hex_m_hell
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- Comment on Okay, but Mötley is a pretty awesome name. 7 months ago:
White people finally figuring out what names are for… youtube.com/watch?v=63ldknEhOMM
- Comment on Misinformation? 8 months ago:
Oh, you aren’t looking for an answer because you’re an idiot. Go on with your life then.
- Comment on Misinformation? 8 months ago:
The logic should apply both ways, but it can’t because patriarchy prevents it. Meanwhile, people who don’t have a critique of patriarchy can’t really explain why this is the case. They simply point to it and say, “this is unfair and it hurts men,” without having enough context to actually fix the underlying problem.
- Comment on Misinformation? 8 months ago:
Under patriarchy, men are the only ones seen as having agency so they are assumed to always be the aggressor. The assumption is true, even when the reality is not. At the same time, men are socialized to ignore boundaries meaning that most of the time they will be the aggressor, reinforcing the assumption and justifying the application of laws that align with that assumption.
Men will always be the abusers and never the abused. Men will never be seen as the care givers, even when they are the actual care givers. Men will always be the rapist, never the victim. And, because society tells men these things, we often enact them against our own interests.
The fact that this logic doesn’t make sense is something feminists have been calling out for a long time as part of the larger system of patriarchy. While patriarchy usually gives more power to men, it doesn’t always. But even when it does seem to benefit men, it still harms men… Just like how every other system of oppression harms everyone involved, not just the oppressed.
- Comment on Misinformation? 8 months ago:
See: MRAs failing to understand how this kind of “reverse sexism” is really just the same patriarchy that feminists describe, and that basically every “gotcha” example is really just an example of patriarchy hurting men… In exactly the way feminists have been describing for decades.
- Comment on Lemmy.world be like 8 months ago:
Yep.
“Boy” is only the opposite of “girl” if you’re working within the framework of gender binary. One could equally argue that “non-binary” is the opposite of both “boy” and “girl.”
Similarly, “Right Libertarian/AnCap” and “Tankie” are opposite ways to justify authoritarianism and atrocities (dictatorship of the “market” vs dictatorship of the proletariat). “Anarchist/Left Libertarian” is the opposite of both because both assert that non-consentual hierarchies are normal and excuse the atrocities that come with them while anarchism rejects the validity of non-consentual hierarchy.
- Comment on Lemmy.world be like 8 months ago:
Fixed:
Ancap: incoherent statement Tankie: heavily cited mix of cherry picked accurate and utterly incoherent statements Ancap: Nuh uh
- Comment on Lemmy.world be like 8 months ago:
It is not the opposite of tankies unless the continuum you’re looking at is awful political takes.
- Comment on Amsterdam testing system that can remotely slow e-bikes down 8 months ago:
That’s also my understanding.
- Comment on Amsterdam testing system that can remotely slow e-bikes down 8 months ago:
In the US it’s really common to have an accelerator.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders unveils 32-hour workweek bill with no loss in pay for workers 8 months ago:
It will not. Governments do not exist to serve the people. They exist to control the people. The good news is that government is not necessary.
- Comment on Amsterdam testing system that can remotely slow e-bikes down 8 months ago:
Also eBikes in the Netherlands don’t have acceleators unless they’re illegally modified.
- Comment on The choice of a new generation 8 months ago:
I feel like this is some kind of backrooms mimic.
- Comment on Oh no… 10 months ago:
I mean, to be honest, it’s about time.
- Comment on I'm 99% sure it's not real 10 months ago:
I see you’re a senior engineer.
- Comment on Skittles: Just Do It 10 months ago:
Where’s the 5thworldmemes?
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 10 months ago:
Don’t forget the fact that you can be randomly stopped and forced to provide documentation that you’re legally required to carry in order to operate the machine… Unlike a bike, which you can just ride wherever.
Oh… And yeah, and most bikes don’t have computers in them that can tell on you to the cops if asked.
But yeah… Freedom.
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 10 months ago:
We lived in Tacoma, WA for a bit and our eBike took care of things most of the time. If we were still in Seattle, I would probably have wanted a bit higher voltage because it would struggle on really steep hills. But we were able to sell our car and just use the bike for several months before we moved.
Ebikes really make biking in the US make sense. It’s just not walkable and hard to bike, but ebikes really bridge that gap unless you’re really rural.
Gonna have to get used to them anyway. Cheap oil won’t last forever and electric infrastructure just won’t get rolled out.
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 10 months ago:
Ebikes fix that problem in most situations.
- Comment on Hope that clears things up 10 months ago:
- Comment on Hope that clears things up 10 months ago:
Non-stick spray cooking will also spray cook sticks. It acts as a stick cooking spray.
I hope this helps.
- Comment on when the woke librals 😔😔 10 months ago:
Yeah, so this is all covered in that video. Spiderman is probably the closest to progressive listed. He’s working class, he has trouble with cops, his family is poor. He’s reactionary in the literal sense, because he takes action in response to super villains. He doesn’t ever do anything proactively to make the world more just, he just responds to people trying to make it worse. Imagine if he robbed a bank and gave it to the poor or broke in to an ICE vehicle depot and disabled all their vehicles so they couldn’t raid immigrants. By the standard construction of the genre, he’d automatically become a villain… And that’s the point.
Again, this is all covered in the video. If you want to challenge your understanding of the world, great. If not, I’m not really going to keep paraphrasing a video that presents these ideas more effectively than I do.
- Comment on when the woke librals 😔😔 10 months ago:
I think your question is answered word for word in the video, but tl;dr: yes, I think that a genre where those who wish to disrupt the social order are automatically cast as villains can only be constructed as progressive when the villain is literally Hitler. Obviously there’s a lot more nuance in the video, but that’s the gist of it.
- Comment on when the woke librals 😔😔 10 months ago:
Obligatory David Graeber reference via Pop Culture Detective: youtu.be/LpitmEnaYeU
The super hero genre is, by definition, reactionary. All Marvel movies are anti-woke, even the “woke” ones.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
These are not mutually exclusive.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
This won’t happen because no one is measuring productivity. If they had any way to measure productivity or even cared about it, there wouldn’t be bullshit jobs. CEOs will never admit this, because it was never the point.
- Comment on I'll try to follow my very emotionally healthy idols better 10 months ago:
So, the director hid a swastika in one of the shadows to indicate that he thought the society was evil, among a ton of other things. He talked about it in the director’s commentary. But yeah, it’s actually super easy to miss unless you know it’s actually a warning… Which is kind of the problem with a lot of media, like the entire genera of cyberpunk.
- Comment on The 4-day workweek was a longshot. The UAW isn’t giving up 11 months ago:
Eliminate bullshit work and you’ll be down to a 15 hour work week.
- Comment on 2014: Barack Obama Tan Suit Scandal (biggest scandal of two presidential terms) 11 months ago:
Do you know what those tea taxes were about? The colonists kept starting wars with local tribes and the king got sick of paying for it, so he imposed taxes on the colonies to pay for their own genocidal wars.
The US was founded to guarantee the right to carry out genocide without paying for it all, with a constitution that explicitly kept slavery legal and only allows rich white men to vote. A slave holder who’s dentures were made out of human teeth from slaves murdered a bunch of his own soldiers who he’d promised to pay and feed them didn’t.
Yeah, there’s the nation’s soul right there. It’s been on the same trajectory since the beginning.
- Comment on 2014: Barack Obama Tan Suit Scandal (biggest scandal of two presidential terms) 1 year ago:
George Washington executed his own troops for demanding to be paid for their service. Imagine… Yeah.
