and while we’re at it, fuck this idea that ONE ACCOUNT has to belong uniquely to ONE PERSON. This is the same thing these silicon valley fucks want; their vision of the future where everyone has a unique biometric ID code implanted in their body is the ultimate extension of Netflix’s “no password sharing” policy. You want to use your friend’s car? Sorry, you can’t, you need to be an authorized user. Your mother wants to let you look something up on her OED account? Too bad! That’s only for her! The concept of perfect market efficiency gives them greedy little money bag eyes.
If I pay money to have a newspaper sent to my house, they don’t charge me extra when I show it to my dad. This password sharing thing isn’t just a Netflix problem; don’t be surprised if it shows up elsewhere in other forms. Stamp this idea out now or we’ll be stuck with it.
In case anyone was wondering, based on latest available data:
These companies are built on stealing the surplus abor value created by millions of low-wage employees, then using that stolen value to buy back stocks and compensate CEOs.
They could easily pay their employees higher wages. They earned it.
The Irish author Aidan Comerford has written an interesting comment on JK Rowling’s journey from supporting same sex marriage in Ireland to welcoming both homophobic and transphobic bigots online.
“Gender critical radical feminists” (GC) AKA “trans-exclusionary radical feminists” (TERFs) are the transphobes of the left.
I speak to ex-gender critical people a lot (my DMs are open for that reason), and a lot of them were Leftists who cheered for Marriage Equality too, who found that as gender critical people they were expected to ally with people who they would have fought all their lives.
One ex-gender critical person describes how her eldest was upset with her for years, him telling her she had raised him not to speak like that about LGBT+ people, and she only understood why he was so upset when she heard her youngest repeat things she said about trans people.
Gender criticism, under the guise of women’s and LGB rights, actually radicalises people away from supporting women’s and LGB rights, and gets them using the language of the Alt Right, “Groomers” “Paedophile Enablers” “Perverts”, all the same words I heard people who were opposed to Marriage Equality use [in Ireland] in 2015. And I remember the same people calling us “ghouls” and “murderers” in 2018, during Repeal [a referendum legalizing abortion in Ireland].
What “gender criticism” is at its heart is an incredibly successful campaign by the Right Wing to get vulnerable Leftists (women who have experienced abuse are especially vulnerable) to abandon their former implacable support of LGBT+ & women’s rights &, instead, stand with those who want those rights rolled back.
After losing out on Marriage Equality, the Right decided to use the T to drive a wedge into LGBT+ (and women’s rights) support, so now you have former Leftists shouting that Stonewall UK are a “pro-paedohpile” organisation, something only the Right were saying in 2015.
So now, when they introduce their “Don’t Say Gay” bills, you have (former) Leftists who would have cheered for Irish Marriage Equality in 2015, trying to argue FOR these sort of bills, something they never would have dreamed of back in the day.
That is radicalisation…
