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Is it a good thing to make money? Cause I think Liberals general think it is a good thing to make money. But of course, freaking Liberals and their love of unjust hierarchies.
#politics#capitalism#anarchism#socialism#Liberals#unjust hierarchies#hierarchies#Liberalism#money#economy
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My problem with The Dragon Prince is that while it preaches about "breaking the cycle" and "choosing love", it repeatedly does so in a way that echoes the age-old idea of telling victims to passively accept their lot in life and the injustices inflicted upon them while their perpetrators never have to acknowledge their wrongs or face consequences for their actions. This is the kind of narrative they follow on both a personal and systematic axis, and it's exactly why the show will always frustrate me.
#oh also their hero-centered morality is blatant and exhausting#if you disagree pls don't interact on this post. I'm genuinely happy you have a different interpretation but I have no energy to argue.#tdp critical#anti tdp#this is so painfully obvious in the way they depict Viren and Claudia and even Ziard in that flashback#I am also...very concerned with how they're going to deal with Aaravos#currently I'm baffled at the way his justified anger and desire for revenge against Sol Regem for Leola's murder#is being framed as a Bad thing by the narrative via its moral mouthpiece Terry#Like hello? The Cosmic Order murdered his 8-year-old daughter to enforce their bigoted hierarchies of the world with violence.#Whatever you think about his methods being extreme and what he deems collateral damage being unjust is another thing altogether#But basic idea of him wanting revenge against the Cosmic Order and Sol Regem is perfectly justified in itself imho?
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every day someone here makes a post about a version of asoiaf in their head which is a lot more leftist than the series actually is. and that's fine because he's not writing a political pamphlet, he's writing a story which just sincerely investigates the realities of a lot of fantasy tropes while still using those tropes. the series is more about aristocratic conflict and how power can be exercised responsibly within that hierarchy and not the dismantling of said hierarchy. that would've been a very different type of story with very different pov characters. even dany's egalitarian streak is more out of noblesse oblige ("Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves"). the iron throne happens to be a symbol of stasis in a series building up towards change (a dream of spring) which is why it has to go, but once it's gone there's still going to be a king in his castle and his true knight.
#does anyone think bran will set up an anarcho syndicalist commune#or that the north will ever be ruled by anyone not named stark#it's not outright saying no such thing as a 'good king' like. bran and tyrion acok + dany and jon adwd chapters exist for a reason#and the books will never give us a conclusive answer to that conundrum of a good king within an unjust hierarchy either#because again. he's not writing an essay.#also. i suspect he's going to make bran some type of a once and future king whose legitimacy is derived from his magic#not very marxist to have a divinely ordained god king now is it#asoiaf#*[🫀]
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on the topic of stanne's being incapable of viewing feminism through any other lens than 'not like the other girls'... would anne even be regarded as so exceptional if she wasn't as privileged as she was? would the idea of her innate exceptionalism, her standing out at court as more fashionable/passionate/moral/intellectual/exotic still persist? i just have to wonder how many women could have been remembered by history as exceptional, if only given the ability to — if they had the resources from birth that anne had etc.
#not to nepo baby discourse ab however i hate the aristocracy <3 mwah.#ab fandom#if anne wasn’t born to a family that could get her the position in the low countries/france#raised in kent in a social bubble that facilitated humanist learning#wasn’t encouraged and enabled by parents who took equal effort for her prospects as they did with their son#(like... say... jane seymour…)#would she be so innately exceptional? would we still call her a 'self-made woman'?#she was given those things. she was exceptionally lucky and living in exceptional circumstances.#definitely an interesting thought considering how often i see stannes argue that coa isn't worthy of the praise she gets#because she was born royal - which seems hypocritical#esp considering how often anne's supposed 'fighting for the rights of others' gets emphasised as if her privilege didn't come#directly at the cost of those underneath her within a social hierarchy that is so inconceivably unjust
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Resisting the urge to scream when people miss that the Judgements are only at the top of the chain because they put themselves there and in fact the chain only exists because they created it and instead read FL as a generic "some beings are just naturally above others Because" story
#Something something unjust hierarchies only exist because they're enforced#(All hierarchies are unjust hierarchies)
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I mean, I feel like it is a natural outcome considering that both the jury and the public seemed to completely forget that Depp v Heard was about defamation, not abuse, but it terrifies me that a lot of people don't realise me what a giant blow to women's freedom of speech this was. She didn't name Depp as an abuser in that article, she said she was a figure representing abuse. The article was co-written with the ACLU and one of the contested lines was written by the editors but she got sued for it. Not the Washington Post, not the ACLU. Which definitely is at least partially because she had the worst lawyers and partially to get back at the ex, but Depp sued the Sun in the UK. He does sue newspapers.
And this is another facet of the larger phenomenon where all those big Western values of liberty and individualism, the personal pursuit of happiness, civil liberties for everyone etc etc etc - is and always have been directed at (white) men, with anyone else being granted some of that as a concession. So many of the lauded works in our literature are about how any person has the right to take charge of their own fate and needs civil liberties to be able to take responsibility for their lives - but at any of those points of time, it was always clear that this does not apply to women.
That since men have decided that women are happier as housewives, they have to be housewives, it had to be made law and there had to be social pressure. Since men have decided that women are better wives if they're uneducated, they barred them from education. That since men had decided that women cannot handle stress, they have to be banned from all sorts of things. And so on. The ideal of self-determination has always been a gendered one. It is about the man as the special crown jewel of creation, the being of infinite value, intelligence and depth, alleviated to personal power by the Enlightenment - and the woman as the NPC beside him. The rib. Remember, the same phase in history when male philosophers and scholars started to push for the idea that every (white) man is created equal, has the same abilities barred by circumstances - that was the same time that othering was more and more transferred from a religious rationale to a scientific one.
And much in the same way, if a man - any man but especially a white man - had lost a defamation trial on such shaky, shaky grounds, men would be taking his side, sharing 1984 quotes or whatever and consider it a dark day for human rights. In fact, think of all the male pundits who will spin outright lies about some celebrity being part of a cannibal paedo cult - and when they're found out to be lying, their fans defend them and say that "well it's their freedom of speech!"
For the public, there is no urgency to defend women's right to freedom of speech, especially when they're talking about gendered issues, because quite classically, they think a woman has nothing meaningful to say and "should be seen, not Heard".
#there is also the idea of the social hierarchy. Beautiful women are status symbols for rich men. Just like their cars and their mansion.#everyone knows that they're treating them like crap. That's part of the stereotype - getting away with it is part of what gives them status#That's why Snoop Dogg paraded women on leashes on the red carpet or Hugh Hefner lived like he did. They want to show that they can do that.#so in a world where this appeals to our sense of a functional world-order - the idea that a status symbol can defend herself feels unjust#amber heard#johnny depp#lmao get ready for the clown posse
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*leftist infighting voice* (I’m a communist don’t take this as commie bashing)
#had a convo with a communist who was scolding others for supporting the palestinian resistance movement#they were like um why are you supporting hamas#i was like bro the primary contradiction is not hamas and national liberation is a prerequisite for socialism#they deadass told me the primary contradiction is and i quote unjust hierarchies
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it must be extremely tiring to be a real anarchist on tumblr. imagine having coherent beliefs but being forced to share a space and labels with idiots who say vote blue no matter who. id be looking for the nearest bridge
#unfortunately the hierarchy between principled anarchist and liberal idealist is unjust so they can't actually kick the libs out#<- being unnecessarily snide
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Demon trying to feed on my insecurities: "You're a bad driver"
Me: "Of course I am. I hate driving. Going 80 mph surrounded by tons of metal is nerve-wrecking. I try to do it as little as possible. Of course I'm bad at it"
Demon: "You're a bad writer"
Me: "Well that part's simply not true. I never claimed I was the greatest author of my generation, but when I put pen to paper I know what I want to communicate and I usually do it well. If someone isn't impressed with my work, that's unfortunate but they're entitled to their opinion"
Demon: "You're a bad leader"
Me: "Well I don't know about that! I mean there was that one time when... Ok look just because people don't see me as an authority figure doesn't mean... 😠 You know you can be a real asshole, demon!"
#joking aside the reason I suck at helping people is probably not dissimilar from why I'm bad at driving#the joke is “having good ideas which would work if people let you boss them around” and#“having enough charisma to persuade people to let you boss them around” are two different skills and I don't have nearly enough patience#for the latter#but no really it makes me deeply insecure seeing sycophants rally around the most transparently incompetent and self-interested POS people#and meanwhile I'm getting called shrill and presumptuous for pointing out that the left-wing is poorly organized and I could do it better#can we agree it's at least a little bit because I have aspergers and no penis?#like I realize what I'm doing is the political equivalent of “but I'm such a nice guy!” and I'm literally complaining that no one#respects ma authoritah#but just saying: maybe I wouldn't come off as such a petulant misanthrope#if I wasn't constantly being asked to fix problems that could have been avoided if everyone listened to me in the first place#“nobody likes an i-told-you-so” yeah that's why democracies keep falling to fascism cus you want someone pleasant over someone correct#at the same time sooner or later you have to look in the mirror#and I can count the group projects I've successfully headed on one hand; maybe it's me#if it was just that people don't listen to me than yeah this would just mean I have an ego#but there are plenty of women the left could be rallying around and it doesn't because of minor scandals and anarchist ideals#it's stupid and I'm becoming a tankie just because i'm sick of the idea#that political goals can be accomplished without a clear chain of commmand#i don't need to be the leader but WE NEED A LEADER#the hatian revolution succeeded because Toussaint Louverture organized random slave rioting into an actual army#and I just wish I had that kind of magic myself but I might already be too bitter#ftr this isn't in response to anything that happened recently I'm just still mad thinking about an anarchist group I tried to join#on facebook five years ago where I asked point blank what the marching orders were and got blocked for being “obviously a cop”#and the mod comes at me with “anarchists don't have leaders IDIOT”#yeah well you're the guys always saying you only oppose UNJUST hierarchies idiot!#excuse me for thinking you guys had a plan beyond perpetual infighting#not everyone asking blunt questions about the anarchist platform are feds you guys are just paranoid and ableist#and when you block people for asking what game plan is it really sounds like you just plain don't have one (which is depressing)#I don't care how many books there are about how anarchism is more than just “wanting a free-for-all”#if you attack anyone who tries to impose a hierarchy just to get shit done it really seems like that first impression of
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The Fountain Of Magical Brethren statue in the 5th Harry Potter book really was the Rosetta Stone for me understanding that Jk Rowling really has always just been a White Man’s Burden kind of freak
#jkr: the problem is not the existence of unjust hierarchies the problem is that sometimes the people rightfully at the top—#are sometimes mean < 3#shut up janelle
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I don't agree with defund the police or ACAB
Or at least I don't agree with the terms. The underlying message is good. The problem with these terms is that they obscure what we really mean in a way that makes us look more unreasonable than we really are.
Take "defund the police". What we really mean is "fund social services". @theabigailthorn made a video on policing in the UK that shows that regardless of whether the police budgets are cut under Austerity or whether police budgets balloon out of proportion like in the US, the outcome is a shitty system so long as funding for social services is low. Without funding to social services, the police wear too many hats. There is no possible way that one single group can handle all the different problems we place on the heads of the police. And that's completely ignoring that they're a white supremacist agent of state violence. Tbh when I first heard about "defund the police" I mistakenly thought that it was supposed to be some sort of punishment for the police being racist. On its surface, that sounds like the wrong approach. I'm pretty confident that that reading is what many conservatives take away when they hear "defund the police".
And then there's "ACAB". What we really mean is that "all cops are complicit" or "good cops don't last". I can't stand when people smugly say that of course ACAB is obviously not literal. If you expect the group that thinks we're all batshit insane and wholly divorced from reality for the most common sense takes to parse the nuance behind the blanket statement then you're batshit insane and wholly divorced from reality.
This is not even a bad optics argument. This is why in the heck are we spreading misinformation about our own dang beliefs that make us sound completely unreasonable.
#Acab#defund the police#Every time I bring this up some Very Good Reader accuses me of bootlicking#Theres actually a big pattern of leftist principles that are expressed entirely in what we dont want instead of what we want#Even things that are actually true things we want to abolish end up sounding bad because we never explain what we want to replace it with#Abolish prisons. And replace it with what?#Abolish the nuclear family. And replace it with what?#Expecting people to read theory to understand what youre proposing to add when#theyve already dismissed your position as unhinged is preposterous#Anarchism is another example but I think its too entrenched a name to go back on#Lets define everything bad that we hate about government into this seperate term called the State and then say we want to abolish the State#Look at these dumb idiots who dont realize that anarchy does not mean chaos. Read theory dumb dumb#And then theres the claim of abolishing unjust hierarchies#Unjust is a weasel word#Its trying to square the ideal of abolishing all hierarchies with the reality that thats impossible#Unjust according to whom?#Conservatives think every hierarchy we have today is just#In fact we're missing a few just hierarchies that we need to throw in#Tbh I have some anarchist sympathies#I keep trying to join the local anarchist group but havent been able to go to many meetings due to bad brains#But at this point Im more willing to adopt an anarchist political position than I would be to adopt the anarchist label#Maybe lets try to be a little less 3edgy5you about perfectly reasonable political positions
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head in hands why did i do this to myself*
*make my canon inquisitor a trevelyan
#'cas just make a different canon inquisitor' NO#im going to do it* but im going to grit my teeth about it the whole time#*slow and methodical deconstruction of what it means to be the archetypal chosen one#only to realize that you are unqualified and unimaginative and the very Order (concept) that you are symbolic of#is unjust and restoring it will only further entrench a set of flawed and oppressive hierarchies & systems#its just the.................... what to do AFTER that realization that i have a hard time conceptualizing from a writing perspective#within the restraints of inquisition's narrative and worldbuilding#maybe thats the entire fucking point is that there is no easy answer to the ethical wielding of power even in the service of goodness#gwendolyn trevelyan
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I have a soreness pain in my feet. I feel it more so on work days that I walk a lot. I have PTO I could use. But if I do, I clock in less overtime that week. Less overtime means less take home pay. Means less money for me to give to my disabled friends in need. Meeting everyone basic needs of food, healthcare, shelter, transportation, education, entertainment, internet, electricity, heating, & water will improve everyone's health and mental health. But the leadership of our society don't want to do that. Capitalism requires there to be an underclass. Capitalism requires poverty to exist to be a threat to those who don't want work the terrible underpaid jobs. "Sure you can choose not to work. You can choose to live on the streets." Making a choice between living or dying is not much of a choice. It is coercion.
Capitalism is a coercive unjustifiable hierarchy.
I didn't choose the job I have. I have to have a job to pay rent. And life is terrible for those who can't work. My disabled friends can tell you.
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just read the first snowpiercer comic. that was literally one of the worst things ive ever read
#opposite of a bechdel test where a woman has to either be naked or talk about being sexually assaulted in every scene. every woman must do#this every scene#also ''this guy intentionally was evil and made an unjust social hierarchy out of choice instead of necessity''#''but i wont kill him because that would be Immoral. how about you pathetic woman are you not scared enough to kill him? didnt think so...#cause it would be wrong.'' its not for me i would kill him
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Also speaking of the great chain I'm drawn to Hell specifically. And the bit in Heart's Desire where Beechwood is put on trial for going *down* the chain, because to Hell only going *up* is allowed.
And it makes me think: Hell, in all its stated rejection of Law, still wants to use The Chain for its own benefit rather than get rid of it. They claim to be subverting it, when in reality they just want to do Unjust Hierarchies but in a different flavor.
No wonder there are groups of Devils who want to rebel against Hell.
#Can you tell I'm experiencing Brain right now#Something about pieces in unjust hierarchies co-opting revolutionary language in order to gain more power
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Everyday I think of the time I was watching the hunger games and my dad came in and I was explaining where I was in the movie and what snow was doing and such and he went “oh yeah bc snow is doing that communism thing like Trudeau is” and I just. No Sir. You Must be Confused.
#those are three very different politics#it’s literally the CAPITOL I don’t know what to tell you#middle aged people stop calling every bad political decision communism challenge#communism is when hierarchy and unjust distribution of wealth and resources
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