damnedfurry

A large amount of racists and bigots are into norse stuff? Maybe. Almost all people in the norse stuff are racists and bigots? High doubt

In my experience, people are, on average, extremely susceptible to this very basic logical fallacy, and truly believe the two sentiments above are equivalent. In other words, believing that "most X are Y" implies "most Y are X".

It's fucking everywhere, pervasive all over the political spectrum too, it's universal. Radical feminists use the fact that most physical assailants are male to malign half of the human population. Racists use statistics about what percentage of violent crime is committed by a race, to draw conclusions about what percentage of that race commits violent crime. Hell, Reefer Madness, a propaganda piece with a well-deserved reputation of being completely full of shit, rests its premise on the exact same fallacy: "practically everyone dying from hard drug use is/was also a weed smoker, so we've concluded weed use leads to hard drug use".

I see it over, and over, and over again, online and in real life. It makes you want to grab someone by the shoulders and shake them while yelling "all oranges are fruits, does that mean all fruits are oranges?!", lol.

That's enough venting for tonight, though, haha.

It was a joke, and still is. It's just that there were enough extremist imbeciles out there who didn't realize it was a joke, and took it seriously.

That doesn't change anything about its origin as a joke.

Can we reclaim pepe?

We never lost it, imo. The vast majority of Pepe use is by people communicating nothing resembling a message of hate in any way.

Yeah, I'm very much in the camp of "fuck you, you don't get to have it" when it comes to extremist groups trying to co-opt other symbols.

It's extremely doable--the LGBT population has largely succeeded at doing exactly that with "queer", for example--these days, basically nobody utters that word as a pejorative. Fuck you, it's ours now. See what I mean?

There are way more of us than them, we could literally do this for everything these dipshits try to 'claim'.

Google says Steam has 132 million monthly active users. Even if you count Pepe (which is absurd, the vast majority of use of it has nothing to do with anything hateful), that's still far under 1% of users.

They're not employed by me. Wages are between them and their boss. Any more from anywhere else should not be treated as anything other than the optionally-given gift it is.

Tipping culture essentially amounts to legalized wage discrimination.

And which orifice did you pass this take from, exactly?

That's the majority of them, but ragebait articles aren't written about them, so you have no idea who they are.

Don't be so easily manipulated by media.

People are really bad at discussing political topics without getting all riled up

Understatement of the century, lol. And social media's influence has only exacerbated the overall polarization/radicalization, making civil discussion in that area feel like even more of a pipe dream as time goes on.

we can't know how many also choose to escalate because of these outlets.

But we do know that in general, porn doesn't elicit that kind of escalation into real life. If this particular category of porn did cause that, it'd literally be a total outlier.

Same with other media, too. Rape porn lovers aren't statistically more likely to rape irl, violent video game lovers aren't more likely to be violent irl, etc., compared to the general population.

So I think it's pretty fair to hypothesize that, if anything, it would reduce the incidence of real-world offense. Just look at the massive negative correlation between the proliferation of porn (thanks to the Internet), and the overall incidence of rape.

Also, I'm familiar with one bit of evidence out of Japan that apparently showed that child molesters consume less porn than the average citizen, which I was definitely surprised to learn, but once you think about it in the context of the stuff I mentioned above, it actually makes perfect sense.

In all likelihood, fictional 'simulations' like LLMs will directly reduce the incidence of CSA, if anything. If that's the case, I can't oppose such things in good conscience--it'd be pretty narcissistic to put my personal disgust over even a single kid not getting bad touched.

Hell, I don't even want to ban users guilty of piracy.

Yeah, if someone shoplifts from a store, the punishment/penalty should not involve confiscating the car they drove to the store, lol.

My man I don't think I give a shit where you think I belong.