Exocrinous @ exocrinous @lemm.ee

Mean leftist who believes in magic genders

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"Unga bunga me invent new process for food. It called cooking. Make less parasites in meat. Very good."

"Cooking bad, garg. We no want processed food."

None of the furries I am friends with tolerate Nazis

...anymore

MOST of the furries I am friends with did not ever tolerate Nazis

TBH I do know someone who has a "not checking if the character they're posting porn of is underage" problem, and I've actually only seen them do it with human characters, though they have no special preference between humans and anthros.

There's absolutely no reason to hate on a cyclist when you wouldn't hate on a car polluter, because unlike car polluters, we aren't murderers.

https://xkcd.com/385/

Bike lanes are car infrastructure. We cyclists are perfectly within our rights to cycle in the middle of the lane at a speed comfortable for us. And it's safer for us to do that than hug the shoulder and risk getting clipped by an impatient driver. A bike lane gets us out of your way so you can drive the speed limit. It's for your benefit.

There are enough dogs in the world. Adopt.

Actually, 400 million is exactly as much as it takes to pay 10 engineers 100k to write code, and 399 managers 1 million each to do scrum meetings

Programmers aren't overpaid. Doctors are underpaid.

Hobbiton is definitely capitalist or feudalist in some idealised fantasy manner. Samwise is employed as Frodo's gardener because Bilbo's dragon treasure made the Bagginses rich.

Tolkien was a wonderful man personally, but he struggled at thinking outside of the paradigms he knew, which were based on catholicism. Lord of the Rings is a fundamentally christian story in a lot of subtle ways that have had negative ramifications on the entire genre of fantasy in the decades since. I will say that Tolkien believed in the selfless, loving christianity that Jesus was talking about, and that's pretty good, but it's not perfect. It leads to blindnesses like the fact that the only governments present in Middle Earth are feudalism (hobbits, men, elves), theocracy (orcs), and just literally being one with nature (ents). Jesus may have said to give a poor man the cloak off your back, but by the 20th century those ideas had been filtered through Rome's horrible point of view and England's worse one. The possibility space for what a devout christian can conceptualise had been reduced, even when reading the words directly from the bible.

Anyway if you're curious about the more significant problems with Tolkien's worldbuilding, the big one is the racial controversy surrounding orcs that arose when people started moving an explicitly christian myth into realist settings, and to a lesser extent there's the "fallen empire" trope that I just find really annoying in everything except Halo and Warframe (this is because both of those games state that the fallen empire sucked and were destroyed by their own hubris, which is just so juicy. Those games are antifascist as fuck).

I would argue Gandalf uses not smooth talking, but fast talking. He does whatever he wants before the hobbits have even mustered up the indignation to say no. That's what happens at the beginning of the Hobbit. The book says most of the respectable hobbits hated Gandalf and only the children and the adventurous liked him, and nobody respected the adventurous hobbits all too much, Bagginses and their wealth not withstanding.

No, Sauron is the same character I meant to talk about. The master of Saruman. Sauron is a theocratic dictator, and Saruman is, politically speaking, a Bishop-Duke. His ideology must be the same as Sauron's because he serves Sauron. And Sauron implements theocratic dictatorship in Isengard and Mordor. Theocratic dictatorship, as you must be aware, is a far right ideology. And nazis are also far right, but I'm not sure why they're the topic of discussion.

Yeah but he had fireworks though

Tankies aren't leftists and Sauron isn't a tankie.

Liberals have a tendency to tolerate fascists more than is reasonable. They believe in granting fascists basic respect as serious political actors. They treat disagreements with fascists as intellectual debates with decorum and rules.

Joe Biden shouldn't have gone to the 2020 presidential debates armed with facts and arguments. He should have stepped up to the podium and said "this man is a murderer and deserves to be killed." It is the result of liberalism that this cannot be said in such a setting.

If somebody's gotta live in interesting times, I'd rather it be me than someone less equipped, like my ancestors.

Why isn't this widely accepted as severe mental illness?! This is hoarding disorder.

Doctors don't diagnose people with "evil". That's what priests and philosophers are for. Doctors diagnose people with illnesses and injuries. Things that negatively impact the patient.

Yes, of course I'm doing more than voting to change politics. I'm a soulist, I'm also helping grow waylets and establishing mutual support networks and doing war against the gods. When's the last time you tried to destroy reality?

By the way, this thing I'm doing is called nuance. You should try it some time.

Joe Biden is going to kill thousands of people, and his actions will make fascism in the US inevitable. He's on record in the past saying the IDF doesn't go far enough in its murder of Palestinians. He's a terrible person. Please vote against him in the primary. A Biden presidency will end lives.

Please vote for him if he wins the primary. His election will delay fascism in the US by four years. It will make time for thousands of trans refugees to escape America. He might be persuaded to pressure Israel to call a ceasefire. A Biden presidency will save lives.

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