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Give me less "being kind requires zero effort" and more "being kind is worth the effort it takes."
something i've noticed that has become really annoying in the past 10 years or so is this fad of what i've been calling, for lack of a better word, "structural whataboutism." it's that thing where, when faced with a concrete, resolvable problem in your community, your answer is to blame it on a vast, unsolvable issue of structural inequality and then throw up your hands. "there's trash all over the ground in this corner of the park" becomes "well, that's where MEN OF COLOR congregate after their 12-HOUR GRAVEYARD SHIFTS and i'm not going to support a CARCERAL SOLUTION to a CAPITALISTIC PROBLEM. WE NEED TO ELIMINATE POVERTY AND THE SUBJUGATION OF THE WORKING CLASS" and it's like okay but sis. someone still has to go pick up the trash. we don't need a carceral solution, we need more trash cans. you're not going to eliminate poverty and the subjugation of the working class and even if ya did, there would still be trash on the ground. how any of this passes for radicalism within their peer groups i simply don't understand. it's radical laziness more than anything else
I was on a canoe trip once with a river biologist who worked for the county. After we found and removed a car tire, she started talking about the annual river cleanup her department organized. From a water quality or ecological standpoint, removing shopping carts, car tires, and other macro trash from the river really wasn't that important, she said. The real threat to the river was industrial and agricultural runoff.
"But!" she said:
People who see a clean, trash-free river are more likely support laws to curb more harmful "systemic" forms of pollution. People who participate in river cleanups take pride in their work--their river!--and become evangelists for protecting it.
Immediate action leads to systemic awareness, which leads to systemic change.
Literally this.
Saying "there's no point in doing something small until the big thing is fixed" is literally just the Glorious Revolution Rapture story all over again, and it's not helpful.
getting new followers and especially a new mutual is so scary i gotta hit reblog extra good for a bit as to not scare them off
the weird thing about being a leftist is the government calling you a radical extremist and your family believing that youre a radical extremist and the whole times your main political beliefs are shit like "we live in a world where we could very easily end world hunger, homelessness, most disease, poverty, ect. and the people in power are choosing not to, and thats evil and should change" and that bigotry is bad
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bro, i desperately need people to learn that romance is an actual, literal genre of fiction. if you do not like a complete focus on romance and only like romantic plotlines incorporated into various other plots - you do not like the romance genre and you are not interested in romance fiction. simple as that. and it's fine if you don't like it, but pretending like the entire genre doesn't exist and is actually all badly written fiction of other genres which is overly focused on romance is asinine. yet somehow continues being a sentiment i see all the time. romance fiction is not lacking in plot or over-concerned with romantic relationships - it's literally doing what it was designed to do: centers mostly or even exclusively around romance.
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Religion in fantasy worlds: Everyone believes the exact same things about Green Nature Goddess and has official rituals for her that are the same everywhere
Religion irl: Technically itâs heresy for me to worship this skeleton but my spiritual advisor said that itâs legit so Iâm gonna keep giving it offerings of yogurt
Religion in fantasy worlds: Weâve gotta pour water over this statue or else the god will get angry
Religion irl: Weâve gotta pour water over this statue? Why? Idk man thatâs just what you do. Just do it alright.
Religion in fantasy worlds: These are the rules. The rules are law. Nobody can break the rules.
Religion irl: Okay you say that there are ârulesâ but how exactly are we defining ârulesâ here? Like is a suggestion a rule? How are we defining suggestion? No come back. Listen. Are we going by nuance in the original language or are translations fine or-
High control religions/cults recruiting in fantasy worlds: Join us! For we shall all eat the moon! This is a legitimate position to have!
High control religions/cults recruiting irl: We have free snacks. That shirt looks sooo cute on you btw. What, you heard that we wanna eat the moon? The media is always telling lies about us you know. We may have some unorthodox opinions about the moon but, tell you what. Come get some snacks, make some new friends, maybe chat about the moon a bit. See what you think. Weâve got pizza.
Religions in fantasy worlds: We must make a sacrifice to appease the gods! *draws up a sacrifice circle and completely destroys the sacrifice*
Religions irl: We must make a sacrifice to appease the gods! *has a communal barbecue*
you can say Christianity if you mean Christianity
No I donât actually. Youâll notice that I referenced sacrifice here. Christianity doesnât generally practice sacrifice.
In order my inspirations were things Iâve seen that Catholics, Buddhists, Jews, Scientologists, and many traditional local religions do that are referenced in research that Iâve done or people who practice those religions in the modern day have actually told me about something that they or their families do personally.
In fact I have Hmong friends whose families still do animal sacrifice for their own personal traditions. They sacrifice chickens, spill the blood in a specific way, and eat the animal afterwards.
As a Christian myself Iâll remind you that religion does not automatically equal Christianity. And in fact that sort of assumption is sort of what annoys me about fantasy religions. I have my faith but I also have an interest in world religions in general and human spirituality in fantasy media is often just completely flattened out to being a misunderstanding of Christianity or a satanic panic view of satanism sloppily copy pasted over a misunderstanding of how paganism or spiritualism works.
Also re: the water statue one:
"How did this tradition get started? I'll tell you: .......I don't know. But it's a tradition." --Tevye, Fiddler on the Roof, aka an extremely not-Christian story
I've seen three kinds of sacrifice. Maybe a 4th,but it's less religous.
"Let's ritualistically kill this animal for *reasons* and then feed the meat to our family/community."
"Let's have a feast, this specific animal we ritualistically kill can only be eaten by the holy leaders, but we're feeding everyone brcause there's more than one animal."
"Let's prepare an extra plate of food and leave it out for the focus of our beleifs." and then at the end of the night/celebration the food is either thrown away or left to nature, based on where they are and what the food is.
And the not really religous one: "Pour one out for the homies." which could be considered a form of ancestor worship, but that's stretching it to a lot of people.
I know of a fourth, in the Palo Mayombe Cuban-African-diaspora religion:
"This sacred cauldron, the nganga, can help me perform acts of magic, and to keep its power it must occasionally be fed with the blood of animal sacrifice."
I first learned about it from a crime podcast because no matter what the subject there's always gotta be That One Guy who goes "do you know what this needs? Murder," but most practitioners use the nganga for healing or protective magic. I'm not sure what happens to the bodies of the animals, but I know the blood is poured into the nganga and remains there.
Pouring one out for the homies is actually a form of libation and has historically been pretty common. If you read the Iliad for example thereâs a scene where Achilles is praying and as he does so he takes out a dedicated sacred wine cup and uses it to pour libations on the ground. Pouring alcoholic drinks or oil out onto the ground or pouring them over sacred alters or graves as an offering to gods or to the dead is a pretty common ritual historically.
Thereâs actually a little bit of debate in modern Christianity about if libations should be allowed because ritual sacrifice isnât really allowed but in general people donât care about you pouring one out for your homies.
In any case itâs an extremely ancient practice.
directors using colorful or "impossible" lighting to convey mood and meaning and beauty my beloved. directors making night scenes impossible to see for the sake of realism my beloathed.
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jessica really said âgod forbid women do anythingâ and doomed an entire people to war by installing her twink son as a false prophet by stealing her cultâs 10,000 year old breeding program propaganda
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itâs always a think piece about âwhy arenât young people drinkingâ âwhy arenât young people travelingâ âwhy arenât young people buying housesâ âwhy arenât young people optimistic for the futureâ w these elaborate hypothetical reasons
meanwhile the actual answer never changes: we broke, babes (and we live in a capitalistic corporate hellscape sucking the life out of us and the planet)
"telling people not to use ai is ableist" no, it isn't, but you know what is? when someone with ADHD or depression or unpredictable chronic pain flareups, who has become used to writing large assignments quickly in one sitting, is accused by a professor of using an LLM because their work was "too good" for their methods. when someone with a cognitive-impairment disorder discloses their disability to teachers or professors, and then is later accused of artificially generating their work because it is of "a quality that does not align with your documented condition". when someone with a pain or mobility or cognitive disorder asks for accommodations such as having assistance with taking notes or communication, and are told to "just use AI" instead of actually getting consistent help from another human being. LLMs are actively being used in ways that further dehumanization, and have been making lives worse for disabled people. any actual benefits they may have are few, and generally reflect less of their actual capabilities as opposed to the (changeable) ways in which the lives of disabled people are already devalued and neglected
i love "coyote time" as a phrase. I wish it was time for coyotoes all of the time.
COYOTE TIME ALL OF THE TIME!!!
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tbh nothing frustrates me more then when people brush off classics like pride and prejudice or jane eyre because they donât fit into todayâs modern standards of feminism and social justice etc.
remember that these novels were published in the 19th century. and that some of the things that were written in these books may seem trivial to us today but would have absolutely fucking shook readers in the victorian era
like,,,,,elizabeth rejecting mr collins because she doesnât love him even though it would have been considered her duty in her family to marry him? or jane eyre not agreeing to marry mr rochester unless it was on her own terms? hell even anne brontĂŤ wrote a lesser known novel about a wife leaving her abusive husband with her five year old son to live a better life?? do yâall realize how unheard of that would be in the 1800â˛s?? where women were considered more of a commodity than actual human beings??
even though they might not be up to todays standards of modern feminism and romance, they were still HUGE building blocks for equality for that time period. so if youâre a reader who says to themselves âI read classics with modern standards applied and I canât get past thatâ then you are most likely going to be disappointed when reading classics and not fully understand their significance to that time periodÂ
the KIDS act passed the house today. 267-117, 47 not voting.
that's not great. but it's not the whole story.
a few things got worse right before the vote too. the language that explicitly protected encryption, saying the bill couldn't be used to force platforms to weaken it, got quietly stripped out on Friday. that safeguard just doesn't exist anymore.
but this isn't over. it heads to the senate next, and the senate is genuinely not on board. blumenthal and cantwell, two of the senators who wrote the original KOSA, are saying they don't want this version near a markup. blackburn, a republican and the other original author, called the missing duty of care provision a red line.
worth being clear here, blackburn isn't on our side. she wants the policy stronger, not gone. but that's still a crack we can use. her opposition means the house version has zero guaranteed path through the senate as written, and a stalled bill is a bill that isn't law yet. use her objection, don't trust her motive.
senate commerce hasn't even scheduled a markup yet. that's the next pressure point. this thing has died or gotten majorly rewritten at this stage before.
contact your senators: find yours here. tell them you don't want the house version anywhere near a vote.
and remember, if you have to, contact your senators scared. anything helps.
this fight isn't lost. it's just moved.
