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some internet leftists talk about how intellectual property rights are innate and fundamental to the existence of art like how Austrian economists talk about property being an innate part of human existence

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and im sure this isnt a dogwhistle for anything right

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wplace has taught me that the two strongest forces in the world are undertale and brazil

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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 1.06 Like Angels Put in Hell by God

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If you were a real man you'd respect women. but since you don't you're basically an effeminate sissy untermensch with traits negatively associated with femininity and gross women.

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tumblr users’ obsession with self-reporting (especially as a weird form of penance) needs to be studied

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im going to be honest i think the reason most of us see criticisms and complaints of gacha games over other kinds of gambling is that is just, like, what is most commonly played/enjoyed/talked about in the circles we're all in. i dont know anyone who plays lootbox-y online shooters who spends money on them nor do i know anyone who goes to casions

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generally speaking a lot of people wrongly take TERFs and other transphobes at face value when assembling their awesome rhetorical gotchas in a way that makes them seem like gullible suckers

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"violence is never justified under any circumstances" types when you tell them that they have already implicitly accepted that violence is sometimes justified by expressing ambivalence if not outright allegiance to capitalist politicians and systems of governance. you have already accepted that violence, under certain circumstances, is at least tolerable if not entirely reasonable and necessary, and you assert that all the time. you have already decided what sort of violence is okay to you

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Sometimes you'll see a certain strain of Liberal Environmentalist talk as though environmental destruction in Imperial Periphery ("Third World") nations is the result of some personal failing of the people living there; that they're only cutting down trees and eroding the soil because they're too stupid and/or greedy to do otherwise. When in reality your average "third world" peasant knows very well how much they rely on their surrounding ecosystems to live and develops a pretty good idea of the deleterious impacts their action have. Their actions are a result of pure desperation; the grinding poverty forced onto them by Imperialism means living like this is the only chance they have at feeding themselves and their families for another day. The charcoal sellers around Lichinga (Niassa Province, Mozambique) in the 2000s provide a good example of this dynamic in practice:

The charcoal vendors also complain. They cycle with 3 or 4 huge bags of charcoal, easily exceeding their own weight, from as far as 80 kms away, pushing their bikes up the many hills. It is hard work to cut the trees, put them in heaps, cover them in grass and mud, burn them in a very controlled way, then load the bags and get them to Lichinga to sell them for $2 a bag of 25 kg - $6-8 per trip if they are lucky. If there was another way to earn this money locally, they wouldn't do this, they said. And they knew that the forest was fast being destroyed, moving further and further away, but what to do? As they say: 'Poverty sucks your bones dry'.

Joseph Hanlon & Teresa Smart (2008) Do bicycles equal development in Mozambique. Boydell & Brewer

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kind of crazy to think abuot how if an adult misbehaved so you decided to hold them over your knee and spank them till they cried it would obviously been seen as sexual assault but millions of parents do that every day to their kids and no one really cares all that much

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i just don’t think we need to cede this ground and allow libs to portray themselves as inherently pro-lgbt and progressive when some of the most crushing rollbacks of trans rights are happening in so-called labour-led dotbs like the uk and even fairly socially conservatives socialist states like china are following people-first principles when it comes to lgbt rights (let alone cuba, a global leader in this domain)

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The thing about making jokes about film snobs is that unless the call is coming from inside the house they're rarely funny and are, more frequently, unintentionally revealing about the creator's personal hangups, general lack of knowledge of the art form, and bizarre fury at the idea that someone, somewhere, might take it seriously

It's like if I was like "Lmaoooo look at me, I'm a mathematician! Look at me, dividing the hypotenuse by the square root of pi!! I don't know that calculators exist!" which tells you immediately 1) I am not massively knowledgeable about this 2) I'm very mad at a specific person or two who have 3) triggered a powerful insecurity

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"reject modernity embrace tradition" isn't even a dogwhistle it's literally just saying regressive ideology directly. how does anyone not get this

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can you do this thing for me pleeeaassse i cant do it (sees you doing it slower and less effectively than me) i can do it actually could you maybe move out of the way

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*scrolling tumblr* hmmm. i agree with the sentiment of this post, but the phrasing feels off to me. it doesn’t really have that Reblog factor, you know? *scrolls* oh good, a post that just says “i jerk off till my penis scrweam” . i better reblog this

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i jerk off till my penis scrweam