@johntriplette I haven't heard a single coherent, well-grounded point from him or his followers that isn't either ironic, smug vagueposting or a loose-association tangent about how some obscure 19th-century political conflict is relevant to today's politics
@Tomasuenim If I'm energetic and enthusiastic about the day and masturbate, I still feel energetic and enthusiastic afterward. However, if I'm weary and tired, I feel as though I'm losing my energy along with my seed. But that's merely a physiological illusion dictated by my affect.
@Thisisjustall The definition of colonialism extends too much, because then any country who has benefited from trade counts as imperialistic, and even accepting it, the argument fails, because several countries on my list got rich precisely by supplying cheap labor to richer economies
@Hitchslap1 i think you have to specify what kind of stereotypes these studies talk about, or else people will take away the insight that their dumb generalizaton are valid
@kreteklouver "The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities" - Nietzsche
@sammons_pamela@sarahditum@helenlewis@BylineTimes Your argument is literally an appeal to authority. You should be stripped of your title for committing one of the dumbest possible logical fallacies