there have been a few times on this website where i’m torn between making a post about an actively discussed issue while people’s opinions are still forming on it, and waiting a few months to let the information marinate and then talking about it when people are done frothing at the mouths. but the decision has been called: you all have HORRIBLE takes on oceangate.
in my opinion i think the large swarth of discussion and criticism levied against oceangate and the people lost in the tragedy are falling into the same pit that we are attempting to criticize. which i’m enabling here and i apologize but: the fixation on oceangate, and rather the callousness people are treating the deaths of the billionaires, isn’t the anticapitalist critique you think it is. because this isn’t about the billionaires (not to mention that to my understanding they were not... all billionaires on the vessel) themselves; it’s about the attention their status levied, and it’s about the structure of the ship itself and why it fucking failed. if you’re critiquing the capitalism of the situation, you’re talking about the framework of the media spotlight it’s been put under (why is oceangate discussed more than the boat of refugees, should these events be comparable, should we be romanticizing these deaths) and the lack of precision that the constructor of the ship put into the ship-- because it was an act out of profit. while it’s tempting and in all honesty partially justified to take this as a “fuck the billionaires, i hope their next ship sinks too”, it objectively was not the billionaire who made the ship sink, and it could have been ANYONE-- an example being a researcher, or a historian, or someone malinformed by the corporation that made the ship-- on that ship. would it have garnered the same media attention, and would we actually be able to criticize the right things? who knows.
this could be a hasty or controversial opinion of my own, and i recognize that. but i think it’s important to separate the emotional aspects of anticapitalist critique with the rational aspects-- neither are bad, neither should be vilified. activism needs initial outrage; i apologize if this deprives you of that. you are right to be outraged at how billionaires are able to do such things. and personally, as a second generation child of immigrants, there are no words for the rage i feel at how little attention internationally is being given to the boat of migrants compared to this stupid fucking billionaire (which, too, can be dissected rationally, but an example of the emotional component). but if you’re going to meaningfully learn a single damn thing from this circumstance, and what this means for the state of technology right now-- you’re going to want to drop this performative callousness and actually treat this like a tragedy, which it is.
(and to pull out the second-generation iraqi card again: this is just like how you fuckers treat 9/11, claiming that you understand the trauma its aftermath dealt while you prance around in these false skins of being the oppressed arab-american, and use this costume to treat the deaths of those to 9/11 like they were just puppets (unsurprising, you leftists and anticapitalists treat arabs and muslims themselves like objects and monsters, when the dime is right, because some of you never meaningfully internalized that treating people with humanity is punk, is anticapitalist, is leftist). it’s all the same. you’re hopepunk until there’s a scapegoat, a pretty billionaire obscuring the corporation that stole his life and the lift of others.)
of course, you don’t have to make this a critique. you can do whatever the fuck you want, as far as i’m concerned, and you could just be in this for the memes. but if you’re doing that, reconsider whether or not this is going to be an activist venture for you. because the way y’all are trying to play this both ways is fucking embarrassing.
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there’s a post going around that I may have even reblogged before thsat’s like
I CAN’T DO IT ANYMORE! I MEAN I HAVE TO SO I WILL BUT I CAN’T FUCKING DO THIS ANYMROE!!
and I feel that enough right now that I can’t even be fucked to go find the post to reblog again
I can’t fucking do it! I have to so I will but I can’t fucking do it!!!
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incredibly sexy of you to be blankshipping on main and in the tags <3 and with incredible takes and ideas on top of that!
Thank you Anon, it's so hard having the biggest dick in the room, but someone has to do it 😔
As a slightly? more serious answer, I think it's good and even important to have people being loud and proud and totally self-accepting on main in the proship circles. Like there needs to be someone showing the people who got bought in on the anti stances and are then beating themselves up for totally normal things that it's ok. You aren't a bad person just for liking something problematic about a play-pretend character in a make-believe scenario and you don't need to sink into self-loathing over such a thing.
Because some of them are in actual agony over this stuff, and some of them have already accepted this about themselves but are too deep in the anti circles now, so they'd lose their entire support system if they were outed. Not to mention how creepily violent and invasive antis get about proshippers- and as someone in actual anti spaces, you'd have a front row seat to all the atrocities people would wish on you, or maybe even go so far as to commit them themselves.
Like you know how people talk about extremely strict religious parents? How they would try to control a lot of the thoughts and actions in their child's life? And then sometimes even get violent when they didn't comply? All while excusing it as trying to keep them from sinning or being a bad person? It's the exact same thing. And it has a lot of the same effects, too. Antis aren't beating the problematic out of each other. They're just plain beating and traumatizing each other and then making each other into better liars who secretly hang out on the proship servers on the downlow.
And it sucks! It sucks so bad! Because I've talked to people in those exact situations and like. Especially the fact that a lot of them are still young. Like barely young adults. Some of them are still technically teenagers. They shouldn't be dealing with this bullshit at what's already such a tender and difficult age. And it makes my heart ache and my blood boil because some of them are outright scared and there's just not a lot that I can do about it. You can't shield or protect someone from all of that and it sucks.
So like yeah I'm gonna be noisy and annoying and yowl right on main because at least with that I can give people somewhere to go where they feel decently safe and accepted, even if they never interact once. That's what got us the blankshipping server, because our creator was in the anti servers while sending me blankshipping asks and decided "you know what this sucks actually" lol. That's what brought in a lot of our members, because I could yell my heart out into the void here and! People heard! And then they joined the server and found a place they could finally breathe! And it's so much fun in there now!! ♡
Anyway tl;dr thank you dear lovely Anon you are entirely correct I am incredibly sexy and everyone desires me carnally and my dick is huge and I haunt the submas servers with how I live in their minds rent free skzjkdksjd
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