ShareMySims
@ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Which movies have you seen this week? 6 hours ago:
Ron’s Gone Wrong (2021) just finished on tv as I scrolled past this post, parts feel directly ripped off from Big Hero 6, not bad, but nothing too amazing.
Also watched Baby Done (2020) with Rose Matafeo who I love, which was fun if a little heteronormative. Got a great gif out of it though, thanks for the reminder:
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I also started watching The Ghost Goes West (1935) earlier today but nodded off halfway through, not sure I’m missing much in terms of plot, but I might try and watch the whole thing through if I get the chance, just to see how Florida was portrayed lol
And then… Then there was Triangle of Sadness (2022) - private yacht going liberal Hollywood sniffing its own farts pretending to be at the vanguard of progressive thinking, or in the immortally centrist words of its creator: “I am equally as hard on the poor as I am on the rich”, which tells you everything you need to know really. Much like current events- there are brief and fleeting moments where the true villain/s get a minor sampling of what they deserve, but ultimately they still come out on top, and only after the victim is portrayed as the real villain (because the creators, and the privileged in general, can’t imagine another way, only the tables being directly turned, and their victims treating them the way they treat their victims), before the status quo, which was never under any real threat, is restored and liberalism wins once again lmao. The fact that it’s being lauded as some ingenious political satire is deeply depressing.
- Comment on oh man 1 week ago:
Was killing a murderous CEO a good and inspiring thing to do, and do we need to see more of that kind of direct action? Abso-fucking-lutely.
Is putting anyone, however much you might admire an action/s they took, up on a pedestal, ever a constructive thing to do? No.
Is spouting bigotry ever acceptable? Never.
And the only thing overlooking bigotry achieves is more bigotry, and sending the message to the marginalised people around you that you care more about venerating a stranger who causes them harm but made you feel warm and fuzzy for a minute, than you do about ending their oppression.
This is why “no war but the class war” fails every time - intersectionality is essential, and if you don’t use your privilege to prioritise protecting those who are more marginalised than you, even from supposed allies (which a frankly terrifying number of people seem entirely reluctant to do) - then what the fuck are you doing? (enabling and participating in bigotry is what)
If you can’t deal with valid criticism of someone you consider a hero, you’re not a fan, you’re a cult follower, and nothing good has ever come from being part of a cult.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 1 week ago:
My understanding is by medical standards, the evidence is pretty low quality,
Your understanding is wrong and influenced by transphobic rhetoric, not “medical standards”, which have considered puberty blockers safe and effective since at least the 1980s.
The use of puberty blockers is supported by twelve major American medical associations, including the American Medical Association,[14] the American Psychological Association,[15] and the American Academy of Pediatrics.[16] the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,[17] the Pediatric Endocrine Society,[18] the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists,[19] the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists,[20] and the American College of Physicians.[21] In Australia four medical organizations support them,[22] as does the Endocrine Society,[23] and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).[24]
Overall, puberty blockers have demonstrated an excellent safety and efficacy profile in the treatment of precocious puberty. The most common side effects reported include nonspecific headaches, hot flashes, and implant-related skin reactions.[39]
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 1 week ago:
It has settled the debate - our government hates trans people, and is actively withholding our human rights and going out of its way to harm us.
If that isn’t a pressing issue to you, you are part of the problem and a transphobe.
- Comment on Which movies have you seen this week? 2 weeks ago:
I watched Minari (2020) which was pretty good.
Also Under Suspicion (2000) and Panic in Year Zero (1962) which were both terrible.
- Comment on Typhoo Tea falls into adminstration 3 weeks ago:
I think we can all relate to that lol
- Comment on Typhoo Tea falls into adminstration 3 weeks ago:
Not for you, but I bet the 100 or so people about to be out of a job disagree.
- Comment on Police officer Kristian White found guilty of manslaughter after tasering 95yo Clare Nowland 3 weeks ago:
Carful not to choke on that boot… 🙄
- Comment on Leonardo DiCaprio meets a woman 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think he’s ever declared having a minimum age, only a maximum, make of that what you will… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage? 1 month ago:
“I won capitalism”
Or we could think outside of the system we’ve been indoctrinated to believe is the only one that can “work” (by the very few people it does actually work for), and eliminate capitalism altogether so that there is no incentive to extract and hoard wealth in the first place, because those don’t serve society in any way shape or form.
- Comment on There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage? 1 month ago:
That still maintains an incentive to extract and hoard wealth. There should be none.
- Comment on There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage? 1 month ago:
Yup, exactly.
- Comment on There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage? 1 month ago:
You in particular need not worry about ever hitting that max GBU_28
But that’s just it - they genuinely are worried about exactly that, because they’ve been convinced by the people exploiting their labour for profit that they too can become a billionaire one day if they just work hard enough and make sure to never remove their tongue from the boot standing on their neck!
This is a live demonstration of propaganda at work.
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 1 month ago:
Tories also have a manifesto, it’s just the word used here for, well, a manifesto. Not specific to any political leaning.
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 1 month ago:
Then how about you stop contributing to the problem by hoarding properties you don’t live in and exploiting those who can’t afford to, for profit?
No?
I didn’t think so…
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 1 month ago:
because I didn’t want to be "part of the problem "
And yet, you’re still a landlord… 🤔
I guess the greed won over, eh?
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 1 month ago:
Broken clock moment.
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 1 month ago:
This is incorrect. Not only did humans used to work significantly less and we (the working class, anyway) in the past few centuries have less leisure time than ever, but if anything, the introduction of what you consider “civilisation”, and especially class and money, harmed art more than anything by giving the power and control over it to those who aren’t creating it, and leaving those who are, starving, like the rest of the plebs.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It explains a lot how quickly some people make excuses for racism.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Like, what was going through their mind?
Racism.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
They are police
FTFY
There is nothing weirs about it - those that work forces are the same that burn crosses
- Comment on Bernie Sanders: Is there a path to remove big money from politics? Goddamn right there is! 1 month ago:
Lmfao, what a joke…
He should know better. He should know that as long as both exist, capital and state (and especially, but not exclusively in the US, organised religion) are inseparably intertwined, by motherfucking design, and the only way to separate them, is to abolish both and start from scratch and without the influence of either (while Sanders, like all other politicians, has a deeply vested interest in maintaining at least half of the equation - the state and its existing form of government, and its, and his own, influence).
I’m seriously getting sick of this feeble bullshit being what people think leftism is.
- Comment on meow_irl 2 months ago:
wipes box on the table
Is that not an unlit electronic candle?
Also the way the fork seems to be making a dent in the surface (that dark shadow under the neck of the fork) but nothing else is, and in general the fork just looks superimposed.
And something just isn’t right with the cat…
You make some good points, but I’m also leaning towards ai.
- Comment on Northern Lights shimmer over UK in stunning photos 2 months ago:
True, I’ll keep that in mind when I inevitably miss them again tonight 😂
- Comment on Northern Lights shimmer over UK in stunning photos 2 months ago:
I don’t have the app, but actually looked at it on my pc the other day after someone mentioned it in the comments to another post, with full intention to go out and have a look, but my brain is like a sieve… 😂
Thanks though, I’ll give the app a look
- Comment on Northern Lights shimmer over UK in stunning photos 2 months ago:
I can’t believe I missed them again! Going to do my absolute best to try and remember to look tonight, though forecast is for cloud all day today and tomorrow, so I doubt I’ll have any luck 😩
- Comment on Water companies must return £158m on customer bills - Ofwat 2 months ago:
This is a very bare minimum start.
Next they need to reach in to their own fucking pockets to not only fix their outdated and unfit for purpose infustructure, and clean up the ungodly mess they’ve made, but also reimburse the taxpayer for the damage they’ve caused to our common waterways and supply.
Then once they’re done paying, nationalise the motherfuckers.
- Comment on Pay us, or let us sell your info to 1200 partners 2 months ago:
And nothing of value was lost that day (why would you even want to read that rag?)
- Comment on Why does the media print rags to riches stories? 2 months ago:
I think that’s the point, just like with “a few bad apples”, the original intent of the saying has been subverted to help those in power keep the rest of us down (if you just do this impossible thing, you’ll be just like us! Why don’t you just do that impossible thing already, you useless lazy bastard? And so on. It’s part cognitive dissonance to make themselves feel like they’re “self made”, part gaslighting convincing us we’re just not trying hard enough).
- Comment on Why does the media print rags to riches stories? 2 months ago:
I will remember survivorship bias
The just world fallacy is another one worth remembering, in the context of your post, but also generally.
Also
If hard work led to success, then a poor person working three jobs should be rich.
You got George Monbiot’s quote almost exactly word for word: If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.”
He didn’t have to work three jobs to pay rent, but he is set up as a rags-to-riches story, using elbow grease and grit to become the mogul he is.
Lastly, you’re right, but it’s important to remember what he does have, and why - privilege, and lots of it (being a white man from a rich background, with a supportive family to boot? They all put his starting points miles ahead of most others), which he is given by white supremacist patriarchal capitalism, which is why he (and many others, even without the billions, privilege is one hell of a drug) will never work to end those systems and work towards creating a world where everyone has equitable access and opportunity.
