You’re the one completely missing here. This meme is ineffective because flip flops are manufactured everywhere and nobody screws them up. So what could have been a slam dunk here is more like OP slamming their forehead on the rim. Anyone who doesn’t have their head up their ass or zero clue about how reality works see this and just thinks “nah that’s fake” and they’re correct in saying that media literacy is dead because this is getting way more genuine engagement than rock bottom low effort propaganda should get.

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It’s probably less than 0.1% of the population that’s capable of any type of original thought and I hate to say this but they seem to be spread evenly across all ideologies

no one – not one man – is calling them out. They’re patting each other on the back.

being surprised by this makes no sense, it’s like expecting people at a Hitler convention to call each other out for liking Hitler

edit: if you expect anything but the worst from users of reddit, discord, and 4chan, you’re insane.

Exhibit A, Your Honor.

Yeah you’d think, but when I worked in cybersecurity the thing that freaked me out the most is how often this just doesn’t happen. It can happen immediately or it can take ages.

Another thing I think about sometimes is how games can be malicious too. The trend in PC gaming for a while now is “flavor of the month” where every couple months a huge breakout title comes out and everyone plays it for a few weeks.

The expectation from these games is that they run like shit despite being a fifth as graphically complex as a bigger budget game. What stops them from slipping a coin miner in for half a day at the peak of their popularity?

Schedule 1 for example. I love this game and I’m not accusing them of anything, just an example. Let’s be honest. It runs at 100fps when it could run at 1000fps. Say the dev finally optimizes it, pushes the optimizations and a coin miner in a hotfix patch with no patch notes post on Steam. Six hours later the dev removes the coin miner and pushes that as a major patch with a patch notes release calling it the “optimization update” or something. We’d be none the wiser.

Don’t take this as me saying not to support indie titles but it’s a little weird that millions of people install untrusted closed source code from 1-3 devs all at the same time every couple months.

Literally everyone I know who is in favor of 2A is against this. They’re “being real quiet” because you don’t interact with them and have no line of communication with them outside of Twitter trolls

I could not imagine a more stereotypical reply if you paid me

Lol. U mad bro? If you can’t take the heat…

Not as much as you think.

I never stated any high importance. I just said it matters.

I think it’s crazy that I just state it matters, which is undeniably true, and it instantly prompts a rant about body dysmorphia, porn, facism, toxic masculinity, and reshaping society. Like, bro…

My point: One testimony does not make a fact

I’m not saying it isn’t true. I’m saying you’re misunderstanding the meaning of “confirmed” and “fact”

Listen I have zero stake in Trump’s penis size but let’s not get loose with the definition of “confirmed fact” here. You haven’t seen it.

I mean, let’s not pretend there isn’t an aesthetic factor that women do care about

GenZ is overwhelmingly sex negative. I think that the movement for sexual liberation of women works to bring GenZ women back to baseline (or above) while GenZ men remain very sexually repressed. Just a theory, but it seems true in my life. I live in an American city fwiw

I really don’t think making this about incels makes sense and I’ll demonstrate why:

Woman calls me unfuckable -> I’m an incel

I call a woman unfuckable -> I’m an incel

There’s little logical consistency around the topic and it’s kind of just become a loophole to cancel morality when it comes to attacking men. I’m really careful with my wording to avoid triggering this response because if I do, people stop processing what I’m saying and they start dogpiling.

I mean, I’ve been pretty clear… and nobody else is having trouble understanding what I’m trying to say. is it possible that on some level you kind of like, don’t want to understand?

my entire point is that generalizations are harmful lmao

I don’t really think things are actually the way you suppose they are. I think that’s a cultural model that’s been built up by media. It may have been true at one point but from what I can tell based on my experiences in real life, it seems to be more the inverse nowadays. All my male friends seem to be much more choosy with who they sleep with (preferring a real connection) while my female friends seem to be a lot more outgoing and likely to have sex without a connection. I’m talking about a sample size of about 20 people I’ve hung out with in the past year, but I’m also considering people I knew when I was highschool / college age.

I think you’re not really getting what I’m saying. See my other comment:

It’s not about that. It’s their choice of insult. Saying “people who voted for Trump are retarded” doesn’t make it not ableist just because you specified it’s about Trump voters. Catch my drift?

Equating moral corruption to sexual undesirability is just stupid. It implies the inverse too, that sexually undesirable people are morally corrupt, which is actually a pretty huge problem in society. It also implies that men need validation from women which is just false.