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men in greek mythology? scoundrels. just terrible. woeful social skills. murderers. kidnappers. violent misogynists. most of them… never described as handsome so we have to assume they were ugly.

narcissus? unproblematic. beacon of transformative self love. king of the swerve. gay icon. couldn’t recognize his reflection but neither can my dog, we aren’t holding that against him.

asgardian-viking

Narcissus wrote this

exphautaz

I refuse to believe Narcissus could read.

digivolvin

i’ve been thinking about this response for the better part of 2 hours and it hasn’t gotten less hysterically funny to me

#reblogging bc of the first part #currently in a class abt ancient greece rn and the sheer... length... of misogyny is exhausting

atomicbecky

The signs as contestants from MTV’s Next

Aries

Taurus

Gemini

Cancer

Leo

Virgo

Libra

Scorpio

Sagittarius

Capricorn

Aquarius

Pisces

#i’m screeching at the cringe #this makes me wanna investigate this show and see what i’ve been missing

mxnrique

im literally not exaggerating when i tell you guys this video saved my life

rehfan

This is a damn MOOD FOR LIFE, I tell you what.

thecompletebookworm

This is beautiful, not just because of the lyrics, harmonies and relatable message, but also because Cinderella (Brandy), One of the Hercules Muses (Roz Ryan) , and Mama Odie (Jenifer Lewis) are singing it. Like we have been blessed.

courtnashe

Glad someone gave names to these ladies. My friend and I could not figure out who they were, but we knew they were all famous.

30-minute-memes

Oh god he’s about to hubris

pochowek

Minor Application Telling Me To Reboot Computer After Being Installed Must Be Fucking Delusional

accelerationist-king-piccolo

autumngracy

WHAT a goddamn mood

rosewater1997

Are you there god It’s me your bastard child

ghostlyss

(Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan)

k25ff

After thorough scientific analysis, here are my findings.

fuckyeahgreatplays

Me, constantly

#big mood

afakepsychic

maxevvans

My sis: What’s so funny about Nickelback? Why are you always laughing??

Me:

mysharona1987

anxietyproblem

#called the FUCK out #lol

s-leary

An astonishingly useful thread on progressive vs. conservative thought by Jennifer Dziura (text version via ThreadReader):

lectorel

Wow, that is legitimately horrifying.

I intended to help someone, but it turns out the thing I did kills people. The only moral option is … Doubling down and killing more people.

thornshrike

It all boils down to the different moral foundations people use. For progressives, care, equality and “freedom to” are the main building blocks for deciding whether something is just and moral.

- Does it harm people? - Does it result in inequality? - Does it prevent people from engaging in society?

As long as the proposed idea (behaviour, policy) clears those two hurdles, it’s good to go for progressives.This type of thinking is super compatible with consequentialism. For conservatives, there are more foundations to consider - authority, loyalty, fairness, purity and “liberty from”.

- Does it violate established social hierarchy? (in this approach, hierarchy is good and beneficial). - Does it damage in-group bonds? (again, strong in-group loyalties are considered to be good). - Does it fail to reward contributors and punish wrong-doers? (this is a big one - fairness is about just desserts and consequences for actions, not equality). - Does it breach the sanctity of the body? (this is a complex one, rooted in cultural notions of disgust and body as a temple). - Does it force people to engage in actions they disagree with? (this is the freedom from taxation, PC, and so on).

Libertarians pretty much care only about Liberty from things, usually the government.

This complex set of values means that the same idea or policy will get different moral evaluations. Let’s take a few examples:

Legalising weed: all fine in terms of the progressive foundations. But it breaches purity (the body is a temple) and to an extent interacts with conservative version of fairness by removing a punishment on what they consider to be morally wrong behaviour.

Universal healthcare: again, all clear in progressive values. This policy will help. But in the conservative value set, the policy fails at fairness by ‘rewarding’ non-contributing behaviour (poverty and illness). Let’s not get into a debate over how this is even classified as behaviour rather than a condition. It also breaches freedom from for people who are mostly focused on being free from government, rather than private insurers. The interesting caveat is that purity should favour healthcare - if the body is sacred, we should as a society value accessible ways to keep it healthy and clean. However, because many health conditions have contributing behavioural factors, it can be considered unjust to help people out of the consequences of their actions - even at a net loss to society.

If anyone is interested, Jonathan Haidt writes a lot about the moral foundations, and while he’s often annoyingly centrist in how he presents the ideas, the research is pretty solid.

#interesting