marcela

Yes it was difficult to get through because the mental gymnastics they did to try and make TERFs palatable was more exhausting than cycling itself.

Edit: Yes, that was a much more inspiring and fair coverage. THANKS!

What Claire Sharpe did and what she said was really nice. The way BBC covered it, by counterpointing each one of her remarks with up to three TERF viewpoints whitewashed as "women rights campaigners", not as much. BBC and NYTimes are complicit to trans genocide. Having said that, I'd prefer a better source linked because there is a reason I am getting my news from lemmy and not the mainstream.

You can fix a cigarette that broke in half. I know at least three ways. Now why isn't big tech pouring the millions my way? Curious.

The right bears a grudge to the modern world in its entirety, and it pours money and energy into something they call ideological realignment. They want to bring about a shift in Zeitgeist that will make basic rights as we understand them in the post-world-wars era, and constitutional democracies as we understand them since the French Revolution obsolete.

Trans rights are not "subculture dramas" or "identity politics" but an application of these rights to people who are non-cisgender. We have the right to live our life in peace, get medical treatment and not getting discriminated against because of who we are. There is a specific type of person who because they are deeply transphobic while not styling themselves as right-wing or fascist, they project their views on the "silent majority", and dare tell us to shut up about democracy because our rights specifically are going "too far" in the democratic direction.

Guess what? There is not a "too far" in the inclusion and participation direction. Only in the opposite direction there is a "too far", and we know what lurks there: Absolute barbarism. In fact trans rights have not been acquired by trans people themselves but with the solidarity of a critical mass of cisgender moderates, who stand in favor of constitutional rights and the rule of law. The transphobic voices were and are extremist, even if they have taken the power.

Mamdani's win should settle this debate forever, as it is a big'ol'fat Fuck-You to the first category of people. The unscrupulus authoritarian who is effectively an alt-right adjacent, and prone to turn Nazi as soon as the political climate is favorable.

Some time ago there was a website where you could stream a whole collection of shows-within-other-shows. Like, you could have Itchy and Scratchy listed, just like in a streaming platform. I think it was called NESTflix.

Well, many people are not aware of the link between their ChatGPT projects and the rise in their electricity bill, nor the foreshadowed electricity drought. Contrary to what corpos had people believe about their "individual responsibility via recycling" their individual contribution to these outcomes is now actively suppressed by the billionaire-owned media. Curious.

Wow there is a lot packed into this comment, which I mostly agree with.

• Dumb collectible "ownership" fetishism
• Delusion epidemic due to AI addiction
• Decades-long Climate adaptation setback
• Devastating labor practices
• Cult doomsday syndrome reinforcing false beliefs
• Vaccine skepticism popularity and health outcomes

I am still baffled by how you managed to stuff the entirety of endstage capitalism dystopia into two short sentences. No wonder the word "fatigue" is featured in the username!

But I came here to point out that the last part is possible occurence of cognitive dissonance. When they have fucked up so badly, by commiting to such big evils, and especially sacrificing their kids health, yeah, there is no way back... Cognitive dissonance makes it impossible to admit the harm, so they are bound to reinforce the beliefs or face tremendous levels of guilt.

Is this the reverse Turing test? It can be used to gauge if hominid hype followers can "really" think...

She's like transvestigators, only stupider.

And more psychotic.

TERFs = TERF Excessive Rumination and Fatigue Syndrome

Posted above. No worries.

Extracts from Katherine Cross's Log off: Why posting and politics almost never mix. Pasted verbatim.

It’s worth taking a second to define weaponized sincerity. Weaponized sincerity is where extreme takes are born. It’s a mode that deploys ever more esoteric manipulations of social justice concepts for the purpose of being edgy or controversial, while still earnestly pursuing some noble idea. It’s the 0-to-60-in-two-seconds-flat acceleration of an innocuous bit of posting into a mass callout. It’s being nebulously accused of being X-phobic or silencing Y-group or being imperialist when all you were doing was, for instance, delivering chili to your neighbours.

One evening in 2022, a relatively prominent lefty Twitter user posted the following:

several guys moved in next door, students I guess. and I’ve gotten two confused door-dash drivers for them in the last week, and their trash can was completely overflowing with pizza boxes. i don’t think they cook. i am feeling such a strange motherly urge to feed these boys... They’re incredibly quiet which is a real surprise. I dunno if they’re renting or what but I would like them to stick around. Maybe I will make a big pot of chili this weekend when it gets cooler.

This, somehow, ignited a firestorm. She was accused of coddling “manchildren,” of being “presumptuous” or otherwise rude, of ableism for ignoring potential allergies, and of being a white saviour.

"For the love of god, stop babying men. This is why they learn to take advantage of their wives" went one tweet, apparently blaming this woman for the endurance of sexism and unequal marriages. Another tweet read, in part, "The intent was good, right? No. It was presumptive and stereotypical [white people] shit."

The harassment went on for days.

It was a flaming gout of internet rage that reached into the stratosphere of the mainstream press. Even the Washington Post reported on the controversy — and it got its money’s worth from the world’s most efficient content farm. The article wasn’t just a news report; it was an advice column. WaPo food reporter Emily Heil used the incident to ask etiquette experts for their opinions on how best to share food with strangers.

The social media food fight left us exhausted but also wondering: Have the rules for giving home-cooked foods changed? Does the simple act of baking a casserole or cookies for a stranger have to be so fraught? We asked two experts for guidance.

Imagine the horror of having such an innocuous post lead to three people you’ve never met dissecting your behaviour in the pages of a national newspaper.

In the event, the leftist in question delivered the chili, it was well-received, and the young men helped her fix a fence. Outside the swirling cyclone of Discourse, a rather ordinary and charming exchange took place. On Twitter, this pot of chili had to be saddled with the unbearable weight of some of the most important issues of our time. Even a Le Creuset can’t hold that.

But, worst of all, because most of the Washington Post’s newsroom is on Twitter, they made this sorry spectacle into everyone’s problem. Even New York City’s Fox affiliate got in on the action, with an article entitled “A Chili Controversy? Neighbor’s Good Deed Draws Online Outrage.” Their source was the Washington Post.

I’m talking as if weaponized sincerity was the opposite of shitposting, its natural enemy. And in one sense it is. But, like all true opposites, it’s also a twin. Weaponized sincerity is the horrible second helix that wraps around irony culture, feeding off it and nourishing it in equal measure.

BTW while looking for this I found out she also defines sincerity like this:

One of the things I really can’t forgive social media for is how deeply it has corroded our sense of sincerity, making it uncool to care.

The one rule, if you can call it that, is to not appear to take anything seriously. Sincerity is anathema to shitposting.

So, all in all, I can figure she draws a continuum from irony culture, like people "so deep in layers of irony they don't know who they are anymore" to weaponized sincerity, like, people who will take everything literally to the exteme of its political and ideological severity. She seems to be placing "real" sincerity to a point closer to the center than its "weaponized" counterpart. But I am no expert, I just have seen this happening over lemmy and it clicked, so I think she is onto something.

Also a disclaimer, I am personally more on the weaponized sincerity side.