Then why do you keep responding?

Do explain

So, you’ve seen it thousands of times when a man is alone with a woman… in public?

Or maybe I’m right and the presence of others is indeed a deterrent.

You still didn’t answer me. How many have you seen?

Nah nah nah, you didn’t answer my question. I have only seen assaults that may or may not have been intended to go farther. How many have you seen?

I volunteer at the local indie theatre group.

I dunno, my party group puts a stop to things before it gets that far. How many attempted rapes have you seen?

My dude, the only reason why rapes don’t happen around witnesses is because people put a stop to it. I don’t know why you want to argue this point.

If y’all want to burn the white house down again, I’ll bring marshmallows for us to roast on the flames.

I was raised in the New Apostolic Reformation, so I was deep deep into crazyland. It made a lot of promises that never happened and made a lot of statements that didn’t line up. It took a few years, and there was a LOT of resistance on my end, but I eventually realized that one side was going to make my life better, and one side would make my life worse.

The hardest part of deradicalizing people is keeping a level head, because coming at it with anger is playing into the indoctrination. I was raised to believe that people were going to hate me for speaking the truth, and that the anger I was getting was evidence that the cult was correct. This is where the persecution fetishism comes from, they’re trying to convince their brain in lieu of facts. Getting internet hate is like a meditative litany in a way, it’s seen as a digital analogue to a scourge purging the weakness from you and leaving only the pure fire of god behind. I honestly wouldn’t have gotten out if it weren’t for my gaming group believing I could be a cool person, and taking the time to educate me instead of just kicking me or hurling hot takes at me.

I’m now big on Street Epistemology as a framework for deradicalization.

Personally, I believe it because I was a reactionary that changed my mind when presented with information. It’s not as rare as the doomers make it out to be.

In the US it’s technically a target, since you can be ticketed for going too fast or too slow.

There was a post somewhere that went viral claiming Gaetz set them up. This is just people taking screenshots as truth again.

Except AI centers are much much more impactful than any single decision a single person can make. Demanding perfection before assessing legitimacy of a complaint is also an excuse to justify dogma.

I don’t know why you keep bringing up luxuries like avocados. I don’t remember the last time I ate an avocado, or a banana, or any exotic fruit for that matter.

I somehow feel like you won’t listen to LLM criticism from me either, so it’s a disingenuous argument.

Yeah, we absolutely need to start with worker rights. I think part of the problem is that we in America have been on the nationalist train for so long that we’re simply unaware of how good it could be.

It’s nuts that people over here think my state law of 1 hour PTO awarded for every 40 hours worked is too much of a burden for employers.

How does missing work help the climate? Genuine question, but I’ve been fired when a car broke down over the weekend, and I couldn’t get another one before Monday. I don’t see how it was better that I wound up spending the money I was saving for an electric car on an old junker so I didn’t miss rent and get evicted.

Edit: Just tell me you don’t have an answer instead of downvoting, this isn’t Reddit.

On the flip side, they’ve got plenty of excuses they can use, I’mma smoke my weed, haha