#mindkiller

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

MIND KILLER | 1987

[complexcrow]

I must not repost tweets. Reposting tweets is the mind-killer. Reposting tweets is the little-death that brings total creative obliteration. I will face my desire for easy notes. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where posting tweets has gone there will be nothing. Only my empty blog will remain.

[there-are-even-diamonds-in-hell]

‘I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.’

[alexandermir]

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[notaplaceofhonour]

“it’s hypocrisy for people who celebrated the idf killing sinwar & nasrallah to be appalled by people celebrating luigi mangione killing brian thompson; either you care about sanctity of life no matter what or you’re okay with celebrating killing terrible people”

as someone who isn’t really celebrating either, but is more worried about the latter than the former, I would like to present another option.

there is a fundamental difference between:

killing a member of a military structure as an act of war VS. extrajudicial vigilantism and murder against another citizen

a terrorist organization that exists to destroy a country & slaughter its civilians directly carrying out a massacre with clearcut genocidal intentions VS. a healthcare company that exists to both provide coverage for care to its customers and profit to its shareholders making decisions that indirectly lead to death through a failure to provide care when they prioritize profit over care

an agreed upon military action by official members of a structure that has (ostensibly, or at least is supposed to have) a means of oversight/accountability VS. one rogue person serving as judge, jury & executioner with no oversight or accountability

a military attack that deals a significant & strategic blow to a structure that exists to cause harm VS. a lone act of violence that leaves the injustice structure intact and at most disrupts the means to provide healthcare coverage within that system

on multiple levels, the situations are different. this isn’t saying there isn’t severe injustice in how healthcare coverage is provided, or that Brian Thompson was in no way responsible for his part in it, but there are shades of bad, and in every aspect, they’re multiple steps removed in ways that severely change the dynamics.

yeah, if you squint your eyes until all details blur away and boil everything down to “bad person gets bad thing” they start to look the same, but that is a fundamentally unhelpful & childish way to look at the world.

should powerful people who make unjust decisions & have a larger share in the diffuse responsibility for terrible injustices receive no consequences just because they’re not directly masterminding it, or it’s an indirect consequence of other goals, or “it’s not personal; it’s just good business”? no, of course not. but there is good reason that we as a society have a concept of criminal negligence, and we recognize the difference between manslaughter versus murder. they’re just fundamentally different things.

no, intention isn’t everything, but it isn’t nothing. passively allowing violence isn’t not violent, but it is still categorically different from actively engaging in violence or directly commanding it. indirect responsibility isn’t no responsibility, but it isn’t the same as direct responsibility.

it can absolutely be helpful to build a fence around certain offenses—“don’t do x because it’s adjacent/can lead to y”—to make it less likely that the worse offense will occur or to keep people from abusing gray areas and claiming plausible deniability. but there is a limit to how far you can take that before it starts to do the opposite.

when we keep expanding the criteria of guilt to include more and more steps away from direct, intentional harm as equal to the direct/intentional version of that offense, and we lower the criteria for who metes out justice to just any guy with a gun, and we put the power of judge jury & executioner all in a single person’s hands and we allow the maximum sentence (execution) for even indirect/unintentional systemic harm… we’re creating a powder keg just waiting to explode into mass, unchecked, open violence and throwing matches at it. and that’s not even getting into all the people chomping at the bit just waiting to use this permission structure to attack Jews and queer people

I don’t know when we, the three opinions people, started embracing this dualistic extreme black-and-white thinking where things had to all always be x or y way, but we need to do better. cheering on the expansion of vigilantism into extrajudicial execution for untried alleged criminal negligence & corporate manslaughter is a significantly different beast to crab raving or dancing in the streets when a guy who directly masterminded massacres, ruled a totalitarian regime, or dedicated his life to final solution 2: electric boogaloo gets hit as part of a war.

[vigilskeep]

i do understand why people are anxious about the portrayal of the crows in veilguard getting toned down but i would be more than a little surprised if the view of the crows we get from lucanis in tevinter nights, i.e. “my family was actually right to abuse me because it made me stronger and also i don’t want to leave the crows even if i get the chance because i’m certain death is my one calling”, goes completely unchallenged in this game. and simply the fact that the story is explicit about the crows’ abuses of even their favoured son makes it reasonable to assume their actions are not going to be whitewashed

[45percenterthen]

I think the phones are evil bc they make your relationships quantifiable. I don't think love should be measured in how many messages u get for your birthday

[son1c]

i need summer to be over but i don't want to go back to classes. do you understand

[wuhkie]

[sendmyresignation]

realizing that my family is mostly just casually unkind and this is something i have to constantly train myself against

[yb-cringe]

i loveee remembering that i can just fuck off and walk away. i love that. see shit i dont like? i leave! dont like that ship? ok you do you! goodbyeeeee. its freeing im a free man as long as i remember i can just fucking go home to beddy bye

[utilitycaster]

I know the citadel is pretty bad but the witches SUUUUUUCK, I don't have anything smart to say but they SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

[rozecrest]

this image is my siren call

[ghostzzy]

i work rly hard not to pass judgment on my weight — i know the majority of my weight gain is from my meds, and that even if i were physically active & had a healthier diet i would likely still be carrying a lot of extra weight, and either way being heavier isn’t inherently worse, if anything it’s a sign that i’m feeling better — but. i do miss my face from when i was skinny.

[stealingpotatoes]

when you said "ahsoka doesnt have a beard but then i remembered"

and you put a picture of ahsoka and lux

what did you mean by that

is lux a beard?

im sorry if this doesn't make much sense it's late @ night and i forgot adhd meds today

[pussyhoundspock]

Most twisted thing a show can do is make you hate a character you otherwise would have sworn was market built for you to love