#leftism

[ultramaga]

"obviously women don't have to be attractive to star in games" But if you want to make money, you have attractive women. "that's an incredibly attractive woman too" Not in context, no. That doesn't attract straight men, who are the bulk of paying customers. Buddhist nuns, for example, shave ttheir heads in order to be less attractive. Human men show a preference for women with hair. You can say you personally think this is the most attractive being in the cosmos, but markets don't work that way. Sales numbers don't lie. This is not an attractive woman. "These guys are just also so afraid of women with any melanin " If men are afraid of non-white women, how do you reconcile that with your belief that men chose at some random time in the past to conquer them - and succeeded? Patriarchy Theory is incoherent. Men aren't afraid of non-white women.

Most human males will find this woman, for example, more attractive than every feminist or leftist combined.

"Women can star in media without being attractive " Very few. TV etc has to deal with aging affecting women after as little as a decade. The turnover in who is "hot" is incredibly fast and brutal, and only the talented women - who do theatre, as a rule - still find employment, whilst the majority vanish. But this is a computer game where the appearance is not limited by reality.

So this is the equivalent to drawing a lion badly, then getting mad that people won't pay to hang it on their walls.

"bc men do it all the time" You think that's how markets work? You think they give a damn about whether or not the purchases balance according to some metric of age, sex or race? No, money doesn't work like that. People, mostly, pay to see pretty women, and if they are paying to see men that aren't as hawt, there's no way to shame them into paying to see ugly women. "this is objectively a pretty lady" So you keep repeating. It will never make it true. " anti feminist fuckers need to step outside and look at actual women"

We did, which is why we pay to see pretty fictional women instead of feminists.

You really do not understand the concept of money. I guess it's because most Leftists just steal everything anyway, and all the games that they say represent them are collapsing because LEFTISTS DO NOT PAY, THEY STEAL, AND THEY DEMAND YOU PAY INSTEAD.

I made this same joke in my head with Sonic but Crash Bandicoot is the superior joke.

[dailyanarchistposts]

Authors: David Graeber, Nika Dubrovsky Topics: COVID-19, health care

Or more precisely, we are imagining a sane world after the virus, one where, instead of just trying to put things back the way they were, we act on what we’ve learned. For instance, a huge proportion of office work, especially administrative, managerial, marketing, legal, finance, consultancy and the like have shown themselves to be pure bullshit. If they disappeared, it would either make no difference or the world might even be a slightly better place. The proof is that during the crisis, most of them did disappear and the world kept spinning. So imagine for a moment we are sane and don’t just go back to pretending there’s some reason to have all these people bluffing to make us think they work all day but instead got rid of the bullshit jobs. Well, one question would be: what would we do with all the buildings where they used to work? Obviously, those actually useful workers who kept us alive and cared for during the epidemic – doctors, nurses, cleaners, couriers, electricians, farmers – don’t need giant glass buildings to make them feel important. Some can be blown up. This will be good because it means there will be less energy use to keep them heated, cooled and so forth, which will reduce carbon emissions. But surely we wouldn’t want to blow up all of them.

After the French and Russian revolutions, the royal palaces were turned into state museums. That might point to one sane way to use them. But there’s also a crazy way: a return to “normalcy”. The model for this might be what happened after the large-scale deindustrialization of western metropolises, when former factories and warehouses were turned into private art centers, offices and condominiums for the kind of people who worked in them. Many find it hard to imagine this won’t happen again, if there is rapid de-bullshitization of work, but no real change to the financial system, or structures of wealth and power more generally. Empty offices would be bought up by investors, who would turn them into expensive condominiums or private art spaces whose presence will give the real estate additional market value. The only alternative usually put on the table is if the state takes over everything, either in the form of state socialism (which is basically just state-monopoly capitalism) or its right-wing “national-socialist” variant (in whatever updated 21st century form).

In that future, those empty offices not used to house bureaucrats or secret police will be turned into state museums: conservative, elitist institutions whose general ambiance balances somewhere between that of a cemetery and that of a bank. We would like to insist on the possibility – perhaps not the likelihood, but at least the possibility – of sanity. Imagine that the experience of lockdown and economic collapse actually allows us to see the world as it really is and we acknowledge that what’s referred to as “an economy” is simply the way we collectively keep each other alive, provision each other with the things we need and generally take care of one another. Say we also reject the notion of social control.

Prisons, after all, provide food, shelter and even basic medical care. Still, they are not “caring” institutions. What they provide is not care because real care is directed not just at supplying material needs, not even just to allow others to grow and thrive, but also, to maintain or enhance their freedom. Imagine we jettison the idea of production and consumption being the sole purpose of economic life and substitute care and freedom. What would we do with the buildings then?

In a world built around care and solidarity, much of this vast and absurd office space would indeed be blown up, but others could be turned into free city universities, social centers and hotels for those in need of shelter. We could call them ‘Museums of Care’ — precisely because they are spaces that do not celebrate production of any sort but rather provide the space and means for the creation of social relationships and the imagining of entirely new forms of social relations.

[whereserpentswalk]

wrt your post about shinegami eyes - you're more right than you know. I don't think many people know this but there is a similar extension that existed shortly before shinegami eyes was created which likely inspired it called coincidence detector. It was created by fascists to put ((()))s around jewish people's names

This is the seduction of reactionary ideas. Everyone always thinks that they will be the one to do them correctly. They never are. So many leftists see reactionaries winning and want to act like reactionaries to try to score the same victory, but they don't realize that acting like a reactionary means becoming more reactionary.

I think this is what Tolkien was talking about with the one ring. You think you can use the enemy's weapon against them, but you can't, you always just play into their hands.

[left-over-politics]

[psilo-vibin]

I'm reblogging this post again to add some of my own thoughts. Clearly, "Manifesto" is just being used as a buzzword here cause it doesn't fit at all. For example, when Ted Kaczynski and Elliot Rodgers wrote their manifestos, they were pages ,and pages long attempted to explain and justify their actions to the world. Ted wrote an entire political essay about his idealogy, why he thought terrorism was nessicarly to achieve his goals, and advocating others to do the same. Elliot Rodgers wrote an entire ass auto biography that covers his entire life up until the shooting in an attempt to explain why he hates women and why he's going to kill people. They wrote them because they thought if they explained themselves, people would not only sythpaize with them more, but potentially even agree with them entirely (which unfortunately they did some end up happening at least a little bit with some people.) Luigi supposedly wrote a single paragraph which doesn't explain anything outside of the obvious motive that everyone already picked up on, and that most people already supported him on. The fact that it provides no further context than means it wouldn't gain him any more support and only acts as evidence against him. It also makes no sense for him to have had this on his person when he was arrested!?! Ted and Elliot never kept psychial copies of it with them. Ted got them to publish his in the news paper anonymously by writing a letter to the paper under the UNA bomber name, and Elliots was found on his computer after he did the shooting, and killed himself. It makes no sense to have on you while you're still trying to evade the police. This is clearly not a manifesto, and I think the police wrote it and planted it as evidence to frame Lugi. There was no reason for him to write it or have it with him, and the fact that it literally starts out by thanking the feds is really suspicious. I know Lugi is right wing, but I still can't see him starting by thanking the people who are protecting these ceos and trying to arrest him. If it was written by the feds it would also explain why it's such a nothing burger because they don't want to publish actual legitimate reasons that prove the shooters point because it'll inspire other people to do the same, especially with how much support there is already. I don't buy it and either way this is not a manifesto.

To everybody claiming that luigi mangione really is the guy.

This is the manifesto the cops say they found

“To the Feds, I'll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn't working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy? No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allwed them to get away with it. Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space, and frankly I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument. But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.”

like "ohh yeah we got our guy, he was holding the murder weapon, a manifesto that says "Hey feds! I did that crime and did it with this gun!! this is because the US has the most expensive healthcare but we don't even live as long as some other countries? and its the fault of the american public who I hate!" anne 10 grand! is obvious that this is our guy, and he's just a low down criminal who hates your! the american public"

also if they did find him with that why would he respond to their arrest with immediate legal defense rather than dignified resignation like the manifesto implies.

[coreythegremlin]

[viktor-the-leshen]

[yrrtyrrtwhenihrrthrrt]

In light of Brian Thompson being shot dead on my birthday (🎉🥳🎂) I'd like to share a personal story about UnitedHealthcare.

During the peak of COVID, my family all got sick. I couldn't be on my parents' insurance because they were both older and on Medicare. So, I had insurance through my University: UnitedHealthcare.

For some reason, rather than roll-over each year, I got a new plan each year that ended after May and didn't start until August, so I was uninsured for the summer months, but it was a weird situation that the university denied, and told us we were supposed to be insured year-round, it was messy.

Both of my parents went to the hospital, and I got sick too. I had to take care of my pets, and myself, and try to stay alive and keep my pets alive when I was so weak I could hardly move. When my parents came home, my condition got dramatically worse (I think my body knew it couldn't give out, because there was nobody to take care of me, so once my parents were okay, it completely crashed and failed.)

I started experiencing emergency symptoms. It was a bit hard to breathe, my chest hurt, and I was extremely delirious. I wanted to call my insurance to see if I was covered (this was during the summer) and I was connected to some nice person, probably making minimum wage, who told me with caution in her voice that my plan was expired. I had no active insurance, but she urged me to go to an emergency room. I remember saying something to the effect of "You just told me I don't have insurance, I can't go to the hospital, I can't afford it."

She sounded so genuinely worried and scared. I remember she said "You really don't sound good, you sound really sick, please call 9-1-1" and I think I just said "I can't afford it without insurance, don't worry, I think I'll be okay."

And she paused and said "I don't want to hang up the phone with you like this." And it sounded like she was holding back tears. And I don't remember what I said, I think that I would be okay, and I hung up.

I still think about her. I wonder if that phone call haunted her, or if she had dozens of calls like that a day. I wonder if she thinks about it at all, if she wonders if I died after she told me I didn't have insurance and therefore couldn't go to the hospital without incurring a tremendous financial burden. I wonder if she feels guilt or blame-- of course she shouldn't, it wouldn't have been her fault if anything had happened to me. Maybe it's self-centered to wonder if she thinks about it. I'm not the main character and it was just her job. But, still.

I think about how evil it was that we were put in that situation. Because offering year-long continuous coverage through the university plan would maybe cut into profits, maybe not benefit shareholders enough, maybe cut into Thompson's $10 million salary. While his minimum wage administrators have to feel afraid to hang up the phone, because on the other line someone might be dying, and they wouldn't know. While his patients hang up and decide to take their chances rather than put their family through that trauma.

This is UnitedHealthcare. This is Brian Thompson's legacy. This is why, understandably, an entire nation is jubilant that he was gunned down like the vermin he was. I don't care about his widow. I feel pity for his children, despite the fact that they will inherit millions, but I feel more pity for the children of his victims patients who are gone because they didn't want THEIR children to inherit crippling debt. Brian Thompson got what he fucking deserved. I pray that he not be the only one. I pray for continued safety, peace , and anonymity for his killer.

American healthcare is a disease.

[lilithism1848]

[fascistsarefreefood]

Daily reminder that we do not actually live in a dystopian movie put the apocalypse down and back away slowly. You know when your cleaning a room and you pull everything out of it's draws to sort through it and you're like "what the fuck have I done I'm never going to be able to tidy all of this" I think that's the stage we're at in the world. Thanks to social media we've pulled out all the messed up shit from the cupboards of the world, it was always there but now we can see it and we're going to have to sort it all out we made this mess and we can fix it. Falling to the floor sobbing will not clean a crusty room. A group of people working systematically (preferably with music in the background) will.

[neurotypicalabusesurvivor]

This is a friendly reminder that none disabled people often do benefit from the same accommodations disabled people benefit from.

[aspensmonster]

The term "leftist" was the tell. Not choosing a more specific term, even just a generic "socialist," is a pretty good indicator that a person's politics aren't well-formed.

that footage of the CEO getting shot is axtually pretty sweet and the guy is a hero tbh. lets bring assassinating CEOs energy to 2025

[angel-cryptid]

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

just a handy little info chart on the spectrums of sexuality.

/Edit: I forgot to give credit this is a screenshot from a video made by a content creator called Lily Orchard you should check her channel out it's amazing

[molten222]