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they finally brought back the original newcastle to the us, one of the few commercially available beers that i like. i think that reddit is actually somewhat responsible for ruining this beer in the us. redditors in the various beer subreddits like to pretend to be knowledgeable beer snobs and they consistently slag off newcastle for tasting "skunked" which they attribute to the clear bottles because they read online that sunlight causes skunking of beer. but what it really is is, they are used to american craft beer made with massive amounts of citrusy/soapy american hops because the beer itself is cheap flavorless pale malt brewed with aggressive high-abv fast-fermenting yeast with bad off-flavors they mask with tons of fruity hops, so when they drink an old-timey english beer with earthy english hops it tastes off to them and they conclude that the beer is skunked. and companies unfortunately defer very heavily to reddit for market research now, especially non-us companies trying to do international outreach and get a vibe for us consumer opinion and they assume that redditor opinions are actually representative of normal sane intelligent human beings. so they saw all the american redditors complaining about newcastle being skunked due to clear bottles, and also us sales of newcastle had plummeted due to it being one of the many products accused by psychotic influencer vani hari of being toxic and causing autism, and so a new americanized version of newcastle was developed for the us market with brown bottles and obnoxious amounts of citrusy american hops like IPAs have, which completely clash with the flavor of a dark ale and it tasted like absolute shit and everyone hated it, including the redditors who hated the original and whom the beer company were trying to cater towards. no one should ever listen to redditors or social media influencers or any kind of insane attention-seeking lunatic for consumer opinion about anything.

>>832119

i wish i could say that you were wrong but you're not that far off, other than maybe the "most" part but who can really say? i know it is definitely a lot more prevalent than anyone wants to admit or even consider, that's for sure. i suspect that this is why these voyeuristic tv shows about child sexual abuse like "to catch a predator" and nancy grace etc. are so popular and play so well, because they reinforce the idea that the predators are all "out there" so to speak, they're like a whole separate breed of people, sort of like how the burglar is this cartoon character wearing a mask and striped prison clothes who just goes around burgling all the time, rather than your own junkie family member or neighbor busting into your house to score some dope money; it's a comforting delusion that externalizes and compartmentalizes and effectively erases the problem. people will do anything but confront the real problem when the real problem is connected to them in some way. and it may not necessarily be that they themselves are pedophiles or pedophilia apologists, but that their repressive and delusional attitudes toward sex have created a culture where kids are more likely to be victimized because there are no responsible adults who are able to talk to them about sex in a mature and pragmatic way, they either avoid talking about it at all and try to pretend that they can shelter them from it forever, or they present it to them as something that is innately immoral and dangerous and irresponsible like drug use that they must stay away from, which of course is not going to happen, so kids are left to figure it out for themselves and do their own research and learn about sex from people who most likely are the last people on earth they should be learning anything from. and society's response to the victimization is always to blame the victim, the children are the problem and we must lock them away in the basement and take away their access to the internet and sweep them under the rug, anything but question our own sanity.

depends on how you define "mean". if you mean like berating people or harassing them or name calling or telling them to kill themselves, then no. if i talk to someone who is openly hostile and hurling insults and vitriol at me i just find it funny and typically respond with sarcasm and mockery. but if i talk to someone who tries very hard come off as an intellectual and is passive-aggressive or casually condescending or using any kind of sneaky manipulative tactics on me then i get genuinely annoyed and i start pointing out their factual inaccuracies and logical fallacies or setting traps to catch them lying or contradicting themselves or just dissecting their personality flaws, until the mask slips and their performed emotional detachment devolves into open hostility and genuine indignation, and then i feel like i've won and i decide not to kill myself and live another day.

>>831533
mods should delete shitposts but i think there's merit in responding honestly to some of the more well thought out bait, to an extent. if you neglect the fundamentals of theory then you're handing reactionaries a free win. people who might be browsing the site and are unfamiliar with left wing thought and are looking for answers might take it as proof that we have no response to it. if you engage sincerely with bad faith posting that's pretending to be in good faith, the mask will come off very quickly, and that's basically all you have to do to defeat it. trolls and reactionaries expect angry butthurt replies that call them stupid, not genuine responses.

sage for offtopic

>>822537
The caricature isn't literally how people talk!?
Don't be so blatantly obtuse, your mask is slipping.

>>822513
>edgy
It's an accurate summation of liberal and /pol/yp identity politics and their performative nature relative to communists/socialists that reject idpol for the glowie-cancer it is.

>>818785
leftypol originated on pol you moron. It broke off because /pol/ stopped having free political discussions and became a stormfront echochamber and later a reddit MAGA echochamber (by that point leftypol had established itself as seperate) moderation on leftypol prior to getting cucked by liberal infestation was always banning liberalism and idpol while using actual discussion and knowledge to BTFO any raids. That changed after reddit banned ChapoTrapHouse and other libsucc subreddits and the closet-liberal mods went mask-off as they welcomed the influx of infantile snowflakes incapable of critical thought or meaningful discussions. What few remain have dwindled into nothing and all semblance is upheld by the old effortposts living out their days on the alt-boards and textwalls made by those who would be considered rubbish-spouting pseudointellectuals 5 years ago.

<The Fundamental Rights of Sovereignty, according to Thomas Hobbes
>1. The Subjects Cannot Change The Form Of Government (The form of Government is a fundamental law)
>2. Soveraigne Power Cannot Be Forfeited
>3. No Man Can Without Injustice Protest Against The Institution Of The Soveraigne Declared By The Major Part.
>4. The Soveraigns Actions Cannot Be Justly Accused By The Subject
>5. What Soever The Soveraigne Doth, Is Unpunishable By The Subject
>6. The Soveraigne Is Judge Of What Is Necessary For The Peace And Defence Of His Subjects (And Judge Of What Doctrines Are Fit To Be Taught Them)
>7. The Right of making Rules, whereby the Subject may every man know what is so his owne, as no other Subject can without injustice take it from him
>8. To Him Also Belongeth The Right Of All Judicature And Decision Of Controversies:
>9. And Of Making War, And Peace, As He Shall Think Best:
>10. And Of Choosing All Counsellours, And Ministers, Both Of Peace, And Warre:
>11. And Of Rewarding, And Punishing, And That (Where No Former Law hath Determined The Measure Of It) Arbitrary:
>12. And Of Honour And Order
And finally, Thomas Hobbes adds, with his 12 marks of Sovereignty (as Jean Bodin would have it):
<These Rights Are Indivisible
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I was on a train ride and a greasy chud looking teenager kept trying to show me pictures and videos glorifying the Christchurch shooter for some reason and making jokes that werent really coherent but registered to me as unfunny in the dream. I got off at a train stop and saw a girl I had had an unrequited crush on in high school and tried to talk to her but she was wearing a covid mask and I couldnt really hear anything she was saying. An old beggar at the station heard me trying to talk to her and berated me and the only thing I remember from that was him saying "You can't do anything in society nowadays?" which made little sense. Honestly a lot of my dreams are very stream of consciousness and don't really have a coherent storyline or meaning that I can tell