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Nice to see this website is not completely dead. It’s not nice to see they’re still clinging on to the NO FEMALE-PRESENTING NIPPLES policy, which is really freaking lame. Had to delete dozens of posts to restore this blog, which is also really freaking lame. 

Moving on to things that aren’t lame! 

Putty Comix #4 is back in the works after a long hiatus. Unfortunately I can’t post anything from it here, but I will be posting a link to my Twitter, where my Twitter will link it to a website. I haven’t quite figured out whether I can get away with posting it on my own website or not. Y’know, kids these days have to deal with school shootings and COVID, but gods forbid they come across pornography. This will likely be the final entry in the series. When I first started, it seemed like this ambitious and grand experience as a beginning artist to experiment with, but years later I learned I can do so much more. We’ll have to see. I know I’m ready to conclude the series after four issues.

And speaking of learning to do more, I am currently working on an action platformer! You read that correctly. Midori the Drunken Warrior, my original character (which I admit, owes a lot to Po-Ju’s Goku from Secret Journey), is getting her own video game! I’d include pictures in this post, but evidently I forgot how to tumbl, so I’ll have to show you in another post. I’ve been designing sprites and other assets using Aseprite and importing those into Pixel Game Maker MV. I’ll also be making the music and audio files. I’ll also be directing and starring in it. Wait…no. I’m not Tommy Wiseau. I wish I had his hair though.

There’s a number of things I’ve been keeping busy with during these past few years. Recently I’ve went back to building models out of K’Nex and doing stencil graffiti art. I’ll post some of those. Really dig this miniature air compressor I got for like fifty bucks, but man…I need to get a respirator mask. And yes, I am still a dumbass who doesn’t read warning labels.

Let’s see if we can keep this Tumblr alive! Stay tuned!

The post in question, which I am responding to.

When faced with this “triggering of the Libs” phenomenon and its modus operandi to turn political discourse into a game of playground insults and strawman arguments, as an educated progressive I can respond to a particular petty and childish bit of yellow journalism with some much needed deconstruction—and derision, to boot—even though doing so is kind of beneath me. Then again, this was a post shared on Facebook and while I am good friends with people who are conservative, I will respond since I believe it is beneath my friends to engage in childish behavior, a la Trigger the Libs. My understanding of this “Trigger the Libs” approach is that it is an occupation for those who are secretly coming to grips that their worldviews are maintained and informed by unearned privilege and that is a discourse which serves nothing more than a meme for die-hard Trump supporters to pass around in the void of their respective echo chambers; these memes are devoid of effective and reasonable argumentation against the progressive ideas shared by liberals such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders. Ideas such as Medicare for all, single-payer tuition, a $15 minimum wage and an end to the War on Drugs are all examples of ideas that are popular with the American people and will have a major impact in the 2020 election. As they should be, for these are the policies shared by most developed nations. The aforementioned group is especially salty that these ideas are gaining traction, though they insist that liberals are still salty over the 2016 election. They still haven’t gotten over Hillary Clinton running for office (bUt HeR eMAiLs!!!) and they certainly haven’t gotten over AOC taking office (oh, please tell me again how she’s just a bartender and not qualified for office, despite having graduated cum laude with a BA in international relations and economics and having worked under Ted Kennedy! those are always my favorite of smears! they’re the saltiest of delights!), hence the constant smears on conservative media. They are in denial of an apparently inherent misogyny in the coverage of these two women, though their misogyny is best exemplified in the anti-abortion laws their constituents are passing across parts of this nation. Such laws have been decried and denounced for what they are really about, which is not about the life of the child (which they don’t give a damn about, since they routinely object to a progressive maternity leave and pay policy for the mother) but the control of the sexuality of women while simultaneously rejecting gun control laws on the basis of the 2nd Amendment and on the American principle of being able to protect oneself from tyranny, despite conveniently ignoring the other American principles of privacy and individual autonomy for the purposes of promoting their double standard of women. Though these laws force women to give birth as a means of enforcing responsibility for their having unprotected intercourse, men are given a free pass to have unprotected intercourse with no social or political repercussions; further, women can only carry one pregnancy to term per year (excluding premature births), while men can be responsible for an untold number of pregnancies, both wanted and unwanted. Men can have Viagra covered under insurance, but a woman cannot have birth control covered. Simultaneously, many men refuse to even wear a condom. Double standards. Plus, as a man myself, the thought of being forced to push out a child from my body is extremely unpleasant. C-sections are on the rise, since the heads of infants are so big and the birth canal is not big enough. Apparently, this is a problem that has been getting worse. I once looked up how a baby’s head is supposed to fit through the pelvis and it’s no wonder the woman is in such pain. To force a woman to go through that when she doesn’t have neither the desire nor the finances to support such a decision as a means of punishing her is simply a cruel and unusual punishment. I may be biased here, since I was actually wanted. My support of abortion rights is not clouded by a misguided sense of self-preservation that I project those who are anti-abortion must feel when they think of the possibility that they could have been aborted. I can only project, because I, too, was once against abortion and the following projection is something that had bothered me. Knowing that I was actually wanted and was in fact planned (much to my disgust, as the exact day and hour of my conception were revealed to me, which is too much information), I can put my mind at ease of feeling like my own mother would abort me if she could. By the way, if life at conception is supposedly sacred, is foreign life also sacred? How does that work out with us dropping bombs that inadvertently kill civilians? Is parasitic life sacred? Is only sentient, human life sacred? Honestly, I don’t see how the argument that “women have all the same rights as men” applies when men can’t give birth and wouldn’t be forced to give birth if it were possible but women are just expected to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term. 

I digress.

Note that the article is referring to a study that utilizes the ideas put forth by psychologist Hans Eysenck, who would object to The New York Post’s use of the contextually incorrect word “psychotic” as opposed to the contextually correct word “psychoticism.” I believe this to be evident of the rightwing-leaning bias of The York Post and an example of their tendency to use loaded language to reinforce their points. Scoring high in psychoticism, as The Cut correctly points out here: https://www.thecut.com/2016/07/why-it-took-social-science-years-to-correct-a-simple-error-about-psychoticism.html, means that one is more likely to disregard the rules. In the context of politics and the study in question, liberals are more likely to reject the establishment and thus they score high in psychoticism. And understanding the context of American establishment politics is understanding a history where land treaties with indigenous people were repeatedly violated, where slavery was law, where Jim Crowe laws were enforced—all of which the rightwing conservatism we know today seeks to conveniently forget as they enact policies that are merely fresh updates of these barbaric practices. Conservatism is not about individual choice and autonomy but about blind allegiance and subjugation (who seeks retribution for those who make the choice to kneel during the national anthem? who bemoaned and sought retribution against those who speak out against unjust wars, such as the Vietnam war and the Iraq war? who appropriates patriotism as an allegiance not to a nation and its people, but to a political party or a political position? who has the discussion of freedom of religion in the context of same sex marriage and baking cakes, but not the wearing of the hijab or the burqa? who accuses their opponents of being easily triggered, but is ironically triggered at the mere sight of a group of Muslims and insists such people are attempting to take over the country?) and the willful ignorance of the systemic oppression affecting vulnerable and marginalized groups (who is the first to decry fundamentalist Islamic terrorism but has yet to take white supremacist domestic terrorism seriously? who refuses to acknowledge the racism of police departments across the nation and the brutality those police engage in when they’re supposed to protect and serve? who refuses to acknowledge that while the party of Lincoln established voting rights for women, it continues to deny them today of the privacy and autonomy of their bodies? in fact, who refuses to acknowledge that the Democratic Party has evolved into the party of progress while the Republican has devolved, far from the vision of Lincoln who led a war to preserve the power of the federal government over the power of those states that were pro-slavery?). 

Of course, this is not something The New York post (or anyone who has shared this bit of biased drivel to “trigger the Libs”, for that matter) has clarified or will be willing to clarify. Fun fact: The New York Post is owned by Robert Murdoch, the same billionaire dipshit who owns Fox News. I keep saying it, but for all the rightwingers bemoaning of fake news, any right-leaning outlet is automatically the harbinger of truth to them. CNN covering the president’s incendiary tweets? Fake news. Info Wars talking about crisis actors in mass shootings and Pizzagate? Truth. BBC journalist calling out Ben Shapiro’s hypocrisy and generally just refusing to suck his pecker? FAKE NEWS. Some shitty meme about Somali immigrants and Sharia Law shared on Facebook? TRUTH. There’s an apparent lack of fact checking, understanding science, discerning fact from fiction, etc etc. And in the case of this particular article, it’s not meant to be informative. It’s not news. It’s not even fake news. It’s clickbait that aspires to be a meme. The decision to include a picture of a Bernie Sanders rally further cements this as an article whose purpose is not to inform, but to smear the other side as crazy and unrealistic and whatever nonsense. What’s with this picture, anyway? Bunch of people holding up signs that say, “A Future We Believe In.” What’s so objectionable about that? Also, some of them have their fists raised. Now, I know some people have a problem with that, since they associate that with Black Power, anti-white sentiment and white genocide (which is LOL-tastic and not a real thing). Oh, I forgot to ask who is the most likely to spread fear about a WHITE GENOCIDE. Hint: It is not Bernie Sanders. Are the raised fists the problem? Nevermind that Black Power was a statement the Black Panthers created in response to segregation, Jim Crowe laws and the drafting of black men into the Vietnam War to fight a war that was very much a white man’s war. Also, they’re not to be associated with the New Black Panther Party. Is anyone on the Right paying attention at all? Because if Black Power is racist because a few black people who said it hated white people, then I guess white people who say America First should be called out if they are white supremacists, right? That’s fair, right? Anyway, this photo looks like a good mix of people, both in terms of gender as well as race, having a good time and being enthusiastic about Bernie. As they should be! To me, the ideas of Bernie Sanders and AOC are not psychotic and those of us who support them are not inherently psychotic. There is indeed a plague of mental disease spreading throughout this country, but it is a product of the ignorance, callousness and paranoia that produces rightwing policies. Booyah.

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