… Food Metaphors Really Are Perfect. You Don’t Like Raisin Cookies And Do Like Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Voting is a Trolley Problem

A Trolley is coming down the tracks. If left on its own it will hit 5 people, killing them, but if everyone works to pull a heavy lever it will be diverted onto the other track and only kill 1. Do you pull the lever?

‘We should get rid of the person who cut the trolley’s breaks, they started all this.’

The Trolley continues to move forward.

“Really this isn’t my fault, there should have been things set in place so we wouldn’t have to deal with run away trolleys!”

The Trolley continues to move forward.

“That 1 person doesn’t deserve to die! Who am I to decide that they do.”

The Trolley continues to move forward.

“I’m not a murderer. So I won’t join the so called ‘save one person lever pulling group.’ Frankly they should have done a better job convincing me that that one person deserved to be saved.”

The crunch of bones under wheels hits the ears of the crowd. It wasn’t the non lever pullers fault though. They didn’t tie the people to the tracks or cut the breaks after all. There is no blood on their hands.

This is a post on "Ethical pornography" I made in 2022. People love to use "ethical" and "choice" arguments, however these do not hold up against any scrutiny. And after seeing that pornhubs trending searches are often of war refugees or media that has been proven to be non-consential (Lana Rhodes), you could not make me believe for a second that the end viewer cares at all about the ethics involved.

It really speaks to the continued expectation of women’s emotional labour and physical sacrifice that women were/are expected to allow men who wear dresses into their spaces before men were ever expected to maybe not harass and maybe even accommodate gender non conforming men

You don’t get to argue that only males experience oppression based AND call yourself a feminist book.

Didn't wanna add this to the last post bcs it's a bit off topic but HEY WHAT THE FUCK??

Wow! What a great idea, it's not like there's ever been a severe weather event that ended up killing a bunch of people who only speak Spanish because they did not have access to appropriate warning systems they could understand due to systemic racism treating them as disposable-OH WAIT NO THAT DID HAPPEN.

Actual horseshit. Spanish is the second most spoken language in the USA, this is just another sign that systemic racism continues to devalue the lives of anyone who isn't white and it will get people killed. I'm not kidding, I don't fuck around with severe weather warning systems, and if you take even the shallowest look at the history of meteorology in this country you will immediately see how many people have died due to not being properly informed about tornados and other natural disasters. Anything that makes it harder for the average person to know if a goddamn tornado is heading right for them or not is a miscarriage of social justice and should be corrected immediately.

Idk what can be done to restore the channel, but in the mean time please look out for your friends, family, and neighbors, especially if you live somewhere prone to natural disasters and extra especially if they don't speak English. If The Weather Channel won't step up to ensure that the flow of information is easily accessible to everyone who needs it we're gonna have to do it ourselves.

by insisting humans are sexually dimorphic, the evil terfs apparently reinforce inherently racist western white beauty standards... unlike the good and righteous cosmetic surgery industry which heroically charges people to pursue those exact standards (a reasonable, freestanding desire uninfluenced by any systemic bias) at the risk of their lives and health

Thinking about that reply that one time that went something like, ‘finding out the capitalist patriarchal system takes advantage of vulnerable groups for sex should make a leftist angry and want to fight back. But instead the pro-sex-work crowd uses the system at large being crappy and exploitative as a way to shrug off the notion of prostitution being bad.’

Mostly because posts on my dash are reminding me of it. People are like, ‘womp womp capitalism’s always bad’ you don’t act that way about Amazon and their pee bottles. You get mad at the inhumane treatment of impoverished people! Suddenly the status quo of exploiting impoverished people is fine when it’s for sex. It’s so bullshit.

Are you?

I mean. 150 years is a long time from now- everyone on this site would be dead for sure. The average human lifespan is about 70 so it’d be I guess another 3 generations? 3 generations where women who were silenced by the Taliban can speak, where no one is forced to give birth and every child is wanted, where significantly less people are raped (as rape is seen akin to torture), where no girls undergo genitalia mutilation, no girls are forced into marriage, women around the world are free to pursue education and no assumption is made about their competence. The death of the Quiverfull movement and no girl ever again told she exists to be a helpmeet, nor that she is the cause of the world’s ills or that her body tempts males who do not have the ability to control themselves.

And that’s the shit I’m thinking of now- the shit that matters to me personally. The world could end in 3 lifetimes anyway at least this apocalyptic scenario makes less people suffer before the end.

if you could automatically delete all misogyny in the world: like it never existed in the first place, from all cultures and across all aspects of life, but at the cost of human life existing only for the next 150 years, would you? You get rid of no more issues, capitalism and racism still exist, but misogyny doesn't, from the most violent to the most banal, but in 150 years humanity will cease to exist, not painfully or violently, just cease to exist, would you do it?

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