Jesus: The rich are sinful, good deeds matter more than identity, people must choose to join us, be good to others.
Supposed followers of Christ's teachings: Yeah, we're gonna listen to like, none of that.
Chivalry was about being loyal to some rich asshole. Samurai were the same. The main advancement of capitalism was the rich handing their knights to the state. The knights no longer fight each other, mostly suppressing peasant rebellions and protecting property. The wealthy fight each other through the law, which is less costly and dangerous than fighting with soldiers you often pay to train and can potentially die.
essay on empire/capitalism/power
However, the rich still give up a lot of power under capitalism, mostly giving up the ability to use violence outside of the state mechanisms. If effective regulations get put in place that hurt their power, it usually isn't worth resisting. They have a social contract with a monster not even they can fight directly. Instead, they buy politicians and weaken the state's ability to regulate. Over time, they both extract all the wealth from workers and make the state incapable of restraining or resisting them. Late stage capitalism.
However, the driving force behind feudalism falling off was the rise of states who throughly monopolized violence. Empires had risen and fallen, with lords varying conversely in strength throughout history. Industrialization coincided with a rise in that state domination, with power centralizing more so than ever before. Strong central governments and world shrinking technology allowed capitalist states to become the most powerful empires.
Even when anticapitalist empires emerged, capitalism remained in the form of social and political capital. The exact same power dynamics played out in those cases through informal systems where single players dominate the entire system. Cults of personality equal to kings effectively become the real state, the real empire. The dictators often hold power for a single generation, splitting the bureaucracy into multiple competing factions, risking state fragmentation as they try to build a throne.
Fascist strongmen rise to power in late stage capitalism due to the weakening of the state as an institution and the instability caused by competition. Unethical behavior compounds upon itself in an unregulated market, creating discontent in the workers who seek radical change. They're prime targets for fascist movements, allowing a strong leader to dismantle and become the empire.
This is where the state dies and capitalism actually might end. The leaders and their supporters crave power and domination, driving them into conflicts with each other. In the past, total wars of conquest between empires were possible to win, but now they aren't. No one really wants WWIII, but even institutions know backing down from an empire means defeat. They refuse to appease, endangering the entire human population through famine and unsurvivable explosions. The entire global capitalist system might break, leaving smaller agents to fight each other and rebuild it all once more.
She got one upped, outdone, lost to her rival, and now needs to take it in ass again from her.
Inspired by this comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/10249443
I paid 5 dollars for this meme on faceapp bc I had Google play money I never used, but faceapp is honestly worse than it used to be. There are fewer options than I remember, and no notable new features. Don't be a bimbo like me. I should've waited till I got home instead of trying to do it on mobile. Not as happy with the result.
This is the background picture, from the same Photoshop battle as the posture meme:
and of course
The original image before using faceapp:
The likely explanation is that the publication intentionally misrepresented what the casting director said. They were probably talking about how what they DID with her in the first season challenged beauty standards. They intentionally made her "ugly" for the story. The casting director might not have meant they hired her because she wasn't conventionally attractive, but the publication knew they could get more clicks by quoting her out of context.
Also, this thread has been kind of toxic about beauty stuff which makes me sad :(
For the next month, you must take your daily dose of GAY^TM^ or a kitten will cry. You may keep your straightness should you so choose. Feel free to kiss your pals a bit, as a treat.
It doesn't matter who you are or what you ID as.
Doctor's orders ๐๐ฅ๐
People are afraid of being enslaved by something intelligent when we're already enslaved by unintelligent systems. Capitalism, imperialism, culture, even evolution itself. These forces already control us, reducing our lives to mere mechanical functions. There isn't a being in control of these systems, but they still devalue us as people. No artificial intelligence will ever dominate us like natural unintelligence.
He goes by Kolanaki on Lemmy now.
It's even worse than that. Individuals are a vessel for those gametes, not the gametes themselves. I'm sorry, but sperm aren't fucking people Robert Rowling. You aren't your cum or your period. Inhaling pollen during spring isn't killing trees.
Joanne Galbraith's conservative gender ideology values genes and bloodlines more than people. Living a good life doesn't matter, only reproducing like e coli.
Phobes want the world to make sense because they think it'll fill the emptiness in their soul. It'll never work. The void can't be filled that way.
If it's not a part of capitalism, they don't think it matters. If doesn't directly make them a profit, it shouldn't be done. Housework isn't labor. Activism isn't labor. Love only helps them sell products. They want people to have kids so they have more young workers, but letting people become financially secure enough to have them would hurt their profits.
They want robots to replace manual labor and AI to replace mental labor so they don't have to deal with us. They want productivity without paying for labor, because earning money without doing labor isn't enough apparently. It is morally correct to take their money because they only got it by underpaying us for our work. Every day we don't take it from them, they're taking it from us.
First off, that's only a fraction of the PowerPoint, and she might have made those slides to not reveal personal info to the internet. Hell, this could just be a joke with dozens of empty slides below the visible ones. However, the person almost certainly still has trauma. I've met a ton of people who cope through comedy, and a lot of them would laugh at this meme.
More importantly, gatekeeping trauma is not ok. Someone having a more traumatic life than you does not invalidate your own trauma. You could have trauma from common experiences, like parents divorcing or the death of a loved one, and it can affect you in serious ways. Many people never seek the help they need for their trauma because they invalidate their experiences. Someone always has it worse, so if trauma is making it hard to live your best life, don't feel guilty about seeking help for it.
I fucking hate tankies and ML cultists, but I'm always skeptical of anti-communist movements. The fear of communism can bring economically liberal people to your side, but the real threat isn't extreme or radical ideas. It's authoritarianism and tribal selfishness. That's what made Nazis and Soviets so terrible. They centralized power, killed opposition, and valued certain people over others. They pursued the strategies of taking from others by force, often using genocide and imperialism.
Global capitalism and imperialism are terrible things that should be changed, but even saying that is an extreme position that most people in imperial countries would oppose. Most Russians support their terrible war. Most Americans supported Bush's war on terror, mostly souring because it didn't deliver. A majority of Israelis used to support imperialist actions against Palestine, only now turning on their terrible leadership. People support exploitation because they often don't see or feel the consequences, and even when they do feel the consequences, many don't connect them with the actual causes.
Hamas is a monster fed by Israeli antagonism because feeding those trying to coexist peacefully prevents colonization. They build a monster to fight in order to get more support from people who simply want the monster to go away. All the while, they move to accomplish their real goal of getting rid of Palestinians like other evil empires have attempted to do to Jewish people for millenia. It's a fucking tragedy to see people that should know the pain of discrimination more than anyone, perpetuate the cycle of violence. Theocratic nationalism is a sin against humanity.
Hey. Trump probably isn't really a billionaire and has managed to get charged for crimes even though his former job made him legally above the law. I don't think lawful evil is the correct alignment.
"Trans people didn't exist in the past."
You literally destroyed our history to perpetuate this myth. We'll never erase your history, just show how it was a lie undeserving of respect.