it sounds like you are even against the idea of using violence to end slavery and think people shouldnt have done that then? like you would argue against that and think it’s bad and fight against people doing that? is that accurate? if so im gonna have to dip on this conversation, we are galaxies away from eachother…

so what you are saying is, “we know violence has been used to successfully fight against oppression and improve rights all the time throughout history, almost constantly in fact. however, i want us to limit this to specific cases where we can say everything turned out perfectly to this day.” this is not really…

the fact that the story was designed in that way literally makes it worse though. depicting those who use violence against their oppression as ‘oh no actually they are extremists who want to oppress the rest of the people’ is like a very common way to essentially say ‘using violence to gain equality is a no-no’ in…

i am happy that kids can feel accomplishment, but kids should not get their feelings of accomplishment by doing some work for a youtuber. we need to work hard to address central problems that put us in this strange position where this is being normalized

that’s the thing, i can’t really see how they top dbfz so i’m glad it’s something different instead of a dbfz2

yeah but that kind of just shows the problem doesnt it? corporations that harm people basically attempt to bribe them with empty gestures like “including a gay person in a video game” or whatever

the person i originally replied to in my comment has now replied back, and they seem to have understood the point im making to a pretty good degree. ill be done replying to you specifically because you seem to have comprehensively misunderstood what im trying to say and i dont think youre interested in changing that,…

if you google ‘ukraine nato’ and set the range to like 2010-2016 or so, it quickly becomes apparent why there would at bare minimum be a reasonable perception on the part of russia that nato expansion was/has been a concern. so i invite you to do that. this is not some one-sided thing, this is simply the first few…

this is so real. i dont want to put this all on ‘internet culture’ but in general, regardless of what ‘side’ we’re on, i think we have way too much of a culture of ‘making the other side angry’ rather than actually trying to push toward solutions and understanding

i actually made literally no statement about the just or unjustness of US invading mexico in my hypothetical scenario. i think you accidentally made that up

if many south american countries with bad relations with the US joined in a military alliance with russia, and then mexico ‘voluntarily’ joined that alliance, what do you think the reaction would be? people, including you, would say, ‘oh my goodness russia is expanding and is basically on our borders now.’ if this…

the fact that it’s ultimately valorizing it makes the criticism totally irrelevant though. it’s common US media propaganda playbook. cop shows always have criticisms of certain aspects of the police. the idea is to present them as ‘flawed, but ultimately necessary forces for good.’ it’s like the central way people in…

US is the worst though, so that’s the one disagreement i have with your posts here.

i hate to say it but, why are you asking him to elaborate? he gave you straight up hate speech. he talked about the US and UK as being ‘civilized countries.’ i think we need to have some standards here

US government doesnt have to punish weak criticism like that because its population is so propagandized. for example: imagine if someone in america put out a big popular video game openly criticizing United States’ role in this Russia situation. it would be over for them, the US government wouldnt even have to get…

others have basically said this, but this is a great message that corporations will sadly not receive or care about. capitalists arent interested in making a lot of money, they are interested in optimizing the amount of money that they make no matter how much they’re already making. there will be no point at which…

i was waiting to see a comment like this, i think it is very important.

“ Does this reveal something about Rowling’s worldview? It could, I suppose. But if it does, then it’s a view that seems to be fairly common.”

people are literally angry and raging in the comments about this article though, even though it’s just kind of a moderate critique

you should consider how to make this into a real and productive point imo