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Materialism is definitely when you do believe in literally anything you want especially when it's completely unscientific and divorced from material reality, then? Ok, got it! A real MArxist materialist just can't believe that it was fairies' and ghosts ideas that were the driving force in history. Makes sense. lol

Careful, talk like that around here and a bunch of Marxist ghost hunters will tell you that you don't understand what Marx meant by materialism, that he totally meant you could believe in ghosts and magic unicorns and telepathy, just not be one of those idealists! And then they'll say you're just a reddit atheist for claiming otherwise.

tagging @ghosts@hexbear.net

So uh, which of these people do you prefer to have interactions with? I trust all vital and ektoplasmic essences remain intact?

ITT several "communists" out themselves as being anti-materialists.

A price tag on anything in any store is a dare imo. You just have to weigh the likelihood of succeeding if you accept the dare and what the stakes are if you fail.

I agree with almost all of this, but I don't think most of it contradicts OP's premise (so long as we remove the word "literal" from the title). Like:

all those oppositions are the same impulse to keep capitalism chugging away to benefit the guys at the top.

Right. And each of them could be swapped out depending on whether or not they are convenient for capital to oppose or support at any given moment, with the issue of evangelicals and abortion that you pointed out being the perfect example of this in general, not an exception.

But for the most part, any heavy consumer of right-wing social media, conservative activist, or politician has or is coalescing a fairly consistent worldview and we can't beat them if we incorrectly think they're morons.

First of all, I would agree that their worldview can be called consistent in that it is comprised of positions that will always tend towards support for capital, the status quo, and existing hierarchical power structures. But that's a different thing from being inconsistent in terms of hypocrisy or what we might call "internal consistency," like not being totally contradictory. Example, claiming to stand for keeping politics out of games while holding up something like Call of Duty as being apolitical. Or referring to people who care about equality as being "special snowflakes" even as they themselves whinge and blubber about the oppression of whatever group they tie to their sense of identity (invariably the most privileged groups like white, cis-hetero, men, gamers, etc.) It's these kind of culture war issues that are the chips that can be swapped out that I think SFS was talking about and he is right.

Their political positions are not based on any kind of analysis or fundamental principles, but instead shift along with the status quo, which does change over time due to things like technology, even if the overarching deference to the owning class never changes in a capitalist society. These are politics of convenience in a way that communist politics are most definitely not. Maybe it's just semantics, but I would say right wing culture war politics are not arbitrary, but that they are inconistent.

Also, I don't think it's really accurate to lump the rank and file chuds (the larger mass of right wing social media) in with the politicians as a singular class with the same interests that align in support of capital. There are those that get the ball rolling and steer the culture war issues and those that unfortunately will just follow along and be outraged by whatever the fox news or youtube alt-right algorithm or evangelical church tells them is outrageous. Like has been pointed out before, many working class people who identify as right wing do correctly recognize there is something really fucking wrong with this shit society, but they are manipulated into looking in the exact opposite direction of where the problem actually lies. The capitalist class, in part via politicians, are the ones doing the manipulation after having murdered and demonized the left. I think it's fair to say that there are some people who hold and program the chips in OP's analogy, able to cynically swap them in and out to benefit their own ends, but a much larger set of people whose brains are the targets for those chips and who have been trained to accept the swapping without question.

It's not obvious? Because white males as a demographic are the most privileged people on the planet and not coincidentally also the ones most prone to petty, oblivious arrogance, tantrum-throwing, and egotistical man-splaining. The latter was demonstrated by the one in this NASA scientist's anecdote.

I had long hair in high school in the 90s and people would laugh at me and call me Fabio. It was meant as an insult and a dunk, but looking back, there are worse things to be called.

You just naturally achieve what so many glam rock musicians had to go to great lengths to cultivate.

just a friendly heads up, I think you misgendered the person you were referring to.

Why double down on this of all things? It's not even necessarily about a medical condition (but it's that too, for many of us it's not a skill issue but a heart and lung issue), it's about the fact that biking up a hill can be fucking hard and I wouldn't begrudge anyone for not wanting to do it all the time living in a hilly city, let alone if they're trying to get home after working all day and are dead tired. The person who you were first responding to, who was asking in good faith from everything I can tell, also said "how do elders deal with what other citizens would take for granted in terms of mobility?" You completely disregarded that. Would you tell your 80 year old grandparent just to bike harder in their hilly city? This is a totally legitimate concern and responding "skill issue, just bike harder" really is heading into some ableist territory.

https://fmoviesz.to/tv/quiet-on-set-the-dark-side-of-kids-tv-l1xoq/1-1 works for me. I'm using an adblocker though.

edit: It's a stream, not a torrent.