It is impossible to fully understand loss as it happened without being around to witness what an absolute shitbag Buckley had been online for a long time preceding it. A big part of what made loss so ridiculous was it being so sanctimonious from the internet’s most childish shithead.

Advertisers didn’t change queer people, queer people changed advertisers.

You’re not immune to marketing and conditioning. It’s not a one-way street, it’s two-way.

How can someone have lots of sex without being pro-sex?

I dunno, maybe ask the Catholic Church, or the Mormon Church, or any other famously anti-sex organization that promotes heavy breeding but still uses harmful shame tied to sex as a a means of control?

You’re incorrectly conflating the idea of doing sexual things in general and the idea of doing sexual things in public; most Pride events are less overtly sexual now than they were in the past, but that’s not a reduction to the original goals of Pride.

No, I’m not. You’re conflating being pro-sex with being sexually active.

I don’t really understand what you’re trying to say, if I’m being honest.

I will say though that having sex and being pro-sex are two extremely different things, and the existence of one does not in any way imply the existence of the other.

Let me preface this by stating clearly that I am not a cryptobro, but this feels like one of the legitimate use cases for bitcoin or other crypto here.

Imo using crypto as an investment or maintaining an active wallet is fool’s errand stuff, but as far as actual transactional use, this feels a viable workaround to depower Visa/MC.

Jesus fucking christ one of these things is not the same.

I don’t care if people want to bang fictional anthropomorphized characters. It’s not my thing, but aside from that it has absolutely no bearing on my life and doesn’t present any kind of moral failing. It’s niche, and it’s fetish, and sure it’s a little odd, but it’s harmless.

Even as a non-furry, furries do not deserve to be compared to pedophiles or lolicons.

These are not the same things.

Fantasizing about fucking Tony the Tiger is just in no way comparable to fantasizing about fucking a child without the intellectual or legal capacity for informed enthusiastic consent, and frankly, it’s weird as fuck to try and conflate the two.

I also echo the other commenter in saying that I have no idea what “CECOT” is supposed to mean.

It should be, and yet almost every single community is still enforcing some kind of stupid decorum or civility “standard” which sounds fine in theory, but almost always leads to a similar (albeit less egregious) thing. You still end up with jackasses who know how to play the civility game and are able to say intentionally antagonistic and awful things within the bound of decorum whose comments are allowed to stand while the decent people who rightly tell them to fuck off are getting moderated for “civility.”

So long as we keep pretending decorum and methodology matters more than intent and we keep insisting on civility over decency, we’re just doing the same damn shit.

I’m not calling those who craft and insist on this kind of language left, I am calling the people who accept and use it supposedly part of the left (in vague terms).

You are making my point. My point is that conservativism is charlatans and we becomes their stooges when we play according to their terms, including on the field of language.

Insistence on decorum, general anti-sex sentiments, curtailing of language to adhere to advertiser-friendly standards, to name a few.

I’ve been saying for years that the advertiser-friendly neo-puritanicalism that was infecting the left was a trojan horse for conservatism, and then here we are.

Yes, I’m aware, but that is also what the dish is called at most American Chinese takeout restaurants. Yes, you may have to add “+battered” to your “sweet and sour chicken” websearch, but I promise you doing so will absolutely get you to recipes for this dish.

“Sweet and Sour Chicken.”

I don’t know how to make it, but with the name I’m sure you can search for the method online

Ask anyone in primary patient care - people make that exact same appointment because of beets regularly. Beets are absolutely delicious, but boy can they be a little mindfuck for a moment if you aren’t expecting the side effect!

Maybe bro just eats a fuckton of beets

Dreamcast gets the special distinction of being retro futurist. Criminally ahead of its time.

O shit guys, my entire steam library is disc-less

When I say “retro game” I mean pre-disc era.

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Yeah it’s a video game. It’s a blast, big recommend from me. It’s definitely firmly inspired by Pokemon, but it’s a pretty significant departure from the formula into being its own unique thing. Much more sandbox/open-world, modified combat system, etc. Worth checking out especially since it’s a well-polished indie game for only $20 full price. I know this sounds like an ad but I swear to god I have no affiliation, I just like the game a lot.

Makes me think of Cat-5 from Cassette Beasts

🎵 “(dont) Give a fuck about tradition, stop impressin’ the dead” 🎵