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๐ถ ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ป'๐ ๐ธ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ด, ๐ถ ๐ท๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ถ ๐ธ๐ป๐ผ๐
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Joined February 2023
I will not use this as an excuse to buy new boots I will not use this as an excuse to buy new boots I will not use this as an excuse to buy new boots I will not use this as an excuse to buy new boots
so hrt may have shrank my feet a size and now all my boots are too fucking big
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so hrt may have shrank my feet a size and now all my boots are too fucking big
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This slaps
NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility. Three say they've been shot w/pepper balls, sometimes while praying. All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court.
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remember how this game had segregation mechanics
Family isn't who you're born with, it's who you die for. Celebrating 9 years of Mafia III!
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Do you guys remember a couple of years ago when every viral video was like โwe tried the $25k gold dusted burgerโ โwe drank a $150 milkshake!โ. You dont see a lot of those anymore
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You can say โwell, presuming this relies on having an unrealistic society of ubermenschen who can be trusted with such decisionsโ. But whatโs the alternative to creating that society of active consumers of media messaging? Nihilistically just resigning ourselves to censorship?
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And this is why itโs so disheartening that the teleology of critique is so often presumed to conclude in censorship. The goal of critique is to augment our abilities to independently come to conclusions on content specifically *so* we do not have to restrict that content
There are two approaches we can use to attenuate mediaโs influence on reality; the dialectic of propaganda and censorship, or the vector of critique. One relies on making narrative poorer, simpler, and facile; the other relies on making it richer, fuller, and more accessible.
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There are two approaches we can use to attenuate mediaโs influence on reality; the dialectic of propaganda and censorship, or the vector of critique. One relies on making narrative poorer, simpler, and facile; the other relies on making it richer, fuller, and more accessible.
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The goal of media critique is not the deprivation of the receiverโs access to narrative, no matter how harmful they may be, but to anoint them with the ability to create independent interpretations of narrative which allow them to live with greater fulfillment
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Both propaganda and censorship rely on the deprivation of viewers, readers, etc. of their capacities to be independent interpreters of narrative. This is why the opposite of censorship is critique; the former disempowers the viewer, the latter empowers them.
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It is entirely because we have created a media environment which disavows any agency on the part of the receiver that we have such anxiety about the content of media. The viewer, reader, has been deracinated of their role as an active interpreter of culture
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We can speak of โpositive propagandaโ - the production and promulgation of messaging - but just as important is โnegative propagandaโ, the creation of media environments which privilege messaging. The mirror image of propaganda is censorship.
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What I hate about when people bring propaganda up as an argument against this is that propagandizing isnโt simply the production of messaging, but the creation and management of a media ecosystem where propaganda prevails. There is a negative aspect to propagandizing.
Fiction can affect reality but the way in which it affects reality, if it is allowed to, is entirely due to the agency of its interpreters. Fiction is not some passive force that washes over us, and we are not passive consumers. We have agency in our interpretation and our action
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Fiction can only affect reality in a 1:1 ratio in an environment where subjects are acting in the absence of inputs other than media. It is only in a media ecosystem where the receiver of the artifact has been de-agentified that fiction can simply impose itself onto the subject
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Fiction can affect reality but the way in which it affects reality, if it is allowed to, is entirely due to the agency of its interpreters. Fiction is not some passive force that washes over us, and we are not passive consumers. We have agency in our interpretation and our action
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[playing every side possible] brother zohran my fellow shia, i see and respect your decision to preform taqiyya (fooling infidels) on your true intentions on these matters๐ช๐ช๐ช
My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.
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The discourse on sexualization so often fails to grasp this - the intent is not uniform sexualization or desexualization but the maintenance of a certain regime of control over desires relating to sexuality. The issue is not sex and modesty, but power and control
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Guys actually want both in the same figure - a partner who can transform at will between Madonna and whore. The task of the patriarchal figure is control over sexual availability to their benefit, not uniform sexuality or uniform modesty
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