I know this is a left wing sub. But hear me out.
Over the years of my advocacy I've found myself consistently referring to two articles. Both of which I'm going to quote sections of that I think really drive home the point I'm trying to make.
First is an article I've been a broken record about.
>The moral of the story is that if you are maximally mean to innocent people, then eventually bad things will happen to you. First, because you have no room to punish people any more for actually hurting you. Second, because people will figure if they’re doomed anyway, they can at least get the consolation of feeling like they’re doing you some damage on their way down.
>This seems to me to be the position that lonely men are in online. People will tell them they’re evil misogynist rapists – as the articles above did – no matter what. In what is apparently shocking news to a lot of people, this makes them hurt and angry. As someone currently working on learning psychotherapy, I can confidently say that receiving a constant stream of hatred and put-downs throughout your most formative years can really screw you up. And so these people try to lash out at the people who are doing it to them, secure in the knowledge that there’s no room left for people to hate them even more.
And an article originally released on collegehumor of all places about trump.
6 reasons for trumps rise that no one talks about
>In a city, you can plausibly aspire to start a band, or become an actor, or get a medical degree. You can actually have dreams. In a small town, there may be no venues for performing arts aside from country music bars and churches. There may only be two doctors in town -- aspiring to that job means waiting for one of them to retire or die. You open the classifieds and all of the job listings will be for fast food or convenience stores. The "downtown" is just the corpses of mom and pop stores left shattered in Walmart's blast crater, the "suburbs" are trailer parks. There are parts of these towns that look post-apocalyptic.
>I'm telling you, the hopelessness eats you alive.
>And if you dare complain, some liberal elite will pull out their iPad and type up a rant about your racist white privilege. Already, someone has replied to this with a comment saying, "You should
... keep reading on reddit ➡Changing opinions is usually seen as a sign of weakness or incompetence, and most people are subconsciously terrified of being wrong.
With that being said, I believe that the reason why the split between the political community is so much larger than before isn’t solely because if echo chambers, but the unneeded ego-centric reinforcement of opinions that convince the holder that any attack of their ideas translates to an attack on them.
Not much progress can be made if neither side is willing to consider others’ opinions and to be able to change their mind, people need to consider their opinions rather as tools that sometimes may need replacement.
Fake videos of Starlink are starting to make the rounds. I noticed the first from ViralVideoLab on Youtube showing a fake video of Starlink claiming to see the laser interlinks from the ground.. This video is clearly made in After Effects with the Plexus plugin, as I was able to quickly mock up copy of this effect in AE myself in about 10 minutes. Image.
The issue is, another video hosted by this same channel purportedly showing StarLink may also have just as dubious origins, yet is getting picked up by Gizmodo, Forbes, and Space.com; A quick look at the comments of these articles and the youtube clips shows it is pretty well inflaming complaints about sky pollution; which might be amplified by the fact these videos can be made to look as bad as you want. While i'm not meaning to insinuate that all clips of these Starlink trains are fabrications, I wanted to quickly send up a flag that the discussion is going to be further complicated by these fakes. At the very least, the clip by ViralVideoLab should be closely scrutinized.
There has been a very clear, and very nasty divide that has appeared in this subreddit due to the announcement of core mechanic changes in Y7. In my tenure as moderator on the subreddit, I have never encountered such a disagreement within the community.
In the time since Y7 was announced around 48 hours ago, there have been 112+ reports, around 78 of those being in the last 24 hours. After sifting through all the reports and removing all the toxic discourse I've found, I'm very much worried about the current health of the subreddit, and I just have this to say.
If you have been a fan of the series, and loved the games partly because of the combat, you have the right to be upset. If you have been a fan of the series, and feel bored because of the combat formula getting stale, you have the right to be happy and interested in this change. We all are allowed here to disagree with one another, and share our own thoughts about how the future of the series should continue. What is not okay is insulting each other over these disagreements, resorting to language that only seeks to goad the other, and ridicule them for their thoughts. So please, I ask of all of you to try and hold back, and stop the perpetuation of fighting going on here.
I have also come to understand that there have been multiple trolls infiltrating the subreddit, creating multiple alternate accounts seeking to just create more drama. Do not feed into these people, just report them, and I'll try to take care of it as soon as possible.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask here or PM me.
-Your friendly neighborhood mod, Coaster
The absolute state of this country.
Since the release of the most recent episode I've seen lots of discussion and speculation around that episodes revelation and how they fit into the wider Doctor Who "Canon". Some of these comments reference ideas from really far back in Doctor Who's history, and well not everyone (myself included) is fortunate enough to have in-depth knowledge of all of Doctor Who's 57+ years of media history, however that should be no barrier to people engaging in the discourse.
In the many, many, discussions being had here and elsewhere recently I've seen a few key pieces of Doctor Who history in particular being mentioned multiple times in different contexts relating to the recent episode and the overall series 12 story arc. So I thought I'd compile these noteworthy pieces of Doctor Who history into a single post and provide a brief overview, so fans less acquainted with them can get some context and maybe even seek out the relevant pieces of Doctor Who media. I'm sure many people here know all of this better than I do, but I'm also sure (hope) that to many people this may be all new (lucky them).
I'm linking to the Wikipedia articles because they are more mobile friendly and provide succinct overviews in a consistent manner, though they are obviously not as in-depth as articles from dedicated Doctor Who websites.
And of course Doctor Who "Official Canon" is an incredibly fluid concept that is constantly being retconned, it is generally accepted that televised media is "the most-canon" and any non-televised media that doesn't conflict with this is at least "plausible" within the Doctor Who "Canon". Ultimately though what is and isn't Doctor Who "Canon" is up to a viewers own personal interpretation really, after all it's just the nature of a show where the destruction of Atlantis was detailed thrice in unrelated circumstances in just the televised material.
**SPOILERS for the relevant Doctor Who media listed below, and SPOILERS-by-inference for the most recent episode, Series 12 Episode 5. ** Also it is possible that the points raised here may lesson your enjoyment of series 12 if one of them is relied upon heavily in the conclusion of the series, it may also increase your enjoyment but I'm giving a warning anyway.
In rough chronological order by Doctor, the most relevant points to the Series 12 discourse are bolded
Season 6B and the 2nd Doctor's Regeneration - At the end of Season
... keep reading on reddit ➡There’s seriously no need whatsoever for all the bad sportsmanship and bad faith argumentation on this sub. A lot of you guys need to learn how to take an L and grant others a win graciously. There’s no shame in conceding an argument, just let it be a positive learning experience and move on. Even if you still disagree due to a lack of sufficiently satisfying information or a stubborn unwillingness to change your mind in that immediate moment, at the very least concede the argument and either change your mind later or try to address it again some other time. It’s really frustrating for everyone involved when mature and productive debate devolves into an unwinnable battle of egos because no one can accept a loss like a respectable adult.
Edit: Inb4 people guilty of the above get salty in the comments.
Edit 2: Why is this so controversial? Plenty of downvotes but no explanation.
I finally broke down this morning and deleted Instagram off my phone and logged off FB for the time being after seeing way too many posts about what we've lost, the "new normal", and people attacking each other if they don't share the *exact* same opinions on how the virus/economy/etc. should be handled. I was starting to feel like no one was posting about ANYTHING else anymore--just covid, covid, covid. Even the kind and helpful stuff was getting to be too much. It was doing bad things for my mental health, and I don't want to watch some of my classmates and friends ripping into each other online. I feel really disconnected from a lot of people because I've had to come home and be away from everyone, but a lot of the platforms I used to use to socialize with people aren't healthy for me anymore. Have any of you guys decided to make this decision as well? How are you approaching it, and what kind of limits are you setting for yourselves?
Just wanted to get this off my chest and see if anyone else is feeling the same way.
Lately I've been getting a lot of comments from other trans/queer people along the lines of "You trans guys are SO lucky, you don't have to deal with sexism after you transition, hormones make your voice drop, you don't have to be anxious around other men, etc etc" and it's been kind of grating on me.
I don't think anyone is being intentionally dismissive of my and others' experiences, but I do feel like I am being dismissed. Because like... I AM still cautious and nervous around men, I still have to do a lot of the things women do (not walking alone at night, making sure people know where I am if I'm going hiking or clubbing alone, texting my friends to tell them I got home safe), and honestly? I don't think I'll ever be free of dealing with sexism. I might when I've been on T for five or six years, but right now I've been on T for four months and I don't pass consistently. And when I don't pass, people read me as an ugly woman, which comes with it's own host of issues.
On top of all this, my experience isn't that unique. I can't think "Well, that's not true for me but it is for a lot of trans guys." In fact, I'm really lucky in a lot of ways (I'm white, I'm 5'11, my voice before T was deep enough that I could sometimes pass if I focused, I've got the money to get T and a binder and that kind of thing) and without even leaving my list of acquaintances, I can think of trans men who are curvier than me, or who don't present as binary as I do.
I just wish there was more nuance in the way the community talks about trans men, especially considering we tend to be under-represented in trans narratives in the first place.
Why is Natalie's Twitter gone? Why are everyone being dramatic? Why am I surrounded by takes hotter than a Carolina reaper? What is happening?
I really enjoyed the last episode, but that's sort of besides the point. The fanbase (which feels like everyone) has turned toxic. Over on /r/freefolk there's constant posts of images of the show's creators with titles like "Upvote so that this is the first image when people Google bad writers" or "dickhead" or whatever childish crap. These posts sometimes have like 50,000 upvotes. People have even retroactively dismissed D&D's contribution to the show they loved. People are REALLY fucking upset.
I see a lot of posts, including on this sub, suggesting that they take away D&D's Star Wars movies. That's insane! They made the biggest TV show of all time! They get a blank cheque or 5! They should get their weird (probably misguided but who knows?) Civil War alternate history thing. Whatever! That's what blank cheques are all about! Am I alone here in hating all this hysteria?
Can we all agree that these 8 seasons of Game of Thrones was an unfathomable technical achievement a decade ago? It changed EVERYTHING!
I hardly see any discourse, which would talk about resettling, therapy and counselling of those victims.
Those victim are raped many a times by the system, with its attitude. It seems, we as a society simply want to think that by hanging the accused, justice would be done. Our collective conscience simply wants a quick bandaid, wherein the the cancer has spread in all parts of the body.
There have been many cases wherein shelter homes, which are meant to protect young girls, are used to sexually abuse and also used to further push these young girls into flesh trade. You will find cases of institutional abuse at various levels.
Recent examples:
July 2018: Bihar shelter home case: We used to cut ourselves to avoid sexual abuse, reveals survivor
> A Bihar shelter home has turned into a house of horror as the survivors give testimonies of being drugged, starved and raped night after night. Girls between the ages of 7-18, many suffering from speech-impairment, have alleged that they were fed food mixed with sedatives, made to sleep naked and beaten mercilessly at the slightest sign of protest. The number of girls who have been raped went up to 34 on Saturday, according to recent medical reports.
May 2019: 11 other girls in Bihar shelter home may have been killed, CBI finds bundle of bones
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Has anyone thought through what a victim (especially a child) will have to go though for the rest of their lives?
Relevant news article from Nov. '19
> [No compensation for 99% minor rape victims: SC fumes over National Survey. The Supreme Court has expressed its 'shock' over this state of affairs, further noting that while the law mandates conclusion of trial within a year, even the investigations were not over in 20 per cent cases.](https://www.news18.
... keep reading on reddit ➡With the leaks all but confirmed, I'm sensing a lot of backlash coming NuLFL's way, and I'm curious as to what will be the "official" response from TLJ/DT shills. I'm anticipating the following:
- "Everything was planned but in a flexible way". The most ardent apologists will stop at nothing in order to set the DT as something short of perfection. It was very beautifully done, the character arcs were perfectly designed, it's a masterpiece in character development and subtle themes being managed... in their minds (publically at least) this is what real SW should be, instead of Old Hack Lucas's ramblings. They will demand more; unless, if Disney says it will stop, it will make perfect sense, in order to let the brand breathe.
- "It was all the manchildren's fault". TLJ was the only perfect movie, but Disney was too coward to follow suit and went back to the "safe" option (JJ) in order to save face. It's the manchildren's fault that they had to do that. Yes, despite TLJ being "a cinematic success", and its critics "a vocal minority of frustrated fourtysomething racists and mysoginists", they had to backpedal because... you name it. Despite wanting to "cancel fandom" and demanding that we "let go of the franchise", they sure seem to want our money. Or something.
- "Of course I'd seen the problems from the start, but I wanted to give them the benefit of doubt". A very small percentage will completely reverse their discourse and state that they had misgivings about the DT, but that all the problems lay in the resolution of the story in TRoS (despite they painting themselves into a corner with TLJ).
- "Whatever. What's next month's flavor?". Another very small percentage will move on and abandon the franchise, as they wanted the old fans to do, in order to pursue whatever new thing is next. They will forget about the GFFA as quickly as they arrived to it, claiming to understand it better than anyone.
- An even smaller set may see things for what they are and change their view, admitting this to have been a wasted opportunity and a creative misfire.
That's all that comes to mind. Any thoughts, people?
Its not so much a problem when cis people say ignorant stuff, because honestly being seen as cis makes it easier to challenge/change their minds. However what is very frustrating is when it’s trans people themselves who say ridiculous stuff. And it’s usually followed by “cis people aren’t allowed to have an opinion on this/say in this” which I find very frustrating because being trans doesn’t automatically make you “right” about trans stuff lol. There’s a fb group I’m in for my school that a lot of my friends are in so I can’t really out myself, but there has been so much trans discourse lately and it makes me so frustrated because I have so much to say but can’t say anything because “cis people can’t have opinions.” But it’s hard to just ignore it when people are perpetuating ridiculous ideas and thought patterns.
Edit: I wanted to add that I don’t think my opinions are more valid or “right” either. But I do think I have a different perspective and wish I could share that perspective.
Not something I'm writing, this was just a thought experiment I was running in my head from recalling the movie Heat with Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. Despite it being an action movie I loved how the movie humanized the protagonist and antagonist with them having mutual respect for eachother. Their interactions in that movie still resonates heavily with me.
If the hero and the villain of the story are both "fighters" and the narrative has them fighting multiple times, but the final confrontation leads to a discourse with a peaceful solution. How would you personally feel?
I know more context would be needed here for specifics, so I'm asking from a general point of view so that people can share what they think would make it work and what wouldn't.
On one side it sort of robs readers of the pay-off. But on the other side, the alternate resolution could be better no? Does it really just boil down to the characters themselves and the quality of the dialogue to pull it off?
“Although the United States did not formally adopt a policy of Indian removal until 1830, momentum to force eastern Indians west of the Mississippi grew after the war of 1812. U.S. officials did not argue that removal was necessary simply for the sake of national development regardless of its impact on Native people. Instead, they crafted elaborate justifications for removal as the only humane way to save eastern Indians from an otherwise inevitable destiny to become extinct. The humanitarian argument for removal rested on a reading of north American history in which Indian nations had repeatedly disappeared in the face of colonial expansion.
…Scholars have exposed how the discourse of the vanishing Indian was an ideology that made declining Native populations seem to be an inevitable consequence of natural processes and so allowed Americans to evade moral responsibility for their destructive choices… More damaging to the myth, however, is that the population of many nations east of the Mississippi remained stable or even increased. All told, there were actually more Indians east of the Mississippi in 1830 than there had been at the time of the American Revolution or the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. Juxtaposing Indigenous demography with the U.S. insistence that Indians were disappearing makes clear that the policy of removal was based on a false premise” (Pgs. 183-184)
“For good reason, the United States policy of Indian removal is associated with Andrew Jackson and his signing of the Indian Removal Act in 1830. But a singular focus on Jackson obscures the fact that he did not invent the idea of removal…As early as 1783, George Washington articulated the possibility that an army of settler-soldiers would cause Indians to cede their lands and "remove into the illimitable regions of the West.” A decade later, Timothy Pickering, at the time in charge of federal negotiations with the Six Nations, proposed relocating all eastern Indians beyond the Mississippi River as an "alternative to extinction." Removal entered the realm of geopolitical possibility ten years later when Jefferson arranged for the United States to purchase Louisiana from France and envisioned the new territory as space for the eventual relocation of eastern nations.
U.S. officials not only talked about removal well before 1830, they took concrete steps to make it happen. One of these was to prepare the grounds for removal by dispossessing Indians west of the Mississippi…The United
... keep reading on reddit ➡In 2013 the late Mark Fisher wrote and article on the "Vampire Castle", a critique of leftist discourse, in which he claimed that too much of leftist dialogue, especially online, focused on guilt tripping, essentialism and virtue signalling without matching action to promote conversions.
In your view has that critique held up today, has anything change or was it even valid in the first place?
