duderium [he/him]

Isn’t it always toilet paper, for Freudian reasons?

We’ve all noticed the r-word making a comeback but even terms like “lame,” “dumb,” and “stupid” are ableist and should not be used. Colonial terms like “looting” and “thugs” and “savage” always piss me off. Using the word “dark” to refer to anything negative is obviously not okay.

I can’t stand when people use “child” or “childish” as an insult. No one is easier to radicalize than kids. And it’s not because they’re ignorant or underdeveloped, it’s because they haven’t been propagandized into loving capitalism. Even relatively wealthy kids get very little out of capitalism. Kids are addicted to video games because they have no other control over their lives and are desperate for any kind of escape from this hellhole. Video games provide a world where work actually results in obvious achievements, while the vast majority of humanity is trapped in a world of endless toil with all the results and benefits going to a tiny minority.

It drives me crazy when people say your brain isn’t fully developed until you’re 25. Bruh our brains never stop changing.

Body-shaming when we all know that beauty is a social construct.

The Wire still humanizes cops and barely mentions the racism inherent to policing though. There’s like one racist cop who gets reassigned immediately. The entire show spends maybe five minutes on him. I think the reality of cops is that they are rich, racist, cowardly buffoons who nonetheless follow almost any order. We never see them depicted in this way in any corporate media.

We can’t be raging communists all the time, we have to pick our battles, we don’t just charge machine guns while waving our hands and screaming, etc. This is what I tell myself while I am surrounded by people who are either nazis or people who don’t care about nazis.

I have no patience for people who don’t mask and I feel extremely uncomfortable around them and don’t trust them at all.

This is better than nothing, but you can drive for years without a seatbelt and not have any problems. Who thinks it’s safe to drive this way? (I know lunatics who do, but still…)

I live in such a white state, that even most of the 3D jobs are done by white people. Get any group of these white men together, and it’s a matter of minutes, maybe an hour or two at most, before someone says something racist or sexist or transphobic or whatever, with no pushback, although I certainly pay attention to the guys who at least don’t play along with this. A lot of these guys are either living in vans or are on the edge of homelessness, but whiteness is the glue that holds it all together.