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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Yes, I do think there is a tendency to condemn people from their associations, and that can lead to unfair characterizations - though I don’t think this is one of those cases.

Actually watching some of the video, her comments align pretty directly with conservative talking points and builds upon existing conservative “arguments” and outrage about the influence of feminism on video games.

I think nublung is basically suggesting we shouldn’t be sharing bigoted or hateful perspectives, which I agree with.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
The youtuber is claiming modern games have “masculinized” female characters likely in response to attempts to not sexualize some female characters in contemporary games. Representing this as “erasure of feminity” sounds like a conservative defense of sexism.

Her right-wing views also explains why Asmongold, another streamer, is sending viewers her way. If you’re not familiar, Asmongold has right-wing views himself, and sexist views in particular, for example he was upset that a woman won a fan vote for an esports award, claiming it was a “diversity pick” and she only won because she was a woman. He claims she wasn’t a top streamer despite the fact that she was a top streamer with 6.5 million fans, etc.

The “hate” is typical conservative bigotry, and while nublung’s comment points out the youtuber’s sexism, likely what they meant by “hateful garbage” was the overall ideology which aims at the usual targets:
- women,
- racial minorities,
- political enemies (liberals and leftists),
- sexual & gender minorities (LGBT+),
- heathens (i.e. non-Christians, Muslims, etc.),
- immigrants (example),
- poor people (e.g. “welfare queens”, food stamp recipients, etc.), and
- disabled folks (example)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
was going to say, the invasion of Mexico (like 1848 or so) was naked greed and caused some countries to doubt the U.S. was serious about its supposed founding ideals, lol
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Unsolicited advice, but you have to escape your - to make it not create a bulleted list.

Lemmy uses markdown for its formatting, and this means - is has special meaning, it is syntax used to create bulleted lists with.

For example,

- Isaac Asimov will look like:
- Isaac Asimov
If you want it to look like

- Isaac Asimov

you have to escape the - character with a \:

\- Isaac Asimov

The \ basically says “ignore the special syntax meaning of - as starting a bulleted list, and instead treat it as a literal -”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
leaded gasoline was fun, huh?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would an all loving god create hell?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
No idea, tbh - I think you have a good question, I don’t recognize OP’s conception of hell either.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would an all loving god create hell?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
presumably the OP is Muslim?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would an all loving god create hell?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Might be worth reading this: plato.stanford.edu/entries/evil/

If it’s too technical, you might try Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
yes, feels like the pic is only meant to situate, like “I’m here in this situation”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you also feel cringe about people making such a big deal about ethnicity?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Even if a majority if indigenous folks didn’t mind the label, it’s still a label born of ignorance. It’s not like it becomes just OK because the surviving oppressed minority incorrectly labelled that way by the colonists are OK with it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you also feel cringe about people making such a big deal about ethnicity?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
yeah, I’m not really doubting OP’s intentions, I’m just trying to clue them in to how others might see their post so they aren’t surprised if it gets flagged

I think race issues were apparent to me as a young child, but it took the form of feeling insecure and unsure how to interact with racial minority peers of mine in school and so on, not wanting to make them feel uncomfortable but feeling fragile around them and thus accidentally introducing stigma. It was an awful feeling, and something that just didn’t happen with other students.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you also feel cringe about people making such a big deal about ethnicity?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Just a warning, your question might be interpreted as violating rule 5:

Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

That said, I don’t see why cringing about racism is controversial, if anything it’s the majority view that racism is bad.

If you are genuinely interested in learning about where racism comes from, feel free to read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism

Aristotle for example argued that non-Greek slaves innately lacked a will and thus depended on their Greek masters as rulers the way children depend on their parents (he made similar arguments justifying the supremacy of men over women). These views have a long history, and it’s worth learning about. You might start with the culture you are in (not sure if you’re from the U.S. or not) and read a few academic primers about race and the history of race in your culture.

You might also wonder what race is, and for philosophical questions about race I would start here: plato.stanford.edu/entries/race/
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for personal cloud storage alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
rsync is not really comparable to syncthing, it’s like comparing Excel to C++ or something. I need to be able to get lay people to install and use it, and syncthing has a UI that allows this while even I would have to do some work to get rsync to do everything syncthing is doing for me right now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for personal cloud storage alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
is there a more efficient alternative that isn’t centralized?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of us are so used to being monitored and told what to do/say/think that we prefer it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I live in America, people here operate in the opposite fashion of a hive - in a hive the organism is the collective, and the individual is just a part of the whole. In the U.S. many people refuse to take minimal actions to benefit others and even themselves out of the perception that it might be viewed as collectivist.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of us are so used to being monitored and told what to do/say/think that we prefer it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
social politeness has gone too far \s

tbh I have daily interactions with real humans in the flesh that make me think more people should be concerned about their actions and words than they are, lol

though the habituation of state and corporate surveillance is disturbing and should be combated fr
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of us are so used to being monitored and told what to do/say/think that we prefer it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
well you wouldn’t want to be caught doing / saying / thinking the wrong thing would you?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just sucking some milk out of the strawsage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
can’t wait for congress to ban whole milk because it has trans fats
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just sucking some milk out of the strawsage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
you know whatever lubricants they put on the drill-bit is not safe for consumption, that hotdog is contaminated now
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you want me to heat that up in the "Michael Wave"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
just get it out of my sight
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just sucking some milk out of the strawsage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
omg 🥵
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just sucking some milk out of the strawsage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
men, is it gay to suck milk through a hotdog hole?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I never realized this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
huh, that sounds like a rationalization, a way to find a problem with a critique that sounds more defensible or reasonable than defending patriarchy
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I never realized this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
my instance doesn’t show downvotes, so all I see is that you have lots of upvotes 😊

I suspect downvotes would come from people who disagree that marriage is patriarchal, tbh - I think a lot of people don’t really understand patriarchy or feminism, so they might thing you are being hyperbolic, like claiming marriage is akin to beating your wife or something.

Or they could just be responding merely to the language and not even the content, i.e. by talking about patriarchy at all or posing it in social terms they might think you have been duped by woke propaganda.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I never realized this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
yes, though I think a naming system like this isn’t an individual act as much as occurs on the level of social norms and rules; a single individual won’t introduce a competing matrilineal naming system just by convincing her children into it…

Either way, I somewhat agree with the criticism of the joke that the last name coming from a patrilineal origin isn’t a gotcha, though maybe that’s actually the point of the meme since Homelander is the one posing it as a gotcha (and he’s a villain, so it would make sense to symbolize a misogynist with him). The name would still be inherited in a matrilineal way even if it started as a patrilineal name further up the chain.

I guess there is a question of whether the name’s origin matters at all when we are concerned with the patriarchial nature of a practice where women lose their family names and men don’t. That practice being disrupted is what matters, not what the actual name is.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beautiful stories like this just make you smile⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
sounds like the shitposting is working to me
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I never realized this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
it is a pain in the ass, a burden that is put on the woman
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I never realized this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
is that an unpopular opinion, or just a well-known fact?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I never realized this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I assume they did mean “maiden name”, how else does the joke make sense? The mom’s maiden name is maternal grandfather’s last name …
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I never realized this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I think the point of the joke might be more that an attempt to start a matrilineal naming scheme is foiled somewhat from the fact that the maiden name of the mother is derived from her father, i.e. you can’t escape that the last names all come from patrilineal sources for generations.