Recent content by ThatLurker

Also, I tried dropping into the discord server advertised in the OP, I sat there for days with an application filled out. I left since I figured it might be a dead chat :blobshrug:

An LGBT group is already inherently political. It's a group of people who experience oppression and share the same concerns of the world. If people were accepting of LGBT people, we wouldn't be having gender-segregated restrooms, or breaking news that California is allowing third gender options...

And how deep of a rabbit hole would you want to go? I can argue "yes, this person is being selfless. Here is an example". Or, I can try to make a claim of "yes, selflessness is a normal part of the human experience". Both routes for argumentation is difficult for me to defend and you can very...

Am I the only one completely bewildered by people asking this question? :facepalm: I've had many selfless moments. People have acted selflessly for me. Saying that people do this to boost their ego says more about how you act than what it says of how people actually act. e.g. I've never met a...

Lack of social media didn't stop people from organizing protests against oppression

I wonder where casinos fit into this picture? :smogthink:

I'm going to nitpick on this point... If you want to do something about that, you need to "kick up". Call them out, set them as an example of what not to do. Either you allow yourself to be disrepspected, or you stand up for yourself. Either way, do not care about what they will think of you -...

What I think I see is police people being strained from civil disobedience and said protests are pushing people past a breaking point. I feel like there's something you're seeing that I'm not... Definitely, the police is how you keep order... having them turn on their own state is bad news for...

Where did you hear that?

A 'perfect game' is purely subjective. Some people prefer sandbox-type games with no aim, others want a concrete objective. Many love roleplaying elements. Roleplaying is not important to me. Some people like competitive, others cooperative. Game design is a new field of study, people are still...

Do you have to understand the concept of linking the artist to their works? Whether you link the two or not is a matter of opinion. What is not a matter of opinion is that people will link the artist with their art. The artist is a product of their environment. The art is a product of the...

No shade, but Smogon does kind of reward people for being indoorsy.... People have called me a "normie" on there because I don't understand pop culture references But either way, literally the only places I've seen people use autistic as an insult is on the internet. No where else

Funny to think the last person who called me autistic was a tactless person who talks about Yugioh cards in a pokemon discord

Politely ask how they feel about their smoking habit. If they seem negative about it, politely ask if if they want to quit. If they don't want to quit, there is nothing you can do and at that point you're really just a controlling friend if you keep pushing. If they want to quit, ask how you...

Both indirect and direct colonization both have a fundamental problem of one culture having power and control over another. Especially under what you consider "direct colonization", it's the European powers trying to "civilize" the perceived inferior culture. No choice is given to the colonized...