Okay except that Rob Zombie is cool as fuck and Momoa groped a kid in public, on video.

You can't judge the effectiveness of any action only by its immediate measurable effects. The working class of the US is in a long period of finding their courage and strength and solidarity after decades of propaganda hid it from them. Every peaceful protest encourages bigger peaceful protests and they encourage more disruptive protests. Every protest that gets tear gassed all to hell by the police pisses people off more and encourages more and bigger and even more disruptive protests.

I hate how slow this is all going too and I have been ready for and advocating for direct action for a long fucking time now. I have taken direct action when the scale is small enough that I can do it alone. It takes time to rouse a population and it is embarrassing to our country that it's taking so long but it is absolute bullshit to say that what we've done has been 'nothing effective'. Class consciousness is higher than I've ever seen it in my lifetime and it's only growing. The amount of people ready for direct action and the amount of groups organizing is greater than I have ever seen it. That's all progress. It's happening. Instead of being a doomer go out and organize and you'll see what is growing.

still kicking, and will continue to kick. I will live and kick the shit out of the cruelty in this world for as long as my body persists and the world will be marginally less cruel to those who come after because of it.

Rape is in a different category from those other crimes. So is child abuse and torture. The perpetrators of these crimes need for their victim's lives to have value so they can enjoy destroying that value. The victims are weak, vulnerable, innocent and the perpetrator needs them that way for the crime to satisfy them.

The cops in GTA are neither innocent nor weak nor vulnerable. When you hurt civilians their pain isn't the point, they just happened to be in the way of your quest marker. It's not about cruelty.

Imagine if someone made a game where you just rape and kill kids and torture animals. Would that seem equivalent to GTA or would it seem like some fucked up serial killer shit?

Something made to be read isn't going to be as good listened too, especially by something automated. Anyway, there are billions of us and I'm sure there are enough creators to make articles for you to read and videos for OP to listen to while doing whatever. It's not a zero sum game.

Checks on power work only work by the coercion of other power. Given that power and coercion are thus unavoidable threats it's reasonable to diffuse power as widely as possible so that no one person or organization gains a monopoly on it. The threat of abuse of power remains but the threat of overwhelming power and overwhelming abuse are substantially lessened when all work collectively to ensure than none can gain it.

Any system that depends on one person or organization wielding a large amount of power to do good is immediately subverted as soon as they choose evil, and given all that power the benefits they stand to gain from being evil are very tempting.

Right? If it were a poor person they'd have zero qualms about putting them in jail while sorting it all out too. There is nothing that can disguise that our 'justice' system exists almost entirely to suppress the poor and enable the rich.

Let them be tired then.

Missing context: Humans have the best health outcomes on a plant based diet and it takes nearly 10 times more water to get an equivalent amount of calories out of animal sources compared to plants.

You should care about environmental costs in general, not just when it's a convenient data point for hating on AI. I mean, you should hate on generative AI, it's garbage, but don't stop there. Animal agriculture is an environmental disaster of outlandish proportions and it's easy (with a tiny bit of education) to eat plants instead of animals and stop being a part of the problem.

It would be hypocritical to advocate against AI but also give them your money 3 times a day, wouldn't it?

...a nursing home in a prison.

The pride bit isn't about being queer full stop, it's about having the courage to be openly queer in a society that might try to kill you for it. It's about reversing the shame they attempt to force on us.