I haven’t read the whole thread yet, but so far the choice line is:

I like how you just dropped the “Vance is interested in right authoritarianism” like it’s a known fact to base your entire point on. Vance is the clearest demonstration of a libertarian the republicans have in high office. It’s an absurd ad hominem that you try to mask in your wall of text.

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    not much emphasis on boring normal “L” and “G”

    “Look I’m not really saying G-word and L-word are normal, but I might be willing to invite them to my BBQs if they never mention it, hate rainbows, and allow straight people to cut in line ahead of them as a civic duty.”

    Also wait is not even “B” ‘normal’ enough for this guy?

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      They are also concerned about t levels in athletes, and IQ comes up. Which he defends with “If you think none of these tests are actually measuring anything of value, you must need to explain why they correlate so well with life outcomes related to cognition.”

      I think a problem with ssc people is that they dont realize they are culture warriors.

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          Yeah considering various culture war posts are clearly still up, including ones calling progressives going crazy it all is a lot of plausible deniability.

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            Kinda stretching the definition of “plausible”. It’s less about external deniability and more about internal rejection. They want to avoid thinking of themselves as fascist-adjacent right-wing loons without giving up on being one

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        Me acing Raven’s progressive matrix tests: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

        Me dropping out of uni: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

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      They don’t think of bisexuals as including married monogamous people who just so happen to be bisexual. It’s a thing. They want to paint the queer community’s “normal people” as “unfortunately exclusively attracted to the same gender”

      And yeah some people really want to find a reason to exclude trans people and not acknowledge that we’ve always been part of our communities.

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      It’s not that bi isn’t “normal-enough”. The half-clever shitheels have been trying to split off bisexuality under the guise of “they could pass so they aren’t really oppressed like homosexuals”. Keeping people divided to make it easier to oppress them and all that. Then you get people like this who probably have no conscious awareness of that intentional strategy but have been stewed in this shit-pot enough that they talk in terms of lesbian-gay with out even noticing.