ContrarianTrail

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My motivation here is only to probe on what other people really think of when using that word, so that I know what they really mean by it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That makes sense. In my mind the definition never really evolved as I tend to take words literally and think of it more as a category, like "red heads" rather than as an ideological group. I guess that would technically make them a subgroup of incels.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

But the term itself implies the former

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Maybe they should be called far-incels

 

Is it simply: involuntarily celibate, or does it come with a package?

To me, "incel" has always meant someone who’s simply just celibate against their will, but it feels like the term now also implies a specific worldview or even a subculture. Does identifying as an incel automatically come with those negative beliefs around gender and society, or should those two have separate terms? Has the definition changed?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Were I complaining?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (12 children)

I asked chatGPT to extract the question from that as I struggled to pinpoint it myself. I'll put it here as I'm probably not the only one wondering. So it seems like what OP is asking is (correct me if I'm wrong):

How do you adjust or change your beliefs (about capitalism, communism, libertarianism, or other ideologies) to deal with the fact that some people or countries naturally have more advantages than others?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nothing wrong with asking as long as you're also willing to accept no as an answer. If you're going to attack them for refusing, then it wasn't really a question in the first place but rather a demand masked as one.

Also, I'm not sure if this is the correct community to ask this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I wore a beanie this morning as it was quite chilly outside.

Yesterday I wore a helmet while riding my bike. Not sure if that counts as a hat.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Perfect, just in time to stop Russia from meddling with the 2016 election!

Great, now Putin will have absolutely no way whatsoever to spread his propaganda on Facebook!

I really struggle to see the point of these comments. It's a valid criticism to say it should've been done sooner or they should've done more, but doing something is better than doing nothing and also better late than never. So what are these commentors trying to achieve here other than applause and upvotes? This is one of the things my autistic brain has a hard time figuring out about social media. Is it just to say what's popular so people come and pat you on the back?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

They would need to be force feeding me conservative content in order for me to be able to answer the question. They're not and never have been. Same applies to ads.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I've yet to see generative AI make an error that a human couldn't make. Maybe that's why people seem so hateful of it; they were expecting it to be superhuman but instead it's too much like us.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Aren't the grad students similarly trained on books that other people wrote?

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