Because I have spent my whole life perceiving the actions of living beings.

But social problems are purposeful choices. There are no easy answers. I grew up hungry because society wanted hungry children to exist - my suffering was to some real or imagined benefit.

You cannot simply swap out this system of faith for one of truth. Human perception is misaligned.

Psychology and epistemology are annoying to people. Generally, humans want to believe that the world has easy answers and that we can solve it. They do not want to confront their own deep inability to understand.

I rarely find any reason to trust those who self-describe as 'progressive'.

With liberal media like this, who needs conservatives?

Daily Kos warns that progressivism must be intimately aligned with hating non-white people, because then progressivism may be palatable to some wonderful conservative white people who are very misjudged and we must pander to them very hard yes.

Belief is wider than just religious belief.

Marxism is a belief system that arguably works best when it replaces religion (on both the personal and social scales) - does it compete so successfully because it is analogous with religion?

Posting on social media to lie to me is uncouth. Posting on social media to lie to yourself is unnecessary. Just keep a journal and reaffirm your fallacious self-beliefs there, please.

Counterpoint: You do, very regularly, believe in things with no evidence, you just wish to pretend otherwise.

The next spot? I assume humans plan to colonise some other planet so they can start extinguishing wholly new species with their hateful behaviour.

I don't have time for people who still believe the democratic party is ideologically opposed to the gop. just eat your play doh and leave me alone

Trans women are biological women
Trans men are biological men
Nonbinary people are biological people

this is the guy who filmed himself bulldozing homeless people and invited nazis on his podcast to talk about how trans people shouldn't be allowed to play sports or use the bathroom

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

It is so weird that there are people who can lose billions and be fine at their job. One time at Starbucks my drawer was off by a dollar and my job was in jeopardy. 😅

Capitalism must inevitably become a total feudalism of corporations and their pointless, lionised CEOs. There is nothing that will not be sacrificed to reach this outcome. Inequality must increase, the world must be destroyed, humanity must end. This is profit.

The point of capitalism is observably to create regular market failures so that everything goes to shit. This allows the very rich to consolidate more wealth.

Allowing people to have money actually destroys capitalism, as it is based on stark inequality. The children MUST starve.

Remove the trans flag from your profile, fake ally.

every couple of weeks some entity or orginization tries to float gavin newsom for president and every couple weeks i post some version of "gavin newsome sucks ass and everyone who likes him is a stupid nerd" and i guess that's just how it's gonna be for the next few years

Don’t worry, I’m sure continuing to tell folks to “Vote blue no matter who” in 2026 and 2028 will fix everything. /s.

Gosh, this timeline sucks absolute shit.

you gotta remember that from a conservative perspective, these programs are a failure. they don't want to reduce homelessness, they want to punish homeless people. they'd pay 10x as much for that happily

A cool thing I just realized. Bluesky’s positivity algorithm means if you are replying to brands or companies with about their treatment of workers, how their products are poor quality or have ethical issues your reply will likely be hidden because it’s not “positive”

Fun!

You're hungry enough to not be able to sleep, but sleepy enough to not be able to eat.

Solution: consume all life itself, and then sleep upon their bleached and rattling bones.

It sounds like you're saying that I can't diagnose that you're eating a chicken nugget unless I am the chicken nugget being eaten.

Polci: chicken nuggets can't talk.

You're really bad at social media. Try doing something more solitary, like knitting.

Imagine rooting for an economic system based on infinite growth but with finite resources.