r/ContraPoints

It seems counter intuitive unless you're a hard right conservative.

I'm not telling anyone what to do but I just want to be filled in.

Hi everyone!

Many fans often suggest games for Natalie to play on stream, so I thought it would be nice to have a dedicated thread for suggestions here. (Not to mention, I’d love to get some recommendations myself!)

For my part, I think it would be cool to see Natalie stream some pixel-style games with a puzzle focus—something like The Last Door (Lovecraftian mystery), Darkside Detective (full of movie humor), or the Blackwell series (noir-ish ghost detective).

I've also always been curious what she'd think of The Last of Us. It's not such a long shot, since she's enjoyed Resident Evil and Silent Hill before.

I’d love to hear what everyone else has to recommend!

I haven't had time to catch up with all the creators I follow so I might be a bit behind but what's the next tangent topic?

I’m thinking of sending a family member JK Rowling to watch. Natalie does a great job of engaging with the motte and bailey ’concerns™️’ that ignorant cis people often have around trans people. I just wonder if it’s a bit outdated and if anyone knows any other videos that similarly handholds people into understanding trans people as not something that out to get women’s rights.

This family member would definitely not call themselves transphobic…idk if they are but they’re certainly uneducated, and have the concerns™️ over sports and women’s spaces, not in an intelligent or nuanced way, my view on these things as a trans fem person is complex and nuanced, but in a ’they are dangerous and putting women at risk and are ruining women’s achievements in sports’ way; the concerns™️ have entered mythology territory, trans people (well, trans women, this person forgets about trans men existing) are just viewed as an antagonist to women’s rights.

So if you know any videos that are good at explaining why trans people should (shocker) have rights, please suggest them. If in doubt, I’ll send this person JK Rowling to watch, I think it would still do an amazing job.

I know it’s just that the world’s getting shitter but feel like the end of my world is coming soon cos I don’t think air conditioning can even be fitted into my old back to back terrace that I can’t just move from rn. I can’t help but resonate with the apathetic and nihilistic character in it cos I dunno if I’m wrong for just wanting to enjoy the little time I have on earth, feel like fighting it is a waste of time that will make me more miserable idk. Maybe not because I haven’t been that happy not protesting (idk I got into groups with culty dynamics and certain infighting) and instead drinking more

Low-key wondering if Bo Burnham’s Inside has really done a number on climate nihilism and how I respond to politics

Hi friends!

I am working on my Masters (community development & adult education) dissertation on the topic of love, specifically exploring what bell hook's proposed "schools for love" could maybe look like in practice.

I've been reading a lot of bell hooks and while I am a fan of her, I have found myself connecting a bit more with Erich Fromm and Thomas Merton's writings on the topic, but I am very keen on exploring more authors that aren't mid-century white western men, so I would really welcome any and all recommendations from more feminist and queer lineages (particularly non-Americans as I am not American and find myself increasingly exhasperated with American defaultism and cultural imperialism in academia) (Extra points also for non-Christian explorations of love too!)

I'm rewatching Twilight (aw shucks I guess I gotta rewatch it!) and looking through the works she referenced in the video, but as is expected with the topic, they tend more towards the Eros and romantic love and I'm hoping to explore love more in an Agape-adjacent transformative social force kind of way.

Thanks in advance for any recs!!

I feel that the Libs and Leftist aren't really taking the quandaries regarding vampires seriously. How should society treat day walkers and vampire hunters? Is it morally right to carry garlic in public? Do we need to spread awareness of the plight of vampires? Can vampires be apart of the working class? Should they be given rights? According to liberal thinkers like John Rawls we as a society should strive for fairness as a precondition to what we considered just or unjust. Yet Kant basically implies a universality to moralism in order to promote a unity. Should our morals apply to vampires?

It is wrong to socially stigmatize people on race, sex, religion but what about if they don't have a beating heart? This is akin the abortion debate. A fetus has a heart but no conscious yet a vampire doesn't have a heart but has a mind of their own. The Right doesn't really care because their morality comes from dominance and the right of preemptive self defense therefore justifying vampire hunting. This is similar to stop and frisk. I'd assume the woke liberal position to be more along of individuality. If we look at at leftist theory we see things are more complex.

For instance vampires are usually are a part of the oppressor class. They accumulate wealth due to long life spans and demonic powers. Vampires are also physically stronger, taller and do eat people. Natalie Wynn is almost a foot taller than me. Yet libs will say that vampires are individuals thus shouldn't be lumped in with wrong doers without trail due to the fairness doctrine. The libs also say that they're also oppressed because vampire hunters hunt them.

My question is what are the implication that vampires and day walkers are in our midst? While I terfs worry about trans people, I'm thinking about the threat of day walkers.

My second question is what's worse, being forced to eat Donald Trump or be haunted by the ghost of JK Rowling for 50 years? I'm not a vampire but I know some of you are.

I am not shit posting and I'm very serious.