PhilipTheBucket

Phase 2: Prison labor

It also carries the side “benefit” of forcing farm owners to be complicit in and supportive of the “person who didn’t do anything wrong -> detention” pipeline, as it ramps up and expands.

You heard it here first.

Some parts of being human are universal

“that is not always factual”

Yeah, 100% agree. See also David Hogg, who tried to reform the DNC from within, and how well that turned out.

I saw people at an anti-Trump protest who were getting up and yelling about how it was largely the Democrats' fault and it was important not to reward them with our votes. That's the only person I've ever seen in person who thinks this way, yes, but I have seen it a nonzero number of times.

It's almost all an internet thing, just in general. Every single political person I know in person is more or less either pro-Democrat or pro-Trump, or else wholly anti-US in all respects, the sophisticated leftist viewpoint is almost entirely an internet thing for me.

I was talking, obliquely, about the people on Lemmy pre-election who used "Democrats betrayed Bernie" as a reason to make the argument "politics is pointless, let's not vote."

If you're saying those people don't represent actual progressive activism (which has, I agree, been making more and more inroads every year as things get progressively worse and worse and their momentum builds), I will agree with you completely.

Only works if you have a billion dollars though. If you do it on a big scale, they're just going to Aaron Swartz you.

Very few revolutions succeed overnight (without then making things worse than before). The way that people gave up after Bernie got cheated, and figured "welp let's leave things on autopilot then, I am discouraged now that we know the people on top are willing to cheat to hold onto power, that's unfair and I don't want to play anymore", is some lazy soft first world part time activism crap.

(And yes, I am equally part of the problem, not trying to point fingers just agreeing with you more or less. Things build over time. The more you push the more they build.)

Fair enough, I shouldn't have gotten personal with it, sorry about that.

But “your eyes start to bleed” and “your pupils dilate from the trauma”, “roll for therapy”, “take psychic damage”, those are a different story… The punchline there is that a man seeing another mans dick is traumatic, and that’s only “funny” because homophobia.

Jesus Christ you are a caricature of why people don't take the left seriously.

1. It's a joke, a silly joke. There's nothing homophobic about any of this. I have heard women make similar jokes about what awful trauma they experienced after seeing something they didn't want to see. It's just not a gendered thing, in this case, at all. I do understand that some men can also introduce homophobia into the equation, but I don't see any of that here. Just saying that you found seeing a big dick unexpectedly to be a deeply upsetting event is a perfectly realistic thing to make jokes about.
2. It's literally a crime to expose your dick to a woman as a man, and a pretty serious one. It can get you put on a list for life, it can change your future if you do it once. "Break your concentration" is deliberately downplaying the seriousness that society allocates to it (when people are not making lighthearted and not-at-all-homophobic jokes), so that you can do your grandstanding.

That is all I will say on the matter. We're allowed to have a difference of opinion, I'm just stating mine which is disagreeing with your take on it.

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Most straight women and most straight men have an alarmed and upset reaction if they see an unexpected penis while going about their day. I don’t see this as being a gendered thing at all, although some of the details of the nature of the alarm are gendered and could even involve homophobia, it’s mostly just that suddenly seeing a dick is most often a negative experience.

I literally don’t see anything about this that has to do with sexuality in any way, it feels like you’re just trying to shoehorn that in there.

Exhibit A: the text tool.

Oh... yeah, you're not wrong.

Then suffered with GIMP for a few years, hating every nanosecond of it, til PhotoGIMP came along.

You're also not wrong that the GIMP developers stubbornly refusing to create something like this as the normal way of doing things is evidence of them not really caring about how well their software works out for most people who are going to use it.

If you needed some more evidence, holy shit the scripting interface is bad. However bad you think it is, multiply that by about 3 to 5 times, and that's how bad it is. I'm not trying to talk trash on people who made something awesome which I use frequently which does the job I need it to do perfectly (and were fine with making it available for PhotoGIMP to take advantage of to make some different thing to serve other people's need). But holy shit the scripting is bad. It's so bad.