KelvarCherry [They/Them]

Unfortunately we’ve seen a lot of compliance with abhorrent cruelty in the last few years. Autonomy is more than “something”; It’s the only thing standing between a letter and the systemic genocide of an entire demographic.

the bill will ban children under 16 from using social media

contrary to what most would expect from the title, the bill is NOT good and refusing to back down will hurt Canadians, not help them.

I didn’t notice exactly that. For context; I’m a late Gen Z-er who grew up in a town with very high-rated schools where just about every kid went to college. I do recall getting uncomfortable pressure to go onto college even though I had no interest; but that may have been because I was coming from a conservative family and they wanted to make sure that wasn’t stifling me.

Also the name pairing is really funny :)

In the USA the closest thing we have to this are “gifted” labels (whatever that even means) and I still see adults experiencing existential crises over that; and other arguing about the use of said labels. I’m an outsider to that world, but from what I see; The label… doesn’t even have a systemic impact on anything??? and it seems to be a point of major stress and conflict still.

This is all to say labeling kids is always harmful; and making a “sort kids for life” system like in That transphobic writer’s fantasy school is definitely not a good policy for a nation ;-;

Oh how I wish the West had not Pokémon Gone down the root of military-industrial fascism…

I absolutely did not mean to legitimize any genuine anti-Semitism. Idk about the source comment but I am arguing quite the opposite. Genocide is always wrong. The Holocaust was an atrocity. Israeli’s terrorism in Palestine is an atrocity.

I am objecting to the idea that Israeli aggression can be written off a reaction or response to the Holocaust. Israeli aggression is done because Israel deems it strategic for political reasons; and because IDF soldiers (many of which source from the UK and USA) are eager to enlist for financial and racist reasons.

I took that line to mean: monitoring LLM queries; which is one of the many reasons you should be skeptical of this whole push for AI companionship from big tech and billionaire-backed media firms, alike.

Israeli warmongering is unrelated to the Holocaust. Zionism is a whole separate ideology; and neither justifies the other.

The mentality of genocide warranting genocide is exactly what the Nazis used to psuedo-justify their bigotry (against those they scapegoated for sabotaging them in WWI). That same mentality is used now to psuedo-justify Zionism because of the Holocaust. Zionists are like Nazis; but Zionists do not vindicate Nazis.

Columbia University revoked earned degrees. All rationale is out the window.

are you familiar with 3d printing? The print head’s instructions will be completely different if you rotate the model. Unrecognizably different.

just rotate the piece at different angles on the plate, which would change the positions of vertexes and generate an unrecognizable set of printer head instructions. No extra pieces necessary; and even if there were, there’s no need for them to be printed attached to the main part.

Yep. This is just one of those aspects of the internet era. I’m certain people publicly said far worse than this in every nation, and they were shunned and their words never made it into a printed article. I know far worse claims that have been published on YouTube and also never got an article about them.

Now there is the aspect that this is an organization registered as a charity. I can’t speak for the UK, but in the USA, it’s very easy to form a registered charity organization if you are willing to bind yourself to the limitations of such. It’s not something that a government department head signs off on, or a parliamentary body votes on. It’s usually an accounting operation and a rubber stamp.

So I looked up the video mentioned in the article. This just sounds like someone who is insane and/or trying to garner attention from religious hysteria. Even after this article’s publication, the video mentioned in the article has 397 views and only 7 likes, so it doesn’t seem like anyone cares who these people are.

two dates to gamble upon.

I share your sentiment. There’s a lot of work to be done in running general strikes. There’s also work in sabotaging workplaces.

Moscow Mitch’s endorsements couldn’t beat Trump. Mitch McConnel. That guy IS the Kentucky Republican Party…except when Trump disagrees.

I feel the same. I just don’t see how we get this country to lock in. Even as people get upset—in January 2025 over the DOGE terrorism; more recently over these data centers—nothing ever comes of it. Progressive and rational voices speak up, but we’re drowned out.

I fear there is just too much against us. There are too many distractions for the disillusioned. The only current movement that has overcome that is MAGA, with their ravenous hatred; but they obviously aren’t the solution.

I’m not giving up—for I and many others USA politics isn’t something we can “log out” of—but I can’t ignore that all the introspection and analysis I’ve tried runs into the same seemingly-impassible pitfalls.

Have you seen the Republican primaries this month? Trump’s endorsements won across the board. Even Thomas Massie; a Republican who rallied against data centers, big tech remotely controlling cars, and AIPAC; lost his seat because Trump bashed him. It doesn’t seem like voters regret backing Trump at all, as evident by how much shit Trump’s administration is getting away with.

I’ve been online for a loooong time. From my recollection: it hit its peak with the “anti-SJW” / “anti-feminist” rage during GamerGate in the mid 2010s. It was well on the decline until Andrew Tate and the TikTok manosphere accounts which copied him brought that rhetoric back; now targeting real world women instead of “woke” gamedevs and script writers.

Reading these last three comments — I was taking “dating” to mean forming a stable relationship because they’ve been throwing out words like “stability” and whine about divorce; but you’re probably right. The “GamerGate” rage that funneled into the manosphere has very rapey vibes, and that’s about fictional video game women. Seeing the rise in misogyny-inspired attacks; increased joking about rape and abuse; and that online rape guide CNN did a report on… I’m very scared for our future, especially for the future of feminine Gen Z and Gen Alpha folks.