#not boycotting doesnt make you bad

[jigokuhana]

How come you haven't called out your boss for going to eat at places of the bds boycott list?

because you can't force people to boycott. you can inform them, but that's all. it's a personal choice they have to make.

and i'm not gonna condemn them for not doing so, as long as they're not spewing out pro-israel bullshit or being sociopaths about it. (ie: saying stuff like "lol tf? like hell im giving up my starbucks for ppl dying~")

do you look down on everyone who works at or buys from places that are on the boycott list, thinking they're all zionist supporters or something? because that's not the case, as easy as that would make everything. my own parents understand the situation & sympathize with palestine, but don't boycott. and i guarantee they're not bad people or zionists by any means.

hell, my dayjob sells hp ink/toner (which is on the boycott list) & other products made in israel. but i can't exactly tell people not to buy any of that stuff while i'm there, & i can't just up & quit. i sometimes even have to buy hp toner for my mom, if she needs it for working at home & can't get to the store herself.

ultimately, it's none of my business. i won't praise people for not boycotting, but i won't condemn them for it either.

[pankomako]

dude i swear if i actually make gang's bay a real show and i write a joke about being trans people are gonna be like "this is incredibly offensive to trans people" and im gonna have to come out and be like "yall im literally a trans person writing myself im just having a laugh why cant you too"

like seriously where's the line between a joke poking fun for laughs and a joke that's actually offensive? i feel like that's a little bit subjective dontcha think

[01zfan]

i just read the whole statement about the boycott and lemme just say my two cents (agreeing with you btw)

suju fans had to buy stocks to make sm listen to them. lemme say it again. SUJU FANS HAVE TO BUY STOCKS to make sm listen to them. yes this was decades ago but it still applies do yall really think sm will listen if it doesnt benefit THEM.

like lets not be dumb buying trucks trending shit and even this boycott wont do shit cause it doesnt affect sm

yall also need to remember that KOREA literally the KOREAN public likes riize theyre not fans they just listen to them do yall really think they, who really only care about the music.

if yall really gaf about seunghan why yk do the things that could make him money like idk stream the songs hes in? making his post the most popular one?? streaming his fancams??? but all yall do are things that could be easily ignored like the boycott will not even be an issue center 5 has like fee active artists as much as i remember but no here yall are discrediting everyone else in riize cause of sm mismanaging one member like

yall claim yall are ot7 but hate on sungchan substituting seunghan's lines, think that wonbin cannot be a good lead vocalist in riize even though wonbin is better in being a vocalist, thinking riize as a whole has a weak vocal and dance line and being the weakest in sm without him like all of them cant sing or dance i feel like half of yall just even care about seunghan cause yall have a savior complex and want him back which yeah he should but talking bad about the other members just to make him superior isnt it like lets be serious???

(also feel like the only reason yall came to the conclusion of boycotting is cause its the buzz word today to boycott something)

SAY THATTTTT YOU SPILLED…i believe alot of ot7s are secretly seunghan solo stans/akgaes because they only will uplift other members of riize when it relates to seunghan positively…like i see so many ot7s trash sungchan and call eunseok fake unless they drop little hints about ot7 and sudden theyre the best members in riize😭. also i see sohee only get mentioned alot on twitter when ot7s project onto him or wonbin when they try to group them together like wonbin isnt more than enough on his own?

also when siren dropped the amount of discord and shadiness towards the members of riize was like actually astounding lmfao. i think it just shows that this boycott/movement isn’t impacting anyone except the boys. like i just imagine them looking in their comment section on tiktok or intl briize reaction to siren and being disheartened seeing what their “fans” are saying about them.

i just hope that this boycott is resolved soon so riize can have the best comeback ever but with their popularity in korea im sure it’ll be a successful comeback regardless heh.

[autumndragons]

you know id like to hope its obvious from how ive been posting but if youre one of the people who unironically thinks the democrats are just as bad as the republicans and are """boycotting""" the election you are just as evil in my eyes as people actually voting for trump and you can get the hell off my blog. lol. my non-christian-religious queer disabled mentally ill ass doesnt want you here.

i had a whole long post typed up explaining WHY the dems arent fucking fascists but anyone whos following me i would hope knows better and i wasnt planning to make it rebloggable anyway, so. i'll just say that instead.

[fcb-mv33]

Really doesnt sit well with me that checo, without knowing the whole story, went to the media and poured more fuel on a burning fire, causing even more hate to be dumped ON HIS OWN TEAMMATE, despite knowing how much hate he already receives as it is. Rumors about him start cropping up, and he discovers he's not as blameless as he thinks he was, and suddenly its 'oh its an internal issue and it'll be discussed and solved internally'. Damage has already been done my dude. But maybe that's what you wanted all along?

What also doesnt sit well with me is the betrayal the team did. They fully knew the reasons why Max wouldn't do it, but they went on radio knowing it will be broadcasted trying to force Max's hand as if that would make him fold and comply, knowing full well that if he didn't, the backlash on Max would be horrible.

Oh the sky sports boycott was about the team standing with Max 🥺 bullshit. Congrats rb, YOU just made it worse for Max.

The whole thing from Checo was unnecessary. As someone who works closely with Max, who saw Max boycotting Sky over the abuse he’s been getting and has been the hate that’s been thrown at him since last season I think it was utterly ridiculous for him to go and do what he did because there was no need. He had no reason to go stress away and throw more abuse onto Max, saying he’s the reason Max has two championship is completely wrong. Max earned his championship while Checo last season in the top couldn’t even make the top two. So Checo seriously needs to be pulled by the team cause god knows Max would never react like that, never would he throw his teammate under the bus like that.

As for Red Bull…yeah what they did was wrong. They knew Max wasn’t going to help Checo yet they still tried to put him in that position. Max is a strong minded man, if he doesn’t want or does want to do something he’s going to stick to him decision. They should have issued a statement on Saturday when the abuse did began and especially now. And now seeing the death threats, the constant abuse Max is being sent maybe it’s time for them to back their driver up. Max hasn’t posted anything of his socials cause he knew the backlash thus would happen and Red Bull shouldn’t be standing for that. They need to be calling the abuse that Max and his family has been receiving.

Max gets too much abuse for something other drivers have done it’s fucking ridiculous and upsetting to see him constantly being made to be the bad guy when he just isn’t.

[abrahamshipwreck]

Theres a lot of things that Bug Me about Tumblr Brand Activism and its that- if you arent seen constantly blogging about something it MUST mean you are ignoring it and are therefore as bad as the otherside, or if you aren't doing 100% perfect in boycotting or whatever you're garbage.

Many times people do what they can do. You don't know what they do outside of their blog, you don't know their situation. Someone whos only access to a grocery store is Walmart is going to have a hard fucking time boycotting walmart and surviving. I dont want to sound like Im putting on kid gloves but the whole all or nothing attitude that is common in young tumblr activists is what causes them to eventually burn out of the cause.

I have been fully aware and vocal about support for Palestine for over half of my life. I make it very clear in my daily life that I am. I do share news and info on this blog but there is a certain point that you still have to take care of yourself as well. Black and white, 100% balls to the wall online activism may seem like the way to go but heres the thing about activism- its never an instantaneous fix. Sprinting at full speed without stretching or care at the start of a marathon is not going to helo you win the marathon faster. Same for anything in life.

Ive seen it so many times before. Burn out is real- it doesnt mean you are a terrible person it means we need to be realistic about ourselves and our expectations. No one can go 100% 100% of the time. Still be aware, still do what you can- but ultimately the onus is on the government and mitary powers that be- not because someone ordered a dominoes pizza one night

[st5lker]

picket line actors have talked about this but the "real" problem with ai is its usage not necessarily its existence. big movie corps using their actors likenesses without paying them for labor is bad and unfortunately because thats the reality we live in right now (they have already scanned actors to do this under the pretense of vfx), we kind of have to protest it because people need to survive right now. i agree with you in general about it i just think we should think bigger picture and im sure others feel similarly

im a little confused here if the problem is its usage and not its general existence then why are you saying we need to protest its general existence as a broad concept or individual non-profit uses and not like yknow do things like striking against and boycotting those companies with unethical usage directly. some rando making an ai song cover with a cartoon character is not going to have any effect on whether or not companies act this way. like sure i think giving it a big thumbs up of approval might be stupid but its not like big companies care about what the average person does or doesnt like if they can find a way to get away with it. thats why all video game companies kill their developers through crunch even though almost every game player agrees crunch is a bad thing and should not be done

[demoisverysexy]

Ok heres my opinion at this point about the Hogwarts game:

Is the game bad? Yeah. Its got some pretty antisemitic stuff in there. I dont plan on playing it myself. Its not even that good a game, from the gameplay I have seen.

Is buying it contributing materially to harm? Yes, but barely. J.K. Rowling is a billionaire and Harry Potter and her popularity will not be affected by whether or not you buy the Game. Boycotting it has done nothing to stop people as a whole from buying it.

Does that mean its ok to buy the game? For most people, no. But there are some exceptions I think. For example, leftist streamers and game critics who want to criticize the game and raise awareness about trans and jewish issues by using something that is relevant right now.

Do you mean Hasan? Yes I mean Hasan, but also more broadly than him. For example, Thor of GoPirateSoftware, the dev team who is making Heartbound, whose team is mostly trans, recently streamed the game and critiqued it on stream, then proceeded to get hate for it. He posted about it on twitter:

At the end of the day, the way that buying this game and playing it on stream contributes to harm is so miniscule as to be negligible. If anything, leftists playing it and critiquing it is like. A good thing. This isnt to say all of the left should go out in droves to buy it, but if someone decides to do that and play it for the purpose of raising awareness... I dont think thats the end of the world, and it doesnt make you less of a leftist. If anything, refusing to meet people where theyre at and publicly shaming and bullying people who play it isnt good, imo. If anything, it just seems a bit liberal if you ask me. And playing this game is not the death of trans rights or the genesis of antisemitism. And caring about it in a performative manner is like. Lib shit, if you ask me.

Discussion is welcome, just keep it civil please.

[sereniv]

Voting with youre wallet works for consumables and corporations like food, wear, entertainment, fuel, anything where there is supply and demand for the most part

if you take away demand, then they wont supply because supply costs money and thats the only reason why supply is there, because people buy it

which of course a lot of things are needed by many people with no alternatives or accessible alternatives for everyone

But when it comes to voting especially in USAmerica, local voting far outweighs the president. As it is right now at least

When I decided not to vote for Biden it was hard because last time it was about stopping Trump. Trump was the biggest threat, to us and everyone else.

But now seeing Biden, though he has done maybe a few good things to taste, overall he has done nothing plus some.

He has not only done nothing, but rolled back, failed to stop things from happening and above all else is aiding in a genocide

When i was mulling over how to deal with voting in this election, thinking about how bad trump is and still working off the 'best of 2 evils' in my mind, i finally remembered something that i think a lot of people have said in some way or another:

If i were back when the Holocaust was happening, I wouldnt have been a nazi. I would have done something. I would have helped and i would have fought. I wouldnt buy into the propaganda. I wouldnt stand by such an injustice. I believe i would sacrifice something, even myself if it meant not participating in genocide.

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I have said something along the lines of that throughout my years when the subject comes up, showing my disgust and the unfathomable stance of being a fascist or even being someone who just stands by and lets that shit happen.

I, and a lot of us like to believe that in that situation regardless of how it affects us, that we would do the right thing

and i realized i literally have that opportunity right now, to do what i said id do in that scenario.

Now obviously im not going to sacrifice myself, no one is asking that. You dont need to suffer in solidarity.

And I also am in a privileged situation where I am able to make the decisions im making, in boycotting certain places and not voting for biden

But i still can be affected by trump being in office again. my family can. my friends can.

But i cant vote for someone just for self preservation, that which includes those i know and love, simply because its me.

What would it take, otherwise, for me to not vote for biden or trump but third party?

where is the line drawn worse than a genocide? at what point is it so bad that one stops voting for the one that might do a little good, rather than focus on the actual foundation of our cities and states and country like voting locally, getting involved, focus on community etc.

I KNOW its going to be bad if trump wins but its going to be bad if biden wins. Even if its only bad for Palestine, a genocide, an eradication of a whole culture and history and families and generations is enough for me to stick it out

Again its easy for me to say in my privileged positions, i am not going to be affected by trump compared to biden as much as someone else. But it is still easy for every single one of us to vote for whoever, because we are not in a current genocide.

Trumps slogan could be "Round up the Queers and Shoot Them All" and I would still vote third party. Not because 3rd will win because i know it wont

Because i will do what i can to fight what that slogn proposes and emboldens.

I will show people at least that third party, every election, is worth supporting.

If voting for the lesser of 2 evils does next to nothing regardless of who you choose, then you build up and strengthen everything under it and around it

This is my take, and i want people to think about it themselves. Because you can vote for biden, and regardless of how i feel its your choice. This year it really is just about choice bc there is no voting in a better evil bc that doesnt exist.

If you are someone who is afraid then vote for biden and im sorry if you feel like i should vote for him for your safety and the people you know

there is no answer right now in that regard. the only answer is to prepare right at this moment to be active where you can

even if its just talking. even if its just posting

many of us are disabled and cant do hardly anything. but the people who know you, you have a lot of power when it comes to them.

Just voicing my opinion is going to influence someone who follows me or who knows me to change their mind.

But thats not my goal with this, its to help people look past the phrases and slogans and look into what will work. And that is local elections, being active in community run programs and getting involved in anything politics.

Fact check, and reblog. Repost. Post your opinion but also listen.

I am not voting for biden because he is complicit in genocide, and im not voting for trump for obvious reasons

i am voting third party knowing nothing will come of it other than slowly adding numbers and thus hopefully encouraging others in the future to consider third party. each vote now matters because it slowly shows people that a two vote system is possible to come to an end.

But that should still not be the focus. thats not foundation. thats not what holds that shit up. the president is more like a figure head.

think of a pyramid. we, and community, and local elections are at the base. the highest is the president.

ok this is getting too long. anyway

I know the US government acts like a corporation but it’s not.

Not voting isn’t the same as a boycott. Because you can’t bankrupt a government by not voting. All you get by not voting is less control over what the money is doing.

The money comes from taxes, not voting. Abstaining from voting does nothing to reduce the governments ability to get money and spend it on shit.

So yes, sometimes you vote to reduce harm because not voting WILL NOT REDUCE HARM.

It’s not a boycot. Abstaining doesn’t take power from the government. It just reduces the number of people they feel answerable to.

[snekdood]

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the "leader" is more like "leaders". normally one might think of stalin or something, but hes just a blueprint, the actual leaders are the ones at the top of the social pyramid within these spaces, such as popular tankie blogs

this ones obvious. i dont feel like i need to say anything. we've all seen how ppl act on here when you question any of their beliefs or the effectiveness of them, etc. and if you challenge them at all or say you dont agree, suddenly you're a horrible person or even a bigot of some form

i underlined "denunciation sessions" bc theres a big emphasis on here to denounce the old "unwoke" parts of your life. not so that ppl should change for the better, but because there's a pressure to change immediately and throw all your old beliefs out the window without even really unpacking them. its their way or the highway and you have to choose right now and its not a multiple choice test. i also underlined "debilitating work" bc theres an emphasis on reblogging things to "spread awareness" or whatever as soon as it pops up on your dash, and if you dont, you're a horrible person, etc.

while i dont really think many of the options given necessarily apply, they sort of do. you dont need "permission" to date, but you'll be berated for dating the "wrong type of person". you'll be told to change or quit jobs if the job does something tumblr communities dont agree with, even if you need the job, and usually they'll call it "boycotting" to make it seem more legit. they'll discourage you from moving to any state or country that they deem isnt progressive enough.

this one goes without saying. instead of it being some random air of superiority, it's "we're the most moral, correct and progressive people" superiority

this one also goes w/o saying, people on here think incredibly black and white all the time, its definitely encouraged.

this one ALSO goes without saying

this one is obvious as evidenced the past two months. everyone saying "believe victims" and that "rape is always bad" in the past but then coming in to defend hamas' actions at every turn and deny the rape or even say that "if it did happen it was justified". which is a fucking wild way to think about the world and you should be locked up.

also obvious. tankies love to guilt trip. nevermind if it backfires on them and makes ppl resent them and move to the right after. i mean, after all, all they cared about was the power they had in telling ppl what to do, not actually giving a fuck about anything or having any convictions.

yes bc if you interact with anyone ppl on tumblr generally dont like, you'll also be shunned. if you have family members who aren't "progressive" enough and you still accept them into your life and hang out with them, even if you dont necessarily want to or dont necessarily like them fully, the fact you still interact with them at all is bad, apparently.

obviously, bc who would want to stick around a place like this once they realize whats really going on. its why they demonize ppl like me or anyone who questions them too much and pushes us to side, to use us as examples for the new, younger people coming in that they get to manipulate and tell them to avoid you and avoid being like you, since you ever dared to question them. they'll call you whatever they need to, make bullshit up about you, JUST to lure ppl in and tell them how much better they are than you, or that if you listen to them they can avoid being like you.

i mean. yeah? maybe it doesnt seem that way but. ppl asking for money all the time through paypal or whatever? or the overall goal of "taking the billionaires wealth and redistributing it", while its a statement i generally agree with, i dont trust that the people saying it will be that responsible, and would probably just hoard money for themselves, and deprive it from people they "dont like" on purpose, almost as revenge for a real or perceived slight, or just bc they dont like someones "bad vibes".

yeah you're apparently supposed to take having tumblr mutuals very seriously, treat them like best buds even though you've probably never messaged eachother or messaged eachother twice about inane things you saw on tumblr. its not a total stranger bc its someone on tumblr so its fine actually! see, they say they're queer and a leftist in their bio, totally safe! thats all it takes! also activism is reblogging or something ig

if you go to other sites, you're looked down upon. if you make friends outside of tumblr communities, you're looked down upon.

people feel like w/o the communities they've built on tumblr, they have no safety net elsewhere, probably bc they've cut contact with WAY too many people, probably plenty of people who didnt even deserve to be, and probably bc they disagreed on like 1 or 2 things. regardless, they cling to the tumblr "safety" net for dear life. "if no one else got me, i know tumblr got me, heres my paypal" essentially. you cant trust the world outside of tumblr to take care of you never of course, its all bad and horrible and can never be fixed or useful in any capacity, etc. burn it all down and start it again with tumblr users in charge and then it'll be perfect, or so they think.

[mugenloopdalove]

no hate to op or anyone rbing and i dont entirely disagree but this also just... doesnt seem obtainable? im not a fan of the "over consuming non-essential" thing bc like... you can boycott the bad and still. enjoy things. is a latte "essential?" no. but i can make myself happy on a tiring with one even daily while still boycotting starbucks by supporting smaller/local chains or buying my own latte maker

and sorry but. getting electronics secondhand in this day and age is just isnt possible bc of planned obsolescence. ive had my pc for not even 5 years and its already starting to not be able to keep up w modern games, same with my phone. everything these days lasts 3 years at most if you want to actually use them.

like. i get it. i do. but this just feels like op is taking "boycotting" to mean "not consuming anything ever forever"

[kittycatcarla]

As a mainly pc player i got so incredibly mad when i couldnt play minecraft on a self-hosted server with a friend who was on ps4 because the ability to connect to a third party multiplayer server is paywalled behind playstation now or whatever the fuck it was called

THE CONSOLE IS PAID FOR. THE GAME IS ALSO PAID FOR. THERE IS A WIFI CONNECTION. WHAT IS THIS FUCKING SHIT. DEATH. DEATH TO SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES TO USE THE THINGS YOU PAID FOR. Whether it refers to your console playing online ot your car having heated seats, A MONTHLY SUBSCIPTION IS THE WORST WAY OF DOING IT

And yes, i know, someone might say "But Carla, consoles are sold at a loss by manufacturers!" And to that i say: so what. Theyve always been. Thats because thr manufacturers get a share of the profit every time you buy a game for thst console. Thats why the SteamDeck can be so much cheaper than an Ayaneo handheld for example. Subscriptions to use internet services arent so that they could scratch a profit. Its so that they steal more money from you

...

What if people started boycotting in front of Nintendo's and other manufacturers offices. I mean yeah i know that Nintendo doesnt give half a shit about its users and community, but it would make them look very bad if people start gathering in front of their HQ

i think that we as people need to get more pissed at nintendo for making nintendo online a subscription service like actually they should go fuck themselves for that

[lesbiansforboromir]

forgive me if youve talked about this before, but you seem fairly positive and excited about the new rings of power show. on the one hand im really excited - it sounds cool and gorgeous and im really really excited for more legit dwarven content. but on the other, i really dont wanna support the show given whos making it and what it means for amazon. how do u reconcile those? (i REALLY hope this doesnt come off as attacking or rude i am really bad at tone in text, i just respect your opinions and stuff a lot and im curious)

No worries! Honestly I've gone on a whole journey about RoP and I've settled into relatively calm anticipation only recently. But yeah so... well my answer is two fold. Firstly I do not see the good people not seeing this show would do. At this stage I do not lean heavily into boycotts unless there is an organised movement behind it that has a specific goal in mind, whether that be worker's rights, environmental safeguards etc. For a long time I have been avoiding buying anything from Amazon, but that is because I put effort into buying locally whenever I can. Boycotting RoP has no similar purpose and I do not see the benefit in me not talking about it. Unless people are thinking that by driving everyone away from this show they'd tank Amazon prime entirely? That actually doesn't sound beneficial or feasible to me.

My second issue is whilst I don't see the benefit, I do see the harm. I'm not sure how much you've been involved in the storm around this show, but if you even dip your toe into the youtube algorithm surrounding RoP you will find an absolute cesspit of white supremacists doing everything they can to make the show flop because it has black actors in it. And it has gotten to the point where I will post something even mildly RoP positive on twitter, receive a flush of racist troll accounts throwing out as many vague 'destroying tolkien's vision he's rolling in his grave' type statements as they can, only to then get a second wave of people agreeing with them because THEY interpret it all as anticapitalist instead of racism. Remember when everyone was laughing about people copy pasting that fake tolkien quote into the comments of the first teaser trailer? Something something evil cannot create it can only corrupt something something? A lot of people against the show because Amazon (but also because it wasn't canon in their eyes) really found that funny, but that was a racist effort with nearly entirely racist motives! I cannot over emphasise how massive the specifically racist resistance to the show is right now. They're planning a whole suppression campaign on 4chan for the first episode releases.

So at this point I am just not comfortable engaging in my own personal non-specific boycott of RoP in the name of attempting to harm Amazon somehow, but therefore tacitly supporting the white supremacist's greatest desire; that RoP can flop so they can blame it on the black actors being in Tolkien where they 'aren't supposed to be'

[hualian-blessing]

why mcyttwt does not think some (if not most) of the time when it comes to mcc

if i post this in twitter, i’d surely get hated upon but someones gotta have to say this one day. also this does not target to mcytblr!!! this rant is more of towards mcyttwt!!!

remember how mcyt was so chill before all of this shit? how we would watch our favorite minecraters when the community was so small? or how mcc was an event that both ccs and fans can have some fun and entertainment once per month? and that was only last year too. now look at the new generation of mcyt fans and see why some of the old fans dont really associate the new ones.

as a fan of the old gen mcytbers like DanTDM, SkyDoesMinecraft, Aphmau and CaptainSparklez. heck im a fan of pewds’ minecraft series before dream or tommy or ranboo or the new gen of mcyt ccs blew up (a year before them if im correct), and we dont see drama or bad shit all the time when it comes to their content.

now compare that to the new gen where every single fucking day, a bored fan or anti would post shit drama in twitter where some of the people from twitter moved to tumblr just to not get a headache from the batshit craziness mcyttwt brought forth. and it just snapped more when the mccp21 rolled in.

heres some of my takes about the mccp21 issue:

1) “there’s a lack of representation of lgbtq+ in the teams!!!”

heres something to tell yall about that. scott doesnt have a fucking choice. scott smajor has told time and time again, WEEKS before the announcement of teams, that there are certain requirements and limitations to mccp21 thus there will be difficulty in choosing whos entering or whos not. limitations and requirements such as it will be streamed on youtube or how streamers with twitch contracts aren’t allowed to stream or (god bless scott’s good heart) scott not allowing some of the lgbtq+ streamers in joining the special event due to wanting them to have a chance to stream and experience their first mcc (so to those who said that ranboo should have been in mccp21, shut up ‘cuz scott wanted genderman to have fun streaming his first mcc but cant due to ranboo being a well-known twitch streamer). to those who complained that ant and velvet should be in the mcc, stop being selfish and do some actual research on why scott didn’t include them. a simple question to those two’s fans would answer that they can’t make it due to them camping for a week which within those days is the mccp21. they’re having time to themselves, not wasting it on a minecraft championship. 

take in the consideration that, oh i dont know, not a lot of lgbtq+ ccs applied to the event? its not a free invite championship (in fact, mcc has always been like that), it’s an applied with the sufficient and correct requirements kind of event. the artist who created the icons from the previous mcc for the teams said that scott let in some of the new ccs in last minutes due to lack of applicants not meeting the requirements thus not having custom artworks for the teams if they want to announce the teams in time.

2.) “there’s no lesbians or trans in the teams >:(((”

sadly enough, there’s not much of the players from the lgbtq+ community but to say there’s no trans people in mccp21 is utterly false. by definition, trans mean  denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond with their birth sex. other genders such as non-binary, genderfluid, androgyne, bigender, gender expansive all fall under trans. you define yourself with the gender you personally chose and comfy with from you birth gender. so saying there’s no trans in the teams when there are players from the event like eret or sqaishey who are nb and genderfluid respectively are there to also represent not only the sexuality but also the gender identity of others??? like c’mon, please make sense mcyttwt. 

also, while its sad to not see lesbians, please know that lgbtq+ doesn’t strictly be defined by lesbians. ffs, lgbtq+ literally means Lesbians Gays Bisexuals Transgenders and Questioning (or Queer but im not too sure about that one) which means that there are still other representatives for the community in the event.

3) “technoblade is in the event?!!! WHAT THE FUCK, HES A HOMOPHOBE/LESBIPHOBE-”

utter clowns, toxic twitter users are. do you really think that scott smajor, an openly gay man, would let a supposed “homophobe/lesbiphobe” in an event that focuses in supporting the lgbtq+ community? do you hear yourself? do you even do research where the joke he made was when he was the same age as me and it was based on a historical article back in WW2? or how he passionately supports the community especially the lesbians because a lesbian couple complimented him to which kickstart his confidence? the man willingly went to this mcc event despite being flamed a lot in twitter because he (and everyone) knows that his chat, his fans and supporters, are literal millionaires. if you saw a stream from foolish where he auctioned canonical characters for funs, a techno fan donated thousand of dollars to get technoblade, and that’s only one fan, now imagine a hundreds of thousands of them.

like it or not, technoblade has always been open about his support to the community, especially that majority of his fanbase are from the same community that mcyttwt allegedly swore that technoblade hates.

4) “since this mccp21 is pointless because theres no dteam, quackity, punz or (insert cc name), let’s have a watch party of the previous mccs to spite mccp21!!!” “let’s hope (insert cc name) stream on the 26th so mccp21 doesnt have the same amount of viewership like before!!!” “where are (insert cc name)??? gosh, this mcc is so boring without them!!!”

shut up shut up shut up shut up shut the actual fuck up. are you really seriously hearing yourself? are you willing and proudly boycotting a once in a year special event that is seriously needed by the lgbtq+ community? are you that cruel and selfish to sacrifice a project that helped tons of people just for your sick entertainment and desires? are you that evil to stop others from enjoying and donating to the trevor project? are you that inconsiderate of other ccs that aren’t part of dsmp and calling them boring? and for what? because your favorite cishet streamer isn’t there? oh booofuckinghoo! you’re so fucking petty to even post about this kind of tweets in public.

(edit: did yall honestly thought that without your favorite streamers that the mcc is not worth watching because they aren't there? well let me tell you, im a ranboo fan. ive watched him when he first entered the dsmp and watched him spinning in his unicorn chair for 5 minutes. the boo community waited for so many months for genderman to join mcc yet we didn't even do that kind of disgusting action and behavior every time he isn't in mcc. 8 months. that's how long ive watched him. ive waited 8 months for him to be in the event yet i still watch other povs like tommy's, puffy's, wilbur's, and etc., because it's fun and entertaining to watch them despite the beloved not participating in the games.

if you're that spoiled to not even watch mcc because (insert cc whose not part of mccp21 name here) isn't part of the roster then you most likely have a one dimensional humor because there will always be someone more funny and entertaining than them. i like dsmp don't get me wrong, but i found parrot's school smp funnier than dsmp yet you don't see me insulting both series, do you? learn to keep yourself if you're calling ccs as boring or dull or not entertaining enough due to not having the same big platform as the dsmp members.)

you don’t deserve to call yourself a fan if you’re doing this kinds of actions. in fact, people like you should be kicked out from the mcyt community because your kind of people are the reason why we look so bad from the outside. your toxic and self-entitled to these content creators are the reason why famous ccs like sbi, purpled, tubbo and almost ranboo left twitter/implied strict rules to their subtwts. you drove out an entire friend group that tons of fans found comfort in from the platform and you still have the audacity to this kind of shit? honestly, just leave before you give me a headache.

what im sayin’ is that mcyttwt is one of the worst, if not THE worst, subtwts out of the other subtwts in twitter. having no actual research or evidences or spreading false information is common in twitter where you would have to take what they said with a micro size grain of salt. mcyttwt already ruined the fun and spirit of mcc during its comeback in mcc14 due to the glitch and beta testing shit (ey i still stand for the ranboo beta testing but i know that will be worthless since theres hints of him joining soon in mcc15). if you’re still in mcyttwt, i suggest to get out of there while you still can. we’ll never know if there’s a bigger shitstorm than this in the mcyttwt that may happen in the future.

edit! hi bella again, ive been told by a polite and cool user that not all people from mcyttwt are toxic and/or cruel. im going to clear something up here. ive written this during the heat of the announcement of mccp21 teams. so there's a lot of complains and/or entitled people in the app (you can even see it in my previous post too if you want evidences!) that gave off mostly negative vibes towards the event.

ive seen the cool ones who actually took the consideration for scott's side and the criticism of the lack of representation of other communities within the lgbtq+ umbrella (ive even share some parts of it above so im also a bit upset to the lack of numbers in the community). and some of them are correct about recruiting lgbtq+ creators in youtube but! like i said, it's an applied event and not invitational one, so its up to that content creator if they want to join or not. the amount of cishet in the roster are just those who want to support the cause and/or backups/stand-ins in case scott and noxcrew can't find enough ccs in time!

just wanna clear this up because mcyttwt these days are covered by really cringe fans (ive noticed a pattern of them mostly new ones but there are still awesome new fans (like my irl friend who just joined this year) within the community) that covered the good ones where they enjoy, have fun and share some neat ideas and thoughts to the community within the platform!

when i said to get out of the mcyttwt while you still can, i meant to get out of there to avoid drama (that is really small contrast those who really need to address the issue) and take a break from it. it's still your choice if you want to be surround by it or not or if you want to come back to the app. all im saying is to buckle up for the shitstorm cuz this is not the last time that the twitter side of mcyt will cause negativity to the community.

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I wasnt even aware about his mcDonald's collab but listend. Japan kinda lives in it's own world. I heard a bit about the boycot and I understand why some people wont want to support him anymore because of all that but I dont think it doesnt make him a bad person I think. Also, nothing it stopping you from still liking him and talking about him.

After the whole Eve fiasco I saw people on Twitter say they wouldn’t (understandably) support him anymore but then a few days later some of them started tweeting about him as if nothing happened so I wonder if it’s oks for me to do the same….

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Not attacking you tt just engaging. I might inadvertently make you feel straw manned I'm just riffing on my internal model of someone who's politics are like yours, feel free to disavow what I'm projecting onto you.

Not long ago @triviallytrue claimed that approval voting seems to favor moderates, i think also that ranked choice voting allows for further left or further right actions/candidates to win. They further claimed that this is a point against approval voting, because they believe that better candidates are not too moderate.

I think this is interesting. I think its fundamentally wrongheaded to think of political systems in terms of "I'm right, I may or may not be popular, let's get the system that makes me more likely to win regardless" because it's a symmetric weapon. People with values alien to yours can think that way too.

But when the question is "what properties of a social choice function are desirable?", there are a number of considerations (thinking thru on my own not based on any literature):

1. Moderates winning all the time is virtuous of the function because that's like a true average of the extremes and aggregation is the point

2. But on the opposite hand what if moderation creates a directionless society, that the degree to which it's better to be going in some direction outweighs the extend to which which direction matters?

I think 2. brings up something important! Intuitively on dating apps if you optimize for everyone you become a featureless blob and miss selecting for the person you're really meant to be with; triplebyte wrote that the job hunt shares this feature, they encourage you to discriminate and exclude when you write about what sort of company you're looking for. So does it follow that societies oughtn't optimize for being a featureless, directionless blob? Does it follow that it's ok to piss off people who lose formal elections more than the minimum amount necessary? Moreover, what social choice function design principles are implied here?

My inner-triviallytrue (my model of their politics) would say something like "it is asymmetrical, it's ok for my team to win with reckless abandon because our approach maximizes the welfare of everyone and their (say white trads) approach doesnt", but I would caution people who think like that to remember decision- or game-theoretically that the other side thinks that too. Noncosmopolitan trads are alien to me but I think there are altruists among them who are like "no I swear trump's muslim ban leads to the best outcome for the most people", one suburban asshole I know who literally boycotted going to restaurants and tourist traps in sanctuary cities told me "if their males over the age of 16 are coming here they're not starting revolutions, increasing lock-in of bad regimes" which is a tangent but an example of a consideration that was alien to me as an open borders shill but nevertheless seemed rooted in an interest for best international outcomes. Where was I going with this. Well, one point I wanted to make is how dangerous it is to say "we're right we just have to win" because that's what every minority-rule idiocy and atrocity said! A little outside view here is good!

Yeah idk. Social choice functions are hard. What do yall think about point 2 above? Can tt or others bite the bullet that moving in some direction and not being a featureless/directionless blob is good even if it means white christian trads and nationalists or maybe billionaires take things in their directions? This is ultimately the question I want to ask.