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Shameful addiction is a phrase that perks my Lil ears up hahaha

Gonna stop at the store on the way home today and pick up Event Horizon - Dark Descent

It’s a graphic novel prequel to the film. It goes over what happened to the original crew. There’s also a sequel to the film coming out this year also in graphic novel format that I am excited for.

I am also still working through Echopraxia by Peter Watts, love it so far.

Update: got the last copy!!

Ok professor 🤭

I feel very…educated

Oh yes, you are lovely ❤️

Oh my, this is a public forum and I am on main 👀

I know plenty of people like that, and I don’t think that’s wrong, that’s probably how we should think about that stuff lol. It should be difficult to be or pretend to be cruel to a person.

Tbh I may be a bit fucked up, but it’s in a fun way, at least, lol. Results in some wires crossed and makes me want that kind of treatment, but in a context where the type and amount of treatment I receive is in my control, as a sub.

So, the biiig reason I am capable of cruelty when in a dom position is that I understand how it feels as a sub to want to be on the receiving end of it, and how much it can actually help in a therapeutic sense when the proper before and after care is taken. So I guess what im saying is I can tell how much they want it, I can tell how much they enjoy it, and I would never dream of treating a person like that if they didn’t actively want it. Like I said in another comment, I enjoy when my partner is enjoying themself.

Edit: Oh! I also wanted to add, gender power dynamics also play a huge role when dominating men, and a LOT of men like being degraded by women because it’s a response to a society that constantly teaches them to treat women like objects, yknow?

That makes total sense! To be fair I’d only do degradation with the most trusted of partners because it needs to come from someone of whose opinion of me i am well aware. Most of the time I’m just a competitive brat hahaha

Really love a switchy physical power dynamic where power shifts between both partners.

The mind games and degradation are for a very specific type of itch, however (hint: it’s trauma).

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Haha oh no I am feeling particularly bratty 😅

I have lived no lesson so long as I can still breathe

I like where you’re going with this, I think it could be doable if there was a heavy focus on fact-checking.

I like not giving a platform for opinion on what is supposed to be a platform for news.

That being said I wouldn’t mind hearing opinions from people with qualifications on dedicated platforms for it. I really like the idea of separating that stuff though.

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How would one define propaganda to avoid these laws being abused?

My answer is in my initial comment and I don’t wish to elaborate, I am not emotionally attached to this opinion enough to defend it further.

I believe you have good reason to think that narrative is ass, I just disagree with you (for personal, idealist/optimist reasons that likely won’t change your mind), and I’m okay with that as I don’t think you believing that is causing any issues.

If infestations are the analogy we are using, I’d use mold infestation as an example.

When you get black mold on your wall, what do you do? Do you replace the drywall and wait until it comes back to replace the drywall again, or do you figure out what is causing the mold (ie. The source of the moisture) so you can get rid of it for good?

Like yeah sure replacing the drywall will make it look nice, but it won’t be long before it comes back with a vengeance because the cause never left.

Expecting later generations to follow our rules is how we got here.

I disagree that the “billionaire narrative is ass” because it does help to unite people in the moment, however you’re right that billionaires are a symptom and not the cause.

The issue is not just the capitalist system in the west, it’s the fact that the overarching system of the world is capitalist, and capitalism operates by rewarding maximization of profit (by means of exploitation) with concentration of power.

So while the billionaires are a symptom rather than a cause, demonizing them helps to turn working class people – a lot of whom lack the education or context to understand the systemic issues creating billionaires – against the concept of concentration of power as reward.

At least, in my opinion, anyway.

Right?? It’s the bessst ugh. I’m a sucker for the “you’re a disgrace and I don’t know why I want you so badly” kind of trope haha, like someone is struggling to reconcile why they’re so attracted to such a loser 🤭

You couldn’t pay me any sum of money to debase myself that much, and I love debasing myself.