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  • i'm not trying to say that his words were particularly well-reasoned or even well-delivered. i was just commenting on it being interesting how the imagination of really detached people has shifted. i agree with you entirely on the actual implications of his choice of words.

  • We shouldn't infantilise men to the point of lowering the bar to who would even be able to do basic social labor.

    well sure, i think they could learn, and obviously rosa's political work was no less valuable than theirs. but the question was, which theorist would make the best roommate. and the differences in practical knowledge reproduction in europe between men and women at the time would have certainly rendered an amount of immediate (but correctable) helplessness from men that were used to all domestic labor falling under "women's work."

  • If the whole world showed up on Putin’s doorstep or the Iranians’ doorstep or in Washington, they’d kill 500 or 50 million or however [many], but the rest of us would survive with a new [world].”

    just borrowed that from tocopherol's quotation a bit further down the thread.

  • i think it's kind of wild he put such a large number on the cost of said revolution. usually these sorts of pronouncements are very far away from considering the human toll that revolution will bring. interesting times.

  • not even calling an individual a zionist pig, but calling zionists in general that were all for the government making secret databases of pro-Palestine protestors that are now being used to track anti ICE protestors "rabid ultra-zionist pigs." he made jonathan greenblatt feel bad while talking about the nazi name-gathering effort, and we all know that's much more important than rights or brown people. that's why it's fine when their other large political streamers use slurs constantly and talk about all the ethnic and gender minorities they hate.

  • the only way i'll be able to acquire a home is the "dead parents/grandparents with a house" lottery. and that's only because the price of homes where i'm from, a podunk commuter town that is near one of the cheaper large cities to live in in the u.s., have launched through the fucking roof. in the early 90's, my parents bought their house for $50,000. the house across the street from them sold a year or two ago for like $250,000. this shit isn't going to end well in the end.

  • i'm not sure any of these men would know how to wash their own dishes to be honest. therefore, by process of elimination, rosa luxembourg is probably the only option.

  • yeah, totally sovereign move to do that, totally

    i would love to visit Cuba to meet Cuban people and eat Cuban food. i don't know what trade between china and cuba is like, but i'm going to assume that china is wary of repeating the amerikkkan crisis over missiles near cuba.

  • Ok, we're on the same page. Fair enough purpleworm. I'm with you entirely, don't worry about it.

  • Exactly, classic amerikkkan "freedom of speech" brain worms.

  • You have that guy, his name is Hasan.

  • Misogyny is an incredibly powerful drug for men.

  • Still pretty reactionary but at least this one is watchable unlike the previous China bad video that Taylor did. This one at least is "China better than u.s."

  • no, i'm already with you on what it takes to genuinely dissuade someone from reactionary beliefs and insecurities. i'm more focused on getting people to be willing to engage at all. what's required of them in what you laid out about how to help these people work through their reactionary beliefs is emotional vulnerability and honesty. i have no idea how to prompt this out of them, and it seems to me that we live in times where people feel less and less able to actually genuinely socially connect in a way that builds up more resilient and well-developed humans. and that's online and in person. maybe my sample just sucks though, y'know?

  • this take is obviously reactionary, but it does give me a question to pose.

    how do we work with people who are emotionally reactionary about all of their insecurities, many of which they have connected to their ideological reactionary tendencies? this is emblematic of most online conversation, people tend to be very willing to express their most volatile and defensive thoughts online without a second thought in a way that they never would if body language was involved, but there's a real throughline here to certain kinds of reactionary behavior in reality too. conservative boomers who have to convince themselves that trump is helping everyone. liberals who have to convince themselves that the party cannot fail it can only be failed. the ignorant who are too embarrassed at their ignorance to be willing to work on learning. i work with early high school students and their disinterest in engaging with the basic idea of learning is a very similar psychological phenomenon to all of these. a repulsion at introspection. genuinely, does anyone have tips here? i feel like a thing i'm truly missing is a good understanding of how the vanguardists actually convinced people to support them, how the soviet education system got so successful in encouraging student efforts. this particular reactionary take from yugo is also a similar common sin of

    : casting their own frustration at emotionally immature and proudly unintrospective people as a form of mental illness.

  • the large intel foundry within occupied Palestine is like 10 miles from the Gaza border.

  • imagine having this kind of HOI brain but not accounting for the obvious regional passive buff in cold weather that minnesota has. fucking pathetic strategy gamers.

  • by Ashley Butler and Cuivien

    Sorry, what's that mononym right there, Cuivien? I would bet all my money that this is the name she gave her LLM.

  • amerikkkan small producer farmers are the modern capitalism equivalent of when kings would pay a guy to be a hermit and live in their garden as part of the decor. they're aesthetic set-dressing to maintain the mythologized terrain.