life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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Sir Landsharkresting shark faceRegistered Userregular
porp and I are going as Sheldon and Amy for Halloween @gooey
Please consider the environment before printing this post.
I mean we're in a culture where people will argue with red-faced, neck vein-bulging sincerity that slightly complicated attempts to verbalize someone's gender or ethnicity represent an attempt by ... colleges? ... to ... stifle free speech? Which somehow represents a kind of ... cultural erasure? Of white people in general?
porp and I are going as Sheldon and Amy for Halloween gooey
virtue signalling
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
I don't know why people hate two-axis three-increment alignment systems when IRL we live in a much more restrictive two party electoral player character creation system
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HerrCronIt that wickedly supports taxationRegistered Userregular
ok, sounds like complaining about virtue signaling is itself a signal of rightwing affiliation at this point.
I feel like a few years ago this wasn't true, but now I'm not sure....
The way I look at it is basically this:
there are absolutely left-liberal people who are hypocritical about this or that, or who employ fuzzy reasoning, or are just unpleasant ooverwrought moralizing scolds. This isn't made-up. It can absolutely be a problem, particularly in real life day-to-day interactions. I have absolutely known people who fell down a hole of trying to find politically-flavored fault in everyone around them until they've built up their own little paranoid Fortress of Solitude to live in and it's not...okay. It's no bueno.
BUT compared to institutionalized racism or sexism or the fact that people get routinely murdered for certain facts about their biology or sexuality it's not even a blip on the fucking radar and someone who makes a personal crusade out of hunting down leftist hypocrisy or treating dumb tumblr kids like an existential menace gets a serious sideeye from me because they are either cripplingly detached from what actually matters or are actively providing cover to legitimate evil.
Right, what I was saying is that I thought that a few years ago (several years ago?) I discussed the concept of virtue signaling semi-regularly--maybe in one of these left-eating-the-left critiques of overly enraged tumblr? But I know I also discussed the perspective that virute signaling, is, in fact, useful--it's good to know if the person you're talking to is someone who's going to despise you for your existence as a person or not (and blah blah blah we can talk about performative allyship taking away airspace from marginalized voices but on the other hand, yeah, *do* perform allyship, whether genuinely felt or just trying to establish liberal credentials, in order to create a nice and welcoming environment!) It's also just good to see if people come from the same viewpoint, subculture, etc. Indicating these affiliations helps facilitate discourse.
But I guess the people discussing it now are mostly rightwing and trying to paint liberal opinions as insincere? w h a t e v e r *teenage eye roll*
I miss the days of getting news and information about stuff in non-video form. I can't always watch videos at work or whatever but damn do people love making a ten minute video instead of writing out two paragraphs.
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y2jake215certified Flat Birther theoristthe Last Good Boy onlineRegistered Userregular
Virtue Signalling is basically used as a catchall term to imply that anybody who cares about certain policies or issues is only doing so out of a desire to appear morally superior to other people in their crowd, without a genuine belief the issues are real or that solving them would help. Essentially, it is not just an argument that e.g. systemic racism is not a problem, but that the people who say it is don't even believe it and if you do, you're a mark. Or to put it another way, it's trying to paint the entirety of the left as, basically, being equivalent to the kind of memetic, extravagent handwringing you see on probably-fake Tumblr accounts.
hmmm i think it has the connotation of maybe the strength of the belief being falsely represented. but i have never really thought of it as the belief not having any grounding in the person.
e.g. people who believe in the horrors of systemic racism but have to be 'loudest' about it on social media for ally points. saying they're virtue signaling isn't necessarily (for me) that they don't believe in what they're pushing. it's that they're pushing it extra hard and loud for head-nods and recognition as woke or w-e.
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Captain Ultralow resolution pictures of birdsRegistered Userregular
being forced to play a PF Brawler is probably the bigger sin.
ITs a cool class, but its definitely one that has a lot of moving parts that's literally requires good system mastery, and not something I'd want to be forced to play if I didn't want to play it.
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fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
the city is experiencing minor floods again as well
ugh
Like ..
virtue signalling
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
the opposite of virtue signalling
Uh, yeah, thanks for that calming thought, duder.
No greater horror.
ArbitraryJournalist, Generic Picayune Times.
One question and a follow-up.
In the past you have stated that you would neither confirming or deny any information.
Can you confirm that you still hold that position?
Follow up: How about now?
I like the hook.
Right, what I was saying is that I thought that a few years ago (several years ago?) I discussed the concept of virtue signaling semi-regularly--maybe in one of these left-eating-the-left critiques of overly enraged tumblr? But I know I also discussed the perspective that virute signaling, is, in fact, useful--it's good to know if the person you're talking to is someone who's going to despise you for your existence as a person or not (and blah blah blah we can talk about performative allyship taking away airspace from marginalized voices but on the other hand, yeah, *do* perform allyship, whether genuinely felt or just trying to establish liberal credentials, in order to create a nice and welcoming environment!) It's also just good to see if people come from the same viewpoint, subculture, etc. Indicating these affiliations helps facilitate discourse.
But I guess the people discussing it now are mostly rightwing and trying to paint liberal opinions as insincere? w h a t e v e r *teenage eye roll*
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Did macfarlane know about this too??
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
http://mashable.com/2017/10/29/gamestop-powerpass-details/#9vjjcWoNggqP
hmmm i think it has the connotation of maybe the strength of the belief being falsely represented. but i have never really thought of it as the belief not having any grounding in the person.
e.g. people who believe in the horrors of systemic racism but have to be 'loudest' about it on social media for ally points. saying they're virtue signaling isn't necessarily (for me) that they don't believe in what they're pushing. it's that they're pushing it extra hard and loud for head-nods and recognition as woke or w-e.
omg desc has been into 40K for like a month and he's already a tyrant......
Whaaaa
This actually is a good example of virtue signalling
Just not the virtues we'd think.
It is basically kryptonite to me.
Also, you can ask for a real egg on the McGriddle and its much better
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Sorry to anyone who identifies as Alignmentfluid but there's only two alignments:
Imperial Obedient
Heretic Flammable
It comes default with real egg now here in Canada makes it infinity times better.
goal 1 for today: pass exam
goal 2 for today: don't get so amped up and anxious that i literally die
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ ~CHUBERT TAKE MY ENERGY~ ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
What a time to be alive.
Highway to the danger zone.
the success of "virtue signalling" as a pejorative probably does say something about how weak the theocons are amongst the right tent
to reach this pinnacle of civilization the price we had to pay was the 2016 election
Supposed to look like this:
Looks like this tho:
c'mon buddy
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
ITs a cool class, but its definitely one that has a lot of moving parts that's literally requires good system mastery, and not something I'd want to be forced to play if I didn't want to play it.