exocrinous

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[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If I was the wolf, I'd just point out that the shepherd eats lamb too, and is therefore just as much a murderer. The only difference is the amount of power in the equation. The wolf doesn't need to be bigoted to make its point, there are much better criticisms against the way the shepherd deprives the sheep of liberty. I didn't really understand why Lincoln was describing a foolish wolf who attacks the shepherd for bad reasons instead of readily available good ones. What the wolf says is pretty nonsense to me.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh okay. So what does racists complaining that the government freed slaves have to do with soulism?

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (10 children)

WTF does the sheep's colour have to go with liberty? Do black sheep taste better? I thought their colour only mattered to humans because humans like to dye their woolen garments. A wolf doesn't need to dye clothes.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The reason why cult beliefs are considered mental illness is that most people don't understand psychiatric guidelines. Psychiatrists are not supposed to discriminate against patients for their cultural beliefs, and if they do, you can sue them for malpractice. Unfortunately, average joes aren't held to any psychiatric standard and can do whatever they want, and what some of them want is to discriminate against people different than themselves. If we want to change that, we need to take action to change that by telling cult haters to fuck off.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago

the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labour, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.

That's the USSR.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The man also concentrated ownership of the means of production in the hands of one person, administered by a hierarchy of national and regional subordinates who controlled the labour of the people and the distribution of resources. This is an economic model known most commonly as feudalism. Now given the term left wing originally referred to opponents of the monarchy in France, I don't see how there's any way to argue in good faith that a feudal dictator was left wing.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 17 points 1 year ago

And that day she learned the importance of punctuality

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Also, I'm a soulist. I recognise that all parts of our experiential reality are subjective and socially constructed. And right now, that reality is defined by the rich and powerful. You cannot fight a war while believing that your enemy's weapons are natural and immutable. You cannot fight the rich from inside a reality they control and win. Even if you kill them all, you'll still live in the world they created. You need to take power over reality for the people. That's the only way anyone can ever be free.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website -2 points 1 year ago

Does this, uh, does this guy even know how to draw middle eastern people? Or are all his characters changed to be white?

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I like that at least one trans person helped make Warframe, because Warframe is a trans allegory and it makes me feel good. Kinda adds layers that the only Tenno NPC we know of is voiced by a trans person.

Second DreamBefore my egg cracked, my operator was masculine but I mained a feminine Warframe. Now I know who I am, my operator is feminine, and I still main the same Warframe. That's a really cool ludonarrative synchronicity. I was trans in Warframe before I even knew I was trans. Hell yeah, that's just good game design.

Dream not of what you are, but of what you want to be.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Stalin wasn't far left. The man made being gay illegal. That's not the behaviour of a leftist.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Everything is a bias, everything is subjective, everything is open to interpretation. But most people think their own point of view is unbiased, no matter what it is. This is just a fact that naturally arises from believing in such a thing as unbiased information. It should be obvious. People want to hold whatever viewpoint they think is unbiased, so they do. People can be convinced to become racists, which necessarily implies that people can be convinced racism is unbiased. You didn't think racists all knew they were biased, did you? They think they're unbiased the same as you do, because you're both humans who want to believe that you have the good opinions, and that good opinions are unbiased. And the fact is, you're both equally correct on that front. You're both equally biased. It's just that you're biased in favour of compassion and equality, while they're biased in favour of hatred and supremacy. But the amount of bias is the same, because there's no such thing as an unbiased viewpoint. You just think kindness isn't a bias because you like kindness and you've been taught biases are bad things. Likewise, they think supremacy isn't a bias because they like supremacy and they've been taught biases are bad things. And if you're wondering if there's an alternative to the way both you and this racist think? Yes there is, you can knowingly adopt good biases. I'm knowingly biased in favour of kindness, because I like kindness. I think choosing such a way of thinking makes me more capable of empathising with people I disagree with, understanding why they act the way they do, so I can attack the more foundational reasons for their belief effectively. It means I'm never surprised to see stuff like this. Because the thing is, they think exactly the way most people do. Just with different starting points.

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