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I think about this comment I got a lot. This is an encapsulation to me of why you can’t base your politics only on pain. You can’t stop at the hurt you’ve been through and forget to analyze the world outside it. We can learn a lot from pain, but you need to question why you are uncomfortable because not everything uncomfortable deserves to be eradicated.
It’s so fucked up how tiktok culture has made clout-poisoned people turn the public into content, every day I see people minding their business have their entire faces put online for thousands of likes, a couple kissing on the train, a lady dancing across a cross walk, a guy nodding his head to the music at a club, a lady buying a banana at the store, ring camera footage of the neighbors kids being stupid. Just let people live jfc
I think I may have made it seem like this is about wholesome content (which my sentiment towards that is the same) but most of the time when I see this stuff people are being ridiculed for being completely normal. And I didn’t make up any of these examples btw, I couldn’t find the dance one but only because there are too many videos of people being recorded at cross walks
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Im gonna add this to every post about this i see im never gonna shut up about it. This will get people killed. This will ruin lives. More people live in hiding than you think. So many people are one post away from having to abandon their whole lives. Dont ever post anything of anyone without their consent, stranger or not.
I am a photographer. It is my job to go into schools and take candid photos for the yearbook.
The number of kids that are on a ‘do not photograph’ list isn’t large, but it is a non-zero number. If that kid is even out of focus in the background, we do not use that photo.
If a child shows even the tiniest bit upset that there’s a person in the room with a camera, I do not take their photo.
At pop culture conventions, I ask people if I can take their photo. Or if I take a candid of them, I track them down and give them my info and get th3ir consent before posting.
At events like parties, concerts, performances, consent is generally implied because these are photographed events, but if an attendee approaches me and tells me to crop them out then I crop them out.
This makes street photography tedious, but I learned in my very first job as a camp counselor that people have very good reasons for not wanting their photo publicized. There are kids in the foster system with abusive parents. There are adults with stalkers. There are people who might be a witness to a crime.
Even outside of this- I’ve seen how private persons become memes against their will just by going out in public. Some people are super not normal about meme fame.
Leave people alone. The world is complicated. Make your own content.
If I was a sim I would go on simblr and reblog simscourse posts like “smarp floopie in zul weanow” and send my simutual a funny post which is just a picture of a duck with a smiley face icon next to it and then I would log off and die on the floor
“reject modernity embrace tradition” isn’t even a dogwhistle it’s literally just saying regressive ideology directly. how does anyone not get this
am I missing something? is there a way to interpret this that isn’t “progress is bad and we should reverse it to return to a mythical Past when things were better” or are otherwise well meaning internet people just so easily persuaded by nazi propaganda that they see a thing that means that and think “yeah sure that doesn’t sound evil”
cosigned, but want to add that the best antidote in my experience is just doing your best to think outside the false “modernity/tradition” binary
some things we did better in the past, but the relentless march of late stage capitalism has commodified or otherwise corrupted them, and it’s helpful to understand that things weren’t always this way; the best example I can think of is the way that older appliances were built to last but now they’re built to break, because selling “good products” stopped being maximally profitable
and, of course, the Mythical Golden Past is a lie, but the “modernity” that trads want to reject mostly consists of the GOOD things we’ve accomplished in the present, like better rights for LGBTQ+ people, access to divorce for abused women, etc
tl;dr developing a nuanced understanding of progress as nonlinear short circuits this entire rhetorical strategy and can keep you out of unproductive arguments with nazis
so SAG-AFTRA finally released some official guidance for fans, viewers, creators/influencers, critics, and more during the strike. here’s what you need to know:
if you see a publication/news source/journalist talking about a piece of struck work, that’s ok. they’re allowed to do that.
2. they’re asking regular viewers and fans to DONATE TO STRIKE FUNDS, SHOW UP TO PICKETS IF YOU CAN, and please do NOT boycott streaming services or movies in theaters.
3. influencers, content creators, cosplayers, and anything in between is still a bit of a grey area, but they’re asking people to use their best judgement. “organically” means UNPAID promo (like an invite to a premiere without being paid, being sent a publicity box, letting the company’s social media post a photo of you in cosplay, etc).
obviously this doesn’t answer every question, and isn’t hard and fast rules for fanworks, but it can at least inform how you personally choose to move forward when posting online and moving publically. i hope this helps!
the reason you’re meant to read from a bunch of different sources and attempt to interpret and discuss them in school btw is bc your reading comprehension is based on your ability to discern different and varied meanings in a text
like some ppl on socmed wilfully misinterpret text and so many others entirely lack this critical skill and rely on tiktokers and youtubers to explain sentences to them and in the absence of someone to explain they just entirely go off their own projected vibes and make shit up
like it’s. honestly frightening and bizarre, the takes i regularly see, that are so far beyond a “bad faith reading” and are literally not a reading. someone just saw three words they recognised, imagined a scenario they might be used in instead of reading the post, then got MAD
That last one describes the media criticism or lack of media literacy I see on youtube these days.
This is a legit problem. I do a history degree now, but back in A-level (British high school) we had a paper where we had to read our textbook and basically compare it to an ‘actual’ history book. It quickly became apparent that you need WAY more than two sources to form an opinion on something.
It also became apparently when I started reading 7-10 sources a WEEK is that it’s very very difficult to fully understand what a text is saying without something to compare it to, at least in my case, because crucial differences are often so gosh darn subtle!
I mean, a sentence like “Socialism was only partially popular due to class divisions rather than raw economic problems”
And “Socialism was popular mostly due to raw economic problems”
And “Socialism was popular because of the increased perception of increasing raw economic problems”
Lose all nuance if you only read one. They all seem agreeable, but the devil is in the details and you 100% miss that reading only one or two.
epic that anxiety is not confined to the brain and just poisons every inch of the body. stomach. chest. neck. shoulders. everywhere else. really really cool
