Human beings are part of the natural world, so any time you do environmental , you become a living enforcer of nature’s vengeance

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I feel like you can stratify leftists like rock layers by the point at which they stopped winning the “fell for it again” award

The first time I was never fooled at any point, I’m deeply embarrassed to say, was Ukraine

Been playing Flashpoint Campaigns: Cold War and having a lot of fun with it.

Did the Czechoslovak campaign and the final mission had American reinforcements show up. By that time I was dug in at all the major objectives and had completely routed the West Germans though so the result was a 5 minute battle in which a lot of Abrams and Bradleys ran into prepared defenses and exploded

I like how nobody hates Italian or Spanish food

Kind of wild how it’s France who hates Vietnamese food the least considering they’re the ones who colonized Vietnam. I figured there’d be more residual racism

They rehabilitate dead fascists and smear dead leftists. Really says it all about who their friends are.

The cynic in me says that the reason libs have begun realizing the true extent of the threat is because a white lady was killed

Yeah that’s what I was taught growing up. “Literally all that determines whether you get into Heaven and Hell is whether or not you are in a state of having accepted Jesus at the moment of your death.”

So it’s your fault!

Trying to figure out what possessed a neo-Nazi forum to make a not-terrible game about disabled people

When you can’t deny the accusations, attack the character of the accuser

doing nothing about CSAM existing in the open online is not a political option

Counterpoint: this is Nonce Island we’re talking about

Technically yes but it’s like how acknowledging that there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism doesn’t mean I can’t resent being made complicit with evil in every purchase I make.

I am vegan and the only food they offered were turkey sandwiches, fruit snacks with gelatin, and granola bars with honey.

This is such a small footnote in the whole thing, but this is a big reason why I’m afraid of being imprisoned or involuntarily committed.

Damn that one Ukrainian’s been busy

Reactionaries cannot envision true egalitarianism, they can only see the world in terms of subjugation of one group by another. To elevate one group is to denigrate all others.

I don’t think that would be alleviated by making them more sympathetic.

Rip to them but I’m different

I can’t think of Tolkien without thinking of Marx’ writings on “feudal socialism”:

In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate their indictment against the bourgeoisie in the interest of the exploited working class alone. Thus, the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new masters and whispering in his ears sinister prophesies of coming catastrophe.

In this way arose feudal Socialism: half lamentation, half lampoon; half an echo of the past, half menace of the future; at times, by its bitter, witty and incisive criticism, striking the bourgeoisie to the very heart’s core; but always ludicrous in its effect, through total incapacity to comprehend the march of modern history.

The aristocracy, in order to rally the people to them, waved the proletarian alms-bag in front for a banner. But the people, so often as it joined them, saw on their hindquarters the old feudal coats of arms, and deserted with loud and irreverent laughter.

One section of the French Legitimists and “Young England” exhibited this spectacle.

In pointing out that their mode of exploitation was different to that of the bourgeoisie, the feudalists forget that they exploited under circumstances and conditions that were quite different and that are now antiquated. In showing that, under their rule, the modern proletariat never existed, they forget that the modern bourgeoisie is the necessary offspring of their own form of society.

For the rest, so little do they conceal the reactionary character of their criticism that their chief accusation against the bourgeois amounts to this, that under the bourgeois régime a class is being developed which is destined to cut up root and branch the old order of society.

What they upbraid the bourgeoisie with is not so much that it creates a proletariat as that it creates a revolutionary proletariat.

In political practice, therefore, they join in all coercive measures against the working class; and in ordinary life, despite their high-falutin phrases, they stoop to pick up the golden apples dropped from the tree of industry, and to barter truth, love, and honour, for traffic in wool, beetroot-sugar, and potato spirits.

As the parson has ever gone hand in hand with the landlord, so has Clerical Socialism with Feudal Socialism.

Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge. Has not Christianity declaimed against private property, against marriage, against the State? Has it not preached in the place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church? Christian Socialism is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat.

Misanthropic division

I drew some criticism from this site when I expressed negative feelings toward self-identified misanthropes, but I see shit like this and feel vindicated