the Big Laundry conspiracy runs deeper, fabric softener ruins some fabrics, and degrades most others

Calling this sexual assault doesn’t help anyone, and actively harms victims of actual sexual violence.

what “actively harms victims of sexual violence” is gatekeeping the definition of it, and normalising nonconsensual intimate physical acts. maybe spend some time researching the “real rape” myth, and its impact on reporting, investigation, and conviction rates.

Maybe there was a glitch on Codeberg? it’s working for me currently anyway

Magpie Market aims to be a federated alternative to Etsy, allowing sellers to leverage the fediverse to sell their goods and services.

don’t see mention of magpie market yet https://codeberg.org/MagpieMarket

a surface level similarity

my sibling in christ, the only reason for the use of “master race” is its Nazi history, that’s the only cultural reference it is making.

and yes, i am someone that the Nazis would have tried to exterminate. are you? otherwise, consider the idea that it is not your place to be arguing in favor of jokes about Nazi ideology.

PS yes I know mitchell and webb, they’re not amazing, “are we the baddies” is definitely a lot better satire than “pc master race” tho.

🦆 what’s the name for the logical fallacy of incorrectly calling something “no true scotsman”

I wasn’t making a generalisation about the identity of leftists, I was saying that “[PC enthusiasts using the term ‘master race’ to refer to themselves represents] no glorifying of Nazism” is not a leftwing position. this distinction is possible because “left wing” has definitions beyond just “what people who call themselves ‘leftwing’ think”, like promoting social equality, and fighting entrenched hierarchies.

having some leftwing views (and taking leftwing actions, which, nice, thank you for your service, I’ve done a lot more than shout at someone, get teargassed, or go to a pride march, not saying you don’t get an opinion though…) doesn’t automatically make your support for using the term “master race” less rightwing.

anyway, “I’m as left as I fucking want to be” is a lot less ridiculous a thing to say than “I’m as left as they come”.

The holocaust is genuinely a tragedy but the only thing connecting it and a joke about PC inferiority/superiority complex are only connected in your perspective

No, what’s connecting the two is the use of term “master race”, a literal piece of Nazi ideology… which also makes war crimes more than tangentially related.

If your “fun” is causing marginalised people to feel bad then you’re punching down, and you need a better sense of humour.

it’s enforced by road design, and in some cases our desire to not murder children with our cars. call me autistic (I am) but I follow speed limits in residential areas even if the road is designed like a formula 1 track

you’re asking for a lot of mental gymnastics from those of us in marginalised groups, to ignore the more obvious interpretation that it’s a joke at the expense of the people the Nazis tortured and killed. If you find yourself needing to explain how a joke isn’t actually promoting Nazism maybe it’s time to retire it… Zero Punctuation had some good lines, this wasn’t one of them.

this just sounds even less believable: you’re in a jursidiction where the amount of data you have to store on students is exactly specified, and you’re liable to prosecution for storing any single piece of data less or more? I would appreciate extraordinary evidence for this extraordinary claim.

anyway, even if that’s true, you could be using your knowledge to help privacy-conscious students like OP, instead of throwing a rulebook at them and casting aspersions about their motivations. I return to “reconsider your views, and the impact of your job”.

“I’m as left as they come” is a really weird thing to say to try and defend against criticism from further left… make peace with your reactionary position, or change your opinion, you can’t have it both ways

the problem isn’t that it’s offensive to console gamers it’s that it’s offensive to people in groups (jewish, queer, communist, Russian) who the Nazis killed over 12 million of, jesus why is this so hard to understand

we are very screwed, in large part because of people like you, enthusiastically volunteering to help with propaganda in support of corporate real estate and retail tycoons.

you could be part of the solution by wearing a mask.

perhaps research the effects of repeated COVID infections on otherwise-fine people, reconsider how transmission and probability works (“oh, there’s no point using condoms, anyone I have any kind of sex with is likely to get HIV from someone else”), and try and imagine how you’d feel if you or someone you care about had an immune system disorder and couldn’t safely go outside in your area because of healthier people who prioritise their comfort in not wearing a small piece of cloth on their faces

pressing X to doubt that you only help keep information on students that you’re required to by law.

and, something being legally required doesn’t mean you need to enthusiastically support it in an online discussion.

wow what a disgusting take - people with medical conditions can’t go out in public for the rest of their lives because wearing a facemask is mildly inconvenient for you?

you wearing a mask could prevent you from infecting dozens if not hundreds of people with COVID over the rest of your life, several of whom could die or get longterm disabilities from it. very unclear how what other people are doing affects that

trivialising a student’s desire for privacy as being about playing videogames is a lot more ridiculous than anything the OP said.

maybe rethink your uncritical support for surveillance, and either organise with your coworkers to make your school’s policies more respectful of its students, or find a less unethical job.

“nobody cares”, except people with medical conditions who can’t risk getting COVID so can’t go out in public since people stopped wearing masks, or those of us who don’t want to be part of a large-scale experiment about the debilitating effects of long COVID. maybe try different anti-fog products, there are some that definitely work. and wear a fucking mask

boosters don’t have much impact on you getting other people sick. you can get a spray to stop glasses fogging up, you can get cooling towels or a personal fan to deal with overheating. wear a fucking mask please

“downtown is … shitty” so move to the “shitty” area, help make it better.

unless you mean “I am prepared to live in a car-brained hellscape as long as my neighbours are all white” as most suburbanites have done through history, in which case please move into the sea