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- Comment on Whiter than the whites 2 days ago:
I think in this case it’s colorism which predates racism and may go back to the caste system in the case of India. In many cases, colorism can be how internal racism is expressed, but Modi is hyper patriotic and loves a particularly conservative form of being Indian.
- Comment on The Projected Truth 1 week ago:
Correct!
- Comment on The Projected Truth 1 week ago:
- Comment on The Projected Truth 1 week ago:
Speculative
- Comment on The Projected Truth 2 weeks ago:
Truth
- Comment on That's a no 2 weeks ago:
No problamo lil’ dawg
- Comment on That's a no 2 weeks ago:
I’m sorry.
- Comment on That's a no 2 weeks ago:
Weird is weirdly spelled. That one?
- Comment on That's a no 2 weeks ago:
Which word?
- Comment on That's a no 2 weeks ago:
Which part?
- Comment on That's a no 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on That's a no 2 weeks ago:
www.modot.org/zipper-merge
- Comment on Cuba Libre 🇨🇺 2 weeks ago:
The AMA has a section in their code of ethics about when and how to use a placebo in situations like this.
- Comment on Cuba Libre 🇨🇺 2 weeks ago:
Your body is constantly making cancerous cells. But the immune system is constantly detecting and cleaning them up.
- Comment on but would yourthesis defend you 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Teachers deserve more money. 1 month ago:
The only reason we can tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans now is because the Republicans finally changed into the demon they’ve always courted. The Dems are the same as they ever were. The Dems, more out of touch than ever, would produced the same legislation updated with some Obama era metrics. I don’t know who you think the Democrats are, but they aren’t different today.
- Comment on Teachers deserve more money. 1 month ago:
The bill was co-authored and championed by Senator Ted Kennedy, a stalwark Democratic, and Representative George Miller (D-CA). It passed the Senate 91–8 and the House 381–41. Just because it was passed during the Bush administration doesn’t mean it was Republican initiative.
Many small government libertarians and conservatives hated the NCLB because they saw it as government overreaching.
Charter schools are legislately introduced in the Obama era bill, Race to the Top, along with common core standards being tied to funding.
- Comment on Electricity explained 1 month ago:
Butt… I want to see.
- Comment on Imperial system slander 1 month ago:
Taritino posting.
- Comment on Electricity explained 1 month ago:
This is good, but it would have been nice if the symbols were more consistent. Like Volt gets a lightning bolt on her thigh… Cool. Ohm, while the sexiest in my opinion, gets an Ω on her shirt. So the under boob is great, but it’s really that smile. Finally, Amp. What going on here? Those ruddy cheeks are awesome. The rope is pretty cool too even if it’s not my thing. But where’s her symbol? I don’t particularly want to imagine a scarlet letter A.
Honestly, the inconsistency was a bit turn off.
Well… If you made it this far and think I’m missing the point, I hope you now realize I’m just taking the piss.
- Comment on Anon has a very specific goal 2 months ago:
Not all chicks dig a dude with money.
- Comment on Hee Hee Ho Ho Ha Ha 2 months ago:
Don’t know if anyone cares about context, but this Know Your Meme page gives some more.
Here’s a video explaining what he means.
- Comment on What the Hell is this Bull shit ? 2 months ago:
Shrinkflation! Must have taken a cold shower.
- Comment on Anon is a youtuber 2 months ago:
Oh damn. I posted the wrong photo
- Comment on Anon is a youtuber 2 months ago:
Raise you a pair of great tits.
- Comment on Anon checks a walkthrough 2 months ago:
- Comment on How possibly? 2 months ago:
First, thank you for such a considerate response. I’ve had several interactions on this platform where sincere engagement was met with condescension or attacks, so I truly appreciate the tone you’ve set here. I’d like to offer a different perspective on a few of your points. This isn’t a hit on your analysis. It’s more of a call to look at the structures we are both fighting.
I think we have to look past just surviving. Communism isn’t just about making sure everyone has enough to eat. It’s about human emancipation and flourishing. If a woman is financially safe because of a UBI but is still socially expected to serve others, she isn’t emancipated. She’s just a well-fed subordinate. We aren’t just fighting for a higher floor. We are fighting to tear down every structure that lets one person rule another in our everyday lives.
Regarding the “lag,” I think we have to look at why things linger. Culture can become a self-sustaining engine. The superstructure of a dying base is often sublated into the new social form, where old structures are repurposed to serve the new base. Even the forms that aren’t strictly “needed” become integrated into a superstructure that has its own internal logic. These logics can then reach back down and influence the base. As long as these habits retain their “common sense” status, they will be difficult to remove. The superstructure essentially reshapes the base to make its own removal even harder.
Take the feudal idea that a man’s home is his castle. That identity has survived the total destruction of the feudal system that birthed it. In a capitalist society, it no longer serves its original purpose as a place to hold court or hear the grievances of vassals. Instead, it has mutated to focus only on the “dominionship” aspect, which reinforces the logic of private property. It’s hard to predict exactly how superstructural forms like patriarchy will persist in influencing a new base to justify their existence, but history shows they are experts at reinventing themselves. This is why I think we must explicitly address these issues.
Another thing that stuck out to me was the idea of merit in a worker-run business. Even without a boss, merit isn’t a neutral bar. If we don’t actively fix the burden of housework and childcare, the person who can stay late or work more will always have more merit than the person holding the home together. If our revolution doesn’t reach the kitchen, a worker-run democracy just ends up rewarding people who have a second shift being done for them for free.
Just as surviving wasn’t sufficient in the long run, so too we must move beyond meritocracy. Perhaps in lower socialism we can still have, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his work.” But in high socialism, we must move to “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!” Even though the capital class has been abolished, their modes of measure value and worth persist in low socialism. As such, so too will some superstructural forms by the mechanism I mentioned above.
Lastly, I don’t think naming these struggles is identity politics that pushes people away. It’s actually an invitation to real solidarity. When we tell a white male worker that the system relies on exploiting his wife’s labor at home to keep him squeezed at work, we aren’t attacking him. We are showing him how the system uses his own private life to keep him down. True solidarity isn’t about staying quiet to keep the peace. It’s about naming the rot so we can actually stand together.
- Comment on How possibly? 2 months ago:
History, from the matriarchies of old to the queens of Ancient Egypt, shows that “rulers” and “patriarchy” aren’t a package deal. Patriarchy isn’t a symptom of hierarchy. It’s a distinct engine of oppression. Abolishing class doesn’t automatically liberate women from the material reality of unpaid household labor.
We cannot treat gendered or racial division resolving as an inevitable byproduct of a classless society. Cultural superstructures lag behind economic shifts, and these autonomous divisions don’t simply resolve to match a new base.
Praxis is the refusal to treat the domestic struggle as a secondary theater of the revolution. By naming and engaging the material roots of gender, race, and the “IQ” myth today, we forge solidarity with groups historically kept on the sidelines, unifying the masses for the broader class struggle. We don’t wait for these hierarchies to evaporate. We name them and bring the fight to them.
- Comment on How possibly? 2 months ago:
Abolition of class is a nice idea, but in the meantime, what would you call patriarchy instead?
- Comment on How possibly? 2 months ago:
Holy shit… Your meme game!
