It was my impression that people who are paid under the table usually aren't caught, much less charged, unless it's a large amount of money. Is that mistaken?
If the government wants to go after you, all they have to do is check if you put money into a bank account. In the age of debit cards, that’s pretty much everyone which is why people panicked so hard when the feds tried to expand the IRS.
Vietnam's battered civil society
New thing to add to every story about the US.
By their definition, does the US even have a civil society? I'm pretty sure it could be characterized as the ashes or fragments of what once was.
Misgendering is good when I don’t like the person :very-intelligent:
Edit: CW for transphobia below
You going to complain each time we call someone a “ghoul”?
Big difference between calling someone a ghoul and responding to correcting someone’s pronouns by making an it/ghoul pronouns joke.
Just keep putting effort into doubling down on it, then. That’ll really show how much you don’t care.
You should go call Caitlyn Jenner a man. She’s a fascist, so that’s definitely worth your time, right? Or maybe go call Colin Powell some slurs. He’s definitely responsible for bombing some brown kids, so that means you get a pass.
Someone casually corrected some pronouns you used. You responded by saying the person’s pronouns were “it”. Now I’m making fun of you for it. Call it virtuestrawbroing all you want 🤷
Nah, “it” is a correct pronoun for me. Dehumanizing ghouls isn’t a problem. Billionaire philanthropist doing leg work for imperialist capital? Wall. I don’t care.
oh well as long as the person you misgendered was a ghoul then who cares? 🥴
Lmfao “debate bro nonsense” is when misgendering political enemies is bad? It’s not about giving a shit about the enemies, it’s about comrades who take note of your willingness to ditch people’s pronouns the second you disagree
Apparently correcting someone for misgendering ghouls is about protecting the ghouls. But also he agrees we shouldn’t misgender fascists. So is he saying we ought to protect fascists? Hmmmmmmmmm
Or maybe the cognitive dissonance is just too strong
Right, you save the casual bigotry for the real baddies, not just the lowly disagreers
If you view the norm of correcting people’s pronouns as liberal civility politics, I have some bad news about who agrees with you
It’s not about protecting or giving a shit about ghouls. It’s about you thinking that there are people who are bad enough that you can misgender them. You can assure me that you only do it to the “right” people, but guess what? Everyone thinks that. Your view isn’t some righteous rebellion against liberalism. It’s the default position. Everyone thinks they can misgender the people who “deserve” it. That’s the point of correcting pronouns for everyone. It’s not supposed to be a morally loaded thing.
I'm losing my mind reading this. Admittedly, the people you were talking to are dogmatists who have no way to defend their views, but they are still clearly correct:
If you're operating the fucking guillotine and want to whisper into this person's ear that they don't have a gender before chopping their head off, who cares? However, making misgendering them a point of your public ridicule of them is bad for essentially the same reason as being racist to Clarence Thomas is bad: promoting racism (as one does with racist public statements) hurts many people other than Clarence Thomas, and it hurts those other people more because they are more vulnerable. It has nothing to do with the man himself. If you are personally assigned to his firing squad and want to write something racist on the bullet you shoot him with, I don't give a shit beyond that you probably need mental counseling, but don't go hurting comrades because you are too lazy to grasp at a better weapon with which to hurt your actual enemies.
Thanks for explaining the arguments I was making in a more civil manner. I’m sure that will make a difference and get through to the person you’re talking to, thus disproving the validity of my dogmatism.
I know he probably won't listen anyway, I just feel compelled to try anyway.
I am telling you that exactly none of “them” will agree with you while facing that wall, before they are shot.
good? no one cares about their feelings, as was pointed out to you already. they care about you misgendering people (or in this case, slime mold). similarly no one is going to take offense to you insulting nazis, but they would take offense if you used slurs to do so.
idk what your hangup about this is tbh, it's pretty simple stuff.
Environmentalists getting arrested is something that only happens in bad countries.
And lock up the ones raising bail money for the survivors.
:farquaad-point:
The sheer gall of calling yourself an environmental activist and then aiming your criticisms away from the imperial core. I'm sure she did evade taxes on her US dollars
I haven’t been able to dig up anything concrete about Monga Bay, they seem to be generally committed environmentalists, but their critiques are so often aimed at global south governments
Unfortunately, it’s soros (among others) https://mongabay.org/about/financial-information/
Isn’t different western ngo funded her? Which is crazy, lmao, don’t even use third party to do it
Imperialist running dog peeling the skin off environmentalism and donning it gets arrested for laundering money for most murderous empire in history
