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[stnrvr]

I watched a video on nuance and it was a lot of bullshit that danced around how they understood nuance as code for why they were not hypocrites and how you don't understand nuance as code for not saying they were right about everything and yet none of the examples were nuance. it was just a bunch of people being inconsiderate about other people.

not everybody is you and the people who are not you are not wrong just because they have different information.

stop hating centrists when you have the shittiest centrist ass takes.

stop saying propaganda is so bad when you are peddling your own propaganda. you obviously are okay with it when it makes you feel good about yourself.

[doberbutts]

“trans men don’t experience misogyny because they’re men thus cannot experience women’s oppression”

I hate to tell you this but even cis men experience misogyny if they step a toe over the line of what our incredibly sexist society sees as “proper” for a man. You really don’t think that a man with interests or expression the world sees as “female” aren’t treated with violence?

[doberbutts]

“would you say that of other privileged groups? do you think white people experience racism?”

I mean sometimes they do yeah. I know a white guy with monolid eyes and zero known Asian ancestors and he absolutely experiences anti-Asian racism on a fairly regular basis because people think he’s mixed Asian/white. I know a woman who was told throughout her life that she was Native as an adoptee with no known history or background who experienced incredibly violent amounts of anti-Native racism until she discovered as an adult through DNA test that she is 100% white. I know white people who tan incredibly dark in the summer comparatively that are constantly accused of being mixed race and experiencing racism due to that, usually anti-Mexican racism perpetrated against white people with Greek or Italian ancestors.

Their ability to make it stop by saying “hey, I’m white actually” only goes as far as the person enacting violence on them is willing to believe them. They still have to live with the trauma and physical scars from the altercations. We live in a racist world and thus there will be violent people who force all others to pass a whiteness test and eliminating or harming the rest.

[doberbutts]

Got an ask that I just block/deleted but it was basically “so you think cis people experience transphobia!?!?!?!?” and uh

If you think cis butches don’t experience both transphobia and misogyny and homophobia for daring to be women who break gender roles while still holding onto their womanhood you’ve sorely misunderstood just how bad butches have it in this world sorry. If you don’t think cis queens experience transphobia and homophobia and misogyny for daring to be men who break gender roles while being loud and proud about it and still holding onto their manhood then you’ve sorely mistaken just how bad they have it in this world as well.

Not to mention all of the cis men who wear dresses and skirts and makeup and nail polish and heels simply because they like them who experience all of these things. All of the cis straight women who simply just exist but something about them doesn’t pass society’s “woman enough” test, leading to them being caught in bathroom bills and sporting rules and being attacked by people who mistake them for being transgender or gay.

Just like how straight people experience homophobia to such a degree that they literally beat their children out of any potential deviance from rigidly upheld gender roles and let politicians make jokes on national TV about how they’d drown their pre-teen kids if they came out as LGBT. Do you really think a straight kid still figuring themselves out hears that and doesn’t internalize that homophobia? Doesn’t rigidly hold themselves to some impossible standard so that no one could ever possibly think they’re gay? You don’t think straight teenage boys who maybe don’t pass some bully’s straightness test are getting the shit kicked out of them for “being gay” when, surprise, they aren’t? You don’t think all those kids being attacked by their priests and coaches and teachers are being told “this wouldn’t have happened if you weren’t gay” when they’re literally not gay? Do you know how many straight kids had close calls at my school that famously expels all gay kids, because someone made up a believable enough rumor? Do you know how many of them still got their shit kicked in even though administration ultimately decided to let them stay?

All bigotry is violent and all bigotry catches people it doesn’t “intend” to and hurts them as well. It doesn’t matter what someone’s label is, or if they even have one. It matters if the person enacting the violence is doing it because their victim didn’t pass whatever “acceptable enough” test they didn’t know they were being subjected to.

Everyone is at risk. Oppression doesn’t care what your label is. Some people are more visible targets than others, and as a result those people are the more common targets. That doesn’t mean no one else experiences it.

[doberbutts]

My first post to reach 2k without people clowning in the notes I feel so proud

[sophie-baybey]

[adamicecold3000]

[prismatic-bell]

Yes I am!!!

[traegorn]

One hundred percent I am.

[lizardsfromspace]

Extreme doomerism would be easier to take if its loudest advocates weren't, largely, uninvolved people who will be fine regardless

[lizardsfromspace]

Okay nice story about how everything's fucked and we need to give up forever and embrace self-destructive nihilism but before we continue can you clarify if you've actually experienced the horrors or just watched them on TV? Watched them on TV? Okay can we skip to the part where you weirdly frame having to see the news on social media as almost more traumatic than having to live it & promote your podcast

[stnrvr]

periodically I have to confront the fact that many people will complain about politicians and then support the physical manifestation of everything they say they hate.

the politician who not only hasn't done anything but nobody is sure what they do should be removed? who did you vote for? sick of white men failing up while women are punished for existing? who did you vote for? old white guys acting like they deserve the job because they simply aren't women or a person of color? who did you vote for? politicians are all crooked and should never be trusted? who did you vote for? nazis are bad? who did you vote for? don't like rich nepobabies? who did you vote for?

[pronouncingitwang]

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

[yokowan]

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

[le-jardin-inculte]

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

[shithowdy]

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

[afurioushawk]

So is the left finally admitting they didn't actually believe any of that stuff?

[grooveland]

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[roycohn]

stop saying "gen z brought back bush-era purity politics" i grew up in the bush era and even then people weren't saying that you're a sex addict for having boring marital sexual congress in the same house as your children. this is just plain unhinged

[prof-grace-aspen]

Literally almost every millennial I know has a memory of accidentally walking in on their parents or hearing their parents having sex. It's fucking normal. Human beings have sex. Your parents fuck. Get over it. Being weird about it isn't healthy.

[whatsnewalycat]

I really loved Robert Evans’s response to this

[stnrvr]

therapy. some of you need to stop sharing everything you feel and run it past a therapist first. every surprise causes you to fold like an empty paper bag and that is a "you" problem.

[cosmicretreat]

via Anne C. Sterling on Bluesky

[stnrvr]

whenever I see a tumblr page that has a "you will be blocked if your age, or other various kinds of info, is not posted" I think back to the early internet when people would create entire personas in order to make it as difficult as possible to find your house. because some asshole would actually try and find your house. now that republicans are actively fucking everything with leftist permission; I have less reason to want to share personal info than I did when the modem screamed at me.

I don't want you to know anything about me just because I liked one of your posts. you want that info? learn to make a friend.

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

“If voting did anything they would outlaw it.” Is such an insane take to me, because literally all of human politics for recorded history has centered around Outlawing the Vote.

[mariacallous]

[stnrvr]

government is to control the people.

people who point this out almost always say it as a segue into a conspiracy theory that only a bloody revolution can fix.

but this is true. anybody who has ever been in a riot or a lynching knows what I am talking about. social structures allow people to form social bonds and act in a social manner. remove those social structures, show those structures as false, and shit gets out of hand.

sure the social structures are arbitrary but it is a universal truth that all things you judge are arbitrary; as is the judgement. suck it up.

so now we are at the part where science fiction is lacking. usually an alien is just a parody of humanity. ferengi are capitalist, klingons are focused on war and status, and romulans are paranoid. it is nice to give an example of the social structure not being good enough as something not to do but it doesn't explore why that social structure exists.

what does the capitalism do? what does it control? are the ferengi hoarders? do they just make giant nests until they have to buy things with money? what do they do where the capitalism is what keeps them stable? how does their society go to shit?

how are the klingons controlling themselves? what do they act like when they think honor is a lie and they work against it? what are their conspiracy theories like. what is their honor controlling?

in humans these social orders have always failed on some level. they work on some levels and not others. if they go too long they shatter.

but a space faring species? this has to be something that works for them. this is a successful way for them to work together. so why does it work for them and not for humans? I have not seen this explored except one Deep Space 9 episode where quark talks about how humans are so very close to being monsters. what does a ferengi monster act like? what is their capitalism holding back? what does paranoia and secrecy do that stabilizes a romulan group?

aliens are always portrayed as better humans or inadequate humans. they are just enlightened or stupid. they are an exploration of specific human successes and failures. I have never seen them as creatures that developed a society because they had to.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Every time I argue with someone about the "virtues" of mob justice and how often it's weaponized against marginalized men especially as an excuse to commit acts of extreme violence against them for literally no reason, the person arguing for mob justice simply refuses to acknowledge it. I can give so many names and examples of people who were falsely accused of crimes and then nrutally murdered by the community, by people who genuinely thought that they were in the right, and it just does not get through to the other person at all. They always think that somehow, magically, their version of mob justice will be free of biases and bigotry and no one innocent will ever be harmed.

What's especially chilling is when the people arguing in favor of that kind of violence don't even realize when they're someone who would very easily become a victim of it.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Me: Here is a list of marginalized men who were kidnapped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered because of false accusations thrown at them based in hate and bigotry.

Person: And that sucks and it's a real shame but that just means that we need to be stricter about community justice and make sure that the accusations are actually true.

Me: You mean like in a fucking trial? In a courtroom? Handled by trained professionals and using actual evidence with a thorough investigation? The literal complete opposite of what you're advocating for???

[tramtheram]

I came up with a new fantasy currency.

In involves mummified toes of rich aristocrats. The unique print on each make it extremely difficult to impossible to fake or copy and the limited supply makes them quite valuable.

I call it Crypt-Toe

I'm looking for investors who really want to get their foot in the door.

[nudityandnerdery]

Tram, stop trying to get people to invest in your pyramid scheme.

[tramtheram]

Wow way to be a heel when i was just trying to give people a little soul to invest back into their future one step at a time 🙄

[stnrvr]

if I say "nailed it"; does that toe the line?

[stnrvr]

people who talk about game theory never talk long enough to bring up people who have defined the system as a game; then they pull some game rules out of their ass, mix in a conspiracy theory, suck at the game, explain their lack of skill as other people cheating, and then complain about the people who want them to stop playing this stupid game.

the rules and conspiracy theories that are always the same ones that racists use is probably not a clue to why they suck at a game that only they know the rules to.