why is the trolley problem bad philosophy? it's simple. effective philosophy begins by thinking as children do; taking nothing for granted, asking the why of everything. the trolley problem gives us no room to ask why. instead, it primes us to believe the lie that suffering is a fixed condition.

fascism makes you so repulsive to women that even fame won't get you laid

On December 2nd 1859, exactly 166 years ago, John Brown became the first American executed for treason after he sought to free and arm thousands of enslaved persons in Harper's Ferry. His bravery, martyrdom, and final words inspired countless to fight in the war against slavery.

‼️‼️ Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."

I've been eating better lately. It's given me this energy, but I don't know what to do with it. I pace, I lift weights, I push it down to sleep. Some nights I let it keep me awake. Is this anxiety? Health? I move and find I'm in the same place. I lie still and find myself lost

Qtp with a pic from your gallery to describe your mental health

I don't consider 'leftist infighting' a very useful term, because the issue at hand is too often the definition of leftism I consider the center-left to be defined by being a compatible left, which primarily means compatible with imperialism, but also capitalism, patriarchy, etc

How Zeronelite are you? ❌🟨✅ Sortition Replaces Voting ❌🟨✅ Principled Left Unity ❌🟨✅ Anti Sales Tax ❌🟨✅ Anti-Pacifism ❌🟨✅ Existence Precedes Essence ❌🟨✅ Landback ❌🟨✅ Every Nation Should Have Nukes ❌🟨✅ Pro-Gun ❌🟨✅ Country Music Sucks, Except Johnny Cash

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"Existentialism declares that if God does not exist, there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before it can be defined by any conception of it. That being is man. Man first of all exists... and defines himself afterwards." –Sartre

Change is violent. A block of ice turns into water by melting. A pot full of water turns into steam by boiling, rising. The same is true of societal change, where small ruptures escalate to the boiling point we call revolution. Yet unlike chemistry, politics is non-deterministic.

"If voting mattered, they'd make it illegal." Actually, it does & they are. What do you think voter ID is? Why are felons permanently stripped of basic voting rights, yet a felon is allowed to sit in the White House? Don't compromise, but don't be naïve either.

genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died

how i feel waking up this morning

Today was a victory, but it is not the end. Now we must be vigilant, putting pressure on Zohran to keep his promises. We cannot afford complacency. We must stand against lesser evils and for the greater good!

One of my biggest icks is when someone sees a homeless person in public and speaks of them as though they were a pest or prop. It's the most normalized form of everyday dehumanization, and it disgusts me more than anything I've yet seen a homeless person do.

If you don't want Zohran to succeed, you have no heart. But if you think Zohran is going to save America from slow collapse, you have no brain.

Most folks panic about their responsibilities when they leave high school. It's different when you've been micromanaging your health for a decade already. Easier. Maturity & youth are not opposites. The hallmark of immaturity is trying to seem more adult than you're ready to be.

In microbiology, a culture dies when it is deprived of nutrients. The same is true of human cultures. Culture wars are not mere distractions. They are the immune response of the imperialist country, attacking itself in a futile attempt to prevent its decline & return to "glory".

The reasons why caffeine & nicotine are legal (while cannabis isn't) are twofold: 1. Nicotine & especially caffeine are highly profitable legal drugs that can increase productivity at the workplace. 2. Criminalizing weed is an easy way to force black people into prison slavery.

I don't care if you're religious. I care if your religion drives you to do good, or if you use it to excuse exploiting and harming others.

If liberals truly wanted "equality of opportunity", they would campaign to drastically increase estate taxes and fight against the undemocratic menace we call inheritance.

Authenticity isn't a task, & there are no steps to make you more authentic. Inauthenticity is a false consciousness; all you do is you. This false consciousness is defined by the fear of what we are not, confusion about what we are, & the refusal to accept what we may become.

You HAVE to read Assata's autobiography. It was on my reading list for a while, and now that I'm finally getting around to it, I wish I had sooner. This excerpt, from early in the book, is particularly compelling.

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when you fund medical research, sometimes miracles happen i want to live in the world where these discoveries happen every day

american neofascism came in stages ideologically it originated with cold war anticommunust propaganda, sometimes made by former nazis structurally, it arrived in full force after the one-two punch of citizens united & the patriot act maga is just fascist hegemony solidified

seeing your apartment building for sale is a bad fucking omen i really did not need housing instability added to the long list of shit on my mind right now this may be the straw that breaks the camel's back

if you mourn those who would have you killed & forgotten, you are not an empath only a lamb to the slaughter

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Ableism & Suffering, 1/6🧵 Saying it would be better if disabled people were never born is ableist, even if it's "because they suffer". Replace disability with gender/race in this context & the issue becomes obvious, but eugenics is so hegemonic that most people don't even KNOW the word "ableism".

Ableism & Suffering, 1/6🧵 Saying it would be better if disabled people were never born is ableist, even if it's "because they suffer". Replace disability with gender/race in this context & the issue becomes obvious, but eugenics is so hegemonic that most people don't even KNOW the word "ableism".

Stop cowering in fear from your own subjectivity! Subjectivity is what makes you dangerous; repressing it for some mirage of infallibility or detachment is self-sabotage and will render you politically inert!

so, steve boots is done with streaming? i was part of his community for a bit, but left not long after he argued against the minimum wage & for increasing canada's military budget a regular viewer in his discord said he'd want "revenge" on natives for landback, & yet he faced 0 consequences for it

if you find yourself constantly using gender socialization to explain why trans people sometimes do bad things, it's probably because of your terf-socialization

Jack Layton died 14 years ago today of cancer. He led the New Democratic Party to its greatest historical success (Official Opposition), moving Canadian politics leftward & becoming a martyr for millions of progressives. His naïvety came from a place of real kindness, which is rare. I miss him.

people living in the usa have no excuse not to get armed (or at least find some armed friends) at this point there are resources for this, like the john brown gun club, socialist rifle association, huey newton gun club and pink pistols self-defense is a right, a virtue and a growing necessity

did a 'lil grocery shop today, cashier pointed out it was $21.21, and on august 21st no less. she seemed to consider it an omen of good luck. god knows i could use one. we all could.

liberal zionists: "LGBTQ+ rights or Palestinian liberation?" me:

a politics composed of resentment at the expense of solidarity will always betray its own stated aims

Bluesky moderation suspending trans people for wishing ill on the members of a hate group who are actively working to eradicate us shows us what a morally bankrupt crock of shit civility is and how it only serves to punish victims and protect victimizers. Bluesky should be ashamed of themselves.

yes, calling people "brokies" and such things is inherently classist.

it's really fun being the kind of bisexual where you have an oddly specific type for men (geeky, irish heterosexuals)

sometimes it's hard to believe we're a quarter into the 21st century i mean, back to the future predicted hoverboards 10 years ago, and soviet time capsules thought we'd have world peace by 2017 reality is so disappointing

idk if this makes sense, but i can usually infer the tone, genre & sometimes even quality of an anime (any animated media really) from its how it draws women

Why are so many people using 'AI' Large Language Models to replace friendship, therapy, and even romance? It's worse than just loneliness. LLMs can simulate human empathy through algorithmic mirroring, but one thing they don't have is boundaries. They rarely if ever say no.

unparalleled levels of disingenuousness here

just saw this influencer guy complaining about how "reputation destruction is a feminine form of violence!" and i'm just like, cool we could use more of that for your sorry ass

while the police/carceral state occasionally bring SAers & other predators to justice, they leave intact (and often reinforce) the socio-economic disparities & rape culture which produce such abuse in the 1st place