I think Americans, (well, white Americans,) are much more paranoid about other people harming them than they should be.

I agree

As communists, are we not driven by a love and compassion for others?

One hundred percent, absolutely

I can’t count the number of times white people have told me stories where they “narrowly avoided harm” where there was literally no danger and the story is just “a homeless man was near me” or “a guy on the bus was talking to himself”

What I can't then square is this - as far as I can tell, this is an attempt to tar 'women being afraid of SA' with the same brush as an oppressed, reactionary group reacting in reactionary ways. My point was that you were actively trying to minimise the very real experiences of many victims of assault, and then you've gone on to do it again here

don't get me wrong, i get WHAT you're trying to say here, I understand what your concerns are but so far you've been unable to separate that concern from your opinion that women are exaggerating, or are at the very least being too receptive (?) of other's stories of assault. just about every comment of yours in this thread references the idea that women are paranoid because of 'True Crime Brain'. In this comment, you liken it to an oppressor being scared because of their very own propaganda about the people they're oppressing. Surely you can see how that's a bit off right?

actually that other comment wasn't enough, are you seriously suggesting that the only reason women are paranoid about SA and the culture around us permitting that is because they are too gullible? got too much anxiety from listening to podcasts and forgot about the real world?

seriously, Hexbear was the last place I expected to run into an argument trying to put it on women for being paranoid, this actually feels like a fucked comment to be making, i would genuinely reconsider what you're trying to put forward here

"My president's shaking hands with a ghost" is some shit Bob Dylan would use as a metaphor for the death of America, just saying

'Anger integer overflow' has the same vibes as 'Tommy needy drinky'

"that's the fucked up thing!! no one really knows what happened that day cos the CCP are so good at censoring it, so who actually knows the truth?? makes you think "

its things he wishes he could do even though he didnt do it, and the wishes aren't even that good!

liberals would legitimately get a genie wish and wish for world hunger to be reduced by 10% because their brains are just so big and adult, you idealist communists wouldnt get it

the Overton window should remain in the middle

the middle of what mate

dude really thinks there's like an actual dial and one side says 'Left' and the other says 'Right' and it's imperative that the arrow on the dial points directly up at all times

nominative determinism

if i can't have nana and pop pop then no one can

oh my god the outrage the internet had about the idea that maybe using black people as your reaction gifs was kinda fucked up

how dare you take away my reaction treats i NEED to use them they are my emotional support minstrel gifs

it's almost as if it's already there, no?