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arf_arf , 10 months ago

Back when Star Trek aimed to portray a large varied world in which all sorts of characters and storylines can exist.

Enjoy your on the nose Jan 6/transgender metaphors, Nutrek fans. You deserve it.

arf_arf , 10 months ago

Lemmy leftists stay unhinged.

arf_arf , 10 months ago

This is an incredibly pessimistic outlook and one I’m glad that, for instance, the makers of Star Trek The Next Generation didn’t share.

When TNG was coming out, the world was reeling from the stagflation of the 1970s and the economic shocks of Reaganomics and Thatcherism.

And still TNG is a very optimistic show, that still managed to touch on the issues of its day in a realistic and non-naive manner.

arf_arf , 10 months ago

Every single one I ever used. I even disabled iMessage once because I was annoyed it wasn’t syncing properly between the phone and the computer.

arf_arf , 10 months ago

Learned this very early at my first job. I was new to the whole content writing industry so I kept to just writing the minimum expected 2000 words per day.

Meanwhile two other coworkers with more experience wanted to impress the management I guess and wrote way above that.

The result? More and more work for them. And also when performance reviews came along I was the only one to get a raise because “the quality of my writing was above average in the company.”

In the end, they were punished for “over productivity” while I was rewarded because sticking with the minimum word counts meant I had time to polish my work.

arf_arf , 10 months ago

What a disgusting failure on Christ Carter’s part for this art to reflect current things and attitudes. Doesn’t he know that the point of art is for me to feel smug about being on the right side of history? We must cancel him.

arf_arf , 10 months ago

Nice. Yet another unaccountable pseudo-police force.

So glad I don’t live in the US. But for those of you who do, consider that you live in a country where private security killing shoplifters is legal.

Gonna think twice about complaining over those not warm enough nuts, won’t you?

arf_arf , 10 months ago

But don’t you find it interesting that these incidents don’t happen in first class? Maybe there’s a hint there at what might be getting these passengers so pissed off to the point of violence.

(It’s the Real. You’ve paid money to be packed in a tin can, to have your anus digitally breached, you need to take off your belt, in the security line everyone is a criminal. When the Real has revealed itself, violence most usually follows. Being in the presence of the Real is torture.)

(It doesn’t happen in first class because the luxury does a better job of obscuring the Real.)

arf_arf , 10 months ago

The problem with Lemmy isn’t that there are too many leftists around, it’s that most of them are of the annoying kind.

Most users here are either college students or antiwork-style semi-employed NEET-adjacent individuals whose entire worldview is based on Tumblr and TikTok memes. They really think that some online pundit/influencer with the “correct beliefs” on the “current thing” is closer to them and more of their ally than actual working-class proletarians who may for various reasons, have problematic attitudes and beliefs.

That’s of course, without getting into what the latest crop of online leftists even considers problematic. For whatever reason, while the planet is dying, while people are still hungry, while homelessness is rising in the West, they’ve decided that the right of fat gay men who like to wear make up and dresses and straight women who are not satisfied to be low on the oppression totem-pole to call themselves a gender category beyond any human comprehension (non-binary) is the single most important issue affecting global society.

If one should disagree with gender ideology, they need to be killed because they’re a fucking Nazi and definitely not a good fucking human being.

arf_arf , 10 months ago

Non-binary has nothing to do with trans people. Trans people have dysphoria, for which the cure is gender transition. Sam Smith is just a fat gay asshole.

In fact, it’s offensive to actual trans people that you liken their experiences which are often difficult and traumatic, to someone just deciding to dye their hair green.

arf_arf , 10 months ago

I have blocked nobody. If you can’t see my posts it’s because a mod or an instance owner has blocked me.

arf_arf , 10 months ago

But isn’t that what nonbinary is? I’m not a woman, I’m not a man; I am something that you’ll never understand.

arf_arf , 10 months ago

Every non-binary person I know or heard about has basically just began wearing more androgynous clothes and dyed their hair some weird color. If they’re a biological man, they start wearing lipstick also. If they’re a biological woman, they toughen up their image with more “manly” clothes and hairstyles.

arf_arf , 10 months ago

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top kek

arf_arf , 10 months ago

I’d have been suspended from Reddit comments ago. Reddit is run by nonbinary powermods, everyone knows that.

arf_arf , 10 months ago

As a gay man who’s been involved in various left-wing causes for decades, I sure do love Hitler.

arf_arf , 10 months ago

What kind of response do you want? You’re telling me I’m some Hitler-loving maniac just because I don’t believe in non-binary genders? Just because I am on the (correct and true) feminist position that gender should be abolished and not reified and expanded into a million new categories that only serve to alienate people from each other and confuse everyone.

Where have I even implied that queer youth should be excluded from attempts to help the homeless?

arf_arf , 10 months ago

lol now I have to prove my sexual orientation to you. whatever happened to trusting people’s lived experiences, sweaty? Let me assure you, my lived experiences include a lot of gayness.

arf_arf , 10 months ago

Being LGBT myself, I have grown increasingly annoyed and distraught at the inclusion of weird marginal gender issues into the fight for gay rights. I’m very sorry, but my country doesn’t have a Supreme Court that can just legislate gay marriage. If I ever want to be able to have a family, I need to convince people around me that gay people are normal working people who deserve rights like everyone else.

I am sorry but there is no such thing as non-binary gender. There’s no such thing as gender either, there are sexes and then there are cultural expectations built on top of this sexed reality. You can call this gender if you want, but if you do, then the clear progressive and leftwing thing is to do away with gender because gender is a system of exploitation and discrimination. The proper thing to do is not to expand and reify gender.

Oh, you’re a boy who isn’t into sports and cars? Like dolls and fashion? You must be an egg waiting to crack or at least non-binary.

What if instead we could all be men and women, but be men and women in any way we want to be? Without any expectations, without toxicity, without alienating each other? That’s only possible with gender abolition.

arf_arf , 10 months ago

I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have mocked your autism. It’s just that your username is very funny.

Gender abolitionism isn’t compatible with non-binarism (binarity? binarydom? binaryness?) because non binary genders rely on the gender binary itself to express themselves. I’ve read many non-binary people talk about how this action or behavior makes them feel more masculine, but these other things make them feel more feminine. It seems that to be non-binary is to be always obsessed with gender perception. How is that abolishing gender when you’re still describing everything in terms of masculine and feminine-coded behaviors?

arf_arf , 10 months ago

This is honestly the first time I’ve heard that interpretation of being trans. But if being trans is just about transgressing, then that’s very culturally-bound. Like, in my little rural village being gay is very transgressive and certainly not considered in line with my assigned at birth gender. Am I trans now?

arf_arf , 10 months ago

I am not transphobic. I believe trans people should have free access to whatever they need to live as the sex they identify as.

The fact I don’t believe you’re some special class of being because you’re “neither male nor female” doesn’t make me transphobic. It makes me a person with common sense and eyes.

And also, the kind of homophobes I deal with as someone who lives in a European periphery country are not ones to be swayed by someone’s opinion on gender. They want all LGBT dead.

arf_arf , 10 months ago

Gender, or at least the current western prevailing idea of gender as something innate (with an internal locus) is an oppressive construct of social control. It prevents social cohesion and solidarity. Because how can I as a white transfemme demisexual aromantic oceangender individual understand your experiences as a black transmasculine forestgender cat-boychick?

Only when we accept the biological reality of two sexes, and the reality of free will and freedom to express ourselves, can we move past sexism and more importantly capitalism.

99.9% of this planet toils in agony so that less than a million of super-privileged people can live in luxury. That’s the problem, it’s the ONLY problem.

arf_arf , 10 months ago

Yes, you’ve done all that. In your dreams. Meanwhile gen Z is more right wing than the previous two generations and common people are getting fed up with your gender war crap to the point where they’ll vote for DeSantis and Trump just to spite you.

Good work.

arf_arf , 10 months ago

Sure, but is that the “of age trans people should be able to get on hormones and surgery” or “children should be put on puberty blockers on the slightest suggestion they might be trans, and if parents don’t comply, social services should take the kids away” “liberal take on trans health issues?”

arf_arf , 10 months ago

Least unhinged Westoid leftist.

arf_arf , 10 months ago

This is making me feel Streberseelenschmerz which is a word I just invented to describe the deep discomfort one feels with presented with that classic nerd attempt to be profound that falls flat on its face.

arf_arf , 10 months ago

If you had spent just a few minutes thinking about it, you’d have realised email jobs and creative jobs would be first on the automation chopping block.

A secretary used to schedule events and write invitations manually, now you have calendly and ChatGPT.

You used to need an HR professional to onboard new employees, now you can use on-demand courses through any of the million LMSs that exist.

Oh and there are already AI generative tools for those kinds of online courses.

Meanwhile, even the best robots move like geriatrics. We’re 100 years away from a robot that could do all that a construction worker does.

arf_arf , 10 months ago

No one here considers that we might not need a “competitor” for YouTube at all. Videos have been a disaster for the web. Information that can easily be relayed and digested in a 1000-word article is instead stretched into a 30-40 minute video with ad breaks. The less aid about TikTok, Instagram, and other bullshit video platforms the best. We don’t need this shit. We need to go back to Web 1.0. Web as a means to share information and talk to people. There’s no room for ShitTube there.

arf_arf , 10 months ago

Touch grass.