I'm really proud of this essay and of my progress in this larger project to take games and new media seriously by approaching them with a critical eye. I hope this series of videos awakens people to how deep a lot of this stuff is. This one in particular is poignant.
Do you guys understand that "Civil War" doesn't just mean finding random minorities and executing them? What you're fantasizing about is called "lynching." If you entered into an American Civil War as an insurgent you'd be fighting the U.S. Armed Forces.
I keep thinking about that moment in the iDubbbz video where he talks about a transgender fan coming up to him and saying, "I know you probably don't like transgender people but..." because that really is how it feels a lot of the time as a trans person and that's why if you
aren't transgender yourself, you might not realize how meaningful it can be to hear people just casually acknowledge your identity or your humanity. In that regard it's actually a really cool video because it communicates that fact.
silver lining in the JoCat situation -- poor guy, did not deserve that abuse at all -- is that I seem to recall his gf posted a comic with some sort of caption about how she fucks him every time internet losers try to bully him, so wherever he is I know he's still loving girls
lol if you're a trans woman you can literally have an attempt on your life and if people in the online trans community decide you're getting too much sympathy and too much aid they'll turn on you, the victim of a hate crime. just, god damn, man.
that elon/grimes interaction where he says "pronouns suck" and she says she's calling him and "I can't support hate, I know this isn't your heart" used to be funny. now, with the context of him having had a trans kid behind the scenes, it's just sad.
Being a nationalist doesn't automatically mean the government is going to exclusively be on your side in an armed conflict, especially if your goal in that conflict is to topple the government! Are you stupid? Don't answer that.
"you are an aspiring socialist, yet you eat cheap fast food"
imagine seeing this as an epic own and not a lack of understanding of wealth inequality or capital
@CherryBreadTV
I've literally had those moments! For me it always comes up if there's a lesbian I admire, hearing them be kind to trans women is huge for me. Or hearing my mom call me her daughter. I always remember those moments.
I don't think that MREs have soy lattes and I don't think military uniforms tend to have skirts, but female or transgender soldiers will absolutely wreck your goofy ass if you don't respect their ability to do so. Nobody is buying this "the other side are all pussies" bit.
If memory serves, it was the same in the historical Civil War, too. Confederates thought their good old boys were worth more than their equal number in effete Union city men. Not how it always played out!
@WhackNicholson
Fight Club as a fav book is NOT a red flag in any sense regardless lmao no guy is out here being a toxic dudebro or whatever because he actually read that shit, it's way gayer than the film
@keffals
"I don't have anywhere else on the internet to go" that's not even true, you could go literally anywhere else, you would just have to change your behavior. lol.
@vanillaopinions
"hey guys this is my new black character. he's a really competent cop with a heart of gold who is secretly working with the good guys undercover and actually goes on to be prime minister. his name? you guessed it, kangz chainslave, the nigerian prince."
@SamuraiSphinx
When these people are involved in mass tragedies where they shoot up a mall because they believe a second Civil War is coming, these posts from politicians and media figures *should* appear in court. Lots of not as online people don't know how bad and motivated this stuff is.
for those not caught up on the transgender debate, a small primer:
-trans people exist
-we don't have guaranteed rights and healthcare
-some folks wish we actually had less
thank you for taking the time to get caught up on this issue
[seriously tho I don't mean to make light of the harassment, that's really harsh and cruel and he didn't deserve it. I really have to feel for the guy.]
You've gotta love the clear and obvious "it should have been me" resentment built into half these posts getting mad about keffals. And what did she do wrong this time? Ask her followers to watch one of her videos in her discord because she believes in her own message? lol?
This is so pathetic
I have a video on my channel that I put 100 hours into making only to see it completely fail. It was the bombiest of bombs & I still never wrote a message like this or can imagine myself doing so
God, she is so gross. Fuck the internet for making her popular
It works! I've been telling you guys, right-wing people 100% do not expect people to peacefully protest against their hate while armed. They don't know how to handle it. It just works!
@keffals
Any of these people could delete their KF account, rebrand and go be on another social media site and just be less hateful and not have any major issues. That's not the case for the people they hurt. They really don't see the irony.
@caselimor
@wakefieldspool
@notbalin
@LammaticHama
For clarification: I make less than she makes, I know how math works, I'm just not pretending like it's some great accomplishment when I'm getting stepped on by my boss.
and people who aren't trans who are doing this purely out of their desire to farm drama content or side with whatever political figure took a side, honestly, I have even less sympathy for.
If elected President in 2020, I will:
-replace all framed pictures in the white house with thicc anime waifus
-institute singlepayer healthcare
-make cops illegal, causing them to arrest themselves
-erase all debt
-change the CIA to the BTDA, the Big Titty Development Agency
-booted mayor and politicians
-gave cops the boot as well
-citizens enforcing sovereignty without centralized leaders
-reforesting and creating sustainable farming/gardening
-total lack of crime due to small community guidelines backed by community service
that thread contained multiple allusions to, like, protecting the virgin eyes of elderly asian people who don't want to see ahegao hoodies, and that's all well and good for them but how are you in your 30's and still a teacher's pet
@VaushV
This is ignorant of the history of Pride. A huge element of the founding of Pride was a rebellion against the notion that the queer community should fit into society at larger and smooth out its edges (said sanitization). Assimilation to v. Resistance of norms is built in.
what if everybody just skipped ready player one and instead marathoned all of the material referenced in it while shoplifting and burning ayn rand novels
seriously though if you lend any credence to that shit, leave me alone. I don't want to hear it. if somebody hatecrimes you, you aren't obligated to do an acknowledgement of how you have privileges or sometimes others don't get the help you got WHILE YOU'RE STILL GETTING HELP.
This is a real thing: "Classic fairy tales like Cinderella and Snow White have been replaced by tales of two male giraffes who parent abandoned crocodile eggs." Swedes! What the hell is wrong with you?
this literally happened to her days ago and you people are trying to raise your Reasonable Criticisms while she's still dealing with this shit. you're being fucking evil. you're making the world worse. I don't care to know you.
@BlumpfiXII
@VeldonCoburn
>respectable conservative
>sees news that doesn't affirm his worldview
>calls it a.i. generated
>it's in article from 2015
lmao
wait a fucking minute it just hit me that all the rightwing chuds are so obsessed with lack of food brand variety in stores is that picking brands is basically what cooking is to them
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@AOC
: I acknowledge my "privilege" in being born "cisgendered"
"I'm a cisgendered woman, I will never know the trauma of feeling like I'm not born in the right body. That is a privilege I have no matter how poor my family was when I was born."
You know why that is, you fucking weirdo? It's because life is unlivable when you're constantly surrounded by people who think being gay means you're a pedophile. And you don't get to make life unlivable for minorities and whine about the intolerant left.
hey so I know lots of lefties aren't trying to be sectarian or w/e but even if you don't like the word "tankie" can you at least acknowledge that there's a mob of authoritarian socialist serial harassers attacking trans women on this site??? please???
@shoe0nhead
This is like if one of those dads who poses in his daughter's prom pics w/ his rifle and posts those "Ten Rules For Dating My Daughter" memes had actually murdered multiple children.
Don't worry. He's not actually an incel. He's just pretending he is within context. You need Context. Just like when he has admitted to being a pedophile. And the time he said he's a federal informant. And the time he said that misogynist thing. Or that transphobic thing. Or the
me, age 6: "wow do I want to be officer jenny or nurse joy"
me, age 24: "nurse joy and officer jenny are lesbians in a troubled relationship because officer jenny is a class traitor"
hnnnng sergeant, i'm trying to police private property and victimize minorities, but i'm dummy thicc, and the clap of my ass cheeks keeps alerting the rapey pickup artists
"""political correctness""" is a right-wing buzzword for not wanting to be called out on your horseshit and if you believe otherwise congrats you're the target demographic of that con
*Jordan Peterson voice* One thing that I keep coming back to is that young men today say that Stacy is the ideal woman, but what they really want is Stacy's Mom. There's a tension there, an Oedipal relation if you will, and Stacy's Mom never reciprocates. *starts crying*
@MPBania
This is actually a good faith reply and I appreciate that; to clarify, I was mostly working off their understanding of how things would kick off where they catch random queer-looking latte drinkers with their pants down (including the replies where they just openly fantasize
like I joked about this elsewhere, but literally if I posted about getting assaulted and you were like "hmmm can you acknowledge your white privilege? this happens more to black trans women and they get less help" the issue wouldn't be that you're not technically correct
trans folks notice when you don't treat us like our gender
my femme friends always used to have sleepovers without me, and my dad always made me do the masculine-coded housework
trans folks notice
absolutely prepared to die on the hill that the Last Jedi was a really good film even by standards apart from the usual Star Wars fare
y'all have no idea, I'm still scripting that Rose video
and all these "criticisms" are just vague gesticulations at observations that can be made towards anyone any time something bad happens to them and a ton of people try to help them out.
christianity is possibly the horniest religion because its entire founding premise in myth is that one woman was brave enough to fuck god
their son would go on to support sex workers
and if the dispute is the technical dollar amount, are you really that pressed over some trans gal getting Too Much Help? as she prepares to enter a potentially prolonged and expensive lawsuit after moving? is that the problem? this is why I say you're fucking evil.
anyway the issue isn't that you're not technically correct. we know. if you're the type of person saying this, you get off on being technically correct. but you don't know how to be a good person, is the issue. this woman needs help and hopefully she gets it.
I know some people might not know how to feel about the Butch Hartman stuff but let's just look at his Twitter follows. That info is free.
Time of viewing and number of follows:
@MrHkay1
@fck_wat_u_think
I mean, people do actually give advice to kids about avoiding situations like that in public. Not the way it usually happens but you hear it a lot (don't talk to strangers/get in their car, etc). It's just also a shitty thing to say *after* somebody already got assaulted.
best thing about this promotion of Gervais from Netflix is that it's supposed to make him look wild and aggressive but all we know about it now is he's just repeating mainstream right-wing views on trans people
"We simply MUST allow cishet men to direct women and queer with their critical input!"
Fuck off. You don't live our lives, so you don't have the perspective to decide what's best for us.
In "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," J. K. Rowling gives the date of 1612 for the first recorded Goblin Rebellion. This was also the date of the start of the Fettmilch Uprising in real history, a pogrom in Frankfurt expelling Jews from the city.