@SWoeten@mojorisn57 Sometimes you just need to rediscover from first principles. Reprint rules written on weathered rock, so to speak.
That's not going to be so easy to deal with when the people prior barely held them in substance, clinging to hollow order and shades of patrimony.
@oryx_wren@eugyppius1@pegobry_en It simply isn't practical, as enthusing as one might think, or good for kids... gal might even have kids.
Which plays out the same in the average exercise of instinct and interest. Menopause is what it is, as well. Maybe fine for casual, but hard to feel a hook in there.
@cremieuxrecueil It robs troublesome things of weight, attributing the rest to a caricatured version of their adversaries and anything associated.
So, they're a mirrored version of the same. All to adopt a facade of idealism and optimism they'll forever twist around. That's the generous take.
@oryx_wren@eugyppius1@pegobry_en An isolating and isolated type of horny. One that doesn't play out, practically speaking.
You did say porn, after all. Fetishes don't pervade actual contact without other peculiarities to match.
@OxSoc@PYeerk Then you're being even sillier. This hypothetical worst case reprisal would just be another step of enshittification. You're not even proposing much that isn't already happening in some fashion or another.
Why the reaction as if to a fresh, deep wound?
@OxSoc@PYeerk You're asking a lot of questions that imply you don't view this as systemic in much capacity. That there's a lot to lose, where much was already being wasted.
At the least, find the delicacy to avoid these overblown lamentations. We've needed that delicacy elsewhere for a while.
@reyy_david@cremieuxrecueil The former is socializing, taking advantage of the environs. So long as they're not overtly obnoxious, it'd be a curmudgeon's game to rain on their parade.
The latter is strictly an imposition on surrounding people. It's just noise they want, and forced onto others.
@TheFecalPoster@Howlingmutant0 Ah, you're posting on a public platform wishing for no one to entertain or weigh your thoughts. Apologies.
I simply would not project any particular ethos.
@TheFecalPoster@Howlingmutant0 Then we'd be speaking on a generic group of habitual flag burners with no motive or ethos to speak of.
Can't project much of anything American onto that. Just as easily a group of rabblerousers and jerks as a decent force.
What about the people who tolerate it, as well?
@TheFecalPoster@Howlingmutant0 The fact that it remains protected is pretty American on the whole.
The actual exercise of burning it may vary, but I wouldn't call it too huge when it's a two-faced fixture, rebellious and protected.
Nor would fellating those who do so in such safety be particularly American.
@enzoreds@champagne_scar You're just asking how best to play PR, or perhaps dancing around it to stay stimulated as if holding urine.
Stuff happens. Have some dignity and save your undergarments the trouble.
@kenzietuff The old should be huddling with their families as Social Security winds down, neighborhoods should be better, many people should be gone.
More housing would be piles of scrap in the ideal near future, since there are some things we are not running from.
@xwanyex And it starts with who we have here, and why precisely they're so hungry to drag people over.
If more people understood the slavering tendencies of those they've only adopted a fraction from, they'd know it all needs to slow down. We're not going to appreciate anyone this way.
@TheHughAnthony It's insulatory; this is all such folk can do to maintain a vague sense of optimism or idealism.
Distancing from it all doesn't work (FOMO is strong), and actually bearing the weight of some awkward things is too much without a proper sense of gravitas and distance.
@ArtemisConsort These things saturate through many channels and back again, effectively laundering them all. Journos, databases like Wikipedia, orgs like SPLC and Color of Change, consultant and HR industries, ideologically captured academia
Vague suspicion of only a few doesn't inoculate.
@SeEardStapaEce@cremieuxrecueil Wikipedia can be seen as dubious sourcing, people of many persuasions can vaguely be thought of as hacks. This is not an isolated current in the ecosystem, and enough of those launder them all.
There's certainly industry and infrastructure in place for just that.