i personally think 'fascism' is a rhetorically useful concept but not particularly so analytically for the current wave of reacitonary ideology. feel like if it was up to me i would largely keep fascism contained to its historical moment, mostly because someone doesn't need to be fascist to be a genocidal freak as you said with the churchill example.

or i guess less radically it's been a bit overextended in its usage - america is a reactionary empire, but it wasn't fascist in character for a while, and this qualitative shift does have even more negative outcomes than the previous paradigm even if this was probably going to be that stage's result regardless.

thinking of some tweet i saw maybe like two weeks ago about how chinese genshin's worldbuilding is because everything is extremely bureaucratic and un-feudal

philosophy majors should generally be assumed to be annoying and smug until proven otherwise. (i also studied it)

new zealand is super suburban/rural, basically wellington and auckland's cbd are like the only urban areas of the country so yeah.

dunno what to think about the little red book migration tbh. on one level, it's sorta nice to see china and chinese culture finally be 'cool' in a way that it hasn't in a long time, but there's this sort of gawky 'look at the quirky orientals' quality that i sorta get from it too. ultimately it's a positive thing, and i think part of it is just due to excitement too but i think it's worth bringing up.

good catch actually, idk what's censored but i should have added CSA. my bad.

i think what stands out the worst personally is just gaiman's recurring disposition of being all 'uwu sowwy for sexually assaulting you can we talk 🥺'

is it over if i was somehow expecting to see destiny on this list

yeah, i mean if it makes you anxious then it clearly is worse for you! i don't want to come off as minimising your struggles, just that examination methods should probably be more flexible in general.

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i'm not sure that i agree that oral exams are inherently bad, i just think they need to be taken with the instructor having a spirit of charitability and recognising that students can't remember every little detail. evidently this wasn't the case with you but the typical exam paper format isn't very good for neurodivergent students either in a very different way, like i'd always do awfully in exams by my standards so obviously i'd be more inclined to think that format is worse than oral.

with all due respect how do white people make tofu

i mean i thought marioslop would flop too and people still gaslit themselves into thinking it was a good movie so idk at this point. still probably, like, team 'minecraft will flop' purely because i feel like i haven't seen anyone sincerely say they thought the trailers were good but at the same time it's possible enough people just watch it regardless it succeeds.

dunno if anyone saw but noahpinion finally outed himself as the bloodthirsty ghoul he is on twt recently

Honestly I'd argue being open to feedback is the primary requirement to succeeding at...well most anything long-term. So it's not exactly a small difference

i think people of almost every political position like to flatter themselves by saying they're uniquely receptive to feedback and new information and therefore a superior critical thinker. like, saying it does not make it so.

not being misogynistic is generally a good thing and it's more controllable on our end. this is a bit of an odd thing to suggest, other factors may play a part but that's not a good reason to not try crack down on such behaviour.

you could have an entirely different meaning of course but i think misguided seems to imply some sort of normative commitment here.

sorry, is this directed at me? because i don't see any issue with the changes.

based on the timing of this i feel like the gender demos survey had a hand in these measures being implemented too, right?

hi it's me i'm that man! (not offline though)

if your concern was joker 2 would be capeshit then i can say pretty confidently that that's not very relevant to it. i think you should give it a try, i thought it was fine too.