AlfalFaFail
@AlfalFaFail@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Anon is a youtuber 2 days ago:
Oh damn. I posted the wrong photo
- Comment on Anon is a youtuber 3 days ago:
Raise you a pair of great tits.
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- Comment on How possibly? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week ago:
Abolition of class is a nice idea, but in the meantime, what would you call patriarchy instead?
- Comment on How possibly? 1 week ago:
Holy shit… Your meme game!
- Comment on How possibly? 1 week ago:
Okay. What would you call it?
- Comment on How possibly? 1 week ago:
There’s always going to be issues with the terms because both any termd chosen will fail to capture both the internal and external perspectives. Toxicity, for example, only shows how a certain type of manhood effects people who come in contact with it. However, a young man searching to be an adult in the world may come across this way of being a man and doesn’t necessarily see it as a good fit. So it’s too “rigid”. I’m not sure we’d want to talk about one’s “rigid manhood” but the quality is notable. We could also use the term “The Man Box” to capture the difficulty of people who struggle to meet these impossible standards.
I also like the term hyper-masculity, but there are worthwhile questions there too.
It’s important that remember that no term will do a great job of capture the full range of issues facing society and men, but even a cursory investigation will show how different vantage points help show and counter balance different terms.
For white privledge, we have to remember that in this society the baseline or default is white, male, young, affluent, etc. These people don’t get that suspicious look or assumption that they aren’t capable or criminal or dishonest like the OP noted. We could say society has minimal friction for them.
So as to not just have some more noise, here are some of my dumb suggestions: white tailwind, white standard, white default, white baseline, presumed while white.
- Comment on Despite recent advances, it's still possible to identify AI slop if you know what to look for. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin 1 week ago:
It’s satire, but newt ate the onion. And when does, he passes it around saying, “Delicious. Want a taste?”
- Comment on Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin 1 week ago:
Neocons doing material analysis.
- Comment on A sudden epiphany. 1 week ago:
You don’t know shit about my district or my family and you can fuck right off. You’re a callous know it all and I have no time for you and your low stakes arm chair analysis.
- Comment on A sudden epiphany. 1 week ago:
First, fuck you.
You were not part of the discussion at to assume that we didn’t discuss these issue at our table is disgusting. Second, where the fuck do you get off thinking that our district supports these programs materially and that a teacher recommendation was sufficient enough to place in the non-segregated TAG program.
I can’t emphasize this enough. Fuck you
- Comment on A sudden epiphany. 1 week ago:
This is a highly limited context of your experience and situated when you went to school and where you went. I can only talk about the TAG program in my district and they use testing and are very strict about it.
Our child was referred by a teacher and we were encouraged to pursue it. There’s more to say about the program and it’s role in society, but these type of comments preclude a discussion on child needs and wealth.
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- Comment on Makes you think 🤔 🦵☕️ 2 weeks ago:
Boobs that look like this…
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- Comment on ard 3 weeks ago:
Oh man… I can’t believe I missed that origin. Yeah… You’re absolutely right about that.
- Comment on The list is realistically so much longer. 3 weeks ago:
Loosely quoting IF Stone, If you can remember two words, governments lie. If you can remember three words, all governments lie.
- Comment on ard 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on ard 3 weeks ago:
Fucktards be making fuck all the way to the parking lot.
- Comment on ard 3 weeks ago:
Alikeard
- Comment on he forgor 4 weeks ago:
Agreed. I think a lot of the people talking about how they are self taught are working in tech and software and they were hire twenty years ago or more. (Can’t wait till someone sounds off about how they got hired nine years ago).
Most other technical jobs are in far more mature fields. College may expose you to ideal situations that overconstrain your ability to get the job done in a corporate setting, but it still exposed you to a set of problems you don’t have access to otherwise. Mainly because these industries are in communication with the deans of these colleges and giving them feedback on what they need to see more of.
- Comment on No More Neutral ⚛ 4 weeks ago:
It is way too common to confuse the abstractions we use to understand reality with reality itself. Like the scientists who work with this stuff are really consistent in keeping the two separated
I wish this was true. I remember seeing a physicist talking about how the laws of physics are mathematical in nature and that the laws of physics needed to exist before the universe do the universe is made of math. I don’t think the vast majority of physicists have a philosophical grounding for the types of ontological claims they make. Even less so since “shut up and calculate” became the professional axiom.
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 4 weeks ago:
We’ve streaky… The rains finally came, but they were gone for so long that I was worrying a bit about fire seasons. Still am honestly.
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 4 weeks ago:
Its raining in Oregon. We’ll see the sun in July… Hopefully.
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 4 weeks ago:
I witnessed a right turn from the left lane in utah. Except the street was 4 lanes wide.
- Comment on This is absolutely a shitpost. Send to someone who needs to hear it. 4 weeks ago:
But I’m right and they are wrong on this particularly trivial topic. I need to feel like I did everything in my power to make sure they know how wrong they are.
