askchapo

Magic isn't real is the default, if you're going to come into a Marxist materialism based area of the internet how can you be so shocked people are like what no magic is bullshit there's no basis for it in material reality

Are you really surprised with how that thread went?

And yeah, that's what most of the internet is, people are anonymous and here to entertain themselves for the most part it's very common for people to not be the most considerate.

Whats the real point of this post? I'm pretty sure you knew all that already, is this just a subtweet?

You didn't want to engage unless it was with people who agreed with you. You also wanted to filter the conversation to only people who believed in magic. When I, who met all three criteria for your post but who has moved past magicope replied with a very standard materialist position, you replied with a pithy comment like this post and dipped out firing a "I GUESS YOU DONT WANT TO DISCUSS" over your shoulder as you left. Grow up.

I am so glad I have no idea what this is about

If you're going to accuse people of not taking you seriously because you feel that they're not agreeing with you on the concept of magic, and then go on to dismiss them when they ask you to clarify, then you shouldn't expect a fruitful discussion to take place. I fail to see the point of this when you're not giving people anything to engage with.

It's hard to conceive of anything you would likely mean by "magic" that would result in a productive conversation. The fact you don't want to elaborate when asked leads me to believe we're probably correct to have that knee jerk reaction.

So what do you mean by magic?

One thing the science types don't get is that everything is like vibes and shit.

Welcome to literally all human communication

A classic hexbear moment

sometimes the trick even works if you show the audience what you're doing while you do it, like Penn & Teller doing a cup and ball trick with clear cups.

You're beginning with an assumption about the majority of people here based on absolutely nothing, I'm inclined to insult you for that alone. You're also talking about a word with several extremely different definitions and not clearly explaining which one you mean, which is a common bad-faith rhetorical strategy and will make anyone familiar with it suspect you're being deliberately evasive and dishonest. The non-supernatural definitions of "magic" are generally accepted and will not provoke a strong negative response from most people, if you meant one of those you'd have no obvious motive to be evasive about it. The obvious conclusion is that you're being evasive about it because you do mean supernatural magic in a literal sense, in which case yes you are verifiably completely wrong. This has nothing to do with "triggering phrases" or how much or little anyone else cares, the problem is you.

most people on here are redditors at heart who will stoop to any level of bad faith to get upbears. it's how they feed their families