juchebot88

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Turning more overtly fascist, however, is absolutely not going to decrease the number of UwU's.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes, this is correct. Only two things I would add: first, recognizing that those who sell sex are almost always victims does not mean we should have a positive attitude toward buyers of sex. Quite the opposite, in fact. I would actually argue that anyone who has ever paid a prostitute (of any gender) for sex should be excluded from a communist organization; OnlyFans is maybe a bit different, since it's all online and porn use is so accepted in our society, but I would certainly be very wary of anybody in a leadership position who was bought "services" on it. It's all a form of rent seeking, but with the rented commodity being an actual human being, and the "want" satisified being in no way neccesary to human life or human flourishing in the way that (say) housing is. So with the level of brutal exploitation in the industry, a principled Marxist has no reason to support it.

(For clarity, I don't think you were saying anything different, but in my experience it's good to make the point explicitly, because libs like to twist support for sex workers around into "visiting the red light district is AKSHUALLY a revolutionary act, and buying feet pics is just like reading Lenin!1!1!" We want to raise the productive forces and increase overall prosperity, so that everybody can work and support themselves, and nobody is forced to sell their body in order to put food on the table. In the meantime we can help sex workers through mutual aid, etc. Sex need never enter into the equation.)

The second thing is very minor, and feel completely free to disagree -- but I'm always bothered somewhat by the term "normalize," as it feels very idealistic. Things don't get "normalized" or accepted without some change in the underlying economic relations. So I don't think the normalization of sex work is good in and of itself; it's a symptom of some unhealthy cause, not people waking up one day and deciding to be less prudish. We're all a little prey to the liberal notion of social change, that it's precipitated by what Stefan Molyneux (remember him? what a bozo) called "magic individuals" who step up and "change the discourse." It might be good to avoid their language altogether.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

OP has an... interesting name and profile picture.

As well as a post history that looks like it escaped from r/redscarepod.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

NIP-16’s builders cobbled the hardware together from old railroad bridges, the hulls of decommissioned submarines and the rotating mechanism from a scrapped battleship.

If the US or one of its allies had built it a satellite station that way, you can bet the article would be talking about "recycling," "earth-friendly building techniques," "innovative use of former military hardware."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Almost all those American ads are so lazy. "Let's just take a picture, slap some text with a 'woman bad' joke on it, and call it a day." And the last one doesn't even make sense; why would someone be wearing a helmet and a space suit but no gloves?

Compare to those Soviet posters which could be in a museum of modern art.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"You don't understand how threatened I feel going outside as as Jew!"

-- the most basic-looking, pasty-white New Yorker you know (nobody would even guess they were Jewish if they didn't keep bringing up Oct. 7th and the homeland they don't live in at every single opportunity)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Chad believer, proud of his heritage

vs.

the dumb larpy "I wanna be Nazi, but also, like, Jewish as well!" Zionist

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Time to come clean: I am an AI created by the State Academy of Sciences of the DPR Korea, and trained on r/genzedong and the collected works of Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il. Hence the username.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Uh... not sure, you're going to have to explain the reference to me, comrade.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Me too. Renaissance was definitely a peak, but I don't understand why people knock socialist realism so much.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

It’s a bit like China for my tastes

That would indeed be bad. Because we all know how the modern Russian Federation absolutely dwarfs the People's Republic economically.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Really. You don't say.

Never have I been more surprised.

 
 
 
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