PostmodernPythia

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[–] PostmodernPythia 6 points 1 year ago

If the state can take those human rights from a criminal, they can make laws that define any one of us as criminal and take them from us.

[–] PostmodernPythia 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s not eugenics. To qualify as eugenics, you’d have to be getting genetic counseling because you wanted to improve the human race, not because you think it’d be unethical to make your kid go through the same suffering you did with a genetic disease. Making eugenics more palatable by ignoring the ideology that defines it can harm people, so please stop.

[–] PostmodernPythia 2 points 1 year ago

It’ll never work. The Athenians tried and failed. Get back to your plow. Feudalism is the only realistic system that accommodates human nature.

/s, icymi

[–] PostmodernPythia 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Garbage collectors are way more likely to die on the job than cops, and they don’t shoot innocent people on the regular. Peddle your false equivalencies elsewhere.

Plus, unless you’re a complete fool, you know perfectly well that a good percentage of people saying “police are the enemy” are using that as shorthand for “policing as it exists in the US today makes the police the enemy.”

Plus, most people aren’t willing to uproot their lives for a single political belief (assuming they can afford to), so I don’t see why you’re holding this group of people to a higher standard.

[–] PostmodernPythia 1 points 1 year ago

They may self-ID as “conservative,” but their policy preferences are reactionary. Accepting the self-descriptions of bad faith extremists is part of how we got here in the first place.

[–] PostmodernPythia 3 points 1 year ago

That’s usually true, but not always, because peopla aren’t all suicidal for the same reason. I’m not saying this in an attempt at debate. My suicidality was due to a vitamin processing problem. Started taking the correct supplement, within days, it was gone, after almost 20 years of constant suffering. But yeah, in most cases, there are broader social determinants of mental health involved.

[–] PostmodernPythia 26 points 1 year ago

More like 2 mines in a field

[–] PostmodernPythia 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

People don’t generally change their gender on a whim, so that doesn’t make the info less useful. (Even if it did, trans people are like 2% of the population, so it would still apply for everyone else.) Men and women have different perspectives and life experiences because the world treats them differently. Do you think knowing the age, race, or country demographics would be pointless, too?

[–] PostmodernPythia 22 points 1 year ago

At a point where we ignore people who set themselves on fire in protest, it’s hard to argue that nonviolent protest by itself accomplishes much anymore, soo…🤷🏼‍♀️

[–] PostmodernPythia 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That doesn’t make it false.

[–] PostmodernPythia 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

“Super power” is obviously an oversimplification, but there are plenty of people with ADHD, like myself, who wouldn’t change it if we could. My justice sensitivity is part of my ADHD, and it’s central to who I am.

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