• Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    It must be so easy to just make up shit about your enemies and claim they’re all like that.

    Though I think this also shows something I’ve seen a lot with right wingers. They cannot imagine any group of people without a very strict hierarchy. Leftists being like “oh, I’m sorry to hear that you were homeless” isn’t just basic human compassion, it’s genuflecting, they assume that if someone shows compassion towards you, it’s actually a sign of weakness, like a dog rolling over onto their back to show they aren’t a threat and you are dominant. They can’t even conceive of a group where people aren’t constantly trying to stab each other in the back to try and get ahead themselves, they assume every group must do this, just the values they use to determine social capital must be different.

    It’s really sad, their minds are so thoroughly colonised by capital they can’t even think like a human anymore.

    • BeanisBrain [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      Yeah, I never really heard it articulated this way before, but now that you’ve pointed it out, I can’t unsee it. Like how they think that the movement for more diversity in games is a sinister cultural conspiracy being executed from the top down by Sweet Baby Inc./George Soros/Anita Sarkeesian.

    • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Yep. The reason they used to always go on and on about “virtue signalling” is that they believe that nobody is capable of sincerely holding good ideas, and therefore those who look like they do are just lying to make themselves look better.

    • jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      I do find the rhetorical treadmill to be pointless. It’s a purely semantic replacement for actual material struggle. Unhoused will become derogatory as soon as it becomes mainstream, because the mainstream attitude towards people who don’t have a stable living condition won’t change, and the term will be absorbed by that attitude. Then we’ll come up with, like, residence-deprived as our next term and we’ll all shun unhoused for its degrading connotations.

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        I agree. The important question is, who sets the terms for liberation of any oppressed group? I’m always skeptical of patronizing solutions concocted by their “betters” especially when said solution (which doesn’t solve the root problem) is then used as a cudgel against substantive change. Of course, that Reddit thread is really about the snide sentiment that we must accept “biological reality” that there are betters and lessers in society and that one need not mince words when referencing the latter.

  • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    The main post is about how the OP wants anime subtitle translators fired and replaced with AI because they used the term “unhoused” in an episode of Chainsmoker Cat btw.

    One wonders, if AI subtitles were so good, why do these redditors not simply make them themselves? Curious.

  • shath [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    it’s called a progressive stack

    yeah bro im stackin homelessness, being queer and a PoC and also im disabled. shit is OP as hell s2g

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      I’m stackmaxxing on my progressive arc. I’m based* and homelesspilled.

      I met a gay college student on the subway and I oppression-mogged the absolute FUCK out of him by like three PSLs**

      *as in high on crack

      **as in Party for Socialism and Liberation

  • CupcakeOfSpice [she/her, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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    Ah yes, they have the secret knowledge that we totally still call them “asylums.” The fuck is a hospital? They still have chains and dungeon cells, or have they upgraded to straitjackets and padded rooms already? And of course people suffering from addiction don’t end up in those hospitals too! For suuuuure! No, they get the bad-person bracelets and put in jail. (Seething sarcasm)

    Been in a psych ward a couple times (thankfully just for a few days each time; it was mostly to get on meds for the first time and then quick adjustments that I could not wait for an appointment to get made) and it seemed a lot of the people there were either regular people with addictions or regular people who got dealt a shit hand. I only encountered one other person I suspected might have been psychotic, (using the clinical term literally) and they were mostly pretty chill.

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    Progressive Stack

    MF that’s not what progressive stack is. What the actual fuck is this freak talking about

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      you didn’t read all of it did you? civility abuse is one the classic weapons of the right, you’ve gotta learn to cut your losses and save your time and energy.