i make more impact by writing ticked off essays that take five minutes each than meme-manufacturers make with the equivalent amount of effort. one key difference between me and other ticked off essay writers (it's not a sparse field) is that i don't suddenly lose all reason and compassion. empathy-deficient reasoning and counter-productive policies are what tick me off. i move people who still have a heart! another difference is that i'm not screeding stereotypically. my rhetoric isn't a copy-paste of someone else's retardation. thinking for yourself improves your influence over repeating bad takes from other people. i try to promote good civic development, and that means promoting compassion. if people aren't honestly working to solve problems, then people are not honestly working. my points on abortion scared abortion discourse completely off the board. abortion opponents don't want to have the child-endangering consequences of abortion bans rubbed in their snouts. speaking of which, i'll post some of that here as an example of rhetoric that intimidated a passel of corrupt and uncompassionate propagandists. abortion is a k-strategic innovation. unready mothers choosing not to have kids? that increases the average parental investment in kids. mothers who already have a kid or two opting not to have more kids? again, that's because they're being k-strategic and trying to maximize parental investment in the kids they already have. mothers where the father is absent or abusive opting to abort? you know this song! they're protecting parental investment in kids. whenever people take themselves out of the "mother" category, they're improving the average quality of care children in our society. think of the children, support abortion rights! now, who here can analyze what i just did, memetically speaking? remember, a "meme" isn't just a picture with a caption on it. a meme is the cultural equivalent of a gene. it's an idea.
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