Skip to content
  • Home Home Home, current page.
  • Moments Moments Moments, current page.

Saved searches

  • Remove
  • In this conversation
    Verified accountProtected Tweets @
Suggested users
  • Verified accountProtected Tweets @
  • Verified accountProtected Tweets @
  • Language: English
    • Bahasa Indonesia
    • Bahasa Melayu
    • Català
    • Čeština
    • Dansk
    • Deutsch
    • English UK
    • Español
    • Filipino
    • Français
    • Hrvatski
    • Italiano
    • Magyar
    • Nederlands
    • Norsk
    • Polski
    • Português
    • Română
    • Slovenčina
    • Suomi
    • Svenska
    • Tiếng Việt
    • Türkçe
    • Ελληνικά
    • Български език
    • Русский
    • Српски
    • Українська мова
    • עִבְרִית
    • العربية
    • فارسی
    • मराठी
    • हिन्दी
    • বাংলা
    • ગુજરાતી
    • தமிழ்
    • ಕನ್ನಡ
    • ภาษาไทย
    • 한국어
    • 日本語
    • 简体中文
    • 繁體中文
  • Have an account? Log in
    Have an account?
    · Forgot password?

    New to Twitter?
    Sign up
arthur_affect's profile
Arthur Chu
Arthur Chu
Arthur Chu
Verified account
@arthur_affect

Tweets

Arthur ChuVerified account

@arthur_affect

Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
arthur-chu.com
Joined August 2009

Tweets

  • © 2021 Twitter
  • About
  • Help Center
  • Terms
  • Privacy policy
  • Cookies
  • Ads info
Dismiss
Previous
Next

Go to a person's profile

Saved searches

  • Remove
  • In this conversation
    Verified accountProtected Tweets @
Suggested users
  • Verified accountProtected Tweets @
  • Verified accountProtected Tweets @

Promote this Tweet

Block

  • Tweet with a location

    You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more

    Your lists

    Create a new list


    Under 100 characters, optional

    Privacy

    Copy link to Tweet

    Embed this Tweet

    Embed this Video

    Add this Tweet to your website by copying the code below. Learn more

    Add this video to your website by copying the code below. Learn more

    Hmm, there was a problem reaching the server.

    By embedding Twitter content in your website or app, you are agreeing to the Twitter Developer Agreement and Developer Policy.

    Preview

    Why you're seeing this ad

    Log in to Twitter

    · Forgot password?
    Don't have an account? Sign up »

    Sign up for Twitter

    Not on Twitter? Sign up, tune into the things you care about, and get updates as they happen.

    Sign up
    Have an account? Log in »

    Two-way (sending and receiving) short codes:

    Country Code For customers of
    United States 40404 (any)
    Canada 21212 (any)
    United Kingdom 86444 Vodafone, Orange, 3, O2
    Brazil 40404 Nextel, TIM
    Haiti 40404 Digicel, Voila
    Ireland 51210 Vodafone, O2
    India 53000 Bharti Airtel, Videocon, Reliance
    Indonesia 89887 AXIS, 3, Telkomsel, Indosat, XL Axiata
    Italy 4880804 Wind
    3424486444 Vodafone
    » See SMS short codes for other countries

    Confirmation

     

    Welcome home!

    This timeline is where you’ll spend most of your time, getting instant updates about what matters to you.

    Tweets not working for you?

    Hover over the profile pic and click the Following button to unfollow any account.

    Say a lot with a little

    When you see a Tweet you love, tap the heart — it lets the person who wrote it know you shared the love.

    Spread the word

    The fastest way to share someone else’s Tweet with your followers is with a Retweet. Tap the icon to send it instantly.

    Join the conversation

    Add your thoughts about any Tweet with a Reply. Find a topic you’re passionate about, and jump right in.

    Learn the latest

    Get instant insight into what people are talking about now.

    Get more of what you love

    Follow more accounts to get instant updates about topics you care about.

    Find what's happening

    See the latest conversations about any topic instantly.

    Never miss a Moment

    Catch up instantly on the best stories happening as they unfold.

    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Apr 2020

      Option 3), I sell the house, move into an appropriately sized apartment, and put most of the profits from the sale into a stock market index fund, whose dividends pay my rent

      2 replies 1 retweet 18 likes
      Show this thread
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Apr 2020

      Here's my thing All three of these options involve me still owning capital, they're all different ways to be a capitalist The assertion there's a hard moral bright line between option 1) and the other two seems wrong to me

      9 replies 4 retweets 77 likes
      Show this thread
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Apr 2020

      They all involve taking some kind of unearned economic surplus that exists based on the fact that houses are a thing you can own in our capitalist system 3) isn't any less capitalist than 1), it just crowdsources the capitalism so you can't see it and have no control over it

      2 replies 0 retweets 45 likes
      Show this thread
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Apr 2020

      (It does so on both ends, because whatever I put my pile of cash other than giving it away I'm contributing to some kind of investment in private property And because even if I sell the house to a deserving family of five I have no control over them renting it out or selling it)

      2 replies 0 retweets 23 likes
      Show this thread
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Apr 2020

      And, like, holding up the people who do 2) as making the moral choice seems extremely perverse to me, that's the NIMBY outlook Again it's just deeply perverse to say that the landlord in situation 1) is wielding power over someone but 2) is "staying out of people's lives"

      2 replies 1 retweet 31 likes
      Show this thread
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Apr 2020

      As someone in the situation of desperately needing a place to live, I wouldn't think landlords were doing me any kind of favor, I'd obviously prefer to stay someplace for free, but on a brutal practical level anyone who picks 2 instead of 1 is fucking me over

      2 replies 0 retweets 33 likes
      Show this thread
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Apr 2020

      I feel like there's a form of discourse that says if you get your hands dirty you're always worse than someone who doesn't That you don't get to judge people who haven't "gotten involved" in a situation but once they "are involved" then you be to hold them to an ideal standard

      4 replies 2 retweets 45 likes
      Show this thread
    8. Some guy‏ @randonerd 23 Apr 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      It's the trolley problem.

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Apr 2020
      Replying to @randonerd

      Specifically one of the interesting things about asking people about the trolley problem is they have a HUGE unexamined bias over whether people are "already involved"

      1 reply 2 retweets 13 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Apr 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @randonerd

      Like if you tell people the version where there's five people on one track and one person on the other, you get a certain split of responses If you change it so that the one person is just chilling in their yard and the trolley has to go off the rails to kill them, it changes

      2 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Apr 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @randonerd

      People are way more willing to kill the one person if they're "already on the tracks" than if "they were never part of this situation and just got dragged into it", even though that makes no sense and is impossible to defend if you flat out say it like that

      6:20 AM - 23 Apr 2020
      • 6 Retweets
      • 11 Likes
      • Tinker Tanner Alice Schiggy Merletastic Eterlin Blue Jonathan Koomey 🦙Undercover Llama Baal Ska Tov ⚢⚧ Madison Konrad🖋️🌲⚔️🌌
      1 reply 6 retweets 11 likes
        1. New conversation
        2. Ryan McNeive‏ @VagrantAmateur 23 Apr 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          Wondering if this is akin to the reasoning that we use to throw disadvantaged people under the bus. (Or the trolley.) "Yeah it's sad my neighbor has PTSD but he's already screwed. By setting off these fireworks at least ONE of us will be happy."

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
        3. Ryan McNeive‏ @VagrantAmateur 23 Apr 2020
          Replying to @VagrantAmateur @arthur_affect

          And after the fireworks let's vote for Trump because "what have black people got to lose"? The net utility of the entire group is already zero: any additional suffering is meaningless.

          0 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
        4. End of conversation

      Loading seems to be taking a while.

      Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.

        Promoted Tweet

        false

        • © 2021 Twitter
        • About
        • Help Center
        • Terms
        • Privacy policy
        • Cookies
        • Ads info