“Approx 50% of fediverse takes be like : failed to load media 😥”
Accidentally accurate x)
Same lol
Owl House stomped that motherfucker into the dirt.
The older I am the more I notice how capitalism is so ubiquitous that it’s pretty much a religion that’s being hammered into brains of everybody from an early age. Having cartoons becoming ads for toys in the 80s led to irreparable harm for every future generation. It’s unfortunate that using language / philosophy designed specifically to talk about this has been ridiculed to the point of most people having negative knee-jerk reaction to it. It’ll probably take many more centuries of unnecessary deaths until people realise this, similar to other religious mass delusions.
This thread was not meeting 50% quota so while this comment is a bit of a joke it’s also very much serious.
I like this quote from Disco Elysium. Really made me think when the character said it (Joyce Messier):
Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead
I don’t think humans will ever truly learn. We might find the set of metagenes in the population that leads to narcissistic apathetic behaviour, and even as it is being villified as a personality disorder, a minority will happily select for it in their offspring to maintain a competitive edge over others.
It’s baked in, advertising or not, is what I’m saying – but also that despite the misinformation campaigns, those of us raised in the neoliberal creches do often wake up to see the better alternatives. People ultimately value peace and comfort, and if capitalism cannot provide that then people will naturally look elsewhere
Stop reading and parroting. Start thinking critically. You may or may not come up with the same conclusions but at least they’ll be your own. Ah, who am I kidding. I liked “Barney” as a kid.
Totally agree but being critical is kinda loaded. Like we really aren’t taught to be critical thinkers, we are taught to receive info and accept it on the legitimacy of authority. So if we go to actually be critical there’s a bunch of little traps we gotta watch out for.
The way a concept is framed can drastically alter emotional response or bias toward it. If a million people consume a product and 1000 get sick from it, if its framed like “0.1% of users experienced adverse effects” its like oh that’s nbd, when actually that’s a lot of people, and “adverse effects” is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
Pro life activists frame their issue as “baby killing” which is effective messaging for people who are outraged by the idea of killing babies. Attempts at trying to inject nuance into the issue can be framed as baby killing apologia, and trying to muddy the water.
Those are pretty easy to understand examples. We say, “ah but those wouldn’t work on me, I have an education”. But Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in economics for his decades of experiments showing that the people most likely to fall for “framing bias” are actually experts in the fields in which the biased or confusing framing is expressed.
Lots of people think looking at both sides, or opposing views is 1:1 with thinking critically. But structural realities like hegemony, which is like the way that ruling classes exercise soft power to coerce consent from the masses, have drastic effects on the way we think about things. There are absolutely certain philosophical frameworks that we are by default bought into and use to interpret reality that are very difficult to understand that it might even be a bias.
Even if we know about them, the fact that we have thought that way our entire lives, means that it takes sometimes immense effort to disconnect the bias toward “learned” thinking from critical thinking. Some concepts like mind/body dualism, rationalism, categorical impetative, positivist objectivity, etc., actually have drastic influence over the way we understand our experiences of reality. And thats before diving into other ontologies like religious belief, etc.
Its easy to he skeptical of ideas that don’t fit our learned framing of concepts. It is extremely difficult to criticize not just our own thinking, but like the framework with which we criticize. Especially since we are basically left to our own devices. Novel criticism of one or the other “camp” is often met with support and encouragement from our own camp, but the moment we criticize our own campist tendencies we become an object of suspicion, if not a total pariah – at best we might be sort of a tolerated crank. So there’s not even any real incentive to think critically. You have to be really committed to something that essentially isolates us.
This isn’t to say, “don’t think critically” but in my experience the further one ventures into critical thinking, the more isolating it feels. Critical thinkers don’t enjoy being criticized by others, and eventually settle into our own uncritical biases.
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imo, this is clearly a tumblr take, and one that was born in reaction to the other common tumblr take made by people who only care about children’s media and leftist theory, which is “beloved nostalgic animated series is actually secretly super progressive and leftist actually”, itself born out as a reaction to “beloved nostalgic animated series is kinda bigoted in some places tbh”
a fedi take would be “voting in elections or organizing revolution? this is a fake choice, neither lead to freedom. the only way to attain freedom is using linux.”
“The starter kit for linux comes with these thigh high socks, cat ears hair band, star trek TNG season 7 uniform, and your choice of corn, beans, or moths for some reason”
Yo, are we getting some motherfucking beans over here?
Workers must control the means of beans.
The beans must flow.
In this time, the most precious substance in the Universe is baked beans. Baked beans extend life. Baked beans expand consciousness. Baked beans are vital to space travel. The Spacing Guild and its navigators, who the beans have mutated over four-thousand years, use the orange bean juice, which gives them the ability to fold space. That is, travel to any part of the Universe without moving.
“Your preferred linux disto literally invaded palestine”
“voting in elections or organizing revolution? this is a fake choice, neither lead to freedom. the only way to attain freedom is using linux.”
That explains why since joining the fedi my cell phone has been slowly looking weirder
Day 1: signed up for hexbear
Day 2: downloaded duckduckgo browser
Day 3: thought hexbear was maybe a little too friendly towards north korea, left
Day 10: signed up for beehaw using duck duck go browser
Day 11: saw through my first wiki edit to ensure it remains
Day 12-14: got into an argument on the discussion section of a Wikipedia article
Day 17: left Wikipedia, downloaded f-droid to be able to download a new keyboard on my.phone
Day 18: enabled 7 day duckduckgo trial for VPN
Day 25: really started thinking about communism and if pure societal focused decision making was best
Day 26: wondered if capitalism could be defeated by driving property values up by beautifying your own rental
Day 27: deleted dumb apps because duckduckgo said they made lots of requests
Day 28: started looking for best way to share photos without google, settled on service needing end to end encryption, decided against self hosting solution after research (but still researched). Downloaded new keyboard and started looking into expanded version of fediverse, liking that w3 had something to do with it
Is this about Captain Planet?
Here’s a seventeen paragraph explanation on why Jake The Dog is PROBLEMATIC AND TOXIC, FUCK YOU IF YOU ENJOY ANY IF THE MEDIA ASSOCIATED WITH IT
There is one scene in an earlier season that comes to mind where he gets bonked, goes a little bananas, and has an Ace Ventura moment. I rewatch adventure time on an almost monthly basis and thats all that comes to mind for him. As a trans woman, it is still a little jarring everytime, but its just a second
and has an Ace Ventura moment.
Can you be more specific as to what this actually means?
Toward the end of Ace Ventura, Ace pretends to be severely mentally ill to get into a mental intistute. Part of his pretending is wearing a tootoo and claiming to be a woman. Along with crazy hair and other insane mannerisms.
In the episode No One Can Hear You (S3E15) Jake has a very bad concussion. Finn tries to fix him later by hitting him again. Jake goes “im a woman im a woman” for a sec because he got hit so hard in the head.
This is transphobic because it equates trans identities with mental illness.
Intro level Leninism is just subverting the will of the voters and writing prolifically about how you can’t be wrong because then this whole ordeal would be horrific.
Isn’t self-critique a key aspect of Marxism-Leninism?
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A reddit link posted on a fediverse forum to a screenshot from Tumblr?
It’s right there in the title ”50% of the fediverse … be like”
McCartneyism-Lennonism is a lot like christianity you have to get kids brainwashed into it at a young age before they can start to think critically.
I mean this is valid for things like My Little Pony where it really isnt trying to address super serious topics. But for things like Steven Universe where the villain is a literal genocidal fascist, the criticism this is mocking is kinda right.
The show is an allegory for being trans and how family may treat you like shit for wanting different things than them. It is made for kids under 13 years old. Telling kids they should kill people after they have changed and agreed to fix what was broken seems like a bad thing.
Also, the creator (Rebecca Sugar) is a queer Jewish person, so I think they are well aware of the history of fascism and its consequences. They chose to make the tone and arc of the show anyways, and maybe you should think about why they made that choice before criticizing a children’s show for not encouraging murder as a solution to problems.
Also, shattered gems are shown to still have at least some awareness, meaning that shattering the Diamonds wouldn’t be killing them, but subjecting them to eternal torture. While also removing the only hope for fixing the gems that are corrupted. Which is what the Diamonds are tasked with to start making things right, along with giving up their social power over the rest of the gems.
Steven Universe was the first show that came to my mind too. And my issue isn’t, “They should have murdered the diamonds.” No one said that in this post or thread.
However, the fact that they just get forgiven with basically no consequence is a problem. Consequences don’t have to be murder. But they kind of just agree to do the right thing from then on, while still staying in charge. We all know none of it works that way in the real world. There’s no combination of words that someone could say to, for example, turn Trump into a good person.
They don’t stay in charge, and they are also tasked with fixing all the corrupted and shattered gems from the war. So they give up their political power and fix their mistakes. I don’t know what further consequences (that would be kid-show appropriate) they should get.
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The children’s show was the best we could do given the material conditions!
