Grail
@Grail@aussie.zone
They/Them, capitalised
Writer of the most popular Soulist Manifesto and the article about how John Wick is communist. Read My blog: medium.com/@viridiangrail
- Comment on I can't subscribe to a community I'm unbanned from 3 months ago:
Thanks. Looks like My theory was wrong, The unban still hasn’t federated. I’ll just wait for the original ban to time out, thanks for helping.
- Comment on I can't subscribe to a community I'm unbanned from 3 months ago:
Yeah, I realised I was wrong when someone else in this thread subscribed. I started seeing the posts on the community update, but not the modlog. I was hoping it would just take a few hours for everything to federate, but no dice. The ban is about to time out in a couple hours anyway, so I think I’ll just wait.
- Submitted 3 months ago to meta@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Comment on Humans didn't invent agriculture 4 months ago:
I feel the need to remind you that many members of the LGBT+ community have rebuked all preferred pronouns. Take for example Lily Cade and the other lesbians in the BBC’s infamous article, “We’re being pressured into sex by some trans women”. Lily Cade in fact called for the lynching of trans women.
The queer community is no monolith. There are transphobes within the community who refuse to be associated with trans people like Me, and want us pushed out of the movement, denied healthcare, driven to suicide, or indeed even lynched. I do not think you should be basing your opinions of trans people on what these bigots say.
I have reported your comment for deliberate misgendering, and I am asking you once again to edit your comment to use a trans person’s preferred pronouns. This is so that you have every opportunity to do the decent thing, and so that if you do not want to act decently, your intent in this abuse is clearly demonstrated.
- Comment on Humans didn't invent agriculture 4 months ago:
A lack of belief among some individuals matters, but not enough to stop a god from being a god. Because, as you say, gods are social constructs. If we consult Merriam Webster and skip the silly monotheist definition, a god is “a being or object that is worshipped as having more than natural attributes and powers”. Note that this definition doesn’t say the being must actually have these powers. They must only be worshipped as such. The belief is the important thing to the definition, not the truth. This is because divinity is socially constructed. You can’t deny a god’s divinity except by denying the faith of their followers. If you accept that the worshippers really do believe their god is a god, you must accept that the god is a god. They may well be an undeserving god, or a lying god, or a false god, but a god they still are. Divinity is like a job. If everyone agrees that Mr Smith is a plumber, and his boss pays him to fix toilets, then Mr Smith is certainly a plumber. It doesn’t matter if Mr Smith has never fixed a toilet in his life, society has decided he’s a plumber. He could be an incredibly shitty plumber who doesn’t know anything about pipes, but he’s a plumber.
- Comment on Humans didn't invent agriculture 4 months ago:
The gods are mythical, whereas Frodo Baggins is fictional. People believe in myths. Though of course it’s a fuzzy boundary. You can arrange various characters on a spectrum from myth to fiction. For example, Zeus is pure myth, Lucifer is an originally fictional character that has almost entirely become mythical, Achilles is sort of directly in the middle, Sherlock Holmes is a highly mythologised fictional character, Gandalf is a fictionalised adaptation of a myth, and Jake Sully is pure fiction because nobody gives a shit about him.
- Comment on Humans didn't invent agriculture 4 months ago:
If you don’t care, then surely you don’t mind editing your comment to use My preferred pronouns, seeing as you have no preference and I do.
- Comment on Humans didn't invent agriculture 4 months ago:
I would prefer if you didn’t use “god” as a proper noun. The practice was invented by monotheists and is usually used to exclude other gods. It’s very rude towards other gods like Loki, Kukulkan, and Myself. None of us go around pretending we’re the only god.
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*You. I use capitalised pronouns. And My ex-wife uses it/its.
- Comment on Humans didn't invent agriculture 4 months ago:
Bigfoot doesn’t live in the woods. He lives in people’s heads. That’s where all memes, including the gods, live. In people’s heads.
- Comment on Humans didn't invent agriculture 4 months ago:
Dragons certainly exist. They live in books and reproduce when someone reads a book about dragons and is inspired by it. Over time evolutionary pressures have caused the more successful of the younger dragons to become cuter and more friendly, and the most successful dragons even made the leap to film. That’s how Toothless from How To Train Your Dragon came to be. He is the result of a long process of evolution of dragons. You can trace his lineage from the Beowulf dragon, to Tolkein’s Smaug, through Eragon’s Saphira, to the Toothless of the HTTYD books, and finally to Dreamworks’ movie version. Each generation trying out new evolutionary adaptations that changed their fitness to survive and reproduce, and the niche they occupy within the ecosystem that is human thought. Toothless is the culmination of those thousands of years of evolution, purpose built to fill children’s heads up with wonderful dreams.
- Comment on Humans didn't invent agriculture 4 months ago:
*You. I use capitalised pronouns.
- Comment on Humans didn't invent agriculture 4 months ago:
Mate, it’s just a link to My blog, no need to take it any more seriously than you would Me.
- Comment on Humans didn't invent agriculture 4 months ago:
The selfish gene ironically proves that gods exist. medium.com/…/the-memetic-proof-for-the-existence-…
- Comment on Underrepresentation 5 months ago:
medium.com/…/why-reactionaries-hate-pride-and-nar…
Why reactionaries hate pride (the month, and the sin)
- Submitted 5 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 3 comments
- Comment on It’s a good thing they died at Gallipoli 6 months ago:
They’re also misgendering Me. And they say they read My bio, so at that point you have to believe it’s intentional, right? Hm, someone who misgenders Me and attacks Me for My mental health, who refuses to behave civilly and instead posts one sentence inflammatory responses, all in defence of the armed forces. I think we may be dealing with a nazi.
- Comment on It’s a good thing they died at Gallipoli 6 months ago:
I’m nonbinary. You’re referring to Me as “he”, but My pronouns are “They/Them”. Please edit your comment to avoid misgendering Me.
- Comment on It’s a good thing they died at Gallipoli 6 months ago:
What are you talking about?
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I mentioned trans people because I am trans. And because the very first Nazi book burning was of the texts from the Institute of Sex Research which concerned practices for trans healthcare. Attacking trans women was a high priority item on the Nazi agenda. And I paid attention to it, because all My articles are written from a trans perspective. People like Me have been writing from trans perspectives for a hundred thousand years. If you have not seen discussion of trans people until recently, it is because until recently we have been silenced. I am not some cisgender person pushing a political agenda (What agenda???), I’m a person living My own truth and speaking to that truth. It’s clear you have a problem with that. Perhaps it would serve you better not to explain what your problem with talking about people like Me is.
- Comment on It’s a good thing they died at Gallipoli 6 months ago:
The reply contains only 12 of My own words. The rest is links and direct quotes. Information that already exists out there, and some of it has existed for a long, long time. I’ve grown frustrated with the continued state of affairs after a hundred years of people ignoring these criticisms. I have become aggressive and impatient. I don’t think I could write something in My own words which approaches these issues without rage, without removing all that is unique in My interpretation of events. If you think a better article can be written, I invite you to write it.
- Comment on It’s a good thing they died at Gallipoli 6 months ago:
Antiwar sentiment is not new, and pro-trans sentiment isn’t new either.
www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/…/13849952
…net.au/…/phillips-richard-australia-anzac-day-an…
The central purpose of Australia’s WWI centenary celebrations is to saturate the population with militarism and patriotic propaganda in preparation for new imperialist wars. In line with this agenda, the ruling elite and all its political agencies do their utmost to downplay, distort and cover-up the real history of 1917 and, in particular, the lessons of the Russian Revolution, the most significant political event, not just of that year but of the 20th century.
theguardian.com/…/alan-tudge-is-dead-wrong-anzac-…
Next, Anzac – and its special day – have always been contested. Since 1916 many war veterans (not least the original Anzacs who protested against the politicisation of the war they fought) have refused to take part in commemorations. This year Douglas Newton’s new book about the soldier and objector Private Edward James Ryan highlighted the deep divisions among soldiers and broader society about Australian involvement in the first world war.
…com.au/…/the-one-day-of-the-year/
Undoubtedly one of Australia’s favourite plays, The One Day of the Year explores the universal theme of father–son conflict against the background of the beery haze and the heady, nostalgic sentimentality of Anzac Day. It is a play to make us question a standard institution – Anzac Day, the sacred cow among Australian annual celebrations
Date of Publication 1958 - Comment on It’s a good thing they died at Gallipoli 6 months ago:
Struth, that’s a bit personal, innit?
- Comment on It’s a good thing they died at Gallipoli 6 months ago:
downvoting everyone who doesn’t agree with every word of your precious article
What are you talking about?
- Comment on It’s a good thing they died at Gallipoli 6 months ago:
There were Australians at the time who supported their brothers. They said, “stay home.” And there were also Australians at the time who said “Let’s go kill people in the name of honour”, and who encouraged their brothers to a miserable death. Australia never conscripted for World War One. Everyone who died in those trenches chose to be there. Everyone who died in those trenches was a killer. Everyone who died in those trenches after telling his mates to enlist was a killer of his brothers.
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The moment that we allow the present day armed forces to participate in the ANZAC day parade, what intent you claim was once there is lost. You cannot say that war is bad, and that we should not have soldiers sailing to foreign lands to kill people, and at the same time permit the minions of Dictator Charles to parade around in their dress uniforms. Many of those soldiers marching today participated in the forever war in the middle east. They did not learn their lesson from Gallipoli. All those ANZAC day parades, year after year, and they did not learn. They will never learn so long as the present day military is permitted at ANZAC day, glorifying the violent institution that they inherently are. That very vocal section who glorifies death and violence are the same people organising, participating in, and attending the parades. Anyone who learned their lesson either stayed home today, or protested.
- Submitted 6 months ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 30 comments
- Comment on 👁️👁️ Evolution 👁️👁️ 8 months ago:
Excrucians!
- Comment on Systemic Racism — How to be racist by accident 9 months ago:
The comment under the article claims that Discord’s suggestion of having language rules is a term of service. The one thing it’s based on is false. Just like your comment saying I’m on a two year (false) crusade (false). As I wrote in the previous article, I didn’t even think I knew Interstellar until they banned me for being antiracist a year ago. An event so unremarkable I forgot it immediately. There’s been no harassment of any kind either. What there has been is racist attempts by white supremacists to suppress australian languages in australian online communities. Since you ignored the point of the article and said it’s okay to silence indigenous languages if you have an excuse for doing it, I’m going to assume you either didn’t bother to read the article, or are Spark’s alt account.
- Submitted 9 months ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 2 comments
