Contrarian Anarchist Dipshit

every criticism of effective altruism seems to value the lives of africans at ~0. its like arguments about vegetarianism but vastly crazier, because it's yknow. it's human children! theyre not even that far away! you could take a plane and go see them! EA matters, a lot!

One might even venture that this is another step towards Christian Supremacy from the current administration

Can we stop acting like it matters whether the fucking global terrorists are respectful of their members religion or gender please? If we’re talking the US military, their Christian supremacist ideology isn’t in question, and what they’re doing to their targets is much more relevant…

It doesn't matter how evil the underlying institution is, there should be zero government jobs that discriminate, because if discrimination against us is legal then it becomes common.

While I don’t disagree with that statement, if we’re interested in any kind of liberation that goes beyond the borders of the usamerican empire, rallying behind “trans people should have the same right as any US citizen to go kill people abroad for money!” is not really a move, yknow?

there not a pathway to ending the horrid atrocities of the us military that starts with "trans people are banned from the military". do you think we're going to get every single group banned and then no-one will be part of the military, or do you think we will actually take power and change things? because if we do, it's going to be a long term project, and in the medium term "make it so local minorities aren't openly discriminated against" is an obvious goal that doesn't even cost us anything in the long-term

Hey can we back up a second and discuss the whole “the US military is becoming increasingly Christian supremacist” thing being treated as some random factoid unrelated to the crimes of the US military? Because, the US military is already Christian supremacist, and that plays a big part in why those atrocities happen. So ya know maybe, if you care about people in the Middle East murdered by the US military, you should be a bit worried that the US military is signaling that it is planning to become even more violent

I always felt I couldn't possibly be upset about dying to an alien monster because proof of otherwordly life is exactly what it'd take for me to die happy

makes me sad that most YouTube art videos are about "how to make your ocs interesting", "how to grow your account in social media", "how to not make mary sues" like what happened to just drawing for fun and sharing it- oh wait I forgot this is the result of lolcowing people for their technical art skills and or clout related things.

we are in an era where people openly and harshly judge people's creative output because of the normalization of having a "freak" of the week. it makes me sad cuz as artists we should be having fun, not treating social media like an art competition or forcing our art to be "perfect" and digestible.

another thing is the constant need to market yourself and assimilate into a squeaky clean brand via treating social media like full time job rather than hobby you put your art on and occasionally get paid for. it's not a moral failing but I swear it's another form of art being controlled and governed by capitalism.

Human bodies are so weird like the upper half consists of every single vital organ and the lower half is legs

it's not great that every nation in the world seems to believe that if they kill enough civilians, the enemy will give up, even though the deaths of their own civilians would simply make them fight harder

its like a gacha pull talking to my plural wife i might get the one who usually fronts but there are the rarer ones also . dormant ones would be a legendary but i havent seen those

GLaDOS voice: "Would you like to see some artwork I generated? I've heard from other test subjects that AI-generated artwork produces an uncanny valley response in human viewers because they can't perceive it as fully real. They've told me that it looks absolutely hideous to them, that they can't imagine anything more disgusting than AI art. But, well I've been practicing and wanted your honest opinion. Feel free to let me know how ugly you find this by ranking it on a scale from 'vomit-inducing' to 'eye-bleeding'." A robotic arm lowers from the ceiling holding a hand mirror up to Chell's face

can grief stop hiding in the half smoked cigarettes my impoverished father would've farmed from the cracks in the sidewalk outside of a convenience store? the same half smoked cigarettes that eventually killed him of lung cancer? that he insisted on taking secret puffs of until he literally couldn't breathe anymore? it's an ironically cruel place for a fond memory to be

Pokemon Heritage Post

they're selling anti-ai slogans on sweatshop-produced t-shirts. i don't need to write the poem for you to get it do i

I am in awe of the artistic dignity of using stock images someone else made on a t-shirt made in a sweatshop. Yes, you cannot be replaced by AI, but that is because you have not done any labor, not because your banal impact font memes people put on shirts for pennies are too complex