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  • It's widely people that cared about third party Reddit development, so they'd automatically have to have some basic understanding and care for open software. It doesn't take much knowledge of computers to understand this, but it also doesn't take a ton of knowledge to understand this meme.

  • Insane rule

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  • Gardevoir and Gallade are canonically trans. Pokemon. Gallade has blades on his arms for self defense, so he has no need for a penis. While Gardevoir does not have blades on her arms so she needs an absolute battle axe of a penis. One of the last things Reggie said before retiring.

  • Yeah, there's a reason my response to you is purely ideological. I recognize you as a decent poster here, I'm not trying to tear into you. However, we both agree that Vaush's behavior is problematic. I'm explaining why I have such a strong distaste for Vaush separate from any controversies or shitty takes is his use of dehumanization. Dehumanization is just objectively bad and harmful rhetoric. I'll punch Nazis all day, but even Mao forgave the royal family and let many of them live normal lives after the revolution. Everybody is human.

  • Yeah, I do not understand how this guy still has so much support when I've seen much larger creators lose their following off a lot less. Like if you're a leftist streamer, there is no reason this type of rhetoric should ever come out of your mouth.

  • Oh you didn't bash tenderqueers. I'm saying that the Keffals "make fake picrews" shit she did should be grounds for bans yk? Tenderqueer is a claimed term, using the term is fine. But we really shouldn't have a space for the type of shit Keffals was calling for in an instance like this. I'm not going to be positive about trans people being attacked as a demographic on the trans safe space. There's no room for that trolling here. If you think you're bashing tenderqueers, maybe you should take a step back and think about why you felt that statement applied to you. I'm not saying I even like the people that claim to be tenderqueer, but the fact is I have no reason to speak or punch down to them.

  • It's so cruel, and I honestly think bashing tenderqueers should be grounds for an instance ban. Being the trans safe space instance and all, I care far more about the tenderqueers than the debate bros who like the memes.

  • Great breakdown on why even if Vaush wasn't a piece of shit (he is) his debate format is inherently problematic. Ben Shapiro can win debates, I used to copy his style when I was in debate class. Not completely, but definitely used the speaking at a weirdly fast pace to make it hard to follow

  • Can you actually define tenderqueer or is that just some signifier like woke and sjw? These are terms that have very little real meaning and just get thrown around to dismiss people for being loud. Vaush has said many transphobic things over the years and always just doubles down afterwards instead of actually listening to trans people. It would be different if he didn't have tweets about how his trans friends get too mad over being misgendered over text, but he does. If that's all that is required for vaush to consider you a tenderqueer, then its a signifier for queer people vaush doesn't like to dismiss their feelings while claiming to be an ally of trans people. It's the same type of toxic ranting right wingers do on trans people and SJWs, except they don't lie about it.

    Look, I've already been through my debate bro phase, I was even in debate in high school during it. Going into the conversation with the goal to be right isn't constructive, especially when you don't have any specific advocacies besides for just your beliefs. Dunks/owns are performative more than anything, they're a display of superiority over the stupid opponent. It doesn't advance anybody's thinking, it is inherently stagnant because both people have advocacies to defend and will not give them up. This works well with strong original thinkers like Zizek and Peterson (don't like Peterson, not saying his thoughts are any good but he's definitely a thinker) but a debate is only as valuable as the actual thinkers themselves. Vaush doesn't really change his worldview unless he's just reacting to the world around him, he isn't a right winger, but he is a reactionary. Vaush might shift people a little to the left and that's kinda cool, but he doesn't challenge them to actually think about their beliefs. It's just giving them a more palatable set of paint.

    Vaush is not a voice for trans rhetoric. Even if he wasn't talking about trans people in this clip, calling people subhuman is inherently problematic Dehumanization is the base of bigotry..

  • I call him out as a sex pest in other comments.

    Also, CIA intervention has pretty much never made anything better. Afghanistan was actually doing pretty well before the CIA militarized them against the communists.