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Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
is there really anything to do with people who are so utterly, mortally afraid of everything?

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the sex ghost
Sep 6, 2009
Drug dealers are well known for giving their drugs away for free

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

dress your kid up like a cop and they'll faint when coming within a 20 foot radius of fenty candy

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

Since all the candy is mingled together in the same bag it's impossible to find out who gave your child the weed candies so you won't be able to get more

lumpentroll
Mar 4, 2020

VitalSigns posted:

Since all the candy is mingled together in the same bag it's impossible to find out who gave your child the weed candies so you won't be able to get more

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Milo and POTUS posted:

is there really anything to do with people who are so utterly, mortally afraid of everything?

Not to worry. They're not afraid of harmless things like speeding, obesity, or the flu

War and Pieces
Apr 24, 2022

DID NOT VOTE FOR FETTERMAN

loquacius posted:

communist terfs are fascinating to me tbh. TERF translates roughly to "old bewildered person" so naturally most of them are libs but every so often you run into an actual dyed-in-the-wool SCUMM Manifesto radical who applies Marxist theory to "the male class"

"run into" is of course metaphorical here because like many ideologies they only exist online

they're the real terfs (obviously not an endorsement) the other terfs started IDing as that bc that's what they were already being called

tokin opposition
Apr 8, 2021

I don't jailbreak the androids, I set them free.

WATCH MARS EXPRESS (2023)
TERFIM (terf identified male, applied regardless of gender because terfs don't get validation for gender)

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

most transphobes are not TERFs, TERFism is a really boutique ideology which was borne out of the most anti-genderist strains of anglo second-wave feminism, under which the doctrine was the abolition of the social construct of gender, ref. firestone. most transphobes just think trans people are icky, they are not opposed to them on the basis of them reifying concepts of gender identity which are seen as abominable. a fair amount of radical feminists practised political lesbianism. it is a very wild ideology which is somewhat prominent today mainly because some prominent radical-feminist intellectuals have embraced it, thus giving intellectual-progressive cover to transphobia

a subset of relatively vulgar marxists end up in the same place out of an exaggerated hostility to identity politics per se. it's a qualitatively different creature to the TERFs imo.

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

don't a lot of kids get killed by cars on Halloween . Or am I just misremembering /inventing the idea since it sounds plausible.

Pingui
Jun 4, 2006

WTF?

In Training posted:

don't a lot of kids get killed by cars on Halloween . Or am I just misremembering /inventing the idea since it sounds plausible.

You may simply be confused. A lot of carbs get killed by kids on Halloween.

One More Fat Nerd
Apr 13, 2007

Mama’s Lil’ Louie

Nap Ghost

In Training posted:

don't a lot of kids get killed by cars on Halloween . Or am I just misremembering /inventing the idea since it sounds plausible.

It is, by far, the deadliest day for child pedestrians.

Milo and POTUS posted:

is there really anything to do with people who are so utterly, mortally afraid of everything?

My own hot take here, but I become less invested in democracy in America every year. You can't fix our electorate.

Endman
May 18, 2010

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even anime may die


Marxists are supposed to be concerned chiefly with class conflict and the material conditions that create it. Worrying about the "social implications" of asexual and trans people and whether they're some sort of capitalist propaganda seems like an enormous waste of time for any serious left-wing project.

tokin opposition
Apr 8, 2021

I don't jailbreak the androids, I set them free.

WATCH MARS EXPRESS (2023)
Asexuality is the most Communist sexuality change my mind

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

tokin opposition posted:

Asexuality is the most Communist sexuality change my mind

its maosexual sorry

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

my bony fealty posted:

its maosexual sorry

Hey baby - want to come back to my place and swim the Yangtze?

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

One More Fat Nerd posted:

democracy in America

Dang

Cookie Cutter
Nov 29, 2020

Is there something else that's bothering you Mr. President?

Maximo Roboto posted:

What about Scottish or Irish communist parties

The established party line in Scotland, my home, is just as bad as England. Ireland I can't speak for as it's not in the UK

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Endman posted:

Marxists are supposed to be concerned chiefly with class conflict and the material conditions that create it. Worrying about the "social implications" of asexual and trans people and whether they're some sort of capitalist propaganda seems like an enormous waste of time for any serious left-wing project.

Class reductionism is almost entirely a liberal invention but it's still important for a socialist state to understand and accommodate the needs of all its people, and the problems that come from trying to push people into a mould they cannot fit, and support for them- each according to their need, after all

That said most of the solutions do genuinely come down to people realising when something is not actually a problem and just going about their goddamn lives with better things to do

Tsitsikovas
Aug 2, 2023

In Training posted:

don't a lot of kids get killed by cars on Halloween . Or am I just misremembering /inventing the idea since it sounds plausible.

Was walking to my parents house in a housey part of brooklyn and even tho its obviously halloween and kids with parents were everywhere walking, all that didnt stop this one rear end in a top hat from leaning on his car horn out of spastic impatient anger.

Its completely plausible.

Endman
May 18, 2010

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even anime may die


Ghost Leviathan posted:

Class reductionism is almost entirely a liberal invention but it's still important for a socialist state to understand and accommodate the needs of all its people, and the problems that come from trying to push people into a mould they cannot fit, and support for them- each according to their need, after all

That said most of the solutions do genuinely come down to people realising when something is not actually a problem and just going about their goddamn lives with better things to do

That’s sort of what I’m getting at. These weirdos are trying to make gender and sexual diversity a “problem” for socialism, when there’s no reason for it to be whatsoever.

YaketySass
Jan 15, 2019

Blind Idiot Dog

V. Illych L. posted:

most transphobes are not TERFs, TERFism is a really boutique ideology which was borne out of the most anti-genderist strains of anglo second-wave feminism, under which the doctrine was the abolition of the social construct of gender, ref. firestone. most transphobes just think trans people are icky, they are not opposed to them on the basis of them reifying concepts of gender identity which are seen as abominable. a fair amount of radical feminists practised political lesbianism. it is a very wild ideology which is somewhat prominent today mainly because some prominent radical-feminist intellectuals have embraced it, thus giving intellectual-progressive cover to transphobia

a subset of relatively vulgar marxists end up in the same place out of an exaggerated hostility to identity politics per se. it's a qualitatively different creature to the TERFs imo.

The popularity of TERF as a term seems to reflect a bizarre desire for an enemy who has some superficial similarity to your own ideology so you can better exorcize it. Meanwhile like 99% of transphobes would never label themselves as radical feminists.

In some ways I understand the impulse, it's more fun to nerd out over ideological esoterica rather than come back again and again to the same dominant brands of bigotry.

Betjeman
Jul 14, 2004

Biker, Biker, Biker GROOVE!
Culture wars need manufacturing and transphobes of the world could unite around the one fringe conspiracy group.

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer

Failed Imagineer posted:

Feels like calls for (more) genocide should be probeworthy even in the hot takes thread

Wazzock! Berk! Plonker!

War and Pieces
Apr 24, 2022

DID NOT VOTE FOR FETTERMAN

Betjeman posted:

Culture wars need manufacturing and transphobes of the world could unite around the one fringe conspiracy group.

why would they do that when they unite over the hegemonic ideology

YaketySass posted:

The popularity of TERF as a term seems to reflect a bizarre desire for an enemy who has some superficial similarity to your own ideology so you can better exorcize it. Meanwhile like 99% of transphobes would never label themselves as radical feminists.

In some ways I understand the impulse, it's more fun to nerd out over ideological esoterica rather than come back again and again to the same dominant brands of bigotry.

ironically this is why the actually-existing TERFs hyper fixate on trans people who would otherwise be there ideological allies on most issues

tristeham
Jul 31, 2022

Regarde Aduck posted:

Wazzock! Berk! Plonker!

Civilized Fishbot
Apr 3, 2011

YaketySass posted:

The popularity of TERF as a term seems to reflect a bizarre desire for an enemy who has some superficial similarity to your own ideology so you can better exorcize it. Meanwhile like 99% of transphobes would never label themselves as radical feminists.

In some ways I understand the impulse, it's more fun to nerd out over ideological esoterica rather than come back again and again to the same dominant brands of bigotry.

I think it also reflects the emergence of "trans-exclusive progressive feminists" and other people who are obviously not radical feminists, but would consider themselves feminists and posture their suspicion of trans people as feminist (trans women make cis women unsafe, trans men are just women who have been neglected/misled). The term TERF was already there and could be stretched to include these people even though it's objectively an incorrect label for them.

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

In Training posted:

don't a lot of kids get killed by cars on Halloween . Or am I just misremembering /inventing the idea since it sounds plausible.

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Is Halloween more dangerous or are more kids walking around at night

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!
~15 dead kids by cars a day is normal, though.

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

StashAugustine posted:

Is Halloween more dangerous or are more kids walking around at night
First one, then the other.

Orange Devil posted:

~15 dead kids by cars a day is normal, though.
Closer to ~1, the chart is a 14-year total.

Taeke
Feb 2, 2010


Famously bad US car centric infrastructure combined with poo poo drivers, at night during a holiday so lots of drunk drivers, and a whole lotta kids walking streets they wouldn't be allowed to and couldn't travel on safely even during the day.

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!

FFT posted:

First one, then the other.

Closer to ~1, the chart is a 14-year total.

Oh my bad, I thought it was an average per day over that period.

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

Orange Devil posted:

Oh my bad, I thought it was an average per day over that period.
it is, don't let big truck trick you

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.
FFT: Ford F150 Truck

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
Literal pedophile alert



DACK FAYDEN
Feb 25, 2013

Bear Witness

Tsitsikovas posted:

Was walking to my parents house in a housey part of brooklyn and even tho its obviously halloween and kids with parents were everywhere walking, all that didnt stop this one rear end in a top hat from leaning on his car horn out of spastic impatient anger.

Its completely plausible.
please, "spastic" refers to a person with a specific medical condition that they can't help even if they try

the word you wanted was "impotent"

Edmund Sparkler
Jul 4, 2003
For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are peris

gradenko_2000 posted:

Literal pedophile alert




"What if everyone in the world would die unless you said the n word?"

christmas boots
Oct 15, 2012

To these sing-alongs 🎤of siren 🧜🏻‍♀️songs
To oohs😮 to ahhs😱 to 👏big👏applause👏
With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
🇺🇸America🦅, I love you 🥰but you're freaking 💦me 😳out
Biscuit Hider

gradenko_2000 posted:

Literal pedophile alert





don't forget the followup

https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1721191213381066880

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Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
What a piece of poo poo

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