I think it’s more like a response to the way one of these things is given a disproportionate amount of time and attention. We’re all expected to micromanage every aspect of our lives to diminish our comparatively miniscule impact of personal choice while the state and the ruling class just do whatever the fuck they want actively slaughtering the environment for fun.

You know what would help me minimize my carbon footprint a lot? Public transportation. A renewable energy grid. Affordable food created along sustainable and environmentally conscious supply chains. Electronics and clothing that is manufactured with long term use, maintenance, and recyclability in mind.

Those things are all out of my reach to implement. Me properly sorting my recyclables (which i do) is such a minor impact compared with those other things. Any offsetting done by proper recycling is immediately undone the moment i step into a grocery store, having driven there in my car for lack of public transportation, and buy food that was wastefully produced and transported to my grocery store via fossil fuel based energy.

The majority of our time and energy should be going into fighting back against the state and the ruling class who refuse to structure society around environmental impact, not on almost the almost irrelevant impact of individual workers. We can and should promote recycling, but we can hammer home that point when our whole society isn’t top down engineered with total indifference to the environment.

You can think whatever you like I suppose, but it helps if you provide a source.

I dont think that it requires a single party system to do this. Just much more coordinated public industries and infrastructure projects where public development is prioritized.

Jesus was a legitimate historical figure. There are a number of accounts of people contemporary to him who knew him personally. Some of the overarching details of his life are uncertain, but 2 things are mostly universally agreed upon as historical fact.

1. He was baptized by John the Baptist.
2. He was crucified in or around Jerusalem during the Governorship of Pontius Pilate.

Those two things are the only things about him that hold a high degree of certainty as historical fact. Everything else is subject to a fair degree of skepticism.

I think we live in a time period where seizing/searching phones doesn’t need the physical device to be present. They just have to ask Google and Meta to do it for them. Different than literally combing through the memory on the device, but not much. It’s why FOSS and selfhosting matters so much. What Google and Meta don’t have, they can’t just take.

That being said I would bring a burner if I went to the US. Lord knows I have said more than my fair share of critical things about the US government lol

And you said it on a post about China spying on its citizens. I didn’t bring up an unrelated fact or something.

I struggle to think how any nation that conducts mass surveillance on that level is not authoritarian, nor how like. A country could conduct mass surveillance and just do nothing with that information? Like its not like the UK, for example, is just spying on its citizens just for fun. Mass surveillance has an intention of manipulation behind it. If it was of no consequence they wouldn’t do it.

That’s why the example of the JD Vance meme, while absolutely horrifying, just seems like a strange place to draw the line and not like. Drawing it at mass surveillance in the first place. America should already have been included in “Don’t go to authoritarian countries” once it came out they were conducting surveillance in this way, which was long before we both were born (most likely, idk how old you are).

Thats a very strange place to draw a line in the sand when they were literally exposed wire tapping essentially the entire population of the country and mass harvesting private data.

As though the US didnt used to spy on its citizens lol

What nations do you view as ideologically and politically compatible with Canada? Is your end goal preservation of the Canadian status quo vis a vis capitalist electoral democracy?

Always keep an nsfw tab open to swap to so your family doesnt see you on the arch linux wiki.

Do you just not like shonen? Naruto, especially Shippuden, is great in my opinion. It has highs and lows and plenty of brutal filler, but also some of the most iconic fights in anime history and was hugely influential on the modern shonen genre.

Yeah the way that it’s positioned, as though through image alone she is self evidently less dangerous than he is, is definitely islamophobic & racist.

Women are generally less fashion restricted in western culture, but idk if id go as far as to say masculine clothes are objectively boring. Lots of people enjoy masculine fashion.

Ex X exec’s ex-ex Sussex XXX exed ex X exec.

Not sure where I’m deflecting the discussion to another subject. I basically just reiterated my first comment after you told me I was apparently scared of you lmao

I’ll ask again, if youre pro genocide and pro racism then what is your problem with fascism? They are also pro both of those things. I dont see why you didnt vote for it yourself if you are that ideologically aligned with them.

Liberals are the furthest thing from scary. You’re just fascisms little helpers. The best you guys got is stalling. Push comes to shove you’d all bow down to fascism rather than risk your lives to fight against it. I’m not afraid of lap dogs.

Its been a wild trip watching all the liberals reveal that they are spiteful pathetic spineless racist assholes after Kamala tried and failed to win on a campaign of conservative pro genocide and border militarization.

Like sorry what’s your problem with fascism exactly? It clearly isn’t the genocide or racism. Or is racism towards minority groups you are not a part of fine in your eyes? Is genocide justified against a community due to the actions of any members of that community? Is the murder of children? Are you generally pro ethnic cleansing?

British government is racist and pro-colonialism, go figure.

Very few people understand what fascism is in the concrete day to day sense. Fascist politics are very normalized in the modern world. They obfuscate everything they do. The more they can confuse and entangle antifascists the better. While we try and deconstruct their empty statements and lies they spend the whole time making confusing and conflicting statements, trying to garner as much support from bigoted people as possible. Its a union of bigotry, greed, and manipulation.

Fascists are themselves parasitic to democracy. Their existence within democracy whatsoever steadily nurtures them. The more tolerable their ideas are the faster they will grow. Tolerating Nazis at all is the same thing as promoting them. Their ideology spreads like a virus, it doesnt try to convince you merely overwhelms you. It harkens out to the priviledged masses fear of the other, and then surrounds them in a fog of conflicting information and symbolism. It says “believe in me and I will keep you safe” before outputting a barrage of rage, hatred, disgust, fear and dread. It uses language like symbolism itself. It preoccupies itself with definitions, centralizing itself as authority over reality itself. Once someone has become a fascist it is statistically impossible to change their views. Once someone has become a fascist they are overwhelmingly likely to never change. There is no scientifically proven way to deradicalize them. That’s how powerful a hold it creates. True believers in fascism exist in this perpetual state of anger and confusion. The rest see utility in fascism, to advance their bigotry or to profit off of corruption.

Yup extrapolate my opinions on other things based on this one conversation where you are hellbent on justifying people making nonconsentual pornography of women and girls.

Yeah you’re right I do not empathize with pedophiles. Is that supposed to be a gotcha or something? It should be entirely socially intolerable to be a pedophile. It makes you a danger to some of the most vulnerable people in society. Some psychological conditions make you dangerous and require you to be institutionalized. Being attracted to the idea of victimizing children is one of them.

As for the thought crime nonsequitor (since we are talking about creating AI porn), yeah I’m really not interested in the hypothetical reality where we can read thoughts. We cant, and thats not whats being discussed, you have from the outset been deadset on taking the conversation there despite its entire lack of relevance to making pornography of someone without their consent.

I also did say I have no issue with someone making a drawing that happens to look like someone they dont know and have never seen. Its the context, random internet guy who is still somehow incapable of understanding the harm of making non-consenting porn of your classmates and friends but is capable of empathizing with and defending pedophiles, that matters. Its the fact that the porn is of a real person that’s relevant. A real human being who has had their likeness taken and converted into material for sexual gratification by the people in their life. That shouldn’t happen to anyone, no matter their gender. But men and boys are not out here having their bodies sexualized and policed by the state in the same way women and girls are. This whole subject affects women and girls many times more than it does men and boys. It is a systemic issue for women and girls. It connects with other things, like cat calling and body standards and sexualization of the female body. It becomes part of a system. And if the people doing it are teenage boys, it is the perfect introduction to the idea that women and girls bodies belong to them. They dont even have to ask or consider their feelings or emotions before turning them into sexual material for them to consume.

Youre trying really hard to characterize me one way or another on subjects that aren’t related to this central theme. You are very defensive of the subject and seem to think its impossible for boys and men to simply not make non-consentual pornography of women and girls. Its as easy as that. Just don’t do that. I have not stated my intention to make thought crime a thing, read my past comments I explain that I would still be disgusted and horrified to discover a group of men had been sharing a group fantasy about committing sexual acts upon me. I see those thoughts as harmful in the first place, as I also stated before. But I have made no statements about making those thoughts illegal. Will I never speak with someone again if they told me I was their masturbation muse? Yup. Goodbye, never ever ever speaking to that person again. If it was a group of people? Yup, id definitely be psychologically traumatized by a group of people coming together and reducing me down to a sexual experience that they can masturbate about together. Yeah that’d fuck me up pretty bad, would never speak with any of them again and might consider restraining orders. But I never said anything about making those fantasies themselves illegal.

Content is different from thoughts. Writing a book is different than considering a plot in your head. Making a movie is different than imagining a scene in your mind. Building a house is different than considering floor plans. Pornography is different than fantasy. It is tangible outside of your mind. Humans are visual creatures. Pornography exists even once the creator is gone. It isnt a thought, it is tangible, you can see it. The harms are worse, as porn is real. It can be shared. It can be given to others. Different from thoughts, in just a glance porn made of you also shows you exactly in what ways the creator sees you. A visual representation of your dehumanization thats been shared with others. It is different in every single way. Our bodies are policed so extensively in this society and culture. Now we have to compare ourselves with the fake bodies that AI gives our exploiters. Now our nudity can be taken from us with just an image online. Even an innocent totally normal image isnt safe in any sense of the word. Algorithms have been made to take even that away from us.

You accuse me of being unempathetic to pedophiles, a charge I will accept. I am unempathetic to them. Its their fixation on abusing children to deal with, thats their burden to carry. Many who do get help abuse children later anyway. Because unlike a sexual orientation, pedophilia is being fixated on abuse itself. Like rapists or others who are fixated on inflicting sexual pain and torture on others. Sexual exploitation is among the most psychologically harmful things someone can go through. And pedophiles have an attraction to sexually exploiting children. It’s horrifying in every sense of the word, and yes I am entirely unempathetic of them.

You, on the other hand, seemingly cannot understand how being sexually exploited actually harms someone. You’ve tried very hard to create alternate explanations for why creating porn of someone without their consent is okay. You’ve continuously denied the way that misogyny inflicts this extremely intensely on women and girls. You’ve deflected, and asked for continuous explanations about why being dehumanized itself is a bad thing. You’ve argued yourself into protecting pedophiles. And you are saying I need to assess my world view? You’re single handedly proving that feminism hasnt made any lasting progress in modernity. We are still barely even human to men.