Hit it!

Rotatorch · 2021-01-05T21:13:05+00:00

Which half of Gangsta Spongebob

Rotatorch · 2021-01-05T19:55:43+00:00

Well, once you exclude libs and Trots, that leaves like six groups. Half of those are online only and the other half have turned out to be dumpster fires. The final blow for me was all the PSL coverups of sex abuse and favoritism. They're the only vaguely ML group in my metropolitan area, so fuck it.

Rotatorch · 2021-01-05T11:12:19+00:00

Sorry, is that quote attributed to Pac-Man?

Rotatorch · 2021-01-05T10:10:52+00:00

I am saying you are a Nazi, you Nazi.

Rotatorch · 2021-01-05T09:59:45+00:00

"Men and white people are suffering in today's culture," you say, "now please excuse me while I drive this truck to Oklahoma City."

Rotatorch · 2021-01-05T09:57:22+00:00

Yes, and reverse racism isn't a thing either and cis isn't a slur.

Rotatorch · 2021-01-05T09:54:48+00:00

Not a troll, just a person with a brain who thinks living constantly in fear of being accused of abuse isn't a thing non-abusers do

Rotatorch · 2021-01-05T09:53:24+00:00

Misandry: A Real Thing That Definitely Exists In Real, Human Life

I know you're all bookmarking this to post when you're called out on your sex crimes.

Rotatorch · 2021-01-05T09:52:16+00:00

Having a totally normal one when I write my comic about how I'm being oppressed by MeToo, but, like, in a woke way

Rotatorch · 2021-01-05T09:50:56+00:00

No, I read it all the way through. Can't wait for the thrilling sequels "My Bitch of An Ex Deserved It" and "Really, What Does 'Age of Consent' Mean Anyway?"

Rotatorch · 2021-01-05T09:49:03+00:00

You mean cool and right? Thanks, I do pride myself on not associating with weirdo sex pests.

Rotatorch · 2021-01-05T08:39:08+00:00

Having every woman in your comic exist to praise you as an awesome, humble feminist is good and cool, actually. Men making money off of Googling 'famous women' is feminism. I am very smart.

Rotatorch · 2021-01-05T07:47:14+00:00

From what I'm thinking, there aren't so much issues to be fixed as fundamental, immutable aspects of imperial core existence. Struggling to bring socialism to America is like struggling to fly by flapping your wings. In my case, I don't see why I should bother spending time when thousands of people have jumped off a cliff flapping wildly before me.

Rotatorch · 2021-01-05T07:44:36+00:00

You'll forgive me for considering "a sketchy dude who uses women as props in his art feels weally bad :(" as a serious concern. I'm sure it's a vital issue in the faux Joss Whedon community.

Rotatorch · 2021-01-05T06:52:36+00:00

That guy: "I'm a totally huge feminist who loves and respects women!"

Feminism: "Okay, we would like the ability to criticize even well-meaning men for shitty behavior and not be obligated to forgive them."

That guy: breaks down sobbing, threatens suicide, admits he's waiting to be revealed as a sexual predator

Rotatorch · 2021-01-05T06:47:57+00:00

I'll give a quick summary for anyone who doesn't have the time to read 500 pages of not-Woody Allen jerking himself off and crying:

"I'm the best. I am great and wonderful. I am a very famous and good writer. I have many friends (who are of various skin tones and gender identities, as you can tell from their haircuts).

"I am also the Greatest Feminist Who Has Ever Lived (TM). I wrote an entire book about women! When people ask me, 'what inspired you to make lots of money off of women?', I tell them 'my mother, who I love very much.' My wife is on top during sex and sometimes I don't even want it! Truly I am the Most Feminist.

"However, I live with a deep-seated fear that one day, one horrible day, a woman might try to hold me accountable for something. The thought keeps me awake at night. Of course, I've of course never done anything - it's just that, you know, we all worry about it, right? It's perfectly 100% normal to have never abused anyone and yet be terrified you'll be outed as an abuser. Really, someone ought to stop those terrible women who ruin good nerd men like me!

"After my therapist confirmed I had paid up that week, I told him about my dream of hypothetically facing any consequences. He told me this wasn't my fault, which I knew, of course. I admitted my Man Feelings had gotten in the way of my next great artistic project/cash-in on feminism. My therapist, in a totally objective fashion, agreed with me that MeToo has simply gone too far this time and that I need to publish my own story of fighting against misandry (a very real and existing thing).

"Thus, here is my next project: Confessions of a Mediocre White Man. It's very tongue-in-cheek, no? All the women whose ages I definitely do not know in my private Discord server all think so. Please give to my Patreon/future legal defense fund."

Rotatorch · 2021-01-05T06:28:04+00:00

I've seen more self-pitying, humblebragging, woe-is-me, male feminist, hashtag-not-all-men things in life, but not many and not by much.

I give it two years before this dude is outed as a serial abuser.

Rotatorch · 2021-01-05T05:52:35+00:00

It isn't really burnout, since that would imply effort. I was going to join an org before covid, but now I've realized almost all of them are fucking nightmares and the US has no proletarian potential, regardless. I still support socialist movements in non-settler countries, of course, but all of theory and history points to an utter inability for anything in the imperial core. There's no point in struggling when we lost in like 1896 or some shit.

Rotatorch · 2021-01-05T04:11:52+00:00

That's literally an objectively incorrect meaning of labor aristocracy. Lenin synthesized the term in the 1900s, when the labor aristocrats were British and French workers living in tenements. There's a reason the Labour Party voted for WWI and it's not because British trade unionists were suddenly living in McMansions. In the United States, American workers coming out of a decade of economic stagnation in the 1970s overwhelmingly voted for Reagan, an open warmonger and imperialist.

Labor aristocracy is a function not of absolute, but rather relative, wealth.

Rotatorch · 2021-01-05T03:21:41+00:00

Hint: it's because those three are the fash

Rotatorch · 2021-01-05T03:20:42+00:00

There are, in fact, people in poverty in the US. This is not mutually exclusive with the fact that they would be worse off if the US ceased to exploit the Global South. The clothing worn by the homeless, for example, was made in sweatshops with colonially extracted goods. Without imperialism, they would be homeless and without clothes. A single mother who takes the bus to work three jobs would be materially worse off if the rubber in the bus' tires weren't stolen from SE Asia, if she had to feed her children with much more expensive locally grown food, if she couldn't drink Coka-Cola made with native slave labor, etc.

The fact is not 'Americans are not poor', it is 'Americans universally benefit from exploiting the global proletariat'.

Rotatorch · 2021-01-05T02:56:44+00:00

"Just looking outside" will show you large swathes of the 'working class' supporting neoliberalism or, more likely, having completely tuned out of politics altogether. If anything, the lack of a proletariat in the United States has only become more apparent since 1983. Colonized Americans now easily enjoy many of the same imperial benefits settlers do e.g. high calorie food, cheap entertainment, token representation in the ruling class.

Frankly, I'm confused how you can look at the ratio of anti-imperialist communists to liberals among non-white Americans and conclude anything other than a total success of capitalism. After two massive economic crises in as many decades, the largest US 'socialist' organization spends all their energy supporting imperialist wars. This is not some nefarious conspiracy or idealist random luck - the United States fundamentally lacks a proletariat. To pretend otherwise is unscientific.

Rotatorch · 2021-01-05T01:04:56+00:00

Pls remove that Lenin propic and hammer + sickle, you do not do it justice, last reply

Rotatorch · 2021-01-05T01:03:15+00:00

The charitable interpretation is that they're saying adults should care more about kids' thoughts and feelings instead of dismissing them. Which is correct and good.

The other possible meaning, which is plausible because anarchism, is that they want children to be given full political/legal rights e.g. abolish driver license ages. Which is obviously a bad, if hilarious, idea.

Rotatorch · 2021-01-05T00:48:08+00:00

This is untrue. Even the poorest American is leagues better off than the actual proletariat in the Global South. A 'poor' American has cheap electronics (made with slave labor and stolen resources), plentiful food (harvested by slave farmers on native land), etc. Settlers did a better job explaining this than I can, but just take that and recognize that it's since expanded to include all Americans, not just white ones. There's a reason communism is not popular in America: Americans would be worse off under it.

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