queermunist she/her

I’m trans. How long until they decide my ID is fake and that means I’m here illegally and come to disappear me too?

Look on the bright side; he’s fat and old and doesn’t believe in exercise and loves fast food.

Well when the choice is dying in a firefight with the gICEtapo or being tortured to death in an El Salvadoran prison…

I’m open to the possibility that Chinese law enforcement has some kind of racial/ethnic bias against a minority group or that the anti-extremism campaign has had excesses, but comparing that to the systematic campaign of starvation and slaughter being carried out by Israel is absurd. I say “whatever you think China is doing” because you seem to think you can compare it to the modern Holocaust happening right now. Is China butchering people by the thousands? Are they starving a million children to death?

Comparing what Israel is doing with whatever you think China is doing makes it clear which one is worse.

If ICE agents showed up to arrest you and refused to present a warrant would you be legally justified in shooting them?

Look on the bright side: when the economy crashes you’ll be able to sell your car for more!

Impossible. A dog would immediately eat the ham. QED

All the schools and hospitals in the world aren’t going to stop people from harming each other. Get it?

Reeducation and rehabilitation you stupid shitbag, why is this so hard for you to understand?

Talking to you is self harm.

They’re nasty pieces of shit when they don’t have to look at the person they’re hurting or putting in danger, but that only supports my theory. There’s an empathy disconnect that’s created when there isn’t a human face or voice immediately in front of them. Once they aren’t in danger of an in-person interaction all the venom comes out. Online, that’s basically all of our interactions.

I should point out the phenomenon where a minority in a community will magically become “one of the good ones” so that the bigots can continue hating minorities while empathizing with their neighbor. This is also becoming less common as we grow more isolated from each other and everyone moves online, destroying the potential for that face-to-face interaction.

So… we go all the way back to my previous point where I said you think it’s okay to imprison people for life even with the possibility that they are innocent.

I said to keep the prisons open until we replace them. That necessarily means we aren’t imprisoning people for life, because the prisons will close. We just hold them for the length of time it takes to replace the prisons with schools and hospitals.

Get it?

Also I don’t know where you got the idea that I actually support life imprisonment? I only said it’s better than the death penalty.

I keep repeating myself because you seem to be willfully misunderstanding me over and over.

But people are polite to your face. On the internet there’s no face, so that goes away.

I think part of that comes from empathy, though obviously part also comes from fear of confrontation and habit. It all adds up to offline interactions being far less hostile than on the Internet because they’re not face-to-face.

This is also known as Internet Fuckwad Theory.

Chatrooms might be different. In a chatroom you get to know different users, even if you never know them as anything other than BigBallz420

On message boards or comments sections, though, there’s too many people to keep track of. You might never hear from me again. That makes it a lot harder, I think.

But yeah, mileage may vary.

Also this isn’t really a super fleshed out theory based on actual evidence. Just vibes.

I think you can overcome the empathy gap caused by the anonymous text format if you make the effort to empathize with people on the internet, but it requires you to want to make the effort in the first place.

Empathy offline or over video or on the phone is much more instinctual - in fact, it requires effort to resist empathy.

Why are people so vindictive and personal, and why do they double down so enthusiastically about taking it to this personal place where this person involved is being bad on purpose and needs to be attacked for being horrible, instead of just being a normal person with a variety of normal human failings as we all have?

I have a pet theory about this!

Humans can’t easily empathize with strings of text the way they do with voices and faces. When you read my posts you read it in your voice; I might as well be a figment of your imagination. As far as your subconscious is concerned, I am not actually a person. I’m an imaginary friend at best and an imaginary enemy at worst.

When someone beats up on me it’s because they’re imagining me as an enemy NPC, not a person with thoughts and feelings.

This is why arguing on the internet is basically pointless. We’re all just random encounters in the posting RPG.

What should we be doing instead of sending people to prison before we live in a society where people don’t commit crimes worthy of incarceration?

Well I literally said we can keep the prisons open while we build the hospitals and schools. There’s no where else to put people who are a danger to themselves and others.

Also, we can definitely redefine what a “crime” even is; so many people are locked up that don’t need to be.

To be clear, since you don’t seem to understand what I’m saying, I’m saying that hospitals and schools replace the prisons. In a just society, antisocial behavior would be treated with rehabilitation in hospitals and reeducation in schools. Again, the hospitals and schools replace the prisons.

I’m sorry that I keep repeating myself but it seems like there’s some fundamental disconnect with what I’m saying that you don’t seem to be understanding. Are we communicating through translation software?

Well we could start by massively reducing the prison population. If we addressed crowding, existing prisons would be far more humane.

I’m sure there needs to be a phase-out period while we build hospitals and schools, it really wouldn’t take that long if we actually marshalled all the forces of production on the project. If we built as fast as China we could replace all prisons in a year.

since 2023

So what’s the explanation for why stocks dropped so much in 2023?

Dried beans (lima, black-eyed peas, navy)

Why would dried beans be better than fresh or canned beans?

I prefer the truth rather than mystification.