This was how Marx and Engels conceived of their “stateless” end goal — a massive bureaucracy that would govern every cog in every machine all across the communist world. A government by any reasonable definition and therefor completely and absolutely incompatible with anarchy.
How this new “administration of things” government would manage to be uniquely liberatory is anyone’s guess, as neither Marx nor Engels chose to elaborate in much detail on what they presented as their final solution to oppressive power relations beyond what I’ve described in this essay. As usual, the Marxist inability to grapple with oppressive hierarchical constructs that reach beyond the narrow boss/worker relationship shows that they’re not even on the same playing field as anarchists, who refuse to simply patch up the leaks in the system with used chewing gum and call it a day.
This absurd concept of an end-goal naturally led future Marxists like Lenin and Stalin to commit all manner of atrocities in the name of progressing to the mythic final stage of Marxism whereupon the bureaucrats somehow create world peace by governing the things people use and need to survive, rather than by governing the people themselves.
If it doesn’t make sense to you, you’re a lot more astute than the learned Marxist historians who try to affix themselves to anarchist discourse. They’ve fully embraced and internalized this supposed end goal and decided it’s not only a logical train of thought, but is the ideal anarchists ought to also strive for.
I'd forgotten about this, but when I was small, I was literally the child in this situation. I got attacked by a rooster, my dad shot it and we ate it.
Fuck. That's a weird memory. One of many early indoctrinations into speciesist thinking that it's taken me years and years to unlearn.
You've basically got it! Your complaints are shared entirely by hbomb. He also draws parallels to other terrible shows that had Moffatt as showrunner (the shittiest Doctor Who episodes and a terrible Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde show that everyone mercifully forgot about)
Ah fair enough! I'll skip NES Metroid then! (Thanks for saying it, I have a bad habit of wanting to always start with the first title in a series, even if that's a really bad idea)
Edit: I feel bad about how pissy my comment is. Ori (and soma) are my gaming sore spots, but I really need to let that go, because who gives a fuck? They're games I spent too much time with and still ended up hating, but other people like them and that's fine, I don't have to be an asshole every time either one is brought up, I know I like games that other people hate, that comes with being humans with different tastes and life experiences
There is no world where Ori is better than Hollow Knight. I despised Ori and the Blind Forest. I hated its story, I hated its movement (I probably could have gotten used to that), I hated its combat (apparently even Ori likers agree that combat is bad), I hated its art style, I hated its map, I hated how checkpoints and healing worked, I hated everything about it. There is nothing good about Ori and the Blind Forest in my mind, and I'm still grumpy, years later, that I spent so much of my time trying to like it.
I think it's possible I actually don't like metroidvanias, I just like whatever the fuck Hollow Knight is. True, I've never played a Castlevania or Metroid game, so I can't really say until I do so, but if you, a person who likes metroidvanias, think that Ori and the Blind Forest was a better metroidvania than Hollow Knight, then yeah, I'm not sure I like metroidvanias.
Oh god, just got a haircut. It's a mullet. I like it a lot, but I'm not sure I can pull it off. I may have to go back next week, tail between my legs, and be like "no, I'm sorry, I can't do it, I'm much too boring for this super rad haircut, please boring me up please".
Yeah, I already know you and your brother think intersex people are deformed and should be forced to undergo (entirely unnecessary, usually very invasive) "treatments" to better conform to your ideals. I'm saying that's a fucking bigoted point of view and you and your brother should change your opinions of intersex people.
Please either engage with the arguments in my first comment in this thread or stop commenting. Repeating some variation of "there are two sexes and everyone who can't be easily classified as one or the other is deformed and should be ignored" is just not good enough. And that seems to be all you and your brother are capable of doing.
What I've been saying is simply that the statement "mammals have two sexes" is over simplified to the point of being wrong! Not only that, but this incorrect idea, that every human can be easily classified as belonging to one of two distinct, unchangeable sexes has tangible negative effects on real people. I probably should have called Kirby intersex-phobic rather than transphobic, as that's more accurate, but I stand by saying he has some bigoted ideas and needs to do some self-reflection.
I want to agree with you, but I just can't call Captain Aubrey "stern". The guy is camp as fuck, the very first time we meet him he's annoying everyone around him by being too exuberant in his enjoyment of classical music. Those books are, first and foremost, a rollicking good time. Sure, they're about war, but Aubrey is just such a silly billy, there's a ton of humor in them, "stern" just isn't the descriptor I'd use
I'm happy to keep talking to you, to help you understand how you're wrong here, but you're going to have to do some work too, because I can explain until I'm blue in the face, but if you're not listening, then all the explanation in the world won't help.
You need to start by rereading my first comment in the thread, the long one, and actually trying to understand what I'm saying, rather than brushing it all off. If you believe I'm "denying reality", you need to point to specific claims in that comment and tell me why you think they're false. Just repeating some version of "sex is straightforward, there are two of them, and people who can't be easily classified as one of the two are deformed and should be ignored" is absolutely not good enough.
Yeah, that's definitely better than the recursive backronym. It's still not good though! Apparently the PHP people just aren't great at naming their language, many such cases!
You're claiming the following is not sectarian: