LupineTroubles

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[–] LupineTroubles@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It is just classism and the timeless urban against rural conflict. A person who becomes one or the other gets the convert's zeal. There will be people justifying this saying they have problematic attitudes and behaviors but I don't put much faith in this because often the person doing the criticism have all sorts of unexamined beliefs themselves.

If someone is born into better circumstances and never question their own attitudes and behaviors they can't be expected to have necessary perspective to evaluate the beliefs of others in more unfortunate circumstances in good faith. This of course doesn't mean social circumstances and people in that situation cannot be examined or criticized rather it has to come with self-awareness.

[–] LupineTroubles@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago

Counter-part of this is people from countries under western imperialist pressure or umbrella claiming that existence of queer people or communities in their society as western subversion. Not realizing this attitude gives easy justification to imperialist projects as far as invasion and occupation.

Of course the military-economic dominance will always try to find socio-cultural excuses to legitimate their blatant materialist or imperialist aims. Back in 19th century it was that Orientals were too effeminate and sodomite to govern themselves, now it is the opposite and they are too bigoted and sexist.

Still, this doesn't excuse very real and sometimes violent prejudice queer people suffer in those countries but indiscriminate mass killing is so obviously contrary to any queer liberation that you have to immediately assume the person suffers from ideological brain rot to even remotely consider that the way to save a group of people from oppression is to kill all of them.

I suppose the phrase "Kill them all God will know his own" is not exclusive to belief systems with an after life, since that's only logical conclusion any of these people who got their brain fried from audaciously blatant propaganda could reach.

[–] LupineTroubles@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

Language by commitee is a defensive and ultimately losing proposition that damages the language more than loanwords. Trying to invent equivalent words for concepts, often just as direct transliterations to peg to loanword, without any of the associated meanings either in the borrowed language or how the word is used in borrowing language is crippling to the expression of the language.

It is just especially absurd with French because the French academics haven't really gotten over French losing its lingua franca status and French politicians and intellectuals alike try to force French gratuitously to every possible media.

[–] LupineTroubles@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago

Ladislaus the Post-Posthumous.

[–] LupineTroubles@hexbear.net 29 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

What's with this burning desire to have an instrumentalized slur for anything and everything? I mean I am not saying don't use scornful, perjorative or even deragotary language but it can be a lot less specified while remaining targeted. It reminds me of how Anglophone countries have so many slurs all with some purposeful meaning while in most other countries a slur is often just an ignorant exonym that became crude and offensive to use or a generalized variant of foreigner or weakling or whatever.

[–] LupineTroubles@hexbear.net 60 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Children can be victims both incidentally and circumstancially while born to privilege, their victimization even if minor doesn't require rationalization this way especially when the man in question is so obviously and clearly in the wrong.

[–] LupineTroubles@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

Scandinavian countries did love their forced contraceptives and forced sterilizations on women. I am always amazed how recently they relinquished eugenics policies and often with no acknowledgement of its impact let alone any goodwill compensation.

[–] LupineTroubles@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

Cope with what exactly? A cursory browse through that subreddit will show you many of them aren't even living in West and many that do also are from non-Western backgrounds. Same goes with popular mobile AI-related dating apps.

[–] LupineTroubles@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They are only fighting it insofar to protect their own profits. They happily trained all data on libgen and archive.org for free and now that most LLM models have that data the push to block access to such sites intensified. When it comes to these things laws are always weaponized.

[–] LupineTroubles@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is not a phenomenon limited to west at all.

[–] LupineTroubles@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

Hopeless optimism at the end aside, it's a good message. One cannot lose sight of life for the concern of it.

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