Dragon Rider (drag)

Oh cool, you can explain the remorse of conscience to drag! Drag googled it while drag was posting that meme, and the best idea of it that drag could get was “feeling guilty for stuff that isn’t your fault like a BPD-having silly”

That’s not how they work?

Yes they do, but half decent manufacturers are extremely rare.

And furthermore, Captain Planet told us all what to do in the 90s. Abolish the conditions of Capital which allow greedy billionaires to destroy the environment for personal enrichment. We didn’t pay enough attention to realise what we had to do, because we’re media illiterate. It’s not just Captain Planet, there’s thousands of books, movies, songs, and TV shows that tell us what the problems are in society, and we still don’t fix them!

No, they can’t. The globe is warming and the human race is on its way to extinction. Humanity is failing as a species.

Drag agrees, society is to blame for the way people are.

But, people are also to blame for the way society is. It’s a vicious chicken.

Therefore, we need to educate people, like by telling them there’s more to literacy than knowing to to read something literally.

Most people can’t understand the themes of works from their own culture. How many American conservatives think the Matrix supports their ideas, and brag about taking the “red pill”, not realising it’s an estrogen pill? How many people watch Rick and Morty, and proceed to idolise Rick? Or the same with Sherlock, or House? How many people think Thanos did nothing wrong?

So much of our popular media criticises the flaws inherent in capitalism. Iron Man does it. Star Wars does it. Why don’t we live in a society of socialists? When Starship Troopers was first released, it bombed. Because most people couldn’t tell it was satire. It took years for people to catch on.

Hell, most christians read the Bible and think Jesus was white! It is literally their religious identity, and they can’t be bothered to understand it.

Drag doesn’t think literacy is one dimensional. But drag does think that most people don’t meet the standard for being a functional person in any culture. If most people were literate, then most of the kids who grew up watching Captain Planet would be vegan and carfree. But they aren’t, because they fundamentally don’t understand how to think about the entertainment media they consume.

And by the way, it’s a high dragon, not a horse.

Most people are illiterate. Literacy is a skill with levels and most people don’t actually ever reach the level required to be a fully functional person.

This meme is a great example. Most people don’t actually reach Ogre’s level of literacy. Yeah, it’s played for laughs in the fact that Ogre is smarter than the average human, but Ogre is also completely correct about the level of literacy we should expect of people, in a perfect world.

They only need to expand it a little bit. Add a rule against Nazi websites, and enforce it. That’s not restrictive very much at all. Drag has gone drag’s entire life without relying on Nazi sites

You can describe something without quoting it

In drag’s experience, calling someone a human is a tremendously vicious insult if you have cool enough friends.

The move to brand semantics as irrelevant is a conspiracy by people who don’t want words to have meanings. /hj

Look at the way monkeys communicate with each other. They hoot, screech, and throw poo. That’s communication without semantics. That communication is pure emotion, no meaning. The people who think semantics doesn’t matter are people who wish we all communicated more like monkeys.

Semantics is the field concerned with the meaning of words and sentences. Let’s take a look at two sentences.

The weather sure is nice out today

The bourgeois class must be destroyed in order to end the oppression of the proletariat

These two sentences have a semantic difference. And sure, they also have emotional and political differences, but those differences are a consequence of semantics.

No. Bad!

Actually, acid contributes to tooth decay. The reason sugar causes tooth decay is that bacterial metabolise the sugar using anaerobic respiration, which produces acid. When you eat acid, you skip the middleman and go straight to cavities.

Israel has a right to defend itself. On that, drag and Kamala Harris are agreed.

Nothing Israel has done since October 7 has done anything to defend itself, and quite a lot of it has destabilised the region and threatened Israel. On that, drag hopes Kamala Harris agrees. Drag wishes Harris had made that point clear.

While the people of Israel should exist, the political institution of Israel should not. Drag doesn’t think Harris agrees, but she could have been a stepping stone to somebody who does.

GO AWAY.

Go away.

Tankies are red MAGA.

What’s that? MAGA is already red, you say?

Yes. Yes it is.

It took the combined efforts of a lot of people to accomplish the Trump presidency. It took Harris’ weak platform, it took tankies’ attacks on Harris, and it took voters believing that Harris was worse than fascism. It’s a democracy, and that means millions of people share the blame.