anicius

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[–] anicius@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

What compels people to sign their own execution warrants? This person would have written about how slaves don't have the right to runaway because it compels their master to chase them down.

[–] anicius@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Interviews really need to be paid with how ridiculous they have become.

[–] anicius@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Everyone eats bugs already though. The acceptable limit of bugs in food is greater than zero.

It is just a right wing meme about the future hell scape created by their scapegoat and totally not by capitalism.

[–] anicius@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ohh, I was just making fun of how during the hearing Grusch repeatedly shilled his interview.

[–] anicius@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

You too can know the secrets in the sky if you just head on over to the newsnation website and watch my interview. It's extremely difficult to take Grusch seriously.

[–] anicius@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago

How is a historical critique invalid when the systems of today are the exact same ones in most cases? Maybe they just mean any topic that has had enough time pass by to be researched.

Liberals daily wage war against semantics.

[–] anicius@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

We need to dismantle elitist institutions and stop treating education as something to be rationed and hoarded. The entire debate with affirmative action is about rationing bourgeois education due to artificially created scarcity.

Having all the brain power of society so incredibly concentrated instead of dispersed at institutions across the country has to be less efficient than a more egalitarian system.

[–] anicius@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Rape and sexual coercion has been observed in many animals and is hardly unique to dolphins. If you look at humans we display horrific behavior on scales no animal is capable of especially to our prey(which may include humans). Dolphins are aggressive predators and sexually aggressive as well, but I don't think it is reasonable to judge other animals using human morality. Dolphins exhibit altruism helping injured and dying members to stay afloat. Dolphins are able to communicate through vocalization with each other and are able to exhibit multigenerational social learning. Dolphins also exhibit other undesirable behaviors like infanticide. It's important to have a nuanced view on the world and banish black and white moralism.

I think it is import to respect animals and nature for what they actually are instead of what you want them to be, but for symbology most people don't think rapist when they see a dolphin.

[–] anicius@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

In my mind, I included them with dolphins which were excluded. We know they are already fighting the good fight.

[–] anicius@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I'm not going to suggest dolphins because they have already been used, but I like animal imagery so I want to recommend a couple to consider.

  • Ants and Bees: strong association with working and communal effort
  • Crows: intelligent communal animals who are also a bit vengeful and represent transition
  • Flamingos: LGBTQ+ association and groups that works together while allowing individuality
  • Elephants: Big, stronk, and have deep community ties enough to morn each other

The biggest issue is there may be difficulty translating animal imagery across cultural boundaries.

[–] anicius@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] anicius@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I don't think utilitarianism is a useful tool for analyzing structural problems. Which is what I was trying to condense into a funny quip. If you look at Peter Singer, the most prominent modern day utilitarian, you still see that he has terrible takes on pretty much anything geopolitical and isn't an anti-capitalist. I actually don't have a problem with consequentialism generally, but the materialist analysis is just more effective. I have limited philosophical knowledge so I probably can't answer your actual question.

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