#Discourse

The problem we have with the "does this need to be said, by me, right now?" approach to examining one's own contributions to a conversation is that our brain's answer
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okay so I normally try to not get involved in left twitter discourse but I kinda have to if we're already trying to duck under the ABYSMALLY low bar of
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4 out of the 5 directors for Them are white guys. The showrunner is a white guy. 5 out of the 10 episodes were written by white people (4 by
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"lesbians cant like men" "lesbians cant use he/him pronouns" "lesbians cant be bi too" i think u'll find, lesbians can do whatever the hell they want. all the time. no
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The longer I’m on #AssassinsCreed Twitter the less I understand who actually enjoys this franchise. Gatekeepers left and right, contrarians everywhere. Why do so many people waste their time being
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I hate incel discourse"Women are easy all you have to do is X" can sound progressive if you frame it as making fun of internet virginshttps://twitter.com/basedpogtrad/status/1321994085801099264 Could we maybe talk
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Concerns are growing for jailed Saudi activist Abdullah al-Hamid, who is 69 years old and in need of a major heart operation (making him particularly at risk from COVID-19). He
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[THE TEN SOCIAL MEDIA COMMANDMENTS]0/10Been practicing most of these for a while, will be more stringent now on. Doesn't amount to much, but that's my contribution to a cleaner, more
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Trying to imagine people going around after 9/11 saying "You know, the flu kills 60,000 a people a year so not sure what the big deal is here!" and how
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Alright, it's time for my first gamedev discourse thread - I'm gonna talk about my education path/why I didn't get a degree for a few (probably more than a few)
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this is even more alien to me than the 'former gifted child' discourse. depression functional? lolwutI had medication for about a year-something for recurrent depression episodes and never again after,
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i’m sorry but i see dromp discourse every other day and i still don’t understand why it’s seen as a hate crime to prefer santana’s version..... maybe people don’t enjoy
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Had a convo with one of my oldest friends from high school (a liberal lawyer) about just how bad, objectively, our politics has affected our ability to judge others. How
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It is quite terrifying, though, that we have moved from having discussions about topics to having discussions about how discussions function. And then all the lefties have big smirking grins
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If I had to nail down my biggest issue w/ Secret Lair discourse it’s either the inability to acknowledge the destructive combination of self worth/validation by material ownership in our
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One of the misconception people have is that just because someone is queer (me) it would be easier to be queer affirmative counselor.. well no it's not. The mainstream psych
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