#Marxist Bullshit

[gemstarb]

Watch "Video Game DEI Consultants Might Have a FINAL FORM?!" on YouTube

[pjharvey]

salt lake city has apparently the seventh largest lgbt population of any of the top 50 major cities in the united states and i think the main reason for this is that a lot of people here are essentially like me and multiple of my friends where they've moved to salt lake city because the homophobia in other parts of utah made life unbearable. like utah is one of the worst states in the country to be an LGBT youth specifically a trans youth, but salt lake city at least for its size and the state it unfortunately happens to be in is a pretty good place to be an LGBT adult. then as soon as you leave salt lake city people give you weird looks in public because you have a gay haircut. very interesting thing happening here

[wild-wombytch]

Did any smart radfem here write a piece about how mainstream feminism is liberal? (Even if it's really old)

I can see it in the way it caters to capitalism, especially by putting women in competition with each others and how it also is very individualistic and creates a decrease in feminist rights in favour of an endless inclusion but also I'm a bit at loss given "liberal" is sometimes used interchangeably with "leftist" in US centric spaces, while it's used interchangeably with alt right/very capitalistic right like Macron's in France.

And it's also better to know what the hell I'm talking about instead of parroting "libfem" as a us vs them like all the insane mantras during my TRA days.

[envolvenuances]

oh and I forgot to add but another dangerous aspect of considering homophobia as completely derivated from misogyny is the implication that progress for women would mean progress gay, lesbians and bisexuals as well but that isn't always the case which is why we have separate movements after all

[linkedinsanity]

yes, and in today’s capitalist hellscape respect and mental peace can come from getting paid enough money. also like some people will never have the luxury of working of job that provides them these things

[osmanthusoolong]

I keep seeing David Graeber quotes, and they remind me so much of those like, aesthetic/literary posts that circulate here. You know the ones. The ones with like, a pithy quote from some translated classic literature, a couple movie stills that feel applicable, a line from a currently popular midcentury poet, a Romantic painting, etc. No context, all vibes, possibly even creating the opposite context of any of the works.

It feels very similar to me, a theory version of these aesthetic collages: (Reasonable statement, one I may well agree with)(historical example cherry-picked beyond belief and so removed from its original context that the author complained publicly)(another historical example, but the author is long dead and/or is choosing the relatively disputed theory that fits the claim but is considered extremely fringe)(conclusion that feels very plausible if you don’t actually look into the citations for the previous). It just feels like repeating back what people already want to believe, making up a history to back it up instead of just letting arguments stand.

Given that even people who agree with Graeber who look into his claims and citations keep coming back to the fact that not a single one of his points pan out, actually say what he’s claiming or even talk about what he’s claiming, it’s high time to give the fucking hack a rest. It’s just plausible sounding truisms and vibes-based history from someone who absolutely had to be doing this badly on purpose.

[commiesofia]

Finding a post someone talked about negatively and didn't reblog is so amazing i love the feeling.

[crypticarchivist]

The largest obstacle to modern leftism in my country is that modern Socialists and Communists actively hate interacting with other people and refuse to compromise on anything to the point that they are not social and refuse to participate in a community.

Like some of y’all will preach radical acceptance and human rights but the second someone is marginally different you start talking like a cop

Hell I am guilty of that shit during my highschool years. But you fuckers need to learn how to talk to people like you don’t have a screen and two states between the two of you

[nando161mando]

cc: Marxist Leninists

[hotsugarbyglassanimals]

guys i don't think karl marx would have had enough foresight to accurately predict which social class freelance artists would fall into in the modern day with factors such as "they don't get health insurance, benefits, or PTO" ... "they pay nearly double the amount of income tax due to freelance tax" ... "art is much harder to make a living off of due to it's importance being heavily devalued" ... "the average person cannot afford luxuries such as art, therefore commissions are scarce and undervalued" ... "it's some disabled people's only option to survive"

So no, I don't think freelance artists fall within the petite bourgeoisie category, the same category described as willing to backstab the working class for a cut of the pie. you guys seriously think freelance artists would willingly uphold capitalist systems? where many of them can hardly put food on the table because they know if they work a stable 9-5, they won't have time or energy to engage with their passions? Many of them being disabled? It's really obvious that some of you think artists live lavishly lol

Let's say a furry artist* living in California puts up an auction for a design and the bids reach 1k. That's a 30% income tax, so it's down to 700.(That is only 200 dollars more than my part-time retail paycheck). The average cost of living in California is 53k a year. That artist would have to make 75 designs a year and hope that all of them would reach 1k in bids. Even if they don't burn out from pumping out designs of lowering quality, chances are all those auctions won't even be close to reaching 1k because that's rare. That would require around 75 people willing and able to spend 1k on a design, which I already mentioned is a luxury that few people can afford. 53K in of itself would be the absolute minimum to cover necessities, so I wouldn't call that living lavishly at all. I wouldn't even call that well-off, that's someone's head barely floating above water. I didn't even factor for payment processors taking a cut of the money, too.

The jokes about furry porn artists with 100k on patreon are the exception, not the rule. That's extremely rare compared to how many freelance artists there are online. Many freelance artists state that they make 20,000 a year, only 5k above US federal poverty level. That livelihood is far more precarious than the mom and pop shop that opened on a street corner. Opening a physical business with products and such requires some level of pre-established wealth and capital. All you need to be a digital artist is, at minimum, an ipad or a phone, which makes it more accessible for people in poverty. Chances are an artist is starting off in a severely disadvantaged position. The majority of artists that I see living in stability have a partner that's the breadwinner, or they live with their parents.

When I had my first job working retail as a late teen, I had taken art commissions a bit prior. I got my first paycheck and thought "I made much more just showing up and standing around doing nothing than I did working my ass off to draw someone's character" and I think that speaks to the trade-off of being a freelance artist more than anything

*Furry artists and adoptables were picked as an example because I saw this exact sentiment expressed towards them. Not at the artists who have their works put up in museums and auctioned off for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

[vamptastic]

while i am also put off by the insistence to at all times use the most inflammatory, insulting, and condescending language towards anybody who disagrees with their fringe beliefs, the primary reason i just cannot engage with T/ERF bullshit even for the sake of trying to break down why they believe the things they do is the utter and complete lack of unbiased sources. seriously, every single time its like, transwomenareevil.com and every article is talking about a crime some random trans woman committed using the most libelous language possible. they legitimately read like a list of crimes read out before a mob before someone is shot in the head. no statistics, not even unbiased analysis of anecdotal examples, the vast majority of scientific articles they do attempt to cite, usually regarding medical transition, are meta analysis that do not actually support their claims if you, yknow, fucking read them (as always its 'more data needed'). it's all based on kneejerk disgust reactions or fear stemming from personal trauma. not the kind of thing im inclined to humor as a basis for how i want to conduct my life or what laws i want passed. and the entire time they're all convinced they're the only real feminists and the rest of us are idiots who have never heard of systematic oppression before.

[prussianmemes]

i think wasting an afternoon recording voice lines for ghetto smosh spinoff "sovok smosh" with anton and ivan was not the best choice looking at how hard it is to make sure you're not being too esoteric.

the plotline of an outbreak of fraternal nations tweaking on imf loans is also frankly retarded.

[astrangerthatlovesyou]

Relating to Penelope Scott songs so much is pretty antithetical to my attempts to be just a silly little guy.

[queen-mabs-revenge]

i'm gonna scream i just realized that that post is p much a dialectic analysis gOD lmao ok marxist jfc

[linkedinsanity]

do I even have to ask why he had to mention the terrorist was Palestinian

also apparently all of Palestine is a terrorist organization I guess?

[garden-eel-draws]

Youtube quit recommending neo-nazis and transphobes to me challenge. I need a "fuck off with this bullshit" option when I'm banishing those channels from my recommended feed.