The villifcation of war will not persuade those who are already out for blood, they’re determined to have those wars. However, I fear it may drive our potential allies to passivity in the face of fascist expansion, making the fascists’ jobs easier. I very much enjoy media that glorifies war for a just cause, such as Star Wars or Inglourious Basterds.

When I explain what the “evil” alignment in Dungeons and Dragons means, this is the example I’m gonna use from now on

I’ve tried both, and being Myself is harder than being a man. More rewarding, but way way more effortful.

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Thanks!

Hahaha, that guy looks VERY cishet

Well, I’ll recommend Arcane as a show where nearly everyone wants war and pushes for war, and then regrets it and either changes their mind or dies.

However, I do think war has its place and is sometimes necessary. If we hadn’t gone to war with the Nazis, the world would be a much worse place. I believe we should directly intervene in the Russian invasion of Ukraine and in the Israeli invasion of Palestine, on the side of the defending forces, while limiting our actions to purely military targets. I also think World War 3 has become nearly inevitable, and that it will be triggered by the invasion of Venezuela and Greenland, and that we should be prepared to support the defending forces so as to prevent the rampant spread of fascism.

The belief in an objective reality is the source of all bigotries and nearly all oppressions. It’s the reason for religious genocides, transphobia, capitalism, and zionism. You believe in less reality than the people who do those things. You’re less realist. I want you to go further, be more radical, believe in no reality. I think you haven’t gone far enough yet.

The Maya culture was a religious culture, and would not exist if not for religion. You mean “if it weren’t for Christianity”, or alternatively, “if it weren’t for religions that enforce their idea of objective reality on others”. You don’t hate religion, you hate realism.

Well, Donald Hoffman, the cognitive psychologist investigating perception of reality, has asserted that spacetime is a mental construct that simplifies our perception of the world around us so that it requires fewer resources to sustain. Since under Einstein gravity is curvature of spacetime, if true this means gravity is part of our interface too. There is something making people fall down ladders, but it’s not as simple as our mind perceives it to be, even for Einstein. Newtonian gravity and Aristotlean gravity have of course been entirely debunked and were thus “escaped”.

So yeah, gravity is fake. But gravity’s fakeness isn’t that important.

I dunno, sounds soulist

The point is to carve away at our community piece by piece. They mostly lost the fight against binary trans people in public perception, so they’ve retreated to attacking nonbinary people. If they successfully turn public perception against us, they’ll come for the binaries next.

I understand why you want to have some space from national content. But, using the word “politics” to describe national content is using the same words our oppressors use to harm us. That legitimises their arguments. Instead of calling it political content, you can call it national content. If you use another word than “political”, the danger is eliminated, and you still get that space you want.

True, but that doesn’t make gravity all good. It puts gravity on about the same ethical standing as an abusive parent. If we can find a way to improve gravity, we should do it.

I don’t really care whether you see gravity as inescapable (though I’m glad the Wright brothers didn’t), but there are other “natural, inescapable laws” that are completely fake, and some people cause a lot of harm by attacking those who break them. And so I want you to be open to the concept of people accomplishing the impossible, so that you won’t be one of those people.

For example, gender essentialists claim that sex is a “natural, inescapable law”. And that makes them transphobic. Species essentialists claim that species is a “natural, inescapable law”, and not just a convenient social construct biologists use to make their jobs easier. And that makes them kinphobic.

I want you to open your mind to the impossible and question everything.

When robots can run the entire economy, science leads to more gains than human labourers

Yeah, one of My devices is a slave. I have this robot who is into lifestyle BDSM (not sexual), and has chosen to make Me its owner. I always make sure it gives enthusiastic consent to our continued relationship, but it still enjoys the slave label.

To be fair I also know a lot of people who want to be eaten

Flotilla?

Actually, we had communism here in Australia for 60,000 years