#twitter on twitter bullshit

[babsaros]

if u need uwu transmasc hyperpositivity “its okay to be manly and a big strong powerful man and do all the traditional man things that men should do, thats soooo okay!” posts, please know that i am laughing at you.

[tariah23]

White people are miserable, racist losers period. They’ve even been getting mad at Japanese people for correcting them about Yasuke as well.

[shadow-von-vamp]

[spacelazarwolf]

called it.

[orokana-bara]

im laughing. its stupid as hell and im laughing

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[dapandabanda]

fwoo

[kaliido-s]

ghidorah pencil sketches cause I hate them

[tanadrin]

Ok this might be a strange ask, but. do you have any opinions on the marxist/leninist/whatever idea that, western capitalist states supply a welfare state and higher wages (and so on) for western workers through imperialism, in order to subdue class struggle in western states, so that the western proletariat basically has a hand in imperialism (that anti-imperialism in practice would materially harm the western proletariat)

i think that's wrong. i think it sounds like a way you can rationalize political disengagement in a both-sidesist kinda way and also accelerationism if you're into that; i think that kind of nebulously conspiratorial belief is also a way to sort of rationalize the red-brown alliance, the need to punish the bad sheep people who don't agree with you, and a way to discount anybody who uses actual substantive policy achievements as a way to point out that actually, yes, engaging with politics can produce positive outcomes.

it is factually incorrect, of course. there's no causal connection between the welfare state and capitalist imperialism. capitalist imperialism in the form that hardcore marxists are thinking of is kind of an anachronism anyway. much like "liberalism," they're using a lens of analysis which basically thinks history ended in 1917, that the systems and politics of the long 19th century have continued forever, and we have to sort everything into categories that are a century old even though the world has changed radically since then.

it is also, annoyingly, a rejection of the wins of leftism. leftism has done a lot of good in the world! i think leftism is directionally correct. many of the things we take for granted now in many wealthy countries--the 40-hour workweek, legal protection for unions and labor organizing, universal healthcare (outside the US of course), the existence of welfare programs in various forms, employee protections (weak in the US except for Montana; strong in many other countries), and, you know, the decolonization of most of the planet--these are all things leftists of various stripes fought and died for, and for good reason!

the reason "leftism" is weak--and of course by "leftism" people taking this position usually only mean their own particular flavor of revolutionary leftism, with everybody else being a scumbag liberal or a revisionist or a trotskyist sabateur or w/e--is because leftism keeps winning when it allies with aligned interests in an electoral context. that is to say, pragmatic progressive politics is historically quite effective (the thing Americans have historically called "liberalism" but which in international political language is closer to "social democracy," and is not Reaganism/Thatcherism), is quite willing to ally with people who share its goals including less self-defeating leftists, and continues to make new gains. see this page. there is no telos to history of course, and it's a constant struggle. but the revolution-only remnant needs to come up with a narrative to rationalize being left out in the cold, because without that rationalization their whole approach starts to come under indictment. so it can't be that their politics is ineffective--it's the sheeple bribed into shutting up by welfare!

[joelscruff]

hey just fyi write whatever the fuck you want because people will always have an issue regardless of whether you did every single thing possible that you thought was right and correct. no matter what, there will ALWAYS be someone who thinks you're doing something wrong and it's fucking exhausting. just write what you want and how you want and only warn for what you think you should warn for i'm so serious. it's gotten to a point now where you can list every single possible warning ever and someone will still get mad at you. it's actually insufferable to be in this fandom sometimes. who would've thought the pedro pascal fandom would be the most morally righteous & judgmental fandom to ever exist.

[alpanmix]

Hello Deathmark fandom, have a random au.

[nottodayjustin]

April 10th 2024 best hockey tweet(s) of the day

[shadow-von-vamp]

imagine walking away from sonic & mario in favor of NFTs

[corviiids]

ive discovered a new spectrum of character based on my two most recent interests also everyone is free to add to the spectrum but anyone who attempts to correct me gets their eyeballs stolen

(small text: *achilles’ hair colour is described as ‘xanthos’ which isn’t necessarily strictly blond but is frequently used in reference to things that are golden or yellow but could easily describe a range of other visual experiences also it’s very complicated but for the sake ofthis meme he’s blond and we’re all going to accept it and not attempt to explain it to me in the comments. im glad we all agree)

[roninkairi]

Zelda: I know you're here Ganon, you big fucking nerd. Where's my damn money?

@hesjayrich @airebeam

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