Hol’ up, I thought the Native Americans were all down with the LGBTQIA2++good? Navajo Nation refuses to allow or even recognise gay marriages and according to the Washington Post it’s all White people’s fault

bopomofodojo · 2023-10-25T00:18:53+00:00

This is precisely it. Liberals (a.k.a. "the left" America and the Anglosphere) are all about surface-level diversity, but not diversity of thought or belief, which is why they're so shocked and taken aback when, for instance, pro-Palestinian ("POC! POC!") protesters beat up a TQ+ kween. They legitimately think that because they're both "disadvantaged by the white man" that they're actually the same on the inside or something. Conservatives, on the other hand, tend to be very divisive about surface-level things, but often change their tune when actually exposed to people from other visibly-different communities that share the same values. It's not quite, but pretty close to, the inverse of liberals.

Both are trivial analyses however. Both fail to recognize that individuals are complex and multi-faceted.

bopomofodojo · 2023-10-13T03:19:25+00:00

It truly was the age of barbarism.

bopomofodojo · 2023-10-13T02:29:04+00:00

It's both hilarious and fucking infuriating how they will lump T in with the LGB when it suits them (like claiming that the AIDS epidemic killed millions of mini-troons for whom there is no recorded evidence whatsoever) but then immediately stab them in the back over other things (sexual attraction, Stonewall, etc.).

Like, no, it was gay men who were dying in the AIDS epidemic. Gay. Men. Not "traaaaaans" simps or genderspecials. They did not exist. They only exist now in the form of these terminally-online mental children who are utterly consumed with their own narcissistic desires, something that has only been enabled via Social Media in the last 10-15 years. Before that they literally did not exist.

When you are steeped in a transphobic culture and surrounded by transphobic people, it's hard to even recognize that you are transgender in the first place.

Like always, they're just so fucking close but the delusion takes precedence. The real version:

When there are no "trans" influencers around speaking into your ear from social media all the time, it's hard to recognize that "trans" is a thing at all, let alone something you want to be for the social clout or fetishism.

bopomofodojo · 2023-08-18T00:54:56+00:00

So many queers don't understand [intersectionality]"

Emphasis mine. Replace "intersectionality" with literally anything and this is some homophobic shit, but thanks to that one word yup it's "progressive".

bopomofodojo · 2023-06-27T03:41:57+00:00

Used to be that outing a closeted person was one of the gravest sins in the LGB world.

Well, guess not any more, at least not if you're a T and it helps justify your special feelings.

This person is a narcissist.

bopomofodojo · 2023-03-21T23:37:17+00:00

Yes, but also no. What happened is all the liberals adopted the aesthetics and terminology of leftism, without any of the actual, you know, leftism parts. Culture-war liberals call themselves left but are not left-wing on anything except "social issues" (i.e. culture war battles, not economics). That they have completely infected and coopted any attempt at actual leftism in the anglosphere is a problem, yes.

bopomofodojo · 2023-03-04T17:30:45+00:00

Yes, basically XWindows sites between Gnome and the hardware.

X is basically the API that all desktop environments (Gnome, KDE, XFCE, etc.) talk to in order to do things like "draw an application window on the screen". It's the standard that allows there to be so much diversity in DEs because they don't have to reinvent the low-level wheels every time. That's the usefullness: a standard API for doing 2D/3D desktop graphics stuff.

You'd be amazed how forward-thinking X was, even back in the late 1980's. It's worth remembering that X wasn't developed for Linux, it was developed for Unix and the myriad of commercial Unixes in the late 1980's/early 1990's was the main impetus for adopting it as a standard. It wasn't running on paltry x86 systems either, it was running on big fat Unix workstations and such, so it could do a lot of things that look or looked impossible on 386's and 486's.

X.org is a particular implementation of X (the reference implementation), specifically X11, which is FLOSS and has become the defacto standard for X in the age of Linux. It likely does many things that aren't specifically mentioned in the X11 specification, but since it's the go-to version, they're treated as if they exist. I don't know the specifics of Alpha channels but I imagine those are one of them.

X11 is not without its drawbacks though, and performance is one, which is why Wayland came into being. But Wayland is still rough around the edges and missing a lot of useful X11 features. It's reallllly tailored for GNOME as well, hence the concerns about other DEs disappearing.

I hope X.org continues to get maintenance from someone, but it's an uphill battle. It's a very complex, very old system with literal decades of feature creep and bloat on it, so it's not exactly easy to jump into.

bopomofodojo · 2023-02-27T00:58:36+00:00

The woke whiners will truly never be happy until all White Male Coders™ are expelled from the Internet. I'd say they should build their own everything, but they won't, because they never contribute anything constructive, only whine and moan about how they don't like the things other people have built, no matter how much they cater to this crowd.

bopomofodojo · 2023-02-18T03:50:22+00:00

Holy victim complex.

Literally, first meeting when talking about kidney failure: "Hey, doc, I have a uterus and was born female. Make sure you take that into account."

But instead just sat waiting for a year waiting for what, someone to telepathically determine the uterus was there and that they should magically account for this despite the blatant lie on all the medical records?

Your fault, "dude". Your fault. Not anyone else's. Your pride and vanity got in the way of getting a proper diagnosis, a very mannish thing to do, so at least you have that going for you.

bopomofodojo · 2023-02-10T08:07:28+00:00

Them calling any moderate criticism of their insanity "genocide" has to be the most disgusting insult to victims of genocide possible.

bopomofodojo · 2023-01-30T04:21:00+00:00

Overall, there is a big disconnect between the HR people and the workers.

One is the productive force of the company, the other are a bunch of Gender Studies majors who failed into a career as pesudo kingergarden teachers for adults and provide absolutely zero value to anyone.

bopomofodojo · 2023-01-30T04:18:05+00:00

Definitely feels like it, and I fully support it. These attention whores decided to make 3rd person pronouns a hill to die on, and try to force the rest of us to play their neverending game of "constantly think about pronouns" instead of just using the basic rules we learned from birth, so congratulations on these execs for finding the perfect malicious compliance way around it. This one freak wants to be a special snowflake and demand irregular pronouns, then everyone gets the neutral one from now on.

And of course they tell on themselves that once again it's always about "validation" a.k.a. their extreme narcissism. I've maintained for years that the only people who could possibly give a shit what 3rd person pronouns someone uses for them are narcissists, and every time they get uppity like this, it confirms it further.

bopomofodojo · 2023-01-18T02:32:05+00:00

This is what drives me the most crazy about enby's. You cannot - cannot - be an "enby" without fully subsuming yourself to gender stereotypes. You just can't. Their entire worldview and foundation of identity is based on these stereotypes. Despite the LGB community and GNC people more broadly fighting for literally a century to be seen as more than just presentation, in the span of 5 years they've turned around and subsumed sex and sexual orientation to said presentation. It's laughably absurd but yet it is the progressive Truth du jour right now.

bopomofodojo · 2022-12-23T16:19:18+00:00

"Groundbreaking: Here's a test that will confirm you're Trans all the time if you want it to! Perfectly reasonable Science™."

bopomofodojo · 2022-12-23T16:18:18+00:00

And prove how many of them are just trenders.

bopomofodojo · 2022-12-21T04:54:34+00:00

This is an iceberg.

First of all, a lot of it ties back to narcissism. These people absolutely crave attention - positive or negative - and will do anything to get it. Trans gets them attention. Claiming to have 18 self-diagnosed mental illnesses gets them attention. Acting like a lunatic and writing unreadable star-filled diatribes gets them attention.

Next, there is indeed a correlation between autism and trans. Likely because, well, autistic people tend to be socially isolated, unable to connect with other people, and most importantly, deeply unhappy with themselves and their bodies. In comes a socially contagious movement claiming that if you "just take these drugs and chop off some bits, you'll be your TrUe SeLf and happy all the time". And because of the autistic tendency to hyper-fixate, this becomes their be-all-end-all: personality, hobby, social circle, etc. It's a vicious cycle. Just replace "trans" with "heroin" and listen to them talk, and it becomes clear how similar it is to a drug addition.

Last at least for this post, well, they probably do have a couple serious mental illnesses. We live in a deeply disturbing society for numerous reasons and in numerous ways, and huge swaths of young people are depressed, anxious, and abusing non-drug things like drugs (video games, social media, etc.) for the dopamine hit. A few go off the deep end, and statistically speaking, that's a lot of people. But on another hand, well, if you're a healthy, happy, well-adjusted 20-something person, are you really going to go off a deep end and start fixating on taking hormones and chopping off bits? I mean, unless your friends all are (social contagion after all), probably not. And the silent majority of normal people who aren't terminally online just don't make the noise these crazies do.

bopomofodojo · 2022-12-15T19:11:25+00:00

It's just like ACAB.

ding ding ding. As a leftist, I detest the absolute hypocrisy of these libleftists who constantly say "ACAB" while turning right around and saying "we can't gatekeep X or Y community". I mean, yea, I agree ACAB. And I also think LGB should rid itself of trender TQ's and the groomers in their midst. One is the party line, one gets you cancelled, when they're saying the exact same fucking thing: if a member of group A is being abhorrent, and the other members of group A ignore, abet, or outright support them, then all of group A is guilty of the crimes of the abhorrent members, or the abhorrent members should be removed from the group (a.k.a. "gatekeeping").

"Gatekeeping" becoming some naughty action is the root cause of this absurdity IMHO. If LGB(T) was able to gatekeep out the trenders, LGBT was able to gatekeep the groomers, then this wouldn't even be an issue and we'd still be at 2011 levels of acceptance among the wider public. But the trenders and groomers just kept pushing the boundaries for no good fucking reason and lying about it, and here we are.

bopomofodojo · 2022-12-11T07:27:45+00:00

Yea that's a big aspect. Old-school (pre-rebirth) Trek was entirely episodic except for the experiments in DS9 and Enterprise. Both of which, it's quite easy to forget in hindsight, were badly received at the time but are now (at least, for DS9), looked upon as some of the best parts of the franchise. The downside of super-serialized TV is that if it sucks, it all sucks, there's no "good episodes" buried in it. Which is the fatal flaw of Discovery and Picard.

Thankfully you might be happy to know that SNW is entirely episodic; you don't need to watch them in order, and each episode is entirely self-contained. Definitely check it out of you like old-school Trek storytelling style. The last episode is especially amazing if you are a fan of TOS Balance of Terror, but I won't say more than that.

bopomofodojo · 2022-12-11T07:21:13+00:00

Because they centered their identity around a desperate attempt to "be male/men" despite reality getting in the way? It's fucking sad but not unexpected.

bopomofodojo · 2022-12-11T07:19:45+00:00

"Autism" a.k.a the complete inability to accept and adapt to reality and get the fuck over themselves.

bopomofodojo · 2022-11-29T08:27:37+00:00

The "professional help" just gave them bottles of "titty skittles" and said "have fun".

bopomofodojo · 2022-11-29T08:26:23+00:00

Lower Decks is on par with the Orville for sheer hilarity (Mike McMahon is a good steward), and SNW is just great. Prodigy is a kids show. Disco is meh (each season is better than the last, but given how bad 1 was, that's hard to recover from), and Picard was a travesty. It's really hit-and-miss right now (kinda like 90's trek...).

bopomofodojo · 2022-11-29T08:24:38+00:00

It can absolutely be both.

10 years ago, people might go to a movie, what, every 2-3 weeks, if there were things showing, and there was a ton of choice every week. It was just a "thing people did".

Streaming and COVID lockdowns killed most of that, coupled with the consistent rise in streaming, leaving many people to having 2 years where nobody did that "thing people did". Add to that the endless rising costs of everything where a ticket is now $20.

And now we're coming out of it, and instead of jumping right back into a movie every 2-3 weeks, people might be going every 2-3 months instead, if that. Thus they're far more stingy on what they see. "A big budget sequel to a great movie from 30 years ago which hasn't already been ground into fine mist for sequels? Sounds appealing for my one movie these few months. Some random crap from Disney that's got an 'LGTBTQWTF protagonist'? Why bother, trailer looks like shit, I'll catch it on Plus later for free and if it sucks I'm not out $20 and a trip to the theater."

People have been saying that for years because it's been a trend for years. It's just been masked by the fact that fewer and fewer movies are being made every year as studios consolidate behind basically 2 giant ones, and that the movies that do get made are all these giant-budget blockbusters. What's different now is that we're seeing blockbuster after blockbuster from the studios underperform, which if that trend continues will certainly trigger some sort of correction.

bopomofodojo · 2022-11-22T06:20:07+00:00

This annoys me greatly from both angles.

The woman in the article is a cunt. What she's doing is disgusting, both physically and morally.

On the other hand... Amazon et al are absolutely rife with bullshit masquerading as products. There is absolutely zero quality control on the shit peddled. If they expect me to pay to return shoddy merchandise that misled me with bad descriptions or fake reviews, then they better step up their enforcement. Not that this will happen though, just another few billions for Bezos.

Throw that bald fuck feet-first into a woodchipper please.

bopomofodojo · 2022-11-10T03:02:30+00:00

I've long thought about that transition of the online New Atheist community and how it basically split around 2013 into the Alt-Right flavour and the Alt-Left (a.k.a. TRA/hyperprogressive) wings. Both of which now dominate politics.

bopomofodojo · 2022-10-31T21:39:04+00:00

Well, I'd go a step further and say that the mental health focus should be on accepting that you are you, and that categories like "man" and "woman" are biologically derived, not derived from stereotypes or mythical "feelings of gender", and that one can't change sex or gender any more than a human can change into a chimpanzee. But, meeting half way, yes, I'd take even this quantum of sanity over what happens on Twitter, etc.

bopomofodojo · 2022-10-30T02:31:11+00:00

Yes. These people are full-on delusional and require constant validation of others. The pronoun thing is just a perfect example. No sane person ever considers demanding how others refer to them when they're not around - what pronouns are for - because they have a healthy acceptance that they are not the center of the universe.

bopomofodojo · 2022-10-23T07:21:33+00:00

This isn't the first article I've seen from "techrights.org" that's batshit insane (see https://saidit.net/s/Linux/comments/9uzj/you_cannot_remove_googlecontrolled_web_browsers/). I'm pretty convinced they are quite retarded. Or they're a Hurd enthusiast who really hates everything made by anyone else. Or both.

bopomofodojo · 2022-10-14T19:14:39+00:00

That really is the problem - a society overfilling with "sex sells", swipe apps, one-night-stands/friends-with-benefits/hookups, "normalization" of fetishes, etc., has made "sexually promiscuous" the norm and "prude" a dirty word/insult. So anyone who's "prudish" now needs to call themselves "demisexual" and cares about it (which in woke spaces matters), which benefits them in 2 ways: 1, it gets them into the acronym soup, and 2. it renames "prude" into something that's socially acceptable.

It would be absurdist comedy if it wasn't reality.

bopomofodojo · 2022-10-12T16:46:09+00:00

Glad to help. I see stupid allegations regarding Debian, I dig into it. And I'm not even getting into the absurdity of them calling Mozilla "Google-controlled" when they're literally the only modern alternative to Google's browser dominance. I really don't get what this author's angle is here, but it's dumb.

bopomofodojo · 2022-10-11T23:48:48+00:00

So, first of all, this is a GNOME "bug", not a Debian bug. It is a GNOME metapackage that depends on one of the web browsers (specifically, "gnome-core"; see below), not "Debian" as a whole - you can install other DEs - and Mozilla has nothing to do with it at all.

$ apt source gnome-core [downloads meta-gnome3-3.38+3 on Debian 11] $ cat meta-gnome3-3.38+3/debian/control [...] Package: gnome-core Architecture: linux-any Depends: libatk-adaptor (>= 2.38), at-spi2-core (>= 2.38), [...] firefox-esr (>= 78) | firefox (>= 78) | chromium | chromium-browser | epiphany-browser, [...]

This is done, presumably, because anyone using a desktop in 2022 expects there to be a browser installed, and the GNOME team knows this - the dependency list here is the two biggest and most common (FLOSS) browsers, and GNOMEs own Webkit-based alternative. The ordering there is also why it prompts to install chromium first when removing firefox (or vice versa). And yes, it doesn't happen on servers because you don't (if you're anywhere close to smart) install DEs like GNOME on a server.

If you really want to go browserless though, it's quite trivial to purge these packages out and not break a normal GNOME desktop simply by removing the metapackages as well (see below).

There is one other thing though with a standard "task-gnome-desktop" intall that depends on a browser: LibreOffice's help, which I presume is entirely web based and thus would like to launch a browser as a dependency, but even this can be removed safely and easily (and if you don't, it will just install the Dolphin file manager, which may have web browsing support built in - I'm not sure because I don't use it. I'm simply showing removing this too because otherwise, there's a lot of lines of Dolphin dependencies that make it hard to see the point.)

$ apt remove gnome gnome-core task-gnome-desktop firefox-esr chromium chromium-common chromium-sandbox libreoffice-help-en-us Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: gnome-remote-desktop gvfs-fuse hyphen-en-us libreoffice-help-common libu2f-udev libvncserver1 mythes-en-us node-normalize.css system-config-printer Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: chromium chromium-common chromium-sandbox firefox-esr gnome gnome-core libreoffice-help-en-us task-gnome-desktop 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 8 to remove and 18 not upgraded. After this operation, 476 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

This author here is retarded and is trying to make a mountain out of a molehill for unclear reasons, by heaping blame on random parties (Debian as a project, Mozilla which clearly he doesn't like despite them being the only reasonable alternative to Chrome and its derivatives) instead of the actual "guilty" party (the GNOME team). And I use "bug" at the start and "guilty" here lightly, because as you can see it's trivially easy to work around this with even a cursory knowledge of Debian's dependency system ("apt-cache rdepends" is your friend here).

As to why this doesn't happen on Ubuntu, I can't say, because I don't use Ubuntu. But given that the dependency tree of "task-gnome-desktop" -> "gnome-core" -> a browser is a Debianism, I would presume Ubuntu simply does not have such a metapackage and thus does not try to enforce it. That's not really a dig at Debian or plus for Ubuntu, they simply do things differently in terms of this particular dependency tree. And given how much shady shit Canonical has done, trying to praise them as some noble alternative to Debian (an actual community-driven project) because the author doesn't know what a metapackage is, is laughable at best.

Edit: I completely forgot this gem:

“You could at least ask the user if they want to bring in “epiphany-browser”,” Ryan noted.

It will literally do that if you tell apt to "remove" both firefox(-esr) and chromium-browser, because then it gets down to the 3rd option in the dependency list, which is epiphany. To elaborate on what I said earlier, Debian dependencies are always preferred in order: so firefox-esr > firefox > chromium > chromium-browser > epiphany-browser. To get to the bottom of that tree you have to explicitly tell Apt to "remove" all the options above it, otherwise it will try to be smart and helpful and just install the next best option. Again proving that this person has no clue what they're doing but still feels compelled to cry "wolf!" about it.

bopomofodojo · 2022-10-10T07:07:57+00:00

Hopefully all 21 of them are failed and thus, end up nowhere near a classroom in front of impressionable children.

bopomofodojo · 2022-10-10T07:06:29+00:00

I would also think so, but on the flip side, I'm not sure how many straight guys would deal with the level of lunacy that these people show. I mean there's literally billions of straight women to go for, why bother with these loons.

bopomofodojo · 2022-09-19T02:50:21+00:00

They truly bought wholesale into transhumanism (not related to transsexualism). The idea that the body is just a vessel, that they can eventually go full Borg and stick whatever parts on and off they want. Only they're also complete coomers so they focus primarily on the sex organ aspect of it.

bopomofodojo · 2022-09-16T03:11:09+00:00

There isn't one. I know conservative-types love to rail on this trans shit and other culture war stuff as "far" "leftism", and at this point trying to argue against that is basically futile because there's very very few of us "left but not woke" people left. But the short of it is, this stuff isn't "left" in any economic sense: It got cooped by fedshits and ivory tower PMCs back in, like, the 70's. Ever since then, it's just been blindly attaching itself to whatever is "progressive" but doesn't disrupt the neoliberal status quo. Trans Idpol is just the latest weapon in the toolchest to keep "the left" arguing amongst itself and with other (less liberal/progressive) working-class people to avoid them actually achieving class consciousness or accomplishing anything. Social media amplified this to the point where there really is no "left", just a bunch of "LGBTQIIPXWTF++"s larping as revolutionaries from their basement on Twitchtterbook with absolutely no goal or endgame in sight, who talk a big game about how bad capitalism and how good a revolution would be, while simultaneously being unable to talk to anyone even remotely different than themselves or do any sort of useful labor. At first they were parasites on the left, but at this point, the parasite is the host and I've lost any hope of building any sort of working-class left coalition as long as these freaks hold the banner of "the left".

bopomofodojo · 2022-09-09T04:26:11+00:00

Here is the easiest way to make it not confusing.

The current TRA/enby/TQ++ zeitgeist is basically a mix between a notion of a pseudo-religious "soul", and the philosophically idealist notion that reality is shaped by the mind, not vice versa. Note that below I'll just call this philosophical position "idealist" but this doesn't mean what that word normally means (i.e. "optimistic", read the link), and as an aside, this is why they aren't "Marxists" regardless of what they say they believe or what right-wingers say they believe, but that's a whole different discussion (the tl;dr is orthodox Marxism is materialist, not idealist, where reality > ideas/mind; but we all got silenced pretty early, even before the "TERFs").

Here are the key axioms of this belief structure:

There is an immutable "soul", whatever you want to call it, inside each person.
This soul has a "gender".
"Gender", in the context of the soul, is a vague notion based entirely on performative social gender roles and conceptions of what a particular gender "feels like" to them.
This "gender feeling" is entirely internal, and cannot be justified to anyone else; it must be taken as absolute truth by others on demand. It is also thus completely malleable.
Depending on the person's biological sex, this "gender feeling" either manifests as MtF, FtM, or "I hate both stereotypes so NB".
Because of the idealist philosophical bent, this "gender feeling" of the immutable "soul" inside the person is paramount and dominant over reality.
Because of the dominance of the "soul's gender feeling" over reality, biological sex is irrelevant; thanks to "modern medical advancements", they can "alter" this (or so they believe vehemently). Thus they "are" the "sex" and/or "gender" their "soul" claims to be.
Because, in their conception, this "soul's gender feeling" is paramount over biological sex, therefore all attraction to them must be rooted in this "soul's gender feeling" and not the objective, biological reality of their sex.
Due to this subservience of attraction to the "soul's gender feeling" over sex, sexual orientation is defined entirely in terms of the "soul's gender feeling".

Thus, following this progression of axioms, you can see where most of their ideas come from. A MtF attracted to men is "straight", and the male partner is "straight", even if both are biological men. Vice versa for FtM and women. MtF attracted to women is "lesbian" and FtM attracted to men is "gay" and those communities must bend their definitions of sexual orientation to the "soul's gender feeling" definition, or they're denying this philosophical justification and are thus "transphobic" (i.e. not completely and totally acquiescing to whatever the trans person says is correct vis-a-vis their "soul's gender feeling"). "[Biological] sex is a social construct" and "biological X is a TERF talking point" because they literally believe their "soul" is right, not their chromosomes or genitals. And so one and so on.

So, if we have to strictly rank this, it goes like this:

Gender.
Orientation.
Sex.

But in reality it's far more nuanced than a simple ranking. These 3 things both complement and contradict each other at various points in the tree of axioms, and thus "ranking" them doesn't make a whole lot of sense in practice, since you're never going to trip up this construct with an "aha gotchu" moment. The axioms - even when believers refuse to acknowledge that they are axioms - must be attacked instead.

And another aside: this is why the thought-terminating cliches are so prevalent, why "TERFs" (i.e. radfems or less-rad fems that see through some of these axioms as bullshit) and orthodox materialist leftists must be silenced, etc.: because anyone seriously challenging the axioms will cause the entire chain of logic to fall apart. It's also why I think going strictly after "badly behaving" TRAs (i.e. focusing too much on the fetish aspect) also hurts, because that doesn't attack the axioms and question them, and the narrative doesn't change (attacker is dismissed as a "TERF", the "allies" repeat the cliches, the public yawns, etc.). Only by defeating some of the axioms can the house of cards crumble.

bopomofodojo · 2022-09-03T05:39:59+00:00

Sure, it's real. So is Anorexia. The treatment for Anorexia isn't lipo and nutrient pills; it's therapy to get you to realize that your cognition is fucked up and needs to be fixed.

But somehow trans is different: the body must adapt to the mind, not the other way around. To believe this is true, requires believing in an immutable, gendered "spirit" that is somehow at odds with the physical body. Which is purely religious thinking.

bopomofodojo · 2022-09-03T05:32:44+00:00

I'm a (actual, i.e. not a woketard) leftist, so I hate the idea of the Horseshoe theory a lot, but...

The woke crowd went serious Horseshoe with gender roles, and it's fucking absurd. In less than 10 years we went from the progressive wing saying that gender roles/stereotypes were a bad thing, that we didn't need them, and that you should just do you regardless of your sex (good) to basically saying that it's the gender roles/stereotypes that are somehow innate, and it's your biological sex (characteristics) that should change to match them.

It's like they literally jumped from one end of the horseshoe to the other. From completely anti-sterotype to completely pro-stereotype. In almost real time. And this switch is the only way that Enby, and recent non-"medicalized" trans doctrine makes sense. Because exactly as you say - if the stereotypes of "what makes a woman/man" are removed, the only thing that makes you a man/woman is... your genitals and chromosomes i.e. your biology.

As a GNC man I'll continue to think that, no, being "womanly" in some ways does not mean I should chop my dick off and take estrogen, or that I'm somehow "non-binary" whatever the fuck that is supposed to mean; it means I'm a biological male who isn't particularly interested in the gender stereotypes of "manliness". Not this regressive bullshit that passes for "progressivism" on the modern "left" and which has shit-all to do with economic issues at all.

bopomofodojo · 2022-08-31T01:26:35+00:00

In the past two years since George Floyd’s murder, I’ve trained tens of thousands of corporate employees on diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and anti-racism

Oh look a race grifter.

bopomofodojo · 2022-08-15T23:00:01+00:00

This is what is baffling to me, why would anybody listen to these creeps at first place? How did they get so much power?

The brain worms of blind progressivism.

bopomofodojo · 2022-08-05T05:40:42+00:00

It really is pathetic. I joined Saidit specifically because of LGBDropTheT, but without it, most of the site is now nothing but obnoxious right-wingers with their blatant homophobia. The successor communities (including this one) are basically vacant shadows of LGBDTT. All over yet another pathetic jannie squabble and temper tantrum.

bopomofodojo · 2022-08-03T04:34:04+00:00

Agreed. As nice as it would have been to have a GC feminist, to be honest, I don't think that hypothetical she would have really helped anything. TRA leftists would still be calling it a conservative pile of trash (because to them, GC feminists = conservatives by the bizarre alchemy that TRAism does to your brain), and conservative viewers would be alienated by the feminism (for better or worse). It did what it set out to do which is put a spotlight on it, and hopefully now we can get some more open GC feminist takes that don't result in abject cancellation in response.

bopomofodojo · 2022-07-30T00:49:57+00:00

https://www.unddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/qggkfr/aita_for_setting_up_my_trans_friend_on_a_date/

bopomofodojo · 2022-07-19T01:04:36+00:00

Yea this seems like a dumb take. It's not woke to be anti-racist. And CoS has always been anti-racist.

bopomofodojo · 2022-07-19T01:02:20+00:00

Yes there is: he/him. Because that's a man.

bopomofodojo · 2022-07-16T07:49:04+00:00

This is why "terfs" are such a menace/"threat" to them. Their entire identity is wrapped up in a bunch of thought-terminating cliches that fall apart under the slightest scrutiny. "Terfs" put them under scrutiny, so they must be avoided and silenced at all costs.

bopomofodojo · 2022-07-10T07:17:55+00:00

Oh, absolutely - most of them are comfortable, middle- to upper-middle-class people who have no idea what living in a primitive society would entail. They're delusional.

bopomofodojo · 2022-07-10T07:10:54+00:00

I got curious when you mentioned transportation being a fraction of global carbon emissions, according to Our World in Data, both industry and building account each for more emissions than transport, and Livestock & Manure account for more than non-road transport combined.

That is indeed precisely what I meant - changing transportation alone would only be a fraction of the total CO2 emissions. It's not negligibly small (IIRC 5-10%?), but it's not the sort of thing that "fixes the environment" alone. The Livestock aspect is why I mention agriculture being one industry that must change, because current farming practices are the single biggest driver of CO2 (and other GHG emissions like methane). I love my beef, but if I have to give it up for the sake of literally saving the planet, small price to pay.

I did have a suspicion EV weren't nearly as clean as commercials made it out to be. Thanks for explaining the environmental costs behind them, I have a suspicion nuclear would be a cleaner source of energy compared to fossil fuels, while it does produce waste this waste can be contained and kept away, compared to the gases produced by fossil fuel which are inevitably released into the atmosphere.

100% yes. Nuclear is, objectively, the cleanest, safest, and most long-term viable energy source we have. The waste being talked about is actually miniscule - on the order of tons per year globally, rather than mega- or giga-tons of CO2. Said waste can be reprocessed to extract more viable fuel leaving mere pounds of actual, dangerous waste. And that waste can be locked in containers and buried in concrete easily. The problem is people have imagined boogeymen in their heads about this entire process, thinking that "nuclear waste" means leaking barrels of green sludge a la the Simpsons and Greenpeace propaganda, rather than what it really is (hard, ceramic materials encased in lead and concrete); or that we should really be worrying about hypothetical "10,000 year in the future" people "digging it up" and being too dumb to know it's radioactive waste, like this is an actual reasonable concern (1, they won't if you put it in a hole, and 2, most of the really dangerous fission products have half-lives on the order of decades, not millennia). The entire push against nuclear that started in the '70's was borne entirely out of irrational fear and ignorance and continues to be promulgated to this day. And that's just one aspect of the nuclear ignorance - there's plenty of other aspects too. Thankfully numerous governments are once again ignoring the loud voices and getting back on track with an actual solution to the climate crisis. And ironically it seems to be conservative governments doing it.

bopomofodojo · 2022-07-08T06:07:45+00:00

Same with cars. I'm absolutely not against EVs. But untill I can fill them as quickly as I can fill gas one? Fuck that.

The environmental destruction caused by EV manufacture is actually immense too.

Petrol engines are simple to design and build out of materials that are nearly everywhere - steel, rubber, porcelain. But when you use them, you put out CO2, CO, NOx, and various particulates. They are dirty at time of use, which is something people see and hear about constantly.

EVs, on the other hand, are incredibly intensive and dirty to produce. Huge amounts of rare earth minerals are required to produce the various components (2-3x as much as a modern gas vehicle), Lithium for the battery which is mostly mined in poor countries with intensive strip mining, etc. It is clean at time of use though, which makes the people driving them feel warm and fuzzy inside, because they do not have to think about how polluting their production is. And not to mention that, while it is more efficient if you have 1 giant fossil plant making electricity to power 1000 cars, it's still producing emissions regardless - only with clean reliable baseload (nuclear) or well-timed renewables (charging while they are producing) can EVs be a true net zero solution. They just trade one set of problems for another.

On the transportation front, the actual solution for average people is public transit, walkable neighborhoods, and the elimination of single-car dependence for most people. For goods transport, it's electric trucks, bulk hauling (mostly rail), electric or hybrid rail locomotives, and nuclear-powered ships. But, transportation is only a fraction of the total carbon emissions globally; there's several other industries that need to change significantly (agriculture being one, GMOs are a must) to get to net zero.

But all of this interconnected tapestry of causal effects and competing interests is too much for the sort of people who are attracted to Extinction Rebellion, Greenpeace, and the like. They see it in simple terms, "do X = save the world", and they - as others have said - take this ignorant oversimplification of reality with the confidence of a religious zealot. They hurt the cause more than they help in nearly every way by galvanizing support against anything they say even when it does happen to be true. They want primitivism - and the horrors that would bring - because that's the simple answer to them, and they don't care how many (poor) people suffer or die to bring it about.

bopomofodojo · 2022-07-04T04:24:57+00:00

The entirety of postmodernist philosophy is infected by them. A who's-who of the most prominent of them signed the "remove French age of consent laws" letter in the 70's.

These philosophies directly influenced Critical studies (using the capital C specifically there), of which queer theory is a subset. It's all tinged by those philosophical roots and only maintains whatever facade allows them to be taken seriously.

bopomofodojo · 2022-06-27T03:17:22+00:00

See user/LorfoftheFlies comment above. You cannot blame all of the doctors. Speaking out against this, not acquiescing to the insane demands of the trans patients, will literally get them stripped of their medical licenses. All they can do is say "sure, here's the script/surgery appt". It's absurd.

bopomofodojo · 2022-06-27T03:12:46+00:00

*2 sexes, 2 sets of societal stereotypes associated with those sexes, 148 mental illnesses.

bopomofodojo · 2022-06-25T04:31:27+00:00

Well neoliberals aren't "left", that's sort of my point. Americans call them "the left" because they're the "leftmost" right wing party. But they are still absolutely pro-capitalism, and thus not "left". The literal defining feature of leftism is anti-capitalism.

SJWs often are though, and they're a big problem. But it is decidedly neoliberals i.e. the Democratic party apparatus, that is pushing the "Russiagate" narrative to cover up their own abysmal failures of leadership.

bopomofodojo · 2022-06-24T04:50:00+00:00

And the interesting thing about Jains is... they live in the region of the world where most of the things you need to be a vegan grow in abundance. It makes sense that such a society would emerge somewhere where there is the option of doing so.

But yep, for the rest of the world and especially the west, the only way to be a strict vegan is to import the majority of your nutrition from the rest of the world. So it requires the globalized transportation and supply networks that they - often, but not always - decry. Eating a cow we grew a town over is better for the environment than importing 10 different beans from all 4 corners of the globe on container ships, airplains, and trucks, I think.

bopomofodojo · 2022-06-24T04:46:18+00:00

Because women who hate being women so much they cosplay as men, might get offended that someone is referencing their female anatomy with the word that describes people with that anatomy. But this is not misogyny, not reducing women (whoops, womb-holders!) to their anatomy. Nope, not at all. Apparently this is "progressive".

bopomofodojo · 2022-06-24T04:27:04+00:00

*liberal meme

Actual leftists don't buy the "Evil Russians" BS either (mostly because it's just cold war propaganda regurgitated for the 2020's).

bopomofodojo · 2022-06-22T06:19:08+00:00

Yes, many of us are.

Because the Rainbow already included everyone. You know, every color under the sun.

But of course then someone had to add race into it. Then 7 other colors because it wasn't about "representing" everybody, it was about enforcing their "existence" on everyone. And we can't just have a generally-representative thing like a rainbow: no, it must include my group explicitly too.

Then that one person turned it into a wedge which made it 5x uglier than the original pride flag (though to be fair 1/2 as ugly as the 15-color monstrosity stripes), and very clearly articulates the goal of the groups in the wedge: to divide and destroy what pride stood for (you know, gay rights). Not to mention too that this version is not free to use; they demand royalties and are making sick bank off of pushing it everywhere. Just another grifter.

bopomofodojo · 2022-06-22T06:14:45+00:00

Nah, there was some drama a week or two ago where the head truscum janny got xier non-gendered undergarments in a bunch and set the sub private because it was "too anti-trans" or something. There's a successor at /s/getthetout (not very busy yet though, help change that!).

bopomofodojo · 2022-06-22T05:45:42+00:00

Which is probably the most absurd part because there are plenty of leftists who care more about, you know, class politics than trans bullshit. It's infested and infected every section of "the left" and is, apparently, the only thing that "leftism" stands for at this point. Dissent, for any reason, gets you expelled. This extends through every group from milquetoast liberals all the way down to "hardcore Marxists" in the West (and online).

bopomofodojo · 2022-05-18T19:09:21+00:00

On the real, are they really just going to spell tribe names with random Greek letters and numbers and pretend that’s totally normal?

To be completely fair - these are the original language transcriptions of their names using a phonetic spelling system (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squamish_language), as opposed to the Anglicized versions afterwards and that we are more familiar with. There's a lot of stupidity about the land acknowledgement thing, but this isn't one of them. A comparison would be calling Russia "Россия" instead of "Russia".

bopomofodojo · 2022-03-28T16:23:41+00:00

Because "progressive" liberalism lost its mind sometime in the late-2000's/early-2010's and decided that, since gay rights had been "won", they needed a new way to virtue-signal sexual progressivism. This got coupled with gender theory and we get the logical trainwreck that is modern TQ+ ideology.

Or, to quote an earlier comment of mine:

The whole "xenogender" BS was the clearest indication that none of this is about any actual part of their self (in the sense that homosexuality is), but is simply the newest, most fashionable "in" group, a way to be seen and noticed and praised. Everything in progressive circles now must be about "gender" because progressivism thrives on having a defined target, and after gay marriage was won, they needed something new to be "on the right side of history" about. Couple that with a generation of socially inept, terminally online young people who can't form meaningful relationships IRL, and you get this insanity.

bopomofodojo · 2022-01-30T07:45:45+00:00

127.0.0.1 (and, properly, the whole 127.0.0.0/8 CIDR range) is for loopback addresses. These addresses are not routeable and are always used for local connections to the same host.

0.0.0.0 (technically, 0.0.0.0/0) is a wildcard address. How it behaves is system-specific, but on most UNIX-like systems it means "bind on all possible IPs on this host". It isn't actually a valid address, simply used as a placeholder to represent the "bind on everything" notion.

Without going into the pros and cons of writing a custom webserver in C (mostly cons), generally you'd want to support both since they both do different things and different admins will have different uses for them.

bopomofodojo · 2022-01-09T05:06:32+00:00

What q***r means to me

It clearly means you don't know what paragraph breaks are. This is unreadable on a practical level let alone weeding through the pseudo-intellectual/academic drivel.

bopomofodojo · 2022-01-09T05:05:46+00:00

But if you ask them questions, you're a hateful jerk who is pestering them and "it's not my job to educate you".

bopomofodojo · 2022-01-09T05:03:16+00:00

It's perfectly consistent, because TRA idpol is not "Leftist" in any way. It's a form of hyper-individualist liberalism, which American political discourse has distorted to be "left-wing", when it is nothing but shining glittery lipstick on the pig of neoliberal capitalism.

Thus, they were right-wingers/MRAs/Indels/etc. before, and importantly, they remain so in the vast majority of their beliefs. Except they now claim to be "left-wing" because "LGBTQWTF+ is left-wing". Most of them have not read any leftist theory and, at best, know leftistm from memes made by other such terminally-online liberals-claiming-to-be-leftists, and specifically they see this "post-revolution communism" as a "safe space" for them to do what they want without any realization that this is not what a post-capitalist/socialist society would be (hint: you don't get to be a lowlife "social media influencer" or sit in your parents basement playing fortnight after the revolution comrade, get ready to work).

bopomofodojo · 2021-12-04T08:34:48+00:00

Complete and utter obsession with how others view them.

I thought we taught kids not to be like that? Or maybe that was just in the Before Times.

bopomofodojo · 2021-11-28T05:37:18+00:00

They never, ever bring it up with straight people.

They're slowly trying to get straight people to "accept girldick/manpussy", but most straight people just laugh at them. They have power over the LGB because of the "umbrella", "you're comrades in our struggle too see same acronym" bullshit.

bopomofodojo · 2021-11-28T05:34:14+00:00

Nah I think the scarier thought would be them realizing how technologically advanced we are but socially deformed. Like the Vulcans in Star Trek: Enterprise said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpIPixWaj1E

bopomofodojo · 2021-11-28T05:18:52+00:00

I think we're starting to see the fracturing of the multiple "sides" of the TRA movements.

Drug companies want to push physical medical transition, because that makes them money. Incels want to be "the other sex" to access "same-sex relationships" for their twisted reasons. And non-conformists want to just be something else to escape being "cishet". What one group says is completely contradictory to what the other groups want. It's only a matter of time (truscum vs. trucute is only the beginning).

bopomofodojo · 2021-11-21T08:19:08+00:00

being perceived as the awful, dreaded "neurotypical".

It's like this for all of them.

"Normal" is bad. Everything else flows from this. Cishet = bad, be LGBTPQUDJFKDKJSD+, just make up some xenogender or aromantic-noncommital-poly-bi bullshit if you're not actually gay. White = bad, be some form of "POC". Neurotypical = bad, self-diagnose some sympathy-inducing mental illness (or 5). You can see the pattern. They must be "special" in some way even if that is something which is actively harmful to themselves and society at large.

bopomofodojo · 2021-11-21T08:13:28+00:00

This is a good analogy. Not absolutely everything that evolves for useful reasons is used by every individual every day (or even at all). It's about general trends in an entire species.

bopomofodojo · 2021-11-21T08:08:39+00:00

mother nature defines it and people observe it and describe it (accurately, ideally).

Reminds me of another thing they deny... six? sax? sox? Something like that.

bopomofodojo · 2021-11-21T08:05:49+00:00

The whole "xenogender" BS was the clearest indication that none of this is about any actual part of their self (in the sense that homosexuality is), but is simply the newest, most fashionable "in" group, a way to be seen and noticed and praised. Everything in progressive circles now must be about "gender" because progressivism thrives on having a defined target, and after gay marriage was won, they needed something new to be "on the right side of history" about. Couple that with a generation of socially inept, terminally online young people who can't form meaningful relationships IRL, and you get this insanity.

bopomofodojo · 2021-10-28T13:48:52+00:00

Exactly, I LOL'd when I first watched that, but that's American leftism's political ignorance on display for you. I like the rest of the series and find it very useful though.

bopomofodojo · 2021-10-27T15:31:39+00:00

It's ironic because the author calls "TERFs" right-wingers (lol), but the strategy TRAs use here is a perfect example of a Ship of Theseus argument:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui-ArJRqEvU&list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ&index=6

By moving on to talking about "genital preferences", they've already shifted the framing, implicitly, into one where "gay actually means homogenderality, not homosexuality". The implicating being that it's already not about the "genitals" but about the "gender". Thus they talk about "gay men" having PiV sex as a "gay" relationship but that "cis-gays" only wanting dick have "genital preferences".

Just another part of their corruption of language and inability to communicate genuinely about their beliefs, because doing so would reveal the rampant homophobia and sexism, not to mention the numerous nonsequeters and contraditions, of their ideology.

bopomofodojo · 2021-10-25T17:09:01+00:00

Exactly. And this is also why "just be nice" is such a motte-and-baily for them.

"Some Liberal: Just be nice"... OK, fine, I'll be nice, I like being nice. "Obvious Man in a dress: I'm a woman"... OK, well, I guess saying "sure hun" is "nice", and people want be to be nice, so. "Person with serious delusions: I am not a man, I'm a WOMAN"... OK, well, you're actually not literally a woman... "BIGOT!"... Uh, what about being nice? "Fuck you fascist".

bopomofodojo · 2021-10-25T17:03:12+00:00

Ted Sarandos also told Variety in a separate interview that he "screwed up" with how he handled the situation internally. He suggested that he should have "led with a lot more humanity" in regard to the pain some employees may have felt because of The Closer.

No, Ted, you didn't. You've handled the cry-bullies exactly how they should, and how everyone should handle them: "Shut up".

bopomofodojo · 2021-10-17T06:55:18+00:00

The goal of any organization seeking "justice" should be the eventual demise of that organization!

Exactly, but then the Iron Law of Institutions kicks in and it all goes to hell.

bopomofodojo · 2021-10-15T06:37:35+00:00

It took me two whole months to realized WebP is a different thing from WebM. Nope you're right it's entirely stupid, pointless, and a detriment. I'm reminded of https://xkcd.com/927/.

WebM: A good thing, solid replacement to large video files and FLVs. WebP: A worse PNG that exists for some reason.

bopomofodojo · 2021-10-15T06:32:50+00:00

That's so heartbreaking, I'm very sorry for your loss. That's exactly how I felt when all the whinging about "life-saving trans surgeries getting postponed" at the start of COVID. Like, fine, you wanna an hero because you can't get your tits or dick chopped off during a fucking pandemic where people are dying alone in isolation wards? Fine, do it. It's complete psychopathic narcissism. They only care about themselves and their "validation" and know that threatening suicide is a very effective technique against morally astute, empathetic people (i.e. most people). "Thankfully" COVID in general (specifically the actions of some groups...) have completely trashed most of my "sympathy gas tank" at this point and I just don't care about whiny entitled people any more.

bopomofodojo · 2021-10-15T06:18:04+00:00

Why only put focus on that specific time?

It's part of their disordered (not the best term, but bear with me) thinking. Everything is black and white for them. Thus, there must be a single, pivotal start to something, before which there was not that thing, after which there is that thing. For gay rights, that is Stonewall(tm) the First Ever Time(tm) that LGB people fought back. It's the singular point before which was "bad times" and after which are "good times" - full "right-side-of-history"/Whig history bullshit. And thus by inserting the TQ+ into it, it makes them important to that pivotal, critical, formative moment in their thinking.

I'm not sure why they do this, or what causes this specific flawed thinking, but it's a common trend I've seen in a few places.

bopomofodojo · 2021-10-15T06:13:48+00:00

Same with the ChrisChan thing, they're utterly obsessed with pronoun policing, because apparently women committing crimes is good somehow and we need more of them (!?) but also that appeasing the criminal's delusions is more important than anything else.

bopomofodojo · 2021-10-15T06:10:12+00:00

Can you think of any phenomenon

Not one that doesn't have massive, institutional backing somehow. Which definitely fits this one.

It's definitely a form of mass hysteria being pushed by a small group to get rich (https://thefederalist.com/2018/02/20/rich-white-men-institutionalizing-transgender-ideology/) while also becoming immensely popular with the large swaths of alienated, downtrodden, and pornsick Millennials and Gen-Zers for whom it is simultaneously a large embracing community but also the epitome of disadvantage and oppression, which for wokesters is absolutely critical for social clout. It's a modern secular religion who's appeal is like that of any other trendy phenomenon ("the goths are now the trans kids") and also has social and parasocial benefits for those involved. A perfect storm of profit motive, late capitalist hellscape, and (para)social factors coming together to produce society-wide madness.

I take solace in that, like all such fads, it will die out eventually. But not before destroying thousands of lives.

bopomofodojo · 2021-10-11T20:45:07+00:00

I thought this was pretty obvious, like neoliberalism came from Conservative parties (in the UK, US, Canada, etc.) and conservative think-tanks in the 1980's... it was hardly disguised.

bopomofodojo · 2021-10-08T15:47:57+00:00

Any and all of the "lifesaving" treatments are simply part of the "do what we say or we suicide" gaslighting. Calling them such reaffirms that. It's despicable.

bopomofodojo · 2021-10-04T06:57:03+00:00

Matt Bomer might make an good Bond too. His role in White Collar was very much the suave, womanizing playboy who could do action when he needed to. Would be an interesting take on Bond.

bopomofodojo · 2021-09-07T06:19:44+00:00

Third option: the mother's obsession with TQ++ pushing her probably-tomboyish daughters towards T coupled with the social contagion when the first one did it and got all the love and attention. It's abuse, but not necessarily those two, though I guess this does count as psychological abuse in some ways.

bopomofodojo · 2021-08-03T05:05:36+00:00

Ah, yes, that is annoying. And stupid. Why someone would be distributing static images as webp (instead of just in png) is beyond me... Not an issue with the standard, though, just an idiot designer.

bopomofodojo · 2021-08-02T19:30:11+00:00

Who is "they"?

WebP is an objectively better replacement to GIFs for motion images, that requires far less size and provides far greater color accuracy and a higher FPS. It's a modern standard for a modern problem. Why is this annoying and causing grief?

bopomofodojo · 2021-08-02T18:47:54+00:00

Trans people constantly abuse allyship. All the time, non-stop.

Yup. They demand unconditional allyship so they can say whatever they want without question or confrontation. It means they cannot be held accountable for their actions or speech. You see the same thing with BLM, etc. as well, and it's a core component of wokeism.

bopomofodojo · 2021-08-02T03:30:22+00:00

It is, but don't tell haters that.

bopomofodojo · 2021-08-02T00:20:28+00:00

Who are you attracted to, that's all the label is supposed to describe, it doesn't need to be this complicated.

But, you see, making "straight" fit into LGB(TQWTFXYZ) is complicated! We need many many new words for it, lest someone realize we're just straights LARPing.

bopomofodojo · 2021-08-02T00:15:54+00:00

Sometimes I wonder if terms like "nonmen" developed in order to obscure the claims that gender identity believers are actually saying

Yes, it is. Because it's obviously nonsense to say "not all women have vaginas". They've been saying this for years but it's still nonsense, support is dropping, so now they're flipping to "nonmen" to, I guess, make it more palatable.

bopomofodojo · 2021-07-26T16:59:50+00:00

And nothing says fetishist like "breeding".

bopomofodojo · 2021-07-26T16:58:42+00:00

As noble as this is, TRA-types usually bring it up constantly and it can be very grating. I guess it depends whether this is happening or not.

bopomofodojo · 2021-07-26T01:46:46+00:00

Hoverflies look like bees. Therefore, they are bees.

bopomofodojo · 2021-07-20T16:54:54+00:00

You're right, it doesn't. It's still a diamond. An artificial diamond, since those are considered "lower quality" for gemstone purposes. Thus, for this purpose there is a distinction between "artificial" and "natural" that matters. Carat for carat, you get more for a "natural" diamond and thus the distinction is useful. Simply saying" but they're all diamonds" ignores this classification scheme, just as ignoring whether a body part is artificially constructed or not matters. But this is an academic distinction anyways since we're at best decades away from pseudo-genetalia that are actually identical to their natural counterparts, and the vast majority of trans people seem to have no interest in actually going through with radical body-altering surgery. But even then, the distinction would exist between "born" and "made" elements, no matter how subtle. Human-made is still human-made - even in diamonds it's possible to tell (man-made diamonds are "too perfect").

bopomofodojo · 2021-07-17T04:22:14+00:00

And edge cases do not invalidate trends or majorities jfc.

bopomofodojo · 2021-07-17T04:21:10+00:00

Try selling that artificial diamond as a gemstone and see how far you get...

bopomofodojo · 2021-07-15T04:30:13+00:00

I'd definite it as a secularized neo-Puritan social movement, based in the United States. The "4th Great Awakening" if you will.

First, I'll get it out of the way - as a Marxist, Marxism has absolutely nothing to do with Wokeness. It's so, so common for people to call it "Neo-Marxism" or other shit. It's not. It's fundamentally a post-modernist philosophy which (should) reject Marxism. Though I will admit it has co-opted a lot of leftist/Marxist rhetoric.

At its core, wokeism is a worldview and philosophical system based on an us-vs-them mentality. It can be compared analogously to just about every similar one throughout history: "we" are the just, moral upholders of decency, morality, and "what is right", everyone else is a demon/evil person actively subverting us.

It makes heavy use of the (bunk) concept of Whig History, thinking that "now" is "the end of history", that "progress" - and specially "social progress" - is a linear, forward moving march from "bad" to "good". "Progressiveism" is a virtue, "conservatism" is a sin. "The right side of history" is quite literally the definition of this thinking.

As I mentioned above, modern Wokeness is based in postmodern philosophy. A key, almost fundamental, tenet of postmodernist philosophical discourse is the rejection of notions of historical narrative and absolute truth (in the sense that, say, the mathematical property "2 + 2 = 4" is "true") and is, in the philosophical sense, incredibly Idealist - that is, positioning mental ideas above physical, material reality. This is why it is contrary to Marxism, which is fundamentally a historical narrative, and materialist philosophy. Think "the mind shapes the world" versus "the world shapes the mind". This is most clearly evident in the context of the Trans debates, since the entire notion of "trans" is built off the idea that the mind has some magical, mystical, metaphysical superiority to the body, and in the idea of "lived experience" trumping statistics, provable fact, etc.

Beyond that, we get things like the Critical theories, specifically Critical Race Theory and Query Gender Theory, which is something that could (and should) have thousands of pages of essay debunking. I don't know it well enough to really speculate. But this has also been included in Wokism.

I mentioned above that it is a "neo-Puritan" movement, because it functions almost entirely like a cult. There are mantras that must be repeated without question, base truths that must be accepted without question, it is "us-versus-them" against the "bad world", leaving results in excommunication and shunning, etc. But it is not centralized; there is no "leadership", it's a broader cultural phenomenon.

It is ultimately driven by activist culture and white guilt. An offshoot of mainstream American Liberalism, it seeks - again in very Christian fashion - to "atone" for the "sins" of the past, especially the sins of "cishet white men". This is the crux of it all - "smashing X" to "dismantle" the "systems" that "oppress minorities". But it is, at best, a surface-level analysis - as liberal analysis often is - and misses many of the most critical structural issues (namely, Capitalism and the relation of workers to property) while simultaneously co-opting its discourse, terminology, and such. Hence "intersectionality", "class reductionist" accusations, etc. It fundamentally cannot, and will not, achieve any actual success in its objectives because it is fighting symptoms rather than diseases, and misdiagnosing the symptoms at that.

Finally one last thought, why it's bad - it's bad because, basically, it is a distraction. It is the perfect tool of the ruling classes (the billionaire class and their political lackeys) to divide working people into ever and ever smaller and isolated groups/"identities", both to sell us things, and to prevent us from unifying in opposition to them. This has been clear since the 1960's and 1970's when the CIA devoted numerous resources to studying and influencing the French postmodernist philosophers, and they have worked to push this ideology in academia for decades. Now it is leaking into the "real world" due to a generation or two being raised on it and the rise of social media allowing its ideas to spread like a virus.

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