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it’s genuinely fucking absurd that cis people have any goddamn say at all on trans healthcare
“oh yeah i mean im not diabetic but i dont really know how insulin works and i think its kinda freaky that you gotta poke your finger all the time so im gonna go ahead and say insulin is illegal”
thats how it sounds.
I cannot believe that there are people out there who hate Israel and America so much that they would choose to believe Al-Jazeera (of all the fucking "news" platforms, because let's be fr, Al-Jazeera and BBC have been pushing IRGC propaganda from the start and no self-respecting Iranian trusts them), and start pushing this absolute bullshit idea that actual living breathing Iranian women who are on the fucking death row, are "ai women".
These are the women and girls we've been trying to get their names out there. They're in actual danger. There are actual court documents about their sentences and state connected media has confirmed their imprisonment. And some freak pulls an Ai generated video, which is using an actual testimony from a woman who was kept in prison by IRGC, raped and abused and hurt in groups, had other girls being killed in front of her own eyes, and it's somehow enough to erase Iranian women and call them fake, just bc the company that put the video out is from Israel. Fuck all of you honestly and say their names :
Bita Hemmati
Saghar Gholami
Ghazal Ghalandari
Golnaz Naraghi
Venus Hossein Nejad
Panah Movahedi
Ensieh Najati
Mahboubeh Shabani
Diana Taher Abadi
Al-Jazeera is state media of a country that was literally at war with Iran two days ago
wow, mitigatedchaos and isaacsapphire have gotten *stupid* stupid
Occasionally forget people genuinely think capitalism is thousands of years old
One time I was talking about Robin Hood with some coworkers and one guy was like “he was bad because the people he helped learned to expect handouts” and I wanted to be like… okay can you explain how that flawed capitalist propaganda applies to feudalism
reminder that capitalism was literally invented in the 16th century
That’s an exaggeration. What was invented in the 16th century was mercantilism. Capitalism really dates for the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the rise of industry and cash crops over artisans and merchants. Vulture capitalism, with the notion that companies have no duties other than generating profit, is even younger.
Capitalism is only 200 years old and I have to say, they have not been an impressive 200 years
I think a lot of this comes from the fact that most people don’t know the formal definition of capitalism. We all know the word, we’ve all seen the jokes, but very few people bother to actually define it unless they’re talking about political theory and philosophy, so it’s easy to end up with the impression that Capitalism = Money Can Be Exchanged For Goods And Services.
Capitalism is the economic system where most of the means of production (i.e. everything people need to have to make the stuff that everyone wants) are owned by private individuals or corporations, who then hire people to provide the labor necessary to produce things, with the intent of selling the output at a profit. It’s the difference between “you’re a carpenter and you make a chair and you sell it” and “you’re Richard Q. Richington who owns a chair factory, and you pay people to sell the chairs you paid other people to make and then all the excess money goes back to you.” There have been Richard Q. Richingtons on and off throughout history, but that being the norm for every single industry is a pretty recent development.
An alarming amount of people seem to think capitalism = all trade, and I don’t think that’s a coincidence.
“they have not been an impressive 200 years”
you don’t need to reference GDP statistics to see that something extraordinary happened in the last 200 years [graph source]
tbh that's probably mostly modern medicine and the modern agricultural revolution
Times That Copyright Expansion Has Historically Fucked Over Artists On An Institutional Level:
Sampling rights becoming prohibitively expensive to use by small artists
Musicians being forced to sign over sampling rights to their record company, making any benefits they would hypothetically gain moot.
The Digital Milennium Copyright Act leading to the vidmaker-stomping nightmare that is ContentID
The DMCA leading to making it harder than ever to preserve media due to the way it prohibits tinkering with any locks the megacorps put on it, meaning it's way easier for artists' hard work to end up vaulted and lost.
The way basic chord progressions and musical styles have become copyrightable thanks to various lawsuits by the Marvin Gaye estate
The fact that the artists of the past used to be able to remix; adapt and iterate on art made within 56 years of them, likely created in their lifetimes, and now artists can only do those things with art produced nearly a century ago by people long dead.
New and independent artists being crowded out of the market by megacorp-owned IPs that would be public domain (and thusly convey less of an overwhelming advantage-via-marquee-value to megacorps) if the US had its pre-1976 copyright laws.
Times That Copyright Expansion Has Actually Materially Helped Artists On An Institutional Level:
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Times that Copyright Expansion Resulted In Something Kinda Funny:
When Metallica did a twitch concert and got a copyright strike on their own music as a direct result of their lobbying for copyright expansion
reason to legalize human cloning: I think some people would likely like to reproduce asexually and we should let them do that. Plus, having someone else with the exact same genes as you would likely give you some insight into their issues, and so it would make you a better parent.
There are plausible reasons to think that it shouldn't be the dominate mode of human reproduction, but should be fine at a 5% level or so.
And it would supply some interesting information about the nature vs environment debate (same genes - different generation)
Just encountered a feminist communist yoga instructor who hates sexualized ads so much she backs islamist's. Its like a strawman from a 2010s anti sjw comic come to life.
I don't believe you, it's too convenient
you can find literally any set of political beliefs on the internet if you search hard enough for them. For instance, I have seen a Jewish person who backs Platner because he hopes Platner will kill Fetterman on the Senate floor.
the funniest part of this is that Porfirio Diaz, who ruled Mexico for decades as a sorta-dictator from the late 1800s to early 1900s, was indigenous, just from a different group
I really love the wilderness years of Doctor Who. I think from now on when shows get canceled more companies should throw their content to the wolves and watch in horror as the starved fan base go insane and write like a thousand books in five years that irreversibly ruin any semblance of canon, and also make zero sense.
every NY statewide poll is like
Do you approve or disapprove of the job Donald Trump has been doing as President? 33% approve, 66% disapprove
Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Donald Trump? 33% favorable, 66% unfavorable
Do you think Donald Trump's tenure as President has been good or bad for America? 33% good, 66%% bad
Do you approve or disapprove of the job Kathy Hochul has been doing as governor? 52% approve, 47% disapprove
Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Kathy Hochul? 44% favorable, 53% unfavorable
Do you think Kathy Hochul's tenure as governor has been good or bad for New York? 61% good, 33% bad
Do you think that the Republican Party is doing a good job or a bad job? 33% good job, 66% bad job
Do you think that the Democratic Party is doing a good job or a bad job? 27% good job, 67% bad job
Do you think America is going to get better or get worse? 22% get better, 73% get worse
Do you think New York is going to get better or get worse? 49% get better, 32% get worse
lies about how bad ai water use is now have a higher associated death count than actual ai water use
just got called a pick-me online for [checks notes] pointing out that women in the US could have lines of credit and bank accounts in their own names before 1974, AND it was socially acceptable for them to do so, but gender discrimination in lending and banking was legal and rampant and that's what the law changed
listen, if not wanting to give misogynists a loophole to swoop in and damage our credibility with the general public by bringing up their grandmothers who had bank accounts makes me a pick-me. uh. tee hee I'm Not Like Other Girls, I guess </s>
[Mini Rant]
I do absolutely adore Jiang Xiaobai and Guan Zhong. They are, in my opinion, the most deranged of every monarch-chancellor pair, and every story of them is only funnier than the last. Because rather than a monarch and chancellor, it's much more just a very tired middle aged man and his unsocialized self-entitled bitchy cat-child.
*first meeting*
Guan Zhong: So you know I worked for your brother, your rival?
Xiaobai: Yeah
Guan Zhong: And that I shot you, like, yesterday, and only narrowly missed by accident?
Xiaobai: Yeah
Guan Zhong: ...So when do I die?
Xiaobai:
Xiaobai: ...Daddy <3
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Guan Zhong: Xiaobai please stop wearing purple you're literally bankrupting the country. Do you know how expensive purple is.
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Xiaobai: Daddy why did I go outside and meet a poor man whose sons have no wives :(
Guan Zhong: Because you have too many women in your palace. Please release them.
Also Guan Zhong: *Creates over 700 state run brothels*
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Guan Zhong, on his deathbed, saying his last words: Xiaobai I literally don't care what the fuck you do but PLEASE stay away from the cannibal. He doesn't love you.
Xiaobai, as the unsocialized self-entitled cunty cat-child he is: Hm. Nah.
There is a direct connection b/w leftist ideology presuming that white people are racist and the policemen jumping to the conclusion that Nowak was falsely claiming he had been stabbed in a desperate attempt to avoid a racism charge.
this story is the current obsession of those who believe in race war, most notably the owner of twitter and the rubes who follow him, and in some ways it's even dumber than the George Floyd obsession, not least because people should have learned better by now.
if I was the cop in that situation I would probably have assumed the guy on the ground was drunk! which is what British cops usually have to deal with when they get called to deal with someone being disorderly; murders are rare and the perpetrator doesn't usually call the cops.
and when the cops realised he had been stabbed they arrested the murderer and jailed him for life; this story is only an outrage if you believe cops should be clairvoyant, or arrest anyone of Indian ancestry on sight regardless of what's happening.
but obviously if you're already mad as hell that an Indian family is allowed to live in Britain in the first place then this is a convenient excuse to stoke racial hysteria and call for dumb policies.
Looking at the bodycam video it really doesn't *look* like he'd been stabbed, you can't seen any blood or anything.
They arrive on scene to a call having been told that some drunk dude was being disorderly, find him delirious under a windowsil, drag him out, gently lay him in the recovery position. He says he's been stabbed, the guy who called the police says nobody was stabbed, police agree it doesn't LOOK like he's been stabbed but that they'll still check. And then they check, and then one minute later they call an ambulance. And once they figure who stabbed who the stabber is promptly arrested and sentenced to life in prison. Anything the stabber says to try to weasel out of life in prison (that the stabbed guy was racist and hate criming him) are swiftly dismissed.
The evidence of 'Two Tier Policing' here is that a murderer attempted to play the race card. But failed! The attempt to avoid a life sentence for murder by claiming the guy was racist and playing the victim didn't work, and they guy who did that got a life sentence.
But, like, The British Public can't really be reasoned with, so c'est la vie.
it's certainly not difficult to find more egregious examples of British cops doing a terrible job, but the incidents that spark discourse storms tend to be the dumb ones.
It's unfortunate that the police put handcuffs on a guy who turned out to be dying of a stab wound; but yeah I think given the situation the police were in - as soon as they come up to the incident, a family of sikhs including the murderer is actively lying to them about what happened, it's late at night and dark - I don't think it's super-unreasonable that they made the wrong call in the moment and corrected themselves within a few minutes and called help. And it seems like at that point there was no way to possibly have saved Nowak's life. Anyway, race war is already happening - it happened when the brown sikh foreigner randomly murdered a white person, his whole family tried to help him cover up the crime, and the specific method they used to cover up the crime was by claiming that he was racist. The people claiming it is wrong for white people to care about this are also engaging in race war, in a sense.
Have you seen the body cam footage? I think the part where the officer tells him he hasn't been stabbed without checking at all is pretty bad. Since all he'd have to do is touch the dude's shirt.
The killing was awful and it'd be hard to plan an event that would inflame racial tensions much worse than it. Digwa (the killer) stabbed Nowak multiple times, while recording it on his phone. He followed Nowak as he fled. Then his brother called the police to report that Nowak had racially attacked Digwa. The entire family joined in the lie right away and helped conceal the evidence. This guy killed some random white kid, his family covered it up, and they called the police to say that the kid was the offender and to lock him up. They lied and said there was no weapon; they didn't even say "he stabbed a guy in self-defense so you need to help him." Digwa watched him bleed to death, filmed it, and his entire family immediately joined in, confident that they could get the police to side with them by playing the race card.
But if course, this is just this one time! Obviously it doesn't make a pattern all on its own. It was a simple mistake that was reasonable to make at the time. Why, there are so many other worse police abuses, why would you get upset about this one?
Now, how many incidences of cops killing black men do the same arguments apply to?
The response to these incidents always seems to boil down to "who is allowed to notice patterns?" and "what is allowed to be a flashpoint?" George Floyd may or may not have been on fentanyl but it ultimately didn't matter: people had noticed a pattern of behavior from the cops towards their community and it served as a flashpoint for community tensions, and the response from the authorities (constantly losing their shit and being unable to control their emotions) showed that the community was right to mistrust them. How is this any different?
You can't alleviate racial tensions by constantly telling people that they're stupid and repulsive for noticing things that you make a really big deal out of noticing and drawing conclusions from.
Since all he'd have to do is touch the dude's shirt.
In the bodycam the dude does touch the guy's shirt, but just the lower part of his shirt when the wound was much higher, and when the lady checking him for injuries asked him where he was stabbed he, in his delirium, said "my face" which caused her to check his face for wounds instead of his upper chest.
She *could* tell that something was very wrong by looking at his eyes, though - which is why they then called an ambulance and performed CPR, its just that the confusion led to a ~60 second delay (that, according to the medical examiner, wouldn't have changed anything because of the location and severity of the injury)
"who is allowed to notice patterns?"
Not a fan of this response to when a piece of bullshit is debunked - every time, ideologues will bring up some piece of evidence, and if you look at the evidence you can point out the ways it's clearly been skewed and misrepresented and lied about, and they say "who cares that we skewed/lied/misrepresented this evidence for our point, it's about the pattern, what about every other point!" and you look at the next point and you can immediately point out the skews and lies and misrepresentations and they say "who cares that we lied this time, it's about the general pattern this keeps happening everywhere!"
Puts me in mind of the hundreds of false accusations of voter fraud in 2020-ish. Every time you identify one as fake, they can safely ignore it and point to a dozen more lies. Because if you scattershot widely enough, at least SOME of them have gotta be true, right?
This was not "debunked." The area of the shirt the guy touched is not the only part of this encounter that makes it bad, dude.
Do you react the same way to incidences where black Americans are killed by cops in ways that don't match the outraged declarations about them?
If this was America, and what happened was a white guy stabbed a black guy, filmed him trying to crawl away from him for minutes while providing no assistance, and then reported that the black guy had tried to mug him, his whole family went along with it, and when the police showed up the first thing they did was handcuff the black guy, what would your reaction be, what would the public reaction be? Would either of you consider it exculpatory for the police that it was dark and he hadn't touched the right part of the black guy's shirt to feel the blood soaking into ut?
If the circumstances were the same and all the little details regarding what information the police had at the time was the same with the races swapped then no, I wouldn't have a different opinion, and no, I wouldn't expect the public reaction to be much better, a lot of people's racebrain would zoom out from a specific individual occurrence between individuals and just see a manifestation of Whiteness fighting against a Manifestation of Non-Whiteness and ignore all the context that gets in the way of their racial narrative.
If all that were the case then I'd still think the murderer was bad (and most of his family, to the degree each one knew what they were being complicit in), and that it was tragic that the dude died like that, and that while it would've been ideal if the police could have been able to tell instantly, I can't blame them too much for only being able to tell after a minute or so of checking.
Okay, so you have a consistent and coherent and respectable position. Good. My position is "you have to treat these things the same way." You agree!
I don't think the media response would be the same at all. I think that's ultimately the festering heart of the issue. The media would take a completely different tone and a completely different side based on race. The same amount of people would be initially angry, but the media would be one hundred percent on their side, supporting them, citing the existence of their anger as self-evident proof that they are correct. "A riot is the language of the unheard" would be quoted. This has happened before with stories way, way more "debunked" than this one (cases where it turned out it actually was clear-cut self-defense). People in the UK still see that and consider it part of their cultural environment.
Racial tensions in the UK are fed by how racial tensions are treated as self-vindicating from one side and self-invalidating from the other. Accusations of a 2-tier justice system based on race are fed by the obvious truth that there is a 2-tier framework of analysis and understanding based on race.
that last statement does make complaints sound very stupid though, like "you'll be more likely to be jailed or shot, but also you'll be treated with kid gloves in the press, at least in an abstract sense, which is hardly fair" or "you are more likely to get better outcomes, but liberal elites will describe the demographic that you (and they!) belong to as unfairly privileged, which is itself unfair, somehow".
You are doing exactly the thing I am talking about
"the pattern" being noticed here is a cardiologist fallacy
You should call Sanders, Warren, and other congressional progressives and ask them to call for Platner to drop out.
