SJW and Proud

Update:

I need to point out that there is a cultist, intersectionalist, identity politics, problem in this country. The kind that nods or stay silent when some black supremacists says that all whites should be gassed or some lunatic feminist says all males should be raped etc.

Those people get called SJW too, and I agree they need a pejorative label.

SJW kind of fits because their delusion does indeed take the flavor and form of social justice but the whole argument with them is that they aren’t being just at all. As I said in a comment, even the RWNJ thinks they are fighting for social justice, merely their own brand of it.

In that sense “SJW” is meaningless and absurd and it is in that sense which I attack the use of the label below.

I literally know of no competing term. It’s hard to distill the “actual” cultist SJW thing into a single term. I hesitate to even call them intersectionalists because of course that too can be used for good.

It is undeniably a useful way to parse social realities, but only if used with logical rigor and solid ethical axioms. Sadly it often, perhaps primarily, is not, and I don’t know what to call those people as a group other than SJWs in such a way that my meaning is clear.

Basically SJWs of that stripe are like neoliberals in that they are actually are oppressive forces in the guise of ethical reformers.

The search for a superior term continues. Now it may be intellectually lazy to refuse to consider specific grievances (Such as leftist sexism or racism case by case) but at the same time it is indeed practical to seek a set term for a set phenomena. Below, I call them psychotic politically correct zealots, but that also is more arrow than label. It points in their general direction, but doesn’t actually define them. After all, many aren’t politically correct, many aren’t psychotic, many aren’t zealots, etc, but you still presumably know the group I’m talking about. I can share many words that apply to many of the them, like hypocrite for example, but that doesn’t define them either.

However, my disdain for the term and critique of it below stands because regardless of the problems mentioned above, the core reason the 1% cultivates the term among it’s rube right wing minions is to undermine any dissent which threatens them. The term absolutely exists to enslave. Even if the targets of the term often are worthy of contempt ironically for serving those very same divide and conquer enslavement interests.

Original post:

It’s funny when the Internet tough kids call me or someone else an “SJW” like it’s a bad thing.

Yeah, because fighting for justice in society is something to be mocked, right?

No wonder they own us so thoroughly, and the planet hates Americans so fervently. You morons actually overtly attack the very concept of dissent in the name of justice to the point that it’s now a net-wide meme.

Nothing like the miracle of teen pregnancy to turn out a whole generation of enthusiastic sadistic slaves. These chumps think they are the subversive ones, but they literally couldn’t be more wrong.

Fighting the ultra rich and powerful and their pawns, which real SJWs do every day, takes way more spine than harassing some random marginalized deviant minority from the safety of your TOR/VPN.

They want you oblivious and blind and mean and programmable.

So yeah, I’m an SJW. And if you think that makes me weak? Which one of us writes hate mail to congress and puts our subversive opinion on the internet with our real face and name?

You spineless little wretches wouldn’t last 30 seconds as a real SJW. The instant you saw cops lining up in riot gear in front of you, you’d brown your trousers and scream “I surrender” till your throat bled.

You people should also note that the people most in love with hating “SJWs” on the Internet are the overtly racist, sexist, sadistic, pampered, right wing, white trash, yuppie larvae, 1% lick-spittle sycophants, on 4chan’s /b/.

Being proud of being one of them is literally worse than putting your kid in a KKK uniform because it no doubt occasionally includes putting your kid in a KKK uniform.

If you have a problem with a particular line of argument, be specific. Don’t be so intellectually lazy as to lump all psychotic “Politically Correct” zealots in with social reformers of every stripe.

Pretty damn sure the EFF, the Innocence Project, Mayday Pac, Doctors Without Borders, the ACLU and on and on are literally social justice warriors.

These are the same assholes that like to use the word “butthurt” in defense of corporations or the government.

The PR industry invented you pricks:

Who owns your limbic system?

Update: 2016-02-22 0221 PM

KMSJWe

From here.

I’m talking here about all these defective hateful /b/tard neocons trying to act like they’re tough for being social cowards and how no one’s buying it except they themselves.

The entire world recognizes how callow and weak they all are. That’s the whole reason they say “SJW” as if it’s an insult. Because they’re too frail and impotent and dim to attack hard targets like the established elites. They have to go for the marginalized, because they don’t have a chance vs anyone else.

They’re rats attacking the wounded. It takes a thousand of them to equal a single real opponent. That’s also why virtually no one talks back to them.

Firstly, everyone knows it’s pointless. Attempting to enlighten them would be about as successful as trying to teach physics to a roach.

Secondly, being the weakest of the weak, they’re individually not worth anyone’s effort.

The only reason I talk to them is because I recycle the content for essays aimed at the entire species. That’s the only way these GIFT examples are even worth my time.

It’s the same reason 4chans /b/tard crowd has degenerated from the once great Anonymous, into racist psychopaths, that are so lazy they’ve even abbreviated refusing to help people down into an acronym. “NYPA.”

These defectives always hammer out an instant NYPA for the same reason they don’t vote, because jaded cowardice, impotence, and insecurity. It’s always racist trolling and NYPA claims as a smoke screen instead.

They whine about content and SJWs, because they are too inexperienced to remember that fighting for social justice was 90% of anon’s point and that fighting the good fight was the source of all the best threads.

The content now sucks because they’re all spineless cowardly racist neocon degenerates. As in they have literally degenerated. Of course the content is awful.

All the real Anons jumped ship for the dark net or specific activist groups. (Like EFF.) So of course the only thing left is trolls too scared to even consider anything more aggressive to authority than a thank you letter. They keep licking boot and pretending anyone fails to see them as anything other than the spineless wretches that they are.

They literally don’t even know who the real enemy is.

Is it any wonder that Trump is their god?

I see the types that defend (or trivialize) abuse and generally take an Internet tough guy attitude, as a collective organism. Like slime mold or a staph infection.

If you dismiss the suffering of others to any degree, you’re who I’m talking to.

We made it out of the primordial ooze all the way through the ice age by working together more often than being psychopathic parasites to any degree.

The first step to being human is caring about the suffering of others. Ignoring the suffering of others because solving the problem is difficult or complicated is weakness.

That’s the whole reason we honor soldiers and strength in the first place. SELF sacrifice. Not the sacrifice of others. Murder is disturbingly easy.

That’s the irony here. These people trying to sound tough by making excuses for abuse and disregard, are actually shockingly frail in the most qualitative sense.

They are all like Alfrid Lickspittle. Tough talking and dismissive but ultimately extremely dim, totally owned (either by people or pathology), and made out of jello.

Social Security Works Email: 2015-07-04 1226 PM

Resharing because I agree, and because the original was an email.

From: http://www.socialsecurityworks.org/

There are two kinds of people who want to cut Social Security—liars, and people who believe the lies. They’ve heard the conservative talking points. “Social Security is going broke.” “Social Security won’t be there for me when I retire.” “The only way to save Social Security is to cut benefits.”

Unfortunately, these Wall Street funded lies have gotten plenty of traction in recent years. So much so that a recent survey shows that 43 percent of young people believe that Social Security won’t be there for them when they retire—no matter how much that same survey shows that these same young people want it to.

It’s time to set the record straight. This 4th of July weekend, when you’re speaking with your Chris Christie-loving cousin at the family BBQ, you have the facts on your side:

  • Social Security has a $2.8 trillion surplus and can pay out every benefit owed to every eligible person for nearly two decades. After that, even if we do nothing, it will pay out approximately 80% of benefits owed for the next 75 years.
  • Social Security has not contributed one penny to the deficit because it is independently funded by the FICA payroll tax.
  • Proposed “tweaks” to Social Security would hurt seniors, disabled veterans and people with disabilities.
  • All we need is to ask millionaires and billionaires to start paying into Social Security at the same rate as the rest of us and we not only extend the life of the Social Security trust fund, but we can expand benefits to the majority of Americans.

With the facts on our side, we have begun to see a dramatic shift in the national conversation around Social Security. It wasn’t that long ago that we were still fighting a “chained CPI” benefit cut being proposed by President Obama, all Republicans and some Democrats in Congress. Today, 44 out of 46 Senate Democrats and 116 out of 188 House Democrats have gone on record supporting expansion. And 79% of likely voters – Democrats, Republicans and Independents – support expansion!

So what if Google said I was a saltine?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/06/30/google_s_image_recognition_software_returns_some_surprisingly_racist_results.html

“According to Alcine’s Twitter feed, the problem remained in place even after the supposed fix had been implemented. Ultimately, Google applied a secondary solution, reworking the system so that it wouldn’t tie photos to the “Gorilla” tag at all.”

So let’s pretend gorillas don’t exist to avoid offending people that don’t understand computers.

What could possibly go wrong?

ಠ_ಠ

Well, we better delete black people from the database as well hadn’t we? I mean it could screw up in the other direction could it not? Mislabeling animals as people?

Racism is so stupid.

If Google’s image thing mislabeled me as a saltine because I’m a pale pasty nerd, I doubt that would be news.

I swear all of you enjoy racism. It’s like some kind of hobby when it isn’t a tool.

Seriously, this is the solution. Make race officially a non-existent quantity. Don’t ask about it in any official context. Make it as officially meaningless as you favorite cartoon character.

 

Bernie Sanders Email 2015-06-23

Dear Brandon –

When my Republican colleagues talk about “family values,” what they usually mean is opposition to a woman’s right to choose, opposition to contraception, opposition to gay rights, and support for abstinence-only education.

Let me give a somewhat different perspective on family values.

When a mother has a baby and is unable to spend time with that child during the first weeks and months of his or her life, that is not a family value.

When a wife is diagnosed with cancer and a husband cannot get time off of work to take care of her, that is not a family value.

When a mother is forced to send her sick child to school because she cannot afford to stay home with her, that is not a family value.

When a husband, wife, and kids, during the course of an entire year, are unable to spend any time together on vacation, that is not a family value.

The Republican agenda for families is really an attack on everything that a family is supposed to stand for.

When it comes to basic workplace protections and family benefits, workers in every other major industrialized country in the world get a better deal than workers in the United States. That should be an embarrassment to anyone who wants to talk seriously about family values in this country.

I’m running for president because I will stand for real family values. Please contribute $5 to our campaign now to help make paid family leave, sick days, and vacation days a reality for every working person in America.

It is not enough, though, to simply oppose the Republican agenda. That’s why I’m proud to tell you what I think is a true agenda for family values.

Every worker in America should be guaranteed at least 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave. That is a family value.

It is insane that low wage workers in McDonald’s who get sick are forced to work because they cannot afford to miss work. Workers in this country must have paid sick time so they don’t get coworkers or customers sick on the job. That is a family value.

Every person who works for a living must have at least 10 days of paid vacation. Making sure families can afford to take some time off, without having to worry about going broke — that is a family value.

Let’s be clear: in terms of protecting the needs of our families, in many respects, the United States lags behind virtually every major country on earth.

Last place is no place for America. It is time to join the rest of the industrialized world by showing the people of this country that we are not just a nation that talks about family values — but that we are a nation that is prepared to live up to these ideals by making sure that workers in this country have access to paid family leave, paid sick time and paid vacations.

Can you help me carry this message in our campaign? Please contribute $5 now.

Thank you for all of your support,

– Bernie

Foreign Policy

It’s a recurring debate, how America, and by extension, how any, well funded and well armed nation should handle conflicts abroad.

Walking away I think is something ethical people can’t fully defend as it feels like walking away from a house fire, especially when you can make a good argument that your previous actions had a hand in starting the blaze. We kind of intrinsically know that willful inaction is an action.

So what can we do that doesn’t make things worse? How can we behave ethically and break the cycle of violence?

Well here is one option.

The solution is to essentially behave like doctors without borders. We should setup shop in the most unwanted unused area, someplace we alone can operate because money and technology and will, and provide something that only we can provide that’s good for all humans in the area.

What that is depends on context. Start with the basic needs. But only things that can be made on site. Make the useless area you were in useful in a humanitarian way.

Our military could then be deployed around these asset sources purely as defensive measures. If an area drives (or votes, etc) us out, we leave what we’ve made. Because we didn’t make weapons.

Like imagine setting up (or sailing and parking) a nuclear reactor on the coast and setting up a free electricity/water giving point. No strings. Just buying moral authority because doing the right thing full stop. Investment in the long term human capitol of the region and in our credibility.

A passive alternative talk-is-cheap approach to all the toxic ideologies that cause kids to get blown up.

Actually I think we should do that here via a ubi and deployment of nuclear and other tech, but I don’t expect anyone to listen.

Basically we should repurpose all our bases and military spending to be primarily creative rather then destructive forces.

If we do feel the need to intervene on someone’s behalf, our activities should be limited to ethical forms of aid (beans and bandages, are two thirds of warfare after all) and passive defenses like walls, bunkers, etc. Armor only, no swords. Let whoever we are helping defend us while we build, and if they can’t then we withdraw. Follow the principal of no lives taken, no collateral damage tolerated.

Half our defense budget needs to go to NASA, and their mandate should be expanded to include developing what is essentially terraforming technology by way of greening the world’s deserts. Then share/use that power to build infrastructure everywhere.

Make it clear that we have common enemies. Thirst. Hunger. Death. Pain.

You see what I’m saying? We don’t have to engage in any pro-active killing. No one can honestly say giving someone a sandwich and a clean cup of water and a bottle of iodine and a secure place to sleep is intrinsically wrong. Make no martyrs. Turn potential enemies into allies.

Make our presence anywhere we go a good thing for anyone we encounter if we can at all manage it.

Make people excited to see us. Not with lies and violence, but with truth and compassionate action.

 

Your Real Enemy

So amusing how effective the divide and conquer program is.

This isn’t about numbers or even trust. It’s about corporate beneficiaries of expertly manufactured bitterness and infighting.

Government is the only real enemy corporations have.  Thus corporations spend billions infiltrating via lobby and election funding/manipulation, and use that influence to degenerate government, to make it the untrustworthy parasitic thing so many of us tragically know it to be by and large in so many critical contexts, expressly to make us want to burn it rather than fix it. And failing that, to make us blame some other group, thing, or person. Something that is actually our ally from their perspective.

Though of course race and culture differences make that incredibly hard to intuit. After all, what right wing tea party tough guy can admit for a millisecond he has anything in common geopolitically with an exploited inner-city black mother?

That same black has probably been just as mind hacked as the hateful apparently have been, and hates you right back. If they even have the luxury of time to think of your existence at all, which is rare.

Regardless, what they want is for you to do anything but place blame where it actually belongs. Cynically, I can’t help but think maybe they deserve to be in charge given how expertly they manipulate the vast bulk of our emotions. But then if they were really that good, we would love them would we not? Their incompetence is obvious and heartening.

So called anti government types get their teen angst hate-the-man rage so expertly diverted away from its rightful target that nothing changes. At best. Very often things get worse. This helps them because the natural response, thanks to confirmation bias is to keep doing more of the same, creating a negative feedback loop.

Why? Because when people do things and they don’t work, they almost always think of whether or not they should do more or less of a thing, not whether they should do a different thing.

It’s so insidiously effective and yet painfully frustratingly obvious from the outside.

It essentially goes like this:

  • 1% manipulates mass emotion to invent the extreme right wing (see origins of tea party, follow the money)
  • 1% buys/corrupts the right wing from inside and out (explore history of actual smaller government fiscal conservatives, and how that morphed into police state corporate monopoly conservatives)
  • Right wing sabotages everything good about government and blames left wing and compassion itself.
  • 1% partly infiltrates left wing
  • Infiltrated progressive elements compromise to uselessness, empowering further sabotage and manipulation.
  • People as a result hate each other and government as distraction prevails.
  • 1% profits rise meteorically (Again, follow the money.)
  • 1% invests share of profits in politics and public relations manipulation. (The rise of the billionaire donor.) Lather rinse repeat.

If you say you already know government is corrupt then how dumb is it to blame government itself as your enemy? That’s a paradox. Think about it. If a corrupted government is a bad thing, then obviously an uncorrupted government is a good thing.

Either way your enemy is whatever corrupted the government, not government itself. That’s painfully easy to see if you follow the money. Or as they say in lobbying circles “lean towards the green” and they aren’t talking about the environment.

The sad point is this:

Democracy always puts the most effectively manipulative group in charge.

But of course most everyone on the right is likely to just slap a label on me which some corporate PR wizard invented to keep them all hating in the wrong, albeit comfortable, direction. Anywhere other than your true enemy.

Blame leftists, blame minorities, blame gays, blame men, blame women, blame poor people, blame technology, blame education, blame the sick, blame the old, blame the young, blame drugs, blame crime, blame compassion, etc. Just whatever you do don’t blame the 1%.

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” ~Max Planck

If he couldn’t convince his genius peers of basic things he could prove, what makes anyone think they can convince emotionally manipulated people who don’t have the time or inclination (or occasionally the ability,) to rationally self/policy examine?

These tea party types will likely literally die bitterly blaming one or more of their actual allies, having spent their entire life profiting their true enemy. Our only long term hope is that their children are wiser people than they, which fortunately, even among the broken, is a shared goal.

Any wise and compassionate parent wants their children to do and be better than they did.

As for the rest of you, cling to your illusions, or risk shedding them. The only thing that will change is how painful or how awesome your personal future is as a result.

See also: http://underlore.com/who-owns-your-limbic-system/