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Notes to Followers

I'm pro:

2nd amendment (in a very rightwing sense)

ukrainian assistance (fuck putin)

choice (10000% bodily autonomy)

black lives (in fact) matter

lgbtqia+ (all this transphobic nonsense is just that)

I'm against:

bigotry (in generally, tho i do despise religion, i try not to let that translate to the practitioners. call me out if i do.)

vaccine mandates (10000% bodily autonomy)

prohibitions, generally

oligarchy (corporations are NOT people)

I consider myself wokeish. Honestly, sometimes I'm a bit like the accidentally PC guy with the straw in his mouth, leaning up against the truck: I'll probably get the concept right, but call someone a retard while doing it.

Bernie would've been my president for the last two terms. He points true north 99% of the time.

I absolutely will talk with terrible people. The worst, sans pedos (to the chipper you go; no, I’m not part of the trans panic and don’t call normal people “groomers”). Sometimes I'll even repost them, if I agree. Having a terrible history isn't a deal breaker for an accurate specific post, to me. Beyond that I watch what _everyone_ is saying... good people and bad people alike.

If I go of the rails, please feel free to call me out. Or call me out on ideological inconsistencies and hypocrisies... I want to be consistent.

There's nothing centrist about me. I'm very long on unions. Unions all day long. I want universal healthcare and to raise the minimum wage. Palestine _deserves_ statehood, simply for existing, like Israel _deserves_ to exist now that it does (going back, I wouldn't have had the US participate in forming an ethnostate, but intentions were different and context was fresh, back then).

Tax payer subsidized higher education would be nothing but good for us. At very minimum anything offered at a community college should be an extension of public schools (though I also think our public schools suck, due to lack of funding). I'd like to shift some military spending to better pursuits, absolutely... BUT I _do_ LOOOOVE our military supremacy. I don't want anyone else to have it (maybe that makes me a neolib, or whatever I am with neolib characteristics, but idngaf).

Anyways, I just wanted to put a clear advisory here... if you follow me with any thought that your followers will be in an echo chamber, I'll probably repost Rothmus or Kim Dot Com or Elon the next time they say something sane (sometimes they do).

Why is this on Tumblr? Because I'm not giving that shit bag $8/mo. I may end up paying for Tumblr, but Elon will never get a dollar from me.

Ultimately, it boils down to: I'm pro freedom and I think for myself and, though I watch, you'll notice I FOLLOW no one (on platforms that have lists anyways, on platforms that don't I follow everyone, lol).

Mostly, you're going to get a mix of left-wing reposts, me shit posting on right-wing accounts, and some AI and computer stuff.

Ah, one more thing... capitalism has been quite good to me. I don't think we could keep communism on the rails, just based on our nature. Some industries should be socialized, not because of theory but because of our experience with them. Some should have a nationalized competitor, to keep greed in check.

Most other things that can simply be well regulated, obviously, should stay in the freeish market. Maybe this is inconsistent with your notion of freedom, but I'd rather restrict corpos than pay my life to the company store, if you get my drift.

Oh! One more crucial thing: I periodically purge my followers. It's a vibes thing. "I don't need them." No, it's more like I don't need to think about them and the numbers fuck with me. I'm screaming into the ether, jerkin' it with the engrams, if you catch my drift. If you want to actually follow me, put me in a private list... or public (i'm not the boss of you)

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anybody else going through life feeling like a dog that wasn't socialized enough as a puppy

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With appreciation for whoever created this glorious image.

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simulcarnation

what would be the consequences of reincarnation, but in such a manner that you had to be every single living thing ever? every parmecium, ameoba, tiger, liger, dinosaur, your mom, significant others, etc. what would be the consequence of imagining i will be you or have been? what will we prefer to imagine? what's the spectrum? i don't think any religion has covered this notion yet.

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I just... Really hate all the techbros who are saying shit like "hey artists you better watch your days, we'll automate creativity and then its over for you guys!", not just for the obvious reason of how fucked up that world view is, but because it's heavily souring my genuine childlike wonder at how cool this technology is.

Like, take a step back, forget all the discourse we've been forced to have, and just think. We can tell a robot "gender reveal 9/11" and it can make an image of blue and pink exploding towers. That on its own is fucking insane?

And the actual like, algorithms and math that went into it too! We make robots that teach robots to teach themselves how to do stuff. Then just stick that shit in the microwave for a while and boom. Or just tell it "Here's the sum of all knowledge on earth, figure it out".

And I especially love those early AI generated images where any time you try and focus on something it falls apart, but it almost makes sense when you see if from the corner of your eye. That type of image, I don't know how to describe it fully, but it makes me think of when I'm trying to remember a dream as it's fading away in my head.

And these FUCKING chucklefucks decide "hey, let's use this cool as fuck technology in the worst possible way. let's get rid of those pesky people making a living doing what they love and get those shmucks back in an office building so they can get a real job. i'm going to be an asshole about it online and also pay $8 a month so maybe elon musk will notice me"

I'm so fucking tired, man. I want to be excited about new technology and shit but I just can't at this stage.

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The wording is overly broad.

A teacher wouldn't be able to discuss gender identity or sexual orientation even in instances of student-student or student-teacher harassment. Why shouldn't a teacher be able to verbally defend their self or the target of bullying from harassment originating in either subject? Wouldn't that defense necessitate the topics?

The wording keeps social stigmas and bigotry safe, not children. Elsewise they'd be targeted to the specific concerns conservatives have.

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The only reason people can even hate socialism is because we're a social species. If our nature weren't social, we wouldn't have developed language. If we don't have language, reason and knowledge becomes limited to the individual. That would prevent modern civ and tech entirely.

You'd be a bear shitting in the woods.

I'm a social democrat, not a socialist... just pointing out a fact.

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Our current system DOES favor class over constituents. That's a 100%, universally agreed upon thing. I submit we need instant runoff to break out of this, where we stand a better chance of getting constituent concerns a priority over lobbyists.

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Morality has it's biological basis in mirror neurons that give us empathy. Religion need not apply nor contaminate.