@Linus200712345 Oh ok. Then it's cool to say that, idk, the State of Israel is pretty all right since we can completely discount the experiences of its most vulnerable, no?
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@Wumbologically No why would you judge an entire revolution based on something like that. It is one aspect to judge it on
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"How long will the despots' fury be called justice, and the people's justice barbarism or rebellion?"
It is obviously horrific but revolutions should not be judged by their worst excesses alone. How many children starved to death under the ancien régime?
Curtis Yarvin@curtis_yarvin
Insane that ppl still celebrate the French Revolution. Like if Germany had a national holiday for Auschwitz
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@lazlo_writes @DrGeneCallahan @AnOnoma3 @baseballcrank He was elected to the office by the people of Florida, and not on a joint ticket with the Governor?
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@BULLtrapBear @Cernovich Why would banning abortion be racist lol, it would save a disproportionate amount of black babies
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@Cernovich This is such a confused POV. Eventually maybe by mid 2030 Republicans will try to make abortion illegal and some other racist shit and guess what'll happen.
US has a two party system but most Americans are moderate. Republicans will eventually go too far right and lose.
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America is a right wing country. It would have been 60-40 Trump in 2024 if we had honest media. Notice it only took Elon buying Twitter for Trump to win the popular vote - first time for a Republican in decades. Left wing ideas are unpopular and require affirmative action.
Daniel Friedman@DanFriedman81
What they're frustrated about is that they have no influence now. They thought their platforms were portable. They thought Twitter was wherever they were, that the discourse was happening wherever they were posting, and that they were the main attraction, and it turned out that their influence was all fake and algorithm driven, and that when they left, most of their audience didn't even notice that their content had vanished from the feed because they were too busy watching the AI videos where the strawberry lady cheats on her husband with the banana.
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@dutch_od Lol historically communists when they came into power cared not at all for such harebrained distinctions. If I built myself a factory just to look at the Bolsheviks or CCP would appropriate it as me squatting on productive forces instead of using them
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@Wumbologically It is wholly unreasonable to expect a single person to be able to build a productive factory with its included machinery without outside help, but we lived in minecraft and you could it wouldn’t be bad until you started exploiting your workers
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No because you are not exploiting another person by- say- giving someone the tools to make Lathes and then claiming the lathe is your property once they’re done and they’re only entitled to a fraction of the profits.
Cooper@CooperZurad
So I had a genuine conversation with an avowed communist discussing this point. We made it simple. A lathe. What if I were to acquire and fabricate all of the components of a lathe myself? Would I be bourgeoise? Eventually it all came down to, "uh yeah and we'd have to K you"
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@tyschalter @JuanIsidro @woke8yearold It's important to remember that the side that's really concerned liking 80s pop culture too much in an evil White and Male way actually doesn't care about the culture war and only wants everyone to have free healthcare
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@tyschalter @JuanIsidro @woke8yearold "nostalgia is inherently fascistic" I holler as I defend the he-man live action reboot from the evil nazis who think it's silly that he-man lists his pronouns in the trailer
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@JuanIsidro @woke8yearold ...was that gamergate and the rise of the alt-right made it clear just how corrosive that kind of thinking is, and how that specific flavor of nostalgiaslop isn't just indulgent and masturbatory but actually harmful
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@dutch_od Ok what if I was bored and built an entire factory by myself no matter how long it took lol
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@Wumbologically Even if you made a lathe under a fully developed late stage communist society that lathe would be your personal property. The fundamental relationship between you and the means of production is not comparable to a full factory.
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@whozgrimez I agree with the message I just think the formatting is a stupid gimmick and without it no one would think it's 'one of the greatest poems of the 20th century'
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what’s funny about this (great) poem is that it’s actually making a critique/analysis that you types probably would agree with, but bc right wingers are illiterate dumbfucks you aren’t even able to begin to understand what it’s saying, you just rage that a black person wrote it
𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯@atlanticesque
Remember when you’d have to read garbage like this in class
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@BoomDrive @White_Janissary >“Feminist hate men and only wanna privilege women and evil minorities” was the popular narrative going around.
And the geek feminist crowd were the ones saying this?
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@White_Janissary I was an anti-feminist back in 2016.
“Feminist hate men and only wanna privilege women and evil minorities” was the popular narrative going around.
The boys didn’t “get over it” or “appreciate the honesty”. They just voted Trump.
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The “growing anti-feminism” of Gen Z men, especially in lib cities, isn’t a result of their political views or the manosphere. Its that being a feminist in that environment requires young men to accept a totally parallel reality where every office is a Mad Men style boys club.
_s.a.m.e.m.e.m.e_@st_louis_stan
One of the craziest things in my 20s was finding out that nearly every post college woman I knew somehow had a "mentor," ie a boomer male who went out of his way to professionally guide her
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@Jaboolie @resistancestan 2 mln women across Germany, 100,000 in Berlin. 240,000 women are estimated to have died.
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@larppromax That's true to some small extent, but physical upper body strength matters less in the modern world/economy than it ever has before in human history, and seems like it will only continue to matter less in the future.
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My favorite one is this: Men are stronger and more capable than women, so men should be more responsible. As Uncle Ben said, with great power comes great responsibility, and male strength is definitely a great power compared to female
Spring Youth@MusingsOfYouth
It doesn't appear that people like you have an actual argument as to why the playing field for economic opportunity between men & women should be be "equal" while the "responsibility" for the problems that follow should be distributed asymmetrically to men.
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@american1865 @siete_azahares @BillTheKid1603 @nikicaga Also implies Stalin could see into the future into 1970s South American politics lol
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@siete_azahares @BillTheKid1603 @nikicaga My favorite cope is "Chile didnt purge the very obviously far right wing generals fast enough" so Stalin had to kill mostly left wing and proletariat aligned people
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@swagadragon Are you kidding? There's a fucking boom economy in slurs for south asians right now
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Yeah they do. It's convenient when they want to say something slick and can't think of any particular pejorative for South Asians, esp in millennial circles, but there's plenty for the term "Asian" woman - servile, shrewish, accented, immigrant
🔎Al🔍@SweatieAngle
Racist dude was talking about the JPMorgan Chase sexual harassment lawsuit and was like “I know it’s bullshit - there’s no way a horny white American lady is calling someone’s Indian wife ‘Asian’” 🤔😧honestly that’s probably right
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@QuillerKween >I asked my racist cousin to come up with slurs for alien races based on description
No such thing as unskilled labor
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In making lore for a space game I asked my racist cousin to come up with slurs for alien races based on description
You gotta have a highly varied cabinet to consult
NON@NON21848128
Gonna be real, if you want to come up with a slur for your fictional world, you have to tap into your inner-bigot, no matter how progressive or woke you are, try to think like one. Otherwise, you get stupid terms like "ash maker" that sound cool af instead of derogatory.
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@Headqarters_69 ? The parks exist to benefit Americans regardless how big the current yearly budget for them is. BTW it is because of profitable decisions like charging foreign tourists what they're willing to pay that the NPS can keep operating even with a budget reduction (to $2.2 billion)
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@Wumbologically That’s why we’re defunding the NPS right? Because the parks exist to benefit Americans
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Do people really want America to continue self-immolating? What does charging them extra actually solve?
doomer@uncledoomer
i had no idea we were doing this. charging tourists $100 extra to visit our national parks is horrible. it should be ten times that amount
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@Wumbologically Yes &? AIDs was the leading cause of death for middle aged men during the 90s? Six years is a long time for a disease to not be recognized? Years is a long time for a president to not say it? Are you ok?
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Even if what you were saying wasn’t incorrect & a revisionism to promote your homophobia, to this day 13 percent of the 1.2 mil people in the USA do not know they have HIV. Furthermore, PreP is life saving medicine decreasing new hiv infection rates 12 percent from 2018 to 2022
arctotherium@arctotherium42
A common normie folk belief is that AIDS was ignored by The Establishment out of homophobia. The opposite is true; AIDS became the most researched disease in human history within a few years, and gay orgs strenuously fought measures that might have stopped it.
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