Victimatus virtus non est

Caribbean immigrant to UK / Long posts tagged #long or #long post / Officially mentally unwell // Please don't hostile ping me into any arguments, or hostile ping others to see my posts.

[iamatinyowl]

No one actually thinks all men. Just too many men. Just enough men to be afraid. Just enough men that all women have experienced it. Just enough to make it a social problem not a personal one.

[cheshireinthemiddle]

no one actually thinks all blacks

just too many blacks

just enough blacks to be afraid just enough blacks that all whites have experienced it. just enough to make it a social problem and not a personal one.

[cheshireinthemiddle]

People still think this is okay

[mrsurlaw]

No one actually thinks all migrants.

Just too many migrants.

Just enough migrants to be afraid. Just enough migrants that all natives have experienced it. Just enough to make it a social problem not a personal one.

No one actually thinks all Muslims.

Just too many Muslims.

Just enough Muslims to be afraid. Just enough Muslims that all Westerners have experienced it. Just enough to make it a social problem not a personal one.

[generallemarc]

It's a rare kind of tragedy to watch a man like Walter struggle to regain even a semblance of independence, and a rare actor who can bring it to life like John Noble can

Just about every level of Walter's quest to get back to normal is destroyed in a mere two scenes in Season 2 Episode 9; he forgets to maintain operational security by casually mentioning the existence of a foot-long parasite to the owner of one of the herbalist shops he's been going to who happens to be the villain of the week(a TV show coincidence, but you never blurt out confidential information like that in public to strangers, even if you're doing it as an "everyone but me would think this is a joke and not a real thing" deal as Walter does), he can't remember his means of getting around(the bus not having shown up for over two hours suggests he was at the wrong stop or forgot its schedule, and of course that didn't matter because he spent all his money at a payphone trying to remember Peter's number) and he couldn't even remember that he'd had Peter's number on a piece of paper in his pocket the entire time.

But that's not the bad part. The bad part is that he was completely blindsided by all of this. He was insisting on doing these things alone out of pride, yes, but not egotistical pride. He simply wanted to not need his son to treat him like a child, and genuinely believed he didn't need that level of monitoring anymore, so his tearful breakdown to that Chinese woman at the bus stop wasn't despair at a truth he'd been lying to himself about, but a truth that had ambushed him without warning, the same way so many others have since he started working with Fringe Division. I know from a spoiler I read that the cause of his mental issues isn't just his time at the mental hospital and being misprescribed medication for conditions he didn't have(mentioning any of his work with Kelvin Genetics would instantly clock him as delusional, which can then be multiplied by 17 years of doctors trying to fix a problem he didn't have), but either way this is a man who knows exactly what he's lost and knows just as well that he has no idea how to get any of it back. Which is once again something he's already too familiar with. And holy hell does John Noble sell this. I actually had to skip to the reunion with Peter before I finished the breakdown scene just so I could stop myself from feeling the full weight of Walter's pain, and I can think of no better sign of a great performance.

[anamericangirl]

Scott Pelley Just Made A Pretty Stunning Allegation. According to Pelley, CBS leadership wanted a story about the killing of ICE protester Renée Good changed to better match Trump's version of events. Pelley says he was told management wanted protesters portrayed as more violent and wanted Good described as driving toward the officer who shot her. He says the video evidence showed otherwise. Then came the admission. "There was a thumb on the scale for the president's version of events." A veteran journalist with 37 years at CBS is alleging political pressure was applied to change the facts of a story. That's a remarkable accusation.

“He says the video shows otherwise.”

This, everyone, is an example of believing what the media tells you regardless of what the evidence shows.

He might say the video shows otherwise but he’s lying. Which you can easily see by watching the video yourself.

But Iike. You are too easy to fool. Learn how to look at things yourself instead of allowing journalists to brainwash you.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Anon's claim is extremely dramatic and changes nothing about the actual facts on the ground.

Anon is trying to position the left-wing's extremely popular version of events as the plucky rebellious Narrative.

Anon is trying the same tactic that would work on other gullible lefties.

[cookingwithroxy]

"According to Pelley’s account, Weiss sent notes on the segment after it had already been approved for broadcast. He said one request was to portray protesters as more violent and another involved the description of the circumstances around Good’s death.

“Two of the things in the email include, can we make the protesters look more violent? Now, I’m paraphrasing. I don’t have the quote, but that’s what was communicated to me,” Pelley said. “And the other thing, Renee Good’s car. You need to describe her as driving toward the officer.”"

Scott Pelley alleges CBS leadership pushed for ‘the president’s version of events’

In his first interview since being fired from “60 Minutes,” Pelley accused CBS News chief Bari Weiss of political interference and said she

The two parts here are important, the first being an 'can we make them look more violent' but without anything specific, and could range anywhere from 'can we create a theme of protestor violence' to 'Do not downplay protestor violence.'

The second part, which is entirely less vague, is 'state the actual truth of the sequence of events' which was considered playing into Trump's Narrative.

And note: this is not me arguing ICE were heroic in that moment. That officer should not have been in front of the vehicle in the first place. However, that does not change the actual sequence of events.

But this is very much what Pelley is claiming, framing his firing as retaliation for his refusing to play to Trump's version of events, as opposed to CBS's framing that his behavior in response to producer instructions were so notable that it resulted in him being fired.

Granted, I'm generally on Pelley's side in general, I've loved 60 minutes for a long time, so I'm making an effort to just.. Note both sides rather than go 'Yeah, this is everything he's claiming, nobody's making up words to put in his mouth!' as a rebuttal to SYABM.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Thank you.

[anamericangirl]

We are coming for you guns with force. We do not care how uncompliant you are with the police, we do not care about your feelings. We will use as much force necessary to disarm you.

Lol good luck with that

[the-prequal]

Who wants to bet anon calls themselves "anti-facist?"

[siryouarebeingmocked]

I feel like "we" is gilding the lily a tad.

[tlaquetzqui]

“You got a mouse in your pocket or something?”

[tvirusresearchlabs]

Another day, another violence-inciting, fake fact about Jews. Getting tired of the internet being over saturated with these.

[outraged-honk]

Most Jews did not live on Plantations, they lived in/ close to local towns. This stat is mixed with the Dutch slave trade as well, making those stats inaccurate for usa.

When it comes to this statistic, you need to know how many jews were in the USA at the time, what percentage of those where in the southern states, which percentage owned plantations compared to others around them.

There were about 100,000 Jews in the USA at that time, total. That was .2 of the US population at the time.

Source¹

[outraged-honk]

[emmaubler]

Love the Woke Right going from "You can't assign collective blame to white people for what a fraction of their ancestors did!!!" to "Acksually, it was all the Joos' fault!!!"

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Also, weren't Jews famously enslaved themselves? Didn't most slaves shipped across the Atlantic originate with African captors, not da Joos?

[arizonaconservativegal]

Why is this a headline? You might as well just say it's a day ending in -y

[emmaubler]

"NASA Accused of Blasting Tigers into Space to Maul Martians on Mars"

Any story thats backbone is "Some say" is easily discardable, because you can always find someone to say the opinion you want to legitimize. Find someone to quote anonymously and then pretend they represent a wide majority, or that it somehow gives that wild idea weight. It's like a headline that's a question--the answer is almost always no or unprovable, but since it's the answer we want we'll write a story to imply it might be true. Both of these tactics are very effective because a lot of people are headline readers who never click the link but will repeat that sentence they did read as a fact.

[arizonaconservativegal]

Sure but this shit happens so frequently, it'd more newsworthy if they weren't getting baselessly accused of racism.

[proteinmom]

this is epic btw

[proteinmom]

[emmaubler]

How dare that bitch Ursa Vance--checks notes--get pregnant and let people see her in that condition in public.

[the-bar-sinister]

So, the other day, when I was discussing AO3's policy on solicitation, a tumblr user came at me saying that AO3's "no monetization/solicitation" rules were "bullshit" because nexus mods allows fan created mods to get paid.

Look at me.

Look at me right now.

AO3 protects you.

AO3 protects you and your works. 

It protects your works from copyright strikes and DCMA takedowns.

It protects your work from advertisers.

It protects your work from overzealous legal challenges.

It protects your right to post adult content.

AO3 is non-profit and AO3 will never try to use you or your work to make a profit for themselves and AO3 will go to bat for you if someone tries to legally challenge you or your works.

Please respect AO3 and its mission.

[ao3cassandraic]

AO3 protects fandom from payment processors.

Mastercard has no reason to mess with AO3. Visa doesn't. PayPal doesn't. Stripe doesn't. There's no compensation-for-porn exchange happening. By design. BY DESIGN.

AO3's founders knew that AO3 needed to be set up to protect us from any and all avenues of attack on fanworks. They've managed it quite successfully.

All y'all who thought they didn't need to? Sit the fuck down and SHUT THE FUCK UP.

[generallemarc]

AO3 exists to allow absolutely anyone to post absolutely anything, and it will do absolutely anything to make sure that keeps happening.

[gsirvitor]

[gsirvitor]

[khorneschosen]

Communism really does suck at almost every single possible that you could measure success.

And it really is kind of impressive that it. This is a system that is universally bad at fucking everything. It's not great at war. It's not good at peacetime. It's not good at production. It's not good at social cohesion. It's not good at even the shit that you would expect it to be halfway decent at Land Management. The welfare of its citizens just basic necessities, entertainment, art, science just across the board every single metric. You could go to look at a society and see how well it's doing is not there though.

There is one metric that it's actually quite good.

Of all the civilizations which you could look at in the world, you could not look at a communist society and say this one is full of decadence.

It's the common condemnation of any successful society is decadence.

It lacked decadence. They were not depraved in decadence. They were merely depraved and deprived.

So when you hear your culture being derided or any culture really thing to ride it as decadent understand that is why their moral system it is the only claim they can make about his system that some must be sinful because it has plenty. They measure virtue as so many now young Russian men do judging their masculinity by how poor they're upbringing was. This is what they call the spiritual value of deprivation.

Which means that you will go without medicine for disease. You will go without treatment for health concerns you will be missing most of your teeth knocked out by the hard life. Your entire body will hurt from the hard labor you all have to have done in order to survive and yet will be no stronger for it. Only more simwy and this is what they call the virtue of the third world that it is of people who have had to do more with less and do it with a boot on their neck. Maybe two boots, maybe three at any given moment.

And I must stress this communism is a system that uniquely produces. Nothing but sub-optimal at best are outright objectively worse and every metric. Then the system is constantly compares itself to and finds itself lacking.

[zisurru]

something i think would make a lot of historical romance more accurate & interesting is the realization that people are less likely to totally disparage the ethical & social values of their time than they are to use those values to defend whatever it is they want to do

a woman is less likely to go "it's stupid that women are expected to be modest" than she is to go "there is nothing immodest about a woman going out without a chaperone" or even "i can go out without a chaperone because i am so modest"

people also seem less likely to see someone's shitty behavior as reflecting a shitty society than they are to view that behavior as being out of accordance with that society - e.g. a father who's excessively controlling of his daughters' marriage prospects isn't, in her mind, acting that way because he lives in a repressive patriarchal culture, but is actually outdated in his values - his cruelty is unmodern, ungentlemanly, stuck in the past, barbaric. we might think he's upholding the values of his culture perfectly, but the people around him who took issue with his behavior probably wouldn't see it that way

[chocolatepot]

I agree, and I'd also note that people are capable of carving out a hole in their prejudices to accommodate someone who doesn't match them.

If some Victorian dude comes across a capable female doctor, rather than going "she must be lying, or they gave her easy tests to let her through" or whatever, he'd be very likely to see her as an exception to his belief that women couldn't do medicine. She was made without feminine frailties. She has a man's mind. Oh, she's very nurturing, so nurturing that she feels she must heal people beyond the level of nursing.

There can still be an assumption that she wouldn't take really difficult cases or she wouldn't medically examine a man with his shirt off or whatever, but it's much more realistic when prejudices are complex and shifting. And it can still be an obstacle for the character! It can still make her deeply uncomfortable! It would just be more interesting to read.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

And people still do this today. Of course, they also assume others are doing it, in order to explain why others aren't acting according to the beholder's beliefs about their actions.

[heyitschartic]

Coil meeting the undersiders for the first time but he's just wearing these

[lnfopl]

portrait of coil with these and one glass reflects one timeline and the other reflects the other

[heyitschartic]

WAIT THIS ACTUALLY GOES SO HARD

[insomnimelodies]

ok so

[thememedaddy]

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Me, passing a car covered in horny thirst-trap anime girl stickers: while I personally find this to be cringe, given the national push for censorship, I must concede that this is technically Praxis.

[shieldfoss]

#driving my Toyota Praxis

[autumnal-thunder]

[generallemarc]

They don't know what that word means. A large amount of them are just dumbasses who think Denmark and Norway are "socialist" because their democratic governments spend more on welfare and have more regulations on their free-market capitalist economies. Most European countries have a "Socialist Party" that's basically just the Democrats but slightly further left.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

So socialists aren't actually the plucky, downtrodden rebels?

[anamericangirl]

Scott Pelley Just Made A Pretty Stunning Allegation. According to Pelley, CBS leadership wanted a story about the killing of ICE protester Renée Good changed to better match Trump's version of events. Pelley says he was told management wanted protesters portrayed as more violent and wanted Good described as driving toward the officer who shot her. He says the video evidence showed otherwise. Then came the admission. "There was a thumb on the scale for the president's version of events." A veteran journalist with 37 years at CBS is alleging political pressure was applied to change the facts of a story. That's a remarkable accusation.

“He says the video shows otherwise.”

This, everyone, is an example of believing what the media tells you regardless of what the evidence shows.

He might say the video shows otherwise but he’s lying. Which you can easily see by watching the video yourself.

But Iike. You are too easy to fool. Learn how to look at things yourself instead of allowing journalists to brainwash you.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Anon's claim is extremely dramatic and changes nothing about the actual facts on the ground.

Anon is trying to position the left-wing's extremely popular version of events as the plucky rebellious Narrative.

Anon is trying the same tactic that would work on other gullible lefties.