Thanks! Honestly, I spent about 10 minutes writing that previous comment because I wanted to avoid being unnecessarily aggravating.

I’m so anxious about communicating clearly that I’ve planned and workshopped giving suggestions myself. And I’ve found the best way is to put yourself on their side so that your advice feels like you’re both going in the same direction. As opposed to butting heads or stonewalling the person you want to help. And that means actually understanding what someone is trying to do (because, if you don’t, you just sound arrogant and misguided when giving advice about something they don’t want).

I didn’t do that there because the intent of the joke was likely what it appeared to be

I think you have it backward. These people are all “independent free thinkers” who think the same thing Fox told them to think.

They don’t want to obey; they’re Confederates! They’re rebels and cowboys and other term for rugged, free individualists. These people, who have been robbed of even the ability to think, let alone do, by themselves after decades of propagandizing and near-nonexistent education. They feel like they’re flipping off the establishment. That’s why MAGAs kept talking about “drain the swamp”, because they thought “far right” was just a new angle to attack more decorous politicians. They aren’t helping Trump out of some unctuous, perverse desire to be stepped on. They’re helping Trump because they’re too dumb to release that their party IS the establishment.

“There’s no way to stop this.”

– the only people doing it

I’d change the punchline to “Including young girls’ *childhood”. Although I agree that is a bit cumbersome, still. Might need a larger refactor if we want to preserve the specific wording that Donald Trump touches young girls.

Not calling you out, but highlighting diction. In any case, the original sends the impression that sexual assault diminishes the victim in some capacity, which is not a very prosocial spin.

Don’t let anyone tell you being a comedian is easy.

A two-pronged attack

I mean, maybe they just wanted to build something?

I’d more believe that dragons create new dialects out of pride (“This language construct is daft, I can do it better.”) and scalism than natural language drift.

I believe the term is “rhetorical question”.

The post is circumstantial and immediate (“the dong is shrinking”), so it speaks to a ongoing condition. Further, the fact that it’s Asian is not a core part of the joke, so it doesn’t play into negative stereotypes. If the currency belonged to Uzbekistan, it’d be the same amount funny.

My comment was saying that the only people who would make the joke you sought to be “inb4” are bigots that the community would have already downvoted and moved on from. If you don’t know what “preempt” means, you can search an online dictionary.

You coming into the comments to dribble out not even the stereotype, but a lazy reference to a tired stereotype about Asians, is a worse form of the post. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt while also seeding you an ‘out’ from the direct interpretation that your comments reeks of “I’m too lazy to even commit to my negative stereotypes”.

I’m no longer inclined to do that.

It’d just be a silvery stone. That you’re supposed to operate technopathically. Because all humans get a technopathic link when they are gestated.

Or it’s a sword made of bronze. Because we’re in the Bronze Ages v7 and the dominant species is humanoid bears.

Or there’s nothing because a sieve bomb perfectly deleted any manmade product from the planet, reseting it to a primordial state.

We can’t even pretend to guess technology from even 1000 years in the future, let alone 100,000 years. This is just a creative writing prompt with basically no constraints or rules.

I’m scandalized by the inversion of the Q&A format, where you seem to put the answer (“They fuckin.”) before the questions.

Edit: I’ve been enlightened by Osan.

I think Epic is moving more and more toward making Unreal Engine a film tool. If you’re spending days pre-rendering elaborate scenes, performance is a non-issue.

That is because The Smoke cures the Two Great Ills: Life and Decay. And yet humans flee The Smoke, clinging to the emphemeral, cloying dream called “living.” Trotting blithely into the maw of entropy.

Dance instead with the Herald Flame.

Take in The Smoke.

This instance (and perhaps even the original image) are not funny. I’ve more seen it used as a joke.

We could have just shamed that person, if they showed up. By being the person cutting ahead of this hypothetical 2000s-era middle-schooler, you have become the person other people are attempting to shame.

There is a line between “preempting” and “perpetuating.”

This (and perhaps it is indicated by the delivery mechanism being a meme) is a joke, predicated on the lacking English verbiage for succinctly describing types of love. It’s all just “love”.

Bzzt, wrong! You gotta barge into the stall and demand to see its equipment, outing yourself as a creep.

It’s like you didn’t even study for the fascist test, honestly.

The “hyperindividualist escape” is one thing.

But conceding, and even condemning, the desire to have all the food(s) you enjoy, to become good at something, and to enjoy both the natural and man-made beauty of this planet as “white” activities is giving whiteness too much credit. The natural world is beautiful and has been populated by even more beatiful things despite whiteness. So hell yeah, I’d love to spend a lifetime getting to experience it firsthand, while eating my favorite foods and becoming good at something.

Whiteness drained and is still draining the life and riches out non-white people and places. Why the hell would you grant them an exclusive claim on any types of non-destructive fun too?

“Who gets to travel the world forever?” Yeah, and “who gets to vote and have land?” “Who gets to learn at university?” Don’t just cede good shit to whiteness.

Care to explain what about this is white?