(Note: Rehashing things I’ve said before, definitely a late-night rant)
I still find the fact that 46% of the country decided to vote for Donald fucking Trump of all people for President to be completely baffling at a gut level.
How could anyone possibly have been comfortable voting for such an obviously mean, selfish, low-IQ, inexperienced, incoherent, authoritarian, and unserious person? How could otherwise educated, moral, rational people, have voted for this man (as many otherwise well-educated, moral, and rational Republicans did)? I still feel like I live in a bad satire of America rather than the real world.
Even if I grant every critique of his opponent, Hillary Clinton, and I try to inhabit the mindset of a person with conservative policy views, and I concede all the frustration with the cultural left that many on the right feel, I still don’t see how there is even a contest between which one would be preferable to run our military, our diplomacy, and our nuclear weapons. Like shouldn’t basic respectability and competence trump all else when the other candidate completely fails on those metrics?
I feel a deep shame whenever I think about the fact that such a horrible man is the face of my nation. I didn’t feel that way about Bush, I would not have felt that way about McCain or Romney.
Something is rotten about the right in this country, something so rotten that they all thought that somehow Trump was a lesser of evils choice. There were signs of this rot earlier: the rise of Fox News, talk radio, and Breitbart, the crazier elements of the Tea Party (Sharon Angle, Christine O’Donnell, Todd Aiken), the radicalization of Republicans in Congress and state legislatures, but it wasn’t clear until Trump how deep the rot went.
The left is by no means perfect, not even close, and if this were another time with a more normal President I’d be more comfortable focusing more of my time on that. But there really is no equivalence between the left’s dysfunction’s and the right’s. Right now there really is something truly different, something scary, something very big and uniquely bad going on with the right at a systemic, sociological level that I don’t really understand no matter how much I obsess about it, at least at an emotional level.
Half the country was willing to accept authoritarian rhetoric. Half the country was willing to accept incoherence and stupidity and lying. Half the country was willing to accept meanness, endorsement of sexual assault, and racist rhetoric. Most Republican voters are not authoritarians, racists, sexists, liars, or mean, but they didn’t mind voting for it at all.
That’s terrifying.
I want you to imagine that there was a group within your country that had been mass kidnapping kids for sex trafficking with more or less impunity, for years.
The police refused to do anything about it. The politicians not only claimed it wasn’t happening, but celebrated bringing more of that group. The media gaslit you and said it wasn’t happening.
In fact, when you raised objections, you were sent for ideological retraining.
Of course, I’m not talking about the United States.
But suppose someone in the United States did know about such a thing happening. And the same cycle of “but it isn’t real” was being used by the same ideological groups to claim that what happened in another developed country was impossible, that it would never happen, and certainly wasn’t happening there and could not possibly happen here.
Approximately how many layers of “FUCK YOU” would they want to send those ideological groups as a message? Why on Earth would they care about those groups’ criticisms when said groups are a bunch of lying hypocrites?
Quite frankly, if you’re actually baffled that they could put Trump in the Whitehouse, you don’t understand Trump voters as well as you think you do.
And those Very Serious People that Clinton was the representative of? Clinton wanted even more involvement in Syria than Trump has so far actually provided. She said as much right before he missile striked that airbase, and we all know that the MSM would have been chanting “YASS, QUEEN, SLAY! #STRONGWOMEN” the whole time.
I didn’t vote for Trump, but the Serious People have worn down the value of being perceived as serious. If we get through to 2020 with no new big wars, I’m going to chalk it up as a victory.
imagine a species with brains so big they never bothered developing the concept of categories.
they have no word for “chair” as an abstract concept, only words for each individual chair they have ever encountered.
where we visualise simplistic venn diagrams, they see the entire scatterplot.
what would we make of them and what would they make of us, I wonder.
technically they could still have a word for chair, but it would unpack to a precise definition or set of specified references, so they would be physically incapable of having arguments over terminology.
Obviously an engineered species. No naturally evolved species could afford that level of power consumption.
You know I don’t think I’ve ever seen as much fandom posts about something without ever developing any secondhand sense of what the fuck it’s about as RWBY
My ex likes it, but others in the same group don’t understand the appeal, including me. She is a fan of scythes, though.
What if Earth is already the property of some galactic empire that hasn’t gotten around to settling us yet because they just purchased us off of another galactic empire a few decades ago?
What if the leaders of said empire tells its citizen to colonize Earth, and they start taking over our cities and land. They find it justifiable because we don’t use the elements in Earth’s core like they do so we don’t really own the planet.
We’re pushed to Mars, where only 1% of humanity lives in relative peace but a lot of hunger and a few international struggles, which the aliens feed into. They eventually settle Mars too, pushing us to the moons of Jupiter, then Saturn.
Eventually the empire becomes a bit nicer, and builds us a bunch of reservations throughout the solar system, though only a few of them are on Earth. Today we’re a minority in our own Solar System, mostly running Casinos on Mars or giving tours of the ruins of our once great cities. The aliens stopped calling us Meatbags though. Now they use the more respectable Native-Earthling term, though they’ll rarely acknowledge whatever nationality your ancestors had before they came.
The message of this gets over the head of a lot of people and it’s making me kinda sad.
implying we wouldn’t nuke the aliens or, if we were gonna lose, just plain nuke earth out of pure spite
no see you can’t think of it realistically you gotta take in the Extremely Woke Message that is Super Deep and Really Makes You Think
Maybe we can strike some sort of bargain where they agree to judge Islam by the same criteria.
A lot of the moral implications of Transhumanism fall along some pathways and not others.
Do you want to make a thousand copies of yourself, or do you want to have superhuman strength?
The latter is not actually that morally complicated compared to the former, but it’s still very much Transhumanism, unless you draw a boundary in which the body is a tool for tool use, and the mind is not, and thus the latter is functionally equivalent to “Humanism, but with powered exoskeletons.”
But for me, of course, it was never the forking that I was interested in, it was the youth, beauty, and power. (Well, okay, intellect, too, but that still fits fine with no-brain-duplications limits.)
So a future where prosthetic robot arms and mechanical backup hearts exceed their native human capabilities, but upload civilization does not occur, is convenient for me. All of the most terrifying implications of Transhumanism descend from the upload civilization bits, not the robot arms bits.
A LOT of right-wing stuff right now is designed to wind people up.
This is part of why some Left/Liberal organizations are having identity issues over whether they’re the Cool Subversives still. It used to be that the right wing were the uptights and the left wing were the shitposters, but not anymore.
I prefer being the uptights.
Understandable, but it’s partly to move the Overton Window to make room for more uptightness later on. The goal is to loosen the grasp of progressivism.
Under the new rules, homes that are not occupied for at least six months of the year are subject to a tax of one per cent of the property’s assessed value. The deadline to rent out empty dwellings was July 1.
Fazli said many of the people he has talked to are thinking of renting or selling their properties. He recently met with a woman who owns three empty properties in Vancouver — and says one of them is now listed for rent, another will be listed shortly and she is thinking of selling the third.
“This is a scenario of someone who is kind of in a panic now and needs to rent them out,” he said. […]
amazing
Why were they empty?
they’re meant to be investment properties, bought, left empty, and then sold a year or few later for huge profit as housing values continue to rise. it’s a massive part of the bc housing bubble, and why despite so much new construction it’s still so difficult to find rental housing
the fact that these landlords are panicking because they might have to actually use their housing properties as housing rather than finance capital is deeply funny
See THIS is a good idea to do, because far too many people leave property vacant rather than let it be used.
they’re essentially hoarding empty properties to drive the price up, and everyone suffers for it. now it’s not profitable anymore. good job, canada.
I don’t understand how this is supposed to work. An individual person or group doesn’t benefit from buying property to make the price go up unless they manage to get a monopoly, right?
Also, what’s the logic between not renting them out? Is it about being able to sell on a moment’s notice?
Most likely, but also renting is a headache that often doesn’t have great margins, and renters can damage the property. That they’re even able to do this, however, suggests that there are still issues with insufficient housing construction.
My family used to own a set of small storefronts in the middle of a small town, which we rented to a number of small businesses, including an old-fashioned barber shop there since before I was born.
It wasn’t really a net source of income.
A LOT of right-wing stuff right now is designed to wind people up.
This is part of why some Left/Liberal organizations are having identity issues over whether they’re the Cool Subversives still. It used to be that the right wing were the uptights and the left wing were the shitposters, but not anymore.
Of course, part of the issue with whether the guy in the CNN story is an actual wannabe doxxer, is that there is no reason to trust that Leftists (that you don’t know personally) are telling the truth. They lie so fucking much as a group. They lie about the conditions in Europe.
They lie about sexism. They lie about who is and is not a Nazi, and then commit violence based on those lies. They twist statistics, by, for example, making “made to penetrate” not be counted as rape and then using those same stats to claim that sexual violence by women does not exist.
The issue here being that for the correction to go around, there has to be some credibility. That credibility has been burned repeatedly, much like we shouldn’t trust anything non-trivial that former President GWB says (or many of the GOP pols generally).
It isn’t that the Trumpists don’t care about the truth more than other ideological groups, it’s that they know their enemies control the loudspeakers and non-governmental institutions, and they expect their enemies to always lie and not care about the truth. It’s similar to the phenomena of right-wingers shitposting because they know they’ll be called Fascists regardless, so they’ve decided to wind people up over it and make them look ridiculous.
“Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.”—
This reminds me a bit of Mezangelle, which I could never get into but always loved the aesthetic of. It’s easy to imagine a religious or magical permutation of Mezangelle.
I mean if nothing else, the majority of misogynist men appear to be in sexual relationships with women at various points in their lives, and are hence “getting some” without fundamentally shifting their opinions.
The “dude hates women because he can’t get laid” thing irritates me from a number of directions.
Dudes who get lots of sex from women frequently hate women, dudes who want sex with women but are “volcel” or not interested in “sluts riding the cock carousel” or whatever manosphere redpill grossness is floating around have some weird shit going on and probably need hugs and sympathy for other reasons but that doesn’t excuse the fact that lots of them just hate women.
But that’s just some of the straight dudes.
I’ve known a lot of *deeply* misogynistic/femmephobic/transphobic gay men and at least a couple of very misogynist ace folks. I know a *TREMENDOUS* number of misogynist straight women, who are sexist as fuck and fighting daily battles with their own internalized misogyny but who are certainly not motivated in their contempt and hatred for women by a desire to fuck them. Misogyny in gay men, straight women, and ace folks at least proves that misogyny can be completely divorced from an unfulfilled desire for vaginal sex.
I think the reason we hear the “he’s just mad because he’s not getting any” is because there is a not-insignificant number of men who will be more vocal about their misogyny when they’re single and having trouble “pulling” - that’s where you get stories from women in bars who get called stuck-up bitches or who are told all women are the same gold-digging whores and whatever, because some dude tried to hit on them and got shut down. I heard an awful lot of this kind of thing as a comforting shoulder to many a geek who wanted to know what was wrong with him and why girls didn’t like him and went for the jock or the dude with the motorcycle or the asshole with the tattoos. But I also ran LGBT clubs and was the shoulder for a lot of gay men discussing how disgusting vaginas are and how they don’t even want women around (and I understand that a lot of that probably is a defense mechanism for young men being pressured into performing heteronormativity who are totally uninterested in women and ambivalence can easily become revulsion when you’re pressured into doing things you don’t want to that aren’t right for you; I feel less sympathy and understanding for older gay men I know now who continue to regularly discuss how icky vaginas are and how women are cock-hungry because they’ve got penis envy and aren’t whole without a dick in them somewhere, what the fuck you sound like radfems)
I’m rambling too much, but here’s what I’m trying to get down to: many women hear the most vocal, vicious, misogynist things from men they’ve just turned down or from men whose catcalls they’ve ignored. I think the reason a lot of women default to “you just can’t get laid” as an insult to misogynists is because their mental picture of “misogynist” is “that guy who chased me for two blocks because I wouldn’t smile” or “that guy who screamed at me in the bar” or “that guy who called me a bitch in science class because I didn’t accept his promposal” or “that asshole who said I put him in the friendzone when I wouldn’t sleep with him after a breakup because I just thought he was my friend.”
I’m not saying that it’s right or it’s good that people default to “wants and can’t attain straight sex” as the handwave for misogyny, I’m saying we should figure out where this is coming from. Homophobia and compulsory heterosexuality are probably a significant part of the answer, but lived experience of women being personally attacked (either verbally or physically) by men whom they’ve rejected is probably another part.
And, yeah, a lot of this ends up throwing LGBTQIA folks under the bus - an adult who menstruates and is freaked out by tampons is assumed to be childish or a prude instead of sex-repulsed or penetration-averse or experiencing dysphoria; an adult who doesn’t seek (primarily straight) sex is assumed to be broken.
And that’s all fucked up.
So yeah, feminist folks, you are perpetuating the cycle of toxic masculinity when you use “this loser can’t get laid” as an insult (also when you use “prude” as an insult - there are lots of good reasons people aren’t interested in sex or aren’t interested in hearing about sex in lots of contexts, oversharing when someone is uncomfortable with it is violating their consent).
And I’ll just end my rant with “can we just try not to be jerks to each other? That’d be swell.”
So you have that, but also there is a conflation of “what straight women want or find attractive” with “good” which this is a part of.
Ok, but I don't only want people to have enough money to live on (though I very much want that!). I also want business to *stop exploiting people*. And I haven't been seeing people propose alternative means for doing that?
If people had enough money to live on regardless of whether they took a job, then businesses would have to offer conditions good enough people wanted to work even though they didn’t have to work to survive. Giving people enough money to live on is also the best way to make sure they don’t work under exploitative conditions.
So this backlash, the death threats, the intimidation, the violence, all of that is justified?
The backlash in terms of people rightfully decrying CNN and raising cain, I think that’s a very good thing. Obviously the more extreme response I don’t condone, much in the same way I don’t condone a bear eating the drunk moron who tries to wrestle it. But much like trying to wrestle a bear while shitfaced, trying to police public discourse in the age of the internet has consequences, and reporters are not magically immune to the consequences of their extremely poor decisions.
We teach people that freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences. We seem to forget, however, that the same thing applies to freedom of the press.
Through our inductive proof, we demonstrate that anime was a mistake, and also that not-anime was a mistake. Thus we establish that abstract thought itself is an error. (Sample of Output from Victim of Miyazaki Virus, Datalinks, 2110)
so which of these premises sounds best for a short story or a fiction podcast
the head of a space mission in the early 1960′s can see Rod Serling lurking in the corners, and has to do everything he can to avoid the space mission turning into a Twilight Zone episode (”No astronauts named Adam. If one of our men is half of an Adam and Eve pair, everyone on Earth will die to set it up!”)
something detailing or tangentially describing the professional / political rivalries between the world’s two types of superheroes: sparkly magical girl princesses and dark edgy 90′s antiheroes. (”Well, why can’t I put some pouches on this skirt? I don’t have anywhere to put my phone or keys!”)
an after-action report (maybe a board meeting of EvilCorp, maybe a post-war truth and reconciliation commission between Earth and the Alien Army) taking place in the world of an imaginary generic video game: the game just got beaten by a speedrun and the denizens of the world try to figure out what the fuck happened
androids are real, are self-aware, and don’t have equal rights. the things they actually want and need as far as rights and necessities have nothing to do with what humans would want in their situation (they don’t care about being “enslaved” but STOP MAKING US USE ALTERNATING CURRENT), and neither the pro- nor the anti- android rights factions of humans really pay attention to what they actually want in favor of acting out a drama that reinforces their own identity
We can only say that a company and a prospective employee have equal leverage, and thus achieve an actually-fair deal (in a number of senses, but not all senses), if they actually have equal marginal/proportional consequences for not taking the deal.
For low-skilled workers in a work-or-starve environment where employment is scarce, that means that the executives of the company will potentially be out on the streets begging if they do not hire the worker.
Minimum wage, however, among its many other effects, can close some of this leverage gap.
Now of course, there are ways of managing this while retaining markets and capital, but not if you accept Capitalism as a morality in itself.
I typically quit half an hour after goodsprings or so
got any recs? build wise and mod wise
I like grenades, small arms, speech, medicine and survival and want a vanilla+ playthrough
I recall a mod bundle similar to FO3 Wanderer’s Edition, but I can’t recall the name. IIRC, it makes guns feel like they actually work, by increasing the damage for all of them, including the ones shot at you.
Now, more seriously, online, gender presentation is a sign of social intent. Under Transhumanism, it can become a sign of social intent as well, but that will change what it means into something new. Fascinating, tbh.
the assumption is that the tech giants’ battle for global supremacy will have positive externalities on net, but it’s difficult to compare with the counterfactual world in which they calm the heck down.
this makes it sound like they are giant cyborgs literally fighting
which sounds really cool
but it’s hard to imagine giant robot battles having positive externalities
The special sauce used in Big Macs still remains a secret even to this day. While dataminers have found a number of data involving the ingredients, the optimization algorithm remains unknown.
McNuggets were once thought to be procedurally generated via metaball physics but this has been disproven since. What we do know about McNuggets is that a normal texture is applied to the surface to give the illusion of bumps, when in fact the model is made up of very few polygons to reduce costs.
All items in the drive thru are not rendered until they are actually taken out of the bag. Physics do apply to them however, so watch out
The reason why hamburgers, etc look “better” in promotional content is because the low detail models and textures are used in the restaurant instead. If they did use their high detail models at all times, McDonald’s would have to start dedicating more costs to their worker processes.
“All day breakfast” was not possible for a long time due to a glitch where any breakfast data would get corrupted when served at an irregular time. This was fixed in an update that took advantage of faster GPU clock speeds. There have been a few successful attempts to get corrupted breakfasts since, with hash browns producing the most interesting results.
The McFlurry machine was intended to be released in an update years down the road, but it was rushed due to time constraints and now we have the infamous buggy and unoptimized mess.
I would like to give a fact on the new “Grand Mac” but even the bun’s data is encrypted so it’s currently impossible to even view any of it.
We propose that the packaging of mandatory binding arbitration clauses as a condition of employment masks the true price of these agreements due to a mismatch in the available leverage of firms and employees in many markets.
To increase the efficiency of the market for the waiver of legal rights of redress to wrongdoing by private parties, we propose that mandatory binding arbitration clauses as a condition of employment shall be prohibited and struck out as null and void. Binding arbitration agreements shall then be negotiated between employers and employees, offering material compensation, allowing them to float in price so that the market can work efficiently and determine the true price of cyberpunk dystopia.
How do you prevent the company from simply firing anyone who does not sign the arbitration agreement in a week?
Well I tagged that as #shtpost for a reason.
My actual proposal depends on just how much power I’m being given to reshape the economy.
Assuming I could only impact arbitration, my move would be to require compensation at a minimum of $4,000 per-employee annually or X% of salary, whichever is greater, pro-rated by the number of hours compared to fulltime employment. Or something along those lines, perhaps. Maybe. I’d have to think about it.
My temptation is to set a huge “anti-monopoly trap” instead that triggers when the amount of binding arbitration in a district exceeds a certain percentage and tragedy of the commons the companies for irony purposes, but of course that’s a bad idea.
But the real move, with greater power, would be to severely limit binding arbitration and make all employers take out employment health and safety insurance for all employees (and for their products) while reducing regulations and creating a special court system and regulatory regime for the insurance that pays out much more regularly than one-sided corporate arbitration would. I would then require that the workplace health and safety insurance amount be listed prior to employment, informing prospective employees of just how dangerous the job is. This would all be occurring in a scenario where wage subsidies reduced working class desperation by increasing available jobs. (That would have its own program.)
This specialized insurance court system would be streamlined to lower the regulatory legal burden on both companies and individuals, while making it easier to file and resolve legitimate claims. It would be possible to appeal to higher levels of courts as well.
This would accomplish the stated goals of binding arbitration - reducing regulatory burden, reducing legal expenses on small matters without overloading the court system, etc - while wrecking the unstated goals of screwing over employees and consumers.
It also distributes the costs in a smoother, more predictable way. (That is, your bakery in specific doesn’t end up on the hook for $100,000 just because there’s a one in a million risk of a $100,000 bakery injury, and your bakery just happens to be the one it happened to.)
One of the core pillars of Solarpunk must be diversity. But what does this really mean? In our critiques of the modern day, it is only right that we recognize a lack of diversity so we can strive to achieve a true representation of the world around us–especially in our fiction.
A major problem with society today is a trend towards insular (or tribal) empathy. The mentality of “we only take care of our own” is as toxic as the “every man for himself” mindset, but with the capability to mobilize groups against each other. Empathy is a much needed part of the human experience, but it can be twisted and used to further hatred. Not only do we need an actual understanding of different cultures, we need the empathy to solidify that culture or religion does not separate our shared human experience.
I do not think separate spaces/quarters for different cultures or religions is ever the right way to go, even if it is under the guise of diversity. We already have multiple examples throughout history (and current day) that show us intermingling cultures can and have succeeded in both retaining their individualism and cooperating for a greater good. Cultural exchange and appreciation are not only possible, but necessary for a solarpunk future.
We already know there would be many more Grenfell Tower casualties if Muslim residents had not been awake in the building. How can we adapt this into stories or hopeful futures? Muslim people getting up for early prayers, and before or after laying out presents for Christmas so Christian parents can properly sleep. Christians providing rideshares and the like for Muslims during Ramadan, so no one who is fasting needs to take unnecessary risk. Christians sorting through foods to ensure they are halal or kashrut (kosher) without Muslim or Jewish people having to touch them.
Different religions or cultures covering for one another during holidays, festivals, religious occasions, etc!!! (At work or otherwise) how cool would it be to have so many beliefs and holidays to identify with?! No culture would go extinct if we had an exchange of appreciation. Instead of appropriating cultures, we could share them at a personal level. Even if it was only during a celebration, would it not be better at an empathetic level to teach the true meanings and feelings of your religion, spirituality, or culture? (Hell, even gender and sexuality too?!)
Each culture/ethnic group having everyone celebrate and appreciate on a day, week, month… from history and legends to food and dancing. Imagine the love we could share if we took the time to listen and learn about other cultures!
But along with celebrations and exchange, we must also have remembrance. We should never forget the great evils we perpetuated against one another. No matter how ‘utopian’ we want the future to be.
The darker histories need to be told so we do not fall prey to their cyclical effect.
Teaching about conflicts/wars from both perspectives in general history education, which allows for all specific pride events or history months. Also including cooperation that has existed throughout history; the kind where all involved prospered. Even on smaller (non national) scales.
Teaching ALL the world’s opinions on subjects that are hotbeds within Christianity/Islam/organized religion, especially homophobia and transphobia; it would lead to an understanding that queer, transgender, and nonbinary people have always existed within history. And even still today, we have cultures that recognize these people as…people. Because that’s really the barrier here– ensuring no one is dehumanized due to looking or acting or believing differently than others.
If we can move empathy from an insular level to a broader one we could really get somewhere. If we can help each other understand we all share the human experience, racial and cultural divisions would fall by the wayside. If we start to actively reflect how truly diverse our world is in the fiction we create, the future will be as bright as we are all hoping it to be.
Solarpunk needs to be the hopeful future that everyone deserves; it is up to us to create art and media that reflects our world as it truly is–not how some of us wish it to be.
Ah, yes, we must be inclusive of diverse cultural practices such as FGM, honor killings, and cousin marriage.
Oh, what’s that you say? That’s not culture, that’s a human rights issue?
Too bad believing in human rights is itself cultural.
You want “diversity” of religions, but you don’t want the believers to actually believe in those religions. You think that religion is just an aesthetic, just a set dressing, it doesn’t have any real stakes. But it’s actually an ideology, more akin to the contests between the Capitalists and the Communists.
I question your axioms. Diversity is not good in and of itself. FGM is cultural, and all other things being equal, the culture that does not practice it is superior to the culture that does. You cannot deny this without destroying your argument for diversity to begin with.
We propose that the packaging of mandatory binding arbitration clauses as a condition of employment masks the true price of these agreements due to a mismatch in the available leverage of firms and employees in many markets.
To increase the efficiency of the market for the waiver of legal rights of redress to wrongdoing by private parties, we propose that mandatory binding arbitration clauses as a condition of employment shall be prohibited and struck out as null and void. Binding arbitration agreements shall then be negotiated between employers and employees, offering material compensation, allowing them to float in price so that the market can work efficiently and determine the true price of cyberpunk dystopia.
the former is animated storytelling and the latter is weaponised nominally female hyperstimulus
I think I even say the two words slightly differently
but what if one is a weaponized, nominally-female hyperstimulus, eh? eh?
you can’t deny their identity like that, Argumate! people have a right to purchase bodies with enormous breasts, oversized eyes, tiny waists that would snap an ordinary human woman in half, and megathighs. and how can anyone say that the moe-moe set of personality and quirk/behavior templates is invalid? some people have that as their natural personality, or were raised in moe no otaku cultures like Neo-Kyoto. what about their rights?
and what about survivors of the Second Gate communities that are rebelling against the hard restrictions from there?
Edgy kins of Diesel or Diesel 10 (complete with edgy themes)
Edward’s fan base is split perfectly down the middle: those who see him as a young man and those who see him as an old guy
“omfgggg i cant believe im drawing fanart of THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE what has my life come to lolllllll” (personally this is what i hate the most)
“Percy is my precious cinnamon roll”
“Diesel is my precious cinnamon roll”
Discourse about too many human!James designs being skinny white dudes
Discourse about a couple human!James designs being suupppeerrr fetishy trans men
Twincest/incest (this is already present but it’d just get worse)
Trying to figure out if some of the engines are child-coded
Consequentially, discourse about if a ship is pedophilic
Consequentially, posts like “unfollow me now if you reblog oh///-thein///di//ignity because they’re friends with villai/ngirlfrie//nd who ships jame//spe//rcy”
SOOO MUCH DISCOURSE ABOUT SIR TOPHAM HATT
“This is a bad show because it endorses slavery”
Sexy Dark Anime Eyes art of Thomas, you know what im talking about. when there’s that shadow over the eyes to be sexy or whatever
Candy body gore of James (and Thomas too probably)
People woobifying Gordon for no good reason
Someone points out how Percy can be manipulative sometimes but it gets blown out of proportion and 2 days later he’s deemed all out abusive
Everyone’s thirsty for Cranky
James becomes the Onceler/Bill Cipher/Sans of the fandom
