Slut shaming is not OK.

Fuck Trump.

A post truth regime.

They read the note from golden plates inside a hat and then an angel took them to heaven.

Nah, they haven’t accused Democrats of playing with dolls so this is probably fake.

Free speech. What?

His last word was “violence”.

It doesn’t change absolutely anything in my argument, it remains exactly the same. Antinatalism absconds not only the responsibility to improve the world but even the possibility of a better world existing in the future, it assumes à priori that existence is and will remain insufferable.

You’re contradicting your own argument:

It was never meant to remedy shitty living conditions.

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Ask anyone with disabilities, abusive families, trauma, financial hardship, and generally going though too much shit in life and you’ll find that it was never about a lack of imagination.

This is a contradiction. You are literally picking the antinatalist option because of shitty living conditions.

And of course, the lack of imagination is not whether you can imagine things being better but whether you can imagine things becoming better starting from where we are here and now.

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We suffer because we are able to imagine how things could have been so much better. It is because we can imagine ourselves in a better place

If you can imagine such a place, steelman your argument then, try making it without a premise of shitty living conditions. Pick a convivial world, and make an antinatalist argument from that world. Does it still stand?

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Finally, the argument that says nonexistence might be better is literally vacuous: False implies True. Nonexistence therefore is trivially whatever you want it to be, but not In any meaningful sense.

In a society whose official ideology is that “There is No Alternative”, antinatalism is basically a dressed up version of “it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”.

It’s basically just lack of imagination. Doomerist defeatism.

LMDE 💕

Brilliant

with grep I see all the alternatives, Ctl+R just shows me one

history | grep [the thing]

Streisand effect: the BBC is telling every last kid that VPN is exactly the way to circumvent the prohibition.

CS education is notoriously prone to boom-bust cycles.

Why not post the Beatitudes then? Too gay for you?

Better example: a Hindu public servant refuses to approve a license for a cattle abbatoir on religious grounds.

Love this

To note: the “peak of our civilization” he’s talking about was 1999. Which is arguably kind of on point.

I don’t know if this analysis is true generally, Japan is pretty fucking capitalist.

I would argue it’s more a matter of what wing of the capitalist oligarchy has the upper hand. In the US and Canada, it’s the extractive fossil capital and that ultimately holds power. In Japan, or the Netherlands it’s more the manufacturing.

Don’t extrapolate from the US to capitalism in general. It’s more nuanced than that.