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It does help actually, to post the whole context of Hank Green supporting sex workers

Raise your hand if you’re just incredibly fucking tired of people taking things the Green Brothers say out of context to make fun of some of the straight white dudes that use that privilege to their advantage to help marginilized people.

The Green brothers speak out about racial injustice, financial inequality, homophobia, housing issues (including homelessness), mental illness (ESPECIALLY John, who has gone through intense depression and anxiety in the past), and many other topics.

They provide dozens of free resources for students online, specifically Crash Course, and every year during the holidays they donate thousands of dollars to multiple charities.

They actively acknowledge their privilege and use it to lift other people up and provide resources for those who don’t have the same privilege.

I’m sure many people don’t know this, but John and Hank CREATED VidCon. They’re the reason VidCon exists today. They were some of the ORIGINAL YouTubers, and they’re one of the only platforms on YouTube that has stayed true to their original content idea.

People LOVE to hate on them. They love it. John was sent so many death threats and harassed so much that he gave up all social media but YouTube for a long time. The reason? People claimed he was glorifying cancer (which if you’ve actually READ the book, he doesn’t) and that he was a “pervert” for writing about high schoolers (as if LITERALLY every single book about a high schooler isn’t written by someone older than 18 I mean Jesus Christ people). Hes spoken on this a couple times but stopped because people just ignored him and dragged his name through the gutters.

The hate on Hank is, from what I’ve seen, fairly recent - he was kind of the forgotten brother for a while. Until he published a book where the main character was bisexual. And he said positive things about trans people. And then suddenly “Hank Green is just a dumb man and his opinions are trash.” Almost like people didn’t like that the “science man” was openly supportive of homosexuality

The Green brothers acknowledge when they get things wrong. They speak out on injustice, on inequality, and they always, ALWAYS try to do what’s right. They are some of the most wholesome straight white men I’ve ever come across in life in general, and it infuriates me that people reduce them to “okay? okay” and “oh didnt he do Crash Course?”

And now hank green is the honorary father of gen z and science tiktok

Somewhere along the line some people saw ‘people with more privilege in certain areas are less likely to be as aware of their advantages because they are not forced to be aware of the issues constantly’, and somehow read it as ‘if someone ticks enough Privilege Boxes then they’re a Bad Person by default and I’m allowed to bully them’, and those people are a blight on the community.

Also yes it DOES help if someone with privilege says “I have this privilege, and the bullshit you’re spewing about this minority is BULLSHIT, so I’m going to use my privilege to put you in your place and support these marginalized folks.”

They have also raised millions of dollars for a maternal hospital in an area with some of the highest mortality rates in the world. The people building are largely women too, and John was delighted to learn this because he felt like they would take even better care to make sure it was done right.

One thing I don’t understand about American medical care is how it is costing us so much money and yet the facilities and staff are so run down anyway. They charged my insurance close to $90k for my colonoscopy, a two hour uncomplicated procedure that they do everyday all day and the nurses make a yearly salary around $50k.

An absurd fraction of every dollar you spent on that colonoscopy probably went to a bunch of middlemen. Be it insurance company workers or the venture capitalists who buy up hospitals in massive numbers then strip as much value as they can from them, you're not paying 90k for a colonoscopy. You're paying 90k for Steve Feinberg to fuck you in the ass, of which a tiny percentage goes to the actual doctors doing the work.

- Rich People’s Gain is Worth Less than Poor People’s Pain: A new way to think about utilitarianism, courtesy of the Office of Management and Budget

I cannot take any man’s complaints that women don’t like him because of superficial bullshit seriously, my dude the whole of europe is in love with a 5’4 guy with a bowl cut I guarantee it’s not your height or fashion sense that’s holding you back

LIFE OF BRIAN

watch this movie!!!

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so who’s the next wizard we put tits on. my vote is darth vader.

Ok but consider. Palpatine’s Big Unnaturals

it’s been years since i’ve first seen this comic and i still think it has one of the best punchline delivers of anything i’ve ever seen

eternal classic

I painted 30 body affirming watercolours in January. This is #7 (stretch marks) Prints available

[ID: realistic watercolor art of a white skin belly from the belly button down to the hips.

it’s curved and chubby and covered with small skin details and large purplish red stretch marks. at the bottom, you can see just the beginning of pubes. end ID]

Every other day someone on tumblr posts about how weird Al fucked pinkie pie and while yes that is funny it’s starting to get really, really old

imagine if you like bought a house and the realtor that sold you the house came by and did maintenance every couple months and it was a pretty good arrangement until one day they stopped doing maintenance and things started breaking them and you called them up and they were like 'surprise! we've decided what this house is really missing is a pool so we're going to build a whole new house for you that has a pool we are so excited about this pool' and you were like 'is this a deflection from your sexual harassment lawsuit you're involved in' and they were like 'the pool is going to be so cool!' and hung up and you didn't hear from them for years and then they called you up again and were like 'good news! we've built the new house, why don't you move in' and you were like 'oh, the one with the pool?' and they were like 'wellll yeah but we haven't actually installed the pool yet but when we do it's going to totally transform how you live in your house so you can see the value' and you were like 'i don't know i think i'll stay in this one' and they were like 'hmm yeah sorry actually you can't we're blowing the old house up with dynamite' and you were like 'what? why?' and they were like 'so that you're not split between your old house and the new one' and you were like 'um, fine' and you drove over to the new house and there was no pool or space for a pool and the realtor showed up to gave you the keys and you were like 'this house looks identical to the old one, i don't really understand why you did this' and they were like 'aha! you see, the old house had six rooms, this one has five!' and you were like 'that sounds worse, though' and they were like 'no you see with only five rooms it will be much easier to do maintenance on the house' and you were like 'but you haven't done that for months' and they were like 'yeah that was the old house which we've just blown up with explosives this is the new house' and you were like 'so how's that sexual harassment lawsuit going' and they leaped acrobnatically into their car like a trapeze artist and zoomed away and you went into the house and saw a coin slot on the bathroom door and called them and you could hear the background noise of a courtroom and they said 'yeah so you have to pay five dollars every time you use the bathroom now, it's our new monetization plan' and you were like 'well this is bullshit i feel like this house is just straight up worse' and they were like 'noo listen the pool is going to be so cool it's going to be so good we promise there'll be a diving board and a tiki bar and those water jets that give young people sexual awakenings' and you were like 'well okay' and they were like 'we've been building this pool for four years trust us it's going to be good' and then you didn't hear from them for a long long time except occasionally when they showed up to do maintenance and if you asked about the pool they just winked meaningfully and asked if you wanted to pay a $15/month fee for a bathroom pass giving you unlimited flushes and toilet paper. and this went on for a year until one day you got a voicemail 'dear resident. we're not going to build the pool lol' and you called them back like 'well what the fuck did you demolish my old house for' and they were like 'we actually gave up on the whole pool like two years ago but we did a whole announcement and it would have felt sooo awkward to walk it back' and you were like 'what the fuck have i been paying five dollars to use the toilet for over these last two years!' and they were like 'listen buddy if you don't like it you can buy the bathroom pass' and then they hung up on you . anyway that's what happened with overwatch 2

to a first approximation I think it's basically fine to round off every environmentalist organisation like WWF, NRDC, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, et al. to "enemies of humanity". anprims can die from disentery mad about it.

i mean... look, there are still parts of society that think they should be able to dump whatever genuinely dangerous and toxic substances wherever and however they want (and parts of the world where, depending on the local regulatory climate, they are); this is a situation that has gotten better over the last 50 years or so in some places, but not universally so, and to the extent that it’s gotten better, it’s gotten better because of a push by organized environmental groups. i think “every environmentalist organization is an enemy of humanity” is wildly overstating the case.

ehrlich is pretty obviously a moron (for those who don’t know: the world population growth rate has been declining since 1963 and is projected to go negative later this century), and it would be great if supposed anti-global-warming groups would stop opposing nuclear power, but environmentalists seem correct about a lot of things, like "contaminating the water table with industrial waste is bad” and “we should probably do something about acid rain/DDT/CFCs” and “capping the liability for disasters like exxon valdez is objectively stupid policy.”

I think it's excessively charitable to these scientifically illiterate lying scumbag pieces of shit to consider that their stopped clock wins would outweigh the harm their anti-nuclear and anti-GMO and anti-development positions have done

the difference between this

and what actually happened in Germany alone is something like 20000-30000 deaths per year for half a century. the nuclear power that we DID build prevented ≈ 2 million deaths due to air pollution; the Green death toll from not building more is at least that order of magnitude.

if you think it's unfair to blame the smelly innumerate hippies's unwashed asses for all of that, then I will say it's unfair to fully credit them for acid rain and industrial waste

this and continued association with dregs like Ehrlich uses up ANY patience I would have to find out how they are any better than enemies of humanity. real "but maybe THIS fascist has some good points!" shit.

“stopped clock wins” is pretty clearly wrong, I think; the state of environmental policy in europe and north america in the mid 20th century was pretty clearly awful, and it took a lot of concerted work to create policies to mitigate that situation. the clean air act in the US alone has saved more lives than german nuclear policy has cost, and there are countries with strong environmental movements that also haven’t forsaken nuclear power (France, for one).

if the only category of enviromentalist you admit is “hippies,” then sure, the hippies alone didn’t cause major shifts in environmental policy. but as the case of paul ehrlich (who comes off to me as a pretty right-wing guy!) demonstrates, the environmentalist political coalition is pretty diverse; i don’t know why “the coalition of people who support environmental legislation” doesn’t count as “environmentalists” or why “the policy record of environmentalism is mixed, with major good being done in some areas and serious harm being done in others” is such an intolerable position, when it’s pretty clearly the correct one

As someone who works in an environmental regulatory body, I do often get annoyed by environmental activist groups who don't fully understand the science and have unrealistic or actively harmful goals.

But they still fulfill a necessary role in society agitating for environmental change. The regulatory bodies wouldn't exist without them and you don't need a STEM degree to protest for general changes to environmental policy. I think we just need to ensure that regulatory bodies are staffed with the relevant scientific experts who know how to translate their concerns into workable policies and to ignore the more ridiculous demands.

At the end of the day, the scientifically illiterate hippies really don't have that much power over the specifics of environmental policy and their worst excesses ideally get tempered.

and this is of course why when angela merkel said "the danger of a magnitude 9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami striking Germany is so great we have to shut all our reactors to prevent an accident that killed no one happening here", the relevant experts told her to go fuck herself with a spent fuel rod before jumping off a cooling tower, instead of going Ja Mütter and letting her acquire a body count higher than that of the srebrenica massacre before her time as chancellor was up (and enable Putin). even German climate "scientists" have had their brains rotted by Greenpeace and coal fumes, the whole country is a lost cause and a write-off.

You're emotional and overreacting.

absolutely batshit insane to me that omegaverse porn is an effective data poisoning method against gpt-based products. predatory language models getting tripped up by wolf dick was not on my 2023 bingo card but here we are i guess.

i want us all to take a minute and just. contemplate the possibilities.

ok obsessed with this one too

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1. The academics were mostly cancelled for free speech absolutism. None of them voted for Trump.

2. The queer housing group made copious references to astrological signs but your sign was not on their list of exclusions.