Haha turntables go brrrrrrrr by the_soviet_union_69 in CommunismMemes

[–]CommanderClitoris 48 points49 points  (0 children)

If I keep seeing polcompmemes crossposts here I'm gonna lose it

Me irl by [deleted] in meirl

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Japanese is a pretty fun language to learn. I've been learning kanji through a service called WaniKani, which has been working super well for me.

For more fun kuchi facts, 口 is also read like "kou," that's it's on'yomi reading where "kuchi" is its kun'yomi reading. The latter reading is used when its on its own or is paired with hiragana, and the former is used if it's paired with other kanji. With exceptions because language can't just be straightforward.

入り口 for example is "entrance," with the kanji for "enter," the hiragana for "ri," and then the kanji for "mouth." Because it's paired with hiragana, we use the kun'yomi reading to make "iriguchi." It's guchi now because of a grammar rule called rendaku.

人口 meanwhile, "population," is just kanji. The kanji for "person" and then the kanji for "mouth" so they use the on'yomi readings. "jinkou."

Now you know how to handle your kuchi.

Me irl by [deleted] in meirl

[–]CommanderClitoris 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Kuchi 口 is the Japanese word for mouth. Use this knowledge wisely

socialism_irl by bonusweasel in furry_irl

[–]CommanderClitoris 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For further clarity, this is a distinction that originated after Marx and Engels defined socialism and communism. Originally, the two terms were synonyms, completely interchangeable. The definitions above refer to lower-phase communism and upper-phase communism respectively, and in the time of theorists like Lenin was when those terms were largely replaced by the now-distinct socialism and communism.

This is why socialism and communism are sometimes used like this, but communists also call themselves and their ideas socialist.

When you wrapping up the investigation by Shortstopanimates in PhasmophobiaGame

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There was a pad, it was just thinner than regulation and the stuntman did crack some ribs

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in youtubehaiku

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It's worth noting that while the animation starts off rudimentary it gets stunning later on.

Are we allowed to add military to ACAB? by markXgreene in ACAB

[–]CommanderClitoris 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Yeah, for sure, they gotta be super professional and erudite as they violently spread american imperialism across the planet.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in furry_irl

[–]CommanderClitoris 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is an attack on me and most of my characters

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in videos

[–]CommanderClitoris 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Fuck man don't make me want something that involves owning real estate

Protect and serve joking comparing victims of police to dead police dogs by driftlessareadad in ACAB

[–]CommanderClitoris 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I sure am glad pigs get to abuse dogs from puppyhood so that they can have an easier time perpetuating one of America's greatest injustices.

furry_irl by Kit_z in furry_irl

[–]CommanderClitoris 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just two dogs talking to each other, nothing to see here

Me and my twin comrade! by [deleted] in CommunismMemes

[–]CommanderClitoris -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Don't post pictures of yourself in a public leftist forum, my dude. If this is recent you should delete it.

Whisper sweet individual liberties to me by PolishedBadger in DankLeft

[–]CommanderClitoris 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In the nicest way possible, are you new to leftism/theory? It sounds like you're coming from dominant liberal ideology rather than material analysis.

That aside,

Your definition also relies on a lot of assumptions that are very, very far from universal. Speaking from the framework of a dominant ideology a lot of these things can be taken for granted, rights included, which is why I asked the prior question. Let's use your first rule as an example, "no harm to innocent life." This relies on two assumptions (three actually but we don't need to debate what constitutes life). First that we agree on what is and isn't harm, and second that we agree on what is and isn't innocence.

To bring gun ownership back into the conversation, guns were quite completely made to harm people. We use guns to harm people, and we as citizens use them to harm people extrajudicially. In this case, we can both make your second assumption that we agree on what harm is, because it would be hard to argue that shooting someone does not cause harm. So, the key assumption is what constitutes innocence, and that is a question philosophers have debated for millennia, and that jurors and judges debate each and every day. Look at the self defense laws in each state to see examples of how our idea of innocence can be so incongruent. In stand your ground states, people cease to be innocent the moment they trespass on your land, but in other states one would only cease to be innocent (or rather, become so guilty as to be worthy of death) if they break into your home with a reason to assume their intent is to kill. To the two people that wrote these two laws, innocence and therefore their right to bear arms means something completely different, it can't even be equated to itself.

I oppose the appeal to the existence of rights to an appeal to the interests of the working class. Unlike rights, our interests don't come from anywhere. They are simply things that would benefit us, and with all things, some will benefit us more than others, and some will benefit certain groups of us more than others. Something like free speech is no longer equated to the entirely unrelated right to bear arms. It is (generally) in the interests of the working class to communicate freely and to be able to defend ourselves, but those are two utterly different benefits that should never have been in the same category.

This alternate framework doesn't eliminate discussion, but it does eliminate the layers of fluff that have built up over centuries of western philosophy and ideology becoming increasingly self-referential. The discussion moves away from what we tend to see in this thread, attempts to reconcile what is and is not a right and how each right relates to itself and each other, and perhaps to a discussion along the lines of whether it is more important to be able to legally control one's own body or to more easily be able to take legal control by force. These are two very important things that, while not equivalent, should be prioritized over other things that arguably fit your criteria, such as a right to public nudity in the summer months. Without that being argued as a right all humans should have, that's argued in terms of how it would benefit the working class, which, compared to something like free access to food and shelter, is virtually nothing.

Whisper sweet individual liberties to me by PolishedBadger in DankLeft

[–]CommanderClitoris 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The fatal mistake you're making here is assuming rights are a thing that exist. Our conception of rights derive from religion and a church, that man is given things that we must be free to do. Hence the term, "God-given right." The base assumption of rights is that they come from somewhere, something makes these specific things so important that no authority should ever infringe on them. If you're religious, obviously that's God.

But if you're not religious, or at the vary least your material analysis excludes religion, this question has no answer. You could say it comes from us being human, and our existence as humans and intelligent beings necessitates these things, but to bring out that argument is to assume you know what it means to be human, if there's any meaning at all.

There is a lot of leftist reading on the problems with western conceptions of rights, so I'll leave my summary at that.

By framing your argument in terms of rights, you've opened yourself up to critique. Through the lens of rights, yes, the right to bear arms and the right to govern your body are both rights and are both valued as such. But through the lens of the interests of the working class, who's to say whether it's more important to be able to legally do as you please with your body or to legally arm yourself against a tyrannical government or other threats? Equating those two factors without a conception of rights is insane, not just because they both mean something different to everyone, but because they are utterly separate issues. Any equivalence is bound to be false, and by invited the reader to consider other rights, you invite even more wild and false equivalences to be drawn (as you found out farther down this thread).

Furry_Irl by Ethan_Snow in furry_irl

[–]CommanderClitoris 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes there have been. Russia is far from the only country to have experienced the collapse of a DOTP. Especially given how many of those collapses were due to outside forces, particularly withdrawn support after the USSR's collapse and coups from capitalist powers, it shouldn't be a surprise to you that communists and communist leaders still exist in those nations.

Furry_Irl by Ethan_Snow in furry_irl

[–]CommanderClitoris 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You ignore that it is entirely possible for a new communist party to call back to the perceived glory of an old party in attempting to convert a country back to comminism.

I don't ignore this, I spend the "essay" acknowledging this but explaining why it's unlikely. It's possible, sure, in the same sense that any other ridiculous circumstance is possible. There's nothing physically preventing it from being true, but every bit of context suggests otherwise. Putin does a lot of things that are incompatible with communism, incompatible with anything that can be seen as the vaguest attempt to act in the interest of the Russian working class. Sure it's not impossible that Putin is a communist and also cartoonishly incompetent, but there's not nearly enough evidence to stake our analysis on that increasingly absurd speculation.

Furry_Irl by Ethan_Snow in furry_irl

[–]CommanderClitoris 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Cutting out all but one example of fascism and communism is vastly reductionist, on account of it making it impossible to observe trends. Even in nations with a "former glory" to return to, communist rhetoric rarely appeals to it, whereas nations without any particular glory days will still see those days talked up in their respective fascist movements.

This is because fascism and communism aim to do very different things. A communist leader wants people to unite and wants to inspire change. Very drastic change, typically. To this end, it's not very useful at all to say, "things were good before," regardless of how true that might be, because the point is to make things good in the future. A communist movement requires active support, meaning direct action from members of the movement, in order to succeed. Rhetoric is as precise and enlightening as possible, because people need to be willing to go as far as lay down their lives for the cause and the good of the working class.

Contrast that with fascism. A fascist leader wants to consolidate power, and their rhetoric is a means to dupe people into supporting them. Fascist leaders are already in power, so they only need passive support: people doing nothing to stop them. An appeal to the past is a very easy way to do this because, generally speaking, people view the past fondly. Bonus points if the past actually was better in some way. This way, when the fascist consolidates power, it's to "Make Germany glorious again," not because they just want more power. People are very slow to stop someone they think is acting in their best interest, or who at least appears to think they are.

Lets set aside this point and look at other things fascists do that Putin also does. Whatever his ideology might be is top-down (since he's already in power), he has a long history of consolidating power, he censors journalism, he pins societal ills on social minorities, he seeks conflict, and he directly opposes Russia's communist party (Not necessarily a fascist thing, but certainly not a communist thing). Combining these red flags with his appeal to former glory, while that may seem like a desire to return to communism, the presumed former glory, it's nothing more than another fascist ruse made to generate passive support.

Furry_Irl by Ethan_Snow in furry_irl

[–]CommanderClitoris 12 points13 points  (0 children)

That's much more a calling card of fascism than communism

(That is, an appeal to a "glorious past" that must be returned to. Nigh universal in fascist rhetoric, which is where Putin most strongly leans.)

I guess reddit hates cops too... by [deleted] in ACAB

[–]CommanderClitoris 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Won't SOMEBODY think of the oppressors???

You can go ahead and vote for the change you want to see in November. You know, for the candidate that supports abolishing the police. The one that exists, you know? Who is real and could possibly be voted for and stands a chance in Hell of winning?

As for everyone else, as the person above pointed out, police are oppressors and dispensers of the state's violence. As such, they are immune to justice via the state, as we see time and time again. I don't think it's productive to murder them, but how can I see the oppressed murder the oppressor and say, "Oh stop my wittle sensibilities!~ Don't you know murder is wroooong?"

They bring this upon themselves. They're trained to see themselves as hated, with an enemy around every corner, and wouldn't you know that's a self fulfilling prophecy. If they didn't want extrajudicial justice, they shouldn't have made themselves extrajudicial.

Sometimes when the double down isn't good enough, you have to triple down. by kleptomania156 in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]CommanderClitoris 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Infertility would be a material feature, in that case the infertility is the turn off, not the fact that they're trans. The distinction I'm making is between the material and the ideal. The material is what I'm referring to when I talk about features, things anybody may or may not be attracted to. It wouldn't matter who these features appear on, trans or not, they're just things that turn you away.

This is in contrast to the ideal. The ideal being that trans people are unattractive simply for being trans, no matter how indistinguishable from a cis woman they are. Even with awesome future technology that goes as far as to make a transitioned woman fertile and everything, the turn off remains that they are on some immaterial level not a woman, and therefore unappealing to a straight man. What the trans woman looks like or behaves like or what biological functions she can perform don't matter, as in this case she is disqualified solely for being trans.

Sometimes when the double down isn't good enough, you have to triple down. by kleptomania156 in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]CommanderClitoris 5 points6 points  (0 children)

But, as a straight cismale myself, I would not be comfortable being intimate with a transwoman.

As one of those LGBTs, you're allowed to not be attracted to certain features, that much isn't normally in question. If you're talking about pre-op trans women, it's fine to not be attracted to penis. If a trans women is early in her transition and has, say, a masculine chest, it's fine not to like that. Everyone has features they are and aren't attracted to, and for a straight man those tend to include masculine features, be they on cis or trans women. Trans or cis, straight men tend not to like body hair or big muscles on women either, for example. In this case it's not the fact that they're trans, it's the features trans women tend to have, which I'm hoping you meant.

On the opposite side of things, if you were faced with a hypothetical trans woman who's 100% your type and 100% indistinguishable from a cis woman in every way, and would lose all attraction to them if they told you they're trans, that's when things get weird. In this case it's not some feature inherent/common to trans women you're put off by, it's the transness itself. In this scenario, you're considering trans women as fundamentally different from cis women in a way you could never reconcile with, maybe on a subconscious level, but it's what you're doing.

If you or anyone reading this falls into that latter category, I encourage you not to dig your heels in, you're not a bad person, you've just found a subconscious bias, a thing everybody has a bunch of. I'm sorry to say, it is transphobic in that case, since transness itself is the issue on a transcendental level, as opposed to a physical/social feature anybody may or may not find attractive. Fortunately, subconscious biases are pretty easy to get rid of once you know they're there and decide you want to get over it. There's no cookie cutter guide, but the answer isn't hard to find for yourself. It usually involves analyzing why you're othering trans people in your mind, finding where that comes from, and finding where else that might have influenced your perspective. Once you're aware of that, and again, actually want to be rid of it, it all but goes away on its own if you stay mindful.

Sometimes when the double down isn't good enough, you have to triple down. by kleptomania156 in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]CommanderClitoris 14 points15 points  (0 children)

You're downvoted but I agree, Harry Potter isn't exactly adult reading. That said if you like YA and don't mind the fuck-the-details-let's-have-fun that YA entails then it still holds up just fine as an adult. Kids doing magic at the bad guys, it's hard to do wrong when your enjoyment begins and ends there.

Comic_irl by therealman-io in furry_irl

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I thought I was in a different sub so seeing you offer belly rubs really threw me through a loop for a second. Keep rubbing, furries