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The body you really want

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I also have a lot of respect for the FFF, but I think there's a faster way. The FFF is focusing on physical technologies. I think we need more mental technologies. Technologies built out of ideas, which work on our minds to change our perceptions. Technologies which can let us feel our preferred bodies, and perceive others' preferred bodies.

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im just posting a meme all hypothetical.

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You mean theseistic. Narcissism is self-destructive self-love. Theseism is abusive hubris and vanity.

See, Narcissus was a 16 year old kid who wanted to stay unmarried and go hunting alone in the woods. But everyone else wanted to marry him. Ameinias sexually harassed him, and Narcissus told him to fuck off and kys. Nemesis didn't like that, so she made Narcissus fall in love with his reflection and die. So narcissism is the kind of self-love that hurts you and gets you killed.

Theseus was a famous "hero" who slew the minotaur with the help of a woman who loved him, then abandoned her on a random island and left her for dead. Then he kidnapped 12 year old Helen of Troy with the plan to force her to marry him, so that he would be even more famous for marrying a daughter of Zeus. So theseism is the kind of hubris that makes you abuse others for personal gain.

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I ❤️ agreeing with the people with authority over me

Antirealist here. The Epstein class are rewriting reality and telling us what's objectively true. We can resist them passively, by seeking an objective truth rooted in science. An objective theory of gender, of race, of economics, of perception... Or we can embrace subjectivity, and rewrite our perceptions to align with our empathy and sense of justice. We can make up our own genders, our own perceptions. We can take magic back from the rich.

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Zionist rule

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I'm a linguistic prescriptivist. I think there are ways to use words which are deeply irresponsible and damaging to society. For example, some people use the word "man", to mean "Person with XY chromosomes, a penis, low estrogen, and/or high testosterone", which leads to nonsense phrases like "biological man". I think using the word "man" like that is inherently harmful and should not be tolerated in conversations; action should immediately be taken to correct the person who misused the word.

So like, sometimes it's just a matter of people not understanding each other. But sometimes people perfectly understand what's intended and still disagree with the words used to express it. Like, in the comic, I would tell Lester "Zionist also means an Israel supporter and you're going to trigger Palestinians and implicitly lend support to Netanyahu, so please don't use Zionist that way."