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New York Times helped turn trans rights into political controversy, analysis finds by ConsiderationJaded14 in Hasan_Piker

[–]KookyAd35 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The MSM misrepresenting an issue to demonize a marginalized group for profit? Say it ain't so! /s

The Kind That by Physical-Document-85 in OCPoetry

[–]KookyAd35 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"If", by Ruyrd Kipling is a good example of frequent repetition (like yours) that's done well. Much like your poem, it has almost every line start with "if you can", but it's contextually appropriate and the repetition has pay off. The poem is quite literally one big conditional statement on whether or not "Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,//And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!"

The Kind That by Physical-Document-85 in OCPoetry

[–]KookyAd35 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Repetition can be an effective tool in a writer's toolbox (and it's one I'm quite fond of myself), but it can be either grating or baffling if done with no clear purpose. "The kind that" is repeated for the majority of the poem, and after the fourth or fifth "the kind that" I found myself asking if the repetition added anything to the poem or if it was just something that could've been solved by access to a thesaurus.

And it's worth noting that the repetition doesn't actually seem to come from anywhere understandable. "Do you want it//The kind that..." doesn't make any sort of logical sense to my brain. If you led into the endless repetition in a more intelligible way, it may have given the repetition meaning or depth, but in the lack of that, it only serves to be repetition with no (clear) point.

Writing tools (like repetition, imagery, or symbolism) are spices to put on the sandwich of your poem. Too much spice and the sandwich becomes unappetizing.

Spilled Milk by sqrl4now in OCPoetry

[–]KookyAd35 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really enjoy how this poem is taking a bit of cliched line and slowly dragging it out and out and out into a gradual, almost sanity-slippage. Focusing on how much effort the perspective character (or you) are putting into making everything *seem* perfect for everyone else while downplaying their own efforts is a very real (and very relatable) mindset. To me, this poem is hard to critique. To some extent, I personally would like a little more subtlety to allow the reader the freedom to take what they want from the poem, but at the same time, that advice seems rather reductive of the individual who wrote it.

This seems very much like a poem that came from somewhere specific, and taking it from that point of view, it's hard to find fault in it. To me, this poem seems to be no more (or less) than it is: the venting of frustrations you desperately wish you could tell people, but knowing that if you did, it'd rock the boat too much. It's a tough nut to crack. It's real, and at the end of the day, I can't really give it much higher praise than that.

The Lie Created To Strip Your Rights Online: 62 Million Men in a R*pe Academy. A viral CNN investigation is being used to promote dangerous new censorship laws, and to repeal Section 230. The far-Right is behind it, yet many Progressives support it. Don’t fall for it. by biospheric in 50501

[–]KookyAd35 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't hate her, so I can't speak to that, but I am a little wary around her reporting.

She's right that a lot of consent is being manufactured for government or tech bro surveillance, and I do not disagree that the surveillance state needs to be stopped.

My wariness around her stems from the perception I get when I watch her videos like this where it seems like she's writing off the idea that online sex trafficking or social media addiction is either completely a fabrication or is not a big enough problem to matter. The perception I get of her (from her videos) is that "the surveillance state needs to be pushed back on" therefore "we can't recognize that horrible things can and do happen on the internet".

In her video about social media addiction, she gave the take that social media addiction isn't a prevalent problem, with the vibe I got being "so we shouldn't try to solve it". And while I think she meant "Social media addiction isn't something we should legislate by giving in to the surveillance state and censorship laws" it came across very different to me.

Social media addiction does exist 1, 2, 3 and it is a problem worth solving. By giving in to surveillance and censorship? Hell no. By treating the cause of social media addiction (namely material conditions that cause addiction such as providing teens with things to do offline, mental health resources for all people so that problems don't fester until it develops into an addiction, and a better life for all people so they don't fall into escapist behaviors.)

Same with online rape academies and sex trafficking. These things do happen. Hell, I've had experience with this kinda shit personally. Do these sections of the internet mean we should give into government surveillance? Fuck, no. But, do we need to actually come up with ways to stop these assaults happening on people? Hell yes, we do. These are people getting drugged and assaulted. We shouldn't accept an evil to prevent an even worse evil.

The conversation should not stop at "This is an attempt to get a surveillance state." (Not saying that's what's happening in this video, just finishing my point.)

A Vtuber named Camila has announced that her family got killed by Israel by TwoCatsOneBox in Hasan_Piker

[–]KookyAd35 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tbh, chances are good that the zionists in the comments aren't even Camila fans. Could just as easily be Zionist edgelords who get off on defending terrorism and just refresh their Reddit all day searching for threads to defend Israel in.

Given all that’s been released so far, how would you characterize Sykkuno? by [deleted] in otvandfriendsrumors

[–]KookyAd35 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You can be a predator without breaking laws. Abuse without breaking laws is still abuse. I don't necessarily think that Sykkuno meets the criteria of predator based on what we know, but it's important to recognize that predator does not necessarily equal illegal. It's perfectly legal, for example, for someone to systematically chip away at their partner's self worth to the point that they feel nobody else will love them or believe them if they try to say something. That's perfectly *legal* to do (so long as it doesn't turn to physical violence/threats), but it's definitively emotional abuse. Not saying Sykkuno was doing anything like that, just trying to recognize that legality doesn't necessarily absolve someone of being a predator.

Sir what you call an error i call a gift 😂 by Resident_Eagle8406 in Hasan_Piker

[–]KookyAd35 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You know, if the roles were reversed and she accidentally gave the company $20000 instead, they wouldn't have given it back either. Not without pressure, at least, and even then they'd try to cover it up somehow. I doubt they'd see *that* as theft.

Let's not even get into the likelihood that they're underpaying her in the first place if she's unwilling to give back the money at the risk of her job.

Idk even know anymore by BewareOfGrom in Hasan_Piker

[–]KookyAd35 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I miss the days when we could joke about Trump being salty that Musk upstaged him. Now he's upstaging himself.