Phrost

It is critically important to take stock of the people on "your side" of any issue.

If you look to your left and right and notice that you are surrounded by stupid motherfuckers, it's usually because you are one of them. #NotesToMyKids

Not at all. I want to play video games and eat pizza, but I run a nonprofit that's trying to teach critical thinking skills to dudes who are vulnerable to misinformation and prone to violence, and that seems slightly more important these days.

I miss Team Fortress 2 though.

Maybe I'll give it another go. Most of the people I agree with and respect are here, but the dudes who need to be snapped out of their bias bubbles and BS are on Facebook.

I'm not going to exclude the possibility that I just don't spend enough time over here to run into what I'm looking for: nuanced but productive disagreement about contentious issues.

I agree with someone like Sam Harris maybe 10% of the time, but if he started an account here there would be riots.

There has to be a happy medium between a social media platform that is overrun with Nazis, bots, and incels, and one that is ideologically sterile.

What's the point of discussing anything if everyone agrees?

So as I understand it:

It is "civil discourse" when the dominant social group (white, male, Christians) politely and calmly uses their "free speech" to demonize and dehumanize others—but when their target minority groups get upset about the resulting threats to their lives and safety how dare they?

Man, compared to the engagement on my Twitter (RIP) account, this is like shouting off a cliff, but it's still better than some asshole Nazi oligarch making money off the shouting.

We could solve most of America's problems by converting half of the country's churches into libraries, and the other half into gyms.

The only way to win an argument is to leave it with a more accurate understanding of the subject.

Anything else is small dick energy.

"Strong men create good times..." is without a doubt the biggest self-own ever written by a weak man.

Everyone you know is fighting a battle.

Jump in at the last second and get the kill so you can loot the corpse first.

You don't need to understand human androgens, gametes, the translocation of the SRY gene from a Y onto an X chromosome, or even a high school version of genetics.

You don't even need to like trans people. You just need to leave them the fuck alone.

At the end of the day, you don't need to understand the neurobiology and psychology behind gender dysphoria; you don't need to understand the sociology of how gender identity is constructed, changes, and overlaps with sex.

Shamelessly swiping this term from the replies to our page, but from now on I'm going to start referring to every racist yokel's family tree as his "incestors".

"Suffering" doesn't build character, adversity is what builds character—damaged people just don't want to be alone in their suffering.
#NotesToMyKids

"How dare you politicize a problem caused by my politics?" #Texas

Chat, is it possible to have existential dread, but for an entire country?

But seriously...

If you can't find something to believe in, be someone to believe in.
#NotesToMyKids

Jesus f'n Christ, liberals.

History shows that the people who say you should "agree to disagree" on topics of human rights, ultimately intend to ensure your disagreement is silenced.

We were on the cusp of curing cancer but you fucking troglodytes are dragging us back a century because that's when minorities had to pretend to respect your loser asses.

There is indeed glory to be found in dying for a righteous cause.

But the average young man can judge how righteous it is to be a part of a particular cause about as well as he can judge how nutritious it is for a sugary cereal to be a part of his breakfast—leading to an early death in both cases.

Anyone involved in charging money to access publicly
-funded research should be dragged out into the street and horsewhipped, starting from the C-suite.

"Fascist politics feeds off a sense of aggrieved victimization caused by a loss of hierarchical status."

—Prof. Jason Stanley, formerly of Yale, as of last week fled to Canada.

We fucking told you.

HE fucking told you.

Great job, MAGA vets—you fucking ASVAB waivers.

We seem to be following the same roadmap as 1930s Germany so, that, scaled up and exacerbated by a population that's essentially never known deprivation.

The average person has a very poor grasp of how complex, interconnected, and fragile are the systems that keep everything they take for granted in modern society, working.

But boy are they about to fuckin' find out.

It's not that I'm better than posting things like this, but I am trying to be.