Fascism is Capitalism’s immune system. The wealthy use it to protect their grip on society, particularly when large scale factors like a pandemic, war, or poor leadership put that grip at risk it.

Yep, the author cross checking phrases with the furry community has way more weight and truth value for me than asking Grok.

Don’t wait until the very last two paragraphs of the article to say why it was wrong, or your conclusion about it. Put that shit up top The Verge:

As we know now, the bullets actually did have messages on them. They included a furry meme (“Notices bulges OWO what’s this?”), the phrase “If you read this, you are gay lmao,” and a reference to the video game Helldivers 2. This seems more indicative of internet brain rot than any specific ideology. It’s confusing enough that at least some of the groypers (and also, apparently, Musk’s chatbot Grok) seem to think the shooter was a groyper, so make of that what you will. The Journal has pivoted into suggesting the alleged shooter, Tyler Robinson, was simply a troubled young man, despite other remarks from Cox. Cox said that one of Robinson’s relatives informed investigators that Robinson “had become more political in recent years.”

The Wall Street Journal has not retracted its report about the trans community, nor has it apologized. I guess it really is a Rupert Murdoch paper after all.

What kind of horrible parent turns their kid in during THIS administration. The ignorant fools have probably gotten their own son killed.

Should be longer considering it’s a crime against the entire population of the nation.

Oh they should pin it on a big name, like AOC. Exciting!

Why did the case come up again after 61 years?

Nah, the correct business model is to have a system that’s easy to develop for to the point that it has a large and exciting open source and homebrew community attached (which you encourage with events and competitions), and you’re just basically selling them hardware, code, merch, tutorials, assets, and getting a cut of their game sales.

…then you also release your own games, and later spin off the IPs into globally recognized characters and franchises.

Fake lether, houses, paintings, cars, tires, e-waste, packaging, just some of our abundant sources of plastic waste.

Many if which could be replaced with wood and other cellulose material.

Like muscle memory, just built into the fabric of the history and culture.

A TV show where vampires are real, so the cops are all scared, but the public doesn’t know. The cops keep shooting people dead thinking they’re vampires (so to the viewer the force seems justified).

During the final few episodes, it becomes more obvious that the vampires were never real. They were just gossip.

One season long.

Show title: Harvest Season.

Sounds like those stupid Rationalist cult groups who spend their time coming up with AI fantasies, and claim some thought-experiments are so powerful they’ll ruin your mind - real immature stuff. Deserves to be lampooned like this.

That the letter writing is a form of elite leftist denialism of the issues.

That it’s essentially covering over that there are issues to be discussed here, in favour of going after “the right” and trying to scold ones enemies rather than actually look into the issues (which I’m claiming are cultural and economic).

You know, sometimes it’s better to conceed than it is to alienate and deny.

Yes, what’s more sex crimes tend to be “crimes of opportunity” - or to frame that idea differently - “crimes of circumstance”… And those circumstances tend to be created by a lack of money, lack of education, and an abdication of responsibility from those in charge.

I don’t get people pretending that’s not still rape. These things are still applicable, the UK isn’t a special exception.

Oh please, you’re the one claiming it’s prejudice to call out wealthy leftists for being so far removed from the situation that they don’t even know rapes are happening in these communities.

Your defense of ivory towers of wealth, lifestyle disconnection and intellectual privilege is far more fascist aligned than anything I’ve said.

Hence your whole “anyone who disagrees with me must be MAGA” stance here…

…and again, it’s an discourse where studies show that negative reinforcement is far less effective than positive reinforcement. Your line of thinking on these issues actually contributes to the polarisation and prolonging of them (so is pro-rape). As was your original denying there was any issue (saying it was just prejudice).

You just keep pushing bad answers… And I keep having to explain to you what the actual studies say (be they how negative discourse creates polarisation, or the very fact that rapes are happening).

You need to learn political nuance. Get off tiktok or whatever’s got you so ideological boxed in.

But yeah, I’m done with you, and your reactionary polarisations. I hate you and we’re on the “same side” - I can’t imagine you’re doing anything out there worthwhile. I just hope people like you can educate yourselves so I don’t have to. Good luck.

I don’t think you being reactionary to a far-right whose not present here, or the letter writers trying to preach to the far-right from a “corrective left” perspective of professionals in the top end of town works.

It’s hot air. The far-right aren’t going to read the edicts past down from on high and see the error of their ways. It’s a totally pipe dream leftism that assumes “being a scold” does anything but push people right.

I mean take yourself - you couldn’t even handle my original comment pointing that out. Look at all the time we’ve wasted here just because you had an “I’ve detected prejudice” error.

This is just all the stuff the left gets wrong, that feeds into the far-right populism. We need an alternative ti being scolds.

You’ve just thrown RACE into the conversation here, I said it was cultural and socioeconomic.

How are studies tribalism? Also I’m a leftist, I’m just also aware there are out of touch leftwing elites (writing denialist letters in this case).

Your studies demonstrate the fact that immigrants are much more likely to be the VICTIMS of sexual violence than native born people

No one said otherwise! Sorry, what’s your argument? That it doesn’t count as rape if immigrant men rape immigrant women? That’s disgusting dude.

No asshole, of course that still counts as rape. Of course that’s part of the higher amounts of SA and SV in those communities. I don’t know why you needed to be shown studies to admit that.

Of course leftist elites aren’t going to recognize that, and are going to try to pretend it’s not true - like you were doing.

I take it you’re no longer claiming it’s “just prejudice” to point this stuff out? That you see a problem with not addressing increased rape stats now - and that not addressing and contextualizing gives the far right something to gripe about?

At least admit that much. I’m so sick of leftwingers denying problems. It’s a politics of willful blindness and denialism sometimes. Easy to do for professionals at the top end of town.

You claimed it was a matter of prejudice.

I presented studies.

Now you’re playing rehortorical games rather than responding with an argument.

Society only overcomes issues by processing them, don’t shirk your part in that process.

you literally just supported my point.

Yes, I’m agreeing with you.