orioler25
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- Comment on The cashier said "hello" instead of "hi" 😳 4 hours ago:
Damn, hard to think that just over a decade ago, we had groups of incels who were at least convinced politeness was a viable coercion tactic. Now they think giving women any chance to feel good about themselves is losing ground.
- Comment on How polite 5 days ago:
See, I get you’re joking, but I’m not clear if it’s because you’re a hobbyist who saw an opportunity to info dump a bit for hyperbole, or if you’re using that hyperbole to suggest that it is an unrealistic expectation for dick pics to look sexy in any way possible (rather than just a dimly lit, unclear shot of someone’s unmaintained and unwashed patchy pubes and greasy dick)
- Comment on How polite 5 days ago:
Of course not, that’s why it’s a problem. Don’t act like you are unaware of the conception I’m talking about. I’m saying that the fact that it can be evoked and accepted so easily is a problem given that Canadians are hardly more polite than anyone else, and many if not most of them are bigoted in some major way.
- Comment on How polite 5 days ago:
Really tired of the association between “Canadian” and “polite.” Canadian men are terrible at taking pictures of their dicks too, and they share those pics incessantly. Don’t let some of them read this and then think to themselves, “I’m polite about my grainy, unfocused, dick pics even if I don’t always ask, because I’m Canadian.”
- Comment on Alternative medicine 1 week ago:
Ma’am, she was talking 'bout burgers.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 1 week ago:
Wow, someone who eats bricks really would talk like that. Well done.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 1 week ago:
- Comment on Alternative medicine 1 week ago:
Go look up Herbert Spencer bud.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 1 week ago:
Y’all always love eugenics jokes. And like always, before you get pissed about me telling you that this is a eugenics joke, yes, equating evolution with intelligence is reliant on eugenicist notions of natural human ability and evolution as a process that picks out the “bad” or “weak” elements of a species.
Darwinism is a concept that only refers to how traits are passed on, not what normative values those traits have. What you’re referring to is more akin to social-Darwinism, which was a pseudoscientific concept that emerged as a catch-all rationalization of social inequities along the lines of arbitrary social values like industriousness, naturalized class, racism, ableism, etc.
Unsurprisingly, it was popular among Nazis. I hope you understand the irony in applying it here to make fun of a person who subscries to an anti-science concept promoted by fascists.
- Comment on Ladybugs 2 weeks ago:
The ol’bot excuse. As though you could get those things to actually criticize shit like you say. Don’t comment if you don’t want to eat shit.
- Comment on Ladybugs 2 weeks ago:
Yeah sure dude, you’re so chill.
- Comment on Ladybugs 2 weeks ago:
I can say 100% that the avoidant way you just responded is exactly what I’d expect from a Canadian who wants to pretend that you dont support genocide “as badly” as the US. Spineless.
- Comment on Ladybugs 2 weeks ago:
Yup, that is what the whooooole comment is about.
- Comment on Ladybugs 2 weeks ago:
Jesus fucking christ dude, the amount of liberals on this site who feel no shame in saying the most racist shit to feel progressive is insane.
What the fuck does that mean, that Canada is five years behind? They exist on the same fucking planet, in the same system, on the same continent. There is no “well, France is Germany from the 1980s you see, on account of there being differences in rhetoric,” because it’s fucking stupid to act like that is what differentiates states. The only purpose in making the distinction you’re trying to make is to obscure the commonality between these states and therefore the specificity of their tactics based on the groups they target. No, Canada is not some “gentler” version of the United States, its tactics of racism and genocide differ due to its population and political conditions, to act like it is because they’re “nicer” is fucking racist.
You just fucking did that when you said starlight tours were inflicted on “marginalized people,” when no, they were specifically directed at indigenous people. It is racist to suggest that this and lynchings against black men in the US south are equivalent, as the circumstances under which they happened were distinct despite both groups being racialized. And guess what, Chattel slavery existed in Canada too, Canadians attended minstrel shows, Canadians segregated businesses, and Canadians continue to be racist against African American and other black groups in the country. Just because plantations and a slave-based economy did not emerge in Canada, that does not mean Canadians are magically inocculated from those racist perceptions, which means you should not take the absence of lynching as a sign of some sort of value in social justice. When you act like racism targets all groups equally, you’re reducing it to “when you’re bad to non-white people,” which functions to obscure the actual purpose that this system uses racism for.
Besides that, Alaska is also fucking cold and Leamington Ontario is not, that does not mean Americans are fucking cold Canadians, even if that was the reason why I said that explanation was stupid.
- Comment on Ladybugs 2 weeks ago:
No, stop trying to minimize it. Canada is a settler-colonial state, which means it is fundamentally genocidal. The state has supported US imperialism for the better part of a century now, and quite literally finances genocide all over the goddamn world.
Stop with the fucking millennial-core bullshit about the sorry moose syrup or whatever the fuck, no, they’re not just “colder Americans,” they’re Americans. Canada and the US are two white settler states that span the continent with unprotected borders, they’re culturally and politically aligned by merit of their shared interest in white supremacy and capitalistic extraction. Canadians differ only regionally in the same way there’s differences between fucking Texas and Minnesota. The notion that there is somehow only two cultures across this expanse of differing material conditions accepts the imperialist assertion that the settler state can dictate the national identities and cultural norms of the spaces they dominate. These states do not fucking own the space they violently enforce their will over.
I know these people, Canadians are not fucking polite, they’re privileged rule followers. I fucking hate Canada the way I hate the United States, both need to end as all imperialist systems do.
- Comment on Ladybugs 2 weeks ago:
justice-project.org/the-canada-brand-violence-and…
en.wikipedia.org/…/Canada_in_the_War_in_Afghanist…
Or are you going to say that Canada’s continued occupation of indigenous and First Nations land is also not genocidal? Downplaying Canada’s imperialism to own the Americans is about as low as you can get before you start directly hurting people. Don’t be a genocidal bootlicker for self satisfaction, it’s disgusting.
- Comment on He was no friend to the middle class 2 weeks ago:
Why did OP specify “middle class?”
- Comment on most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman 1 month ago:
Yeah exactly, memes like this suggest that women’s sexual fantasies are inherently more depraved because they appeal to their own tastes instead of to men’s.
- Comment on Just give me someone to vote for who is normal 1 month ago:
- Comment on Just give me someone to vote for who is normal 1 month ago:
I’m so tired of libs on this site dude. Go read Rob Paxton’s The Anatomy of Fascism, it is ahistorical to suggest that the thing you’re calling definitive of “left” (whatever the fuck that means to you people at this point) is enough to determine of someone is “left.”
Or are you arguing that Elon Musk is correct about National Socialism?
- Comment on Just give me someone to vote for who is normal 1 month ago:
What exactly do you think socialism is?
- Comment on Just give me someone to vote for who is normal 1 month ago:
No…it wouldn’t.
- Comment on Trans people like me are facing segregation now. We need parliament to restore our rights 1 month ago:
I don’t think this analogy is as effective as you think. Portraying trans people as “sacrificial lambs” both reasserts the notion that they are powerless and that their oppression is somehow a distraction from the imperialist project and not integral to it.
Transphobia is a necessary element of white supremacy and colonialism because the very existence of trans people proves that naturalised gender and sexuality (and the accompanying oppression of women as men’s property and baby makers) is arbitrary and not compatible with our material reality. It’s systemic.
Because it is systemic, we know that this oppression is also something that has to be constantly maintained in increasingly resource consuming and convoluted ways to enable transphobia in a liberal system that seeks legitimacy through moralized human “rights.” That means that resistance is not only possible, but inevitably effective unless appropriated by those moralized values (which was largely how liberals tried to disarm queerness in the twenty-first century leading up to this more overt wave of trans genocide).
Trans people are not helpless, and they aren’t “sacrificial” any more than women, racialized people, indigenous people, disabled people, and any other queer people are. All of this oppression is all inextricably linked, the narrative that they target one group to distract from oppression of the others is only effective with people who don’t intuitively understand that.
- Comment on Vibe management 2 months ago:
I’m not sure how you don’t think that all translates into labour value. These are expenses and the fake narrative that this technology is even capable of labour is itself oriented around making human labour less valuable. It’s always been about reaping even more from the only resource they have difficulty owning completely.
- Comment on Vibe management 2 months ago:
Pretty sure the point was to drive down the price of labour?
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 months ago:
Lmao, you typed this still, why are you trying to talk to me?
Oh, I just realized you are referring to my calling liberals fascists and not when I call “socialists” liberals. Oh boy, wait 'till you learn about liberalism.
See, this is how you stop someone from talkin to you dummy: blocked.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 months ago:
Some were people who grew up in former Soviet states where simplified versions of socialist writing in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries were taught and they focused more heavily on the political structure of the communist state rather than the relationality and philosophical underpinnings of Marxism and socialism; structuralist and postmodern ideas didn’t even seem to factor in.
It’s true though, there has been a very intentional effort among liberals to appropriate socialist and communist ideas into their rhetoric as they have feminist, queer, and African American theory under neoliberalism. I’ve had classes where I have to explain what “liberal” means because it’s pretty much assumed it’s going to be heard the same as “progressive,” which has also been deprived of meaning but over a much longer period of time. Euros are the same though, and on Lemmy especially since it’s a bit more distributed among American and European users for a bunch of reasons. You see it on other platforms, but on here there’s so many Europeans who straight up think they’re altruistic socialists but presume everyone else agrees that colonialism is over and Europe is reformed (corporations and international law is what isn’t colonialism apparently btw, lol)
Liberalism is exceptional at appropriation because it has emerged over centuries of EuroAmerican imperialism and settler-colonialism, its main purpose is to steal.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 months ago:
For the joke, yes. But, also because I’m curious if you have a real critique besides “stinky and mean to me,” as I genuinely don’t have experience with that community, but have ran into a lot of uncritical “socialists” on fediverse stuff in general.
Another funny thing here is you’ve done a lot of stuff that I don’t think you realize is telling of liberal thought, the infantalization is another big one, but you’ve hit almost everything. If your next comment is something about trans women, think we got a full row.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 months ago:
I don’t think it’s helpful to construct liberals as ignorant in the same way a child is. It is an uncritical and harmful way to think, but children can’t understand what genocide is because they haven’t lived long enough and do not know enough about the world, adults differ in that it is a choice to remain ignorant or to not change in response to knowledge.
There’s a special kind of malice that comes from truly knowing you’re wrong but do not care to learn better; not because they can’t, but because it is inconvenient.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 months ago:
Are you a liberal?
