TwentyVAPEteen

I'm an exhausted gamer, a US Army Veteran, and a millennial who likes to write.

Hey look at that: got all of it in one sentence.

[TwentyVAPEteen @_FutureSelf]

@AndreaIlTerrone @the_moviebob How is blocking someone being a ManChild?

They typically get way to emotionally invested in online arguments and throw temper tantrums as long as people give them attention

Blocking people who are either lying or just willfully ignorant is saving yourself all that hassle.

[TwentyVAPEteen @_FutureSelf]

@InfinitumAnanas @the_moviebob You can't talk down genocidal intent.

There is no middle ground with genocidal intent: genocidal intent takes advantage of the middle ground by never letting up. Over time, worse and worse behavior gets normalized because everyone wants to "talk it out" but never get anywhere.

[TwentyVAPEteen @_FutureSelf]

The United States, Capitalist: a system barely alive

Proletarians, we can rebuild it
We have the technology
We have the capability to make the worlds first classless, Socialist Utopia

The US will be that Utopia
Better than it was before
Better, Stronger, Faster

#shutdown2018

[TwentyVAPEteen @_FutureSelf]

Since the Government isn't doing it's job, we get to start #ThePurge right?

I assume that's how this works.

#shutdown2018 #TrumpShutdown

[TwentyVAPEteen @_FutureSelf]

@realDonaldTrump (The Military does not stop during a Government Shutdown.)

[TwentyVAPEteen @_FutureSelf]

@Agent99Firm Also I've since changed my mind on this: Twitter isn't making money regardless of a boycott, so it'd be ineffective. Boycotts only work if the company stands to lose something, and Twitter really doesn't.

[TwentyVAPEteen @_FutureSelf]

@Agent99Firm (pssst: you do realize that I'm not a Liberal, right?)

[Dan Olson @FoldableHuman]

2032 - 20-somethings on Twimblr are all doing fan art nostalgic for Unreal Engine 3; surge of indie games where everyone looks like wet rubber.

[TwentyVAPEteen @_FutureSelf]

@eviltankie However, I have no interest in furthering this conversation. You're using limited examples to tell me what I think, and am getting it wrong. What's the point in continuing if you're making my very argument, and claiming it's not my stance?

I take no joy in leftist infighting.

[TwentyVAPEteen @_FutureSelf]

@eviltankie Also: I'm not attacking you. You flagged one limited tweet out of hundreds I've made as representative of my views, and called me out

I simply responded

Under no circumstances have I done anything resembling attacking you

I agree with you. You're the one saying I'm not

[TwentyVAPEteen @_FutureSelf]

@eviltankie You're literally the only person whose claiming I'm defending them. Or myself. Or that I gave a sob story. To understand why something happens isn't too defend that thing. Understanding is important to deconstruct narratives that people buy into.

If you can't see that, so be it

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@WeckerSeipke1 @thtrmgr She also profits off the poor and lower-middle classes, directly, gave platforms to modern day snake oil salesmen, and is more than willing to trust pseudoscience.

Rather than 1 with experience, and 1 with none, why not 2 with experience? Surely That would be more powerful.

[TwentyVAPEteen @_FutureSelf]

@eviltankie Like you get this, right?

We are *in agreement* on this and you're trying to make it seem like I disagree with you.

I *specifically said* it isn't defensible. *Because it isn't.*

I'm not sure how much more clear I can make this.

[TwentyVAPEteen @_FutureSelf]

@eviltankie The fact that you think "explaining that a thing happened" is "justifying" or "defending" is disappointing.

I'm not defending that decision: I don't believe it's defensible.

Please stop reading what you want into something *I AGREE WITH YOU ON*

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@eviltankie And if you share the SECOND part of that tweet, you'd see it was specifically pointing out how that decision didn't even actually amount to anything promised.

Which is another point many people who make the same decision will attest to: *we are assets to your very argument.*

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@eviltankie But if you think people making the same decision because of circumstances they couldn't possibly ever imagine controlling aren't somehow also capable of recognizing they contradiction or regretting it, you're just closed-minded against the reality people you claim to support face

[TwentyVAPEteen @_FutureSelf]

@eviltankie Judge my decision, yes: you should. I luckily never had to kill but that doesn't morally excuse my decision to join. *I never said it did.*

But my decision was influenced by a system: the system creates situations where making my decision was one of the only alternatives to it.

[TwentyVAPEteen @_FutureSelf]

@eviltankie What we are saying isn't that the actions themselves are morally permissable:

We're saying people sometimes are put in situations through no fault of their own (via an capitalist system they were born into) where they have to make decisions that do not live up to 100% ideals.

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@eviltankie What you fail to understand is that not everyone has access to the same resources: at 18 years old I had exactly two options: remain in a hostile home that routinely threatened me with homelessness, or homelessness.