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Quinnspiracy understanding the gamergate
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Quinnspiracy understanding the gamergate

All blurry memory happened today, Sociopath introduced me to Zoe Quinn in irc chat , which he claimed was the start of the whole gamergate thing I was skeptical of it, because I thought anita sarkeesian was a part of the gamergate controversy, and told me that i was mistaken and the controversy starting around zoe quinn being alleged to have sex with five other dudes in the gaming industry, and that kind of some far fetched to me and crazy that if a person would actually do that, and told it was the truth, and I was skeptical of the claim. He told me that i was a committing a fallacy or flaw in logic, because I was denying the claim even though the information was in my grasp. It was a very confusing situation for me and I felt very confused, angry, and so I am doing research to whether or not sociopath was correct. I don't know I'm just trying to be a nice human being and not a asshole to anyone, and me not wanting to be treated like an inferior person and not having my spirits crushed. Maybe this could possibly be some stupid high school level drama which maybe is a smokescreen and a derailing from a otherwise bigger problem? and maybe i just got myself to emotionally invested in this?

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:( Hug I am sorry you had to encounter someone like this. That's seriously messed up.
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RE: Quinnspiracy understanding the gamergate

The fallacy I was citing is this: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity

Quinn's a whore and a manipulative bitch.

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I hope you don't think people are all nice and happy and kind. There does exist situations where women use sex as a tool, and men behave like animals. Just as the human body is nothing more than a bag of gooey squishy flesh, human morals are often gray and guided by more than some silly idealism or religious adherence.

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RE: Quinnspiracy understanding the gamergate

(04-09-2015 09:08 AM)MurkScribe Wrote:  I don't know I'm just trying to be a nice human being and not a asshole to anyone, and me not wanting to be treated like an inferior person

You will be treated as inferior if you're nice and kind, the only way to succeed in anything is to manipulate.

Ciannuuu Wrote::( Hug I am sorry you had to encounter someone like this. That's seriously messed up.

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RE: Quinnspiracy understanding the gamergate

I checked out Quinn and this person is not someone you would like to encounter
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RE: Quinnspiracy understanding the gamergate

Kindness is not inferiority. Being kind but disregarding your own self-esteem is when it becomes an inferiority issue. Please people because it pleases you.

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RE: Quinnspiracy understanding the gamergate

You'd have to be pretty fucking stupid to think it's impossible to be sexist against men or racist against white people. This was never the case before until some jackass started this stupid "you need power to be sexist/racist/discriminate" which is a load of crap. Power makes no difference.

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Dear Tumblrites: Despite your wrongly self-diagnosed PTSD, no line of scientific evidence suggests people can be triggered over the internet. Triggering works through the senses (i.e. smell, taste, touch, vision, hearing.) but it goes through real time; if you're not experiencing it in real life as it's ACTUALLY HAPPENING in your ACTUAL life, you CANNOT be triggered. The only exception to this is if you have a seizure, but then again, that's triggered by epilepsy (i.e. rapidly-changing flashing lights) NOT PTSD. Remembering a bad incident is NOT the same thing as having a flashback. When you remember, you think; when you flashback, you feel.

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Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself." The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes." The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
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