अनुमान

I am a research scientist and amateur activist interested in: critical race and gender theory, biology, (psycho)social sciences, biomedical psychiatry, addiction & pharmacology, social honesty, and economics.

[rayinberkeley]

These exchanges between a bigot named Brendan Sullivan, and a heroic troll named Robert Graves, will be the best thing you read all day, I promise.

[snailpatrols]

You guys can tell this is fake, right? Please?

[memeufacturing-deactivated20161]

you dont need a legitimate reason to punch rich people in the face. the law says you do but you dont actually 

[memeufacturing-deactivated20161]

for some reason hating rich people is an unpopular opinion lmao

[man-in-space-deactivated2023101]

Because you’re condoning the assault and battery of someone based solely on their socioeconomic class, that’s why.

[memeufacturing-deactivated20161]

why do you ugly-ass reactionaries act like being rich is a burdenous birthright like ohhh nooo poor sweet rich people aren’t to blame for their pervasive exploitation & stealing from others ahhhh poor poor rich people fuck off

[snailpatrols]

Pervasive exploitation? So like, if I make a really cool app, and everyone wants to buy it, when exactly does the exploitation part take place?

[alyciakru-blog-deactivated20240]

The gay agenda:

Equal representation in media

[snailpatrols]

Equal: percent as relative to population? That's probably not very much. Even less than there is now, considering how many songwriters/entertainers/writers are disproportionately gay.

So I ask you, what kind of equality?

[thequintessentialqueer]

there’s a specific, infuriating subsect of nerdy white girl that is way too fucking particular about tea, and I personally am not here for them. like they’re all “nothing horrifies me more than seeing someone microwave tea” and im over here like “nothing horrifies me more than the brutal colonization of hundreds of countries and millions of people that your ancestors perpetuated for your tea” like shut up jessica, you boring imperialist fuck, call me back when you’ve stopped revelling in the privileges afforded to you by centuries of large scale racial and cultural violence

[snailpatrols]

> imperialism > colonization

I'll take "things that have had no material impact on my life but I feel intellectual for complaining about" for 300, Alex

[hetero-plausible]

It looks like for a final paper I’ll be arguing for welfare / unconditional provision of basic needs from a Rawlsian perspective versus the argument against provision rooted in negative rights and it’s going to suck to write because I hate all of this but it’s what my Prof will be receptive to

[snailpatrols]

I like to imagine myself before birth, without knowing what kind of society I will be born into, without gender or socioeconomic predisposition, repeatedly kicking Rawls in the testicles until I throw up

[buddhajourney]

Do you think Donald Trump should be president?

I have some non-Buddhist thoughts about him that we all can just imagine what those may be…

Smile and be well!

[snailpatrols]

I have the unpopular duty of advocating for Trump in my Sangha. Many interesting conversations.

[mysharona1987]

Just something to think about the next time you hear a WalMart executive or Donald Trump speak.

[snailpatrols]

'Selfish' (n) a person in the public sphere it is trendy to badmouth

[snailpatrols]

do you believe that cis people are as a demographic threatened by, oppressed by, or hurt by trans people?

You see, this is the unstoppable megalomania I’m talking about.

A demographic threatened by? What is with this obsessive partitioning of every population into oppressors and the oppressed? 

Largely, trans* people are hurt by professionals in the clinical and psychological establishment, but its not because your psychiatrist has a penis and likes girls. He’s not hurting and damaging trans* people because he is cis-gendered, but for completely other reasons. That’s why this constant need to bifurcate something into two exactly polar opposites is such a failure. 

Are trans* people capable of hurting cis-gendered people? Uhh, duh. Are you trying to insinuate that trans* people are all incompetent babies? Particularly, are you saying their actions and desires for social reform could have absolutely no consequences? I think a lot of what they would like for society would be particularly damaging. AND NOT JUST TO PEOPLE WHO ARE ‘aligned’ (thats what the prefix cis- means) WITH THEIR SEX ORGANS.

[snailpatrols]

are u applauding that anon said Merry Xmas and not happy holidays

Uh, what? 

[snailpatrols]

Don't use the asterisk after "trans." It's shitty.

I'd really like to know why. I sort of thought that was "in" for a while. Its meant to be a wildcard, like a globbing pattern. Pls tell me more.

[snailpatrols]

I hope you can only eat rotten fruit for the rest of your life!!<3

I too wish you imbibe an enjoyable amount of alcohol from fermented fruits. I suggest artisan wines from Napa.

[snailpatrols]

do you believe that the cisgenders are oppressed by the evil transtrenders

I actually think that transgenders are being manipulated for profit at their own expense by (probably cisgender?) clinicians and researchers.

[snailpatrols]

you just compared people of color calling out racism to monkeys flinging poop.... holy fuck you're really racist

It's sort of like you're being shown a Rorschach blot and regardless of the shape, you think you're seeing racism.You know I said that -people- just shouting "racism" is like monkeys flinging poo, in the sense that it has no effort in reasoning or any real content at all, but is just hurled at someone to make them look shitty.You chose to make some kind of tired racist joke out of it, but you know what I said. Clever.

[snailpatrols]

merry christmas. 🌲 here is a pine tree to slam into your sigmoid loop, you fucking racist.

Thank you for the Christmas wishes. Id be interested to hear how you think I could be a racist, because most of the time people use that word its just a vague monkey-poo-throwing emotional sputum people say when they have nothing else. It rarely refers to people of hateful prejudice anymore. Is that the case here? Do you honestly think that I would argue for the inferiority of people who aren't my ethnicity?Or maybe, you just don't have anything to say?

[snailpatrols]

do you believe in cisphobia?

Just to be clear, would that be. . .

An irrational and persistent fear of people whose gender identity matches their sexual hardware?

It sounds like it would be really crippling. It would be like being deathly afraid of spiders, and 99% of the worlds population is just spiders. Like your parents, pets, and coworkers are all spiders.

I don’t think I believe that exists. It could, I guess, it just doesn’t seem very real.

[snailpatrols]

Youre a racist pile of shit please go the fuck away

That doesn’t really sound like me. Are you confusing me with Kramer? 

[snailpatrols]

you're interested in critical race theory? then you should know that the representation of good, powerful black women is nearly non-existent, yet the representation of white men/women is always there. look at all images of god or jesus. look at every president thus far, except for barack. look at most disney princesses. we need more good, beautiful black women with african features! fuck your white guilt.

I think this is the opposite of white guilt, which is called “fuck you too, I would be ashamed to be completely defined by the circumstances of my birth”. 

But I really don’t get you guys who want to micromanage everything. So lets say that black women aren’t as represented in imagery and popular culture as much as white women. Let’s take the U.S. for an example. So 13% of the population is black, so we can ballpark black women at 6.5%. So if the rate of representation of black women is around 6%, are you satisfied? Because that seems pretty low. Just for funsies, we can say that means in 100 magazine covers, you would only see around 6 or 7 black models.

And isn’t your argument that everyone deserves equal representation? So if we take mainland China for example -- there are more than 50 recognized ethnic populations in China. The level of representation of black women is incredibly low. Say 95% of people identify with at least one of these Chinese populations. And the representation black women in spiritual imagery, art, fiction, popular culture and in the media in China 0.1%. Is that wrong? What is the correct level? How should discrepancies in the relative representation of “people who look like me” be enforced? Through public shaming and ostracism? Through law? Who even has time for this nonsense?

How about “i’m not bothered by things which don’t necessarily look like me, because I see myself in the representation of human beings. I have no desire to tell other people how to behave, and who to represent in their mediums, and how to project my likeness unto God. If they draw God and it looks like themselves, so be it. It says more about them than it does about me or God.”