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@fatguysinfinnhats
Sorry as someone who teaches rhetoric this is a wonderful response to the Paradox of Tolerance. I cannot tell you how many times my students have had debates about this. This is the response. This does indeed fix it. I cannot wait to tell this to my classes now. Philosophically and rhetorically this completely resolved the Paradox of Tolerance and I am floored by its simplicity and angry I never saw it before.
Consequences Are for the Poor
This.
Like, I very much appreciate people trying to be mindful of their consumption and trying to be sustainable. But I need y'all to understand that it literally does not matter. The top 10% are doing more damage than all of us together could ever prevent.
you know, until we remember what to do with rich bastards.
@isuggestrevolution
Fidel Castro donating blood on behalf of victims of the devastating 1970 Ancash earthquake in Peru.
I am just sad that Fidel (presumably) never got to experience the euphoria that I felt when I donated blood for the 25th time, and got awarded the coveted pelican plush:
His name is Vlad. if one would like to psycho-analyze me the main official reason that i give blood as often as i can is so that if i fuck up every other single thing in my life, i will still have helped random other people who needed my blood. My second reason for giving blood is I hope to be featured on the website at some point so they can ask me: why do you give blood? and i can answer: "ITS BECAUSE IM A COMMUNIST." but let's be real; the actual reason is the free coffee and cookies, and the amazing pelican merch.
They fumbled on having a ton of vampire or mosquito or tick merch
yeah i bet you could draw a ton of people with that if you gave like, cool vampire collectibles every 5 times you donate.
Teeth every 5th donation, not those 90s plastic ones, the cosplay tier ones
they should give you the candy vampire teeth after you donate each time instead of cookies and coffee, i see your vision.
a 1950's american advertisement depicting a woman opening a bottle,treating basic competence as surprising for women and jokes that they normally need a man for simple household tasks
a 1955 soviet poster by artist Nina Vatolina,presenting glory to the soviet woman, as a competent, equal political actor and a deputy who serves the people.
The OP turned off reblogs so I omitted their name, but their post is worth reading
(edited to move my notes to the top so it doesn't seem like my post)
"Tattoos are becoming unpopular", "piercings are unpopular again", "keep your hair natural never dye it again, it's the trend now" literally fuck off I know what y'all are doing
if you're having trouble sleeping the best you can do is put a bright object close to your face and look at it for at least 30 minutes. if that doesn't work you can close your eyes but make sure to think really hard about a bunch of bullshit
(for people who donât know kathleen stock is an infamous British terf who triggered a whole âfree speechâ university row over her views)
this is what people mean when they say that transphobia and ableism are interlinked. because *of course* the same person who refuses to believe people when they assert their gender also refuses to believe them when they assert a disability. because who knows their bodies better than a random british upper-class white woman!
and at the end of the day it really boils down to this vindictive need to police and bully strangers because 1. why do you care about someone saying theyâre a woman, dressing like a woman etc. and 2. why do you care about someone using a walking stick if they donât 100% need it? the answer is, neither of those things affect your life, and you shouldnât.
golly its almost like there was some kind of virus going around recently that gave a bunch of people lifelong disabilities. does anyone remember anything like that?
As of TODAY Twitch has quietly added the Generative Ai Training model into your account without your permission.
For the time being it is TOGGLEABLE and you can TURN IT OFF!
However, we do not know if Twitch will force this to be on at all times like some other platforms, like X/Twitter, have previously done.
Regardless of IF YOU STREAM OR NOT you should TURN THIS "TRAINING FOR GENERATIVE AI" SETTING OFF IMMEDIATELY!
To do so you must go to: https://www.twitch.tv/settings/security
And then scroll all the way down near the bottom.
There you'll find the "Training for Generative Ai" setting, toggle it to OFF!
Be sure to keep sending messages to Twitch that you do NOT want this to exist.
And another reminder that if you do stream on Twitch, like I do, you should start preparing you and your audiences to migrate elsewhere ASAP.
(via âI Would Never Do This To You:â Protesting Flock, Arizona Man Presents Plan to Surveil Government Officials)
On July 20, Jacob Petrosky stood in front of the Casa Grande, Arizona City Council during a public comment session and made an announcement.
âIâve spent the last several months talking to people all over Casa Grande, and one thing keeps coming up: Safety. So, today Iâm excited to announce a new company called Shepherd Safety,â he said. âOur mission is simple. Keep government officials and their families safe.â It would be no different than how the city monitors its citizens using Flock cameras, he said; he planned to launch satellites that would use AI to monitor âwhere government officials go, where they stop, who they meet with, and when they return home.â
He said heâd already started compiling profiles on their vehicles, spouses vehicles, childrenâs vehicles, and planned to combine that data with Bluetooth signals, advertising IDs, and commercial data sources, âso our authorized users can replay the movements of every government official and their immediate family,â he said. Local businesses would be invited to join the network, to âprotectâ officials while they shop, eat at restaurants, and move around the city.
After laying out his plan and its benefits for the government officials before him, Petrosky revealed that it was all satire. âI would never do this to you,â he said to the council members. âCould I? Probably. But I wouldnât because itâs wrong. Just like what you guys are doing to us is wrong.â
the situation with harry potter is kind of unprecedented in some ways imo because it is maybe the largest media franchise in history to be created & owned by a single person who still has direct creative control over it. who is also a billionaire with significant cultural/political influence. like the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" type excuses shatter on impact when the bigoted author in question is logging onto twitter every day saying explicitly that when you buy the tim hortons ravenclaw donut she is using your donut money to fund the genocide of trans people. like with big franchises usually there's at least a little more diffusion of responsibility than this
"If stuff was just handed to me I'd have no motivation to do anything! That's human nature!" No, babe, that's depression. Psychologically healthy people are still motivated to do things even when their survival isn't being actively threatened.
[Image description: tweet by Roxi Horror @roxiqt on March 30, 2022 at 11:13 AM:Â ââOh, so you think everyone should just be handed enough money to live?â lol. lmao. yeah.â]
okay so like, we all know that housekeeping in a hotel is a Shit Job, right?
I worked with a woman who was independently wealthy. But she liked working housekeeping. So she did. And if the manager got bitchy with her, sheâd just shrug and be like âOkay, I can quit.â
Like the manager treated her like a human being because she knew she had to because otherwise sheâd lose one of her best workers.
Yes, everyone should be just handed the money to live.
I worked with a lady whoâs husband made more than enough to support them both. She just did the retail to have something to do with herself part-time.
Thereâs a lot of people whoâd happily do the same sort of thing. Honestly? A lot of the jobs we consider âshittyâ jobs? Are shitty because the employees are treated like garbage.
If employees werenât being screwed over by people higher up the chain constantly or being forced to kiss the asses of customers currently shitting all over them, those jobs would by and large be a whole lot more bearable, and appealing to more people!!
Plus rich people are just handed a lot of money, whether they earn it or not, and no one questions that. Only poor people getting money gets interrogated over and over and over again.
Iâd like to add a footnote to this thread that the US gives more money (by way of the income tax reduction) to homeowners than it does to poor people who need subsidized housing.
My best teacher in high school was the guy who had previously made a ton of money that he couldâve retired at like 30. Man just wanted to teach teenagers.
If people as a whole were handed enough money to live on, maybe more people like him wouldnât be put off by the poor salary teachers make. (also teachers should be paid a lot more)
Phenomenal spare wheel cover I walked past the other day
