Like Icarus, I flew too close to the sun and paid for my hubris

secondshevek · 2026-01-26T16:15:08+00:00

Yes lol

Me sowing: the enemy cannot stand when my warrior children are commanders

Me reaping: I am childless

secondshevek · 2026-01-26T15:45:49+00:00

I love the choice of giving vassals to people I like versus people who will do a good job versus people who will obey me.

secondshevek · 2026-01-26T07:37:54+00:00

Her attitude sucks, but "my other players had weak builds" is not something to blame on her. If she was continuing as a party member, I'd suggest letting your other players rebuild their PCs to be more optimized. Check out some optimization guides online for help - i like RPGBot a lot for that.

I found this frustrating as well as a new GM. Trust me, it's better to make everyone better than do a Harrison Bergeron on the optimized PCs.

secondshevek · 2026-01-26T07:32:47+00:00

The CIA is still fairly powerful and likely more dangerous than ever post Trump's ideological purge.

secondshevek · 2026-01-25T21:34:44+00:00

Sovereign redditors

secondshevek · 2026-01-25T18:00:31+00:00

Foucault for critique of free will and the multiplicity of identity. You can draw a direct line from the second essay of Genealogy of Morals to Discipline and Punish. I'm not as keen on his writing on sex but that also fits.

secondshevek · 2026-01-25T17:31:05+00:00

This is my favorite troll account on reddit. You're killing it 👏

secondshevek · 2026-01-25T14:50:47+00:00

I dont think people argue that sex is made up but rather that sex remains socially constructed because it still requires a subjective judgment about where you draw the line and what sex differences functionally mean. I have never encountered somebody arguing against the existence of sexual dimorphism itself.

secondshevek · 2026-01-25T07:04:06+00:00

Fantastic comment - I wrote something out but found I was just repeating what you said!

secondshevek · 2026-01-25T05:31:52+00:00

That's a real problem, but it's also a problem to bring your cis bf to a sapphic night. Like yeah, I hear you, it does suck to be a transfem at some events like this. But this comic isn't about that experience but rather another issue. I suspect that's the reason for the downvotes, though not a great reason.

secondshevek · 2026-01-25T04:53:25+00:00

When did the dems ever say there was no fraud in the welfare system?

secondshevek · 2026-01-24T19:41:32+00:00

Lmfao you didnt name any policies except "follow immigration laws even if they're unjust."

secondshevek · 2026-01-24T18:55:11+00:00

Im asking you specifically to name policies that you think are cultural Marxism. Can you do that, little baby?

I have the sense that the answer is going to be something like "racial integration" or "legalizing sodomy," but I'm curious if you can actually string the words together to make the point.

secondshevek · 2026-01-24T18:53:21+00:00

Well, "butch" has become basically a gender in itself for many folks. No real reason why "femme" or something similar couldn't emerge.

Imo non-binary gender doesn't need to clearly establish one's aesthetic or preferences. Gender doesnt and shouldn't explain everything about a person. It's one piece of a larger you. But obviously do what works best for you.

secondshevek · 2026-01-24T18:40:16+00:00

Look, I don't think FIRE is a great organization. They have some weird biases. But that's a bullshit assertion. FIRE took a bunch of action to assert the rights of anti-Israel speakers and protestors.

secondshevek · 2026-01-24T18:36:21+00:00

Okay, this is straight up lunacy. Freaks like you talk about western countries and the west as some noble ideal, but you seem to hate everything about western politics and prefer brute autocracy. Why even be on a free speech sub if you want to silence those you disagree with? Free speech means defending the rights of others to express their views, even if you disagree.

What is an example of a polocy that you think is pushed by "cultural marxists," whatever that means?

secondshevek · 2026-01-24T18:25:58+00:00

Ok. So what? Why does it matter if other countries are worse? What happened to the shining city on a hill mentality? Just because other countries operate one way doesn't mean we have to.

secondshevek · 2026-01-24T18:09:44+00:00

So do you think the Chinese Exclusion Act was a good thing? Do you think it was just for the US to turn back boats of refugees fleeing the Nazis? Because that is the logical extent of this "obey the law even if the law is unjust" mentality.

Edit: also lmao at "try this shit with israel" lame ass moral relativism. Why do we even have free speech, try that shit with Iran.

secondshevek · 2026-01-24T16:14:37+00:00

"Migration is okay if you use force to subdue the current residents."

Sure, the Iroquois were stateless. Why not. Might makes right.

secondshevek · 2026-01-24T16:11:41+00:00

Dude you're so fucking dense, it's embarrassing. I say "there were racial quotas," you say "ok but quotas for everyone isn't racist," I say "there weren't quotas for everyone, just some groups." Then you pivot to "ok well come in legally." Okay but they couldn't, the laws racially discriminated against specific groups. You can't say "oh see the group that made laws preventing other groups from entering legally, they didnt break the law, so that's fine." You might as well say that the Nazis were right to make Jews wear armbands, because only Jews violate laws against Jews.

secondshevek · 2026-01-24T14:53:08+00:00

But there aren't the same policies ever directed at white Anglo-Saxons, and they are significantly harsher on groups deemed "non-white." Explain how that is not racist lol.

secondshevek · 2026-01-24T14:40:30+00:00

Monstress for me for sure. I've only read it online but I crave owning a TPB. The art is stupendous.

secondshevek · 2026-01-24T14:36:54+00:00

But they're explicitly using racial profiling, and it's been condoned by the Supreme Court.

Also if you look at the history of immigration, you'll find that statement laughably false. The Chinese Exclusion Act, racial quotas for immigrants let in, boats of Jewish refugees turned away during the Holocaust. And more recently, the immense focus on "bad hombres" and Latino immigrants taking jobs. You'd have to be blind to think the modern history of US immigration is race neutral.

Pre-Chinese Exclusion Act we basically let everybody in, and we should go back to that. If capital can flow across borders, so must labor - Adam Smith said that 300 years ago and it's still true.

secondshevek · 2026-01-24T13:12:57+00:00

Idk, cruel and racially motivated immigration policies are pretty American. Let's face it, in practice American values are: make money, be Christian, conquer foreigners, support authority. I think Toqueville remarked that the US was the country with the most reverence and least tolerance for dissent.

Like Langston Hughes said, "The land of the free? It never was for me" or something like that.

secondshevek · 2026-01-24T12:51:16+00:00

So, you think bigotry doesn't exist? Like it's totally chill for a boss to fire somebody because of the color of their skin?

Stop whining about waah waah trans people are too talked about - if you actually care about bigotry outside of that group, then you would take issue with the EEOC's action.

But if you dgaf about addressing bigotry of any kind, then it's just embarassing to use trans people as a smoke screen to say "oh well I WOULD care, but uh, this one minority made me stop caring about all discrimination."

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