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i dont care about validity i care about my civil rights
“can you be trans without dysphoria” “can you be an aromantic lesbian” “can bisexuals only date one gender” i literally do not care. in what states and countries are we protected from discrimination.
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looking back on everything that’s happened wrt james somerton, part of me has got to wonder what hbomb’s and his viewers’ *real* problem with him was. when you see stories like this, and maybe I’m just cynical having been on the internet for too long, most people who get cancelled like this are kind of weird in some way. or people just don’t like them.
idk if you’ve ever watched “the traitors” before, but often the people who get voted out early don’t make eye contact or are slightly a bit weird. and people make up all sorts of conspiracy theories about why they can’t trust them, and blah blah blah. but it’s actually just a kind of “ick” fundamentally. these stories can be that, or they can be a kind of professional jealousy, or they can be “who’s the most marginalized in the marginalized pile”, or they can be smurfette syndrome (“there’s only room for there to be one gay disney youtuber, and by god, it’s gonna be me”). and beyond all that, it’s fun to be part of a mob.
maybe this is just growing pains on my end realizing that I used to have that tendency and over-indexing in the other direction. I’m weirdly sympathetic to villains. but john ronson points this out in his book, that the internet never doles out the correct amount of punishment. all things considered, plagiarism is a misdemeanor. ripping off articles and YouTube videos is a sin, but it’s a venial sin. he may have harmed people, but he didn’t hurt people if that makes any sense.
there’s a very good piece by malcolm gladwell in the New Yorker archive from like 10 or 15 years ago about how he doesn’t personally believe plagiarism to be that big of a deal. it’s very interesting and basically the lynchpin of his argument is that there isn’t any copyright on ideas. it’s not about the ideas, it’s the execution. think of that scene in the social network when jesse eisenberg says to the fucked up looking winklewhatever twins, “if you were the inventors of Facebook, you’d have invented Facebook”
lot of this seems to be prefaced on the idea of people making money that they “don’t deserve”, which is a philosophical question beyond the scope of this post.
the thing with his kind of plagiarism isn't that it should be illegal but that people should know where it's coming from and act accordingly . man are you really doing this much stretching to defend someone who made so much just lying to people
like i've never seen the same attitude raised towards other workers who are having their industry flipped upside down due to automation as i've seen towards artists. most artists are fucking broke as hell, i'm not even a doomer about ai it's got countless limitations but why are so many people gleefully joking about taking away other people's jobs its such an ugly look
seriously!! seeing it happening in leftist circles is crazy
Leftists defending slop and low quality, mass produced goods (in this case AI art) always comes across as so.. dumb to me. This thinking where mediocrity and even sub-par garbage is acceptable is a huge part of what makes capitalism go around. Buy those cheap polyester shirts, throw them out because buying them wasn’t a sacrifice and they break anyways. Pour millions of dollars into a crappy tv show with just enough bandwidth to superficially resonate with people, but nothing that is too challenging or poses a substantial risk. Erase acres of forest to build data storage centres for tik tok because video is slightly more addictive than text even though the former takes up far more memory that inevitably ends up on a physical cloud with an actual footprint. Use the cut down trees to print books written by a fancy sentence predictor that can merely be impressive, but never groundbreaking.
There’s already such a massive alienation from our labor, even skilled workers often have to compromise to meet artificial demand, i cant even begin to think how much CO2 and how much plastic has been shat into the world in order to produce inherently disposable, unloved things and it makes me insane. Labor must be reclaimed, people need to become less alienated from their things and the last thing we need is a crappy mix and match machine taking up a sector that is by definition about communicating with fellow humans. Screwing over the one sector that still somewhat owns their labor isnt the hot communist take you think it is
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those posts about how to bear the passage of time without brand new shit coming out during the strikes are written with the same gravity as a global food shortage everyone shut the hell up and get into SOAPSTONE CARVING
btw don’t listen to everything those climate scientists and activists tell you. find your local oil company or fracking site and ask them about it 🥰 these people spend ever day with their oil and have been doing so for generations. don’t fall for FFFs agenda !!!!1!1!!!! /s
bp and shell took in record profits last year, they would never make money if they if they lied to consumers about fossil fuels. its literally in their interests to be honest, silly!
Don’t go to outside sources, especially those SCIENTISTS that are probably PAID FOR by BIG ANTI-OIL.
Those oil riggers LOVE the oil and read bedtime stories to it before it’s sent off to be sold!
There are sources but my nails are TOO LONG to post them!
Can confirm, my family has been running a small fracking operation for generations. We certainly aren't doing any harm. It's a way of life and our oil is happy, healthy, green and all natural, unlike those much more expensive disgusting unhealthy hyper-processed alternatives. Tell me, if we weren't meant to do fracking, then why's the oil there? Why is the ground so drillable?
i believe all of you without reservations
avoiding coal and other fossil fuels is actively harmful to your local communities. Working class people like miners deserve your support. Local fossil fuels are much better than imported solar power. Please listen to workers and they will tell you that they want to keep their jobs in the fossil fuel industry. There is no way to support these poeple without destroying forests and villages and the planet. /s
Actual CDU/AfD/FDP talking points.
Sorry man I know your trying to make a point about farmers but this is stupid . A better comparison would be asking climate change scientists about climate change . Do you not believe them because it's their job to care about the climate ? What are you trying to say with this?
"cost of living crisis" give me a FUCKING break it's called "unprecedented corporate greed and income inequality" fucking cost of living crisis like it's just a natural or unexplainable phenomenon Christ
i’ve heard a lot of people say “don’t reach out to your friends first and see how many people will remain in your life. those are your true friends” and i get it. it sucks and it’s tiring constantly being the one to message first, to initiate hang outs but don’t take this so literally. some friendships require initiation. i have lost touch with so many people who genuinely cared about me and wanted me in their life because i stopped reaching out. it’s a hard pill to swallow but honestly some people just suck at it and it doesn’t mean they don’t love and value you. i’ve reconnected with some people over the past few months and it’s crazy how genuinely happy they are to see me and how engaged they are in the conversation. i just think sometimes we’re too harsh on each other & too quick to emphasize other peoples flaws and remove them from our lives but then we’ll all be alone and what’s the point of life then!!!!
you need to be earnest. you need to tell people that you love them. you need to speak on how you’re feeling honestly. you need to be sentimental. you need to stop letting the fear of other people laughing at you have so much control over how you express yourself. you need to get over yourself. you need to be embarrassing but true.
I honestly think that the lack of non-sexual nudity in public spaces has done horrific damage to American society.
We deeply struggle to understand the natural diversity of bodies because we only see naked bodies in a sexual context. We are taught that seeing nudity is somehow inherently harmful, especially to children. We struggle to differentiate between sexually suggestive and sexually explicit material.
It fucks up the way people think about and talk about sex ed. It fucks up the way people think about and talk about breast feeding. It fucks up the way people think about and talk about queer folks. It feeds into fatphobia and ableism and is all rooted in this deeply harmful puritanism.
Like, I need people to understand that seeing a bare titty in public is not going to hurt a child. Seeing a man in a banana hammock isn't inherently traumatizing. I would argue, in fact, that adults treating those things as dangerous and gross and scary is going to do way more damage to a kid's psychology than seeing the nudity in the first place.
These type of additions are vexing. Ostensibly supportive but can't help but make sure you know they're also Weird about nudity by making it about consent, doubling down on the idea that there's no such thing as nonsexual nudity, it's an action that willing partners need to consent to first. Does the breastfeeding parent need my consent to feed their child? When you see someone wearing practically see-through yoga pants, is your thought that they should have asked your consent before going outside? this is an exact example of how it fucks up the way you think, that you could read all of op and instinctually start thinking in the language of sexual assault, as if this post was about flashers
So much of queer expression is about tongue-in-cheek performance. Camp, drag, diva worship, butch identity, leather, theater, ballroom categories, and so on. These performances call into question the performances that straight (and white, and neurotypical, and so on) society expects of us in our daily lives, and offer a fleeting escape. Why then would we act like it's some sort of coincidence that many if not most furries are LGBT? I'm serious. Add in the dimension of these personas literally having another body and contextualize that with dysphoria and the way our bodies are sexed. The bad faith interpretation what I'm saying is that "furries are inherently queer," and I'm going to nip that in the bud. I'm simply pointing out that queer people, particularly trans people, particularly trans women, are maligned for participating in "cringey" modes of expression that to them come from a distinctly queer impulse. We all pretend to understand camp performance until it's "deviant" or, god forbid, "cringe."
I hate "autism isn't an excuse."
Not because it's wrong, truly I still don't really know what it means when neurotypicals say this, especially when they try to make a distinction between "excuses" vs "explanations". I hate it because of the charade it represents, the pretense that this is something I need to hear, that it's something I haven't been told, that it's something anyone needs to be made aware of. I can say confidently that if I were ever able to use my autism as an excuse, legitimately be let off easy for some transgression by playing the autism card, it would be the first time. It would be the first time for any autistic person, because this card has no sway. It's a dud.
The thought of even attempting to gain sympathy by informing someone of my mental disability fills me with shame and dread. That's why I hate "autism isn't an excuse", because I already know. Honestly, it might be the only thing I know for sure.
no offense but I think past a certain point a lot of people's need for the literal "representation" of their exact lived experiences on screen and in media in general is just another symptom of our ever increasing social alienation. Like you're seeking the wire mother :/
when i see english speakers say "marijuana"...looks like somebody isn't immune to propaganda
cannabis was demonized/criminalized in america in the 30s cuz the logging industry didn't want hemp to fuck up their shit and a huge part of their campaign was connecting cannabis to mexicans and being hella fucking racist
cannabis is not even native to mexico it's from east asia. and btw if u wanna talk abt how asians have had their shit fucked up by bullshit american drug laws, opium was just criminalized in the early 20th century because chinese immigrants smoked it. the u.s. wants to absolutely fuck your shit up in any way possible if you are a person of color and criminalizing the extremely common, human activity of doing drugs is a ridiculously incidious way to do that
L + ratio + question everything + especially the government trying to control your bodily autonomy + the d.e.a. is evil and only exists because of corporate greed + examine your beliefs about drugs and ask yourself "why do i think this and who benefits from me thinking this way" + free your mind + do drugs + have fun + be anti-racist
People just aren’t prepared to deal with the nuances of the trans experience I think. Even the basic ones. People are just so used to putting “male experiences” and “female experiences” into two different boxes that don’t touch each other. And other types of experiences tbh.
The trans community is where a lot of things blend together that people think are separate. Straight men that’ve lived as lesbians, men and women unlearning internalized misogyny towards themselves, people that don’t particularly care about their assigned sex, and infinite other combos of things.
People of every kind of experience transition at every age in whatever way they want or need. And some people never transition or fully leave the closet.
What I mean to say is, I see people chastising trans people and their allies for talking about experiences that don’t fit into their neat little boxes they have in their head.
the thing is, and this might cause some people to throw a fit, but if the canadian govt was massively expanding the number of people qualified for MAID, that would be by and large a good thing, and would only be better if they went ahead and just made it on-request. national healthcare systems spend ungodly amounts of money, time and resources on prolonging people's lives against their will and punishing people who take their life on their own accord. informed consent assisted suicide isn't a thing in canada but incarcerating suicide survivors against their will is widespread. im not sure if MAID is the problem that should be focused on.
Viewing suicide as legitimate option can only be a good thing tbh. The current way of approaching it as unthinkable and unspeakable just leads to it being an impulse people repress and don't talk about except for in situations of extreme emotional intensity...which is not really gonna result in people working thru shit or making informed choices.
Actually giving suicidal people end of life care options--support in organizing their affairs, the ability to spend time with and say goodbye to loved ones, planning etc. is the right thing to do. It's kind and respectful of people's bodily autonomy, it can help ease or at least provide outlets for the grief of loved ones, and it ensures that suicide can be an informed choice. I firmly believe it would also prevent a lot of suicides by allowing people the space and resources to make an informed decision and not feel like it's "now or never" but like it has to be a real option and not a disguised prevention tactic y'know?
