As the world falls, I sink upwards.

[shencomix]

[burningabyss572]

It's okay, non-femboy Shen, I like you.

[diversityland]

Rep. Gill: "Is it important to be polite?"

Smithsonian Director: "Yes sir."

Rep. Gill: "The Smithsonian Institute references politeness as a defining characteristic of white supremacy culture. Ma'am are you a white supremacist?"

[the-davest-of-uncles]

The soft bigotry of low expectations. "Oh, we shouldn't expect them to be polite. They're just minorities."

[beardedmrbean]

Brandon Gill is as fun as it gets to watch these kinds of videos of, in the same sitting as this one he also asks her about 'Objectivity' and did the same thing as the politeness one.

It's great, he reads their words back to them and asks them what they meant by them.

Number of people who can not give a answer when he asks them what they personally think it insane, it's like a philosophy class, you risk shunning if you dare to speak your own mind.

Old pastor of mine talked about a similar situation with instructors from when he was in seminary.

[prickly-porcupine-memes]

A lesson in antisemtic propaganda you should watch, then share.

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[locked-keye]

[hst3000]

...We just throwing out innocent until proven guilty then? The Untouchable defends the public murderer and the family man falsely accused of assult, or the struggling single woman wrongly blamed for theft.

[emmaubler]

"We rightly agreed to the principle of rights, but it's so icky to actualy help people exercise them! The government is corrupt and obviously ACAB but also defending someone against a charge made by these bodies should result in instant shunning by the community!"

[locked-keye]

Actually what I'm saying is the public defenders are mostly insane and we should consider that not dealing with their obvious disregard for what their real job is (ensuring the trial is fair) in favor of "get the accused off no matter what" is a threat to the public good.

[hst3000]

I'm not convinced 'ensure the trial is fair' and 'get the accused off no matter what' look different when done to someone's best ability.

The defense's job is to defend. This involves providing alternate theories to the facts of the case, showing where there is doubt, doing everything they can to make sure the prosecution's case has to be strong.

You seem to be saying 'well yes they need to be defended but not TOO hard.'

[fiyabwal]

Theres a line between the average public defender level of "you will get a fair trial" and Hillary Clinton's "your honor, she liked it"(cant remember the exact quote sorry), or that one recent case in the UK where 3 muslim teens raped a girl and filmed it and their lawyer said she deserved it for dressing too provocatively.

They're saying to find that middle ground of solid defense of rights while still shunning someone who tries the latter 2 examples as a defense.

[susanoos-wife]

[librastrai]

no girl we don't "understand martyrdom" because we love our children & want them to be alive while you're glad to see them dead for the Omnicause.

insert golda meir quote here

[homochadensistm]

The west doesnt understand martyrdom because the west stopped living in the Bronze age like 2000yrs ago and had the enlightenment movement further improve on the post bronze age achievements

[heyfruitcake]

Now that everyone is discussing Nolan's Odyssey movie, I feel like it's a good time to let non-Italians know that the production dumped plastic props into the Italian sea. Weirdly enough I could not find any article in English about it but it's a fucking problem nonetheless.

I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.

L'Odissea di Nolan tra "scheletri spazzatura" e relitti: Arpa al lavoro in Sicilia, che succede

Non è la prima volta che la produzione solleva un vespaio in Sicilia. A Lipari una squadra di sub sarebbe però già impegnata a bonificare i

[ignitelimelight]

They dumped plastic skeletons in environmentally protected areas, against the literal contracts they had to sign to get the permits to film in environmentally protected areas. Like they not only did a bad ecological thing that freaked out some divers, they literally broke environmental protection laws and their contract with the Italian government

[yourtoradorasextendedwarranty]

The arrogant thing about PizzaCakes is that she is kinda stupid.

But it's intentional stupidity. It's not that we "Allow Hate Speech". The fact is we don't arrest people for speech alone. (Direct calls to action in certain cases do not qualify) But the reality is that who decides what is hate speech? Explain why it is that Christianity is the only faith in Canada right now in which is considered "hateful" to pray near clinics. Yet Islam and (and to a lesser extent) Judaism, seen untouched. And here's the kicker. If Islam ever takes power in Canada what follows is (under your gate speech laws) any criticism of their faith. And any "modern progressive" views as most Muslims are disgusted by the LGBT.

Hate speech is a stupid term that changes depending on who's in power. And if you DEFINE it to be, "anything that goes against modern Progressivism", your mandating your world view at that point. And it will be used against you eventually using speech manipulation.

[mylibertarianblog3]

A nice bonus panel would be police arresting the beaver for what they said and the eagle just leaving because it has wings (free speach)

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem #16,043:

Proshippers are some of the most whiny, entitled people I've ever met. Like, I'm sorry that your incest fetish is getting you yelled at, maybe stop getting off to LITERAL FUCKING ABUSE THAT HAPPENS TO REAL PEOPLE EVERY GODDAMN DAY! If any of these people talked to an actual survivor of the shit they salivate over, the guilt would crush them. So they'd rather plug their ears and cry buzzwords until they go blue in the face. I don't want to be around these kinds of assholes and they should never have been tolerated in fandom spaces to begin with.

[burningabyss572]

No. No they would not. Cause they understand the difference between fiction and reality.

Plus uh. >not all proshippers have incest fetishes

[starcut-sand]

the thing about Tangled is that this is a story geared towards little girls (even if it's "fun for the whole family," it's a disney princess movie, it's geared towards little girls), and it says, "here is a girl who is naive and doesn't know anything about the 'Real World' or how to navigate it safely and correctly. now pay close attention: the good guys are the ones who help her grow and explore new things while still respecting her own perspective and feelings, not making her feel stupid. the bad guys are the ones who tell her that she is too weak/immature/naive to do the things she wants to do, because she is fragile and needs protecting." and I watched this when I was nine years old and it resonated deep in a part of me that I couldn't articulate with words yet.

[starcut-sand]

like, I was nine years old. other notable memories from being nine years old include adults making jokes about how easily squished fairies could be when I tried to explain my love of tiny fairies living tiny lives, and adults talking over my head about how I was "still so innocent" when I asked a question about what something was. a movie saying "hey even if you're naive and innocent you're still important and you have ideas that are worth something and people who treat you otherwise are holding you back" was such an important thing. idk

[seriousfic]

It’s funny how Captain Marvel’s tagline is “Carol gets up because fuck you,” cuz, you guys made her invincible and all-powerful. This determination you’re going on about is pointless because there are no circumstances where she would be knocked down in the first place. She has no flaws, no weaknesses, no challenges–not even a code of honor that would oblige her to participate in a fair fight. The only thing in the MCU that can even slow her down is Thanos with the Infinity Gauntlet, and obviously she can’t run into a threat of that magnitude every few years or the entire Infinity Saga is small potatoes, the kind of thing that happens every leap year. 

I mean, at this point, she’s basically Doctor Manhattan without the ennui and nihilism… which is just a boring, poorly written Doctor Manhattan

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Also, “determination” is not actually a unique character trait for a superhero!

[mornington-the-crescent]

When you iron out all the flaws, you’re left with an incredibly flat character.

[morgan5451]

[the-condesce-did-nothing-wrong]

Okay I think the primary divide between me and the average Homestuck Redditor is that *I* think Jane was meant to be a tritagonist on the level of Karkat and John but got pushed away and ignored over time, while the Homestuck Redditor believes Jane to be a expendable filler character on the level of Nepeta, Eridan, Feferi, etc. so anything done to her is fine because she was “always unimportant”

[burningabyss572]

#she and Jake get treated like incidental characters while Dirk and Roxy are the true MCs#although I argue that Jake is able to get by because he’s treated as a wet cat and Dirk’s boyfriend

It's the aggressive Strilonde focus that steadily was introduced around the end and the epilogues.

[mixmangosmangoverse]

Everyone appreciates empathy and nuance until Jews ask for it too

[mixmangosmangoverse]

I'm not in a good situation to explain it, but I feel like this focus on "empathy" in regards to the situation is related to why people think radicalization is good. We've all seen "radicalized by empathy" being said, and it's this idea that obviously if you have empathy you're going to.... Sympathize with terrorists. That empathy excludes nuance because if you dare try to say "actually, maybe a revolution isn't a good idea" you're heartless and evil

It's directly related to the idea that speaking in favor of Gaza is something brave and daring that no one is doing i think. Because they need to pretend they're being suppressed, being silenced, that this is the unpopular position. Or else they'd realize this is just the same old antisemitism as always

It's frustrating. That's all it is

[h4ganah]

The ICC actually doing something good for once was definitely not something I was expecting - but they finally voted to remove Karm Khan (the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court). A.k.a. the guy who issued the arrest warrants for Netanyahu and others in the Israeli government after October 7.

I mean, of course they didn't do it because of that: they did it because he's a sexual predator, who also got disbarred by the Bar Standards Board (the British bar association). But a W is still a W 🎉

It should btw of course not surprise anyone at all that his victim is being accused of being an "Israeli agent", just because Khan decided to assault her around the time of the issuing of the arrest warrants. This is all because Israel controls everything, because of course it is. I guess Israel was the ones who actually assaulted the victim too, or something, and I'm sure the British Bar Standards Board is being puppeteered by Bibi himself 🫡

כל כלב בא יומו 🥂

[unsolicited-opinions]

Danny Danon, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, stated that Khan "believed that by launching a political witch hunt against Israel and issuing a politically motivated arrest warrant against Prime Minister Netanyahu, the world would ignore the grave sexual misconduct allegations against him. He was wrong." He added that Khan "sought to scapegoat Isra el in an attempt to divert attention from his own misconduct. The international community rejected that cynical attempt today."

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[luna-azzurra]

One thing psychology made obvious to me is that people protect their self-image harder than they protect the truth. A character can do something selfish and still need to believe they’re kind. So they rename it. They say they were “setting boundaries” when they were punishing someone. They say they were “being honest” when they were being cruel. The lie is not always for other people. Sometimes the lie is the little bridge that lets them keep living with themselves.

[beardedmrbean]

[burningabyss572]

You're welcome!