Except you did when you said that “any engagement, even non-commercial, has the effect of promoting the brand.”

That is assigning blame onto the consumer, as you blame them for the effect of their action. Her brand is being promoted regardless, because the industry that is “advertising” exists. Additionally, the effect from people consuming her media is negligible, as even if you boycott and spend that money elsewhere it is still just being funneled to some other bigoted owning class fat-cat doing the same shit because that is how the system is designed. It just means that she, specifically, won’t be getting the money, while just denying yourself something that you wanted, assuming you actually liked the franchise to begin with.

So the best thing to do is encourage people to find ways to bypass these systemic barriers without needing to sacrifice their own desires so that the system which enables these bigots loses its power to restrict our access to the things we need and desire unless we enable them.

This is why we should just wholesale abandon the concept of intellectual property, which is simply an extension of the exploitative private property system.

This just ends up with the argument of “there is no ethical consumption under capitalism”

People are gonna do what they can to stay sane and engage with the things they find enjoyable. Unfortunately, literally everything in some way shape or form contributes to the oppression of minorities, LGBT+, workers, etc… through the fact that those producing these things have to engage in an exploitative system in order to maintain any sort of business.

That’s just the society we live in. So don’t blame people for being human, blame the system for exploiting our humanity and encourage the individual to find ways to bypass it, such as pirating media.

This makes zero sense to me. It’s all just cloth. The person in a g-string & harness is, literally, less exposed. You’re conflating the context of “being exposed” and “adds to the exposure”. Those two phrases mean different things. The first is referencing how much skin is visible while the second is referring to how noticable and attention-grabbing the individual is. You would be arguing an entirely irrelevant point to what was being discussed in your own hypothetical

Clothing being “suggestive” is entirely a subjective concept. What is “suggestive” to you might just be something the other person finds comfortable. It is also the same general logic behind “look at what she is wearing, she was asking for it” and I find that really problematic.

The underwear example is also just dumb to me. It’s just cloth. It isn’t “meant to not be seen”, it’s just there to avoid regular clothes chafing sensitive areas of the body. It being seen is irrelevant and simply a coincidence of being worn under other articles of clothing. There are no inherent, underlying implications except for what you put on them through your own bias.

This just reaffirms for me that people like to add arbitrary, subjective aspects to things and then try to assert these as intrinsic facts instead of personal biases.

Yea, not anymore considering they dropped the gag at the end of S5 and they are now beginning their 27th.

Ugh, I hated the shoehorning of Butters into the group dynamics during Kenny’s absence. Rubbed a lot of fans wrong to the point the backlash forced writers to change the ending of that season and bring Kenny back.

I too wish they would have kept the joke going. Or at least occasionally make reference to it now and then.

Remember that episode where Kenny finally dies “for good” and subsequently disappears for an entire season?

Oh I got a 7 day ban. Three times cause I don’t know when to quit.

And yea I fucking hate. It’s cause, technically, property damage is “violent” by the definition. Yet, it’s fucking stupid to equivocate damage to inanimate object to damage to a living being.

Was pro Palestine and critical of Israel, so they tried saying I was “promoting hate”.

I was also telling people that we are going to have to start going outside the bounds of what is allowed by the current authority structures if we are going to have a chance at fighting for change; reminding people that the original labor movement worked because people stopped giving a shit about what the rule of law said was the “appropriate way to challenge the system” and instead occupied factories and local government offices for days on end to prevent them from doing anything other than listening to demands, the teamsters continued to make deliveries yet stopped accepting payment and tore up waybills to fuck the company over without allowing them to restrict access to goods, yadda yadda, etc…

So yea… Towards the end I was kinda giving up on subtlety and skirting the rules. Got my three strikes and was booted.

Permabanned from reddit and don’t feel like going through the hassle of bypassing it. I still browse every now and then for niche content that just doesn’t exist on Lemmy but otherwise I’m on here exclusively.

Your scale is off. Religions and cults are the same thing. The only difference is how accepting society is of them. There is no third option.

That would actually be bed bugs who solely reproduce through traumatic insemination, where they literally have knives for dicks and just repeatedly stab the female to nut in their body cavity.

Nature uh … Finds a way …

It is truly depressing to remember the vast majority of people, in the US at least, are only about as smart as a 6th grader.