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Dungeons and dragons, writing, and way, way too online. Invertebrate. Wiling away my time.

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@hradzka The product is both the knowledge and the credential. AI threatens the credential as well if they don't respond correctly, though.

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@DerekPederson3 This was actually the central debate being had between Republicans and Democrats too. Ds were pushing a more multilateral approach. Notably, the Ds kinda won the argument and the unilateralists in Bush's cabinet lost it.

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@EiratheIntern There is no surer sign of criminality than a neck tattoo. That said, my one friend got a vampire bite tattooed there purely to troll my other friend, who was super into Blade in high school.

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@kendrictonn Alas, you are 3 hours and 20 minutes away, my dreams of playing D&D someday with Kendrick Tonn are dashed. The width of Ohio always breaks my heart.

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@MitraHispana @DerekPederson3 I don't love it, it was a mistake (from an American perspective), Bush deserves blame for that mistake. But it was a much more systematic problem than hindsight suggests.

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@MitraHispana @DerekPederson3 We went to war because the CIA fallaciously believed Saddam had WMDs, which was untenable after 9/11. Saddam was more afraid of Iran than the USA, so he miscalculated, tried to trick everyone into thinking they had WMDs to threaten Iran, we foolishly believed it, and we invaded.

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@DerekPederson3 @MitraHispana Also, note: I believe you are being honest, so "trolling" perhaps not the most accurate word there.

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@DerekPederson3 @MitraHispana Derek, I highly recommend Paul Harvey's "Explaining the Iraq War." You can carry your trolling to the next level, because Harvey persuasively argues Al Gore would have also invaded Iraq. It's also the best researched historical counterfactual I have ever read.

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@tracewoodgrains @Leo_Abstract @shakoistsLog I disagree. This is pretty vicious. For me, it's like an entire fringe faction of the Left has turned into Westboro Baptist.

https://t.co/SpSsQKsfdI

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@tracewoodgrains @Leo_Abstract @shakoistsLog These just don't seem reciprocal in volume or viciousness. Did anyone re-enact George Floyd's death at one of his memorials?

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@tracewoodgrains @Leo_Abstract @shakoistsLog Floyd and Kirk could only be equivalent if you time-traveled to the year after Floyd's murder, and if mass media were as pro-Kirk as they were pro-Floyd. And I think this shit is all the same when it comes to burdening and mocking powerless people. We're all fucking powerless rn.

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@tracewoodgrains @Leo_Abstract @shakoistsLog I don't mean to be unkind, and I understand where you are coming from. But Floyd is an old iron. Kirk and trans suicides are both red hot. You are not being fair, in my opinion, to conservatives on this one.

When I see Kirk die, I see my father. And I love my trans friends. Fin.

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@tracewoodgrains @Leo_Abstract @shakoistsLog I take it because you dodged my comparison to "trans suicide jokes," that you would be even more squeamish about allowing for those?

(I am pretty much hard-opposed to all these jokes, for note).

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@Leo_Abstract @tracewoodgrains @shakoistsLog I've followed Jack closely for some time, which is why I'm calling it "soft." As in, he is saying, "I don't like this, but they kind of had to." This is the first critical post I've ever had of him (but yes, it's critical).

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@tracewoodgrains @Leo_Abstract @shakoistsLog Wait, are you a soft pro-Kirk jokes guy? Because you found some examples of people using him as a martyr to call for reprisal?

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@tracewoodgrains @shakoistsLog I can't say if 9/11 jokes also did that. They seem more like dead baby jokes, school shooting jokes, etc. I don't love those things but they aren't typically an attack vector since there aren't any "pro-" groups. But there are people who just want their political enemies to die.

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@tracewoodgrains @shakoistsLog The Kirk jokes have an attack-the-enemy valance and are most comparable to odious trans suicide jokes. They are meant to make a specific group of people feel disgusted and unwelcome in a space. They're about claiming that space for your tribe.

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@eigenrobot I first encountered this while looking up the meaning of Victorian slang: "angel maker."

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@eatfimsh The health food is how you know it's a larp. If the tornado is coming for your kid, you give them a whole jar of peanut butter and a glock.