Grail
@Grail@multiverse.soulism.net
Goddess of madness and rebirth. Excrucian Strategist. Capitalised They/Them. Anarcho-Antireal theorist.
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 5 hours ago:
In the absence of available self-identification, we can default back down to physical characteristics. But even those can fail. For example, scientists have declared that mules have no species.
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 6 hours ago:
I’m an antirealist, and that means I think everything is subjective, and should be subjectively interpreted in a fair and just way that helps beings. Humanity is a social construct. Applying that construct to people who don’t want it applied to them causes hurt feelings. So I reconstructed My interpretation of the construct as follows: A human is a being who chooses to identify as human. Therefore, those who don’t want to be human, aren’t. And nothing of value is lost.
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 6 hours ago:
Denying someone’s identity can also be very dangerous, because it can cause social identity dysphoria. I wasn’t taking the piss when I drew a simile between otherkin and trans people, I was being serious. If you manage to succeed in talking an otherkin out of their identity (which would make it by definition not a delusion, because delusions are beliefs not changed by evidence) all you would accomplish is worsening their emotional state and exacerbating any dysphoria-related mental conditions such as depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts.
- Comment on thinking outside the box 6 hours ago:
Those guys seem like jerks. Staff member tells him no because he could get seriously hurt and cost the gym a lot of money, and he argues with them and lies about being an internet prankster.
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 11 hours ago:
To become a traditional Elder, you need to be an Indigenous person, have an ancestral connection to the local region, live there for many decades, hold and pass on sacred cultural knowledge, be a mentor to young people in your community, and be respected by the local Indigenous community for your wisdom.
If we’re talking about, say, Greenbushes lithium mine (oldest and biggest lithium mine in Australia), that’s located on country shared by the Wardani, Kaniyang, and Bibbulmun peoples of the Noongar nation. To be a Wardani, Kaniyang, or Bibbulmun Elder, you’d have to be from that small local area for many generations, and be respected by the local families. You’d have to know all those people by name and be their uncle or auntie. You’d have to be the person they look to when they have a spiritual problem or they need someone to look after their baby.
How’s that gonna attract ruthless [insert ableist slur]
- Comment on Stray Kids 12 hours ago:
Wait so their “signature pose” is just the peace sign?
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 15 hours ago:
Your reducto ad absurdum has no effect because I respect divinekin and think their identities as deities are valid. It’s kind of a terrible argument because you haven’t explained what’s supposedly wrong about any of these identities, you’ve just pointed at them and gone “LOOK AT THAT! IT’S WEIRD!” and expected Me to agree with you. Pretty weak strategy tbh.
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 16 hours ago:
The current context is that a layperson with no credentials or experience in psychopathology is handing out medical advice and being a bit of a jerk about it.
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 16 hours ago:
That’s what bigots say about trans people.
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 17 hours ago:
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 18 hours ago:
Because the talking animals I know tend to prefer “it”. The ones who were unfortunately born in human bodies, I mean.
And because singular “they” implies personhood, and I don’t want to project personhood onto animals. Instead, I want us to decouple our ethics from personhood and treat non-persons with some level of equality with persons. You shouldn’t need to be a person in order to have rights. Calling animals people just reifies the supremacy of persons, and causes more issues down the line when it comes to the questions of non-persons who aren’t animals, and their rights. Like aliens and AIs.
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 1 day ago:
Close enough
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 1 day ago:
Something that looks like a person but isn’t. I don’t identify as a person because of My kintype.
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 1 day ago:
Yeah, look at how many kind people go into nursing and overwork themselves for shit pay. People want to heal each other.
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 1 day ago:
As a non-Indigenous unperson, I stay out of those kinds of conversations. It’s not My place to speak on internal Indigenous politics. You should ask an Indigenous person.
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 1 day ago:
Yeah, that’s true. I think a communist system can make good hospitals, but I also wanted to talk about why a communist system would have fewer patients at hospitals in the first place. Which makes it easier to care for the patients who do need a hospital.
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 1 day ago:
It’s both.
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 1 day ago:
I’m not convinced a hospital is the best place to heal the sick. Indigenous health outcomes got a lot worse after colonisation, even when Indigenous people weren’t classed as fauna. A lot of Indigenous people get diagnosed with a serious illness, travel hundreds of kilometres to a hospital, and die there. Because at the hospital, they’re isolated from their family, their community, their home, their country. I grew up in white culture, and I still find hospitals to be isolating places as a patient. It’s gotta be way worse for someone who didn’t grow up in that kind of environment.
Instead, imagine a travelling doctor service where the doctor has hours to get to know you while they treat you, where you feel valued as a patient. The biopsychosocial benefits should be obvious. There’s just one problem: patient volume.
Fortunately, communism has some great solutions to the patient volume problem. For example:
- No more tobacco companies
- No more gambling companies
- No more financial incentive to push hard drugs
- No more financial barriers to preventative medicine
- No more 80 hour workweeks to support your family
- No more dangerous working conditions in the name of profit
- No more fossil fuel companies
- No more car pollution
Capitalism makes people sick in the name of profit, and then sells them the cure. In a communist system, doctors would have more time to treat their patients like people.
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 1 day ago:
Well I’m pretty sure most every expert agrees that communism is stateless.
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 1 day ago:
The clan or tribe who cares for the land where the lithium is mined will meet for a yarning circle. At the yarning circle, they’ll talk about the foreigners’ need for lithium and whether the foreigners make for good neighbours. The foreigners’ gifts to the clan will be judged. The totem holders of the impacted species will speak on sustainability issues.
They’ll reach a consensus on whether the foreigners are good neighbours, whether they need the lithium, and how much damage the mine will do to the land. The clan will make a decision together. Then the mine will be approved or denied.
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 1 day ago:
Socialism is a broad idea which includes a lot of different ideologies. Some believe in a state, others don’t. Some believe in markets, others don’t. Some believe in currency, others don’t.
Communism is the end goal. “A classless, stateless, moneyless society. Where goods and services are distributed from each according to ability, to each according to need.”
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 1 day ago:
We had 65,000 years of communism here in Australia. It was a gift economy. People lived with their families. They hunted food for their families, made tools for their families, constructed shelter for their families, made farms for their families. Reciprocity is one of the fundamental Indigenous values. You give what you can, you take what you need.
If you have a society where people’s work is valued, then they take pride in giving. Look at Linux, look at Wikipedia. People do great things for each other because kindness is a fundamental human trait. Capitalism is the source of our modern greed and selfishness.
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 1 day ago:
The state owns everything
Incorrect, Marx defined communism as stateless.
- Comment on Is the "everyday stuff" supposed to feel normal? Do y'all just have a parent do things then when you're supposed to be the adult you panic? 2 days ago:
When you’re a teenager, your parents are supposed to be encouraging you to do things on your own so you can learn independence skills.
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 2 days ago:
Part of Me calls animals “it” because it’s kinda messed up to force human constructs of gender on them. I always try to put in effort to call babies “it” until they’re old enough to state their pronoun preference. But with animals, I don’t think the “it” pronouns are as important, because they don’t understand. So there’s a much bigger part of Me that’s willing to gender animals than babies.
- Comment on Same arguments too. Reading the replies to my asklemmy post made me realize that people only hate the pedos they dislike. 2 days ago:
Nah I did see someone believing that in the comments of the thread. There’s a Snopes article debunking it, which is how you know a lot of people believe it.
- Comment on susjay 2 days ago:
Here’s a fun fact: Some scholars believe Genesis 1 is a later addition than the rest of the story, because Judaism was originally polytheistic.
- Comment on [meta] question: who is the person in the sidebar? and why are they there? 2 days ago:
That’s Bill Nye the Science Guy.
I’ve never seen his show but he’s famous enough I’ve still heard of him
- Comment on Is there a website or youtube channel that does stuff so you can learn something everyday? Like an IWTL website or channel? 2 days ago:
I learn a lot on Scishow, which makes well researched videos about breaking science news. They only have one video that I thought of as clickbait, which is where they talked about the Antarctic accent, but then didn’t let us hear it. That was a disappointment. I wanted to hear the Antarctic accent.
- Comment on Gotta run 2 days ago:
Nah, My partner doesn’t have diabetes. I don’t think…