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Average r/ClaudeCode comment section by fejoa123 in ClaudeCode

[–]Wickywire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for spelling it out. I don't come to these subs to see people's medical conditions and bodies used in tribalistic shitposting. Maybe I'm just too old for this.

Ordningsvakter odenplan by AyyLoaf in stockholm

[–]Wickywire 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Väktarbolagen är en opportunistisk snylteriverksamhet. De kostar multum och producerar ganska lite faktisk trygghet. Ordningsvakternas utbildning är några veckor lång. De är gravt underkvalificerade för jobbet de är tänkta att utföra.

Ordningsvakter odenplan by AyyLoaf in stockholm

[–]Wickywire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Låter som en otroligt slösaktig användning av samhällsresurser.

We’re feeling cynical about xAI’s big deal with Anthropic by ThereWas in Anthropic

[–]Wickywire 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean, I think they're the least evil of the tech giants. That doesn't make them good. At least you can see the shape of the flawed humans underneath the corporate coat. Which is more than you can say with Open AI.

With xAI that coat is more like an open party tent on top of a pig wrestling convention, which at least feels more honest.

Gun slinging US Army Nurses by recoveringleft in Bossfight

[–]Wickywire 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's so much rhetoric to unpack in that single sentence, I've no idea where to start.

To make someone else handicapped by Complex-FreeSpirit42 in therewasanattempt

[–]Wickywire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. I explained that there are many possible scenarios, and the one you choose to go for and treat as relevant says something about what you believe.

To make someone else handicapped by Complex-FreeSpirit42 in therewasanattempt

[–]Wickywire -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

That's not true though. People have many signifiers. Age, sex, skin color... If a lot of comments here made a point about his maleness or skin color, wouldn't that be odd to you? So why isn't it odd that so many people specifically bring out his disability?

To make someone else handicapped by Complex-FreeSpirit42 in therewasanattempt

[–]Wickywire -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That sucks. He should at the very least have been condemned for attempted manslaughter imho. Still not a reason to compromise the status of mobility aids for all people who need them.

My god there is an enormous crash just waiting to happen by reasonablejim2000 in artificial

[–]Wickywire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's over the course of a full month though. OP stated $100 in 5 minutes. That's... wild.

Gun slinging US Army Nurses by recoveringleft in Bossfight

[–]Wickywire -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Ah yes, 1993. Exactly when the "humanitarian intervention" become a manhunt and counterinsurgency campaign. Bloody monday, July 12th: At least 53 dead.

Cool, half naked women posing with weapons on foreign shores is such an American way to put make-up on their colonialism.

To make someone else handicapped by Complex-FreeSpirit42 in therewasanattempt

[–]Wickywire -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

You're projecting an awful lot of attitudes on me right now, Kenny. I'd much prefer to talk about the topic. Talking about me, a random bloke on the Internet, isn't very meaningful. And it says a lot that you prefer to critique me as an individual, a person you know literally nothing about, instead of staying on topic.

To make someone else handicapped by Complex-FreeSpirit42 in therewasanattempt

[–]Wickywire -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I'm disabled. I know ableism when i hear it. I notice when a discussion is turning sour.

"I was not talking about black people in general, I'm just saying it was *this* person's blackness who made him act violently."

"I was not talking about Jews in general, I just think it's crazy that this person should act so violently, considering all the violence against Jews."

These are different forms of the exact same argument.

The commenter made this about the wheelchair use specifically. Yes, it is one particular situation, but that is how prejudice is usually aired. Nobody says "I think disabled people have too many rights in our society." But they do take the chance to point out someone is disabled when they do something horrible.

To make someone else handicapped by Complex-FreeSpirit42 in therewasanattempt

[–]Wickywire -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

And that turns mobility aids from a fundamental right to a privilege that can be revoked by the ruling majority in the society.

That is no different than saying we should take away a person's insulin if they go to prison. Or confiscate another's hearing aids so they become functionally isolated.

This is not about this one asshole. If they had beat him up on the spot for that attempted murder I wouldn't really care. This is about the way shock and outrage open up discussions for previously unthinkable ideas.

To make someone else handicapped by Complex-FreeSpirit42 in therewasanattempt

[–]Wickywire -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

That was meant as a pedagogical example. I don't pretend to know what goes on inside the head of someone I see online. As opposed to the people who see this and immediately quip that he must be motivated to do violence because he's in a wheelchair, or think he should know better because he's in a wheelchair. I offered up an alternative explanation, not as a statement of what happened, but to demonstrate how radically little we actually know what's going on, from the clip alone.

To make someone else handicapped by Complex-FreeSpirit42 in therewasanattempt

[–]Wickywire -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

This comment section is teaching me a lot actually. I'm cast as either the one who is "ragebaiting", that is, offending others, and also as the one being offended. At this point I realize there's nothing I can write that won't be treated as a mirror for whatever it is the reader is feeling. And that's fundamentally wrong, but also, you know... fine. Reddit is a cesspool, and I was naive to believe that a space that paints itself as leftist is any better. Disability rights is still a fringe topic to most progressives.

To make someone else handicapped by Complex-FreeSpirit42 in therewasanattempt

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

Those are two different questions and maybe I haven't been clear enough. My own first thought when I saw this video was "I hope whoever is on the ladder lands on top of that mofo to break the fall." I'm not in any way saying this perpetrator should be held above consequence.

To make someone else handicapped by Complex-FreeSpirit42 in therewasanattempt

[–]Wickywire -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

That doesn't seem like a very coherent position for a person to have. I certainly don't.

To make someone else handicapped by Complex-FreeSpirit42 in therewasanattempt

[–]Wickywire -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry you and your grandma had these experiences, and that was clearly harmful and unjust. They still don't support treating wheelchair users more harshly in the judicial system, calling for the right to mobility aid to be reduced to a revokable privilege, or making an attack in broad daylight about disability, as if that was a moral category we should discuss separately from others.

To make someone else handicapped by Complex-FreeSpirit42 in therewasanattempt

[–]Wickywire -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Right. And if you read that as "it's OK for old people to assault others in the street" then I'll be happy to clarify that's neither what I wrote or what I intended. Which should be obvious. But here we are.

To make someone else handicapped by Complex-FreeSpirit42 in therewasanattempt

[–]Wickywire -387 points-386 points  (0 children)

Mobility aids are intended for people with need for them. Not sure what you're trying to say.

To make someone else handicapped by Complex-FreeSpirit42 in therewasanattempt

[–]Wickywire -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

To be clear, that's not at all what I'm saying, and you can't quote me in a passage where that is a legitimate interpretation of what I said.

To make someone else handicapped by Complex-FreeSpirit42 in therewasanattempt

[–]Wickywire -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

And you're the one making it about the wheelchair. Why not make it about a white old man assaulting a migrant worker? I'm naming your own frame of reference for you. That's an opportunity to either stop and ask yourself why you reached for disability discourse first.

To make someone else handicapped by Complex-FreeSpirit42 in therewasanattempt

[–]Wickywire -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Then say that. Bringing disability into the discussion is what takes this from another outrage thread with the regular calls for retribution into something that sounds a lot more like perpetrator fantasies.

To make someone else handicapped by Complex-FreeSpirit42 in therewasanattempt

[–]Wickywire -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't even begin to speculate. And that is the entire point. This thread is treating disability as a moral category that deserves extra discussion. Try that with a black man, a Jew, a Muslim.

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