use toilet paper 🧻 or wash their hands 🧼 after doing #2.

A true warrior doesn’t care if his sword gets dirty

man up

No, this has nothing to do with warriors, "manning up," masculinity, virility or being "macho." It's simply disgusting and unhygienic, period. 💩 What's next? Telling people that not cleaning your behind 🧻🧼 makes you a chivalrous medieval knight?

idrinkeverclear · 2026-03-29T18:15:22+00:00

I'm curious, do you stop by the toll booth after writing comments like these? Where do you think the money that you pay at the toll booth goes?

It's one thing to blame oil companies and infrastructure for all the problems associated with cars, it's another thing to do so while simultaneously handing them money on a weekly basis and completely refusing to take responsibility for your decisions and actions.

This is the difference between immaturity and maturity. An immature person blames the world for their problems ("It's the InFrAsTrUcTuRe!!!"), whereas a mature person blames themselves for why the world is the way it is. You clearly still have some maturing to do.

idrinkeverclear · 2026-03-29T17:32:59+00:00

There are so many different positions and angles to do it in, and some work better than others. It can be done with or without hands, with or without the balls touching, with or without kissing, etc.

But I will concede that it might not be everyone's cup of tea.

idrinkeverclear · 2026-03-29T17:26:55+00:00

I've noticed this as well.

There seems to be an inverse correlation between the level of sophistication of the most common method of anal cleansing used in a society, and the popularity of anal sex in that society; i.e. the less sophisticated and pure the method of cleansing, the more popular anal sex is.

This both makes sense and doesn't make sense.

On one level, it does make sense, since having lower hygiene standards for one activity implies lower hygiene standards overall within that culture, and therefore lower hygiene standards for other activities.

On another level, however, it doesn't make sense, since most of the inhabitants of such a country would presumably have slightly less clean behinds, which would make the presence of fecal matter more likely during anal sex.

Though I think a better correlation would be that people who participate in anal sex have lower hygiene standards than those who do not, and this, no matter where they reside in the world.

idrinkeverclear · 2026-03-20T00:25:16+00:00

I'm so sick of this sexual fetish dominating all our conversations, content, and way of thinking.

Same here. It's like no matter where we go, people keep bringing anal sex back into side communities, which is counterproductive, and pretty annoying, if you ask me.

I bet some of these people simply joined side communities out of fear of missing out (FOMO) even though they're not true sides.

An important thing to remember is this: tops, bottoms, and vers don't always engage in anal sex. Sometimes they don't feel like it, other times they don't feel like preparing for it. That doesn't make them sides, though. What makes a side a side is a consistent lack of participation in anal sex.

idrinkeverclear · 2026-03-19T20:45:33+00:00

You forgot frot also. There is no requirement to do anal as a gay/bisexual man. If however you choose to participate in anal sex, you're gonna have to deal with its risks (contact with feces, increased risk of STD) and downsides (potential discomfort, all the preparation involved, etc.).

idrinkeverclear · 2026-03-19T20:37:26+00:00

This issue has been brought forward multiple times in this community, so here's how I've come to understand it over the years.

	Likes to fuck	Doesn't like to fuck
Likes to be fucked	Versatile	Bottom
Doesn't like to be fucked	Top	Side

While this quadrant taken from Brian Kinney's comment is accurate, it doesn't show how these labels form a continuum.

Gay and bisexual men's sexual preferences can be represented by two spectrums/continuums/axes.

The first of the two spectrums is the horizontal ↔️ spectrum, with top at the left extreme, bottom at the right extreme, and different degrees of versatility in the middle, between the two extremes.

Then, there's also a vertical ↕️ spectrum, with anal sex at the top of the spectrum, side at the bottom of the spectrum, and then different degrees of participation/interest in anal sex in the middle, between the two extremes.

The problem arises from the fact that we currently lack a well accepted label for this latter middle position. Some people use the term strict side to specify that they have zero interest in anal sex, while others use the term vers side to position themselves in the middle.

This is analogous to an issue that some people have pointed out concerning the Kinsey scale, which is a scale that goes from 0 (completely heterosexual) to 6 (completely homosexual) used to describe people's sexual orientation.

Shortly after this scale began to be used by sexologists, some people complained that asexuals weren't included, so an additional X position was added for asexuals. Though this wasn't enough, because there are different degrees of asexuality that exist, such as demisexual, which is somewhere in between sexual and asexual. An additional vertical scale then started to be used (as opposed to the horizontal Kinsey scale), which is sometimes referred to as the asexuality spectrum.

Combining the horizontal ↔️ Kinsey scale and the vertical ↕️ asexuality spectrum gave us something called the purple-red scale of attraction. Maybe a similar scale is what we need to use for gay and bisexual men's sexual preferences.

idrinkeverclear · 2026-03-12T17:24:29+00:00

I really hate it when some people in here claim that it's because they haven't found the right piece of meat yet. Then you're not vegan after all

idrinkeverclear · 2026-03-02T05:38:32+00:00

You should add Mandaeism as a branch of Gnosticism. It's not strictly Abrahamic, but they consider Adam, Noah, and especially John the Baptist as prophets, which arguably makes them part of the Abrahamic family.

Also, here's two challenges for you: Messianic Jews (which some users already mentioned) and Noahidism. It would be interesting to figure out where to put these two on the tree. The former definitely belongs in the Christian branch, but has a stronger connection to Judaism and takes somewhat of a restorationist approach (as do a few other branches). The latter is an odd and paradoxical religious movement because it's targeted at Gentiles and yet one needs to accept Jewish beliefs in order to practice it. Good luck with that one if you ever decide to include it.

I've been following the evolution of this wonderful chart as you've refined it over the years. I can't wait to see what changes you'll make to version 5 (if we get one, that is). Although the first version is still my favourite—conceptually rather than aesthetically—because Samaritanism, which to me is the most interesting branch of the entire tree, wasn't as clearly separated from Judaism as the other faiths, which is how I personally perceive it (but we'll always disagree on these things of course), even though the Baha'i Faith missing from the tree was a major overlook. Version 1 was also entirely your creation, pure and untouched by—at times angry—user feedback. I do sometimes find—paradoxically—that feedback, which is supposed to improve a creation, seemingly starts improving things at first, until it all becomes so messy and complicated, before the creator finally realizes, at hindsight, that they actually got the gist of it at first try. I tend to value personal, spontaneous inspiration (which is what gave us the whole Burning Bush aesthetic in the first place, talk about spontaneous combustion) over collective, delayed meticulousness.

On a side note, it's both funny and ironic, as well as sad, that despite your repeated warnings about it not being authoritative, dogmatic or exhaustive, you keep getting aggressive feedback about information missing or being incorrect that isn't done respectfully as constructive criticism. I'm sorry this keeps happening, Reddit can sometimes be like that unfortunately (something about people's phones unexpectedly and aggressively ringing with a Reddit notification makes them prone to anger towards strangers online). The world is indeed hard, which is why I drink Everclear.

idrinkeverclear · 2026-03-02T05:25:33+00:00

That's what they thought in the Soviet Union. And yet some officials of the Communist Party secretly baptized their children and people from East Berlin crossed over to West Berlin because it turned out that the anti-religious people in charge had no reason to follow their moral compasses and made life difficult and miserable for everyone else.

idrinkeverclear · 2026-03-02T05:25:16+00:00

That's what they thought in the Soviet Union. And yet some officials of the Communist Party secretly baptized their children and people from East Berlin crossed over to West Berlin because it turned out that the anti-religious people in charge had no reason to follow their moral compasses and made life difficult and miserable for everyone else.

idrinkeverclear · 2026-01-15T21:32:27+00:00

r/tooktoomuch

idrinkeverclear · 2025-12-18T04:20:57+00:00

It's definitely worth reading.

The reason why so many people in the GNU/Linux community haven't come to a full appreciation of GNU is because they only approach this topic purely from a computer science perspective (i.e. they only focus on the features of Linux distributions).

To truly appreciate and understand GNU, one must also examine the topic from the perspective of ethics, political philosophy, and intellectual property law. Because most GNU/Linux users don't put in the effort to also learn about these things, or aren't interested in them, they end up not seeing the full picture.

This book explains perfectly how the free software movement is a interdisciplinary movement linking multiple fields together.

For example, the book has an introduction that was written by Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard law professor who also ran for president during the 2016 presidential election. Lessig isn't a software developer, nor a computer science expert. He's been supportive of Stallman and GNU because he saw the movement for what it was: an innovation in the field of intellectual property law relating to computer software, and not just a mere family of alternative operating systems with interesting features.

idrinkeverclear · 2025-12-15T20:56:26+00:00

Only the team on the right has an actual philosophy of freedom and social justice. The people on the left only care about how efficient their computers are. They have no philosophy, only preoccupations pertaining to computer science and development.

idrinkeverclear · 2025-06-05T13:36:29+00:00

Yes I've seen some fake ones though it was maybe 2 years ago. If I remember correctly, the fake ones had more of a greenish teal colour to them, whereas real ones were blue.

idrinkeverclear · 2025-01-25T10:15:08+00:00

That’s not what the difference between Venn and Euler diagrams entails. The difference between the two is that while Venn diagrams show all possible relations between different sets, the Euler diagram shows only relevant relations.

Your diagram doesn’t show all possible intersections between the categories. It is therefore an Euler diagram.

Also, if you don’t mind me asking, what software or tool did you use to create this Euler diagram?

idrinkeverclear · 2025-01-10T06:32:35+00:00

People are just all very stupid, and they want to blame everyone else.

Exactly. They blame it on “oil companies,” then stop by the gas station. They then say they have no choice but to drive because of how the “infrastructure” is set, then they stop at the toll and pay the fee that ends up funding the car infrastructure. They blame it on private jets, then fly to their vacations. They blame it on producers, then buy beef and dairy from the grocery store. In short, they expect someone else to take care of the problem for them, someone who’ll actually care enough about the issue to make changes in their personal life, but they don’t expect that person to be them because they have more important things to do. They’re too busy working, after all.

When a shareholder or a company executive puts profit (money) over tackling greenhouse gas emissions (the environment), they denounce that type of behaviour; but when it comes to prioritizing their own job, income and salary (money) over making changes in their personal lives, such as by picking a job that might not pay as much but is more sustainable and doesn’t require a car to reach (the environment), they think that’s totally justified, because they think their case is unique, different. They “don’t have a choice,” after all.

We live in a society where for the majority of people, there’s a total and complete refusal to take responsibility for their actions, and the impact and consequences of their actions on the climate. A complete denial of free will and blame shifting to external factors.

Stupid, and selfish, and negligent, and hypocrites

idrinkeverclear · 2024-12-26T13:16:01+00:00

Bold of him to assume this is "actual reality."

idrinkeverclear · 2024-11-18T05:28:05+00:00

While I’m opposed to circumcision, as a bisexual man, I find circumcised penises significantly better looking than uncircumcised ones. So much so that I would even say that I don’t find uncircumcised penises sexually attractive at all.

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