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@Naxela2
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@basic_chanel
I disagree with these people on a lot of things, but Ukraine ain't one of them.
In fact Ukraine was the issue that finally convinced me to stop listening to Jimmy Dore.
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@basic_chanel
On the contrary, I think America playing the world police is the best stabilizing force in the globe. Peace among equals is unstable; anyone could gain the upper hand. Peace by one entity maintaining a majority of power and then using it sparingly is quite stable by comparison.
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@TheOmniLiberal
Now I'm a PhD student in one of the hard sciences, not the social sciences, but I had done a bit of reading in the social sciences to see what all the fuss was about and it does seem pretty close to what he's describing. The social sciences seem pretty twisted at the moment.
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@RichardHanania
No, justice was not accomplished yet. The DA should be charged for withholding exculpatory evidence.
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@jayhawkjack
@agraybee
The anti-inflammatory effect has to be a contributor. A lot of diseases are related to inflammation.
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@MorbiusDevo
"Words are violence, but our violence is just self-defense."
"Everything is political, but our politics is just human rights."
It's just Marcuse's repressive tolerance repackaged in new words.
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@yallnornothing
@MorbiusDevo
They simultaneously have incorporated elements of both sex-positive and sex-negative feminist critique, mainly because both are different ways of critiquing existing norms in society, so they apply those critiques in whichever way disparages what is currently normative.
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@Nicodemuslong1
@PostLeftWatch
Yea but then his audience would understand that the Union is the good guys and perceive Taiwan as being good as well then.
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@LavenderGhast
Yea this is why I said Sterling's comments were in such poor taste.
Wrong time, wrong place; please keep it to yourself.
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@SophiaNarwitz
I hate how every fictional universe now has to be a perfect reflection of contemporary American cultural values or its evil.
Is portraying the past or things imitating features of that past evil now? Fantasy imitating aspects of the medieval period is now shameful?
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@intentionalisms
Contra has always been forcibly dragged left on these issues than where she actually would otherwise be, and you can tell because she will constantly criticize the modern trans community but then have to walk it back 2 days later.
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I've seen several negative responses to this from more trans-critical accounts I follow, and I'm kind of baffled.
Isnt this exactly the kind of attitude you'd want out of trans people? Self-assured, not hysterical about being gendered wrong, and clearly doing their best to pass.
Imagine calling me 'he' or 'sir' when i look like this and being adamant about it.
Thats a bit embarrassing, but like for you not me 😅
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@bundy_chu
Every piece of media that criticizes our current society is seen as queer, because queerness isn't about a cohesive vision for society, it's about being against whatever the norms are right now.
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@tafphorisms
@rex_italia
The issue is NOT historical inaccuracy. The issue is the agenda behind such changes.
I don't care if we have games about black samurai. That's cool even. My problem is AC sidelined the opportunity to explore Japanese culture from a Japanese perspective for diversity points.
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Dev certainly gets to the point of it; spicier than I'm willing to be in public, but the sentiment I completely agree with.
The government, American OR Canadian, should not be in the business of policing this sort of thing. Yes, even for THAT word.
The Online Harms Act includes up to five years in prison or thousands of dollars in fines for "hate propaganda", and it applies retroactively. This is the definition of an unjust law, and I'm not going to stand for this bullshit. Come and arrest me.
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It is interesting to see people have the exact same political realizations you had, just significantly later in time. Brianna Wu's revelation is particularly poignant because she used to be among the group of people that made the rest of us have that revelation 10 years ago.
@SocDemLad
@StutteringCraig
@TArchcast
ana kasparian is going through the same reform arc that
@BriannaWu
is going through, and that arch and
@Sargon_of_Akkad
and i went through ten years ago
it's a bitter pill to swallow, for a millennial to recognize that the left is not actually morally superior to the right
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@_counterpoints_
To be fair, Japan isn't the one complaining. It's Americans who hate America who are crying foul some 80 years later now.
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@primalpoly
@RichardDawkins
@Wikipedia
The fact that the blank slate lives on so strongly even 2 decades after the eponymous book by Steven Pinker came out when we should have even more evidence to dismiss that idea since that time baffles me. It is a fanatical belief that resists contradiction in empirical fact.
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@sleepy_devo
@ClownWorldsMan
Everything bad that happens must be intentional Dev. Mostly because their worldview requires it to be like that to make sense.
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@heterodorx
Jon Stewart was lost when he called his friend Andrew Sullivan a racist on his own show because he dared claim that immigrants wouldn't want to come to this country if it was truly white supremacist.
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@PSA_Sitch
Jontron had some spicy and admittedly terrible takes in a debate back in 2016 and despite absolutely nothing controversial occurring since, the internet apparently considers a mere collaboration with him 7 years later to be an indictment against the person collaborating with him.
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@monitoringbias
He might as well have said "If you truly want to learn about America, talk to trans disabled women of color." Lean fully into that standpoint epistemology.
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@antenacactus
@TheOmniLiberal
Discovering? No, they deny Jews are anything other than European.
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@antenacactus
"Why would they do that?"
"Because they're evil."
Highest intellect on the far-left showing off his incredible brainpower here.
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@HunchBackMighty
@sleepy_devo
The Left says in one breath "we need to destigmatize mental illness" and in the other says "you can't say trans people have a mental illness, that's stigmatizing". Seems a might bit contradictory to hold both positions.
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@BriannaWu
Social media has infected both the "populist left" and "populist right". We are no longer disseminating ideas primarily in a top-down manner, but mostly in a TRUE public square where everyone is viewed as equally authoritative.
And it seems like that experiment is a failure.
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@antenacactus
The "left" is becoming a one-issue party on the subject of Palestine, when they have to realize that the entire rest of the country (save for some right-wing extremists) strongly disagrees with them and will not yield because they demand it.
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@wokal_distance
Say no to non-dysphoric versions of transsexuality. This stuff only makes actual trans people take more heat when they just want to live their lives in peace away from this ideological crap.
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Sometimes when my posts on trans issues get traction I get a lot of comments to the effect of "AGP isn't real".
I have a fundamental belief not only that the typology is real, but that it underpins most of the failures in communicating trans issues and providing good healthcare.
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@TheOmniLiberal
Gonna be a massive pedant here, but that's just authoritarianism and dictatorial tyrannical behavior (which dont get me wrong, is very bad), but nothing about that is essentially fascist or unique to fascism in any way at all.
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@SarahTheHaider
High likelihood that this person finds the idea of having children repulsive.
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@ChristinaTasty
Man I have never even seen the newer clip from Dragon Age Inquisition before.
Given the Qunari are not so subtly that setting's religious extremist race in that game, it's a bit weird that they would have a term for and be tolerant of trans people.
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@SwipeWright
If I had a corporate job or a blue collar job where I suspected many others secretly agreed with me and might confide in me privately, I would say this is good advice. However in my higher ed department, I KNOW most of these people don't agree with me. Speaking out is heresy.
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@SwipeWright
As much as I want to stand up for myself, it's a high-risk and low-reward action. I accomplish nothing but to out myself as a dissenter amidst a crowd of those whom my many experiences have shown to be true believers. I might as well be dissenting at a scientology convention.
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@colwight
Hamas puts weapons on top of a hospital (or other structure) and Israel either has to let them continue operating or they become the bad guys for stopping them.
Unironically Hamas operates like a comic book villain , and forces its opponents into a no win situation.
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@xrg10923
@HarryLotusEater
@sleepy_devo
Oh boy, here come the Christian nationalists to remind us that insanity is not unique to the far left.
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Honestly one of the saddest graphs I've ever seen.
Meeting people online is awful.
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@MorbiusDevo
Communists: "Everyone opposing us are also one of those Nazis, and if you don't support us liberal, you get the bullet too."
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@eyeslasho
That's not a "liberal" principle. The liberal principle is equality under the law. The idea that all humans are the same in quality is a far newer and more progressive idea, beyond liberalism.
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@sleepy_devo
@ArtemisFowl_003
I think he is right on that data if I recall correctly. Asian poor people (in America) also commit extraordinarily low rates of crime.
The issue is not poverty, nor is it genetics. It's sociocultural, in my opinion. Poverty is mainly an effect of this phenomena, not a cause.
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@SophiaNarwitz
Characters journalists care about confirmed to be heterosexual, journalists in tears.
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Polls for crazy people:
"Would you call a passing trans woman of 10+ years a "she" in public one time if you knew it would save 1 million people's lives in this hypothetical?"
Still >50% answer "no".
Christ these people must think they're Rorschach or something. They're insane
POLL: Would you publicly use the preferred pronouns of a person who identifies as trans just one time in exchange for a 4,720 word op-ed in the New York Times that was extremely charitable to a cause of your choice?
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@MorbiusDevo
I think I get the comic, but how exactly does this relate to the philosophy of fascism?
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I don't know why every European country wants to emulate American diversity. America is the way it is because of our history of being an immigrant nation. We killed off the natives and therefore all of us that populated the area were not from here. That's not Europe's situation.
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@PBP1366
@MrYGuy2
@Arachnocommm
"If you're not a leftist, then you're a conservative! Those are the only options! Something something can't stand still on a moving train..."
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None of them tried to help.
This is not the first time I've seen shit like this, but this kind of behavior in the face of someone in a life-threatening situation is extremely disturbing; a complete callousness for human life beyond spectacle.
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@PimpMasterYoda1
@PandasAndVidya
The answer seems clear. They want a character that is a stand-in for their own personal experience, even if that personal experience is specific to the contemporary world that they as a person actually live in.
The point of DnD is roleplaying, not making an avatar for yourself.
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I'm honestly shocked that this is not only allowed on Twitter, but actually has popular engagement.
The pendulum cannot be allowed to swing this far in public acceptability.
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@oatsandmag
Going to the catholic church for advice on having doubts about the existence of God is certainly ONE strategy of dealing with it. You can be confident about the answer they're going to give you though.
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@Fatsalad_
@BriannaWu
Brianna has stopped taking other people's shit and it's honestly pretty based.
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A failure to develop a good trans etiology is to keep transness in the realm of mysticism, that it is some esoteric phenomenon that can only be understood to the person experiencing it, forever outside others' comprehension.
This is a religious mentality, not a scientific one.
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@sleepy_devo
Because it's a political action against cisheteronormativity, and being outside that is a moral good to them.
Which is why people with more transmedicalist pro-trans beliefs will NEVER see eye-to-eye with them, because our goal is to help people suffering from dysphoria.
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Do normal people actually believe things like this?
There is nothing sexual about the naked female body you're just porn-brained
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Part of what puzzles me with the Ava situation is why there seems to be such a divide between the boundary-pushing AGP types and those that want to resolve their dysphoria and then live their life being left alone.
The excesses of the former are a scourge for trans acceptance.
@CaroltheIntern
She seems like all the worst excesses of AGP MtFs put on full display for everyone, and it couldn't look worse optics-wise:
-Unrepentant fetishist
-Lacking boundaries on sexual topics
-Letting the aforementioned affect minors
-This on top of leaving a wife and kid to transition
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@eyeslasho
Women could be in trades, many of which do NOT require much strength.
They just choose not to, or perhaps more generously, are not encouraged to in the same way they are encouraged to be entrepreneurs, scientists, and engineers.
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I am begging people to understand that not every character in fiction that crossdresses or pretends to be the opposite sex is trans.
If you wouldn't want a trans person to be misgendered, then stopping doing it to characters that explicitly say they accept their birth sex.
The discourse around Chihiro over the years has gone from: Headcanoning them as trans —> Saying they’re canonically trans —> Saying the DR writer is transphobic and that’s why it’s not more explicit in text.
If you relate to or headcanon them as trans, cool! Just don’t make
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@transmedscum
Pick me is just the LGBT version of the term Uncle Tom for racial issues. Diversity of opinion is considered treachery for groups invested in identity politics, so people with the "wrong" opinion have to be decried as doing it for the wrong reasons.
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@MorbiusDevo
@TolarianCollege
These people believe geographical assortment in fiction is racist.
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@SeanMichaelson4
@basic_chanel
What's the phrase from the American revolution? "Give me liberty or give me death".
The Ukrainians don't want peace on Russian terms. Otherwise they would have negotiated for it already. They want to fight, and we're willing to help them do so as long as they care to.
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Apologizing is a horrible mistake here. No one who disagreed with her will accept the apology, and everyone who stood up for her now has to give up doing so.
If you sincerely believed what you said, then you should never cave.
Sincere post: I genuinely am sorry, and understand I let a lot of people down.
It’s not just my opinion that NB people are part of the trans community. It’s a fact, because it’s right there in the WPATH Standards of Care. You cannot pick and choose which parts count.
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@_counterpoints_
@positivlife4eal
"It's not happening and if it is happening it's good" has always been a very standard play by those aligned with these policies and ideologies. It's practically in the handbook as the go-to tactic for social constructivist critical theorist types.
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@IneptFredda
My dude people have been playing as the Wehrmacht in WW2 games for the past 3 decades. It's a video game.
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Because what the typology is describing is an etiology, and etiologies are extremely valuable in almost all medical contexts. They provide prognoses, they allow predictions for how patients will respond to treatment, and they help patients "understand" what is going on with them.
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People can make argument that there's some underlying common genetics potentially at play, and while that's plausible, this high degree of penetrance seems less so.
When an entire household of children come out as trans, that does seem to me to be the point to be skeptical.
Feel like these videos of parents transing their kids are the best argument against evolutionary psychology I’ve ever seen.
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@tafphorisms
You're chasing something that's in your mind. So many people actually envy your appearance; dysphoria can be very pernicious in you perceiving this.
If you do get surgery be super cautious not to let it go too far.
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I really don't like how our dialogue on age of consent violations goes something like "sexual advances towards a 17 year old is pedophilia".
That's an age of consent violation, which is already illegal. Pedophilia is extra. Not all age of consent violations are pedophilia.
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I am so done with Americans defending criminals who flagrantly disobey officer orders and then escalate violently, be it actively fighting with cops or here FIRING A GUN AT THEM.
What percent of "scandalous" killings come from fighting with cops? 80%? More? Enough of this BS.
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@LilithLovett
Fuck, I actually know who that guy is on the left (I used to work with him), and I'm pretty sure I know where this was filmed.
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@PBP1366
@MrYGuy2
@Arachnocommm
He's not asking to be "good enough" in your eyes. He's just saying he's not conservative. Quite frankly I doubt he or anyone else cares if you think he's on the right side of history or not.
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@LilithLovett
It's ugly as hell.
Wearing a watch nowadays isn't even practical anymore with phones. It's just aesthetics, and here it's not even good aesthetics.
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@antenacactus
Always amusing to me that they see the opposing side as "pro-IDF", not "pro-Israel".
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@autogynephilic
The "believability" of this parody to me actually seems to underscore the real issue at hand.
The real beast feared is "male sexuality", plainly. Even male heterosexuality too feels like it can fall under this concern, it's just more "normal" and therefore not some new threat.
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@MorbiusDevo
The right's reaction to trans issues has moved me leftward as well. I don't want to be associated with outright hatred for trans people. I was only ever concerned with people who might have been false positives.
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@TheeDanFreeman
@RichardHanania
@DarrenJBeattie
It's funny because a supporter of any candidate could have written this.
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@wil_da_beast630
I've seen it before. The popular political streamer Hasan Piker has defended China's conquest of Tibet as a "civilizing" force that improved their culture, despite vehement opposition to virtually anything the West has been involved with that could be called colonialism.
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@SeanMichaelson4
@FemboyF1Alt
@basic_chanel
Yes, actively standing in the way of preventing the aggressor from conquering its neighbor and then threatening further geopolitic power. The "good guy" and "bad guy" ARE very clear. An invader threatening the sovereignty of another nation that wasn't hostile to it is the bad guy
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@tafphorisms
Not exactly. "No politics" means no controversy related to contemporary political issues. Both Bioshock 1 and Infinite have strong political commentary, but they're not "political" in that they take a stance on a wedge issue.
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It occurs to me that few people that support trans people have any idea what goes on in their psychology.
There has been such a poor conveyance of the trans cause compared to gay rights, as the gay movement was proud of what it was, while trans women live in fear/denial of AGP.
Me: So what’s a woman then?
Her: It’s someone who feels like they want to be a woman.
Me: But, a woman is not just a feeling.
Her: Why does it need to have a cookie cutter definition? Older people like you guys, you just, you can’t grasp the idea.
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@Tamagataris
@kirapapa
@frozenaesthetic
Cause those things are aesthetically cool.
No one thinks wheelchairs are cool. Get a fucking spider mechsuit or something if you insist on playing a paraplegic.
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