Reminder that the "Politics is the Mind-Killer" essay was not saying to not discuss politics, nor was it talking about how to act in political discussions. It was saying to not use political examples when making non-political points because

1. People will inevitably think and debate only about the examples and not the points.

2. If you are making an important (potentially non-partisan) point that should be heeded across party lines, people who disagree with your examples will feel more hostile to your point.

I have yet to see somebody reference the essay who did more than read the title.

"thing I don't like is environmentally bad because it uses electricity which may come from fossil fuel plants"

Build fucking nuclear, then.

he’s a little confused but he’s got the spirit

no this counts i think

I feel like this symbol should exist for people who reject the obligations their corporate overlords put on them.

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/why-prince-changed-his-name-to-a-symbol/?amp

It’s somewhat unfortunate that lashing is tainted by its association with slavery, because in addition to being almost certainly less inhumane than the US prison system, it has several distinct advantages over both incarceration and fines:

– It is narrowly targeted at the offender.  Both incarceration and fines also hurt people dependent on the offender, especially any children.

– It hits the wealthy just as hard as the poor, without needing to introduce any special percent-of-wealth calculations a la Scandinavian traffic tickets. 

– A combination of the preceding two factors would make it an excellent tool for deterring corporate crime by C-suite executives who are otherwise hard to punish.

– It does not tend to cause cascades of financial consequences, which is an important advantage given that debtors’ prison is somehow a tolerated thing again in today’s America.

caning, however, lacks this association

we should become the tinpot southeast asian dictatorship of our orientalist fantasies!

I can get behind the concept of having a person whose job is to keep criminals locked up. I can’t get behind the concept of having a person whose job is specifically to physically brutalize criminals. I mean, what kind of person takes that job?

I think “what does it do creating a job for this” is an important consideration but having oodles of prison guards turns out to be much worse on this metric. In practice, the people who take the “keep criminals locked up” jobs are much crueler than average, and get worse when put in an environment where their physical safety is constantly threatened but can be marginally improved by acts of cruelty. Even if being Official Caner is worse still (and I’m not convinced it is), we’ll need way fewer of them than we do prison guards.

please don’t call centuries-old epic poems “franchises”

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hell world hell world

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Sir Bertilak de Hautdesert? That’s surprising. It’s totally a story Disney+ would tell you.

Just don't read slate or screen rant, they're garbage

#whitewomantears

we're all clear the problems here are the school officials and possibly the white girl's mother, right? 12 is a little old to be pulling this shit, but not unforgivably so.

Similarly, in the scenario "sincerely but incorrectly afraid person calls the cops, who shoot an innocent person", the primary problem is the cops.

can’t believe there’s actually discourse about the scarjo lawsuit. like who has a take besides “i hope The Mouse suffers”

“Scarjo is already wealthy and got paid a lot”

I have news for you about Disney, my myopic friend.

exactly! people’s understanding of the harm caused by bad individuals (and scarjo isn’t that bad) vs the harm caused by bad corporations (and jesus christ disney is that bad) is so skewed, the corps win by multiple orders of magnitude every time

I don’t know if it counts as discourse, per see; I don’t like Disney, and I’m glad for them to suffer. But I still can’t find the energy to be upset because someone, even a woman, made more money than I will ever see in my life, and decided it wasn’t enough.

Eat the rich. Eat Disney first, but ScarJo’s still on the list

Do you feel like people are asking you to be upset? I haven’t seen anyone asking anyone to sacrifice anything on behalf of Johansson, just to allow her quiet enjoyment of her lawsuit.

I think it’s reasonable to be upset for 2nd order reasons. Scarjo specifically losing out on money above and beyond her first 20 million doesn’t give me much cause for concern, but I think Disney managing to win the suit would be a set back for contract workers rights in general since Disney’s argument basically boils down to “we weren’t going to make as much money as we thought.”

I haven’t seen anyone offended on her personal behalf, though.

Yeah, everything I’ve seen has been “hurray, someone is finally pushing back against disney’s systemic fucking over of artists”, not “I am personally excited for Scarlet Johansson to buy a yacht”

I imagine there are people who are rooting for her to make comparable money as RDJ/Chris Hemsworth/etc, although they're not showing up in my social media.

For what? Suing Disney over breach of contract? (3 pages in on google and that's all that's coming up, so if there's something actually horrid, you'll have to point it out)

Getting mad at a streaming release in the middle of a pandemic.

There's no "getting mad at" (and any fan who parses this as an anyone vs. anyone fight is a fool), the legal system is how you'd expect Hollywood to adjust when contract terms calculated for one economic environment need to be translated to another

They have to go to court over everything, no matter the circumstances?

What is wrong with hollywood people oh wait I remember nevermind.

Who's "they"? Sounds like Johansen asked Disney to negotiate and they said "nah" so she's attempting to enforce the contract they agreed to.

Disney was planning on releasing this on streaming for months, reportedly SJ's people have been worried about a streaming release result in them drastically lowering her pay since even before Covid, Disney could have negotiated this months ago but they seem to have a corporate policy of "Make Us" wrt creatives.

so today I drove past a traffic sign that said 'hey teens buckling up is totes yeet yo'

i wish i was joking but after we screamed a bit my brother attempted to get a picture as proof, failed, and ended up with this masterpiece that pretty much sums up the whole experience

You mean this sign?

NO IT'S THE OPPOSITE YOU BUCKLE UP SO YOU DON'T YEET

Well now I want to see signs that are like "buckle up, don't yeet"

This is just unacceptable in the age of Urban Dictionary.

This website would be so funny in the death note universe I think some of you guys would be really pro Kira

Imagining discourse where some people are reminding you not to put your name and face on your blog to stay safe and then other people call you toxic and abusive for that bc it means you’re hiding something if you don’t want Kira to be able to kill you

SYMBROCK CONFIRMED

Update:

cis dystopia where gender has been outlawed and everyone is whatever they want to be so radical underground groups aggressively perform and uphold 1950s gender norms to stick it to the person

So does he fight Judge Dread or what?

Dear students, if this is true, one of two things is happening:

Gun reform may or may not be worthwhile, but neither of those problems will be solved by gun control.

why is this so passive aggressive toward sokka i’m crying