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2 hours agoThe community college itself was an effort by a foreign power to unshittify the capitalist continent by making it so that magic is affordable and available even for those who aren’t of means
FunkyStuff [he/him]
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It’s cool though; if you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime! And if you’re doing the time, you belong to the state to do with as it pleases. That’s cool and good.
7·13 hours agoappeal to consequence
Speaking from my own perspective, as an early teen one of the last genres of embarrassing music I got into was hardstyle EDM because I liked the deconstruction. Before that, I just generally liked a lot of EDM because the way I engaged with music was extremely superficial (gaming megamix enjoyer). After that phase I started to really branch out into hip hop, post rock, /mu/core type stuff as I realized that music was capable of transmitting big messages and big emotions, not just sounds that were cool and fun to listen to.
really annoying navel gazing
The reason I would listen to EDM in particular, and not the top 40 radio that I was otherwise familiar with, I think is maybe the most interesting thing to think back on. It’s not like it was better, the stuff I would listen to was even less interesting than Katy Perry. It wasn’t even that sonically creative (some exceptions, I think some artists that I heard at the time did have some really cool sounds like Grant, but still not really comparable to the artists that I’d find later like Flume and Aphex Twin). So in some way, it was just reaction, pure contrarianism. A way to listen to something that felt cool and was completely distinct from what I had heard elsewhere. It got rid of that weird feeling I’d sometimes get listening to music on the radio that I’d later come to understand was catharsis. So what was it that created the aversion to feelings? Toxic masculinity? Alienation? I think there’s a lot going on in the mind of a teenage boy, I don’t really know how to add it all together.
He wrote the Governance of China and was doing some stuff in the Chinese National Assembly
“eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind” is literally just an appeal to consequence but OK
I’ve never had a twitter account so I only really know about him from directly visiting his profile through xcancel. Last week it stopped working. I think they put him in the crystal, I’m afraid.
It’s actually so interesting how this exact attitude is completely pervasive throughout all Western culture in varying degrees of dilution, and a lot of it traces back to Nietzsche… Really makes you think
My beautiful king… I miss him dearly.
newsposting on the beanmega
I guess that’s where I disagree. We aren’t engaging in a project to change people’s hearts, to convince them of the correctness of our ideas. We’re engaging in a project of the use of political power to define a new social reality that is liberatory for workers across the globe, a historical struggle defined not by right and wrong, but by the inevitable progressive forces of the people who hold power in their hands. “Progressive” in that sentence doesn’t mean “good person” like liberals often use it, but literally in the sense that it progresses history forward, dialectically.
“Communism is not love. It is a hammer to beat our enemies with” - Mao Zedong
Obviously that’s not to say that on a personal level, one person can’t feel guided by moral or sentimental things, because the counterpart (we’re getting really dialectical now) to the above quote is:
“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.” - Che Guevara
If someone calls me the r slur, and I respond to that by saying “no, you are <r slur>” then yes it is ableist. I know that’s not what you did, but it’s just one degree away from what you did. Just imagine if the tweet wasn’t about disabled kids and it was about kids that belonged to any other minority: would it be ok to say Zach is the one who belongs to that group, as a way to put him down?
edit: Sorry, the above is uncharitable. You didn’t use a slur, it’s a disingenuous comparison. I should acknowledge that there’s some truth to what you’re saying, that the people Asmon is attacking largely are the same people that become his fans. What I take issue with is ceding any ground to him by implying that disability or being neurodivergent makes you less worthy in any way.
Don’t just use ableism against fascists.
That’s so sweet lol! You gotta learn how to knit a coat out of linen thread.
Successfully got banned from a libertarian lemmy comm today. What have you done for the revolution?
why they gotta sell it to their own workers why cant they sell it to someone else
I’m starting to see a problem…
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Seconding this. I found work with a conservation group. There’s always something.