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  • Well, the Tankies ran similar campaigns in South Korea leading to economic and political consequences.

    I am not familiar with that development, can you provide sources for me to read up on it?

    I remind you that Tankies promoted MAGA in the USA and AfD in Germany.

    Because they have common goals towards Russia, not because Tankies want to continue the marginalisation of women.

    Another potential explanation is religious extremist(s) pushing anti-women sentiment.

    Could be, could be not. I tend to go with the answer with the least necessary assumptions until further evidence.


  • The Man or Bear scenario a. is not a narrative, it is a thought experiment and b. does not “paint all men with a broad brush”. It points out how normalised violence against women is in our society. It does not say “all men are violent against women”, that’s just what people who did not (often did not want to) understand the construct read into it.

    It does not matter much how you conditionalise your statement when you use a metaphor that is about systemic issues you are implying a similar systemic issue. By choosing the bear you imply she did it because of gendered violence, not racist violence.


  • I don’t know her motivation. I do not assume. I just know that two men brutally murdered a child for racist motives and you are trying to make that into women being a systemic problem (because that is what the bear discussion is about. Systemic, socially normalised violence). Wrong turn.

    Another edit after your edit: nobody says all men were the same though. You are just trying to imply I would.













  • Trolling or harassing in the “I’m just trying to have a debate”-kind of way, making the most absurd, engaging and usually false arguments while maintaining a civil appearance.
    The best metaphor I came across would be a DDoS-attack on a human’s topic focus.

    Example: when a comment section discusses what could be done so the Mediterranean became less deadly to refugees, a sea lion could stir shit by asking whether it was “really necessary to not have so many people drowning because refugees are raping, stealing and just straining european social security systems anyway? Just asking questions though.”

    Or a sea lion could force you into a debate you never wanted. You make a simple statement most people already agree on that doesn’t need much explanation, like “Yeah, fascism is bad, we shouldn’t vote for fascist candidates and parties”, then a sea lion would start to ask you why fascism is bad, what’s so fascist about candidate A, etc, even under other comments you posted stating they were just trying to have a debate, implying you’re dodging them because you had no argument and made everything up.