“They refused to tolerate my debatebro “Entertain my hypothetical nonsense where my argument makes sense!””
Their whole style is more like "entertain my hypothetical nonsense that ONLY makes sense if the only perspectives you've EVER listened to or taken seriously are Amerikan, not realizing these perspectives are pretty reliably fucking wrong." I've never felt so vindicated in refusing to humor colonizer hypotheticals. These shitbags don't deserve debate until they can be trusted to be housebroken humans, rather than slavering genocidal barbarians.
Entertain my hypothetical nonsense where my argument makes sense!
"Bro, imagine this world where, like, we all like were business owners and we all had mushroom hats, and everybody like didn't pay taxes and the Martians came and gave us advanced technology, and like the USSR had never happened and there was no war, and I come out and tweet something using my Constitutional Right to Free Speech, and people who worshipped the Flying Spaghetti Monster tried to stop me because they had a religious belief that petting dogs was wrong, and I wasn't allowed to stop them because the Flying Spaghetti Synod had ruled that owning guns was wrong...
Their whole style is more like "entertain my hypothetical nonsense that ONLY makes sense if the only perspectives you've EVER listened to or taken seriously are Amerikan, not realizing these perspectives are pretty reliably fucking wrong." I've never felt so vindicated in refusing to humor colonizer hypotheticals. These shitbags don't deserve debate until they can be trusted to be housebroken humans, rather than slavering genocidal barbarians.
"Bro, imagine this world where, like, we all like were business owners and we all had mushroom hats, and everybody like didn't pay taxes and the Martians came and gave us advanced technology, and like the USSR had never happened and there was no war, and I come out and tweet something using my Constitutional Right to Free Speech, and people who worshipped the Flying Spaghetti Monster tried to stop me because they had a religious belief that petting dogs was wrong, and I wasn't allowed to stop them because the Flying Spaghetti Synod had ruled that owning guns was wrong...
.... would age of consent laws still be valid?"