Greetings and salutations, gentlebeings!

abentwookie said:

EDIT: I tried posting this a few days ago but I think there was some kind of error. I didn't realize it hadn't been posted until now so I will repost. lol Anyway, I am your friendly neighborhood abentwookie or possibly just a mysterious drifter in town to raise some hell. You decide! :mrgreen:

I am a college student, Super Geek, gamer, aspiring author/debater, Progressive, Atheist, intersectional Feminist, grizzled veteran of the San Diego Comic Con battlefields, Star Wars Guru, avid reader, Twitterer, follower of Wheaton's Law and bearer of the dreaded List of Doom. I'm also a former YouTuber and plan to get back into that again within the next year with a reboot of my old feminist/atheist channel and a new travel vlog. I'm also heavily involved in several online communities, such as the atheist, feminist and gaming communities. I have been a community manager, forum mod and "GameSage" for a few different gaming companies and I am currently one for Gree International. I was also a community event manager for the H1Z1forum. So yeah, I'm heavily involved in gaming.

As both a feminist and atheist, I enjoy aborting fetuses and eating them to steal their souls, plotting to enslave the male gender and force them to work in my secret feminist death camps, reading books about witchcraft (Harry Potter), persecuting poor helpless religious fundamentalists by trying to stop them from legally discriminating against various people, helping the gay community with their insidious plans to unleash the full power of the dreaded "GAY AGENDA" upon my fellow unsuspecting heterosexuals, waging war against Christmas until every last damned mall Santa is dead with their heads placed on giant candy cane pikes as a warning, elves are deported back to the North Pole, each Nativity scene is razed to the ground, and other types of blasphemous behavior that will no doubt purchase myself a one-way ticket to Alabama or some other nightmarish place when I die.

Oh, back to the the debate information! I have loved debate since I was about 12-years-old and have obsessively been honing my craft ever since. I was on the debate team in high school, I have had frequent debates on campus, I constantly have discussions with people all over the internet and have had several online debates with various online bloggers and YouTubers, etc... Essentially, I am trying to tell you that I REALLY enjoy debating and plan to debate atheism/feminism professionally after I finish college. I also have my own debate blog (linked in my profile) that I am currently working on and I am in the process of moving over a lot of things from my old website.

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abentwookie said:

EDIT: I tried posting this a few days ago but I think there was some kind of error. I didn't realize it hadn't been posted until now so I will repost. lol Anyway, I am your friendly neighborhood abentwookie or possibly just a mysterious drifter in town to raise some hell. You decide! :mrgreen:

I am a college student, Super Geek, gamer, aspiring author/debater, Progressive, Atheist, intersectional Feminist, grizzled veteran of the San Diego Comic Con battlefields, Star Wars Guru, avid reader, Twitterer, follower of Wheaton's Law and bearer of the dreaded List of Doom. I'm also a former YouTuber and plan to get back into that again within the next year with a reboot of my old feminist/atheist channel and a new travel vlog. I'm also heavily involved in several online communities, such as the atheist, feminist and gaming communities. I have been a community manager, forum mod and "GameSage" for a few different gaming companies and I am currently one for Gree International. I was also a community event manager for the H1Z1forum. So yeah, I'm heavily involved in gaming.

As both a feminist and atheist, I enjoy aborting fetuses and eating them to steal their souls, plotting to enslave the male gender and force them to work in my secret feminist death camps, reading books about witchcraft (Harry Potter), persecuting poor helpless religious fundamentalists by trying to stop them from legally discriminating against various people, helping the gay community with their insidious plans to unleash the full power of the dreaded "GAY AGENDA" upon my fellow unsuspecting heterosexuals, waging war against Christmas until every last damned mall Santa is dead with their heads placed on giant candy cane pikes as a warning, elves are deported back to the North Pole, each Nativity scene is razed to the ground, and other types of blasphemous behavior that will no doubt purchase myself a one-way ticket to Alabama or some other nightmarish place when I die.

Oh, back to the the debate information! I have loved debate since I was about 12-years-old and have obsessively been honing my craft ever since. I was on the debate team in high school, I have had frequent debates on campus, I constantly have discussions with people all over the internet and have had several online debates with various online bloggers and YouTubers, etc... Essentially, I am trying to tell you that I REALLY enjoy debating and plan to debate atheism/feminism professionally after I finish college. I also have my own debate blog (linked in my profile) that I am currently working on and I am in the process of moving over a lot of things from my old website.

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Hawkeye10 said:

We are likely going to argue about feminism, but that's OK.

WELCOME

:2wave:

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abentwookie said:

I look forward to it! Hopefully, I can have more productive and civil discussions on here than I have had with anti-feminists on YouTube, which usually range from hostile (Sargon, Thunderf00t, etc...) to batpoop insane (Dean Esmay, Karen Straughan, Warcorpse, etc..) :shock:

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abentwookie said:

I look forward to it! Hopefully, I can have more productive and civil discussions on here than I have had with anti-feminists on YouTube, which usually range from hostile (Sargon, Thunderf00t, etc...) to batpoop insane (Dean Esmay, Karen Straughan, Warcorpse, etc..) :shock:

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abentwookie said:

I look forward to it! Hopefully, I can have more productive and civil discussions on here than I have had with anti-feminists on YouTube, which usually range from hostile (Sargon, Thunderf00t, etc...) to batpoop insane (Dean Esmay, Karen Straughan, Warcorpse, etc..) :shock:

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Jesse Booth said:

In Thunderf00t's defense, people on the other side have actively tried to get him fired over his opinions online.

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abentwookie said:

...Twitterer...

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Koke said:

The irony is that Thunderf00t and Sargon are classical liberals or self identify as this new term "liberalist" I hear being thrown around.

I'd be curious to get a list of actual differences progressives and classical liberals have with each other. Of course, with the current paradigm, classic liberals could easily be described as some sort of conservative depending on who you'd ask.

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Jesse Booth said:

I'd have said that myself, but the accusation was merely that they were "hostile." Never mind the fact that Sargon has reached across the aisle on multiple occasions, Thunderf00t is just a crotchety old Britbong who likes to rant about science, and both of them have been targeted with harassment online & in person.

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Koke said:

I'm actually not a huge fan of either for multiple reasons. I do, however, HUGELY respect that they are what I would consider a true representation of more rational politics that would align with the left. More specifically I admire that Sargon is willing to debate people and at least have conversations with the more radical elements of certain ideologies.

Not sure about the harassment but that seems to be a consequence of being any big e-celeb online figure unfortunately.

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Jesse Booth said:

I'm not a frequent viewer of either of them myself. With Sargon, there have been multiple concerted efforts to get him banned from Twitter, and a harassment campaign waged against the people that run Mythcon because they invited him on to debate someone. Thunderf00t's only real trouble, from what I've seen, is that some people got together and tried to have him fired.

Out of curiosity, which channels on YouTube (if any) are you a fan of?

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Koke said:

I enjoy Andywarski's channel for a debate platform... a lot of interesting people on there and I would suggest it.

Styxhexenhammer666 is a very articulate guy for current events and is a frequent poster. Molyneux (especially in his earlier days) can be hit or miss for me. I'm probably a fan of about half of his content but the other half could easily be interpreted as garbage. Honestly I tend to notice that I tend towards right-libertarian content. My belief set is very awkward in that I can't really properly categorize it specifically but as I said I do tend to notice I align with a lot of people I'd consider right-libertarian.

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Jesse Booth said:

There are a few fairly liberal channels with a comedic slant I enjoy out of the anti-SJW bunch. Chris Ray Gun, Shoe0nhead & Some Black Guy are usually quite amusing, although I wouldn't call any of them intellectuals.

For more in-depth stuff, I've noticed that I tend to watch people for their depth of knowledge rather than their political lean. Aydin Paladin knows more about social science & psychology than I'll ever know, Dr. Layman has an impressive bredth of knowledge about a number of historical and cultural subjects, I've been binging a lot of Professor Jordan Peterson's lectures on biblical symbolism, etc.

In hindsight & in direct contradiction to what I said earlier about not watching people based on their biases, I've noted that there's an overabundance on anarcocapitalists among my subscriptions. The only one with any real renown is ThatGuyT; some of the others only have a few thousand subscribers.

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Koke said:

Jordan Peterson is excellent, totally forgot about him. I tend to turn to YouTube politick when the more academic and dry stuff gets a little boring/dry to read or listen to. YouTube at least for the most part is very much a free market for intellectual thought and idea so each individual must present their special knack or appeal which like I said tends to be either more humorous, exciting, or deep than a lot of academic stuff.

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Jesse Booth said:

You ought to give Aydin Paladin a look. She has every special knack you just listed, albeit in a fast-yet-still-hour-long format with a heavy focus on sociology and actual studies. Also, she's right-leaning with a bit of a libertarian outlook.

Here's a taste of one of her shorter videos.

https://youtu.be/y168uwjnwo4

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Koke said:

I'll have to check it out, thanks for the recommendation.

I'd suggest Andywarski again for a debate platform. He has people on there ranging from communists to people further to the right of Richard Spencer and it's extremely interesting to hear so many different world views clash with each other in a non "I'm literally shaking" fashion. I think it's the best thing that can be done to avoid this polarization of politics where everyone has their comfy little echo chamber on the internet or in the MSM that they exclusively visit or else they might accidentally stumble upon a world view parallel to their own.

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Jesse Booth said:

I might give Andy's debatees a chance, but if I hear that man go "AAAUUUGH" one more time, I might just go insane.

Let me know when you've watched that video I linked.

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Koke said:

But it wasn't real...













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Jesse Booth said:

I promise the rest of her videos are actually what I described.

...Almost all of them, at least.

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Koke said:

Oh, also, the left can't meme.

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Jesse Booth said:

Damn right the left can't meme. I swear, there must be some kind of mental block that prevents 95% of the liberals from successfully ****posting. This wouldn't be a problem if it also prevented those liberals from trying it, but sadly it does not.

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Jesse Booth said:

Damn right the left can't meme. I swear, there must be some kind of mental block that prevents 95% of the liberals from successfully ****posting. This wouldn't be a problem if it also prevented those liberals from trying it, but sadly it does not.

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