Lord of the Midnight Sun

It gets extra rich in cases where the ones levying this accusation are striving (or at least hoping) to create societal states which not only have never existed, but very likely cannot exist on this side of eternity.

@thathopeyetlives Are you talking in an alternate history sense with the USSR? Because while I love the genre precisely because of its nonsensical worlds of total Nazi or Confederate victories, I really don't see that version of the Soviet Union as ever happening. Sexual liberation didn't kick off until after WW2, and it was only ever in the West.

Idk, I'd be pretty worried about a society where rapists and murderers had free, unfettered access to new victims because said society prioritized their right to be able to kill and rape more innocents over the safety of the rest of said society from being killed or raped.

No, I want prisons to keep proven rapists and murderers away from society. You stop someone from committing a crime by making it impossible, and when someone has proven they are so utterly evil as to kill or rape someone that translates to either life in prison or the death penalty, the latter of which is inherently tyrannical and thus leaves lwop as the only option. Punitive justice isn't entirely without merit but you're right in that it's not the magic fix-all for crime, but this isn't punitive justice in the sense of penalties deterring crime, it's preventative justice in the sense of criminals who've been proven to have done these abominable things being directly prevented from doing so again.

Yes. I indeed want murderers and rapists "over there" and "away from me". Thanks for asking.

It must be exhausting to live like this.

The bears are turning into dragons

and what if I told you guys that virtually everyone you ever meet will turn out to be really interesting if you give them a chance

some real miserable fucks in the notes I fear

I'm not even saying you have to talk to every single person you meet. and you're certainly not going to LIKE all of them. but every person does have a rich interior life and complex feelings and unique worldview. sorry.

this is truly one of the most tumblr posts i've ever seen. i know chronically online people exist in all corners of the internet but i feel like this is the only place where someone could say something as uncontroversial as "you will find out that people have personalities when you talk to them" and get responses like "oh so you're making the ABLEIST assertion that i should FORCE MYSELF to push past my SOCIAL ANXIETY to talk to BIGOTS????" amazing work, guys

reading a historical romance novel and reflecting on the way these stories often present woke nobility for the contemporary reader. a big thing is servants. you can’t not have servants in those times but many modern readers think “but I would never have servants. it would be so weird to have servants” and in order to make the protagonists of the story more relatable they are actually friends with the servants. but flip your perspective and think of it from the side of the servants. wouldn’t it be so awful if your boss was always trying to be friends with you. a really common thing you’ll see is the woke baronet having tea in the kitchen with the servants bc he’s not like other baronets. but what if your boss wanted to hang out and talk during your lunch break every day. not so charming when you think about it that way

Yeah , it can be laid at the feet of Conservative Republicans , like almost everything else involving the public population ! Republicans hate education , because intelligent people can think for themselves .

so if there is so much push and pull how do funds get allocated? Is it just towards administration? Does funding change drastically by the year or do funds tend to sit in limbo because the money is there but no one can agree on where to put it?

Also the teachers' union is now majority-bureaucrat instead of majority-teacher. Also also if you try to choke off their funds they'll cut off the classrooms before they shave a hair off the bureaucratic budget. Also also also negative outcomes give a pretext for demanding more resources and positive outcomes don't.