Birth defect? Who decided what was a birth defect and not an evolutionary trait? I say you and your entire backwards good old boy conservative species is a birth defect. Do I win because you demonstrate yourself to be?
Every life form on the planet that reproduces sexually has two genders. Male and female.
Humans are a life form that reproduces sexually.
We have two genders.
Male.
Female.
No amount of semantics will change this fundamental fact of our species. You can argue what it means to be male and female -- that's healthy and everchanging -- but trying to make up stupid bullshit like "agender" or "thirdgender" is completely pointless.
One thing we've noticed in the past few years is that there are sociopaths out there that use other people's empathy as a weapon.
Call someone the right kind of name -- racist, for example -- and they'll immediately suffer cognitive dissonance. The easiest way out is the one most people take -- apologizing and adjusting behavior. If you weaponize this effect, you can force people to give you special treatment.
If you fall for this enough times, or if you watch someone else fall for it, you become resistant. And that can come across as a lack of empathy. It's not. It's not letting your buttons be pushed by trolls and demagogues with an agenda that relies on using your own empathy against you.
Let me give you an example of "Hate Speech" that I have been harassed and attacked over saying, including on this very website.
"There are only two genders. Male and Female."
Which pretty much sums up the problem with fighting "hate speech." The regressive left has co-opted and twisted the meaning of the already meaningless term "hate speech" -- along with other terms like "racism" or "nazi" -- to the point that they've lost all semblance of meaning.
But "Twitter announces more [UnAmerican Political Censorship] tools (Again.)" doesn't have the same kick to it, I guess.
Didn't Hilary got a whole lot of crap (and lose an election) over this?
No. She lost an election because she's the patron saint of corruption and pay for play in politics. The emails didn't help, but she was a fundamentally unelectable candidate, and everyone knew it.
Small wonder they object -- the open secret in the tech industry is that they're using H-1Bs to generate a slave caste in the tech industry.
It's not just about the lower wages. It's also about the fact that these employees aren't allowed to quit.
Trump has openly said he will be going after H-1B abuse, and any restrictions in travel means they can't find some bright but desperate young adults from Europe and abuse the hell out of them. Turns out there's a bit of swamp in Silicon Valley, too.
From what I understand, Anita Sarkeesian, the con artist who has ran two wildly successful kickstarter scams, went after True Blood for some reason. One of the investigated death threats supposedly came from a True Blood fan who got pissed off at her.
Or do you think because someone has been accused of something they are therefore guilty and only evidence of innoncence can exonerate them?
Yes.
Literally yes.
Just take a look at their horrific treatment of sexuality on college campuses. Two people get drunk, have sex, girl regrets it a few weeks later? You're a rapist and will have to prove yourself innocent. BTW, you're not allowed legal council, you're not allowed to involve the police (because the accused have rights when criminal justice courts are involved), you're not allowed to ask questions, you're not allowed to examine or submit evidence, and even if somehow you're found innocent, they'll still expel you from college and leak your name so your life is ruined out of spite.
In the world of the regressive left, the accusation IS the crime. They even have a term for it. "Listen and Believe." Because when you're demonizing an entire gender, an entire sexuality, and an skintone, it's all too easy to fall into the trap that they don't deserve basic human rights.
Or, as the nutjobs on the left have started to say... "I'm ok with punching [people who disagree with us.] [People who disagree with us] should be afraid to leave their homes."
Here's one of the threats in the report, as posted elsewhere in this thread. Can you tell where it loses all credibility?
Subject: Calling all freaks (feminists!) My name is [redacted] of GamerGate.
It is my understanding that a lovely young woman named [redacted sentence]
At this moment, we have over 9000 bombs that we will use to blow up the TSC auditorium when [redacted sentence] You dun goofed by inviting that stupid feminazi to give a lecture. You're fucking dead, kiddos. We of GamerGate, or GamerGators, as We prefer to call ourselves, are sick and tired of you stupid feminists mining everything by saying it's sexist. You all need a hug, some tea, and maybe a gentle back massage, and what better way to pacify you than by burning your faces off with high-ordinance explosives? You can try calling the FBI to come arrest me, but I'm behind 7 proxies and you'll never be able to backtrace this IP. Can't Iulzback the [redacted]
Oh, and I'm also fapping to all of your pictures right now. You‘re hot. It‘s a shame y0u’re about to get blown up.
Sincerely, [redacted]
Over 9000 bombs. GOLLY GEE, that's not an obvious meme or anything. Clearly, we need to call in the national guard immediately. I hear they might be calling in an ex navy seal with over 300 confirmed kills to go after Batwu next. The fiends!
The fact of the matter is these are obvious memes without any credibility. That makes them non-actionable shitposting, at least in the realm of law enforcement. In addition, it matches EXACTLY what GamerGate has been saying all along -- that these were trolls from baphomet, somethingawful, GNAA, kiwi farms, and other chan groups that were jumping in because people like BatWu are absolutely unhinged idiots that react hilariously to trolling.
To be fair, 99.9999% of the SJWs screeching about the FBI not deciding to send in jack booted thugs to arrest anyone with a Twitter account who has ever criticized Saint Anita or BatWu never even opened the PDF once. The narrative is "the FBI didn't do their jobs" and they're relying on confirmation bias to uphold it.
Just think, all this insanity from the regressive left was just barely brewing under the surface, only held back because of their delusion that the rest of the world agreed with them.
The new narrative from the Regressive Left is "Waah, the FBI didn't do enough work to find the harassment we KNOW simply MUST be there."
The reality is the FBI investigated GamerGate and exonerated us. The harassment was either kids being stupid, obvious 4chan memes, or strangely enough True Blood fans getting pissed.
Turns out it actually is about ethics in games journalism. (But really is about a Culture War in Gaming that the Left has soundly lost.)
There were plenty of "actionable leads" in the report, but either the FBI or one of the more local DA's all just refused to prosecute. Several people admitted to doing it (death threats), but "promised not to do it again". I don't know anything about this woman, but the report says that the FBI simply failed.
That is the EXACT opposite of what the report says. They weren't actionable leads. That's why they weren't acted upon.
In fact, this report pretty much exonerates GamerGate and proves exactly what we've been saying all along. There may have been "death threats," but they weren't actually threats of harm, and they were mostly sent by idiots from the chans or other young kids. In fact, the only one they had to do any major investigative work on was the false flag targeting MrRepzion. Others, like the one Antia used to steal from that college, were outright hoaxes.
Oh, and mentioned on page 163 is that Brianna got harassed by about 40 phone calls. The only GamerGate chat Brianna has ever been in is GamerGhazi's mod chat. (Before they banned her for being a batshit insane loser.) In other words, that was a Social Justice Warrior harassing Brianna because Brianna is such an insufferable idiot that even the more asinine of the regressive left can't stand her.
The 3DS's death knell happened when they got access to the boot ROM, and discovered sighax. They can't update it with a patch. The hacking community can now sign their own firmware for the 3DS. Only option is a hardware refresh that will require everyone move to the new-new 3DS.
In short... Yes, the Switch is here to oust the 3DS, at least temporarily.
And I too find it ok that there are people out there who don't understand basic biology, and believe that people's feelings on things trump facts and data. Because hey, if we didn't have special needs posters on the internet, Everyday Feminism and Infowars would have went out of business long ago.
The fact that it has gone from "Gender nonconforming behavior" to outright dysphoria IS the mental illness. That's why it's dysphoria and no longer "nonconforming behavior."
No one's calling a tomboy a TransMan. (Well, some idiots on Tumblr might, but they're idiots.)
But when that tomboy is put in a state of deep depression because puberty is hitting and she's starting to blossom? That's (gender) dysphoria. And that's when treatment comes into play, which is often toughening up, therapy, or rarely, transitioning.
If that's not trolling then it's just blatant ignorance.
See also: XXY See also: intersex (or hermaphrodite)
Non-binary sexual organs exist, non-binary genders exist. Accept it, get over it.
Those are not genders. They are birth defects and genetic abnormalities.
There is no such thing as "non-binary" gender. You are either male, or female. There is some debate about what it means to be male or female, which is healthy and important. But there is also a large number of transsexuals out there, including some who have munchausen syndrome (i.e., the aforementioned "TransTrenders") who are demanding we legitimize their demands for attention. No.
Male. Female.
That's it.
Sorry, but it's true. And no amount of worthless Post-Modernist Gender Studies degrees will ever change that.
Specifically, the violation of my trust was expecting a software updater not to install new, tangentially related, apps. An update to a DLL file to fix a security flaw is an update. A software extension to Google Chrome that mimics "Print to PDF" is a new install. Due to Windows restrictions I could not give them access to the former without access to do the latter. They abused having access for the former to do the later.
There's also the colloquial version of the term in that this was probably unethical.
Yup. Tossed the icon up in the bar and sent me to the Adobe page.
I immediately uninstalled it, force closed Chrome, and ran a full malware scan, since clearly I had been compromised by some form of browser hijacker, probably from a banner that got past uBlock. Imagine my delight when I found it wasn't a security violation, it was a violation of my trust.
I love the emergency backtracking they're trying to do.
"Oh man guys we got 'm, it's too perfect, it's hilarious, it's humiliating, it ruins his public image forever, it's marketable, it's hashtable, it's... it's fucking/pol/ again, isn't it?"
Sssh, that publisher doesn't even recognize the 59 genders, and believes biology isn't a social contract. Hell, they probably believe the evidence and logic are more important than feeling and identity. Obviously they're transphobic as fuck. Literally Hitler.
Bullying is mentioned 4 times in the article. Fired is mentioned 16. Continuing:
Leah Rowe, libreboot's main developer and founder, is a transgender woman herself, and several transgender people have contributed to the libreboot project. What the FSF has done is truly disgusting, so Libreboot voluntarily left the GNU project in protest. GNU is funded in large part by the Free Software Foundation. We will not name the person who was fired, for their privacy and safety.
She says right there she left in protest for "what the FSF has done." I.e., fired a transwoman under what she claims (without evidence) was retaliatory. In addition, as mentioned above she does not speak for Libreboot, she merely has control of the website and is acting as a gatekeeper. This is a standard tactic for these authoritarian marxists -- see also the disaster that was Mighty Number 9's Dana for another good example.
In addition, in what universe is "sound familiar" a stereotyping race trigger? You unhinged loon, do you literally see racism everywhere you look!?
It's a reference to how this kind of social justice faux outrage always goes. Wild accusation, no evidence, demands for evidence are ignored or interpreted as harassment / trolling / "sea lioning," demands for some form of reparations, usually in the form of control.
So... the title is accurate and you're full of snot.
Also, you need to get caught up on your lingo. The term "Fake News" is already on it's way out because it turns out that Journalists live in some very thinly pained glass houses indeed.
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No, because they're not genders. Try to keep up.
Birth defect? Who decided what was a birth defect and not an evolutionary trait? I say you and your entire backwards good old boy conservative species is a birth defect. Do I win because you demonstrate yourself to be?
Every life form on the planet that reproduces sexually has two genders. Male and female.
Humans are a life form that reproduces sexually.
We have two genders.
Male.
Female.
No amount of semantics will change this fundamental fact of our species. You can argue what it means to be male and female -- that's healthy and everchanging -- but trying to make up stupid bullshit like "agender" or "thirdgender" is completely pointless.
One thing we've noticed in the past few years is that there are sociopaths out there that use other people's empathy as a weapon.
Call someone the right kind of name -- racist, for example -- and they'll immediately suffer cognitive dissonance. The easiest way out is the one most people take -- apologizing and adjusting behavior. If you weaponize this effect, you can force people to give you special treatment.
If you fall for this enough times, or if you watch someone else fall for it, you become resistant. And that can come across as a lack of empathy. It's not. It's not letting your buttons be pushed by trolls and demagogues with an agenda that relies on using your own empathy against you.
"There are only two genders. Male and Female."
Disproved by genetics. Your own science disagrees with you. You must be some kind of ignorant idiot. Go educate yourself.
Ignoring your textbook SJW stupidity... (Genetically XX and XY are the two genders. Everything else is a birth defect.)
See everyone? Point proven.
Let me give you an example of "Hate Speech" that I have been harassed and attacked over saying, including on this very website.
"There are only two genders. Male and Female."
Which pretty much sums up the problem with fighting "hate speech." The regressive left has co-opted and twisted the meaning of the already meaningless term "hate speech" -- along with other terms like "racism" or "nazi" -- to the point that they've lost all semblance of meaning.
But "Twitter announces more [UnAmerican Political Censorship] tools (Again.)" doesn't have the same kick to it, I guess.
Didn't Hilary got a whole lot of crap (and lose an election) over this?
No. She lost an election because she's the patron saint of corruption and pay for play in politics. The emails didn't help, but she was a fundamentally unelectable candidate, and everyone knew it.
Small wonder they object -- the open secret in the tech industry is that they're using H-1Bs to generate a slave caste in the tech industry.
It's not just about the lower wages. It's also about the fact that these employees aren't allowed to quit.
Trump has openly said he will be going after H-1B abuse, and any restrictions in travel means they can't find some bright but desperate young adults from Europe and abuse the hell out of them. Turns out there's a bit of swamp in Silicon Valley, too.
From what I understand, Anita Sarkeesian, the con artist who has ran two wildly successful kickstarter scams, went after True Blood for some reason. One of the investigated death threats supposedly came from a True Blood fan who got pissed off at her.
Yes.
Literally yes.
Just take a look at their horrific treatment of sexuality on college campuses. Two people get drunk, have sex, girl regrets it a few weeks later? You're a rapist and will have to prove yourself innocent. BTW, you're not allowed legal council, you're not allowed to involve the police (because the accused have rights when criminal justice courts are involved), you're not allowed to ask questions, you're not allowed to examine or submit evidence, and even if somehow you're found innocent, they'll still expel you from college and leak your name so your life is ruined out of spite.
In the world of the regressive left, the accusation IS the crime. They even have a term for it. "Listen and Believe." Because when you're demonizing an entire gender, an entire sexuality, and an skintone, it's all too easy to fall into the trap that they don't deserve basic human rights.
Or, as the nutjobs on the left have started to say... "I'm ok with punching [people who disagree with us.] [People who disagree with us] should be afraid to leave their homes."
Here's one of the threats in the report, as posted elsewhere in this thread. Can you tell where it loses all credibility?
Over 9000 bombs. GOLLY GEE, that's not an obvious meme or anything. Clearly, we need to call in the national guard immediately. I hear they might be calling in an ex navy seal with over 300 confirmed kills to go after Batwu next. The fiends!
The fact of the matter is these are obvious memes without any credibility. That makes them non-actionable shitposting, at least in the realm of law enforcement. In addition, it matches EXACTLY what GamerGate has been saying all along -- that these were trolls from baphomet, somethingawful, GNAA, kiwi farms, and other chan groups that were jumping in because people like BatWu are absolutely unhinged idiots that react hilariously to trolling.
To be fair, 99.9999% of the SJWs screeching about the FBI not deciding to send in jack booted thugs to arrest anyone with a Twitter account who has ever criticized Saint Anita or BatWu never even opened the PDF once. The narrative is "the FBI didn't do their jobs" and they're relying on confirmation bias to uphold it.
Technically correct, which is why I said exoneration, not "nothing actionable."
Just think, all this insanity from the regressive left was just barely brewing under the surface, only held back because of their delusion that the rest of the world agreed with them.
Some Gamergate threads about it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...
The new narrative from the Regressive Left is "Waah, the FBI didn't do enough work to find the harassment we KNOW simply MUST be there."
The reality is the FBI investigated GamerGate and exonerated us. The harassment was either kids being stupid, obvious 4chan memes, or strangely enough True Blood fans getting pissed.
Turns out it actually is about ethics in games journalism. (But really is about a Culture War in Gaming that the Left has soundly lost.)
There were plenty of "actionable leads" in the report, but either the FBI or one of the more local DA's all just refused to prosecute. Several people admitted to doing it (death threats), but "promised not to do it again". I don't know anything about this woman, but the report says that the FBI simply failed.
That is the EXACT opposite of what the report says. They weren't actionable leads. That's why they weren't acted upon.
In fact, this report pretty much exonerates GamerGate and proves exactly what we've been saying all along. There may have been "death threats," but they weren't actually threats of harm, and they were mostly sent by idiots from the chans or other young kids. In fact, the only one they had to do any major investigative work on was the false flag targeting MrRepzion. Others, like the one Antia used to steal from that college, were outright hoaxes.
Oh, and mentioned on page 163 is that Brianna got harassed by about 40 phone calls. The only GamerGate chat Brianna has ever been in is GamerGhazi's mod chat. (Before they banned her for being a batshit insane loser.) In other words, that was a Social Justice Warrior harassing Brianna because Brianna is such an insufferable idiot that even the more asinine of the regressive left can't stand her.
What the nut? It was already outrageously priced, and they're going UP with it?
The 3DS's death knell happened when they got access to the boot ROM, and discovered sighax. They can't update it with a patch. The hacking community can now sign their own firmware for the 3DS. Only option is a hardware refresh that will require everyone move to the new-new 3DS.
In short... Yes, the Switch is here to oust the 3DS, at least temporarily.
And I too find it ok that there are people out there who don't understand basic biology, and believe that people's feelings on things trump facts and data. Because hey, if we didn't have special needs posters on the internet, Everyday Feminism and Infowars would have went out of business long ago.
The dysphoria itself is not a mental illness.
As mentioned before, wrong.
The fact that it has gone from "Gender nonconforming behavior" to outright dysphoria IS the mental illness. That's why it's dysphoria and no longer "nonconforming behavior."
No one's calling a tomboy a TransMan. (Well, some idiots on Tumblr might, but they're idiots.)
But when that tomboy is put in a state of deep depression because puberty is hitting and she's starting to blossom? That's (gender) dysphoria. And that's when treatment comes into play, which is often toughening up, therapy, or rarely, transitioning.
and sorry, those are the only two genders
If that's not trolling then it's just blatant ignorance.
See also: XXY
See also: intersex (or hermaphrodite)
Non-binary sexual organs exist, non-binary genders exist. Accept it, get over it.
Those are not genders. They are birth defects and genetic abnormalities.
There is no such thing as "non-binary" gender. You are either male, or female. There is some debate about what it means to be male or female, which is healthy and important. But there is also a large number of transsexuals out there, including some who have munchausen syndrome (i.e., the aforementioned "TransTrenders") who are demanding we legitimize their demands for attention. No.
Male. Female.
That's it.
Sorry, but it's true. And no amount of worthless Post-Modernist Gender Studies degrees will ever change that.
Specifically, the violation of my trust was expecting a software updater not to install new, tangentially related, apps. An update to a DLL file to fix a security flaw is an update. A software extension to Google Chrome that mimics "Print to PDF" is a new install. Due to Windows restrictions I could not give them access to the former without access to do the latter. They abused having access for the former to do the later.
There's also the colloquial version of the term in that this was probably unethical.
Yup. Tossed the icon up in the bar and sent me to the Adobe page.
I immediately uninstalled it, force closed Chrome, and ran a full malware scan, since clearly I had been compromised by some form of browser hijacker, probably from a banner that got past uBlock. Imagine my delight when I found it wasn't a security violation, it was a violation of my trust.
I love the emergency backtracking they're trying to do.
"Oh man guys we got 'm, it's too perfect, it's hilarious, it's humiliating, it ruins his public image forever, it's marketable, it's hashtable, it's... it's fucking /pol/ again, isn't it?"
Sssh, that publisher doesn't even recognize the 59 genders, and believes biology isn't a social contract. Hell, they probably believe the evidence and logic are more important than feeling and identity. Obviously they're transphobic as fuck. Literally Hitler.
Leah's own post says it was because of the dismissal, not the bulling.
Bullying is mentioned 4 times in the article. Fired is mentioned 16. Continuing:
Leah Rowe, libreboot's main developer and founder, is a transgender woman herself, and several transgender people have contributed to the libreboot project. What the FSF has done is truly disgusting, so Libreboot voluntarily left the GNU project in protest. GNU is funded in large part by the Free Software Foundation. We will not name the person who was fired, for their privacy and safety.
She says right there she left in protest for "what the FSF has done." I.e., fired a transwoman under what she claims (without evidence) was retaliatory. In addition, as mentioned above she does not speak for Libreboot, she merely has control of the website and is acting as a gatekeeper. This is a standard tactic for these authoritarian marxists -- see also the disaster that was Mighty Number 9's Dana for another good example.
In addition, in what universe is "sound familiar" a stereotyping race trigger? You unhinged loon, do you literally see racism everywhere you look!?
It's a reference to how this kind of social justice faux outrage always goes. Wild accusation, no evidence, demands for evidence are ignored or interpreted as harassment / trolling / "sea lioning," demands for some form of reparations, usually in the form of control.
So... the title is accurate and you're full of snot.
Also, you need to get caught up on your lingo. The term "Fake News" is already on it's way out because it turns out that Journalists live in some very thinly pained glass houses indeed.