All "drug paraphernalia" laws are intrinsically anti-harm-reduction and anti-public-health.

You hate Obama because he is Black. I hate Obama because he is a deporter and warmonger. We are not the same.

My first blog post. I suggest that it makes sense to care whether an artwork is AI-generated, even if you cannot tell by looking. megaritz.substack.com/p/ai-art-and...

Need more memes taking a picture of some daily inconvenience or terrible disaster, plus the caption "this would never have happened if we had a ballroom" or some variant thereof

Some people think polyamory is bad because it is sometimes used by men to manipulate and screw over women. Well, I've got some bad news about monogamy.

Some vtubers play all of Metal Gear Solid V without suspecting the twist at all. And other vtubers play it and guess it IMMEDIATELY.

Imagine a student with dyslexia who goes to UCLA, and then they're discriminated against for having dyslexia, but they're supported by the ACLU. Then they have to do a bunch of paperwork that constantly references the UCLA and ACLU

People talk as if season 2 of Twin Peaks is all bad. You KNOW that's not true! You KNOW the first third of season 2 has some of the best episodes, including the episode where we learn who killed Laura Palmer. Give me a fucking break. And the FINAL episode of season 2!!! One of the best ever.

People attack Elon Musk for his ketamine use. Don't lump all ketamine users in with this guy.

I need to tell all the fujoshis about Lord Ashley (Anthony Cooper, the First Earl of Shaftesbury) and John Locke. There is ONLY ONE fanfic about them on AO3. wth? The scholar Peter Laslett's introduction to Two Treatises of Government describes them as "intimate" and "stimulating each other"

There are not nearly enough vigilante actions against animal agriculture.

Washington Times published an article supporting making Christianity the national religion of the USA. ...Washington Times is owned by the Unification Church-- a religious minority sect who would most likely be persecuted as "heretics" if Christian nationalists were victorious!

“I went in the Somali community. I went in the Chinese people. I went into dark people, black people, whatever you want.” -Doug Ford, Sr. (Speaking to CBC, 1998, quoted by BobbyBroccoli)

Imagine trying to stop the mafia BEFORE legalizing alcohol. That's what it's like trying to stop the cartels BEFORE legalizing drugs. Absolutely irrational.

A lot of people think it is automatically "progressive" to say "addiction is a medical issue, not a criminal issue." This is far from a perfect analogy, but maybe it's worth reminding people how it was once thought "progressive" to say "homosexuality is a medical issue, not a criminal issue."

Happy MGS2 Day

I don't know about the WHCD assassination attempt. But now ppl are once again talking as if the 2024 PA assassination attempt was fake too. WTF? How do you explain away the Secret Service problem? Was the Secret Service (during Biden's presidency, btw) corrupt & helping Trump in 2024?

Mark = Japanese Red/Green Matthew = English Red/Blue Luke = English Yellow John = FireRed/LeafGreen

Imagine if the FBI/CIA published a report on organized crime or terrorism, and the author was a bit new and just wanted to be polite and gracious. So they included an Acknowledgements section, and personally thanked every confidential source and informant by name.

Imagine a nature preserve for rare wild animals, but it was run like the Safari Zone, where you're allowed to throw rocks at the animals, and take the animals home

“Something doesn’t seem right about the potions professor. He seems like… a Dark wizard.” -Harry Potter, probably

Military leaders, staff, and soldiers must disobey illegal & evil orders, such as orders to commit war crimes. They must encourage one another to disobey. In addition, Congress should intervene. Anyone in Trump's ear should intervene.

Self-identification is the worst theory of gender category membership conditions, except for all of the other theories which have been tried

"For decades, scholars have been polarized about whether addiction is a brain disease or a choice. But now we propose a new theory, which shows that addiction is both and/or neither of these." -The introduction of *lots* of philosophy articles/books about addiction for the last few decades

If God’s not real, then why are the numbers 6 and 7 in a direct sequence– an obvious reference to the meme “6 7”? There are an infinite amount of integers, so there was an infinitesimally small chance that those two numbers would be in that order by accident.

In "Thomas the Tank Engine," the engines Donald and Douglas are undocumented immigrants who flee to Sodor as refugees to escape a genocide.

In MGS2, the Big Shell got its title by defeating its mentor, The Shell.

The 2014 film “Left Behind" starring Nic Cage covers the first few chapters of the first Left Behind novel. There are 12 Left Behind novels in the main series. At this pace, it would take over fifty (50) movies to adapt the entire series. Imagine more than 50 Left Behind movies starring Nic Cage!

Anakin fell to the Dark Side in Episode II, when he murdered a bunch of noncombatant women & children (the sandpeople). Padme should have told the Council. Anakin should have been immediately kicked out of the Jedi and made to stand trial for his horrific mass murder.

People who think "Light was a good guy" (Death Note) are generally morons not even worth talking to. But the strongest case (which nobody makes) for Light's actions being good is that he supposedly ended war. This is vastly more important than reducing most violent crime.

In MGS lore, my impression is that the Russian Philosophers existed both pre-Communist Revolution and post-Communist Revolution. How did the Communist Revolution impact the Russian Philosophers? I don't know if this is ever addressed?

Have any of the 2017-era critics of Rebecca Tuvel (or her transracialism paper, or Hypatia's publication of it, or related issues) ever expressed regret for how severe or hostile their criticisms were?

Many Palestine activists know a LOT of history about the Israel-Palestine conflict, decade by decade, year by year. I wish more drug reform activists, eg myself, had comparable knowledge on the history of the drug war. Drug activists should be inspired by Palestine activists to learn more history.

It is morally permissible to use lethal violence against masked men who are trying to kidnap you or other people.

In 2050, we're gonna learn it was called the Mandala Effect all along, and we all just remembered it wrong

I am getting the "Heavy Rain canon yaoi evidence" GoogleDoc ready. Soon, I will post it in the discords of several fujoshi and fujo-adjacent vtubers who have played the game. More people must know the truth. The Heavy Rain canon yaoi is real.

Overall I think MGS3 Delta is a pretty questionable remake (i'm going off cutscenes + videos about it). But it did get a lot of vtubers to play MGS3 (either again or for the first time) which is always great.

Most of the understanding of oppression in "Detroit: Become Human" is dumb, but the part about seizing the means of reproduction is surprisingly based. Reproduction control is central to oppression, and to liberation.

From everything I've heard about SW:TOR and the Revan novel, their treatment of the Exile is terrible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FEm...

Progressives should never have embraced any kind of cancel culture. The message from day 1 should have been that right-wingers were actually much worse proponents of cancel culture, and that this was very bad.

People say games journalists are bad at games, but the only example they ever cite is Dean Takahashi (who is very bad). Are there any other major examples of games journalists being bad at games?

Idea for political messaging: “Woke people love the homeless—they think being homeless is an "oppressed identity" just as valid as any other identity, and that housing everyone would therefore be "cultural genocide." If you want to trigger the libs, support universal free housing. That’ll show ‘em.”

In MGSV, the attractive female sniper Quiet HAS to be naked at all times, because her body does photosynthesis. But in MGS3, there is a 100 year old male sniper whose body ALSO does photosynthesis-- but he's fully clothed, for some reason. Hopefully, MGS3 Delta will finally correct this discrepancy.