roachboy

well my problem is i made this character here named roachboy and he's kind of an asshole.
so people assume he's being condescending even when he's not.
i know he's not because i make the sentences that cause him to be his usual asshole self.
of course there are some thing that roachboy has a problem with.
reactionaries, for example. he wants to eat their bones.
as a human being, i personally don't care that much about reactionaries.
but roachboy---he's got a bit of a Problem with them.

it's hard to break character.
even when you do it, no-one believes you.
like now, i wager that there are going to be people posting after this who are going to not believe that i am not roachboy.
and they don't like roachboy because, well, he's a bit of an asshole.

the other problem is that he's not wrong about some things.
there is, in fact, no reason at all to take conservatives seriously.
and there are, in fact, meds that help with nationalism disorders--you know, those fucked up psychological conditions that enable you to imagine that such things exist and that you are part of one of them.
and that we live in the pathetic twilight of a fading empire.

but these are ugly things so its easier to assume that roachboy is an asshole.
which is true, but independently of those things.
they operate in a kind of transcendence.

as for condescension, it's really a matter of style.
not everyone has it.
it's a pity.
but i digress.

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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

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