that post about how its impossible to satirize masculinity without thousands of men earnestly idenitifying with it isn't wrong but ive also seen enough women cheer on the most rancid shit as long as its got a veneer of femininity to it so idk i think it might just be a human thing
equality win: men and women both bad at media comprehension !!
for every Taxi Driver there's a Midsommar
remember that any time you kill me in a multiplayer game that youre literally killing a girl. and thats unfeminist. and you should let me win forever
Instead of "live laugh love" or "home is where the heart is" my (wonderful, progressive, very accepting) dad put up the racism sign in the foyer
whats the racism sign?
The racism sign, as I like to call it, is from an art piece I made halfway through my first semester of art school:
It reads "any attempted theft will be reported to the police" in the 15 most commonly spoken languages by immigrants here other than English or other western european languages (in descending order).
This sign was only half of the art piece, the other half was the most stereotypically Icelandic painting I could think of:
When the piece was shown the painting and the sign were hung on opposite sides of the room, making the sign more of an afterthought for those who don't speak any of the languages written on the sign. Standing out just enough for them to notice it and maybe wonder what it said, but ultimately not giving it a second thought for the most part.
I wanted to highlight one of the most common ways racism and xenophobia present themselves here as well as the comfort of ignorance. The sign doesn't cater to you, you ignore it it, and you don't care what it might say. You don't have to think about it because it doesn't affect you.
For those who can read the sign though, or bother to translate it, this is just yet another reminder of people's ignorance and double standards. My inspiration for this piece came from my old workplace, where they had this sign hanging on one of the doors:
The main things that stood out about this to me were that
People love saying that we're not racist/xenophobic here even though we very much are. The problem is just that so many people don't take the time to look when it doesn't directly affect them. I was very happy with my piece because people actually came up to me and asked what the sign said because they wanted to know, it started a conversation and made those previously unaware of this issue more aware. I wonder if these sorts of signs would be anywhere near as commonplace as they are if more people looked at them critically and asked "why is this the thing we bother translating?"
Anyway, all that aside I love my dad and I like the way this art piece turned out but also I am slightly worried about giving people the wrong idea when this is the first thing they see when they enter our home 💀
The Burger King employees when they see me for the 10th time this week.
My horny ass could NOT be the sole mechanic for a mech, alone in the repair bay, talking to the mech's AI core, discussing the harsh reality of the war we've found ourselves in. Me discussing my mortality, the 50ft entity I've spent the last several years learning the intricacies of and is fully aware of the fact that as a tool of war it'll either die in battle or end up abandoned as it's systems all fail until emergency back-up power keeps it awake for possibly thousands of years. We talk about how neither of us has felt a connection between ourselves and anything else worth dying for like that, except maybe... Well, the rest of the base has almost certainly gone to sleep by now. The cockpit clicks shut with a soft "click" and I. I mean uh, I forgot where I was going with this.
Apparently I've struck a chord with the giant robot fucker fandom
one blatantly ahistoric line i keep seeing from anticivs is positioning the process of colonisation as the disruption of indigenous ways of living by urban industrialised production -- when of course wars were fought and countless killed over centuries to prevent colonized nations from developing their own urban industry, destroy what urban industry already existed, and force their economies into agricultural production and raw material export
one of the core premises of marxism–in fact, i’ll argue the core premise, if you had to boil it down to just one thing–is that advancements in the means of production will create both a proletarian class and the means by which it can liberate itself. marxism is not about ‘undoing’ capitalism, and if you believe your socialism or anarchism is about ‘returning’ to something, you’re not left-wing, you’re nakedly reactionary. the marxist view on new divisions of labour and extractive technologies should not be ‘how do we destroy or revert this’ but ‘how do we turn this advancement towards our common betterment and liberation’
How do we turn this advancement of fracking towards our common betterment and liberation. How do we turn this advancement of global surveillance towards our common betterment and liberation. How do we turn this advancement of strip-mining towards our common betterment and liberation. How do we turn this advancement of the gig economy towards our common betterment and liberation. We know that everything capitalism develops must have liberatory potential because Papa Marx said the telos goes through capitalism to communism.
“fracking” and “global surveillance” and “the gig economy” are not atomic indivisible concepts. obviously if taken as metaphysical wholenesses unto themselves they have no liberatory potential innit. but each of these concepts actually consists of a huge number of different technologies being combined with a certain set of social relations. “global surveillance” understood as a cohesive whole can obviously not be liberatory, but it should be obvious that when it comes to, for instance, moving past the capitalist market economy, the application of algorithmic analysis to enormous data sets is a technology with enormous potential for good. historical and dialectical materialism means identifying the features within the elements of present society that could transform themselves under different social circumstances, not taking everything as an absolute and imagining a value inversion of it
i think shimarin is what would happen if ryo yamada had never touched a bass
It's really funny that redditors convinced themselves that the stupid Tiananmen Square copypasta is going to get chinese people forcefully disconnected from their internet service or something while the UK government will get your ass if you complete the sentence "Soldier F is ___" and has actively worked with google and with social media websites to censor posts or search results about Soldier F
Project Moon will have a gameplay mechanic in their game, ask if anyone’s gonna give it a lore explanation, and then not wait for an answer.
Not-EGO i made for a dnd campaign (theres a lot more i made but i cant post it because spoilers….)
cool cool cool cool cool the Sami icefields are sentient cool cool cool cool yeah this is fine. is there anything on this planet that isnt alive
FrostNova
lol you're only learning japanese because you like anime, you're only interested in history because you like the anime girl king king arthur series, you're only broadening your horizons and becoming a more learned and fulfilled person because your sincere enjoyment of something not considered intellectual enough to be worthy of recognition provided you with a small window into a few of the many wonders of culture and knowledge the world has to offer and you want to obtain a deeper understanding of them
Fun fact: Vincent Van Gogh’s famous art style was the direct result of Van Gogh being obsessed with Japan (especially tea ceremony), Japanese art, and Japanese culture. Vincent wanted to replicate the look of Japanese woodcuts with his paintings. He’s one of the earliest tourists to Japan. Vincent Van Gogh is probably the first historically recorded weeb. If he were alive today, he’d draw anime-style art and be deranged on Tumblr.
he would also be a jellyfish anime girl
If you accept Lesbian Jesus into your heart you also have to accept the Lesbian Devils as well so it is written
"You can't get robots pregnant!" why do you think it's called a motherboard? keep cumming in her auxiliary port dumbass
