Doc_Crankenstein
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- Comment on Sincerely, your literally poorest europoor. 7 hours ago:
Someone seems to have upset a couple people with the truth.
- Comment on It used to be just weird Christians, but now everyone's pretty much on board with burning Harry Potter books. 8 hours ago:
Except you did when you said that “any engagement, even non-commercial, has the effect of promoting the brand.”
That is assigning blame onto the consumer, as you blame them for the effect of their action. Her brand is being promoted regardless, because the industry that is “advertising” exists. Additionally, the effect from people consuming her media is negligible, as even if you boycott and spend that money elsewhere it is still just being funneled to some other bigoted owning class fat-cat doing the same shit because that is how the system is designed. It just means that she, specifically, won’t be getting the money, while just denying yourself something that you wanted, assuming you actually liked the franchise to begin with.
So the best thing to do is encourage people to find ways to bypass these systemic barriers without needing to sacrifice their own desires so that the system which enables these bigots loses its power to restrict our access to the things we need and desire unless we enable them.
- Comment on It used to be just weird Christians, but now everyone's pretty much on board with burning Harry Potter books. 9 hours ago:
This is why we should just wholesale abandon the concept of intellectual property, which is simply an extension of the exploitative private property system.
- Comment on It used to be just weird Christians, but now everyone's pretty much on board with burning Harry Potter books. 9 hours ago:
This just ends up with the argument of “there is no ethical consumption under capitalism”
People are gonna do what they can to stay sane and engage with the things they find enjoyable. Unfortunately, literally everything in some way shape or form contributes to the oppression of minorities, LGBT+, workers, etc…
That’s just the society we live in. So don’t blame people for being human, blame the system for exploiting our humanity and encourage the individual to find ways to bypass it, such as pirating media.
- Comment on How do bikinis not feel just as exposing as underwear? 9 hours ago:
This makes zero sense to me. It’s all just cloth. The person in a g-string & harness is, literally, less exposed. You’re conflating the context of “being exposed” and “adds to the exposure”. Those two phrases mean different things. The first is referencing how much skin is visible while the second is referring to how noticable and attention-grabbing the individual is. You would be arguing an entirely irrelevant point to what was being discussed.
Clothing being “suggestive” is entirely a subjective concept. What is “suggestive” to you might just be something the other person finds comfortable. It is also the same general logic behind “look at what she is wearing, she was asking for it” and I find that really problematic.
The underwear example is also just dumb to me. It’s just cloth. It isn’t “meant to not be seen”, it’s just there to avoid regular clothes chafing sensitive areas of the body. It being seen is irrelevant and simply a coincidence of being worn under other articles of clothing. There are no inherent, underlying implications except for what you put on them through your own bias.
This just reaffirms for me that people like to add arbitrary, subjective aspects to things and then try to assert these as intrinsic facts instead of personal biases.
- Comment on A Polish jalapeño pastry 10 hours ago:
- Comment on I'm very Jesus-like 13 hours ago:
People really be arguing in favor of bread and circuses without understanding it is the very thing that is keeping them from engaging in political action for change.
- Comment on I'm very Jesus-like 13 hours ago:
Western neoliberal democracy isn’t the only option and, depending on perspective, was part of the problem by systemically enabling the rise of fascism.
- Comment on I'm very Jesus-like 13 hours ago:
While at the same time allowing people to be systemically murdered through lack of access to necessities because someone wasn’t able to make a profit off of them.
Or are you trying to say those deaths are justified just because the state doesn’t label it as “murder”?
- Comment on I'm very Jesus-like 13 hours ago:
Making people angry enough to get up and do something about it, angry enough to disregard the system and start breaking it. Angry enough to disobey.
Instead people are all too happy to remain obedient to the very system that oppresses them as long as they continue to be provided their bread and circuses.
- Comment on Feeling more macro every day 2 days ago:
We stopped micro dosing over a decade ago. We on that hero dosage now, space cadets.
- Comment on Kids don't understand some times you just watch southpark to find out how kenny dies. 2 days ago:
Yea, not anymore considering they dropped the gag at the end of S5 and they are now beginning their 27th.
Ugh, I hated the shoehorning of Butters into the group dynamics during Kenny’s absence. Rubbed a lot of fans wrong to the point the backlash forced writers to change the ending of that season and bring Kenny back.
I too wish they would have kept the joke going. Or at least occasionally make reference to it now and then.
- Comment on It's only a class war when we fight back 2 days ago:
Lol you tell on yourself too much. The people using violence in that scenario was the Jews. They rose up and used violence against the Nazis that were oppressing them.
We all know what side you’d be supporting, considering your adamant stance against those who use violence. This is exactly how liberalism enables fascism. Enjoy sitting on your fence while you still have it.
- Comment on It's only a class war when we fight back 2 days ago:
The state should not get a monopoly on violence, especially when it wants to use that violence to maintain its power of authority to oppress the working class within its imaginary boundaries.
If the state can use violence to assert its will then we of the working class can do the same to defend ourselves against it.
- Comment on Kids don't understand some times you just watch southpark to find out how kenny dies. 3 days ago:
Remember that episode where Kenny finally dies “for good” and subsequently disappears for an entire season?
- Comment on Hypothesis: Modern retro-inspired indies are much more enjoyable than the retro games themselves 3 days ago:
Yea. The JRPG genre has a lot of amazing modern titles. It is just that the genre fell out of popularity for a while and the newer titles never got the major marketing that Chrono Trigger and FF received.
Though, good news, the genre does seem to be heading towards a revival.
- Comment on Hypothesis: Modern retro-inspired indies are much more enjoyable than the retro games themselves 3 days ago:
I mean…yea?
Game development and design has evolved tremendously over the decades since those retro games were made. Systems are also just physically capable of so much more.
This inevitably means that a lot of the small design mistakes of those old titles have long since been rectified in modern titles because we understand now that those aspects weren’t part of what made those games fun — they were just the limitations and scope of knowledge of that era.
This isn’t to say those games are bad, I still play the old classics on my Switch when I have access to them, same with the classic catalogue on PS+, but definitely a lot of them just have modern parallels that do the same thing so much better that it isn’t even worth going back to play them.
- Comment on what's the world record for beatboxing while using a living bird's head as an instrument? 3 days ago:
- Comment on SUMMER 2025 Full Anime Calendar & Lineup Schedule 1 week ago:
Haven’t watched it but will add it to the list
- Comment on Arts & STEM 1 week ago:
There is a key for — on my phone. Just hold down the - key and it pops up as an option. I use it all the time.
- Comment on SUMMER 2025 Full Anime Calendar & Lineup Schedule 1 week ago:
Kaiju. №8, My Dress-Up Darling, Sakamoto Days, and Dan Da Dan all getting their 2nd season? Oh we eating good this summer.
- Comment on wtf 1 week ago:
For it to be scientifically accurate of a comparison, the ratio of weight:human needs to be equal to that of rider:horse.
In case my phrasing is confusing, to illustrate what I mean here is an example: a 200lb horse carrying a 100lb human is equivalent to a 100lb human carrying a 50lb weight.
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 1 week ago:
TIL what quotation dashes are.
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 1 week ago:
This is why I always donate my finished books to my local library. I don’t need them, and if I want to read it again I can always just go check it out from the library.
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 1 week ago:
I would assume there would be arguments around transporting them increasing the chances of it breaking. It would really only make sense to move these back to their country of origin and have them remain there to minimize potential points of failure. The rarer the artifact itself (another rusted out sword or plain clay cup versus a one of a kind manuscript whose pages have become incredibly delicate) the less their respective owners are going to want it to be moved.
Instead, we should be allowing more people the ability to travel and take time to go explore other cultures in their country of origin instead of trying to transport priceless artifacts across the globe.
- Comment on Pull to enter, you say? 3 weeks ago:
Explains a lot of ignorance in general tbh
- Comment on Pull to enter, you say? 3 weeks ago:
Legitimately, the majority of people would still miss the signs. People just don’t want to admit how little we truly pay attention to what is around us at any given moment. Our minds filter out so much information before we even have a chance to process it.
- Comment on Pull to enter, you say? 3 weeks ago:
We have socially conditioned ourselves to ignore signage if we aren’t specifically looking for it. 99% of signage in today’s world is usually just an ad being shoved into your face trying to sell something. It is a bombardment of annoying and intrusive information to the point our minds have trained themselves to filter the visual noise out. It is literally too much for our mind to process, so most of it gets deleted from our consciousness in the same way the hole in your vision from your optical nerve is being hidden from your perception unless you specifically expose it.
- Comment on Pull to enter, you say? 3 weeks ago:
Good thing they weren’t specifically talking about billboards and instead were speaking to the much broader spectrum of advertising strategies.
- Comment on The US is Collapsing Like the USSR – So What Comes Next 1 month ago:
As if we aren’t already. Wage slavery is a thing.
