Happy to Be Me!

"how dare you say we piss on the poor" in response to someone misinterpreting your post

"_ isnt gonna fuck you" for suck up behavior

"woah. should we tell everyone? should we throw a party?" for who the fuck cares

"and what if the world was made of pudding" for when would this ever matter.

"and sharks are smooth both ways" for a group of people heatedly arguing with 1 guy who is fucking with them all

“30-50 wild hogs” for someone making ABSURD excuses for violence.

“what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament” for how do you know that without being a part of it.

“anyone in this thread smoke weed” for the shit you people are saying is so off topic this might as well be a general discussion forum

“dogs are boys and cats are girls” for ooh ur mindset did not grow past 4th grade, huh

“color theory in a childrens hospital” for bending over backwards to not agree that YEA, that thing Came Off Weird

“you are a tar pit” for someone finding any reason to respond with outrage.

“is the __ in the room with us right now?” for I Don’t Think That’s Real.

“bean soup? im allergic to beans!” for ik this doesn’t work for you, but that’s not a flaw. not everything can be for you.

also, for the unaware: mclaughlin v. florida was a 1964 supreme court case that struck down a florida anti-miscegenation law that criminalized cohabitation (and thus, as implied, sex) between white people and people of color of opposite genders. anti-miscegenation laws made marriage and sexual relationships between white people and people of color, most often specifically black people, a FELONY in several states in the united states up until the 1950s and 1960s. though it was already struck down by the supreme court, the state of alabama didn't repeal their law until 2000! there were THREE ATTEMPTS at codifying anti-miscegenation into the us constitution!

like yes, the issue here is partially straight white people's ignorance on the united states's history of homophobic policy, but it's also really important to recognize that arguably the majority of the issue here is straight white people's ignorance of the united states's history of codifying eugenics and antiblack racism.

You might know him from a thread where he was getting wowed by free appetisers in a Mexican restaurant.

Firstly: He is doing a bit pretending to be a wandering samurai. It's a joke and his posts are all made up. This is very obvious if you actually look at his account and website:

He does purport to be Japanese but based on some of the other content he posts there's reason to believe he's British.

Which brings me to my second point: his Samurai content is interspersed with posts like this:

And this:

Yeah this is also the guy from the truck thread going around. That's what prompted this post and in retrospect I should have said so explicitly.

He claims he just uses AI to translate his posts from Japanese. He also says the art on his website isn't AI generated. I think he is full of shit on both counts.

I only gave a couple of examples but even on a brief look through his twitter it was apparent that he posts a LOT about UK politics to the point where he's quite patently British. He is a Restore supporter which is a party that split away from mainstream far right party Reform due to feeling they weren't right wing enough.

It might not surprise you to hear he does not seem to know shit about Japan? Both the salsa story and the truck story failed the smell test for people who are familiar with Japan. There's also a story about going to a potluck where he seemingly couldn't come up with a single Japanese dish for the character to cook??

Living your life online, especially when bullies can follow you home in your pocket, may indeed be bad for your mental health. But people* also need time with their peers without being under the watchful eye of authoritarians who have power over every aspect of your life.

It may, in fact, be important for young kids, with still-developing senses of Self, to interact with their peers face-to-face, in three-D space. But how much growth can really happen when every moment of their lives is either in a house with adults who control their lives, or in a classroom with teachers who control their lives, or on a sports field with a coach that enforces the rules of "play," or being shepherded back and forth between house, and classroom, and field, in an enclosed vehicle with an adult who controls their lives?

So I wonder how much of depression in children these days is actually because of "too much screen time," per se, and how much of it is because they have to little time free from the Authoritarian Gaze.

I was born 60 years ago. And looking around at the world now, and looking back at my life, I suspect I'm a member of the last generation in America that had a childhood, where, after school, you'd change into your "Play clothes" and just go outside and run around the neighborhood with your friends until a parent (usually the mother) would call you by name yell that supper was almost on the table. I couldn't actually "run" but I had a red wagon I could sit in, and my friends would pull me around sidewalks of the neighborhood, Or we'd gather 'round a sand pit making a miniature landscape with hill and rivers, and tiny houses made of sticks and leaves, and make up stories about the people who lived there. Good times.

But then, in the late '70s / early '80s, a moral panic about child abductions, exploitation, and "Stranger Danger" hit (even though most child abuse happens at the hands of known adults in control). And we've not recovered since.

I'm definitely a Ferg. It just feels right.