yew

No more weirdos, no more creeps!

No more fucking filthy geeks!

No more neckbeards or incels!

All you guys just really smell!

Yaaay progress!

No more weirdos, no more creeps!

No more filthy fucking geeks!

No more neckbeards or incels!

All you guys just really smell!

Yaaay progress!

> I am well past the point in my life where I engage with that sort of noise in any good faith[.]

One must certainly agree that there's no point engaging with this in good faith.

Nah. The people writing racist fanfiction on AO3 are equally beardy, and those are mostly women. It's just the standard weirdos/creeps problem.

Fictional things can't lose elections, silly.

Wonderful! The neckbeard hammer draws near.

> Power corrupts...

"And absolute power is kind of neat."

Evidence is socially constructed. It's the view of the public that neckbeards and debate-bros should be expunged. This isn't a debate.

Sounds like Pearson here needs a few years to cool off, reconsider getting involved with this kind of provocative troublemaking.

Ah, sorry for the confusion. I'm not advocating group solidarity.

("Group" and "solidarity" are such fuzzily broad terms. But I think, not in the sense you intend. Real humans are, of course, social creatures.)

No group not stale, beardy, and lacking EQ has ever eschewed politics, though claiming so is of course a tactic.

In any case, we were discussing locus of control and individual mobility? I'm not offering advice for group success.

Meritocracy isn't real and hard work doesn't work, but there are lots of real factors under your control. Vote in your own best interest. Get involved in politics. Favor class, gender, ethnic interests. Sharpen your social skills.

That's a real internal locus of control. Shaping society is just another job, and a lot more rewarding to learn.

Get out, touch grass, do real things, meet real people, help your friends, let them help you. (Confound your enemies.)

"No, John. You are the neckbeards." And then John was an incel.

I think we should probably ban reading old books. They seem to infect people with bad ideas.

> "How Americans edit sex out of my writing"

Reading, I would say that the author isn't really "European" but rather a sex pest trying to sell an American audience the exoticism of "Europe."

(See Neil Gaiman and the rest of that gang for recent more specificity.)

The representation isn't genuine but assumed. I'm not sure you picked the best example.

(Unsafety and fear always motivate silence and action. You might expect certain people to understand that better than most.)

Not particularly. The matter is no longer up for discussion. Silence and action are best.

Hm. I see them as connected - "we must confront our problems domestically before we fight them abroad."

> The progressive left’s recent deviation into science-mongering is so hot and heavy with irony that it can be difficult to hold onto it long enough for serious examination. We may at least say that it represents desperation, and a tragic descent into dogmatism. It’s always been hard for our Editorial Board at least to hear “Trust the Science” as demanding anything other than: “Trust us”. If asked why one should do so, the only truly plausible answer is the one that none who mouth this phrase could ever actually give: “Trust the science because we are the ones in power, or because it is through our claims to a knowledge-monopoly that we hope to retain power, or better to secure it.”

> We may imagine that it was in some measure this intervention on ALC’s part that led some months later to that similarly acronymous New York woman-to-watch AOC’s removal, just this past week, of the pronouns from her social-media bios. We doubt this removal will lead to any confusion or social faux-pas, as we presume that more or less everyone has the “trained judgment” necessary to “sex” AOC as she would prefer.

Whoever wrote this is a truly towering idiot.

Of course the comments are full of incels arguing about women in card games...

Will no one rid me of this troublesome neckbeard?

The author is a colossal neckbeard who just can't stop explaining things.

Checking the domain post history may be informative.

Everyone who ever read that stuff needs the Larry Garfield treatment...

Meh. The neckbeards deserve it.

He collected the cars and wrote about the (non-fictional) drugs. He wasn't an exhibitionist, as far as I know, so you'll have to infer what you like about the middle one from his writing.

Some related reading:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/1997/may/20/fiction.scienc...

https://www.scotsman.com/news/interview-iain-banks-a-merger-...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/iain-banks-274-v16n12/

Banks had very "fast cars, chicks, and drugs" tastes - a "bro" if you will - and much of his work is basically James Bond stories. I'm not sure the fans are surprising.

Really? Doesn't everyone occasionally pretend to be a Turkish gamer on Tumblr? It's normal where I'm from...

Honestly, this would be more interesting if it were less white.

There's not any one thing, but it just ... is. Very much.

The most important lesson of the 2010s is that neckbeards and g*mers whine online, but they can't stop paying.

The neckbeards are leaking again. Someone go beat them with a spanner.