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.

[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.

[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.

[anamericangirl]

With Karmelo Anthony's sentencing we have the predictable, "But what about [X other unrelated case I'm woefully misinformed about]?!" talking points circling. So let's recap:

When George Zimmerman shot Travon Martin, Martin had jumped him, pinned him on his back to the ground, sat on top of him, and was beating his head into the pavement.

Kyle Rittenhouse was being chased and attacked by a violent riot mob. The three white people he shot had 1) already threatened him earlier in the night and tried to grab his gun (Rosenbaum), 2) bashed him in the head with a skateboard when he was flat on his back after trying to run to safety (Huber), and pulled a gun on him (Grosskreutz). He was legally allowed to carry his gun and had been asked by car dealership owners there to help ward off more arsonists torching their lots.

Daniel Penny was one of two others (both minorities) who restrained Jordan Neely as he was being actively threatening towards other passengers. Neely was still breathing when Penny left the subway.

And this most recent case with the Chows, I haven't read as much on it but to my understanding the contention was that the "unarmed" 14 year old that the Chows were chasing suddenly stopped running, turned around, produced a gun, and pointed it at the younger Chow, and that's when the father pulled his gun and shot. I'll have to research more into the specifics but the jury found the evidence for that narrative compelling enough to declare not guilty so...

Also we don't measure the outcomes of specific court cases by what happened (or didn't happen) in others.

Exactly. All of these instances have to be judged on a case by case basis. They are different circumstances, different events, different people, different actions. You have to look at what went down in each case to determine what the outcome should be, which is why we have the justice system.

You don’t just look at skin color, which is what the left does and why they are on the wrong side of every. Single. One.

[the-prequal]

The thing about Zimmerman, is he could have been found guilty of manslaughter if the prosecution hadn't been pressured by the mob to go for 1st degree murder.

He was never going to be found guilty of 1st degree.

They should have leaned heavily on the fact that the 911 operator told him to stop following Martin and that if he had listened to that instruction everything would have been fine. The prosecution was just bad in that case if the goal is to get Zimmerman in jail.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

That's assuming Martin would not have attacked Zimmerman for some other reason.

[garmbreak1]

You're supposed to hide any valuables you leave in the car unattended-- otherwise you're causing theft and you're Part of the Problem, you see-- so I cleverly disguise mine as the least valuable thing imaginable: a box of The Eternals Heroclix

[liberalsarecool]

DOGE was a cyberattack on America. Without DOGE, Musk would be in prison and not a trillionaire. #ScrewWorm

[barryogg]

Elon is such a nefarious djinn that his dark magick works itself backwards in time. With his vile incantations, he retrocausally made the worm breach the Darien Gap back in 2022.

[samueldays]

Why is it that every time I see liberalsarecool on my dash, it's more like liberalsarelying?

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Because it's blatantly an agitprop account.

cyberattack

You know words actually mean things, right, OP? They're not just spells you can cast at random to invoke desired effects.

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

[shieldfoss]

Bananas aren't land though.

[samueldays]

A more relevant but less snappy example for land is the wolf territory map.

[shieldfoss]

See I did consider that* comparison, but I think it actually supports the original tweet. By what right do those wolves have that land? Because they're stronger, and have chased off rival claimants? In that case, a state refusing to recognize private land claims is also fully within its right to do so, because it is stronger still.

Or, if it is meant to be the much more defensible statement "defending private land isn't crazy, even wild animals do it" then yes, but they also do murder and rape.

🞯 well, gorilla/banana led me to tiger/hunting-grounds, but same/same yeah?

[barryogg]

In that case, a state refusing to recognize private land claims is also fully within its right to do so, because it is stronger still.

In that case, we should first decide if the state is ✨ just a name for the things we do together✨, or is a state a distinct entity that takes what it can while the people suffer what they must. People who enjoy fantasies of expropriation based on the latter usually at the same time demand deference to the idea of the state based on the former.