Comments by "Maro Cat" (@marocat4749) on "ContraPoints"
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That comment she mentioned is great, that commenter that agnowledged the hurt when watching. Because that is strong, to agnowledge feelings that are harmful but not acting harmful to yourself or others for that reason instead reflecting.(Even angry shouting reflecting if it gets that out, thats why i think fighting in arguments is good if you learn from them) . Its good reflecting even in angry emotional debates if we actually reflect. And that comment, that person is strong as person for doing that, its sadly, not expected from a lot of. Person good rolemodel i mean. Accepting flaws instead of refusing to reflect with selfcare. Great rolemodel.
Rant aside, I think you hit thre something. Everyone has pain and feels and things they are insecure and , thats a good take, personally.
And its easier to ignore than agnowledge not great things in youeself, society, a partner,relative ...,. in general. Thats just true.
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@K_i_t_t_y84 Yeah but i alsothink she i cis, an just has dysphoria, hey shows dysphoria does not have tomake you trans, just sadly often the case. If only she were willing to like liten toother people that , like di he ever have therapy on that?! Whatever that is, i dont want armchair psychology too much.
Any forgiving her has to be on her honest to god regretting and denouncing what she did, an relect of it, unlikely, he is too ruch and stubbern, but that, ..
Anyways there is a big fanmarkt there is zero cent to rowling(and oftn bettr quality) , you can doit yoursel, there i fanfic thats better anyways. Alo hite crettive or ask amily riends todoiit , ...
Ther ar ways to aproviate it withoutever forgiving her if peopl really want that. No need for her.
i also dont know what dyphori she has there.
Also yah its gendr euphoria that makes people trans there, nt dysphoria.
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Apearently chamberlain supported israel out of antisemitism, in that he thought that the "jewish cabal" would support him. And the later is just a conspiracy theory, but it led to israel support bias apearently which is interesting.
And very obviously i dont mean that, but why is there no irish conspiracy, aside the american and othe ranti irisgh disctrimination that was very real, and some people might still have. But why is in banks no one having a nonsensical conclusion to irish banker, there are surprising many irish banker apearently ly that would make way more sense than the "jewish banker" one.
And yes irish has too a history of discrimination irish rebel songs are a banger, and i know luck of the irish, is an ironic proverb. i will not play down and that, but because the stereotype to be degrading is poor , no one makees any about "irish banker" that i dont give too much but it makes more sense than jewish by numbers. right? Its nabout stereotypes not anything factual there, and its bad to trust stereortypes over looking things up. In things that are actually real.
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I find it interesting if she did insert a popular muggel protection activist group , and newt sympathizies and is par of them and he gerts hated because of that, bad worldbuilding aside, it could caputure actually bette rthan the original the problems with faschism. Like yeah even grindelwald as odd as it seems and badly done thinks he is prewenting the natsees, or at least he says, that it is nessesary to protect...
And handle that characte and threat of end eason 1 btter, just let him die tragically please.
Even him being part of th system and doing an opression and so, it could work, if it ere better though out.
Hell add the am rhetoric she uses there as text in some panic making, the radicalization in a well meaning mind reader even. There could be a point. Grindelald despite making no sense could be a threat, because he appeals to our bigotry. He is a let don, but h believes that and it can sneak in even in mind readers.
I know its not only her, but that dumb crime of grindelwald understands how scary natsees use bigottry there and the call it muggelphobia and dehumisation leads to dark places for everyone. And is bad, donrt dehumanize, examine yourr bigotry or you can fall for the dumbest worst propaganda.
Could have been.
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pronouns arent a courtesy, i would say they are, you call people diferent out of repect, yes it is an owd courtesy to human beings. Thats why titles exist, coursesy, and why pronouns, and misgendering is extremely direspectful if done conciently, at best, , dehumanizing at worst and verbal violence. As she would be fine all the time being misgendered. And why i didnt call jk a guy despite a male pen name. Logically people could call jk robert and him, but dont, because it would be hurtful migendering.
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An apearently he nvr worked out why the phlep church was a hategroup, and i am very reormist, but there is a difernc between a person that gets and work out why they were in a hategroup and work out that innr baggage youget, by being in such a group. (also why some atheists never leave the absolute mindset of a undamentalist chuch, most do, but some, just change targets)
Bu yeah i am reormatist an secongd chances, and i get people from culty cgroups are primed to fallintoanothr, butmany do work in that internally too, and thats good.
But i dont think megan rally did, hate isnt because you are unacceptable, being nice hatefful. is no better. The problm i the hateul attitude.
Also i were ine i rowling to quot vaush just shut up and didnt talk about it too, to be clear, but interalied aggag coming rom culty groups, is strong, and yeah, megan isnt out of it. polite isnt nice.
Peter has still wok to do aand i hope he keeps working on it, is that.
Also of course minorities oten do, but dont have to put up with that "education" .
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Debate can vary, and are great i people know what they are doing. Tha yeah its great if people mayb thimk about it, but if fsomeone has no such commo ground way, its still good, youjust have to expose them and then entertainingly enough make clear why thats wrong, with the lowest common denominator if possible. To make the audience hopeully thinkor leave a seed o , hmm.
Also lowest common denominator and low an basic is very good to reach as many as possible. Alo ther is , uing arguments but not leftist language, can be incredibly effective not let somone close their mind and listen . (which isnt nessesary tohave slurs, through its no making it bad per se either)
I think a writing take is pretty good in regards o civildiscourse there, learn the rules, beore you break them, that is wher i think th best trolling comes rom, getting both the "civil discourse" and how to disrupt effective, be that radical or plain efective trolling.
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Ther is the amazing scene from Angel the series where, and the context that he drives to hell in a universe matters less than what what it says. So he dis alienate his friends and went off the rails and as redemption tries to go to the source of evil, to fight it, and he goes in an elevator, and is led to the "source of evil in the world"
And its a park, with a struggling homeless person, at night, and the elevator du, yeah there is the quote"when it doesnt seem to matter it matters the most to fight" to go on, to help people, to be a decent person. To pay attention to people. Its a fantasy series ok but thats the spirit. People matter. that one. You loose and mistakes but learn and just go and learn from mistakes if you have to and its no fault wher eyou have to just take it on thats the spirit.. You dont have to be great just do your best to be a decent person and help where you can feasable and if you make mistakes, thats life too.
And that that everyday humanity, matters a lot.
OhTerry pratchet is great ok and if thats where you get the take on how humanidy everyday maters and its worth trying is, also great.
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Ok scifi and fiction has fun with conspiracy theories in which its fine, because its fiction, its entertainment, its a fun arg sometimes, which are fine, pervy fiction, is ffine, weird fiction making stuff up, is fun. Roleplay and larping, is fun.(even through the amount of child abuse and fetishizing it in projecting conspiracies is very converning as, yeah same people kinda em, its convcerning to project too much about it,like whats to project, things lie coer ups and child marriages and other? And yes i unironic i trust a drag queen over a priest wth a child. for starters)
There is a legot place for magical thinking and making up stuff and searching for meaning in obscure things, and its fiction. be it larping, roleplay or having fun overanalyzing and subscribng meaning to weird thing,s stha are fiction and realized as that. Yes fiction can do that and be real, but we know its still that.
And yes people have and can have superstitions and thats fine as you are selfaware ok. Whatever someone likes if there is no harm and they are selfaware enough to not make it harm ful not shut down critical thinking.
And its fine to have beliefs as long as you aware as you respect others beliefs too if no harm and yeah are selfaware , ik being respectful if not harmful others whatever is a thing to be honest. And you have it fill needs thereok, but not replase being a human people living in realits thats a person capable of, basically dont let cults relace your personality, dont make a religion or belief your entire personality ok. Or even donr make a thingyour entire personality even as general tip to not go crazy.
And george Carlin wasnt a conspiracy theorist, he might be an absurdist comedian , whch is, an artist. That uses art to make commentary at worst. And that invoilves yeah comedy can extragate fr the sake of a point and Carlin deserved bette rfans than media illaterate conspiracy theorists.
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Its not only the sunlight, but the monstrousness edward says he is, could be way more explored. He could be a monster boyfriend, instead a kinda angel. Not even a biblically accurate horrifying angel. But there isnt much of a monster boyfriend if its just selfloathing.
Oh yeah the werewolf stuff thats just , bad, and on a minority tribe, that really exists, is, so. Its even weak. Werewolves deserve better and seen as danger and their, , they deserve better.
Ad ther are too many omegaverse out there tha are pretty good that its not tha alpha BS, but a swallow and terrible way of writing it :(
Oh the webtoon kubera the last god is good, bette rtranslation on mangadex, so good aberz often sad romance.
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If conspiracy theories they are confirmed one way or anothewr by being declassified, or with mlks alleget assasination, ther is a whole case that documents why despite like the evidence gon there is a real trail that is pretty mich evidence. Its so much it counts, and a jury sentenced on, that so its legit and the king family and other strange things, the case actually convenient documents.
So its an , yeah very likely happened , so its not a theory anymore, or in a lot cases , made public stuff.
Also like with ufos, several organisations of the state did gaslit people and did kinda cause conspiracy theories to, first smoke and mirror about actual ufos, jest secret flying projects, aka secret planes and stuff.
And the second benefit if the person later calls of an informant from an agency feeding them that, who will believe them.
So actzual agencies actually spread conspiracy theories and that to gaslight people to use them as smoke and mirror, and discredit them if they find an actual weird experiment, and its public that the agencies did weird projects, not aliens, just weird and often cruel stuff.
I like the xfiles episodes where a government dude straight tells the lone gunmen, you are told a lot of that to ignore whats really going on.
And yeah there is proof of more boring but proven real bad stuff in the world, and conspiracies do distract from calling that out, and discredit maybe even people saying, its crazy.
And that actual even is rarely satisfying or makes narrative sense, but it can be very strange, and we have actual evidence on stuff, but conspiracy theorists dont care.
And as lover of strange stuff, tha talso closes eyes from actual real thinngs that are wonderous and interesting thats more interesting than everything having to have a payoff, making sense or be satisfying, but the worls is chaotic and wonderous.
Also the xfiles motto ,"i want to believe" shows that yeah its more akin to a religion, or cult.
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