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  2. If debate is such a waste of time why have people like Destiny and Vaush won so many people over to the left? I think the issue is less with debate and more with you.

    if debate is so healthy and productive, why are debatebro fans such insufferable pricks?

  3. best beverage to slurp late at night when you're thirsty but not going to bed yet?

    soy milk straight from the carton

  4. Liverpool or Manchester City?

    sorry I've never been to Australia

  5. Value does not appear intrinsically and instead arises contextually from person to person and your premises also ignore the existence of consent. Y'all completely failed at tying economics to ontology, what do you have to say for yourselves?

    Hi! This isn't in reply to any specific post and these statements are kinda vague. If you'd like to me to reply to the substance of your argument, would you mind elaborating on it? Consent and the contextual nature of value both get pretty complicated when you put them in a market, so I'd need to know how you're employing them. :)

  6. i'm certain you get questions like this all the time since i imagine most vegans get questions like them all the time but i don't have any vegan friends so i've not really got anyone to ask. i'm asking not to denigrate or poke holes in your reasoning, but to get an idea of where you stand and where you come from on being vegan, since you tend to give level and reasonable arguments for almost everything people ask you about here.

    why exactly are you a vegan? is your objection to eating animal products ethical, moral, political, or environmental?
    do you eat honey?
    i keep a few chickens for their eggs. they're all happy and healthy. would you be comfortable eating their eggs?

    do you have a favorite vegan version of a typically non-vegan dish?

    I am vegan for moral reasons. no animal needs to die or suffer for me to live, so I cannot justify eating products of their suffering. I used to be more dogmatic about the boundaries of my veganism: no gelatin, no refined sugar, no honey, etc. I've gotten less so in the last few years, so, while I don't buy or cook with honey, I will occasionally eat something with honey in it if there's nothing else around.

    I wouldn't eat the eggs from your chickens because, at this point, they would give me the shits. but I don't morally object to you eating them!

    I have many favorite veganized dishes! the jerk seitan in Vegan with a Vengeance by Isa Chandra Moskowitz is a staple in my house.

  7. Ian, you're following the advise you yourself gave at the end of Why Are You So Angry?, do I need to remind you about what you think of that advise in the present?

    in response to You've conveniently overlooked the part that height is highly correlated with birth sex, which is the irrefutable kind of example you asked for; the point being that we should make arguments that can't be invalidated just by pointing out actual facts

    I deliberately keep my audience on this platform small so I can, with a degree of safety, have these kinds of arguments without spreading the BS very far. these are the kinds of people I can't speak to very often, and this is a *somewhat* safer environment to do it, where I have a decent amount of control over what gets seen (there is more overtly transphobic stuff in my inbox that I simply delete). I don't know how productive any of this is - I doubt it's convincing the people I'm arguing with, and I don't know that these are arguments my own side needs to hear, but it can possibly plant a seed and can sometimes illuminate how the other side thinks.

    it's probably a waste of time and just me venting about transphobia, so maybe I should stop.

  8. You've conveniently overlooked the part that height is highly correlated with birth sex, which is the irrefutable kind of example you asked for; the point being that we should make arguments that can't be invalidated just by pointing out actual facts

    in response to AMAB people are taller on average, which is an advantage in some sports like basketball that doesn't go away from taking hormones

    you know Black people are, on average, taller than white people, do you support segregating basketball? or do you wanna rethink this line of reasoning?

  10. Why do you consider Kill All Normies to be a bad book?

    in response to Why not?

    I know enough about it to know Nagle primarily takes the Alt-Right's talking points at face value without interrogating them, accepting the premise that "social justice" is driving people Right and should be abandoned. The chapter on the book in Elizabeth Sandifer's Neoreaction a Basilisk was very enlightening, but here's an article about the book that I can link you to: https://newsocialist.org.uk/normietivity-a-review-of-angela-nagles-kill-all-normies/

  11. Do you know what it’s about?

    in response to Why not?

    yes

  12. How did you complete reading House of Leaves (if you did)? My friend has struggled through reading dem footnotes and dont get him started with the off-kilter compressed texts and random minimal words per page (my friend about to go insane each day of reading HoL)

    I completed it because I enjoyed it! if your friend isn't enjoying it he should probably stop. though I will say, once you get through the labyrinth chapter it starts going a lot faster.

  13. Thoughts on The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities, the non-fiction book by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy?

    I read some of it back in the day. It's a pretty good primer on polyamory, though a bit white and a bit woo-woo.

  14. Google it

    in response to I’m sorry the average women’s experience isn’t good enough for you, but if your favorite citation is a twitter thread claiming there’s no advantage because women dominated football only when men weren’t present I don’t think any amount of sports records or stats will convince you

    you've moved the goal posts from "trans women have an advantage in sports" to a nonspecific "cis women feel a type of way about it." can you tell me what, specifically, the "women's experience" you're referring to is? you know, so I can google it.

  15. Should trans women be able to compete before or without HRT?

    in response to I’m sorry the average women’s experience isn’t good enough for you, but if your favorite citation is a twitter thread claiming there’s no advantage because women dominated football only when men weren’t present I don’t think any amount of sports records or stats will convince you

    I haven't looked too deeply into that, but there's a lot of healthy discussion among trans people about the subject

  16. What's one thing you enjoy most about being single?

    I haven't been single in 12 years

  18. who do you main in smash bros

    nobody anymore, but I was ride-or-die Captain Falcon

  19. If it's meant about neoliberal capitalism & unrestricted trade?

    in response to Are you pro or against globalism?

    i'm against it

  20. Why not?

    in response to Have you ever read Kill All Normies?

    I don't read books just to prove to myself they're bad

  21. Should Myst III have been called Myst II: The sequel to Riven?

    It should have been called Exile: The Sequel to Riven

  22. I’m sorry the average women’s experience isn’t good enough for you, but if your favorite citation is a twitter thread claiming there’s no advantage because women dominated football only when men weren’t present I don’t think any amount of sports records or stats will convince you

    in response to Evidence would be talking to any women on the planet about why being alone with a man can be a terrifying experience

    how about more than zero

  23. Are you pro or against globalism?

    when you say "globalism" do you mean the spread of neoliberal capitalism and unrestricted trade around the world to create one hegemonic monoculture?

    or are you using a dogwhistle for "jews"?

  24. :O Ian listens to Weird Al. This makes my day. Do you have any favorite parody song, since Albuquerque is one of his originals?

    in response to favorite weird al song

    god it would be so easy to mention some random song parody from the Napster days that was misattributed to Weird Al, but I'll be nice:

    Party in the CIA
    White & Nerdy
    Trapped in the Drive-Thru
    Amish Paradise
    Smells Like Nirvana

  25. best flavours for vegan milkshakes?

    I like the "dad's frappe" which is chocolate and strawberry

  27. Have you ever read Kill All Normies?

    fuck no

  28. Is Lost Highway a neonoir?

    I would have to willingly watch a David Lynch movie to find out

  30. Athletes who dope don’t always get first place, does that mean doping should be allowed?

    in response to (Different anon) Where exactly is the hard and fast proof that in every sport where a trans woman plays against a cis woman the trans woman will win every single time? Even Alia Thomas, who conservatives made a big stink about for placing 1st in a swimming event made 4th or 5th in all her other events that day.

    if the athletes are doping with homeopathic water solutions that don't actually provide an advantage, sure, why not?

    y'all little pissers keep begging the question of whether being AMAB provides any advantage. if it's so demonstrable, why aren't you filling my inbox with evidence? why all these analogies and hypotheticals?

  31. i saw your tweet about how this question led you to waste 45 minutes on the wikis. as someone else with adhd i feel your pain and sorry for contributing to your mind spiral. did you learn anything new and/or interesting and/or helpful about the game during that time? (if you're trying to do work when you read this, please don't let me distract you)

    in response to started playing nuclear throne and i know you've played a bit of it. any obscure tips for getting better? im consistently dying at the scrapyard

    I think a little more lore has been added to the wiki since last I was there, but mostly, no, I was just rereading things I'd read before

  32. favorite weird al song

    Albuquerque

  33. (Different anon) Where exactly is the hard and fast proof that in every sport where a trans woman plays against a cis woman the trans woman will win every single time? Even Alia Thomas, who conservatives made a big stink about for placing 1st in a swimming event made 4th or 5th in all her other events that day.

    in response to What do you mean citation needed? You know cis men don't compete with women right? Why do you think that is? Use all three of your lefty braincells and I'm sure you'll figure it out.

    that's the citation one would need, but it unfortunately doesn't exist

  34. Favorite Radiohead record?

    ok computer, but I have soft spots for kid a and the bends

  35. Do you like Wii Sports or Wii Sports Resort? Do you have a favorite sport in either of them?

    i don't have a wii

  36. What’s your strange addiction?

    dr pepper

  37. What do you think of The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes?

    in response to What do you think of OK Computer?

    I prefer Strongest Man in the World

  38. started playing nuclear throne and i know you've played a bit of it. any obscure tips for getting better? im consistently dying at the scrapyard

    Crystal, Robot, and Horror have pretty good survivability, if I remember correctly. also, if you know how to get to YV's Mansion, you car try unlocking a golden weapon to give yourself an edge in the early game. but, by and large, I only got better by throwing myself against the wall over and over. it's only gonna get harder from there!

  39. What's a pop culture trend that should be revived? Like waterbeds or Tamagotchis.

    Marvel card collections, because I have this full set of '94 Fleer Ultras that absolutely REFUSES to appreciate in value

  40. What do you mean citation needed? You know cis men don't compete with women right? Why do you think that is? Use all three of your lefty braincells and I'm sure you'll figure it out.

    in response to Do you mind that trans women have a competitive advantage over cis women or do you think they need to stop being snowflakes about it?

    see, if you'd looked for a citation, you would've found that, actually, most sports start out without gendered separation, and then get split when women start playing and are better than expected and men feel emasculated by that fact, so they give them their own league (or, more often, bar them from the sport entirely at first until outcry forces them to make a separate league). you just upheld sexism in your attempt to be transphobic, as is usually the case.

  41. Do you like any real-life sport at all? Even if it's something as simple as ping-pong.

    I don't *follow* any real-life sports, but I generally find most sports interesting and will enjoy myself in the audience. roller derby is very exciting. ping-pong is surprisingly deep. basketball and football can both be very interesting. baseball is fun on TV, less so in person (games are really slow and far away). but, yeah, nothing has crossed the gap into "I want to continue paying attention to this."

  42. Do you mind that trans women have a competitive advantage over cis women or do you think they need to stop being snowflakes about it?

    in response to Thoughts on that trans sports debate?]

    [citation needed]

  43. Since the altright playbook is nearly finished you should probably do a video series on the actual people driving away reasonable people on the internet, lefties. But then again since most of your audience is made up of people like that I imagine that'll never happen.

    share your (presumably copious) research and I'll consider it

  45. Were you suprised how quickly republicans re-normalized homophobia in last couple months?

    sadly no

  46. You ever visited Harvard or one of the Ivy League schools?

    I live in Boston, I walk through the Harvard green all the time on my way around Cambridge. also my partner and I met while they were going to Brown. I feel like I was maybe on the Princeton campus once for some reason? maybe I'm making that up.

  48. Chapo Trap House did an episode (478 - World Tree Center) challenging the point that it was a white savior narrative. I can't say I was entirely convinced but if I recall correctly they compared it to other uses of the white savior trope to illustrate how it was qualitatively different. IIRC a big part of it was that Jake abandons any privilege he could have in that situation by even surrendering his humanity, whereas many white savior stories allow the main character to preserve their whiteness, connections to colonial powers and "specialness" over the people they save. If anything, if you take it as a real world parallel, it was as close to a portrayal of the suicide of one's whiteness as a movie can get.

    That's just what I remember. And again, I'm not entirely sold (and even if I was convinced it wouldn't make me like the movie) but I still found it interesting food for thought.

    in response to How dodgy are Avatar's politics?

    that is a supremely bad take

  50. What were you doing on 9/11?

    9/11 was senior picture day

  51. Why do some people say men can’t be feminists, only feminist allies? (This is not a terf thing afaict)

    in response to Would you call yourself a feminist?

    I haven't heard that particular argument so I can't say.

    Myself, I used to claim "ally" because "feminist" felt presumptive. Like, there is both the ideology of feminism - that women are equal peers to men and deserving of the same rights - and the feminist movement - the effort to bring those conditions about. The word "feminist" can apply to either, and, while I'm definitely the first, I thought claiming the second was, I dunno, cocky? Appropriative? I'm not exactly "part of the movement" just because I talk about feminism on YouTube sometimes. So I went with "ally" because implying I'm a cheerleader seemed more accurate.

    But then that started to feel weird. I mean, who gets to declare themselves an ally? Like, the US didn't enter the Allied Powers in World War 2 by saying "we're allies!" You've gotta sign a treaty, contribute to the war effort, put skin in the game. People have to accept your offer of allyship, you can't just announce it unilaterally.

    So I decided I was being stubborn and just embraced "feminist" and tried to commit better to being part of the movement in whatever ways I can.

    This may change again, politics are always a work in progress, but I try to be thoughtful about my labels.

  53. Bad shit happening to horny people is a common cliché, especially in horror movies

    that is not a question

  55. Whenever I hear that there are supposedly 10+ Avatar sequels in the works, I think "Surely that's not right, that's gotta be an elaborate prank."

    Are Hollywood studio executives really THAT out of touch?

    there are 4, so, yes, you are being pranked, but still!

  56. Would you call yourself a feminist?

    I would and do

  57. ,,,can a ride have dodgy politics? How would that even function?

    in response to Does Space Mountain have dodgy politics?

    Splash Mountain is full of characters from Song of the South, the film Disney won't release because it's, ah... well, a major plot point revolves around a "tar baby"

  58. What's the least violent thing that's still violence?

    ear flicking

  59. Which do you prefer, It’s the End of the World as We Know It by R.E.M., or We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel? (settling a debate)

    REM

  60. Saw in your Twitter thread you've seen Basquait. What do you think about him and his art?

    despite spending a lot of time in modern art galleries and even more time in art school, I haven't actually seen much of his work! what I saw in the movie seems fine.

  61. Thoughts on that trans sports debate?]

    transphobes making shit up to be mad about is not a "debate"

  63. What person or group would you like a good biopic to be made about?

    a while ago I came up with the idea of doing a "print the legend" biopic about Aphex Twin, where it's a series of shorts treating the various lies told about him/that he's told about himself (e.g. that he sleeps 90 minutes a night, once blew up an abandoned car with the turret on his armored vehicle, that the D in Richard D. James stands for Dick and his full name is Richard Richard James) as true

  64. Is the big lebowski a neo noir? Why or why not?

    yes

  65. What did you think of Avatar (2009) and are you looking forward to the sequel, with one of them scheduled to premiere end of 2022?

    despite its dodgy politics, Avatar was a fun ride, like Space Mountain or something. it was entirely forgettable once the ride was over and I don't imagine the 14 sequels are gonna be very impressive nowadays.

  66. Pratt is nowhere near 2edgy enough for Shadow, I hope we get Rpatz or jon bernthal but we're probably gonna get Jared Leto

    HE'S NOWHERE NEAR ITALIAN ENOUGH FOR MARIO YET HERE WE FUCKING ARE

  67. Who is the biggest YTer you'd call yourself a fan of?

    probably ProZD, he's pushing 4 million subs

  70. have you played Hedon or the sequel?

    I played a bit of the first one but got kinda lost in the enormous map. I got the full duology in the Boomer Shooter Bundle so I may dip back into it eventually.

  71. have you read the short story/sequel to the City in the Middle of the Night? thoughts?

    I have! I like it. having Alex be the POV for a bit was good, she was always a bit of a mystery in the book. I continue to love how all this wild-ass sci-fi shit is always the backdrop to character development; you're legit never gonna know what happens with the future of this planet and all that, the story is over when the character reaches a personal culmination.

  72. Ok they put shadow in the post credits of Sonic 2. What critically acclaimed A-lister do you think they're gonna have do the voice of shadow the goddamn hedgehog

    I would've said Idris if they hadn't already used him for Knuckles. ugh, it's probably just gonna be Chris Pratt.

  73. do you know that grimes is a musician?

    yeah she did the theme song for Hilda and co-wrote Pynk

  74. better that BoRap 🤨?

    in response to best queen song

    lover boy is the one where, if I'm listening to it in the shower, I will step out every 3 minutes to start the song over. but, look, they have lots of great songs! we don't actually have to rank them!

  75. best queen song

    in response to best ween song

    good old fashioned loverboy

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