Dragon Rider (drag)

Drag rides dragons and also “rides” dragons. drag/dragself person-independent pronouns. That means drag’s pronouns are the same in first, second, and third person.

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  • Drag has had a negative experience with the moderation on that community.

    So drag got banned due to a moderator misunderstanding a comment drag made on an entirely different community. Drag contacted the mods and cleared up the misunderstanding, and drag is no longer accused of encouraging suicide. However, there are now secret accusations against drag that the moderators won’t share and that aren’t in the modlog. Banning people for secret reasons and refusing to allow appeals is messed up.










  • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nzto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneNo Gods, No Rulers
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    we run into the issue of the world being sacrificed to intangible ideas, which is bad

    Oh, you don’t need religion for that. Most of the world already worships The Economy and would rather destroy all life on earth than hurt The Economy.

    This is certainly what I’m thinking of when someones wants me to accept even the existence of a god: that they defy the limits of the world and thus deserve attention

    Why though? There are so many counterexamples to both of those. Most western religions don’t say that gods defy the limits of the world in any way. Thor doesn’t defy the limits of the world when he summons lightning with Mjolnir, for example. In fact, Thor has to wear special bracers that protect him from the hammer’s power. Prometheus still has to follow the commands of his king even though he’s a god, and when he doesn’t, he gets chained up and eaten by vultures. Even Jesus needs to sacrifice himself on the cross in order to satisfy the Old Laws and get everyone into heaven. None of these gods exist outside the world, they’re all bound to its rules. It’s just that when you have a magic hammer, the rules are a little more permissive. Just like the rules for humans have been more permissive ever since humans figured out antibiotics and aircraft. The gods, in nearly all religions, are just powerful people or creatures. And often they’re not even powerful. Shinto has 8 million Kami. And while Kami aren’t exactly what most people think of when they say “god”, we’re talking about divine beings in general, right? Some Kami are just… the spirit of this one river here. The worst thing they can possibly do to you is give you turbulence when you cross the river in your boat. Or maybe make too much silt deposit in the soil on the banks of the river and spoil the farmland over a few generations. If your family has been farming that riverbank for generations, you should definitely cultivate a good relationship with the river god. Otherwise, it doesn’t matter. That Kami has no more power than Village Idiot Tetsu who accidentally dropped a bag of salt on your land while he was taking a shortcut back from the market. You should also be polite to Tetsu, because he’s your neighbour and it’s the right thing to do. Tetsu is just a guy and the river kami is also just a guy, who happens to be nonhuman.

    Drag forgot what drag’s point was.


  • In the original version of the script, the point wasn’t to use humans as batteries, it was to use them as processors. The Matrix runs on human brains, and all the leftover brainpower is used on real world problems the machines were dealing with. They turned humans into the computers.

    So, trying to overload the processing limits of the Matrix would just kill people. They’d drop dead from the mental strain. Best case scenario, you give everyone in the Matrix a hangover before the automatic safeties kick in.


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    Yes. Drag is also calling out the people who decided that voting for Harris is voting for genocide, but not voting at all means you get to be completely guilt free. Drag’s seeing a pretty heavy bias towards inaction there.

    Imagine if voting were compulsory, but there was a box on the ballot that says “I express no preference between the candidates and ask that my vote be counted as nil”. You wouldn’t hear the same rhetoric from people in a country where the decision is framed that way. Which is kind of the entire point of the textbook chapter drag is reading today; the framing of a choice influences people’s decisions.


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    Being a body-donor can’t benifit you

    This assumes that “you” are a pattern of neural impulses (or a soul) rather than a body. If you’re a body, then you getting to beat your heart in someone else’s chest is surely a benefit.

    Drag agrees that people are minds, not bodies. But it’s interesting to hear this logic from a country where so many people argue that a woman is a uterus, not an identity.


  • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nzto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneNo Gods, No Rulers
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    It sounds like you’re not an antitheist. You’re just an antheist - someone who thinks divinity and worship relationships are not inherently self justifying, and must instead justify themselves through good work. An antitheist opposes gods for being gods and wants them all disbelieved in. An antheist is suspicious of gods, but can be convinced to accept them if they’re good people.

    Drag recognises that the Patriarchy is a destructive and oppressive force built upon male supremacy, but drag doesn’t oppose the existence of men because of it. Drag has met plenty of good men. So drag takes the time to learn whether a man is sexist before judging him. Drag supports men who engage in healthy and positive masculinity. Drag supports good male role models like Bob Ross, Carl Sagan, and Tim Walz.

    Supporting good examples is just as important as opposing bad examples. Because you can’t generally change whether someone is a man, or whether they’re religious. But you can change how they engage with masculinity or worship.





  • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nzto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneNo Gods, No Rulers
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    Drag has a theory about why antitheists attack all gods, despite not having any logical arguments against gods like yours. Drag thinks it’s because they’re Christians. Cultural Christians. No belief in Jesus, but they still celebrate Christmas and Easter and think abortion and divorce are wrong and all the other Christian beliefs. Christians don’t believe in any god but Deus, and white antitheists agree. They believe in Deus enough to make counterarguments, but they don’t even dignify your god with that much respect. They’re doing a Christianity.