That would require a spine, and an ability to actually stand for something, two things that liberals lack.
DamarcusArt
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Ooh! It's been a while since I walked near the turbolib house near me that had one displayed out the front.
It's so wild to me that Musk had probably the best PR campaign a billionaire has ever had, and he managed to fuck up any goodwill he generated from it, just by opening his mouth on twitter.
Trying to weasel its way out of accountability, as usual:
I think it makes sense. Corporate media is so forced and artificial, and people are so lacking in human connection due to isolation under capitalism, so naturally people will gravitate towards more "genuine" forms of entertainment (I know streamers hardly act like genuine people, but it's more genuine than the Joss Whedonified Avengers Quippy style that pretty much every tv show and movie has these days.)
De Gaulle would be proud.
Jynx, because they CHANGED it to make the WOKE DEIs happy!
As an Australian, this is really important to know for any future holidays I take there.
But those are like the only two ways redditors know how to communicate. They either use big words to show off how smart they are, or feign ignorance to show off how much smarter they are than whomever they're talking to.
Here we go, things are starting to unravel now that they can blame Trump, they can stop bullshitting and admit everything they were saying for the past several years was a complete lie, so they can claim to be "transparent" about their reporting. Once the next war starts up we'll all get to see this exact same cycle again, the libs will condemn the Ukraine war and say they never supported it, while frothing at the mouth at the thought of whatever conflict is happening at the time.
looks like the recession hit Professor Layton pretty hard.
So I'm not a particuarly sexual person, not asexual, but my views on sex just seem so different to the norm. I don't find sex jokes and things funny and don't really like to talk about or have sex, and I hardly ever think about it. (And quite frankly, I've never enjoyed it and don't ever really try to pursue it).
I went to a party yesterday and we played one of those Jackbox games, it was really crude and sexual and I just didn't "get" it. A question came up "What is your ideal sex location" and I just flat out have never thought of that before. Like, is this sort of thing something that people usually think about? Everyone else in the room seemed to have an instant go-to answer, but I just didn't know.
A mate of mine made fun of me, implying I was a virgin for not thinking about sex enough apparently. It was just really gross and juvenile and I can't stop thinking about it. Like, he treated my lack of "getting it" as a moral failing or something, something to be ashamed of.
It's been on my mind all day, just really upsetting and I don't really know why. I guess it's the implication that I'm less of a man or something for not spending all my time trying to get laid. We're in our late 20s/early 30s, so I was really surprised to hear this kind of immature teenage shit coming out of a close friend, it felt kind of like he was letting me know how he "really feels" with that one line, when he normally holds his tongue.
It just feels so gross, like the idea that I need to go out and have sex in order to be considered more of a person to him. I might be overthinking it, but it just...hurts in a way I can't really describe easily. Which is why I'm writing this nonsense, to share my thoughts, and hopefully hear some ideas from other people about this sort of thing. Am I being the weird one here? Should I just "toughen up" or something and try and get a partner or go looking for a one night stand or something? I've always thought of myself as straight and cis, but my attitudes towards sex just seem so different from the norm. I feel like a failure of a person right now, though hopefully that's just because I'm really exhausted and low on energy.
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How can we answer the question "China is revisionist because of billionaires in the party?"
(lemmygrad.ml)
Hi! Long time lurker, first time poster. Been discussing stuff with MLs of all stripes recently, and have come across a common statement used by a lot of Maoists which frustrates me.
They seem to always fall back on statements like "The CPC allows billionaires in their ranks, so they are revisionist."
Maoists have often used this as a kind of "gotcha" argument against more traditional MLs, or "Dengists" as they love to label us.
It's frustrating, because...I don't disagree really, allowing members of the bourgeoisie to hold political power is pretty much the definition of revisionism. The problem is, this feels more like a way to silence dissent or discussion rather than facilitate it. Feels like an overly simplistic hard line that simplifies history into binary divisions. Often followed by an implied "China is revisionist, therefore Maoism is the only working form of socialism."
I'm reaching out to people to see if anyone has any ways to combat this, in a way that encourages discussion rather than it just devolving into insults or truisms hurled back and forth without thought.
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See, attitudes like this are why they don't contact us. Maybe the flatwoods monster is a really chill guy and it hurt his feelings when those people screamed and ran away from him. Maybe if they had laughed at his jokes he wouldn't have gone back to his home planet and given up on his dreams of being a Xenocomedian.