capitalism: no one would produce anything without the profit motive
ao3 writers legally disallowed from making money off their work: this chapter written with a burst appendix, sorry it's so short
just to clarify:
war crimes under Geneva Convention:
- indiscriminate bombings functioning as collective punishment
- targeting hospitals/ambulances
war crimes under UN law:
- use of white phosphorus
ICC crimes against humanity
- forced relocation of civilian population
the paradox of conservatism is they want being normal to be punk. they want to rebel against authority while being the ones in power. they want to be rugged individuals and they think everyone should be the same as them. they want to overcome adversity while staying the majority.
Hey remember when I made an antifascist video and Nazis mass-flagged it as hatespeech and
@YouTube
took it down within a day and it cost me a lot of money?
Meanwhile it takes hundreds of tweets, viral video evidence, and several days before they decide "f*g" isn't a slur.
@gaywonk
(2/4) Our teams spent the last few days conducting an in-depth review of the videos flagged to us, and while we found language that was clearly hurtful, the videos as posted don’t violate our policies. We’ve included more info below to explain this decision:
gamergate was not a reaction to corporate pinkwashing of feminism, their most hated properties were
• a free indie game about depression
• an indie game about lesbians
• an indie video series on feminism that was critical of pinkwashing
"police... said they couldn't make the Nazis leave"
as someone whose friends have been kettled, teargassed, hosed, and arrested without charge at peaceful protests: cops get weirdly fixated on due process when white nationalists show up 🤔
Strange that the “try that in a small town/FAFO” crowd is rather silent when comes a bunch of gun-toting Nazi start parading around the streets of Wisconsin calling for “Blood” in the faces of mothers, unarmed citizens, and children.
the girls at the strip club love duke nukem because he's always respectful, tips great, and is an ardent supporter of sex worker rights. owners won't hire a bouncer so the girls have a series of non-verbal cues for when they need to duke to escort a creeper to the door.
There is no coherent liberal agenda.
We can't enact policy the way Republicans do because that's authoritarianism, but we need to uphold the policies passed by authoritarians because that's democracy, and we have to vote for Democrats, but we can't expect them to do anything,
If the definition of "women" is two X chromosomes then I have no idea if I've been dating men or women. I have no idea whether I'm a man or not. I don't know the chromosomal makeup of anyone I've ever met.
I cannot believe how fucking bad TERF arguments are.
SOME GUY: riots aren't the right way to do things
ME: what is the right way to do things?
SG: *lists things people have been doing constantly for seventy years with few results*
We've been giving you peaceful protests for 20 years and we've been arrested, kettled, gassed, shot, clubbed, held without charge, and had our right to assemble revoked.
You can't preach nonviolence while you hold the truncheon in your hand.
President Biden: "I call on everyone, no matter how deeply they care about this decision, to keep all protests peaceful. Peaceful, peaceful, peaceful. No intimidation. Violence is never acceptable. Threats and intimidation are not speech."
I do hope liberals who say "now that we've won it's time to reach across the aisle to conservatives" can one day understand that it makes conservatives hate them *more*
"well-regulated capitalism" means having a law that says a business can't hire 13-year-olds to work machinery that can, will, and does mangle their limbs and break their bones, because we know it's what they'd do if they weren't prevented
New Alt-Right Playbook! When the Right can't attack white liberals directly, they often attack people of color as a proxy, and liberals often let them. This technique is rooted in American white supremacy, and is the base from which fascists build power.
I contested YouTube age-restricting the new video, saying the pornographic material is heavily censored, I can't talk about the racist underpinnings of "cuck" without talking about porn, and under-18s use the term and should know its origins.
In response the deleted the video.
that last one, in and of itself, is considered genocide, even before we get to "threat of bombing if they don't relocate" and "evacuation impossible due to blockades"
an irony I've learned from working on The Alt-Right Playbook is that modern authoritarian strategy is decentralized, collectivist, hundreds of people throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks, while online leftist strategy is waiting for someone to tell you what to do
I'm sorry, I know everyone's excited about this, but this is *the exact same playbook* as Hillary's campaign in 2016: show Trump's awfulness through unaltered archival footage. Feels great if you already hate him.
Didn't win then, why would it win now?
two things I believe are both true:
1. Biden is not as bad as Trump
2. the number of Trump-era erosions to our democracy a Biden Presidency will repair is zero
between Patreon, ad revenue, and 5+ sponsors per month, James Somerton was on track to clear $200k/yr
I've been on Patreon 8 years and I'm at a little over $40k/yr
nothing has ever made me want to quit more
Since I simply don't believe the income shock was real in the first place that would put his post-"Maybe the end" Patreon income at around $10,000 per month. US. Add YouTube income, he's spent the last seven months making around $18,000 per month.
@Noahpinion
"except tax cuts" standing in for "completely altered the way US economics operate for a generation and counting" is WILD even if the other stuff you said was true
Pay attention how many people say "Lincoln was a Republican" but never say "Lincoln was a conservative" because they know the latter isn't true but they're trying to imply it is.
just once when someone says "conservatism used to be reasonable" I wish they'd say what period in American history they feel conservatives were the good guys
the fact that they rarely do is a helluva tell
Jeff Bezos makes $19 million an hour 24 hours a day, meaning, if we took every red cent he owned, he would be a billionaire again in just over 3 1/2 days.
He'd be a millionaire after 3 minutes.
imagine being paid to pause your job and disappear from public life for the better part of a year so you can get FUCKING RIPPED in secret
the perfect post-labor society
The thing I don't understand about Biden is he's spent a large chunk of his political career trying to be President, and to do... what? What's his vision?
me: I'm worried I want to quit youtube
me: why would you want to quit?
me: I don't enjoy making videos anymore
me: what do you enjoy?
me: ...
me: ...
me: nothing?
me: Ian you're depressed
NEW ALT-RIGHT PLAYBOOK!
This endnote is an hourlong lecture I gave at UC Merced about The Hashtag That Must Not Be Named, giving a proper timeline of its origins, discussing what it meant, and explaining how it prefigured The Alt-Right.
higher education is an innate good for humanity but has little practical use in 90% of the job market. most middle class labor can be done with a 7th grade education and only requires a college degree to cull the list of applicants.
Fun thing about the American healthcare system is saying "here's how I got screwed by insurers" and hearing Americans say "oh, that's unfortunate, but there are reasons for it to be that way" while people from other countries say "that's fucking DRACONIAN."
so if I point out that kneejerk conspiracism is a warning sign that you can be manipulated by authoritarians and is extremely dangerous to the long-term health of leftist movements, will y'all take it seriously, or does that make me a shitlib?
and no matter what they do, who they attack, who they invade, who they punish, who they oppress, they can't have it. they can't be the underdog while being the overdog. it will never happen for them.
seems like the folks saying the dems could do nothing to prevent this - couldn't appoint Garland, block Kavanaugh, pass an amendment - are saying democracy has failed utterly and the left is fucked without highly unlikely majorities
and they seem distressingly calm about it
Rian Johnson: Critique is fine, but people who only dislike TLJ because they hate diversity? Fuck 'em.
Far Right infiltrators: You hear that, fellow Star Wars fans? Rian Johnson just told ALL OF US to get fucked!
*wedge*
the racist meme that the Chinese are to blame for COVID because of "eating bats" is particularly silly to my vegan ears
setting aside that it's not true (it's extremely not true), why is eating a bat uncivilized but eating, like, a lamb or a deer isn't?
where does "the president is selling iron eagle shirts with 'America First' on them" rank on the asymptotic scale of forever approaching fascism but never arriving?
just so we're clear on conservative understanding of human sexuality and gender
me have sex with muscular woman: gay
me have sex with buff, bearded, homosexual trans man: still straight
duke burger stocks local food pantries with foods ebt doesn't cover. when asked by reporters whether it's health-conscious to give the homeless free nachos, duke stared blankly before responding "nachos kick ass."
when the protesters squatting the ice detention center needed breaks to restock supplies or shower at home, duke singlehandedly held off the cops by standing at the front doors quoting charles bronson movies.
CW: transphobia
This is fucking hilarious. I've been told by douches all my life that I'm fey, effeminate, weak, but then one guy gets it in his head I'm a trans woman and suddenly I'm the burliest alpha ever to sail the seas.
When people say women wearing makeup in the workplace invites sexual advances because it simulates sexual arousal, I remember a necktie is an arrow that points at your dick.
LRT: The Right sees no difference between "thing exists" and "thing is being forced on me," because forcing things on others is their whole MO, and the only way they know how to be.
Not blocked or restricted.
Deleted.
I can make changes and reupload but all the views and comments are gone and I have a community strike against my channel.
They said they determined my video was for "sexual gratification."
I am a VIDEO ESSAYIST
I work WEIRD HOURS
If it's not TOO HOT or TOO COLD I'll RIDE MY BIKE
I'm the ONLY STRAIGHT PERSON I KNOW
OTHER MEN FREAK ME OUT
I change SLOWLY with the HELP OF MY THERAPIST
god these are fantastic. i want to make one that's like
"NEWS REPORTER
i drive a HONDA
i eat RAMEN NOODLES
and i like LAX PUBLIC RECORDS LAWS
if you don't like it
MOVE"
2 Senators representing 2.8% of US population should not be able to singlehandedly block policies supported by 65% of Americans & 96% of Congressional Dems
Alt-Righter: *shoots people*
Leftist: I would've been willing to punch that guy if it would've stopped him from shooting people
Randos: hey Ian why don't you ever talk about left radicalization
1. Release social media app
2. Get enormous valuation based on potential for app to make money
3. Sell app to rich asshole for billions
4. Billionaire ruins app trying to make money off it
5. Design new app just like old one before billionaire ruined it
6. Return to Step 1
(psssssst announcing a general strike should be the culminating moment of months or even years of collective action and laying groundwork not the first step)
duke only sings born to be wild at karaoke, and he still only knows the first verse, but he sings it every single saturday at a gay bar called AXELROD. he has developed an entourage of flamboyant men who call him "daisy duke."
I find it funny that "beating the Russians to the moon" is seen as this Cold War victory given we got there by socializing the hell out of the space program and private business is only getting to space 45 years later in the crappiest ways imaginable