PugJesus @ PugJesus @kbin.social

Cripple. History Major. Vaguely left-wing.

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Generally speaking, what teachers look for in grade-school analysis is proof that the student actually read and understood, to some degree, the work. The easiest way for the student to do this is the 'right' way; that is to say, the obvious or accepted interpretation, but usually alternate answers are accepted.

If you're asking about multiple-choice questions, then the point is usually to weed out those who paid absolutely no attention/didn't actually read the work with three absurd or irrelevant choices.

I struggle to think of anything that isn't political to someone.

Anointment with Old Bay is a time-honored tradition to ensure that any would-be leaders aren't just very clever (and very delicious) crabs in disguise.

Because the suffering is the point.

LGBT people are people... and people are fucking shitheads. Yet another entry in the Leopard's Eating People's Faces Party...

Yeah, I grew up in the late 2000s, so I had that kind of casually homophobic slang pretty ingrained in me. Will never forget, though, the first time I heard a gay friend call someone else the f-slur on DOTA 2, lmao.

I don't think it's necessarily reflective of personal homophobia, but that we grew up in a time when homophobia was normalized. As I became more socially conscious and graduated from high school, I've made an effort to erase it from my vocabulary.

I mean, we're getting to 'there is no ethical consumption under capitalism' level abstraction there, and it's a bit early in the morning for me to be arguing for or against that. XD

There is no market because passenger rail is inefficient.

Because rail has no market, there's no incentive to make passenger rail more efficient.

The circle of American transport since the 60s.

I meant more that art isn't an inherently morally problematic way of making a large amount of money, unlike, say, crushing surplus value out of the working class at the expense of their health and happiness.

Someone who has 100,000 times the average (median) wealth of a US resident would have more than 12 billion dollars. There are only a few people in the world with that kind of money. Even the richest person alive doesn't have a million times the average wealth (120 billion).

By and large, if you're talking about 'millionaires', you're talking about people who have 100-200 times the average wealth. Which, not irrelevantly, is comparable to the average wealth of an American to the average wealth of someone from South Sudan.

I'm not playing apologist for the ultra-wealthy. It's pretty clear that, as a class, they're fucking our society. But ownership of 100-200 times the wealth of the average American is no more wrong than ownership of 100-200 times the wealth of the average South Sudanese. What makes wealth exceptionally wrong is the way one acquires and maintains it, not its existence/possession.

idk, you probably have a small number of artists and genuinely lucky-sons-of-bitches who get proper rich without being bad people. Or at least with their wealth not coming from being a bad person.

Are any of us good people? I think there is a level of selfishness in wealth that all of us engage in, and so I'm not willing to condemn people for having wealth that seems disproportionate to us. Is John Famousactor a bad person because he lives in a mansion worth ten times the average American's? Is Jake Factoryworker a bad person because he lives in a house worth ten times the world average? What matter of suffering can be alleviated in developing countries by our sacrifices in developed countries? At what level are our sins equal? Is it a matter of principle? Proportion?

The vast majority of people who 'make' millions do so by exploiting others, or by exploiting society to keep it, though, so fuck 'em.

Feels nice when we use our hegemonic position for good.

Yeah, I'm gonna miss the level of community engagement from my favorite subs. NCD, RoughRomanMemes, and Shermanposting. We likely won't get that level of activity here for a long time. Also gonna miss updates from r/Ukraine, though I get most of the big news from ISW, the human interest stories shone most on Reddit.

I still have my reddit account to keep track of a few niche communities that can't survive the move, but I haven't commented or doomscrolled since I left for Kbin.

"of Wagner leaders"

Probably a lot of people in the middle management, so to speak, who aren't as prepared as Pringles.

Because India's cooperation is vital for containing Russia, which exceptionally keen observers may note is causing a bit of trouble at the moment. One crisis at a time, please.

Ah, right, forgot about that.

Personally, I think NSFW stuff is an important part of a community, but I also recognize that allowing a community to be overrun with NSFW stuff usually makes it into a NSFW community, not simply a community that allows NSFW stuff. Blurred thumbnails seem to me a good compromise.

Is the NSFW thumbnails being blurred really a big problem? I think you can mouse over them without clicking and they reveal.

This seems weirdly positive about Spez. I didn't really get into Reddit until 2018, but he's had a bad reputation for as long as I was on.