wtf is with folks so freaked out by 'person with vagina' phrase? I posted a Lancet study about systemic racism in policing, and some chud/dork commented about the Lancet using that phrase as a way to just disregard the study
I guess covid conspiracies and TERFs are getting more aligned in the face of the BIG MED TRANS AGENDA or something
There's a webcomic I follow called Sinfest that started out very obviously doing teenage-tier horny fan service stuff, transitioned into post-liberal woke, and is now on a huge TERF kick where they try to make transitioning sound like a capitalist plot to get people to consume hormones.
Some of this stuff is very obviously confused - simultaneously claiming to be pro-women, against gender identity, against commodification, and then suddenly against anything that acts or appears leftist because leftism is just a commodity too.
Now its veering into anti-vax territory. I can't help but see it as this kind-of grand rejection of modernity. As if just poo-pooing the capital will somehow spare them from Capitalism.
the theory I just came up with is that this is part of the whole reactionary is-ought fallacy, so in their worldview a healthcare genocide is only possible through positive means (vaccines and chemtrails etc), but negative means (denial of care, food deserts etc) are not even remotely real in their understanding of the world, so all those people dying or living shitty existences are not a problem unless BIG AGENDA X is actively trying to cause them harm through some clandestine and clockwork conspiracy
my new line of questioning with some of these folks is to talk about the big bad AI future a la Musk etc, but then show that all those horrible things are already happening, and then turn them to thinking about how the evil AI is actually capitalism running on wetware via business majors and fintech etc
That's definitely deep in the AnCap philosophical pudding.
But I don't know how many lay-people are into it and how many are simply like "Shots hurt me and I don't like them." The number of COVID vaccines given out so far is tracking pretty neatly with the number of flu shots normally administered in a given year. So we could just be running into a soft ceiling of needle-aversion.
Checking back with the comic that did the very heavy handed anti-consumerist allegory in the Bush years and finding out it was about terves and cancel culture was a fuckin trip. I assume people are still reading it because he's still makin' it, but it's wild, despite the art being pretty creative and technically solid, I've never heard of anyone at any point being like "yeah this is my fave webcomic."
wtf is with folks so freaked out by 'person with vagina' phrase? I posted a Lancet study about systemic racism in policing, and some chud/dork commented about the Lancet using that phrase as a way to just disregard the study
I guess covid conspiracies and TERFs are getting more aligned in the face of the BIG MED TRANS AGENDA or something
There's a webcomic I follow called Sinfest that started out very obviously doing teenage-tier horny fan service stuff, transitioned into post-liberal woke, and is now on a huge TERF kick where they try to make transitioning sound like a capitalist plot to get people to consume hormones.
Some of this stuff is very obviously confused - simultaneously claiming to be pro-women, against gender identity, against commodification, and then suddenly against anything that acts or appears leftist because leftism is just a commodity too.
Now its veering into anti-vax territory. I can't help but see it as this kind-of grand rejection of modernity. As if just poo-pooing the capital will somehow spare them from Capitalism.
the theory I just came up with is that this is part of the whole reactionary is-ought fallacy, so in their worldview a healthcare genocide is only possible through positive means (vaccines and chemtrails etc), but negative means (denial of care, food deserts etc) are not even remotely real in their understanding of the world, so all those people dying or living shitty existences are not a problem unless BIG AGENDA X is actively trying to cause them harm through some clandestine and clockwork conspiracy
my new line of questioning with some of these folks is to talk about the big bad AI future a la Musk etc, but then show that all those horrible things are already happening, and then turn them to thinking about how the evil AI is actually capitalism running on wetware via business majors and fintech etc
That's definitely deep in the AnCap philosophical pudding.
But I don't know how many lay-people are into it and how many are simply like "Shots hurt me and I don't like them." The number of COVID vaccines given out so far is tracking pretty neatly with the number of flu shots normally administered in a given year. So we could just be running into a soft ceiling of needle-aversion.
Checking back with the comic that did the very heavy handed anti-consumerist allegory in the Bush years and finding out it was about terves and cancel culture was a fuckin trip. I assume people are still reading it because he's still makin' it, but it's wild, despite the art being pretty creative and technically solid, I've never heard of anyone at any point being like "yeah this is my fave webcomic."
I'm coasting on inertia at this point. So many of my Bush-Era favorites ended.
But I stopped patroning him a while ago.