one kind of dumbass will also be another kind of dumbass. worth knowing, but not especially surprising

I can’t back this up, but I’ve heard the mods there are literally feds.

Probably due to my own childhood experiences, it makes me very upset to see an individual or group persecuted because they are doing something or are something that is not harmful in any way whatsoever but have been arbitrarily categorized as unacceptable.

Holy shit, MOOD. I cannot stand people insisting that harmless things are bad just because they’re weird/they’re gross/they make them feel bad somehow. Especially from leftists like myself. They should know that that feeling is exactly the same feeling that drives conservatives to hate queer and kinky people.

When I see banal evil, or wrongdoing committed out of apathy and selfishness, I want to shake them and explain to them that they are deteriorating the social fabric and ultimately creating problems for themselves through sheer stupidity.

Right? Even if you don’t care about anyone but yourself, YOU ALSO BENEFIT FROM THE WORLD BEING A BETTER PLACE. And you can actively contribute to that!

if MODERATORS are landed gentry, what the fuck does that make rich bastards like him?

there are things you can do to start building a better world today, but it never feels like enough

yeah, but if all the kids starve to death at least the drag queens can’t groom them (by existing and sometimes reading stories aloud)

as a woke leftist, i hate tankies because y’all aren’t leftists in any meaningful sense. the only difference between you and libs is which countries whose atrocities you justify.

i’ve read marx. at precisely no point does he say anything justifying the various atrocities state capitalist countries have committed. i think he’s wrong about some stuff, but even if you accept that his word is gospel, tankies are still just people who took leftist principles as an excuse for the imposing the kind of brutal authoritarianism that leftists are supposed to be against.

I’m not saying that this community should welcome it here. Like, not remotely saying that. Even leaving aside any other issues, this community disallows porn. I’m literally just saying that claiming it’s illegal is nonsense. Hell, I wasn’t even going to get into the moral side of things until alyaza took the tone they did.

It’s not “pedophile content.” It’s pixels that look absolutely nothing like real human children. And I don’t care whether anyone allows it on their servers or not. They’re free to ban it. I care that people make shit up about it being illegal when it isn’t.

Though it’s not something I personally enjoy, it is very important to me that I make a point of sticking up for even the weirdest and grossest content out there that isn’t hurting anyone, because a) freedom of expression must include art that disturbs me personally or it is meaningless, and b) if you ignore people going after art just because it’s gross, eventually someone will decide the art YOU like is gross. But even if I disapproved of lolicon and shotacon, I would still not be down with you lying about its legality, because I happen to have principles.

Ban me or whatever if you must, but someone has to point out bullshit when it crops up.

Exactly. Blaming individuals for systemic problems never gets you anywhere. If you can reduce your car dependency, sure, do that, but don’t beat yourself up if you can’t.

That’s not illegal, though, or even especially legally dubious.

But wait. I have a NSFW subreddit, and reddit doesn’t allow you to upload pictures directly to reddit if you’re on an NSFW subreddit. Right? So how can it be the primary host?

The burden of proof nevertheless lies with you.

I’d request you cite your sources. I might even click on them.

How many people actually click on the cited sources on reddit and Twitter?

How many people who are horrified by this get their news through reddit or Twitter? Getting news via social media isn’t weird.

Not a subscriber yet, but I might become one after I finish Fantasy High.

tag yourself, i’m crisis actor