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> I am well past the point in my life where I engage with that sort of noise in any good faith[.]

One must certainly agree that there's no point engaging with this in good faith.

Nah. The people writing racist fanfiction on AO3 are equally beardy, and those are mostly women. It's just the standard weirdos/creeps problem.

Fictional things can't lose elections, silly.

> Power corrupts...

"And absolute power is kind of neat."

Evidence is socially constructed. It's the view of the public that neckbeards and debate-bros should be expunged. This isn't a debate.

Sounds like Pearson here needs a few years to cool off, reconsider getting involved with this kind of provocative troublemaking.

Ah, sorry for the confusion. I'm not advocating group solidarity.

("Group" and "solidarity" are such fuzzily broad terms. But I think, not in the sense you intend. Real humans are, of course, social creatures.)

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Meritocracy isn't real and hard work doesn't work, but there are lots of real factors under your control. Vote in your own best interest. Get involved in politics. Favor class, gender, ethnic interests. Sharpen your social skills.

That's a real internal locus of control. Shaping society is just another job, and a lot more rewarding to learn.

Get out, touch grass, do real things, meet real people, help your friends, let them help you. (Confound your enemies.)

"No, John. You are the neckbeards." And then John was an incel.

I think we should probably ban reading old books. They seem to infect people with bad ideas.

> "How Americans edit sex out of my writing"

Reading, I would say that the author isn't really "European" but rather a sex pest trying to sell an American audience the exoticism of "Europe."

(See Neil Gaiman and the rest of that gang for recent more specificity.)

The representation isn't genuine but assumed. I'm not sure you picked the best example.

(Unsafety and fear always motivate silence and action. You might expect certain people to understand that better than most.)

Not particularly. The matter is no longer up for discussion. Silence and action are best.

Hm. I see them as connected - "we must confront our problems domestically before we fight them abroad."

> The progressive left’s recent deviation into science-mongering is so hot and heavy with irony that it can be difficult to hold onto it long enough for serious examination. We may at least say that it represents desperation, and a tragic descent into dogmatism. It’s always been hard for our Editorial Board at least to hear “Trust the Science” as demanding anything other than: “Trust us”. If asked why one should do so, the only truly plausible answer is the one that none who mouth this phrase could ever actually give: “Trust the science because we are the ones in power, or because it is through our claims to a knowledge-monopoly that we hope to retain power, or better to secure it.”

> We may imagine that it was in some measure this intervention on ALC’s part that led some months later to that similarly acronymous New York woman-to-watch AOC’s removal, just this past week, of the pronouns from her social-media bios. We doubt this removal will lead to any confusion or social faux-pas, as we presume that more or less everyone has the “trained judgment” necessary to “sex” AOC as she would prefer.

Whoever wrote this is a truly towering idiot.

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Everyone who ever read that stuff needs the Larry Garfield treatment...

Meh. The neckbeards deserve it.

He collected the cars and wrote about the (non-fictional) drugs. He wasn't an exhibitionist, as far as I know, so you'll have to infer what you like about the middle one from his writing.

Some related reading:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/1997/may/20/fiction.scienc...

https://www.scotsman.com/news/interview-iain-banks-a-merger-...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/iain-banks-274-v16n12/

Banks had very "fast cars, chicks, and drugs" tastes - a "bro" if you will - and much of his work is basically James Bond stories. I'm not sure the fans are surprising.

Really? Doesn't everyone occasionally pretend to be a Turkish gamer on Tumblr? It's normal where I'm from...

The most important lesson of the 2010s is that neckbeards and g*mers whine online, but they can't stop paying.

The neckbeards are leaking again. Someone go beat them with a spanner.

This seems rather confused.

The author writes about the movement to remove tech bros, but then also about the "independent web" - a movement certainly made up at least substantially of neckbeards and tech bros. How do these fit together? It isn't discussed. It's always seemed that the antagonism between the two was more irresolvable than resolved.

Perhaps the author is himself a tech bro, and so unable to examine himself?

Who cares about frozen fruit? Sheer irrelevance.

There are degrees of enforceability.

When I was first getting online, the expectation was that you at least had to be bright enough to lie about your age. Now I have to occasionally prune my timeline after it fills up with "literally a minor." Even an annoyance tax might have some positive effect. Scare the pastel death-threats back into their hole...

Probably worth noting that the linked article claims that "Israel [...] its now-clear slaughter of many, perhaps most, of the Israeli victims on the day of the raid."

Whoever wrote this definitely deserves to be (permanently) de-banked and subject to the full force of the law. And I'd cheer other things besides...

(Though most of the mad little losers are culturally Christian whatever they call themselves, so I suppose you're right in that sense.)

I dunno, every incel I ever ran into was a fedora neckbeard. The power of atheism!