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"Yes, but have you considered the fact that she is a woman, women enjoy her music, and women enjoying things is a problem because they're wrong? It's like you don't even have a vendetta against pumpkin spice! " - general underlying factor

"her music is not deep" - the opinion of men whose only exposure to her music is the pop songs that gets airtime, not the lyrical depths of the rest of the album that directly hits women in the feels

Also, the person being offended usually isn't even from the target culture. They're being vicariously offended on behalf of somebody else, when the actual members of that culture usually dgaf or like it.

I don't eat Hawaiian pizza because of the pineapple. It's because I don't like ham. Pineapple is great

Yeah, it's one of those things where one could argue that steam is successful in part to being entrenched (all of your friends are on steam and all of your games are on steam, so might as well continue using steam), but also.. other game launchers are just worse? The fact steam has a lot of useful features, as well as surprisingly few scummy incidents in its history just makes it not worth switching off for me :p

My only issue is the bots that mirror reddit content over.

And it's not that it's from reddit that bothers me, none of the posts I've seen ever have any engagement. So it feels like spam.

This should be the baseline bottom, but somehow its not. If you care or not or think its "wrong", just keep it to yourself because Trans people are not harming anyone.

I'm with you on this, but I'm also against the opposite: the blind praise and promotion of being trans for some reason. Look, if you have something wired in your brain different that makes you present as another gender, go ahead. Present yourself how you want, I can't imagine why I'd give much of a shit. It's a free country. But why do people have to constantly yap and take over every non right wing chud internet space to make it about being trans or related like talking about how hot femboys are. It's like...I mean honestly? A trend. And something major and life changing like that shouldn't be a trend. I'm sorry but that is dumb. Have your own spaces where you can talk about your own issues, sure. Don't be afraid to mention it in other spaces, sure. I'm cool with that. But maybe don't take over everyone else's spaces and make everything about you. Being annoying on purpose just doesn't work in your favor.

Also related, if psychologists and such agree that the best way to treat gender dysphoria is hormones, that's cool. But like maybe don't push socialized treatment for that so hard when we have literally nothing else socialized in healthcare. Priorities, you know? People are dying, every day, and cosmetic appearance for something a lot of people find weird and off putting is too easy of a target to keep healthcare terrible. I'm not saying it's right, but you have to pick your battles sometimes. Just like if you want to make someone not racist towards black people, maybe show them something like jazz or soul first, not hip hop. Is hip hop art? Absolutely, one of my favorite genres. But it's going to be an immediate turnoff if you jump to bad language and drug dealing and bitches and the other rap tropes. Should you have to cater to someone racist or transphobic? No, but that's the world we live in. Everyone gets to vote. and everyone starts somewhere with understanding people different than themselves.

Trans rights are human rights in the sense that you should be free to look and present how you want and not be harassed about it. But that doesn't mean you get to have everything you want, for free, and everyone has to not only treat and react to you exactly how you imagined it in your head, but also praise you for being different. That's not how the world works, for anything.

The more someone throws around words like "socialist" or "lib" as an insult pretty but invariably can't even define socialism or liberalism, never mind articulate what about them they dislike.

The Brave one is hilarious because no one bothers to look into it. If they did, they would be embarrassed by how big of a deal they make of it. In like 2009, the current CEO made a one-time, $1000 donation to an anti-prop 8 campaign.

That's it.

No donations to any groups since.

Brave wasn't even a thing when he did it.

He's also the same guy who created JavaScript, yet no one seems to have an issue using that.

Just a giant game of telephone where people hate someone because they were told they should hate them.

I think I wrote this in a few hundred comments already. It's a little weird people make it about physical games, it's not really about that, physical games are dead on PC, barely anyone cares. It's about Sony locking people into the Playstation Store and having full control over prices. With physical copies you can buy them wherever you want and they usually go down in price relatively quickly after release. Digital store prices remain high for years after release and only drop sometimes during sales, but even then they drop to the level of physical copies. The other issue are used games, at the moment that only works with physical copies.

If a sub is a sandwich, a taco is a sandwich.