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Hey guys, just a friendly reminder that Alastor, or any of the other overlords for that matter, are just as morally bad as the Vees. Carmilla might be SLIGHTLY better, but she still sells angelic weapons to people who have very Not Good intentions for them. Alastor and Rosie are literal cannibals. The parallels between Husk & Angel's relationships with Alastor & Valentino are there ON PURPOSE. Also, despite probably KNOWING about all the bullshit Val does(because he's literally a pimp, an industry based in exploitation(at least I think? Everything I learned abt pimps I learned from South Park-), and the overlords AREN'T STUPID), and probably knowing about the shit the love potions are used for(even though it's definitely not the use being advertised(see my previous post about it)), none of them are doing anything about it, even though they're DEFINITELY in positions to stop this shit. Hell, the only reason the other overlords seem to dislike the Vees at all is because they're just. Rude. The overlords are basically just the hell equivalent to billionaires. None of them are morally good. Not Vox or Velvette, not Alastor or Rosie, not even Carmilla. And you're still allowed to like them. Because they are not real people and are all very fun characters. Just don't go around preaching how shitty all the Vees are while still acting like Alastor isn't just as bad-
#I see this kinda shit more on tik tok then I do on here? but I think it's still worth saying#the way the Hazbin fandom handles morality frustrates me Idk#hazbin hotel#hazbin alastor#hazbin rosie#carmilla carmine#the vees#hazbin vox#hazbin velvette#hazbin valentino#zestial morde#missi zilla#I still dont know ghost rider's name#late night ramblings
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Well, it's official, from now on you can be a person who talks about how bad billionaires are, or a person who talks about how great Taylor Swift is. You can't do both
#mostly a shitpost#I'm not trying to start serious discourse#but if anyone is curious I'm closer to the first group#I'm not necessarily saying all billionaires are personally bad people#but I don't think it's moral to be a billionaire#at least in society as it exists currently#unless you do something like the giving pledge
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One time my professor told us half-jokingly that our homework for the weekend was to do something illegal and that he would bail us out if we got arrested. ("I've bailed people out of jail before, I'd do it for most of you.") The context is that we had established during class that you are not only morally justified but actually morally obligated to break the law if said law is unjust.
Anyways, that's Jack Kelly as a professor methinks, except he would actually mean it. Like I think he would make it a full assignment with a report and everything, host multiple group carpools, and provide an example list. He has committed every crime on the list. He has indeed had to bail a student out of jail before. This has not stopped him. "I have a sister-in-law who's one of the best lawyers in New York. As long as you don't cause someone to be hospitalized or cause major property damage we'll get you off the hook."
#he and davey are both professors and this is their joint final project for both of their classes#i don't know what classes they teach but i know it's true#it is important to note that the 'morally unjust laws' also included religious and social laws which i think makes it incredibly fun#they have a long discussion about making sure you're not inadvertently harming minimum wage working-class employees#while trying to protest or a make a statement about billionaire ceos or megacorporations#and the ways to actually take steps towards making a change instead of yelling at a wall or being mildly annoying#i should add this to my list of au ideas that i'm never going to finish#jack kelly#newsies#newsies headcannons#newsies au#saframbles
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Imagine how awkward apartment hunting with Bruce Wayne would be.
You: okay, it's a great place. I'm going to present an offer of (10% below asking price)
Real estate agent: *slowly looks between you and your "friend with experience in real estate", who is very obviously the Prince of Gotham, Bruce Wayne himself*
You: can I get the paperwork ..?
Real estate agent: so that's (10% below asking price), right
You: yes
Bruce: *breathes in*
You: you don't have to do that
Bruce: I kind of do, though
You: at least let me buy lunch
#lmao did i just accidentally do an imagine#i don't know how anything works anymore i just think this would be hilarious#there is NO disguise that could hide bruce wayne from a real estate agent#Bruce Wayne Imagine#lmao what am i dojnf#anyway this exists in an AU where inflation isnt out of control and we all accept that Bruce being a billionaire is awkward and funny >#> instead of morally reprehensible etc#fictional billionaires can be good even if irl ones cant is my point dont come for me Tumblr#Bruce Wayne#Balebat#my writing#is this writing though?#i will allow myself claiming this
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#so in years to come is this whole incident going to be referred to as oceangategate?#'cause titanic submersible-gate is a bit of a mouthful and the former just sounds so deliciously self-prophetic#now i would like to take this moment to say that regardless of billionaire status i don't think it's morally correct to hope or celebrate#horrific deaths because it's happening to really dumb rich people#as a morally reprehensible character myself however
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I was already on a hair trigger today trying not to snap at a mutual for reblogging a "fuck authors who use Amazon" post, but, like, this shit is why some authors can only afford to use Amazon.
They don't have the $75+ to distribute through Ingram Spark. They don't have the $25 it takes to change your files if you need to update them after they've been accepted. They can't afford to take the cost of printing hit to their sales. They can't afford to lose an additional 40% of their income to retailer discounts.
And just so we're clear, Ingram isn't a vanity publisher. They're one of the largest print monopolies in the world. They're used by most mainstream traditional publishers and indie and self-pub authors alike. Amazon uses them when their print demand is too high.
My friend, whose work is published by Gollancz, is printed through Ingram, the same as mine. The difference is their publisher takes the hit for them. In theory. We won't get into dwindling advances here or how publishers are increasingly putting the onus of marketing and sales onto their authors or the fact that their editors can't afford rent or food while the executives get richer and richer.
So what do you do when the mainstream doesn't want you? What do you do when you're told if you can't keep up with the rat race, that you don't deserve to have your work published? What do you do if all you have is the ability to tell stories for a living, and no one wants you?
Well, you could die of starvation. I'm sure there are several people on here who'd be happy if that happened to me. (I know. Because they tell me. Often.) Or, you can shake hands with the devil, knowing it's a bum deal, knowing everything is fucked, but also knowing that every other aspect of this fucking industry is just as fucking bad.
There's no escape. It's relentless.
And you've got people out there posting things like, "Actually, I think authors who charge for their books are part of the problem."
And yeah, in an ideal world, I'd be making art for art's sake.
But we're not in that world. We're in the bad place, and you're actively making it worse. You're encouraging people to steal from people who are struggling just like you and calling it activism against billionaires or putting them in the same moral category as said billionaires as though we're not trapped in this system, same as you. Some of you are fellow fucking authors. And, like, my mind boggles at what it would take to stab a fellow creative in the back like that, but here we are.
Hell world.
#long post#vent post#publishing#author stuff I get#anyone clowning on this post gets put in the wood chipper
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and you know i gotta say. the vast majority of the people losing their shit this weekend made it very clear that they do not understand the difference between "artists who want a measure of comfort in their lives" and "the billionaires actually being targeted by phrases like eat the rich." that is such a weird thing to be so proud to announce to the whole entire internet.
it's also extremely weird to behave as though any individual is entitled to an artist's work for free. or that the audience should be the final say in determining what an artist creates. there is a major difference between the betrayal of an artist who produces art and then banks on their social capital to engage in harmful, violent, bigoted behavior (like jk rowling) and the "betrayal" of an artist who decides that they should be or need to be compensated for their work. the latter isn't actually a betrayal at all. it's just a shift.
the thing is that the watcher boys didn't invent capitalism, they didn't invent the streaming model, they didn't invent youtube or patreon. they aren't getting 100% of the money from either. their merch doesn't magically appear as if made by elves while they sleep. their videos don't happen out of nowhere and without incurring bills. they have a business which employs people, and sure, you can say they employ too many people, but do they actually? a bunch of randos on the internet don't actually know that. they don't know these job titles, or how necessary it is to have everyone there. it's pure speculation. the entire company exists within a system they did not invent and are trying to stay afloat in said system while a bunch of assholes on the internet berate them for not acquiescing to their every whim at the expense of their artistic integrity, their ability to compensate their staff fairly, and their ability to keep making art.
and jumping from "i want to continue enjoying this artist's work for free" to "i think people should be fired and the remaining employees should be given greater responsibilities and more tasks to complete" is wild to me. there's nothing leftist in that and so trying to leverage leftist jargon to prove some sort of moral superiority is fucking wild, it's disingenuous, and it's sketchy as hell. you're allowed to be disappointed. you're not magically exempt from being told you're being an asshole if you decide your disappointment entitles you to take part in asshole behavior.
"but we don't want something heavily produced and we don't want these shows" then don't watch! that's it! don't watch! you are not being held hostage and forced to engage with this content. you have the choice not to. throwing a tantrum and launching racist vitriol at steven lim and demanding he step down as CEO shows a level of entitlement and childishness that, frankly, i wish they could have ignored, but they're both kinder & more patient than i am.
anyway congratulations to watcher on their new streaming service and their gorgeous new website, congratulations to the boys on a new step in their careers and on achieving something they've made clear they've wanted for ages, thank you to the boys for all their hard work and for sharing their creativity with us. thank you too for taking such a big and genuinely brave step to no longer be beholden to major corporations and advertisers so you can make the art you want to make. thank you to steven lim for taking so many steps back to keep the company running and for doing your best in a shit economy and while being targeted by this kind of nastiness online. and thank you to the entire team at @wearewatcher for continuing to do amazing work despite being treated like shit by the fan community at large on the internet while you're trying to make a living and create art. you all deserve better than you've been shown of late and i hate that such an exciting moment got overshadowed by so many temper tantrums.
because the whole fucking point, the dream, is getting to make the art that matters to them, without being held back. i'm sorry y'all don't want the heavily produced and high quality shit but your preferences as a member of an audience are not the law by which artists should abide. they are artists and they are free to, and deserve to, make the art they want to make.
#watcher#watcher entertainment#could this rollout have been handled better? sure! but for the love of god the way y'all have been reaching to demonize them#steven in particular#it's frankly pretty horrifying#like y'all actually behave that way? and are proud to have a record of it?
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Wait, wait, this is actually the most amazing bit from this guy, who finally asked that I just never message him again after I upset him so bad. The reason he suddenly decided to start calling me a "pedo lover" is because I said torturing people isn't okay. Then he was like "what about pedophiles." And then I said I would in fact punish any actual sexual abusers hideously if I could but that I don't morally believe I should be given that authority.
So when you think about it does that mean he's mad that I said nobody should let me, specifically, be an arbiter of who lives and who dies. Is he officially nominating tumblr user bogleech for that role. I mean I said I'd do it if I had that power like I'd also kill all of the billionaires and war criminals but my point was you should really probably NOT let me do that. I myself am admitting you would not be wise to desire a scenario in which bogleech the middle aged pokemon reviewer is the ultimate judge of human worth. I just feel like that would have the potential to eventually go awry somewhere
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Do you genuinely believe we can somehow change the hearts and minds of billionaires and politicians in power in for example the USA in a way that will actually result in a radical change in and improvement of conditions for folks currently oppressed under capitalism in the USA and hopefully globally? If so, how?
This is coming from someone who really would like to believe pure nonviolence is possible but who does not see much of an actual way forward for that. That said I do not see those billionaires and politicians as "nonhuman", I don't think that's productive and I think dehumanizing anyone who is factually a human person as a practice is dangerous so I am in agreement with you there. Thanks for your time if you choose to share your thoughts.
What I like about Against the Logic of the Guillotine is that it isn't for pure nonviolence. It breaks down the false binary that our options are "let the streets run red with blood until our every thirst for revenge is slaked" or "punching nazis makes you as bad as them 🥺"
& i think that binary is tempting because it absolves us of a responsibility to think deeply about things. if all revolutionary violence is good and justified, then you don't have to think too hard about the violence, you just see it & condone it. If all violence is bad and morally evil, then you still don't have to think too hard to condemn it. Our options are like, moral baby food.
But if we reject that binary, then there is no easy answer. Its not as easy as "yes leftist violence is always justified" or "any violence ever is always unjustified." You have to ask yourself, what am I doing? Why? What does this accomplish? Who is affected by this? What do they have to say? It makes us look at the actual nature of our violence and pick it apart and see where we have fucked up and where we might fuck up again. Its a lot more messy and also requires that we form relationships with others & genuinely listen to what they have to say. Its much much harder than Violence Good or Violence Bad but its also much more capable of adapting to the needs of people in the complicated situations where we find ourselves.
My opinion is that we will not reach anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism without violence. But more than anything, its because the systems in power will not let us. I think the foundation of the Revolution (in a more abstract sense of the word) must be community. We should focus our efforts most on building local networks of mutual support. If people suddenly find themself in a community that has free public food gardens & a community fridge, where people are already practicing transformative justice, etc. etc. then it will become materially obvious that we don't need to rely on the current system to survive. It will become clear that the current system is more of a hindrance to what we could do if we were not being controlled. And then people will be more likely to support any revolutionary violence that becomes necessary, because they will see their neighbors and know that when the dust settles, they know how to care for each other through shitty situations. Violence should really be the topping on a cake of community & indispensability politics.
Also this line from AtLotG really changed my perspective on "punishing the rich":
The worst punishment anyone could inflict on those who govern and police us today would be to compel them to live in a society in which everything they’ve done is regarded as embarrassing—for them to have to sit in assemblies in which no one listens to them, to go on living among us without any special privileges in full awareness of the harm they have done. If we fantasize about anything, let us fantasize about making our movements so strong that we will hardly have to kill anyone to overthrow the state and abolish capitalism. This is more becoming of our dignity as partisans of liberation.
"If we fantasize about anything, let us fantasize about making our movements so strong that we will hardly have to kill anyone to overthrow the state and abolish capitalism" really sums it up for me.
#sorry if this is kind of a mess i am So pain and fatigue rn#my body is taking disability pride month way too seriously#m.#ask box
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Because of what's happening on Twitter...
I've made a little diagram to demonstrate why billionaires and the ultra-wealthy are bad for society.
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"If we view society as a body, every sector is like a different organ within the body that serves a function and works in harmony with other organs to maintain balance. Every part of the body is important for the whole thing to function."
"The ultra-wealthy want you to believe they are the beating heart and thinking mind of the society – they are the innovators who create our jobs and their brilliance drives society forward. They deserve to be at the top of society because they have earned that. Without them, the body won’t function because they are the most important part."
"In reality, they are more like a malignant tumour, sucking all of the blood (resources) away from everything else (people and the planet) to fuel its own infinite growth, depriving the rest of the body and slowly killing it. Workers create all of the innovation and keep things running, the ultra-wealthy take all the credit."
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This is a public domain image so feel free to pinch it for whatever.
Elon Musk has put the careers of thousands of small business owners who depend on Twitter (myself included) in jeopardy by completely running it into the ground. Before this, Mark Zuckerberg had already been doing the same when he started pursuing Metaverse, making Instagram and Facebook much more unusable for artists. Do I really need to go into other examples of CEOs and very normalised practise of wage theft?
Meanwhile, the UK currently has the richest Prime Minister in its history. What is this man doing with this wealth? Continuing the Tory legacy of austerity in order to line his pockets and the pockets of his crony friends. This has resulted in a devastating cost of living crisis that continues to ravage the country as people's energy bills skyrocket out of control.
My diagram is pretty basic and lacks nuance, there's definitely more I could elaborate on with this comparison but I really don't have time. I just want people to get the basic point of how billionaires view themselves vs what function they actually serve. I'm also not here to debate whether some organs are more important than others since I'm not a doctor, that's not really the point here. And no, I don't care if people think I'm being harsh by comparing billionaires to a tumour. If they don't want to be compared to one they should stop acting like one. Jeff Bezos could end world hunger right now and chooses not to.
Also, I know a lot of people are going to come at me with the argument that billionaires give away massive amounts of money. First off, people like Jeff Bezos only give large sums of money to charity a.) for the sake of improving their public image and b.) because giving to charity allows them to write it off in their taxes. Also, charities in of themselves have a lot of problems, but that's a blog post for another day. Mutual Aid is a better way to help people directly. Really, the ultra wealthy need to be taxed, of course they do everything within their power to avoid taxes.
Also:
"Earning a lot of money" and "holding onto a lot of money" are two different things. You cannot be a multi-millionaire unless you hold onto that money. If you give away massive chunks of it to enrich society, you cease to be a billionaire.
Oh and this is worth a watch, too.
Furthermore:
Also before the inevitable great man comments:
Being a billionaire is a moral failing. Nobody needs that much money.
[Slight edit here - I made the assertion that a billionaire could not spend all of their money in their lifetime, but as someone in the comments pointed out it's very easy for them to completely waste billions in no time. Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have shown that].
Anyway, if you would like to see more anti-Capitalist art from me, I am currently working on a webcomic called "Flowerpunk" - a story about a group of anarchists who are trying to save the city of Wyrdon from a supernatural plague known as "the rot." The comic heavily discusses disaster Capitalism and how the rich will use mass death and destruction as an opportunity to further line their pockets.
I also like to do little anti-Capitalist doodles relating to this project, which I plan to make into posters at some point.
Please consider donating a Ko-Fi also if you would like to help support this project. I am really struggling at the moment because I've basically lost a massive chunk of my client base due to this Twitter implosion and also because of the AI BS that has made it impossible for me to get any reach nowadays. The last year or so has been an absolute nightmare for my career because of all of this.
Thank you all for your continued support! Hopefully I can re-establish my audience here on Tumblr and wherever else I decide to go.
#Twitter#twitpocalypse#elongated muskrat#eat the rich#eat the fucking rich#tax the rich#tax the 1%#tax the billionaires#anti capitalism#workers of the world unite#working class solidarity#Can you tell that I am absolutely fucking done with this BS?
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May I perhaps ask why you don’t like Taylor?
You don’t have to answer if you don’t want to, in just curious! Either way I want to say I love seeing your posts and I just think you’re the coolest❤️
let me start by saying that you don't need a moral reason to not like something or someone. sometimes they're just annoying. that being said, while i do think taylor is annoying, i also do dislike her for moral reasons. disclaimer over. on with the reply.
honestly i used to like her!! if you scroll far back enough i'm sure you'll even find some taylor swift posts, or me talking about the speak now listening party my cousin hosted that she roped me into participating in (and the fob themed bracelets i made). what really put a sour taste in my mouth was the show in rio.
she's a rich white person. i shouldn't have expected better. but i did, because it's taylor swift, and people love her. and then the show in rio happened. the girl – ana clara – died, and her response just angered.....everybody i know. i'm brazilian, i live in brasil and to go on twitter, to talk to my swiftie cousins, and find out that people were creating a gofundme to pay to get ana clara's body to her parents because they're from the interior do rio and couldn't afford to do it themselves? all the while this billionaire was on stage saying she didn't want to talk about it?
meanwhile, in the us, when a white fan passes out during a show taylor's mom shows up at the hospital and takes pictures with the fan and gives them taylor merch. it's such a sick double standard. and she's not the only celebrity to treat poc fans this way, but she's the only one you can't say a word about, because it's misogynistic. because taylor's untouchable.
and then there's the private jet thing, and the silence on palestine thing, and the sexual assaulters she's friends with thing and just. i'm supposed to ignore and excuse all of that for mediocre albums?
don't get me wrong, i don't think she's a horrible musician. i don't even think people should stop listening to her and hate her and harass her. i'm not your mom, i'm not here to boss you around. she's even got songs i really like, but i don't love august enough to ignore everything else.
and then also she's a huge raging capitalist and a billionaire and i hate both capitalists and billionaires on principle.
that's it. i don't usually talk about her because i don't care enough to be making anti posts, but it's one am and i'm not worried about the consequences right now so :P
also thank you!!! you're the coolest too :)
#bia gets mail#anon#anti taylor swift#swifties dni#being the bravest girl in the world posting this right now
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Hey Healed this is honest to g-d a good faith question, but I wanted to ask why amongst the numeral tumblr alternatives, why are you moving/having presence (even if temporal) on Xitter?
Like don't get me wrong, fuck Matt and everything he's done to Avewy and any other transfem on tumblr. But like, Muskrat has not only openly showcased his extreme transphobia (he publicly misgenders one of his own children on media) to the point of slowly turning twitter in a perfect safe place and easy platform for ultra vile and potentially violent bigotry profiles like ValidLs or LibsofTiktok. But despite his fortune and Twitter being a sinking ship,, like, twitter *still* has massive cultural effect and he's *still* a well known billionaire and both of those things can do potentially greater harm to trans people than tumblr of matt could ever in a near future.
Swear I don't want to acuse you of hipocrisy nor bring the "99% hitler" shit now onto something like social media sites. But I honestly just would like some clarification because of the cognitive dissonance
i guess the answer to this is that i'm not plugging my other social media accounts out of moral outrage at photograph matthew's treatment of avery. like, obviously that's fucking horrible -- but i think that looking for an Unproblematic social media site is kind of a quixotic endeavour and not something i'm interested in doing. the reason i'm plugging my cohost/bsky/twitter is because i value the people i've met on this site and want to have ways to keep in contact with them in case something happens to my blog, which the recent debacle has made me acutely aware is a possiblity i should be prepared for.
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ur post abt the green lantern’s political leanings was so interesting!! can you do one for the bat family? (but only if u wanna!!)
Honestly, I can't, because their politics are so incoherent.
Like, take Bruce. (And again, like with the Lanterns, I'm talking about canon here, not how I wish things were.) On the one hand, you would imagine he's pretty progressive, right? He's almost certainly a single issue voter and that single issue is gun control. He believes in rehabilitating criminals and in fact a lot of Wayne Enterprises hires are formerly incarcerated people. He is an active philanthropist who pours money into schools, orphanages, hospitals, public spaces, and the arts. These are all leftist values!
And yet the modern Batman is also a completely unrestrained violent anarchic-libertarian power fantasy. Bruce has invented his own law, which he enacts and enforces completely arbitrarily, however he feels like doing so. He obeys the laws he wants to obey and ignores the ones he doesn't care about, while insisting he is law-abiding. He tortures people literally constantly and considers it righteous. He uses the profits from his publicly traded company to become a one-man military industrial complex. (The emissions from the fucking Batmobile alone...!) He illegally surveils the entire city and sometimes the entire planet (Brother Eye, anyone?) because he has decided that his moral authority overrides literally anyone's right to privacy, anywhere. He allows his defeated foes to be locked up indefinitely regardless of their mental state in an institution that would make any qualified mental health professional run screaming in the opposite direction. He's sexist. All of these things sit on the right of the political spectrum, but imagine me pointing to the right like Charlie from It's Always Sunny pointing to his murder board.
And none of the Batfamily is any better. Some of them are honestly worse in certain aspects. Dick was a cop. Jason loves guns. Babs and Tim are even more in love with surveillance than Bruce is. Remember when Tim wanted to replace the police with, like, a Bat-army??? BECAUSE I DO.
It's not really "their fault," as much as anything can be a fictional character's fault. It's the result of being written by writers who are, for the most part, consciously trying to write the Bats as good Samaritans, but are also living in a world where we have had our brains warped by all of our blockbusters being funded by the US military, in a medium where badassery is prized above everything else, and so all this really problematic shit spills out onto the comics page without being questioned. It's also kind of a boiling frog situation: i.e. Batman has always had a cool car, so as he got tougher and tougher, of course that car would eventually become a tank, and no one stopped to go "Wait, what the fuck? What the fuck? How is this billionaire driving a tank around helping anyone???" I guess god bless Zack Snyder for inadvertently highlighting how fucking stupid and counterproductive a Batman taken to his worst extremes is.
To be clear, I don't think this is what most writers are trying to do with Batman (some of them are, but fuck those guys). But it's what happens when all you care about is rule of cool, and the more I think about it the more I'm like...shit, maybe Alan Moore was right and superheroes are just stupid.
Anyway in conclusion, comic book writers should consider the ramifications of what they're writing occasionally. But Bruce Wayne probably still votes blue, at least.
#also not for nothing but this is why i like superman and green arrow better#because they are designed as characters who actually THINK about the ethical application of power and privilege#as opposed to chucking it around willy nilly because it looks cool#batman#meta
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I spent way too much time trying to figure out what the hell this means. You could post this on "I'm 14 and this is deep" and people would not question it was written by a 14 year old.
I finally just had to break it down bit by bit to try and figure out what he was trying to say and why it was nonsense.
I think the big problem is that Elon is assuming direct opposites always exist.
He is assuming if people believe "might makes right" is bad then "weak makes right" must be good. Why is "weak makes right" the opposite? That phrase is commentary about the abuse of power and how the victors write history. The only opposite you could derive is that the weak are unheard.
He's inventing a position that I don't think exists. Sometimes strength is required to do what is right. But with great power comes great... you know the rest.
He then invents another position where the oppressed are good and the strong are bad.
Again, oppressed and strong are not opposites.
However...
You can be both mighty or weak and be in the wrong.
You can be oppressed and bad. (See: Caitlyn Jenner)
You can be strong and good.
But you cannot be both oppressor and good.
You cannot be a billionaire and not oppress.
The strong must try to protect the weak.
And the non-oppressed must help fight oppressors.
There is no morality where oppression is justified. We must unburden people from their oppression no matter what. And whether they end up being good or bad, strong or weak... is up to them.
I think Elon has heard people saying all billionaires are evil and this is him trying to counter that. I don't think he succeeded and it's hilarious how many of his stans replied to this like, "Yeah, you are so right" even though this is an incomprehensible attempt at philosophizing.
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do you have any opinions on the hazbin critical and vivziepop critical tags?
tw // mentions of sexual abuse and sucide
I have a personal beef with them. And not because I love Hazbin and Vivzie so much but for more presonal reasons so the following opinion won't be measured at all.
Now, don't get me wrong, there are some legit criticisms out there. Like, the show could definitely do better with body diversity and giving us more varied sapphic relationships instead of just throwing a ton of male/male couples at us. And, yeah, Vivzie's response to some of the criticism has been... questionable. (I still cringe when I think about that one time she explained that Raphielle can ship ValAngel because they are sa survivor, but Raphielle explicitly admitted to not be one).
But then, there's stuff that's just... pulled out of nowhere. Like the whole thing about Valentino being a "fetish character." Come on, the world of villains is filled with queer, flamboyant baddies. What sets Valentino apart is how his abusive behavior is shown in the open, making us rethink our love for villains. If it weren't for Mascarade, people would worship this moth daddy gangster in a dress, much like they are with Vox now. It's hard to root for the bad guy when you see the fallout of their actions. Like, Loki committed war crimes and no one was outraged when he got his own TV series and dragged creators for supporting atrocities.
Constant Valentino/Angel Dust discourse actually leads to the more serious issues I have with this "community", more harmful than just "bad media literacy" like the way they handle the topic of sexual abuse and weaponize it, without ever listening to victims. There is this constant shitstorm about Angel being a "bad sa survivor rep," that the way he's written is insensitive because "he shouldn't be horny, he's sexually traumatized." Like, do these people not understand that making Angel unable to enjoy his sexuality the way he wants would essentially mean acknowledging that it's no longer his but belongs to his abuser now? Also, the argument I keep seeing that drives me BAT SHIT CRAZY aka "I can enjoy this media that is centered around murderer, you cannot enjoy the media that treats rapist as a nuanced character because rape is objectively worse than murder." WHO THE FUCK TOLD YOU THAT? Reading this makes me feel so angry and sad and guilty because frankly, I was raped, and of course, it was horrible but still I'd choose it any time over being murdered. Because I have my life, I'm loved, and I love, I pursue my dreams, and I can still experience so many good things in my life. Painting sexual assault as this worse-than-death experience is not the feminist take they think it is and does not do victims any good.
Or accusations that Vivzie's support of fandom bullying led to someone taking their life. It's such a ridiculous and harmful claim. Honestly, this thing always makes me heated because suicide is not an easy decision, ask any person who ever faced it. It's not like "ah, this stranger told me to kms, I guess I gotta do it now." Of course, any kind of bullying and abuse adds to the suffering and can be the final trigger, but to me, it's just so disrespectful and harmful that someone could have experienced prolonged, intense suffering and all of this is omitted, their death labeled as a result of "fandom bullying" and weaponized in fandom drama. Also, it's simply cruel to put the blame for it on one, uninvolved person.
Also, it always annoys me when people hold small creators to immensely high standards while not doing the same with others. If we keep lynching and canceling every media that is not objectively morally pure, we won't be left with only perfect media. We will be left with media produced by white, privileged billionaires who might be real-life rapists, abusers, and thieves but are too powerful to be taken down by social media outrage. Hazbin's success is a major W for the underappreciated medium of animation (we saw what WB did to 90% of their animated shows), unpopular genres like musicals (Wonka creators were literally too ashamed to market it as one??), and unapologetic queer narratives that are not written for a heteronormative audience or centered around queer oppression (ofmd, the other medium I can think of in that realm has just been canceled). I can't stand people so desperate to put it down driven by their black-or-white sense of morality. Kant won't be patting your back for being the Moraliest Person because you bullied an indie creator and her fans.
Also everyone who feels the need to explain me hazbin critical agenda - save your breath. I'm very emotional about it and I frankly don't fucking care why you think you are right.
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I work in elder care as a social worker and the sheer number of people on this 'leftist' site that called prince Andrew a 'skeleton' and a 'mummy' and made memes about how 'ugly' and 'disgusting' he looked made me ILL. They weren't mocking him for being a billionaire dipshit. They instead made fun of a sick old man for looking like a sick old man. Most vindictive block spree I've gone on since the days of ace discourse.
Sadly, it is deeply ingrained in our society to ascribe looks and health to morality. It's a narrative many of us have been fed from birth and don't even recognize as an issue until someone points it out. And even then, some people remain resistant to the idea that it's an issue at all because they don't like to think they've been doing something wrong. Which is understandable. No one likes to feel like they're a bad person.
And they're not.
They just need to unpack some damage and realize that health and physical appearance are morally neutral things. I know my relationship with my own mental health and other disabilities got a lot better when I started making a conscious effort to decouple them.
By all means, criticize people for their actions. Hold them accountable for their deeds. But you can do that without perpetuating what is often ableist, classist, racist (etc.) values in the process.
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