Minihood

playing unmodded minecraft:

A YTP of Technology Connections, a YouTube series created by Alec Watson exploring all manner of technology, its history, its functions, and the various ways it influences humanity (and vice-versa). Particularly an episode about hybrid cars.

Full YTP with captions here!

the average bigot absolutely does possess empathy, they just don't consider oppressed people worthy of it.

not only that, but a lack of parochial empathy doesn't inherently result in fair treatment, as many people instead view oppressors and the oppressed as equally worthy of care (thus see anti-oppression activism as hateful or overly divisive) or simply avoid thinking about oppression altogether as to not feel bad about it.

this is especially a contrast I notice as a sociopathic narcissist (using both in the clinical sense), literally part of the two groups used the most by the "empathy = good" types to symbolize ring-wing violence.

I'm almost always the "naïve bleeding-heart lefty" in an interaction, regardless of if I'm interacting with conservatives or other progressives. people who shed literal tears over others' plights have become aggressive with Me over suggesting they should care about the "wrong" people or do something about it other than spiraling into self-pity.

I notice that the main difference between Me and these people politically isn't empathy, but how thoughtful our politics are.

The internet represents one of the few ways young people can escape the totalizing power their parents have over them. That these apps have been crafted to control their attention does not mean children should be banned from them, it means they should actually be regulated. If the internet is like "junk food" in their analogy, then the government needs to make the food safe to eat, not ban children from eating them.

She did.

And within 2 weeks she met a lesbian couple who saw her from across the [location redacted] and wanted to make her their third and spitroast her.

That's right, with a fraction of my power i made a friend's dreams come true.

For anyone who's still around and wants to be educated, "narcissism" is a personality disorder, which is a fancy way of saying that it's a way of existing, which has real disadvantages, but which has also been effectively criminalized by the medicarceral system. If you hate narcissists, you are complicit in the ongoing social processes which deny them bodily autonomy, human connection, and basic dignity.

-NPD has one of the highest suicide rates of any mood related disorder; slightly less impulsivity based attempts than BPD, but NPD sufferers are more likely to succeed in their attempts.

-NPD, like most cluster B disorders, is generally traumagenic, meaning it usually develops as a means of coping with childhood trauma, abuse, or neglect.

-"Narc abuse" is pop psychology with no real basis in reality. NPD sufferers are infinitely more likely to be abused than become abusers, and are typically more prone to self destructive than anything.

-If your parents sucked shit, it's because they *chose* to treat you like shit, not because they had a magic version of NPD that makes them a Bad Person. sorry you had to find out this way.

-Random people online with NPD aren't your parents and it's really creepy to project your trauma onto them.