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I never liked politicians who try to present themselves as "one of you. A common man."
I would not trust the common man to run a government.
You know who I want running the government? The intellectual elite. I want my Prime Minister to have a Master's in Economics, Law and Political Science, and a Phd in History.
I want "World Leader" to be a position that requires as much scrutiny and education in the Humanities as an astronaut requires in STEM.
Oh you're just like me? That means you unqualified for public office.
Why do people pretend that Glitch are still an indie company? They get funding from the Australian government and have commercial deals with Netflix and Amazon Prime. Glitch and TADC fans are so stupid and racist they can't see their deception. You aren't indie just because you say you're indie.
What do you think Indie is?
Glitch is an indie animation company because they have no parent company. Nobody owns or dictates what they do. Getting federal subsidies doesn't mean you aren't indie, nor does making distribution deals. That stuff is just required for the business.
It's indie because it's privately owned, not publicly traded, and not owned by another company. They don't have the answer to anyone.
Federal art subsidies are a good thing, what the fuck is wrong with you?!
People choose to judge too much by aesthetics and vibes, because it’s easy for them.
Do you think that "No child left behind" was well intended, but short sighted? Or deliberate sabotage on the collective education of the American public as a whole?
No Child Left Behind is one of those bills that sounds great in theory (standardize an unequal education system and introduce federal funding for schools) but failed at the hurdle where it let the states decide academic achievement minimums to receive federal funding, meaning red states often set the standard extremely high so they could embezzle the funding.
A bill that creates federal funding for schools (which they didn't have) and sets education standards that Red States can't interfere with is not a bad idea, but it left too many important things up to the states themselves.
If anything, there's an argument to be made that social programs should go through a testing phase similar to military hardware: Give it to the dumbfucks and see how they break it.
You've talked about both incest and CSA as things people don't like thinking about for broader reasons than just 'ew' but is it the same way with suicide? Since you've dealt with suicidal thoughts, why are some people trying to "raise awareness" but never want to discuss it?
Suicide is often treated as a mental health problem. As such a suicidal person will often be dragged into a hospital for a mental health evaluation, that will proceed to do fuck all but hold them until their mood evens out.
The problem is that it's not a psychological problem. It's a sociological problem.
There are mental illnesses that can suppress or inhibit the base desire to life that keeps most people off the ledge, but they are not responsible for the situations that brought them to the ledge in the first place.
As a kid my parents took me to doctor after doctor trying to find out what was wrong with me. The doctors would ask me "why do you want to kill yourself?" And I gave the same answer every time: "Everyone treats me like shit no matter what I do. My parents, my teachers, they're always angry with me even if I behave. Nothing makes them stop insulting or hurting me. I get bullied at school, casually insulted at home, and my father uses child abandonment as a threat very regularly. And my behavior does not affect any of it. What else do you expect me to do?"
Not as eloquently, obviously.
And this would go in one ear and out the other, while my parents chased more red herrings out of sheer, overwhelming denial. I currently, to this day, do not know if any of those doctors or care workers mentioned to them that how I am treated at home is the likely cause. If it ever happened, it was ignored.
If the reason for someone trying to end their own life is "I lost my job, and now I'll likely be homeless in a week" what the fuck do you expect a hospital or a psychiatrist to do about that?
People focus on mental illness, a decidedly rare lone cause of suicide, because otherwise they have to ask themselves uncomfortable questions about things that don't have easy fixes.
And if you happen to be the reason someone wants to end their own life, that horseshit is very reassuring isn't it?
There is something sooo deeply American going on with Seattle Children’s Hospital that I think would brick the minds of everyone outside of the United States.
The CHILDRENS hospital has to restrict helipad landings because of noise complaints from the wealthy home owners living next to it. Only the most urgent patients can land directly at the hospital. While the other kids have to land a mile away and are taken to the hospital via ambulance. Which is an unnecessary risk to the child’s life and also makes the families pay for the helicopter AND ambulance.
The hospital says some limits on helipad access add pressure when children need lifesaving care.
Apparently this has been going on for decades and is only getting traction because a pilot complained on Twitter.
Do you think there's any merit to a lot of the "stop shaming people for how they used to vote" discourse?
No.
The discourse suggests that the left should "stop shaming and finger-wagging at people for who they were in the past and who are trying to change."
Problem #1: They aren't.
The left does not shame or finger-wag at people who are trying to change. They shame and finger-wag at people who are not. Who are getting bent over a barrel by the Trump administration and are still clinging to this fantasy that imaginary trans groomers or mexican job snatchers are ruining their lives. People who are refusing to change.
What the discourse is actually suggesting is that we need to pre-emptively accept people to encourage change.
Problem #2: That doesn't work.
These people aren't Anakin and you aren't their kid making puppy dog eyes at them. You're not going to pry the good in them out of them. Working class conservatives are conservative because they want to hurt people they don't like, regardless of how much it hurts them in turn. Hurting people is all they care about, and until they learn to care about something else, they will never change.
So no. The left is now shaming people trying to change. They are shaming people who are stubbornly refusing to.
Problem #3: Finger-wagging isn't a real problem. If someone wagging their finger at you pisses you off or drives you further right, you are a pussy.
Why is Britain so ridiculously transphobic? I thought it was just Rowling and Lineham's rhetoric that inflated that perception but so many of the average English people I've met are terfs by default.
My dude, Britain is the original culture-hating settler colonial empire. The US, Canada, Israel, Germany, Japan, they're just kids paddling around the splash pool compared to England.
If they were officially counted as genocides as they should be, the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and the Genocide of the Native Americans would make the Holocaust look like a pressure cooker bomb.
People have this idea in their head that Imperial nations of yore who stopped doing Imperialism (officially) experienced some kind of turnaround morally. But that's only ever been the case for Germany because we built 20 fucking museums as a permanent mark of shame. And those museums aren't even dedicated to all the people Germany killed, just the third of them that America gave a shit about.
We don't do that for any other Empire's wrongdoings. We don't have a hundred memorials to Unit 737, Nanjing, the Slave Trade, the genocide of the Natives, or the Rape of Africa. It's not mandatory education for elementary school students all around the world.
We did not put the other empires through the same state-sanctioned prolonged shaming that we put Germany through. The attitude toward Germany has always carried an undercurrent of "They're still in time out, and they know why!" from people whose Empires have committed far worse sins.
Britain didn't even have to give back all the shit they stole from their museum. I don't know why you expected that "damn dirty weirdos and their weird shit that's not like us" shit to ever change. This is the nation that enforced this gender binary on the entire world in the first place.
Do you think there's any merit to the idea that information overload has made the overton window shift towards fascism?
No, because to accept that I would have to deny the reality of my own eyes.
In 2016, a bunch of people were cheering and laughing for a guy who said "grab 'em by the pussy" and a bunch of people who claimed to be on the left looked at his opponent, who was proposing ending weapons sales to Israel, raising the minimum wage, and improving access to healthcare and said "Ew a woman!"
The Overton Window did not shift. It's remained exactly where it is.
Why on earth would you be surprised at the fact that misogyny isn't getting Trump impeached when misogyny was the only reason he ever actually got elected?
The Neversoft Spider Man game is amazing because most of it is Wacky Woohoo Spider Man Fun Time and the the very last level is like "Hey kids, how'd you like to have nightmares for a month?"
"Korra's fans tend to be more misogynistic on average" um explain? How does that make sense?
Korra's fanbase has largely boiled her character down into a muscle girl pinup where discussions about her character are an extreme minority to people just going over 18 million scenarios where she's being dominated by the decidedly Fire Nation-coded Asami.
Katara got a lot of the same treatment, with especially misogynistic fans flooding the internet with fantasies of her being the concubine to the Fire Nation royal family. But since Korra is muscular people act like there's a veneer of progressiveness to such blatant body and racial fetishization.
My revisit of Korra 2 years ago was probably the most in-depth discussion of Korra's character ever.
Some would argue that rape is a worse crime
Some people are idiots. You can recover from rape, you can't recover from being murdered.
The idea that rape is a worse crime is to suggest that the victim is "forever defiled" and that being dead would be better.
If you believe that you're a misogynist.
I think part of the reason many people dislike rapists more than murderers 1) people are more likely to encounter a rapist than a murderer in their daily lives, 2) it's harder to secure a conviction for rape cases than it is for either manslaugher or murder (to be fair, an increasing number of murders are also going unsolved) so people associate rapists with escaping justice more frequently, and 3) people can conceive of killing someone by accident or in self-defense (which has resulted in MANY people getting convicted for murder, not just manslaughter), but there's really no way to rape someone accidentally or in self-defense. Would you say you agree or disagree with this?
it's harder to secure a conviction for rape cases than it is for either manslaugher or murder
No it isn't. They are convicted at about the same rate. The difference is that if someone is found innocent of murder, they are innocent of murder. If someone is found innocent of rape, people twist themselves in knots to argue they're not.
Not every murder case is treated like OJ, but every rape case IS.
People DO in fact associate rapists with escaping justice more frequently, but the reality is they don't actually escape justice more frequently.
people can conceive of killing someone by accident or in self-defense (which has resulted in MANY people getting convicted for murder, not just manslaughter), but there's really no way to rape someone accidentally or in self-defense.
If you have sex with someone who is drunk and didn't know they were drunk, that'd be an example of it being accidental, it's just that the supposed victim in that case is more likely to view it as an embarrassing mistake on their part and resolve to drink less.
I mean if you get hammered and fuck someone, wake up in their bed the next morning, and tell them "I was hammered as fuck" they're likely to apologize to you. Profusely.
Furthermore people who commit rape try to justify it all the time. The two crimes have equal amounts of people hand-wringing and/or fantasizing about someone "deserving it" or it not being the perpetrator's fault. People can often imagine scenarios where they would be justified in killing someone, that doesn't mean they actually would be.
But the two are equally unjustifiable because a justified killing is not what Murder means, and consensual sex is not what Rape means.
No, people view rape as worse than murder because they have to actually see the damage it does to the victim with their own eyes. A lot of people can't comprehend the complete loss of a person, the totality of their very being wiped out in an instant. If you've never lost someone, you can't fully comprehend the notion that they are gone forever.
It's an executioner's fallacy.
"It's an executioner's fallacy" What does that mean?
The most humane way to execute someone is to make them look the other way and shoot them in the back of the head when they aren't expecting it.
Instant, painless death.
However, it's extremely gory and messy and very psychologically damaging to the person who is pulling the trigger, and the people who came to witness the execution.
So instead "humane" executions are things like the electric chair or the lethal injection. Things that are WAY more fucking painful, way more prone to failure, and way more brutal, but are more pleasant to perform and view.
The "humane" in question is not for the victim's benefit.
So people view rape as worse than murder because the victim is still alive for the effects to be seen up close, and it's unnerving to them if they've never really sat down to contemplate death.
I don't have this problem because I regularly contemplate death, so even deaths in films or video games somewhat unnerve me because of the reality that a person's entire life experiences up to that point have just vanished.
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depressed steampunk guy: like nothing makes me happy anymore i feel like my fantastical flying contraption just ran out of coal
do you think steam just magically comes out of nowhere im so sick of these people who dont understand steampunk it makes me want to get into my submersible bathysphere and never reemerge
Steam. Is. Water. Coal. Makes. Smoke.
what is the coal doing to the water
Makes sense to me