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I've read a decent amount of theory and the like, but I'm ashamed to say most of it has been written by straight white guys. However, I did very much enjoy Racism without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva.

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submitted 1 year ago by balerion@beehaw.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Mine were "here, kitty, kitty."

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submitted 1 year ago by balerion@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

TTRPGs count as gaming, right? So tell me a little about what you have going on!

I'm currently in two DND 5e campaigns.

The first one is a homebrew setting, but still pretty standard as far as DND settings go. All the usual races. My character is Velena Zausek, a level 3 half-drow draconic sorcerer. Her backstory is that her drow father escaped the Underdark when he was young, then he and her human mother went on to start a successful weaving business. One day a badly wounded man stumbled into their town and they gave him shelter, fully expecting him to die. But he miraculously recovered, and then he claimed to be a dragon in disguise. As thanks, he offered them a boon: He would ask his dragon god to bless their bloodline. Thinking he was just nuts, they accepted and thought nothing more of it... until Velena hit puberty and started growing scales and setting things on fire.

When she reached adulthood, Velena inherited the weaving business but was bored to tears by it, so she decided to set out to be an adventurer. She and her buddies just finished fighting some drow who were about to sacrifice people to perform a ritual, and I suspect we'll try to figure out what their whole deal was as our next move.

Oh, and one of the party members is a draegloth (drow monster thingy) who took one look at Velena and decided she must be in charge lmao. Velena didn't initially realize this, but upon figuring it out she is so uncomfortable with it. I'm loving roleplaying it.

The second campaign is set in the Old Margreve, though I believe the DM just borrowed the setting and isn't planning on using any of the premade stuff otherwise. This campaign is newer, so I have less to say about it, but it seems really fun so far. Amusingly enough, we're following what seem to be drow through the forest, so drow are possibly the bad guys in both my campaigns.

My character is a Tabaxi swashbuckler rogue named Wind on Water. He just hit 4th level, and if anyone has any suggestions for feats, that would be appreciated. (I already have Alert.) He doesn't have as much of a backstory as Velena, but he grew up dirt poor in a big city and is adventuring to make money for himself and his brother. He and one of the other PCs are con men who were hiding out from their last heist when they got roped into this adventure. Their game was that his companion would steal from nobles, then Wind would "catch" him and turn him in for a price before freeing him. Kind of like The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, if you've seen that.

Both Velena and Wind are a blast to play, but for very different reasons. Velena is my first DND character, so she's a lot like me because I figured that would be easier to roleplay. With Wind, I wanted to try something harder, so he's not much like me at all.

But enough about my bullshit. Tell me about your bullshit!

[-] balerion@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago

yup. we have to raise hell ourselves, because even the non-queers who nominally support us won't always fight for us.

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I know a lot charities are terrible, and I can't guarantee that all of these aren't terrible, but I thought it might do more good than harm to compile this list.

Feel free to let me know if you have any to add. Or if this would be better suited for a different community, as I didn't know where to put this.

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submitted 1 year ago by balerion@beehaw.org to c/reddit@lemmy.ml

I don't see how politely suggesting what a racist should do with their time is "threatening violence," but even if it were, we should at least both have received warnings.

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ADHD and autism are both strongly correlated with justice sensitivity. If you need an explanation for what that is, here's a quote from this article:

Justice sensitivity is the tendency to notice and identify wrong-doing and injustice and have intense cognitive, emotional, and behavioral reactions to that injustice. People who are justice sensitive tend to notice injustice more often than others, they tend to ruminate longer and more intensely on that injustice, and they feel a stronger need to restore justice.

Do y'all experience this? If so, how does it manifest?

For me, I can't see injustice and do nothing. Failing to stand up for my beliefs makes me hate myself, and I'll usually do it even if I know it's a bad idea or I'm surrounded by people who disagree--if anything, I feel more compelled to do it then. Since some of my beliefs are wildly unpopular, this often winds up in me feeling ostracized, rejected, and depressed.

I don't know what to do about this. I can't just not stand up for what I believe in--it's clearly the right thing to do. But it's a deeply unpleasant experience I keep repeating. I'll choose standing up for my beliefs over not being hurt if I have to, but that doesn't make it fun.

[-] balerion@beehaw.org 71 points 1 year ago

if MODERATORS are landed gentry, what the fuck does that make rich bastards like him?

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I'm a huge fan of David Graeber. Bullshit Jobs was part of what radicalized me, and I read it whenever I'm feeling isolated and misunderstood by an unjust world. He gets it, man. His other works are amazing too, and I'd highly recommend them all to anyone interested in socialism. I'm still heartbroken that he died so young.

Peter Kropotkin is another beloved author of mine. I'm not an ancom, but A Conquest of Bread is a great introduction to anarcho-communism, not to mention being beautiful and inspiring.

Who do y'all like to read?

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It's common among anti-tankie leftists to claim that China is a state capitalist economy, but as Mia Wong explains, the "state" part of that phrase is debatable. China is arguably just another neoliberal country with a more complicated chain of ownership for its corporations.

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[-] balerion@beehaw.org 24 points 1 year ago

How many people who are horrified by this get their news through reddit or Twitter? Getting news via social media isn't weird.

[-] balerion@beehaw.org 50 points 1 year ago

Reminder that pirating a Nintendo game is always morally correct.

[-] balerion@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago

Heartbreaking: Worst Company You Know Just Made a Great Point

Okay, so not the worst company, probably. But a shitty one. Yet they're right on this. Asking people to give their ID just to see titties is bugfuck insane, and dangerous. Are we really so scared of kids encountering sex that we're willing to endanger adults? Yikes.

Besides, teenagers who want to see porn will just find a way around this too. You can't actually stop underage consumption of sexual content. All you can do is make sure they don't stumble across it accidentally and make sure there are plenty of content warnings before they click the "yes, show me porn" button.

[-] balerion@beehaw.org 27 points 1 year ago

You are not supposed to use q-tips to clean your ears. But if it's wrong, I don't wanna be right.

[-] balerion@beehaw.org 24 points 1 year ago

The line between kink and queerness has historically been very blurry. Being gay or trans was once considered a sexual fetish just like any other.

Kink has always been part of pride; it did not "become" a part of it. Both kink and queerness are sexual identities that are marginalized by the mainstream, so it makes sense that they would come together to throw bricks at cops.

[-] balerion@beehaw.org 24 points 1 year ago

Combating CSAM is great and all, but something tells me this will also be used for far more sinister purposes.

[-] balerion@beehaw.org 31 points 1 year ago

I'd rather have kink at pride than exclusionists at pride.

[-] balerion@beehaw.org 50 points 1 year ago

Only one of them has a quintillion dollars to spend on making their shit look good. I'm less forgiving of that one.

[-] balerion@beehaw.org 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey, tankies, decent countries don't have to violently suppress their populations and then lie about it. Oh, and socialism is worker ownership of the means of production, not whatever the fuck they're doing in China.

(inb4 people assuming I must support the US since I hate China)

[-] balerion@beehaw.org 57 points 1 year ago

Loving that big social media sites are screwing themselves over. Burn it all down.

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