lil_tank

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[–] lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago

The word "terrorism" is clumsy imo.

From a Marxist perspective, what the mainstream politicians call terrorism is called adventurism , ie, random acts of violence against random people. That's the worst method of change ever it doesn't work you can never get mass support like that.

But when we talk "eco terrorism" we don't literally mean suicide bombing on random people, it's more in the form of radical direct action including violent tactics in opposition to pacifist direct action right?

But if you're gonna use "terror" I mean, you're already on the path of Marxist revolution ("we'll make no excuses for the terror") as revolutionary violence consists in terrorising the reactionaries. The cool thing when you have a dictatorship of the proletariat is that your "terror" doesn't have to randomly kill people in cruel ways, you can dismantle reactionary networks using intelligence and rely on imprisonment rather than murder.

So I'd argue that the meaningful terminology is the following: either pacifist direct action, or radical direct action (more anarchist leaning) or revolutionary action (more Marxist leaning)

[–] lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml 67 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hammer and sickle is over ❌🙅 Time to use tractor and keyboard 🚜⌨️✅💪

[–] lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You should obviously have told them to go live in the forest and terrorise the local populace

[–] lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Well the site that hosts the article looks like a masculinist dumpster fire so I'm not even bothering

[–] lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 2 years ago

They really do seem to think that other countries just sit around doing nothing until they interact with the US

Deep down they all have this conception that the whites have some kind of superior creative intellect and that only them can innovate

[–] lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 years ago

I read this with sped up Ben Shapiro voice

[–] lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

No of course, I'm not saying they should use a x86 chip, they could basically make a tablet with a nice built-in keyboard, trackpad and no touchscreen so that people can just take notes, browse internet, and write emails.

Basically I'm just advocating for making devices that are appropriate to the needs of users

[–] lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Well thin laptops are way lighter, if you only want to take notes at uni it's perfect. The problem is that they cost a shit ton of money because the constructors understood that making a super light computer with midrange smartphone level performance and price would be such a banger that they couldn't make any money off of it. So instead they make them as powerful as possible so people have no choice but to write their thesis on machines that can run videogames for 10 minutes before overheating. That's the stupid part.

[–] lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml 65 points 2 years ago (24 children)

Hilariously this implies that Taiwan is China

[–] lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml 46 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Oh boi I do wonder why tourists would come here, apparently the local culture is being erased and it's now a complete cultural wasteland, there should be nothing interesting left to visit, I wonder

[–] lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 2 years ago

Literally what westerners think KJU is

[–] lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

• "uh my tap water doesn't taste good"

• "SO YOU'RE SAYING IT'S BETTER TO HAVE NO WATER AT ALL??? DEBUNKED AHAH"

 

Oh yeah the source of that claim is a LA Times article that doesn't mention this blatant contradiction at all

 

I had this reflection when discussing the subject of trans people participating in mass media beauty contest, with in mind the Miss Universe contest. This question is your typical imperial core opinion divider : a useless debate between two tendencies of the bourgeoisie.

The truth is, there is no question whether or not trans women would be allowed to run because in fact this contest goes against everything the feminist and LGBT+ liberation movement is for.

Historically, beauty competition were used at the height of society to match the most desirable women (matching body standards, pretty, but also witty and talented, but always docile, just like in the Misses contest) with the most powerful men. There would be "seasons" organised with dances and other events for the young men and women to socialise. When a men desired a young woman he would ask her father if his rank was high enough for him, and if the father thought his daughter might get better he could refuse. The life of the daughter was being gambled for prestige. The daughter was a transactional resource.

The criterias of desirability haven't changed, objectification by quantifying their quality as individuals, physical and mental, is still the same. The ranking and comparaison, an assignment to an absolute, comparable and fungible value is still there. Miss Universe is in historical continuity of the practice, which explains why culturally no one cares about Mister Universe. Men don't have to be judged and standardized, men objectification exists but as a curiosity, something just for fun. For women it's part of their condition.

The LGBT+ and feminist liberation movement stand against this standardisation. The beauty contest ought to be replaced by something that actually already exists: the pride parade. The pride parade is massive, inclusive, doesn't rank anyone, it just shows forms of beauty without judgement. The beauty contest is the bourgeois way of celebrating human beauty, by transforming standardized individuals into commodities with an assigned value. The pride parade celebrates beauty in its diversity, and provides intrinsic, non-fungible and incomparable value to individuals while including them in the mass instead of putting them above.

Therefore the pride parade is proletarian, it is a manifestation of mass, a resistance against bourgeois historical values and practices. It is the proletarian way of celebrating beauty.

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