We went to this burger place for lunch (turned out to be a drag bar which was shitty in other ways) but the walls were papered with rolling stones covers and it just really becomes obvious when you see lots of magazine covers next to each other that men are treated as people and women are treated as objects.
THIS PROVES MY POINT SO HARD IT SMASHES YOU IN THE TEETH
GOSH DARN IT I HOPE YOU FEEL THE SLAP IN YOUR FACE
I feel like someone is standing next to me talking about how I'm dead
The chemical they put on ants and all the other ants think they're dead that's what happened to tumblr except the chemical is unmarketability
tumblr may have censored porn but check this out
i hope Elon musk KILLS himself and DIES a thousand DEATHS. and i hope every other billionaire a very merry DIE DIE DEATH KILL MURDER DEATH KILL
me and my brother: *explains how adhd affects us*
our parents: that's not adhd, that's normal
me and my brother:
When I was a kid I was talking to my psychiatrist with my dad and I mentioned some stuff and he went "let me get an ADHD questionnaire" and Dad was like "I mean, that's all normal stuff for me" and he went "okay, let me get two ADHD questionnaires".
We both forgot to fill them out.
if you think about it, every time we tranquilize animals to transport them safely to another place, we are the sleep paralysis demon
ok sure fine
this is so great i don’t think you’ll ever understand how much i love this
This guy is really going to regret sitting down with Jon
he literally could not care less about what's being said here. this has always been a waste of time. just kill these people
They do not care about hypocrisy, about consistency, about facts, about truth.
They care about power.
They will say anything, believe anything, and do anything that gains more power for themselves or takes it away from others. Doing “gotcha” questions and logic-dunking on them doesn’t work, because they don’t care about being right, they care about having power. They engage in hypocrisy on purpose, as an act of domination over the fools who believe in things like truth and principles and integrity. Their willingness to override reality gives them power over people who believe reality matters. Trying to debate them is pointless. The only winning move is not to play. Shut them down and shut them out at every opportunity.
-satre
I mean, yes, that guy is never going to be convinced. I guarantee you that no one involved in the production or distribution of that video held any hope at all that they would get anything but silence out of him even in the best scenario.
But it's not about that guy, its about the people who see the video. Like you do this IRL at thanksgiving or whatever and it is basically worthless, but then you are not trying to persuade a national audience with from a wide political spectrum that your jack ass uncle is a bigot hypocrite. No one's watching and deciding how they are going to vote in 18 months on if uncle jackass (or his political party) gets to genocide trans people.
But John Stewart has a national audience from a wide political spectrum. If he can convince a few hundred people now that the right is full of hypocrisy it might make the difference 18 months from now. Non disruptive, non violent political action is theater. You do this to play to the audience, not because you are delusional enough to think that the other side means well.
And we can't shut them out, they have a god damn 24 hour news network dedicated to spewing their propaganda every second of every day. If we are not doing something to counter message that propaganda we might as well give up, and part of that is making them look like the bigoted hypocritical jackasses they are. This is one of many tools in the toolbox for how you counter message propaganda.
And a second thing. The "just kill these people" comment. I'm not going to condemn it, to be clear, but there are few things a person can say in the political sphere that reads worse to me. I don't think it is intentional, but what this actually says and how people react to it is as if it were "we can't win, so just give up."
You see, "just kill these people" is actually an option, at least in the USA. Ironically, republicans have gone to great lengths to make absolutely sure that you can get a weapon to commit a murder. Any one of us could get the weapons we need to, well, do exactly that. But we don't for so many obvious reasons, and I know this because I'm not reading a list of political figures murdered every morning.
In absence of actual violent action, anything taking the form of "Don't do non violent thing X, it does not work, instead do violent thing Y" is a call to give up. Because no one actually expects anyone to engage in violent thing Y. They only expect them to give up non violent thing X. What is actually being said, intentional or not, is "give up on X, and replace it with nothing."
I'm not going to say violence has no place here, because I don't believe it. But knowing what place violence does have is important, and constantly invoking violence jokingly alongside non joking discussion of other political methods dilutes the concept.
