BeamBrain

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[โ€“] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 54 minutes ago

Again, I don't disagree with your broader point, I'm just pointing out that "People settled there because A/C became available" is factually inaccurate.

[โ€“] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 4 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Kuala Lumpur, Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok, Honolulu, Singapore all predate A/C.

[โ€“] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 27 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (6 children)

After all, our species has survived without AC for hundreds of thousands of years

survivorship

Other things our species survived without for hundreds of thousands of years include water purification, cancer treatment, obstetrics, antibiotics, sterile medical instruments, and agriculture.

[โ€“] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 5 points 1 hour ago (4 children)

People settled there because A/C became available.

I don't disagree with your broader point, but even hellish places like Phoenix predate A/C.

[โ€“] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 10 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

hypocrisy mongering

And it's totally ineffective because they don't have the first clue about why we actually hold the positions we hold or what our underlying political and ethical framework is.

[โ€“] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 16 points 2 hours ago

"Messing up" implies a lack of malfeasance.

[โ€“] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 5 points 4 hours ago

"Small town America is dying!"

[โ€“] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 16 points 17 hours ago

Learning about that genre was one of those moments where I was reminded that most porn is, in fact, geared toward cishet men.

[โ€“] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 44 points 1 day ago

Sharing food, ramming billionaire boats, orcas confirmed comrades

[โ€“] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago

It's amazing how thoroughly she burned up all of the goodwill she gained by opposing Gamergate.

[โ€“] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mine's scarier

 

This randomly popped into my head from my childhood, I searched for it online, and apparently it's not even that uncommon of a Christian take today.

 

Toxic masculinity is a fuck, the standard of fearlessness and dominance that patriarchy demands you uphold is unattainable, accept and embrace your fear as part of yourself.

 
 
  • Weapons that keep killing long after the war they were used for is over (the Space Jockey isn't just dead, they're mummified, and there's no indication that there are any others of their kind around)
  • Lay hidden and dormant, leading to innocent people stumbling on them by accident and getting killed (Nostromo crew finds the eggs and doesn't know what the fuck 'til it's too late, colony LV-426 gets wiped out because it was unknowingly built on top of a nest)
  • They render entire areas unsafe to inhabit
  • Aliens has often been considered an allegory for the Vietnam War, and that left enormous amounts of UXO across Southeast Asia that still persists today.
  • The Weyland-Yutani and corporate profiteering aspect is a bit fuzzier, but I think there's a case to be made that their attempts to weaponize xenomorphs and the catastrophes this causes mirror the real-world military-industrial complex.
 

I recognize that it's speaking to an underlying emotional truth - something I've known on a gut level for a while now but can't quite put my finger on. I know it's not, as I've seen liberals argue, that it's an excuse to legitimize violence against them (their own violence is all the justification one needs) or some kind of "No True Scotsman" argument. There's something deeper and more fundamental, something to do with how the nature of their class position causes them to set themselves apart from and above the vast majority of humanity. Anyone who can help me put this into words?

 

Link

Incidentally, I stumbled on this while looking for a Marx quote about how representatives of the old feudal order falsely positioned themselves as allies to the lower classes by attacking the excesses of industrial capitalism. If anyone has that quote, please let me know.

 
 

Book is Lightbringer, from the Red Rising series

 
 
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