#it's the hypocrisy I have a problem with

[wowgrim]

Somehow it seems like a lot of the people talking about how we need to sympathize with MAGA voters now and understand where they're coming from and find common cause with them are the same people who threw a fit when Kamala Harris rolled with Dick Cheney's endorsement.

[sadkachow]

You cannot claim to be anti-AI while still actively seeking out and using AI.

Once again.

You cannot claim to be anti-AI while still using generative AI, no matter the reason.

(Bold/italicized text: You cannot claim to be anti-AI while still using generative AI, no matter the reason.)

Even if you’re just using it to make fun of it or show how bad it is.

Even if it’s only for your personal use, and you don’t plan on sharing it with anyone.

Even if you’re “just” roleplaying on Character AI.

If you are willing to justify your usage of a system created and profiting off of stealing from artists and writers, a symstem that is destroying the Earth, then you were never as “against that system” as you think you were. Being anti-AI isn’t something that exists only in name. You can’t claim to be against AI if you are willing and able to use it as soon as it benefits you. You can’t say you’re for writers’ and artists’ rights if you’re using the very thing that is causing them harm. You can’t claim to care about climate change and saving the Earth if you are participating in the system that is destroying it.

There is no middle ground here.

There is no “Oh, but I-“.

If you have the knowledge of what generative AI is doing, of how it is hurting people, and you choose to use it anyway, you aren’t  against it. You aren’t fighting against that system, you’re upholding it.

You can say how much you hate AI and how horrible you think it is, if you choose to use it anyway, then your actions and your words are not lining up, and the former reveals so much more than the latter.

Stop pretending like AI is something you can condemn only in name, while using it to your heart’s content in your free time. All it does it tells writers and artists that you don’t really care about us, and that any actions you claim to be taking to protect us are performative at best and lies or even outright malicious at worst.

You are—and I mean this in the kindest way possible, even with the fury that generative AI invokes in me—a complete and utter hypocrite. AI is not your friend. It is a tool, and it is a tool that steals from writers and artists in order to function. It is a tool that is using levels of energy and emitting amounts of polution in order to be maintained that are actively damaging the Earth. No matter how much you try to justify using it to yourself, that doesn’t change.

Stop hiding under the guise of being anti-AI while continuing to use it yourself.

[lastoneout]

America as a country has been hypocritical for as long as it's existed, so I've always found outraged claims of "this isn't what the founding fathers wanted!" a bit silly not only because again, they were hypocritical rich land-owning white men who built things to be inherently unfair and probably would actually be totally down for a lot of fucked up shit and the only reason shit ever got fairer was a centuries long game of "hmm maybe we should change that actually" BUT ALSO because who tf cares what they think, they've been dead for like 200 years now and their opinions are moot...

...and that's why I am so stunned to have reached a point where nah actually, you're right! They wouldn't have wanted this! I think if we went back in time and showed any of the founding fathers that fucking fake TIME cover of Trump being declared the king they'd probably get pissed and ask why we haven't [REDACTED FOR LEGAL REASONS] yet.

How tf did this country get so messed up that crusty old racist genocidal slave-apologist colonialsts from the 1770s would look at us and go "hey no that's not okay" and be CORRECT.

[danadiadea]

The boggart argument never fails to make me giggle, because you know who else is "13 year old's biggest fear"? Minerva McGonagall, who is usually portrayed by the fandom as nothing less than a perfect teacher. And unlike Neville, who couldn't remember his parents tortured, Hermione almost got killed by a troll and a basilisk. And while Neville was laughing apologetically, Hermione screamed and stuttered.

[rosenecklaces]

It's so easy to see a post shiting on Azriel/Elriel because of the "too sexual and not romantic" aspect and then when you check that person's blog it becomes immediately evident that they loved ACOSF because it was "full of smut"

[hummone]

Wei Wuxian has killed a lot of people. The numbers are in thousands, which is mind boggling really. But not one of those kills were for his own gain, not one murder to gain political traction, not one murder to hide his intentions or plans. He didn’t kill someone for insulting him or his parents. He has killed though in war, in revenge for decimating his sect, in self defence when pushed into a corner. His one mistake that killed Jin Zixuan, when he actually lost control, he agonised over it. He didn’t intend for it.

Please don’t put him in the same box as the people who killed just for fun, or to hide their own crimes, or a sense of superiority or whatever.

Wei Wuxian is murderous badass with morals. Thank you very much.

[dukeofthomas]

jason thinks he should be dead (sometimes he thinks he IS dead), he's just what crawled out of jason todd's grave but he IS jason todd why cant you see that im still the same person. but im not who i used to be and you have to accept i'm different now but i'm still the same bc i'm still your son and your brother and your friend but i'm not 15 anymore (but i am i never grew up i'm still stuck in that warehouse watching the seconds count down the joker is still laughing and i'm still in pain and broken and bloody and beaten and the warehouse is everything and i'm 15 i'm 15 i'm 15) i'm an adult now i'm not a sweet lil daddy's kid anymore i've grown up (i haven't. do you remember when i played with legoes? when we went to football matches togetehr? when you drove me to school and called me chum and smiled at me gently and put your hand around my shoulder and squeezed? i loved you.) when you look at me all you see is who i used to be, you don't see ME, you just see who i used to be and i can never measure up to that, i can never be as good or kind or gentle or loving as the ghost of me that lives in your brain, but when i look in the mirror my eyes are dead like a fish's and my corpse is still in the ground and i'm not breathing because my insides are decayed and gone but i'm still standing here like a zombie, like a bad dream, like a fraction of who i used to be because i'm dead and i'm 15 and i never grew up but i'm somehow still an adult and how dare you not see me for who i am because i'm still the same but i'm still different but aren't i your son? am i at least still your son? you took me in and you loved me and you cared for me and you were my father my god my everything? i'm still your son. i'm still your son. i'm still your son.

Do you love me? Can you prove you love me? Can you prove i meant anything and can you prove my death was real?

(I love you. Please say it back.)

[aq2003]

i'm listening to this video essay "why i stopped being anti woke" and while i don't agree with all of the sentiment in it it's making me realize how incredibly fragile cishet white men can be lmao like they get so scared when they have to reckon with the fact that they hold societal power and that maybe minorities have a right to complain about the inequalities they face

[beeblitzen]

Sometimes I judge people who hate Mahito just because he killed their fav, but then I remember I despise hawks with a passion because he PRETENDED to kill best jeanist 3 years ago and then I'm chill again

[edwardseymour]

Do you think Jane Seymour drove the downfall of the Boleyn family?

✨ terfs/zionists fuck off ✨

i wrote about this here.

no, i don’t think she caused their downfall (at least, not exclusively), but yes, she was actively part of the campaign to bring them down. that much is pretty much undeniable.

i do tend to read the boleyns' fall as a result of some self-inflicted wounds and the efforts of henry viii and thomas cromwell. anne was guilty of transgressive behaviour, and while this should never have cost six people their lives, she was therefore guilty of such behaviour that it was reasonable for henry to believe she had committed adultery. what came next was a dedicated campaign to bring her and the boleyns down. i think the severity of anne's case was on account of destroying elizabeth's legitimacy; george boleyn had to go with his sister in order to cripple any support elizabeth might have.

we don't really know anything about how jane, or the seymours in general, viewed the boleyns. jane made some level of effort for elizabeth, which she didn't have to do. but alternately, (and perhaps more revealingly) she took a phoenix as her badge, with its messages of renewal from an old, dead bird... when anne's badge of a falcon had come from the boleyn family through the heraldry of the butlers (ormonde) - and thomas boleyn's brass in hever church likewise depicts the falcon.

i think the seymours undermining the boleyns is so egregious to people because, beyond the favouritism of the boleyns (as scandalous, a 'family firm' of courtiers), i think the seymours come across as blatantly opportunistic, which people generally have less sympathy for. they certainly reaped the rewards of the boleyns' fall without recorded question or hesitation. it is often assumed that jane, and therefore her family, didn't believe anne was legitimately queen, which begs the question as to why she took a position of service in her household? i have to assume the proximity to power/henry overrode conviction, but that's assuming we know what jane's convictions were... and, actually, we don't. another reading could be that the seymours, of less standing than the boleyns, rather understandably had to climb higher: the boleyns take one step, the seymours take two. so i think it's less that that jane caused the boleyn's downfall, but that she and her family gladly took advantage of and profited from it.

these asks take a lot of time. if you wish to buy me a coffee, i'd be very appreciative 💖

[underscore-jude]

i take back any and all narrative critiques i had of firebringer when i was a bougie 14 year old thinking i knew my shit. this is par for the course in terms of starkid's narrative cohesiveness and the chorn twist is the funniest fucking thing ive ever seen

[jasontoddenthusiastt]

Where is this angry-at-everything-all-the-time-Jason. Between him and Bruce he’s the only one being reasonable.

[insidejupiter]

jingliu is a perfect example of "if this female character was male, shed be universally loved instead of heavily criticized"

[dayalloused]

I think (after a lot of thinking) that my main issue with Marcella in Vengeful is the fact we don't really get to watch her struggle?

Marcella is on a rampage the entire time. Her plot for revenge against Marcus wraps up very quickly despite it being a perfectly compelling story on its own.

Partially because of her lack of compassion, we don't see her struggle with her EO power, seeming to come into it and accept it very naturally.

June and Jonathan don't have any conflicts with her. She's very intelligent so all her plans work without a hitch.

This isn't necessarily bad. The issue comes from the fact that she is a main character of Vengeful yet there is nothing besides rage (which after the quickly wrapped up revenge plot against Marcus is unfocused) to make you feel for her.

The issue isn't really having a larger cast or a prominent role but that nearly all her scenes are ultimately forgettable. Other characters who have less time dedicated to them/no POV (June, Rios, Dominic and Stell) manage to be more memorable.

[ambersky0319]

My ASL professor is a godsend I don't get how people called her difficult

[mynameis-a]

post: has severe flashing lights with no warnings

everyone in the reblogs: is upset about the lack of flash warning tags

also everyone in the reblogs: doesnt add flash warning tags