• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        am I being an idiot?

        Show me a guy

        ✅ guy

        who sits around the house all day

        ✅ sits around (well he did)

        jacking off

        ✅ he did that too

        and I’ll show you someone who isn’t causing any goddamn trouble.

        ❌ pretty sure this guy got in trouble for sitting around his house jacking off all day.

        my point is

        1000004713

        edit: am I being punk’d by a bunch of incels?

        • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works
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          Yeah mate, you’re being a massive idiot here.

          You’re intentionally misrepresenting what he said and his intent, which everyone else in this thread got except you, so you can make what you feel is a really funny/clever point, that nobody else agrees with.

          It’s possible someone out there doesn’t think you’re being an idiot, but they haven’t shown up yet.

          • papalonian@lemmy.world
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            You’re intentionally misrepresenting what he said and his intent

            I think mate was just making a joke, lol. It’s really not that serious

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              No, I have him tagged. He does this shit all the time.

              Confrontational just for the sake of it, always puts himself on a moral pedestal and talks down to everyone else for not realizing his superior genius.

              He’s not just shitposting. At least not deliberately.

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                3 days ago

                no, they’re right. I was making a joke, but also trying to make a point that such a vague description of a person can ultimately provide unintended results.

                think of me as a Diogenes of sorts.

                edit: out of morbid curiosity, what’s your tag for me?

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                  Except that everyone here besides you seems to understand that what Epstein got in trouble for wasn’t merely “staying at home jacking off,” and to frame it as such is doing him and all his buddies a huge favor.

                  It’s like if someone goes to prison for doing murder and you say “Well, that person eats food every day. You also eat food every day. Coincidence?” It focuses on the wrong detail.

                  I have you tagged as simply “unserious”; likely as an indication of the quality of rational argumentation you’ve displayed in a previous discussion. It’s a fairly tame tag, but from what I’ve observed of you in the time since then, it seems to hold.

                  I don’t think you’re a troll necessarily, just a little overzealous at times and potentially disingenuous

                  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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                    3 days ago

                    you must not know who Diogenes is.

                    he’s mostly famous for this interaction with Plato.

                    When Plato defined human beings as featherless bipeds and was praised for the brilliance of his definition. So, Diogenes plucked a chicken, brought it to Plato’s academy and declared “Behold – Plato’s human being.”

                    given the definition of what a “man not causing any goddamn trouble” looks like, I took the opportunity to provide an example that the definition was inadequate and lacked context.

                    while looking for the story above I found a plethora of others and found this one amusingly relatable.

                    Given this disdain for manners, Diogenes was known for his brutal honesty in conversation. He had no regard for social etiquette whatsoever and was known to frequently urinate and masturbate in public. When he was criticized for this, he pointed out that what he was doing was normal, and that everyone engaged in these activities, but hid in private what he did openly.

                    you can read more about Diogenes here.