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micnd90 [he/him,any]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 21 days ago

The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is ... an unarmed Syrian unc

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micnd90 [he/him,any]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 21 days ago
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https://archive.is/Mu0KC

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    One of my most unpopular takes is that toxic masculinity is at the root of people pretending to like/deluding themselves into liking beer

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      is it really that hard for you to imagine that other people like things you don’t like? breathtakingly solipsistic

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        beer being independently invented in multiple cultures by various peoples

        Uh aktually, people have just been pretending to like beer for 13 millennia. Every beer ever made tastes exactly like that warm cup of Budweiser my dad gave me this one time when I was 10 years old.

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        Actual baby brains in here without object permanence or theory of mind lmao

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          Me after synthesizing every single comment I have read in this thread with my big brain: People need to drink beer to develop theory of mind.

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      I don’t like most beers, but taste is purely subjective.

      Also Guinness slaps

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        See, I like a lot of beers but Guinness isn’t one of them. Taste really is subjective, lol.

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      Beer is good, this is so silly and childish of an outlook. People having personal tastes isn’t a misogynist conspiracy it’s a fact of life

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        too many people who don’t like their first beer keep drinking until they like it because of shitty social norms that literally get people killed but ok

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          You are so childish and ignorant

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            tell that to my dead friends

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              Yeah they are dead because people forced them to like the taste of beer? What a stupid and infantile attempt at an argument. Alcoholism is a disease with a lot more complex causes than the taste of a single type of alcohol being acquired. Alcoholics don’t get drunk because they like the taste, they do it because they have an addiction which fills a void, is used to cope or deal with despair.

              Now tell me, do you think your friends who tragically passed from addiction and disease and despair would appreciate being used by you as a bludgeon to win unrelated pointless online arguments? Don’t you think you are being wildly disrespectful and out of line?

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                don’t have to be an addict to get blasted underage at a party and get in a car

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              They died of “the taste of beer which they forced themselves to like”? Or maybe you are being really fucking disrespectful to them by misusing their memories this way.

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                nah man. peer pressure including that “force yourself to keep drinking it” shit is about as directly responsible as it gets.

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                  Then blame peer pressure, not the concept of an acquired taste. Learning to enjoy something you didn’t like the first time is not the problem here.

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                    or we could normalize not continuing to consume things you don’t like, and then a whole lot of people would drink a lot less

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      probably some of that yeah, but i think toxic masculinity is a subset of fitting in with the cool kids kinda shit because women do it too and highschool girls generally aren’t trying to prove their manliness.

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