GarbageShoot

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[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Uninteresting bad art should absolutely not be published, there is already too much.

A new Deus Ex would probably be interesting-bad like the others have been

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 91 points 2 years ago

When the South has trouble with its Negroes when the Negroes refuse to remain in their “place” it blames “outside agitators” and “Northern interference.” When the nation has trouble with the Northern Negro, it blames the Kremlin.

-- James Baldwin

I had been meaning to dig up this quote since Pelosi blamed Russia

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I know this is a "first world problems" aspect, but it makes it such a pain figuring out how to ask someone out in a way that will minimize the chance they will think I'm one of those

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Anti-Material Rifle but the term "material" is being used in the metaphysical sense

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Extremely fedposting and the horniness doesn't help

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It might be worth interrogating the connection between aesthetic values and other values, as in Society of the Spectacle in its real meaning and not the flanderized "wot if e'erywun wah jus' wa'chin' the telly?" version. Gender is overwhelmingly what makes what we view as gendered presentations appealing, and this is demonstrated by the way that it varies across cultural differences in what gendered presentation is. To use a very obvious example, I would fully expect wearing a skirt to make a transmasc person here and now feel potentially dysphoric, but in medieval Scotland transmasc people were generally probably quite happy to wear kilts in the situations they could get away with doing so. Why? It's just a slightly different arrangement of cloth! Because it is a signifier for a certain position in a certain framework of social values, not just aesthetic ones.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

this is blatantly untrue unless you mean it in a hegemonic or ideological, and not aesthetic way. If you DO mean it in an aesthetic way than what do you think transmasc people are supposed to do? Die?

I don't give a shit about aesthetics, but I think it's good to remember that MLs, too, believe in the saying that "So long as there is a state, there is no freedom, and we can only talk about 'freedom' existing insofar as there is no state" and yet also advocate for the creation of new states at the same time as seeking the liberation of the human race. Statehood cannot simply be abolished in one stroke, it must be systematically destroyed, and the system doing the destruction is itself a state, and that state tends towards its last action being the completion its own destruction.

Something similar can be said for gender. There is no contradiction between holding gender as being fundamentally backwards and yet acknowledging that we live in a gendered world where people -- for reasons other than having an inborn gender, as gender is socially constructed -- need to cope in different ways, cis and trans identities included. Eventually, there should be no gender and therefore no cis or trans people, but that doesn't mean telling all of humanity right now to cleanse the entirety of gender from their minds or die.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Most workers are men though.

No, they are very slightly under half, not that it matters to the rest of your comment.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Guevara eventually fell into idealism, which is a large part of why he died in relative isolation at the hands of a Nazi death squad in Bolivia instead of as a nation-builder in Cuba. Prior to his leaving Cuba, you are right.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The properly revolutionary version of all ideology, religious or secular, is revolutionary to the extent that it promotes pro-social values and reactionary to the extent that it promotes anti-social values, relative to previous iterations. Socialist masculinity and socialist femininity (beyond the extent to which they correspond to sex/hormones/whatever) are only different from each other as an artifact of the backwards social values they are derived from and trend forward in the future in the direction of being identical. As strength in men is good, strength in women is good. As cowardice in men is bad, cowardice in women is bad, etc.

Socialist masculinity also shares a similar relationship with socialist Confucianism, socialist Cheondoism, socialist Christianity, socialist Dharma, etc. These are all systems of values created in old societies based on old relations and are, to some extent, backwards. The job of the socialist, who cannot simply declare the age of Christ over and the age of Marx its replacement (at least not in an enduring and effective way), must seek to elevate the aspects of (say) Christianity that are pro-social, reinterpret those that can be reconciled with being pro-social, and criticize those that are irreconcilable with being pro-social (making these determinations by appropriately exhaustive investigation). In this way, to borrow a certain reactionary's phrase, there should be a "revaluation of all values" towards sociality until the only distinction between them is a cultural affectation.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

You don't want to hear his gay bars

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

Patter songs usually have pitch. Shabibo is just talking with barely a hint of rhythmic articulation.

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