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@mirrorlogician @ShibuJerusalem @portraitinflesh You read the part in my bio about what I support. Now read the sentence after.

@BrandonMeijers @ShibuJerusalem @portraitinflesh and me working with what I have is saying "if you promise to commit the worst crime humanity has a name for, I won't vote for you" this is actually completely allowed and normal in a democracy, and easily fixed by the candidate not doing that

After all these years, David Sedaris's "chicken salad or shit with broken glass" analogy for American elections remains unbeaten. And, you know, chicken salad can be pretty mediocre, even bad. It's just not shit with broken glass in it, and pretending it is makes you look insane.

@mirrorlogician @ShibuJerusalem @portraitinflesh No, the one about working with what you have.

@BrandonMeijers @ShibuJerusalem @portraitinflesh ...that black people are targeted by discrimination? Yeah, I agree, that's a problem that needs to be better addressed

@Mike_from_PA @trouble_man90 I believe his point is that you're an idiot that's easily duped by basic sloganeering.

@trouble_man90 he is a centrist zionist now. Like you. What's your problem with him in detail. He supports the same policy you do

Fetterman was the leftist choice and Sinema came from the Green Party. They are both creatures from the far left and they were both a disaster. You morons have an abysmal track record.

@mirrorlogician @ShibuJerusalem @portraitinflesh Please refer to my previous point.

@BrandonMeijers @ShibuJerusalem @portraitinflesh "Biden and Harris violated federal law by illegally sending bombs to a genocidal foreign power, and Harris promised to keep committing that crime no matter how many people she murdered by doing so" is fixable with reforms and criminal trials.

@mirrorlogician @ShibuJerusalem @portraitinflesh ACAB: police are bastards because they lack accountability and abuse their power. This is fixed with reform. BLM: Black people are targeted by discrimination and violence. This is fixed with h reform. Trans rights; trans people deserve equal protection. This is fixed with reform

@BrandonMeijers @ShibuJerusalem @portraitinflesh why do you have "ACAB, BLM, trans rights" in your bio if you enjoy telling people who say extremely reasonable things like "the executive branch doing federal crimes is wrong" that they're looney leftist radicals

@mirrorlogician @ShibuJerusalem @portraitinflesh The relevance is that there would be no popular uprising to remove the two party system and reshape all of society to align with your exact ethical values. So you have to work with what you have.

@BrandonMeijers @ShibuJerusalem @portraitinflesh unrelated to me asking for evidence for something this guy made up

@mirrorlogician @ShibuJerusalem @portraitinflesh 😮‍💨 Repeat after me: 1. The Revolution isn't coming. 2. "Let it all burn" is not a viable political strategy. 3. The world is not going to wake up one day, realize how correct you are, and hand you all the power. Keep repeating until it sinks in.

@ShibuJerusalem @portraitinflesh in other words Harris never said that and you're writing fanfiction

@TolvanSkull @cryptopunk7213 Response: youtube.com/shorts/ytLqSRP…

@cryptopunk7213 AI will only get better and easier to use. This isn't about jobs anymore it's about changing how humans relate to art. Art used to be something only artists and wealthy patrons could have. Everyone can now have beautiful meaningful art in their lives every single day forever.

genuine question: why are the arts and gaming communities so fucking touchy about ai? i get that 99% of examples are slop but we’re reaching a point where ai-generated media is indistinguishable for 90% of the world that shouldn’t go un-acknowledged just because you want to hide behind a professional identity ai isn’t going away, it’s getting (a lot) better, so why not try and figure out how to work with it to your advantage? isn’t that what a bunch of hollywood is realising now? doomer: “NO THIS IS NOWHERE CLOSE TO PIXAR GRADE” 8 year old (target audience): “haha that’s awesome” what am i missing?

@estherzelda0514 @agraybee It's also why the modern academic definition has shifted to be tied "anti-colonialist" rhetoric as "people who were there before white Europeans showed up." Which has the knock on effect of stating white Europeans are indigenous to nowhere.

Here, @agraybee hits on the error committed when we talk about what makes someone "indigenous": we link ancient ideas of territory to a modern idea of race rooted in genetics. But, to make sense, either "indigenous" should not be that arbitrary or politically charged, or the idea itself is bullshit. Let's start with the core problem: the ideas of race, nationality, and ethnicity are packed with modern assumptions by no means universal, and they do not at all map to how ancient cultures perceived the idea of territory. First and most important, population density for most of humanity was low, with no concept of borders. We were hunter-gatherers, and if you did not like the group you found yourself among, you packed up your few possessions and moved on, forming or joining a new group. While groups may create distinct racial features eventually, the genetic differences between even modern notions of "ethnicities" are small, constantly being readjusted, and always fuzzy at the margins. Second, even if the idea of "tribe" is the most persistent through history, it still means different things at different times. What can be said to be constant? A set of shared values and norms, which most would say is a "culture." But cultures of nearby tribes with significant genetic and territorial overlap are not always similar. We now know that plenty of nearby tribes came to hate each other, and, in a process called schismogenesis, would have extremely divergent values. If you didn't like how Tribe A were ascetics, Tribe B, about 40 miles to up the coast, embraces more hedonistic values. But Tribe A and Tribe B intermarry often, and both of their economies are based on fishing. So, are they really the same "people"? Probably not. Third, what you get once groups settle down mostly permanently, probably after the agricultural revolution (which, remember, is but a blip in the entire lifetime of humanity, and didn't happen once, but was a slow transition that happened over and over again until it became permanent), is that tribes begin to actually "own" a place. They start to base their cultural traditions and rituals on the "rules" applicable to only that place, so its climate and resources shape the proper way to do things in that culture. Fourth, this still doesn't create or explain the idea of what it means to be "indigenous," since there can still be several tribes, intermarrying, adjacent in a rough area, with some shared values shaped by that place, and other values in which they are polarized. In such a circumstance, how does a specific singular cultural identity coalesce? Well, the answer is violence. The tribes fight, and the last one standing in an area it defines as its own, with cultural norms linked to that area, is now "indigenous." That reality really pokes a big nasty hole in the idea that being "indigenous" is anathema to the populations that we now class as "imperialistic" or "colonial." Fifth, you can now see the issue with "indigenous." Being "indigenous" cannot be strongly tied to genetics. Rather, it's rooted in conquering a place by eliminating rival groups and having cultural rituals and norms rooted in a specific geography. Remember, too, that "indigenous" cannot be innate to humanity, because the scale of our evolution is so large compared to how little time we've actually spent rooted in specific areas, and the even smaller amount of time any group can ever to have been said to truly "own" a land with specific borders. This can best be observed in areas with a lot of very old civilizations and frequent human movement, like the Middle East. This makes the idea of "indigenous" in trading hub areas with long agricultural histories extremely fraught, and almost entirely a product of modern concepts, which are easily bent to modern ideologies. So, in conclusion, what is "indigenous"? I think the answer is that it's one of two things. Either it's a group of people, who call themselves distinct, with shared values, who established themselves as the dominant group in an area for a sufficient period as to have cultural norms, rituals, and history linked to that specific area. In the alternative, it's bullshit. But either way, both formulations are extremely political, allow violent conquering (or maybe even require it), and leave open the possibility that quite a few groups can be "indigenous" to the same area at different times, or even at the same time. As an epilogue, I hope I leave you with the sense of mounting frustration with how the idea of "indigenous" is used today: to connote a sense of entitlement of an archetypical peaceful noble savage (who never existed) to a place (which only came to exist recently) based on their ancient history (which people just plain made up for their own modern political ends). Because that's how I feel every time it comes up.

@_RyanIndustries @AntiCommieBecca Yeah, maybe it would have stayed that way if the Scout Masters weren't using it as a means to r*pe little boys

@AntiCommieBecca Just an example - we used to have the Boy Scouts. Now, it's "Scouting" and it's full of girls. Many such cases.

This is actually really illuminating. He’s basically saying young men are sort of naturally aggressive, angry, resentful & see themselves as superior beings. BUT it’s just their hormones that are fueling this. The vast majority of men grow out of this and that explains why there is such a HUGE difference between older and younger men. I don’t think women understand this, and I don’t think older men are taking the time to mentor younger men explaining to them they’re insatiable horniness & rageful anger is just a hormonal thing that will mitigate with time. It’s a shame there aren’t resources to help young men understand these feelings all men have felt, it’s not environmental it’s hormonal & will pass. They just gotta get safely through it! This seems like a positive message. Why isn’t this being articulated more? 🤔

@stellachenyl @eyeswideslvt The patriarchal conception of men is as violent, emotionless, sexually aggressive, monsters totally under the control of their libidos, who will go on a r*ping frenzy when given the slightest amount of societal permission. Radfem agrees with that view.

@eyeswideslvt For someone who hates men she sure agrees with the philosophy of the type of men who would put her and all women back under hard patriarchal rules if they get power literally all of patriarchal rules are derived from the idea of women being valued by virginity

@QueenMab87 Why the algorithm is choosing to promote a bunch of angry Dworkinized radfems who think wanting to be pretty and having sex with men is some deep betrayal of feminism and its goals, I do not know.

You should never ever have sex with someone you don’t want to and real feminism would never advocate you have sex with men or anyone else but y’all can’t tell us that we’re doing something wrong or anti feminist by choosing to have sex with men

@deerfalscher @omagoth_

@BrandonMeijers @omagoth_ doesn’t*

Straight people are such liars man. If you've been "undercover" as a queer person in spaces where everyone is assumed straight(ie most places) you'd realize just how often they bring up queer people unprovoked.

@SatanicMetalBug Very online lesbians cannot conceive of a reason why any woman would ever voluntarily have sex with a man. So they come to the conclusion that all hetero sex is forced.

Telling bisexuals we're choosing misery for dating men... y'all biphobic piece of shits are actually so stupid I pity you.

@thevivianbanks We need a new JT!

@w1rtouthegarden @suchnerve Apologies, referring to men who identify as cis/het here. Should've been more specific.

@BrandonMeijers @suchnerve what is a man in this context? is it who i perceive as a man? who personally identifies as a man? only men who conform exactly to societal expectations of men? only people with penises and xy chromosomes? who specifically do you even mean by “men” who aren’t actually leftist?

Y’all should see the meltdowns happening in the QRTs and replies

@UnsqueezedLemon @ProjectLiberal 😮‍💨 Repeat after me: 1. Immigrants are not soldiers. 2. Immigration is not an invasion. 3. People who are different from you living near you is not genocide. 4. The Jews are not trying to destroy you. Keep repeating until it sinks in.

@ProjectLiberal Hostile countries were not creating citizens for 250 years. 3rd worlders weren't invading for lifetime welfare for 250 years. No European country has birthright citizenship. It's national suicide.

@5737626839918b @ProjectLiberal 😮‍💨 Repeat after me: 1. Immigrants are not soldiers. 2. Immigration is not an invasion. 3. People who are different from you living near you is not genocide. 4. The Jews are not trying to destroy you. Keep repeating until it sinks in.

@ProjectLiberal So it’s fine if 3 billion third worlders become citizens? Just as the founding fathers intended. It’s not like the situation we’re in was completely inconceivable to them at the time.

@theogdaddy @skillaton1 @ProjectLiberal 😮‍💨 Repeat after me: 1. Immigrants are not soldiers. 2. Immigration is not an invasion. 3. People who are different from you living near you is not genocide. 4. The Jews are not trying to destroy you. Keep repeating until it sinks in.

@skillaton1 @ProjectLiberal into western civilization to slowly kill off whites because the whites are jews natural enemy.

@w1rtouthegarden @suchnerve A lot of "left" men aren't really left. They simply memorize and parrot the talking points because they think it will help them get laid. It's why they go RW when it doesn't work.

@suchnerve uh oh intersectionality and “gender as a construct/what it means to be a man/woman)” conversations start to break some people’s brains!