Oceans Yet to Burn

argumate

sudden realization

maxiesatanofficial

What if we turned facile pop culture comparisons back onto shallow centrist ideology, much like Harry killing Voldemort by deflecting his own Killing Curse?

maxiesatanofficial

To rely on elections alone is to use a powerful magical spell to seal away the ancient evil; it will inevitably break loose and terrorize the people again. Only a sustained campaign against the roots of evil ideology will allow us to “gather and level up our party” so we can use Omnislash on - hgk - [swallows the bile rising in my throat] ugh - on the Dark Lord Chee'toragas.

argumate

*reblogs disapprovingly*

mitigatedchaos

Have you even looked at popular media?

Villains are the only ones with the ambition, the will, and the plans to drive the world forward.

Villains act, heroes react. It is only by the actions of villains that the plot is driven forward. Heroes are nothing more than abominable tools of the status quo and every hierarchy that exists within it.

What has fighting for democracy gotten us in the past fifty years? Nothing but more pointless wars. The vain idealism of this country is nothing more than hollow self-gratification. It must be eliminated or transformed into something far greater.

We must immediately instate mandatory National Military Service for the nation’s youth. An assault rifle and a kukri for every able-bodied-and-minded American citizen. War production levels. Total national mobilization.

It’s time for America to go heel for real.

We will abolish the legislature and replace it with personnel from the RAND Corporation betting on outcomes of their new legislation, with a twenty billion dollar machine learning project at their fingertips intercepting information from all over the world. The cruelest and most frighteningly competent tech CEO will be chosen as the new Central Director for the North American Union, real identity concealed, and tasked with world dominion. The vast majority of Canadians live within 100 miles of the border. It will not be difficult to sweep them into the new project.

A reformed DARPA will be issued megaproject funding levels for geoengineering, exoskeletal powered armor, and cybernetic enhancement projects. The North American fleet will be outfitted with new hypervelocity railguns that cannot be stopped by mere Chinese missile intercept systems. The government will fund mass selective IVF to screen out genetic defects, and then full-on genetic engineering. “Naturals” will be made a special, separate insurance category so as not to drag on the state’s new unified military service based insurance program.

The power of eminent domain will be expanded dramatically. Old slums will be torn down and replaced with defensible, militarized housing complexes with dense public transportation and on-site commercial and light industrial complexes. Cities will be designed for high survivability in the event of nuclear war, and civil defense stations will be positioned throughout the country with multiple months of freeze-dried reserve foods in addition to water filtration systems and heavier weaponry required foreign land-based counter-invasion.

All convicted of murder, sex trafficking of minors, or unlawful sale of hard drugs will be summarily executed. Corporal punishment will be reintroduced and prison sentences will be halved or reduced to a third. The punishments for repeated offenses will square.

No longer will America engage in the half-hearted “regime change” of knocking over some pathetic middle eastern country with an illiteracy rate approaching 60% and then imagining that Liberal Democracy will instantly take root. Now, we play for keeps. Any country invaded will be subjected to a 20 year military governorship overwriting whatever aspects of the culture must be overwritten for the territory to be permanently held in the American sphere. No international apologies will ever be made. For anything.

New full-body armor with face-concealing helmets will be designed for our new heavy infantry units, including built-in augmented reality battlespace software. It is important that we provide a unique look to the faceless wall of power.

Then, and only then, having become a true sci-fi empire, can the 21st Century Protagonist emerge to instill real Freedomocracy™.

We can start tomorrow.

Source: maxiesatanofficial shtpost supervillain politics dont actually do this

brazenautomaton

I wish I could enjoy Rick and Morty more but it’s just so incredibly mean-spirited it makes me sad

it thinks it’s about the “happy, liberating” sort of nihilism but it’s not, it’s about the sort of nihilism where you spread nothing but ruin and death and sorrow because if nothing matters that means it’s okay to hurt people endlessly

mitigatedchaos

I watched a good chunk of it…

But that was always there, underneath. I do not share the morality of the creators, and I would not show this show to children.

argumate

Source: wrathofgnon politics

argumate

huh just saw a post alleging that right-wingers can’t resist adding comments to posts, which obvs I can’t comment on directly, wtf

mitigatedchaos

Long live the Union.

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ranma-official

Anonymous asked:

Nah. It's usually fairly offensive and coming from the sort of people who say things like "the blacks" or call all latinxs "hispanics". Personally, I'll only accept it from older trans people since that (and transexual) was what was used during their youth).

pervocracy answered:

(re: “transgendered”)

I don’t know. The events of the last few weeks are starting to make me really feel like I’d much rather have “I support the transgenders! Transgendereds are just people trying to live their lives!” over the sort of people who use absolutely perfect up-to-the-minute gender studies terminology but don’t actually like anyone.

(I mean, not that those are the only two groups, obviously someone can use correct terminology and be supportive and that’s great, but if they’re not willfully misgendering an individual, terminology is like 0.5% of someone’s Trans-Friendliness Score in my book.)

Maybe the difference is whether someone’s just unfamiliar, or whether they’ve been told “transgender is an adjective” and doubled down on “I’ll call you what I want to call you!” But I see the mere-unfamiliarity more often, and I don’t have a problem with that–it means they’re a new supporter, and new supporters are good and valuable to have.

lb-lee

“During their youth”? You mean… within the past ten years?

Look, I after hearing this shit, I smelled bullshit, so I checked the dates and terminology of some of my trans books (as in, by trans creators). And it’s a pretty mixed bag; I see no consensus at all.

Charlie Jane Anders, in The Lazy Crossdresser (from 2002) uses the word ‘transgender’, as does Tristan Crane for self-bio in How Loathsome (2004). But Alicia Goranson’s Supervillainz, from 2006, uses “transman” and “transchick” in the book itself, and both ‘transgender’ and ‘transgendered’ are on the back cover. (If you want to split hairs, Patrick Califia, uses the term “transgendered” in his back cover review, while “transgender” is used on the blurb itself.)

Kate Bornstein in Hello Cruel World uses “transgressively gendered” and “transgender” and that’s also from 2006. But in her earlier book, My Gender Workbook, from 1998, she uses “transgendered.” (Pg. 74, my edition.)

Joey Alison Sayers uses the word ‘transgendered’ for herself in August 2007, in her comic strip Freaking Out the Parents. The Princess comic used the word ‘transgender’ but it seems to have come from later down the line, in 2011. Ditto Take Me There, from the same year, but it mostly “trans.”

As personal experience, when I first started exploring the trans circles online around 2008, “transgendered” was the polite term, and “transgender” was the one clueless cis people used. (Because transgender was perceived as a noun or something, while transgendered was perceived as an adjective. I’m not saying this makes sense, but let’s be real, all of this is horseshit anyway.)

If you don’t like the word, fine, but let’s not pretend that this was something everyone agreed was offensive long ago, and that this was a term only used by jerks. Ten years ago is not long, and it was being used by the activists on the front lines.

pervocracy

This is some really good context for the whole discussion.

the-real-seebs

I had literally never heard “transgender” before I got to tumblr. We consistently used “transgendered”. It was not, ever, considered “offensive”. The idea that it should be considered offensive appears to be a modern invention of the last decade or so. So far as I can tell, some people who don’t know how English does adjectives declared with no evidence that “transgendered” implies the past tense of something done to you, and therefore was offensive. But that’s not actually a rule in English at all, any more than “transgender” means “someone who is transgending”.

If you look back a decade or so, there’s a lot of fierce fighting over this as new people show up, report that “transgendered” is highly offensive because someone told them it should be offensive, and the existing trans people say “what no that’s what we’ve always called ourselves”. And since the new people are angry and prone to harassment campaigns, they eventually “won”, in that “transgender” is more widely accepted now.

But it still sounds wrong to me, and marginally-offensive – like, this is the same kind of vibe I get from people who say “homosex” because they’re unwilling to actually write out the whole word.

So basically, anon is full of shit. And I’ve never seen an actual real-world example of “transgendered” being used in an offensive or hostile way. I’ve seen lots of people use “transgenders” as an obviously-pejorative noun. And I’ve never actually seen the claim that “transgendered” is offensive used in any context but aggressively shitting on other pro-trans activists for not being good enough. I’ve never seen it used in any context where the person being attacked was not, in fact, pro-trans. (And I’m not even entirely sure I’ve ever seen that attack made on anyone who wasn’t actually trans.)

lithnin

I’ve seen this “’transgendered’ is wrong because GRAMMAR!” argument pop up in various contexts, and it’s never seemed very compelling to me. I seriously doubt anyone with preferences about the terminology arrived at them by soberly sitting down and pondering the nuances of English grammar, and even if they had that doesn’t necessarily mean much. Ultimately, language is whatever people accept and use in practice, regardless of whether it ‘makes sense’ in some abstract way. English in particular is about the last hill you’d want to die on when it comes to consistency—maybe this is just another exception, lord knows we’ve got enough of them already.

(To take some concrete examples: consider terms such as “long-legged”, “redheaded”, and “freckled”. Do any of these imply that the trait they indicate was ‘done to’ the person they describe?)

That being said, if most people have clear preferences about using “transgender” over “transgendered” or vice versa, I have no problem with using the more commonly-preferred one as a general convention. But I don’t think the purported linguistic logic is really the underlying reason for those preferences. I think it’s a historical accident that could just as easily have gone the other way, and “but grammar!” is a post hoc rationalization for what was basically an arbitrary choice. If the Tumblr community had happened to standardize on “transgendered” instead, I strongly suspect we’d be reading lots of similar-sounding explanations of why “transgender” is obviously offensive and wrong. Likewise for ‘trans’ with or without an asterisk, or any other case where it’s more important that some choice be made than which one in particular wins.

the-real-seebs

My personal favorite was the claim that “trans*” is offensive because it suggests that trans people have similar problems and experiences, which means it doesn’t specifically point out that trans women have everything way worse than everyone else, and is therefore transmisogynistic erasure.

Ultimately, I think this is a case where “most” people don’t really have consensus. I think “transgender” is probably winning at this point, but I think it’s a worse word, and I think it’s winning because people didn’t stop to fact-check assertions handed to them about what it means and why.

ranma-official

No, the best one was that the word “transphobia” is in itself transphobic, because you’re supposed to use “transmisogyny” instead, as transphobia implies the existence of transmisandry, which is impossible because trans men gain privilege and not lose it.

This makes sense and critical theory should be legal.

mitigatedchaos

Not to suggest that anyone around here, or indeed anyone at all is interested in transitioning only because of internalized gender self-hatred, but…

I heard about groups on Tumblr arguing that men should transition because men are horrible oppressors and could stop by choosing to become women, which would also be the kind of group to argue that transmen are making out like privilege bandits with their ill-gotten man-gains.

Honestly, “transmisandry doesn’t exist because they gain privilege” is a sketchy af sentiment.

Source: pervocracy gendpol

ranma-official

Source: bananatwinky

rationalists-out-of-context

Idk, I outsource any task that requires basic organizational competence

(via rationalists-out-of-context)

argumate

orbispelagium

I’ve seen some quips like “TERFs claiming that ‘TERF’ is a slur is a hilarious self-own,” which is true and all, but I think it’s a bad idea to ignore how plenty of literally-true descriptors can be caustic insults

ranma-official

“chinaman” always baffled me

well done, these sure are two words

argumate

slurs are ordinary words, you just curl your lip when you say them.

(if you read the wrong blogs, you’ll see them use “Mexican” as a slur)

mitigatedchaos

that’s quite a thing for an avian to say. maybe you should think before opening your beak. wouldn’t want to ruffle any feathers would you?

Source: cryptovexillologist shtpost this is a joke

ranma-official

theonion:
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Source: theonion politics policy

Anonymous asked:

Didn't kontextmaschine have a post arguing that police-as-violent-gang is an important part of the US system for integrating immigrants?

@kontextmaschine Did you?

This seems like something that might be more relevant in the 1800s and early 1900s than the late 1900s and early 21st century.

anons asks

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

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