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@jay_westman @Y40IFRQTTING Irrelevant to your point that the aboriginals did not have anything to complain about when their entire continent was colonized, because they did not settle sydney before the europeans.

@ProbablyNice @Y40IFRQTTING You said they wouldn’t complain. They’d complain about being left out from a first world nation. I dare you to investigate the average IQ of the Abos. Let’s just say that they aren’t a space faring civilization. They’d scarcely invent the wheel if left to their own devices.

When people talk about the crimes of Sweden they mean Sami colonialism or some shit and not that one time they killed 1/3rd of Poland's population and enslaved the survivors to work in labor camps

@arlogilbert @rscottri @FreeBeacon Died for nothing award

@rscottri @FreeBeacon Pussies like you wouldn't have said that to his face. He was shot by another soldier who he was trying to help get over PTSD.

Left-wing Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner smeared the late “American Sniper” Chris Kyle in a 2024 podcast interview, suggesting that Kyle shot innocent civilians in Iraq to inflate his kill numbers. Platner also bristled at the fact that Kyle and members of his platoon were described as “heroes,” calling it “a weird practical joke.”

@jay_westman @Y40IFRQTTING What relevance does this have for anything?

@ProbablyNice @Y40IFRQTTING European-Americans didn’t take over all of America but now all the natives from all over central and South America are trying to get to that part - where they aren’t even actually native. What makes you think Australia would be different?

@IdoHalbany As a zionist, Ben Gvir represents you perfectly, whether you like it or not

I'm an Israeli, a Jew, and a proud Zionist: Ben Gvir doesn't represent me and I'm ashamed of him. He's simply a Palestinian with a kippah.

@Perfectly_Fine1 @ryscottcam @ptoughkneigh @AuthorialGail 1984 is set in a future where Great Britain is no longer called Great Britain, but instead Airstrip One, and is a no longer an independent country, but a province of Oceania. It should be clear to anyone that this is a fictional world, quite different from St. Petersburg in C&P.

@ryscottcam @ProbablyNice @ptoughkneigh @AuthorialGail Okay, you're being deliberately obtuse. England isn't fictional either. Do you think Harry Potter and 1984 don't do worldbuilding then?

“Worldbuilding” is not a fundamental writing mechanic. Like this is absurd

@Israel_TruthNet @malonebarry It's a blatantly illegal blockade

@malonebarry No, they're not innocent. They came with the express intention of breaking a lawful naval blockade and interfering with another country's conflict. They're receiving polite treatment for what they did.

These are international civilians, innocent of any crime, who have been illegally abducted in international waters by Israel. That’s what we’re looking at here.

@jay_westman @Y40IFRQTTING What a stupid argument, the settlers took over all of australia, including every area the aboriginals lived. If there was a european city state of sydney and the rest of the landmass was aboriginal then I don't think they would complain.

@ProbablyNice @Y40IFRQTTING Ok and Australian aborigines didn’t live in Sydney either so next time they bitch about Anglos tell them to STFU.

@SevendersOTW @isaiah_bb "Experience" of child mortality in the 1800s

@isaiah_bb Yes that is correct you should not immediately accept "data" if it contradicts your experience. What sort of magic do you think "data" is Are you a fucking idiot?

My favorite thing is when someone is given, like, actuarial data and responds like “hm, no, that doesn’t fit my priors so I’m assuming it’s not true”

@Perfectly_Fine1 @ptoughkneigh @AuthorialGail Nope.

@ProbablyNice @ptoughkneigh @AuthorialGail No, they contain *heavy*, *obvious* worldbuilding.

@Perfectly_Fine1 @ptoughkneigh @AuthorialGail Harry Potter is set in a world which contains magic, which necessitates worldbuilding. Raskolnikov lives in a nondescript apartment which could have been replaced with an actual apartment with no changes to the story. In fact, it might even be a real apartment.

@ProbablyNice @ptoughkneigh @AuthorialGail And?

@Perfectly_Fine1 @ptoughkneigh @AuthorialGail That should be patently obvious; one is magical, the other is not.

@ProbablyNice @ptoughkneigh @AuthorialGail Yes. What's the difference between inventing a fictional apartment and inventing Platform 9¾?

@Perfectly_Fine1 @ptoughkneigh @AuthorialGail You keep bringing up examples of books which contain actual world-building, which are irrelevant to whether Crime and Punishment contain world-building. Harry Potter is set in a world were magic is real. 1984 is set 30 years in the future. These contain world-building.

@ProbablyNice @ptoughkneigh @AuthorialGail George Orwell did not invent censorship either. Yet, in his fictionalised version of Britain, it stands as a fictional depiction of a real issue. Dostoyevsky described a fictionalised, exaggerated environment that's not exactly how the real thing was.

@Perfectly_Fine1 @ptoughkneigh @AuthorialGail He *set* his story in the impoverished parts of contemporary St. Petersburg. He did not invent or worldbuild the real poverty of tsarist Russia. He described this environment in a compelling way, and invented characters to inhabit this environment. That is not worldbuilding.

@ProbablyNice @ptoughkneigh @AuthorialGail Nope. Not the plot relevant objects. Just the overall impoverished appearance of the apartment, of the streets themselves that drives the themes of the story.

@Perfectly_Fine1 @ptoughkneigh @AuthorialGail has to exist for the setting to be non-fictional.

@Perfectly_Fine1 @ptoughkneigh @AuthorialGail What did he invent? Any particular part you are thinking about? Is your point that the hole in the wall in the apartment where Raskolnikov hides the pawnbrokers purse, does not actually exist? You really are diluting the term setting if you demand that every object in the story

@Perfectly_Fine1 @ptoughkneigh @AuthorialGail So you're proposition is that since Dostoevsky used a non-existent apartment in contemporary St. Petersburg in Crime and Punishment, he was world-building.

@ProbablyNice @ptoughkneigh @AuthorialGail Harry Potter is set in fictional locations in the real world. Crime and Punishment is set on fictional or fictionalised locations in the real world.

@Perfectly_Fine1 @ptoughkneigh @AuthorialGail The setting is not fictional in Crime and Punishment.

@ProbablyNice @ptoughkneigh @AuthorialGail Not a story, setting. It's that simple. What's so hard to understand?

@Perfectly_Fine1 @ptoughkneigh @AuthorialGail I have, have you? What locations are you thinking about? Raskolnikov's apartment? The police station? The prison he is sent to in the end? Invoking Harry Potter is meaningless, it is a fantasy novel, of course it has world-building. I am talking about books set in the real world.

@ProbablyNice @ptoughkneigh @AuthorialGail Have you read crime and punishment? There's more locations than where the murder takes place. They might use real addresses, but are fictionalised. What does "fictionalised" mean, you might ask? Well, King's Cross doesn't have platform 9¾, now, does it?

@Perfectly_Fine1 @ptoughkneigh @AuthorialGail If world-building is equivalent to inventing a story, then yes, you have completely diluted the term to essentially be meaningless. You are also using it in a completely different way than everyone else.

@ProbablyNice @ptoughkneigh @AuthorialGail All fiction has worldbuilding because basically all fiction takes place in fictional or fictionalised (you probably cannot understand the difference) settings. No dilution has occured. You're just stupid and think "world" literally refers to a planet.

@DeuceTheUchiha @spoctorduner

@spoctorduner Jesus christ I said Homer I meant Odysseyus who tf cares my point still stands these are all example of why scaling is important

humans outwitting Greek Gods bc they cant directly beat them is powerscaling Gilgamesh wouldnt be great if just anyone could beat the beasts he did, thats powerscaling Moby Dick being more intelligent than a normal whale therefore making it harder to kill is powerscaling