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@Haste I've run into a small handful of reporters and journalists who've done that, along with a few other content creators who... don't really engage with folks but are here to just drop self-promo and that's that.

I don't really mind certain kinds of self-promo (e.g., "I wrote a thing!" or "I made a thing!"), especially when it's nested within genuine interaction or other interesting posts (even if it's shitposting with another person). I love seeing people drop their art (whatever it is) or writing, and it's given me a lot of cool and new perspectives I haven't otherwise found.

But I think if more journalists and reporters actually engaged with people, it might alleviate (not solve) the issue of how a bunch of 'em forgot who they claim they write for and inform. It might even get a few to stop doing disinformation or strong one-sided perspectives of news stories (e.g., when all of their info for a story comes primarily from cops or corporate mouthpieces without further looking into it).

@accentedcinema I don't know why, but that giant hand is just... I cannot imagine a martial arts movie where someone gets walloped with a massive hand. (Also, why does it look vaguely like a spaghetti western?)

@mynameistillian Hard agree. I've also got my own story about a practicum supervisor who failed me for lodging a complaint about his behaviour towards students and me when I was doing my teaching degree. Which also means I have a story about a university who allowed it despite the complaint that was lodged.

@shimon Judith Suissa can take her TERF shit and fuck off forever. And anyone still referencing her despite years of her TERF bullshit can also leave me alone. Non-negotiable.

Your 'gotcha' points aren't going to end the problems of the world, and you've gotta quit this shit.

Tangentially, I'm also tired of the whole "The fascists have taken the wrong lesson from dystopian fiction!" people. For the love of all of our mental healths, THEY DO NOT CARE.

It's aesthetics to them. They do not give a single solitary shit that they don't understand the themes and morals of dystopian novels. Hell, we know they don't understand what they read; Elon Musk made a great display of entirely misunderstanding the point of Hitchhiker's Guide. He doesn't care that he doesn't know what it means; to him, it means what he says it means. It means what he forces it to mean.

That is how he sees it.

That is also not an education problem. That is a problem of how self-interested fascists (same thing) behave and believe the world to work. No amount of education is going to fix that.

The people who constantly say things like "We need education" in response to problems of the world make me want to stab someone. Probably them.

My dude, look at the fucking people running the planet. How educated are they? Very. They have gone through a number of "prestigious" schools and programs. What the fuck are they doing?

Please, stop just going WE NEED EDUCATION to every problem. No, we don't. We know shit's wrong, and we're still not giving a shit. This is not an education problem.