Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

Wiimeiser
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Next in line is Fluffle Puff, incidentally.
 
Also, Puppysmiles is in the top 250 OCs and she doesn’t even have one tenth of what Aryanne’s got. (If it was up to me she’d likely be between Appel and Movie Slate right now)
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And as an american citizen, I can say that our system is rotted to the core.
systemic racism and oppression is real. not some “leftist hoax”.
 
 
You need to actually prove that they are absolutely, indisputably real (as in, is still a thing—or is just a thing that has been revived and has reemerged, recently—that happens today throughout all of America, and is not a thing of the past where there is no indisputable evidence that such events of systemic racism in America have occurred since the early 70s) in order for people who strictly follow logic and rationality—like myself—to believe you, and if you are, then I will certainly be inclined to believe in what you are saying as truth, depending on that and other factors, such as your semantics, consistency, processes of coming to (or jumping to) conclusions, how much you argument contains—or is based off of—assumptions and generalizations, etc.
 
 
So far, however, I have seen absolutely no such argument that has been able to convince me to believe such a thing, and I say that as someone who regularly seeks out to observe and to try understand such arguments that I don’t agree with, lacks actual proof, or is just straight-up lies.
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@MrXemnas1992
Like, why is Aryanne the third most popular OC? Why is there so much of her even after the “censorship”? And you see the problem? Mind you, I understand why Anon is the top OC, generic human insert character and that.
 
  1. Because it isn’t any one person’s OC, unlike the vast majority of others, meaning there are no considerations about respecting the owner’s wishes before farting out a crappy image in gmod or a recolored vector.
     
  2. Because a statistically insignificant number of people pumped out images of here for a couple of years and made a concerted effort to spread them around as much as possible regardless of quality or authorship, versus how practically all other art posted on the site comes from people that casually bump into an image they like and post it here.
     
  3. Related to the above, because the character makes people mad, and few things give assholes more fuel than knowing they made someone mad. I’d feel comfortable in saying that the overwhelming majority of (the already tiny number of) people that make images with the character aren’t “nazis” or even possibly conservative in any way, but they do get off on trolling or being edgy.
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@MrXemnas1992  
I didn’t say they were. She has as much of a right to exist as fucking Cozy Glow porn on this goddamn website. Actual nazis, yes, stomp them.
 
@Ereiam  
Trolling. Back in the day people just spammed Hitler collages.
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@Background Pony #697E  
No one has to prove that [THING] is true universally and without any doubt across all of America to say that they believe that [THING] is a problem.
 
It is patently impossible to prove even that smoking causes cancer at that level of certainty, or that global climate change is happening.
 
But just because those things can not be proven without doubt to be absolutely and unequivocally true does not mean that they can not be discussed here, or that someone’s opinion about them is not worth considering or replying to in a civil manner.
 
So please chill, ok?
 
This is a Political Containment Zone. Not a class on public speaking.
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And as an american citizen, I can say that our system is rotted to the core.
systemic racism and oppression is real. not some “leftist hoax”.
You need to actually prove that they are absolutely, indisputably real (as in, is still a thing—or is just a thing that has been revived and has reemerged, recently—that happens today throughout all of America, and is not a thing of the past where there is no indisputable evidence that such events of systemic racism in America have occurred since the early 70s) in order for people who strictly follow logic and rationality—like myself—to believe you, and if you are, then I will certainly be inclined to believe in what you are saying as truth, depending on that and other factors, such as your semantics, consistency, processes of coming to (or jumping to) conclusions, how much you argument contains—or is based off of—assumptions and generalizations, etc.
So far, however, I have seen absolutely no such argument that has been able to convince me to believe such a thing, and I say that as someone who regularly seeks out to observe and to try understand such arguments that I don’t agree with, lacks actual proof, or is just straight-up lies.
 
As an example, unless I blinked and misssed it, voting districts (and other zonings) are still based around the same “shapes” as they have been since the 50s, when they were very blatantly set up to take away as much power as possible from black people.
 
It’s not that things are being set up now based on racism, but that there are a myriad of systems already in place that mess with minorities either due to things like districts, or based on the nation’s intense hatred of the poor that extraordinarily affect blacks and hispanics due to inherited poverty (and why those minorities are so affected by that should be obvious).
Wiimeiser
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@Ciaran  
For reference, there often isn’t even any internal consistency, for example, some people can smoke with no side effects at first, but I once had a babysitter who smoked and as a result I most likely have some sort of permanent respiratory illness (currently undiagnosed, but I was unable to complete a test designed for people with such illness)
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No, I’m talking about how the conversation was over police brutality and racism against non-whites, and then Xemnas came in saying that “a majority of bronies were alt-right.”
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@Latecomer  
Was he really a Nazi? All I got from the news was that he was an overzealous Applejack fan.  
I think it’s more a correlation between this and the past highlighting of the fandom’s alt-right elements (Applejack being the “token Southern one”, that’s an easy leap of logic to make).
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Honestly, between personal attacks and ‘leftist this’ and ‘rightist that’ NO YOU arguments and now people arguing about OCs, it seems like this thread has gone completely off the rails.
 
Maybe if everyone could please take a break and maybe try again tomorrow if arguing with each other in this thread is something you feel that you still want to do?
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@Background Pony #697E  
The aggregate of real life is not as simple as the image you’re promoting. It’s not basic mathematics, and even statistics, a field steeped in the subject, uses confidence intervals to account for error; a 100% confidence interval isn’t used. Fact is, no one strictly follows logic and rationality 100% of the time, not even you. As it’s even been pointed out, not even courts of law require guilt beyond all doubt.
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@Ereiam  
Also correct me if im wrong (i’ve only heard bits of the event), but wasn’t it reported that most of the people who got shot during the attack where India/of Indian descent?
 
If so then yeah, it seems like there is a pretty big racial motivation if that is the case.
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