Consumption As Identity

[@Unknown.NotRegistered]

I already miss New Guy. He deserved a longer career.

[@xhesil8848]

I hope the New Guy made it to Management and made some good friends

[@surprisedchar2458]

Nah we all know New Guy just used that position as a jumping off point and is now a successful businessman.

[@xhesil8848]

@@surprisedchar2458 good. He deserves to do well. It's ironic that an SJW strawman is a legitimately decent person. Kind of says a lot about the writer.

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

Ironic that such a wholesome meme started off 2020.

[@AkiRa22084]

I watch Oney almost every day, so I'm often reminded of the New Guy. And Dev's video about him is so good, I love to re-watch it every few months.

[@garak55]

Zir : "If we accept that fiction doesn't affect reality, then that would mean representation doesn't matter." Me : "Yes."

[@sekarmaltum1695]

they are soooo close to become self-aware

[@MeanBeanComedy]

I actually disagree with both! Fiction DOES represent reality, but representation doesn't matter.

[@romanscum5678]

@@arknightsboi2050 Bruh imagine unironically buying figurines to cope with the fact that your waifus aren't real lmfao.

[@feliperisseto9113]

@@sekarmaltum1695 they are. All that paragrath about how they are the real harrassers. They just don't care.

[@sekiro_the_one-armed_wolf]

@@MeanBeanComedyrepresenting reality and affecting it are 2 different things

[@hanyuukawaiinanodesu]

"Proshipping"? They had to made a new term for just leaving people the hell alone?

[@frug5629]

Shipping can be cringey as all hell, there's no denying it. Every fandom is guilty of it from time to time, it's pretty much obligatory. But I'm not gonna assume you're just this monster of a person right off the bat because I don't like it. Like the dude that was going on that tangent about shipping two fictional characters was just so horrible and a mortal sin. I mean, holy shit dude. Do yourself a favor and get off the internet for a while. Go outside and actually socialize with people. It would do you a world of good.

[@jackalenterprisesofohio]

@@frug5629 well I think shipping is not cringey.....its an important part of our society.........you wouldn't have the stuff you have now(presumably) it had to include shipping......I don't understand this whole anti-shipping.....what you want everything to be delivered by Aerodyne shipping is a valuable job.

[@666DemonCleaner]

It’s for in group out group signaling

[@SkylineFTW97]

I thought this was just agreeing to disagree and leaving it at that.

[@dominicunderwood4911]

Seriously, so if someone *doesn't* get attacked for not riding & worshiping the bandwagon 24/7, *that's* the notable event.

[@erickennedypapefangirl4584]

Everyone says "Who's racist and sexist?!", but noone asks "How's racist and sexist?!" #society

[@xhesil8848]

We've got from the question needing to be "who's racist and sexist" to "what's racist and sexist" because Socialist Sociologists twist the definitions of these words to meaninglessness.

[@FourOf92000]

your whole channel identity should be framed and put up at MOMA

[@judeholz5797]

That’s comedy

[@stcredzero]

Who's racist? People who decide important things about people, only based on their race. This is why SJWs had to redefine the word "racism." Otherwise, everyone would see that the SJWs are the racists!

[@CptManboobs]

more like #SOYciety amirite?

[@monkeyming5545]

Non-binary is just a fancy way of saying “I’m not like other girls”

[@Hepabytes]

Basically, but I believe it has more to do with subversion of the feminine ideal as beautiful, demure, and coquettish this late in the game on social liberalism. Dev might've done a vid on the destruction of beauty, if not Lotus Eaters.

[@NZAnimeManga]

Nailed it.

[@TOUGHEYES]

Damn, you didn't just kick nonbinary to the floor, you threw a molotov while they were down there.

[@NorthernObserver]

LoL. This is perfect.

[@ChrisSuperDude]

A girl I've been chatting with told me "You're not like a lot of the other guys that I meet on these apps" and my response, trying to be cute was "Without sounding like a lead in a John Hughes movie, I'm not like most guys" and I was about half afraid she was gonna think I that it meant I was bi/non-binary/asexual something of that matter.

[@amergingiles]

Twitter: "PEDOPHILES BAD, BAN LOLI ART" Also Twitter: "MAP RIGHTS, *MAP RIGHTS!"*

[@philliplup606]

Total hypocrites

[@fatetestarossa2774]

@@philliplup606 INDEED

[@MykeLewisMusic]

I know, right? I mean, pick a friggin side, I'm trying to plan my weekend! 🤣

[@darkdawnbringer]

It was never about the "degeneracy"... It was about siding with the lefties... You can do ANYTHING you want if you side with them... And they wil always find something to ruin you with if you ever go against them...

[@BlackCroft666]

Drawings animations bad, Real life victims good.

[@XxXVideoVeiwerXxX]

If we censor art and fiction, we stop realizing what we don't like.

[@FireAKADrazn]

a thousand times this

[@TheDansonT]

That’s actually scary as hell

[@terkelalgevind529]

This is the direct intended effect of such marxist tactic.... first remove religion! Thrn culture.... Done.

[@RogerTheil]

We're also not allowed to not like anything anymore. You bigot.

[@NPrinceling]

Or finding we like something we didn't think we would, or that we didn't like in the past

[@calimerohnir3311]

I almost forgot about New guy... what a pure-hearted cinnamon roll that one

[@jarnegi]

Never forget that there is good in the world and actually good people as well. New Guy reminded me of that. Damn, I miss him

[@aciDCXIV]

He was too pure for this world...

[@Christopher-eq1rn]

it's ironic considering he was meant to be the villain of the comic, but the "artist" was such a shitbird that it was effectively reversed

[@zxyatiywariii8]

I've worked with people like New Guy, and people like the cartoonist. I love the New Guy people! 😍

[@AlphariusandOmegon]

This "ethic" is so unbelievably cynical, it presupposes that every person is already their best self and can't or won't change or grow as they experience life's challenges. It also seems like an excuse for them to not grow or change.

[@RobzdaBlade]

it's like crab in a bucket mentality.

[@stupendous7848]

It also demonstrates that their understanding of themselves is limited to a handful of one-word labels.

[@Xplora213]

BOOM. The ethic is antiChristian, in a nutshell. The Christian worldview is that you aren’t born a Christian and you need to repent/convert/commit. This creates a society that truly embraces tabula rasa because no one is perfect. Self improvement is worthy of applause because if your eternal metaphysical self can improve its position, your social, physical, financial self can improve as well. The Marxist assertions is that humans are worth the same (enlightenment) but they are not allowed to be equal because of birth into their social class. Neo Marxism added race and sexuality etc etc etc. but immutable characteristics can’t change and they then dig up slavery and gay bashing , decades and centuries old problems, to justify the neo Marxism world view. Weird that they start dragging in Islam... But it’s a notion of the immutability and the filthy pack animal tactics of far leftists that stands against that idea of progress within the individual. The far left has SO MANY losers (Rittenhouse shot three degenerates) that it is easier to tell them all that self improvement and turning away (repenting) from their path of failure will take them to their promised land of health, happiness and dignity. Timblr and Twitter is merely allowing all these Cluster B train wrecks to congregate just like 4chan, and they are purity spiralling so fast.... Protestant Christianity really cements a certain worldview and we are seeing what atheism can look like. Communism is always bad, atheism is a great vector for communists to abuse. 💡

[@davidfrancisco3502]

That's the reason many of them can be talentless yet smug narcisistic poor excuses of artists who refuses to get better and they take any constructed criticizism towards their so called art as "harrassment and hate speeches".

[@Xplora213]

@@davidfrancisco3502 it’s tragic but ultimately, are any communists actually artists? Or are they just sponsored activists? Cynically, what is different to the Christian musicians being propped up by the mega churches?? They aren’t pumping out truly brilliant art, they are just churning out propaganda product. There is nothing wrong with that, except when you start telling vulnerable people that they are obliged to support such things. I’m sure Harvey Weinstein had many similar conversations with his investors. “You need to support this for our cause to proceed”. It’s probably the reason for the JQ but everyone does it... The issue is that talent and quality is not easy to determine...

[@Tom-uz4ym]

If a "ship" of fictional characters is traumatizing people, how do they even function as adults on a day to day basis?

[@scienceface8884]

Clearly they don't.

[@kateshiningdeer3334]

IKR? I keep thinking about this one... And it's not just "shipping" - it's EVERYTHING. If literally EVERYTHING is traumatizing, how do you even get out of bed? Or maybe they don't?

[@spicewilliam9786]

I ask myself the samw qeustion when right wingers have a seizure when gay people are in any movie or show.

[@BigPuddin]

They don't.

[@BigPuddin]

​​@@spicewilliam9786You mean when half the cast of a Disney movie are gay for some reason? Straight characters rewritten as gay for "representation" even though we're fine with the Alan Turing movie? Cool gaslight. Completely genuine. We're not far right. You're just insane.

[@captc0ck5lap60]

One of those panels had me dying, basically saying "If you wear a maga hat or post spicy memes, you're _literally murdering brown people."_

[@HiddenEvilStudios]

I'd rather be doing that than wear this silly hat!

[@fduranthesee]

As opposed to figuratively “murdering” brown ppl

[@ChaosLierLen]

What are the betting odds that the person who made that voted for Biden? Or Obama?

[@MrAznable]

As a black man who realized at 16 that society doesn't actually give a shit about the individual, the only solution to the problem that I could come up with is to live a solitary life outside of society. Yet everyone around me tried their damndest to get me to change my mind "think of all the people who love you you'd be leaving Behind!" and other such nonsense. The only reason I didn't pursue my goal is because living in America, after doing extensive research I realized just how hard it would be to truly "Live off the grid". So Instead I've tried my hardest to be as open minded to others life styles as possible and accept everyone. Fast forward to current year and now I'm looked at as a race-traitor simply for believing that not everything is the fault of white people. If I try to inject logic, reason and facts into a controversial current event I'm called a bigot or a coon. The worst part of it all is that due to current circumstances in my personal life, I would no longer be able to live outside of society on my own. So now I'm forced to sit idly by and be bombarded by people who say "black lives matter" yet would probably try to slit my throat if they heard me say something like all lives matter. I have friends who I no longer talk to simply because they are so extreme in their views on social justice, that they don't even want to hear counter-arguments. Everything I've once loved has been poisoned by this victim-hood ideology that by the looks of it, will be the death of democracy (If it ever actually really existed). Sorry for the wall of text, I just needed to vent.

[@Hello-pz6hb]

I hope you find peace, dear friend.

[@Le-cp9tr]

“They live” was prophetic

[@TheAzureNightmare]

And yet it was also a *Marxist,* and *Anti-Traditionalist* Satire.

[@honestkyn718]

@@TheAzureNightmare so they say...

[@Xplora213]

@@TheAzureNightmare irony should never be lost on the intelligent.

[@TheAzureNightmare]

@@Xplora213 Also 1984 and Animal Farm was made by an apparent Trotskyist.

[@Xplora213]

@@TheAzureNightmare are you missing some irony.... hmmmmm?????

[@rence234]

I'll quote TBBT on this "Sheldon you don't have a personality, you have some shows that you like"

[@Bunuffin]

It's a mental illness to not be able to distinguish reality from fantasy... I will stand on this point, as an artist myself. When you start censoring it will never end, remember? "Everything is sexist, everything is racist, everything is homophobic and we have to point it all out" You may not agree with some art, that's OK, but no one has been harmed by that piece of fiction... And no, your sensibility doesn't matter

[@slashbash1347]

Calling fat people "Fats" is hilarious to me. It sounds like a gangster name; "Yo, Tony, I heard Fats DePaulo is lookin' for yous."

[@danielkreiman1496]

Lol

[@awesomedawsonmg1940]

Hey fat Tony, fat Pauly is waiting at the docks. Hurry up, capish 🤌

[@NataliaNeeSama]

I really don't understand those "fiction affect reality" people. Usually you dismantle those people with the argument they always can't answer: "okay, so if I draw a picture of me killing Mickey, am I a murder now, since for you, fiction affect reality?" or "If I kill someone in a video game, do videogame produce killers like the conservative senators in the 90's claimed and they're pro violence?" They usually dodge the question with "Yikes! False comparations!", but it's not a false comparation. It's the argument "fiction affecting reality" a selective one? If so, how selective it is? Why murder in fiction doesn't affect reality but sex in fiction does? What are the metrics? Those people instantly crumble when this argument is presented to them and run away, or call you names and act like you defend immoral acts.

[@jtamiing559]

Selective moral outrage. The dumb fckers think fiction is the same as reality

[@Christopher-eq1rn]

The whole "yikes" shit is just the woke equivalent of calling something heretical. There is no rational thought behind it

[@lanceclemings4510]

Don't understand them. We have beaten this dead horse with definitive science so many times, yet they keep on insisting on resurrecting it with necromancy because they are fucking retarded moral busy bodies. Don't argue with them, laugh at them. They have also proven they are beyond understanding and reason; they only wish to push their dogma.

[@philliplup606]

Especially with people who oppose loli , I almost lost a friend cause didn't let go of wanting to discuss it once but I'm glad he doesn't hate me for it , though I decided to go the to each their own route and not discuss it even though due to canadian law saying their just drawings isn't an argument, but ya fiction doesn't effect reality

[@cwg9238]

"why are you looking at loli art? do you want to normalize pedophilia?" yes. whether i believe that or not doesnt matter, the reaction is always the same, either shocked pikachus or someone frothing at the mouth from an imaginary moral high ground. then again you can get that for totally mundane statements too, so..

[@ThePencilWizard]

“Kink shaming is my kink.”

[@johnrew5713]

SJW : "You need to change" Non SJW : "No thanks I'll think I'll stay the way I am." SJW : "What's the matter with you guys? You're always starting something".

[@zeogold]

In before the breadtubers lie about DEV again.

[@GingerJack.]

I've been reading a book called the fourth turning and it talks about a crisis that we are going through right now. There are an incredible amount of petty authoritarians who are trying to Gaslight other people into treating them like their rulers. I've been noticing this ever since 2015 when I really started to get into politics and I've been wondering why no one else has noticed it. I'm glad people are starting to catch on.

[@BigVorst]

Yeah, the 2013-2015 mark is where a lot of these things were just beginning...

[@TRENCHESandTREADS]

@@BigVorst Progressivism has been ruining the Western nations for decades, it didn't begin in the early 2010's, it became so egregious that it became noticeable to normies.

[@Gunzy83]

@@TRENCHESandTREADS Yep, I noticed this at university in the early 00's in my business classes (usually a good diversion from my engineering classes). Journalism majors in the politics cross over subjects were utterly insufferable and self-important, only their worldview was absolutely correct but it was based on zero knowledge of anything in the real world. Needless to say I riled a few of them up with logic and debate in tutorial classes. I am now well-read enough to identify the ideological underpinnings (these ideologies are much more confident now as well) but even then I knew these people were not true liberals even though at the time they would have identified as such.

[@F0r3v3rT0m0rr0w]

its been around for a while, the internet makes it a lot easier to voice your opinion without the threat of violence and embarrassment. humans were just never meant to be this social. even extroverts need to be introverted at times.

[@GodOfOrphans]

I actually noticed it around 07-08 which is when I became politically active and doing some historical research you can trace the roots of this nonsense back very far, they just became more brazen with time peaking around the 2016 election when they just went absolutely apeshit over trump and never really calming down since then, but it really became impossible to ignore for me with the Obama era and the endless race grifting and inflammation of tensions.

[@pikajew3578]

I identify as a gamer, the most oppressed class of them all.

[@raven75257]

One day gamers will rise up again

[@majdjinn5042]

Representation 100% does not matter, especially how marx whelps think it does.

[@Alex_Fahey]

"I could only enjoy the LotR because I'm short and have big, hairy feet." -- literally no one ever.

[@Hepabytes]

It matters if you want to gaslight the population into believing something that isn't a thing is a thing. 🤔

[@swapertxking]

representation will grow as capable individuals do within a society, they talk about how they arent represented and oppressed... from their fancy homes on their expensive phones or computers, making stupidly good money.

[@RyuuRider]

People want representation of what matters to them. For these people, it's about seeing their Ideology represented in the most on-the-nose way possible, and only in a good light. Representation isn't a harmful concept - immature fixation on it as a method of valuing the self and others, however..

[@miguelthedrawtist]

I wouldn't say it doesn't matter. But it's not and shouldn't be the be all, end all of people's orientation and existence in the world

[@philagelio336]

Brands and consumable products are becoming akin to religions. And everyone is having sectarian wars over them, lmao.

[@MALICEM12]

The result of the West having it's religion pushed out. People thought that the average Joe would be "Enlightened" and be a being based solely on logic and reason. But they aren't. Because Christianity wasn't replaced with another proper religion, people have made either their economics (and what they consume) or their politics their religion. It's human nature to be religious, so if people are urged to not follow a traditional religion, then they will simply be religious about something else.

[@Enclavefakesoldier]

@@MALICEM12 which is pretty goddamn ironic.

[@Tyler_W]

It's like the internet parody version of the Hundred Years War or something...

[@Tyler_W]

@@MALICEM12 you're absolutely right. Humans are inherently religious, even so-called atheists. Fascism, communism, and environmentalism, for example, aren't called secular religions for nothing.

[@rainierdanredondo1278]

@@Tyler_W except we are but moments away from anyone firing the first shot and casualty

[@williamalston3324]

As Christian, I do take comfort in moral absolutism rather than trying to wallow through the mire of moral relativism. Plus, anything that is virtuous, lovely, of good report, or praiseworthy, to seek after it.

[@theeccentrictripper3863]

The problem with that is Christianity has been defanged and doesn't have the moral weight to insist on those self-imposed absolute truths. People who stay Christian will be fine, for a time, but just like the country bumpkin "pagans" of ancient Rome the modern Christians will be torn to ribbons on the altar of a new dogma that presupposes its inherent goodness and truth. Frankly its the only silver lining we have, it took two thousand years but there's finally a new religion that has the cultural capital to do to Christianity what it did to the Pax Deorum. Hopefully we learn our lesson this time and side-step a millennia of war and dogmatism.

[@iainmuir6116]

One persons moral absolutism IS another persons moral relativism with or without falling into the trap that each system has the same value.

[@Crime_Mime]

@@iainmuir6116 Which is why you need solid philosophical tenants for weighing and defining morality, and not leaving it to the whims of opinion, popularity, or "X said so".

[@qqw5575]

@@theeccentrictripper3863 dude, you are literally cheering on the ideology that is killing the western civilization, as it was founded on Christian morals , it's not cool. Also radical leftism is not a religion, it's a cancer that growth on society, when it turns from God

[@cryamistellimek9184]

@@theeccentrictripper3863 Enjoy society fall apart because “at least Christianity is dead lmfao”

[@petrilofberg1758]

I like ships especially ww2 battleships they are hella cool.

[@jankthunder4012]

based and azur pilled

[@F0r3v3rT0m0rr0w]

you fiend ... WW2 planes are just better in every way ... your the devil. honestly typing this even as a joke kinda makes me feel pathetic, how do people seriously get heated over "my things better than your thing"

[@votecthulhu9378]

Whats your favorite ship?

[@petrilofberg1758]

@@votecthulhu9378 the uss missouri i love the fact that it fought the japanese in 1944-1945 and the iraqis in 1991.

[@votecthulhu9378]

@@petrilofberg1758 interesting that the ship was still viable even after such a long time. very cool

[@huntergman8338]

"If that were true, lgbt+ and racial representation in media would not matter." Correct. It doesn't, as the traits of a hero go beyond race and sex. That's something that bugs me about the concept of representation, it so often ignores the core point of a lot of stories, that good is not limited to any uncontrollable state, but core ideals. Doesn't help to that the whole "lgbt+" thing has a darker history that really should be explored some.

[@flamestoyershadowkill]

The traits of a hero Are Right reason, Prudence, Justice, Courage/Fortitude, and Temperance according to aristotle who nailed it best

[@huntergman8338]

@@flamestoyershadowkill Ah, thank you for that, I have a terrible memory and I couldn't remember all the traits.

[@Failzz8]

Man, the loli controversy is almost nostalgic for me at this point, it's what made me tune in to all this insanity years ago. "They want to ban loli because of what? Wtf that doesn't make any sense", and now orcs are racist and people can identify as emojis, boy am I excited to see what the world has in store 5 years from now.

[@heinoustentacles5719]

For me it was comics...

[@MooseCastle]

I just wanted to play video games man.

[@Snakedude4life]

I like Pokémon. But liking Pokémon is not my identity. Thus, Why people sometimes see me on certain channels and go “what are you doing here!?” I go where I please. If you don’t like it, _try and stop me._ 🎩 🐍 no step on SNEK! 🇭🇰🇺🇸

[@RobzdaBlade]

*dabs* Word man, and I like Yugioh.

[@thhrjdh5564]

So your favorite pokemon must be ekans.

[@Snakedude4life]

@@thhrjdh5564 I do miss Ekans but Sandaconda is growing on me. Especially when it’s face is literally a double barrel shotgun.

[@thhrjdh5564]

@@Snakedude4life what about seviper??

[@MajorMasonGaming]

*stops snek*

[@ChrisSuperDude]

I always viewed the purple haired SJW as being regular height and viewed New Guy as being like 6'4-6'5 and being a gentle giant.

[@sirquaffler542]

"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines who I am." ~Batman

[@Jordan-cy3di]

Imagine caring about the relationships of fictional characters

[@Born_Stellar]

If you are too ugly for a relationship fiction is all you have.

[@AShockToTheSystem]

@ Ugly Garbage Boy Heard of Dynasty? Our mothers and grandmas were crazy about relationships of fictional people in there. In fact, that's why soap operas were always so popular - lots of drama over fictional relationship and affairs. Then, after they finish watching current episode, they go to their neighbor and talk about nothing but that. Sometimes creating so much tension and disagreement that it turns into mutual lifelong hatred, over a dumb relationship in a fictional tv show. In its essence, what happens today isn't any different than that. What changed is the scale, the speed at which it spreads, and the range at which it can spread. It was always there, but never was it so exposed and so much in the open.

[@lemonduckstudios]

@@AShockToTheSystem but why should you be overly religious about it there’s is still no need

[@f.f.s.d.o.a.7294]

Even worse: fictional relationships about fictional characters.

[@spicewilliam9786]

Yeah, imagine a gay kiss can cause chuds like you to cry.

[@ZontarDow]

This isn't what our parents meant when they said "you are what you eat".

[@trevorp8124]

Vegetables?

[@exemplarybagel6979]

That saying is very true. Vegetables are very colorful, so vegetarians/vegans have very colorful/crazy personalities. That can be bad like Peta and Hitler. That can be good like Gandhi. Ironically, herbivorous animals are among the most blood thirsty: I'm looking at you hippos and elephants.

[@alexkaplan6581]

VEGGETEL

[@munch4007]

As someone who ships for fun seeing people attack each other over it is honestly exhausting. Just let me enjoy fictional shit bro.

[@BananaHoardX]

This reminded me of the Shen Bike Comic. "But, think of the poor criminal" Yeah sure bucko, you want another glass of Soylent with that statement?

[@discoprince9065]

4:20 as a person who was diagnosed with autism when I was young and had difficulty understanding sarcasm, even 10 year old me would call this stupid. Edit: I don't normally mention this because "being Autistic" hasn't really affected my life since I was 14 but I just wanted to make someone laugh.

[@jackalenterprisesofohio]

What do you think of bagels?

[@heinoustentacles5719]

@@jackalenterprisesofohio The best bagels were made in 1972.

[@IceQueen975]

"It's not the person's duty to not re-traumatize themselves!!1!" Actually it is, Jan. It's a YOU problem, not a me problem.

[@theactualTVB]

>Reylo "They best name that sh*t to 'Gaylo.'" -Chad Warden, 2007

[@Sheevlord]

"Looks like a dildo" - Chad Warden when he saw the sith dagger from the Ree of Soywalker

[@HiddenEvilStudios]

*PEE ESS TRIPLE!*

[@DustyCruz]

"Super Smash Bros. Ain't got one brutha in it!" -Chad Warden 2007

[@HeartReeves]

When I was a teenager there was a group of people who were constently depressed i got sad once and pulled that into me I was depressed for years just cause that commonality with those people defined me. It was only once i was out of school and forced to be alone that I finally shook that off.

[@TH3FAILWHAL3]

Why does the entire world seem like satire now

[@Born_Stellar]

while Ed isn't wrong, I think ithe root cause is because for decades the only people who wanted to be in power are idiots who shouldn't ever be given power.

[@fduranthesee]

The entire world/society is so fucking degenerate now... It’s like everyone is “quirky,” “weird,” etc, or putting their sicknesses and illnesses in their blurbs. Ancient civilizations like Sparta would’ve yote them long-ago,smh...

[@orppranator5230]

@@Born_Stellar Yes, that’s what happens when your society and it’s institutions start getting too old.

[@D00dman]

I appreciate that, even in you tearing into people, it isn't attacking people at their person and it seems to be more towards their outlandish behavior and thought process. The reigning ideological and political communities and trends tend to want to shit on people as people, when I feel things are much better in attacking their actions and thoughts. That respect for people's personhood really speaks to me and influenced me to sub to you. Thanks for being an understanding and realistic human, bro.

[@wingedhussar8552]

4:07 “considering our righteous anger as abusive is an alt right dogwhistle.” “It’s not abuse when I beat my wife, it’s just righteous anger that my sports team lost!”

[@Warpmek]

This explains why a friend of mine cut me off when Limbaugh died. I refused to shit on his grave even though I am not a fan of his. When bringing up that he did it to gay people, I said I won't stoop to his level. Now I understand it was a power play to force me to break my morals. I feel bad that he is so far gone.

[@Ancient_4]

I often ship Noam chomsky with stalin. They're so cute.

[@karlisulmanis3810]

Biden and Xi are cuter, please check your fax

[@fduranthesee]

@@karlisulmanis3810 I ship Joseph Stalin and Bernard Sanders

[@scottydu81]

I ship Stalin with Hitler (watch that video of those two singing “video killed the radio star. Apparently Stalin is fond of flute trills)

[@jackalenterprisesofohio]

I ship goods across Lake Erie.

[@NICK41206]

If you’re foaming at the mouth over not only fiction, but fanfiction because of something as stupid as a ship, you need to rethink your life.

[@jackalenterprisesofohio]

Well I mean TGAT whole debacle with the Evergiven.

[@danielsurvivor1372]

0:10 I'm kinda sad that New Guy died so fast, I had hoped we entered a new era of wholesome memes which will try to uplift everyone

[@PotionOfProof]

I had a feeling he was the calm before the shit really hit the fan..

[@dominiquesavoie568]

Weirdos being aggressive towards other weirdos... No seriously most shippers are aggressive against anyone who does not agree with their ship including the original author of the piece of fiction they decided to make fanfictions of... Personally I could care less about shippers and their ship.. but I draw the line at them attacking me for not caring about their bs or attacking the original author because their special brand of ship is not actually cannon...

[@davidfrancisco3502]

Most of all LGBT "muh representatiun" in media of the last decade are just agenda driven retcons, terrible Mary Sue characters shoved in unnecessary remakes and prequels made by talentless activists who hijacked IPs they never made.

[@Born_Stellar]

@@davidfrancisco3502 and why is brie larson the best choice for playing all the mary-sues? thats what i don't get.

[@person.mp4222]

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all." - Oscar Wilde

[@Sneedboy]

Nobody is invalidated. But nobody is right.

[@cwg9238]

i love how people throw around "you cant justify X" as if you are somehow accountable to them, as if they are an infallible supreme authority and you are under trial.

[@TBoneTony]

To point out an Anime/Manga example. In Fate Kalied Prisma Illya Season 2.5, that episode where one of Illya's friends becomes obsessed with Dojinshi and becomes a Fujoshi who ships 3 of her female friends as 3 males who are attracted to each other. I think that episode is the perfect example of how to treat shipping and other kinks. Let them enjoy what they enjoy as long as they are not hurting others. If you are uncomfortable with their shipping kinks, then pretend not to notice and move on in life. And to the person who enjoys shipping and other kinks, enjoy what you enjoy as long as you don't hurt others, but don't make it your own identity.

[@ShortFatOtaku]

Watching this when it's new? I'm streaming in about an hour, drop in! twitch.tv/gameboomers

[@zeroneonSOS]

bery cool

[@LambentV]

Don’t tempt me

[@justinbailey6515]

For fear of watching you body paint yourself, I must politely decline...

[@stcredzero]

Didn't GamerGaters treat being a gamer somewhat like an immutable characteristic? Sure, one can stop gaming, but that's a pretty big pill to swallow! By the same token, one can theoretically stop being Christian or stop being Jewish.

[@callumsparrow4379]

Projecting human rights onto intangible characters has always been insane.

[@heinoustentacles5719]

Haha for real. This ought to be the end of the argument. If anyone tries to start any of this bullshit just ham it up and say "Fictional Characters have no Human Rights."

[@flintglockwood]

15:19 the current ties between corporations and Socialism would make a very interesting video

[@TheMadVentriloquist]

When you consider that Social Justice has its origins in Jesuitism her behavior makes perfect sense: New Guy invokes the Golden Rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"; whereas the little Jesuitess invokes the maxim "The Ends Justify The Means". Pewds is white, rich and a gamer, therefore a heretic in her eyes; 120 years it would have been white, Protestant, and American, because New World American Protestantism is at odds with Old World Romanism; and he being heretic fulfills the maxim, "Keep no faith with heretics", which means summed up "X group is heretical, therefore all actions against them are just".

[@Vizaru]

actually insightful, thanks for this comment

[@TheMadVentriloquist]

@@Vizaru You are welcome. Read this to see how deep the Ws of the SJ go: archive.org/details/endjustifiesmean00hurl

[@unersame8253]

There I was thinking proshipping was shipping Projared and someone else

[@Born_Stellar]

Projared + Ever Given

[@scottydu81]

Projared ships with himself (dressed as a Sailor scout)

[@RobinMcBeth]

That you have *DECLARE* to not HARASS people for other their opinions... Holy shit, that went even further.

[@Soxmember69]

After recent shit, it's debatable whether being gay is an immutable characteristic.

[@Soxmember69]

@M G Yes it does seem to most of the time.

[@TRENCHESandTREADS]

@M G If you dress, act, or otherwise think differently because your whole identity is 'being gay' then I would say it's pretty obvious that it affects one's character, and as NineS correctly calls out, there's lots of evidence to suggest that there are gay people who are gay purely because of childhood sexual abuse or because they were raised to be gay. Gay parents are significantly more likely to raise gay kids, even if the kids are adopted, that means not all gay people are born that way, some of them are made.

[@TRENCHESandTREADS]

@M G You shouldn't? I haven't prescribed a value judgement to being gay, only that saying they're born that way is demonstrably false, at least in some cases. The reason it could matter to you though is if you care about people being corrupted by others. Someone who is born that way should be allowed to express themselves, but conversely shouldn't that also be the case for all the normal kids? They weren't born gay but their parents, or society, or an abuser made them so.

[@elodin857]

@M G is it fair to try to drive them away from gayness though? Thats the point of contention. I would for sure say that a straight way of life is much better in average, you get to raise your own children and not be a biological dead end, with the other person that also made them, you have to deal with the complementarity of the sexes and can't be all promiscuous unless you're crazy rich.

[@treceh]

I miss Twitter being actually fun and weird when now it’s just all about Tumblr transplants interpreting every single action or phrase as problematic or shitty or hate-filled.

[@mkv2718]

1:41 god, this is so true. Anytime I see someone utter the phrase “a TRUE FAN would....(insert literally whatever)” my brain just turns off entirely. Why some people base so much of their personality on other people’s work is beyond me.. Edit: I get why young people (as in teenagers) do it, my confusion comes adults who make “being a fan” their entire existence. Hell, I have things I am a fan of, but they don’t rule who I am as a person... it’s like when people won’t consider making someone a friend unless that person like the same music as them- it’s just weird, and frankly, shallow.

[@Born_Stellar]

think about how stupid the average person is. Then remember half of them are dumber than that.

[@DaedLizrad]

I find the concept of "normalizing through fantasy media" to be completely obnoxious. The fantasy is likely there regardless of the media and if you give it no outlet it will eventually burst out in the ugliest manner imaginable.

[@oceanpete36]

I wish I could get pro - shipping, I am fed up with parcels being thrown over my fence!

[@NirvashTypeSeven]

I consume RLM and I identify as a miserable, middle-aged drunk fron Wisconsin.

[@artemprotectron]

God, shipping is so cringe. I won't be that guy who tells you what you should believe or not believe. At the same time I sure don't mind sh1t-posting or laughing at these people if they make bad takes or do horrible things.

[@Snakedude4life]

“Come on, who hasn’t sent death threats because they want two characters to get together on a Children’s cartoon?”

[@railfan_3371]

I propose we bring back the swirly for these people

[@memnarch129]

@@railfan_3371 How about the Melvin?

[@jtamiing559]

@@Snakedude4life not a children’s cartoon, fetuses should stay away from anime

[@Snakedude4life]

@@jtamiing559 Have you not seen shipping for western cartoons? Moreover have you not seen the rabid, demented ravings of people who ship them?

[@slashbash1347]

It's amazing that some folks think being okay with something in fiction is the same as being okay with it IRL.

[@wert1234576]

It kinda is on you to watch put for things that mentally bother/harm you. I am missing part of my hand it was crushed in a roller now I feel very uncomfortable around rollers or things being crushed so I stay away from that stuff because it bothers me, it's my responsibility to take care of me both in mind and body.

[@cwg9238]

at least you dont get insulted if someone tells you you CAN get over it. no one says its easy, but eventually with just being exposed to and confronting that which makes you uncomfortable, it really becomes trivial. people who have been in car accidents can either never drive again and hide behind trauma, or just deal with it and be better/more careful drivers in the future. i wont say the former is bullshit, i understand it, im just saying the latter is the better outcome.

[@hamburgertrain6]

I’m glad you’re back, Dev. Please keep making quality stuff for me to enjoy. All the best from Vancouver Island.

[@ShortFatOtaku]

thank you!

[@hyperdimensionbliss]

"Why do you want to ship incest?" 1, it's not real, and 2, in the words of Rimmy, because that shit's hot.

[@thhrjdh5564]

Sweet home alabama.

[@kvproductions2581]

this whole problem IMO comes from grabbing an "ideology" or a group and just sticking with them and identifying with everything they say Be you, don't follow the herd, grab what you like from any ideology and don't be scared to form your own personal opinion that is unique to you

[@kateshiningdeer3334]

THIS. SO. MUCH. THIS!!! :-D Thanks for saying that! I feel like people are forgetting they can think for themselves! Do your own research - study what you really think - form your own beliefs, and then stick to them. Change 'em if you realize you were wrong. It's really not that hard!

[@TheSkyGuy77]

these ""people"" see evil people everywhere, because their soul is screaming back at them for all the evil shit they've done. In short, they see evil everywhere because they are themselves evil and that petrifies them.

[@maltardraco9555]

100.0% of leftist accusations are projections.

[@frug5629]

All I can say to these people. You're not gonna like what stares back at you in the abyss.

[@maltardraco9555]

@@frug5629 As far as I can tell. The abyss is all they can see. Like Plato's cave.

[@orppranator5230]

@@maltardraco9555 With a 2% margin of error

[@UnfairEnforcer]

It was only a matter of time for corporations to profit off of one of the most committed ideological groups out there, especially once there seemed to be little to no pushback against them. Now moderates wonder why all facets of society are geared towards a relatively small population.

[@valiantparagonvideos2383]

The most interesting part of that slide show was the part where the slide claims "it's only natural to want to kick freaks out" said without a hint of irony. Similar to how the same people who would have decried McCarthyism now want people banned from Social Media for wrong think. None of their principles they claim to have are true. It's always just a case where the bad and unpopular wanted the power and now they have it they still want to implement the old thinking. Infuriating.

[@davidgusquiloor2665]

McCarthy was right though. But yeah, it's mostly people wanting powergrabs, like Vaush himself admitted.

[@valiantparagonvideos2383]

@@davidgusquiloor2665 Well yes McCarthy has gotten kind of a bad rap. By these types of people. Because of power grabs.

[@artemprotectron]

Last time I was this early, I didn't want to consoom next product. Don't be that guy, there's nothing wrong with being critical :)

[@Snakedude4life]

Well, according to one idiot in these comments that would mean you’re canceling something.

[@mat2000100]

We can’t even consoom product because of the pandemic.

[@meangreen8873]

VERY COOL

[@CptMarkka]

Don't be a consooooomer. Be a customer with values, rights, ethics and opinions.

[@ascendantnine5636]

Immutable definition: “unchanging over time or unable to be changed.” One may find this shocking, but people can stop being gay or trans, people do change sometimes, it happens more often than the media would have you think. I’m just pointing out that being gay or trans cannot therefore be an immutable characteristic as you literally can change those characteristics if you choose to. A gay man can decide that he is no longer gay or maybe his preference CHANGES over time, a trans woman can go back to being a man, these characteristics are literally not immutable.

[@29-arnavsamant97]

...you are coming in favour of conversion therapy if that's the case.

[@user-gn4ts8jb7n]

Ive dead ass been told off for wearing a Terminator costume for Halloween. Why? Well he hurts women.

[@UnfinishedRiot]

I found that as I got older... I just felt empty when looking at merchandise. It was all just junk. I felt gross fetishizing fictional characters, or elevating fictional lore over real life. I just matured in a way that I put more value in the relationships with my loved ones, instead of just trying to purchase status within an anonymous community.

[@ftblr66]

People who believe that good is a point of view and love to deal in absolutes? Let's just call them Sith and be done with it.

[@theeccentrictripper3863]

The Sith are about as amoral as it gets, they believe in power and obtaining that power to achieve their goals, good and evil are irrelevant categories. The Jedi are closer to what you point out, they have a dogmatic view of the Force and anyone who rejects that view and path are being "tempted by the Dark Side", even those who are just grey Jedi. Not to say the Sith are moral paragons, as I said before they don't even indulge in the notion, but they don't actually deal in absolutes or dogmatic moral hierarchies, its just about knowledge and power, the goals met by obtaining those will vary wildly from Sith to Sith. So lesson of the day, don't take advice on morality from space wizards, they're all out of touch.

[@fduranthesee]

@@theeccentrictripper3863 Sith are based-&-redpilled...

[@iainmuir6116]

Ive noticed that the core component to a lot of bad ideologies is this strange optimism. Regardless of how people behave at the end of the day it is assumed that people will behave in a way beyond self interest just because it would be considered 'right'. Regardless of whether a person religiously believes that their own system of morality is objective.... just like everybody else, it would seem that most systems almost universally evolved from a set of values that ended up benefiting a persons in group.

[@Fjruh0101]

Tbh I hate when they said that loli art is bad cuz it’s not real. Like why loli art is bad but cuties is not? Sjw who hate loli art normally like real kids or teenagers. I know old Japanese voice actors voicing the characters but I won’t attack real kids and get white van.

[@matthewthomson6466]

damn, another solid take Dev.

[@lenhulan]

This makes a lot of sense. Many of these far leftists or LGBT people will resort to the argument of "I'm opressed, just let me have this" when you poke holes in their ideology

[@John-p1r8k]

Good and Evil exists in all of us, which is why Locke was right about our nature, not inherently sinful, not inherently virtuous.

[@kekkekson2484]

'Trans people should be able to marry if they are stable' Trans Stable Oh boy

[@Winasaurus]

"You may take a pound of flesh, but not a drop of blood"

[@robinthrush9672]

If a fat person falls on a deserted island, they will lose weight. If a fat person falls on a desserted island they will gain weight.

[@juanrodriguez9971]

> fiction doesn't affect reality, if that were true then representation wouldn't matter Omg, those are two sentences I absolutely agree with XD I have said this before and will say it forever; representation doesn't matter because "representation is a luxury, not a need", being represented is great but you absolutely don't need it, like, how many countries in the world do these people think exist? I'm telling you, more than the ones represented in any media, I see some USians (aka, Americans) saying "we are representing Latinos, here, look at this group full of Latino people" and we see only Mexicans, like, that's Mexican representation, not Latino, they are unintendedly excluding people from _Peru, Venezuela, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Belice, República Dominicana, etc._ And I have never seen people from these countries saying they need to be represented in media, they are just happy when the happen to be represented, just like Mexicans before the trend for representing us, because we as thirdworld people understand one simple fact, representation in media is useless because he have more important things and problems to focus on rather than if the description of any character includes us.

[@dandare9055]

People complain about loli... but not shota (which is basically same) nor Vore (which is commonly considered weird even in Japan) or Guro (which is pretty much peak of how messed up you even can be with fictional art). I mean: I'm certainly not pro censorship of any of that but the way some people approach it seems very weird. You would have to assume they are a-ok with murder and cannibalism aaand consider that boys cannot be possibly molested (yet consider all priests molesters... of... boys?... eh??). When it was old, 90s puritans - at least they were more consistent where all of things above would be naturally attacked. But now? It's not even self-consistent without being highly selective and bigoted in very premise.

[@ArbNiero]

Their entire argument is a non-starter. The whole argument hinges on the idea of "representation" being both valid and positive which I wholly disagree. I find the whole representation argument so stupid but I feel it never gets addressed, the framing of "representation is legitimate and/or good" is accepted and only the things around "representation" itself are addressed, at which point you are arguing from their perspective, just disagreeing to aspects of it. The science around this idea is very limited and dubious and what effect it does have (namely the mere-exposure effect) really only improves perceptions of groups that the person being influenced has had little to no exposure with. Because let's face it that's really all it's about, changing perceptions of so called "oppressed groups," a weird way of warping reality and culture through media. The thing is at this point homosexuality (this is a main target for "representation") is so wide spread you'd be hard pressed to find anyone that doesn't know someone that is homosexual. The same for minority groups (another big target for "representation") because seriously who tf has never met a black person or asian in their lives, the line of thinking is comical and almost racist on it's face. Definitely think this is a good idea for a video as I don't think it's a topic that is tackled hard enough and it's one of the main blind spots that these subversive types use to weasel into established media and start making arbitrary, sometimes major changes for the sake of "representation" rather than artistic vision or story significance.

[@iCABALi]

Representation so doesn't matter. I don't watch "normal" TV as a rule. I mainly watch anime and the types of anime I watch usually have a cast of primarily female asian characters of high school age or slightly older/younger. I'm pretty much your avatar in these videos, but with a goatee and glasses. I'm represented almost nowhere in what I tend to watch. Do I care? No.

[@jorge28624]

who defends marriage like that?? In principle marriage is geared towards creating new life.

[@robinbull6348]

I'm glad that there's someone here who still remembers reality. Most of the views here don't seem fully thought out.

[@TheHustlingFox]

"Any society that derives its power and authority from the will of man alone lives apart from God and will crumble in the end." - Joshua Graham (Fallout: NV)

[@Prep5242]

I don't enjoy killing, but...

[@TheHustlingFox]

@@Prep5242 when done righteously, it's just a chore... like any other.

[@ChrisSuperDude]

You don't know how many times I have said "we cannot expect God to do all the work" in an unironic fashion in the past 6 years.

[@Enclavefakesoldier]

"If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows." - Mr. House

[@ileutur6863]

@@Enclavefakesoldier Democracy is the only reason your loser ass gets to comment behind an anime pfp

[@CyphersBasement]

To embody all things is to don weakness, hence why you don't create media for all people. You create something that can be likeable, certainly, but you don't aim to please everyone, lest you admire a personalized obliteration.

[@SuiteLifeofDioBrando]

As a weeb gamer consumption is my identification.

[@Monsuco]

That SJW's criticism of shipping is so cringe it actually makes me want to defend lolicon. 😖

[@Underworlddream]

I seen and deal with these people before, they actually don't care and often like these taboo stuff they attack other shipper for, the difference is that is a ship they like and another they don't like. Mutiple time I seen their type railing against Incest fanfic and the next defending slash older/younger incest fanfic. It all just so they can have a power trip and purge stuff that against their ship.

[@andrewponder3855]

Lolicon is like animal movies, it's only okay if none of them were harmed in the making of it.

[@mrmcguru163]

This is what happens when people are bored

[@jamesthelamenter3403]

Virgin Consumer vs Chad Financial stability.

[@MagerBlutooth]

I've been thinking lately about the claim that the immutability of a trait is one of the key factors that makes it wrong to discriminate against it. It's something I used to believe, but I no longer agree. While it does make sense that it is unfair to judge a person for an aspect that they did not choose and cannot control, the degree to which it is wrong to discriminate for it seems entirely unrelated. For instance, if people had the ability to fully and perfectly switch their race at will, I couldn't argue that discrimination against race is suddenly less wrong. On the other hand, if race were 100% provably tied to behavior, it would be more justified (albeit still messy), whether race could be switched at will or not. In such a case, the act of switching race could have moral value ascribed to it, depending on what behaviors the different races produced. If people started keying red cars all across the country, the fact that you could simply paint your car a different color to avoid the discrimination wouldn't make the discriminatory act more justified to any degree. The option of choice seems irrelevant, unless we can ascribe some form of moral or societal value to that choice, such as with obesity or improper sexual acts. If someone were born with no sense of compassion and prone to erratic burst of violence, we may be more sympathetic to them than if they chose to act in such a way, but it would be just as valid to discriminate against this person regardless, given the inherent danger they pose to others. That's how I see it, anyway.

[@danielsurvivor1372]

4:14 "Always claim to have the high ground" That Twitter user projecting haaaard

[@joseignaciomontes5712]

15:54 "it's generally good to be polite" seems like your source might be your country dev

[@MykeLewisMusic]

Yeah, that whole politeness thing is just a rumour.

[@bandaid6550]

If you're going to accept the premise that representation is significant, then representation of negative things is significant. The problem stems from their worldview, but at least it's logically consistent within their moral framework.