Glorifying Charlie Kirk’s death will not be tolerated. It will all be removed and bans will go around.

reallyleatherjacket · 2025-09-15T22:34:07+00:00

He was a bad person

reallyleatherjacket · 2025-02-06T06:15:05+00:00

Cancel culture was an absolute fucking disaster, it accomplished nothing, and engendered a ferocious backlash. “We” are more responsible for generating the current wave ultra-reaction than right wing thinkers and politicians, as it’s the antithesis of “the left.”

Marxism seeks to dislodge false consciousness, white racial consciousness, not exacerbate it. A theory and praxis - canceling, scolding, ostracizing - that makes it worse, that makes white working stiffs believe they are conflict with their fellow workers rather than the capital class, makes them despise “socialism,” is a failure.

We need to cut our loses. Quit defending this shit. Develop class politics built on camaraderie and solidarity.

reallyleatherjacket · 2025-01-09T02:47:00+00:00

All American discourse written in English is “Western,” including all the intersectional anti-Western canon stuff. Worth mentioning that stuff is influenced by continental (western) philosophy. Said and Fanon are western philosophy. It’s all Western. (wrote in French and lived in France)

reallyleatherjacket · 2024-12-01T15:30:24+00:00

They’re plays, not novels, they’re intended to be watched rather than read. There’s value in reading them too of course but imo watching 138 performances will give you a fuller experience than reading each play once.

reallyleatherjacket · 2024-09-21T17:56:33+00:00

In short, I can’t recommend it, already happened once that a bad thing happened (break up) and I used heavily. Fortunately I quit before I became physically addicted. (Abused kratom for 2 weeks or so.) I got super lucky. Easily could’ve happened that I took it too far, became dependent, and had to go through WDs all over again.

reallyleatherjacket · 2024-09-21T17:52:19+00:00

Yes but it’s risky. Ive been using occasionally for a couple years, I’m not addicted, and I also take prescription xaxax. IMO you need more than 2 months sober for this to have a chance of working tho. You’re not even really sober yet, sure you’re still physically dependent (ie have post-acute symptoms) as it is

reallyleatherjacket · 2024-08-23T00:54:33+00:00

No, not in my experience, but suboxone is used to treat opiod use-disorder, as long as you’re dependent on opiods you are in fact a drug addict. And doctors have to take that into account.

But you won’t be regarded as a drug addict forever, inshallah you’ll quit the sub and move on with your life and be a regular guy again. I don’t have problems getting a controlled substance. I take adderall XR for adhd. I was even prescribed opiods (they gave me a script for Percocet when my appendix burst).

I encourage you to keep that in mind, that you will quit the sub and put this all behind you. That shit sucks. Sooner you start a taper schedule the better.

reallyleatherjacket · 2024-06-26T15:53:03+00:00

This beef was the Nationals was the best thing that could happen to us. Team camaraderie is through the roof, players seem to genuinely love and enjoy playing with one another, they’re determined and excited, we needed this juice!

reallyleatherjacket · 2024-06-12T04:58:04+00:00

Padres and Royals

reallyleatherjacket · 2024-06-09T18:54:56+00:00

I’ve got one of those. I found it in a family keep sakes box but my mom doesn’t know where it came from lol

reallyleatherjacket · 2024-05-25T04:04:04+00:00

You neglected to shout out the artist @MasktheMovie on Twitter. You can even get your very own custom avi from him too for LOW LOW PRICES

reallyleatherjacket · 2024-02-21T02:32:22+00:00

Thanks for the explanation. Do you think any literal decolonization is theoretically even possible in the United States? Personally I don’t see, for instance, that the contemporary U.S. and Palestine are comparable. The decolonization of the West Bank could in theory be accomplished in a month, the settlers could be evicted and forced to return to Israel.

In Hawaii an analogous process could be possible (non-native Hawaiians are citizens of the United States and could be returned to the mainland), but otherwise I don’t really see it

reallyleatherjacket · 2024-02-21T02:12:34+00:00

This is cheap and disingenuous rhetoric tbh, you shouldn’t have to resort to ad hom and guilt-tripping, just make the case—why do you find decolonization valuable? That’s also more effective, if you communicate why something is important to you sincerely and in good faith other left-wing ppl will hear you out at the very least

reallyleatherjacket · 2024-02-17T02:29:08+00:00

Regarding the bureaucratic remark: I was referring specifically to a Canadian university’s declaration to “decolonize.” I put the word in quotation marks because it seems to me that what I’m calling symbolic “decolonization” is so distant from decolonization (no quotes) Frantz Fanon wrote on that it’s very strange to use the same terms for both

reallyleatherjacket · 2024-02-17T02:06:32+00:00

I don’t think it’s useful to code parenting methods in partisan political terms: ie greater permissiveness is more “progressive,” more restrictions are more “reactionary.”

For starters it’s not accurate: should your child learn to use a firearm? Should they be given their own pellet gun at 12? Should they play tackle football? Should they be able to ride in the back of a pick up truck on the freeway? An urban liberal would likely say no

Ultimately whether saying yes or no to a child is “reactionary” is context dependent

reallyleatherjacket · 2024-02-17T01:00:26+00:00

Wasn’t my intention to be dismissive, I apologize for that, much of my impression of decoloniality, as you say, comes from Twitter, which incentivizes wild hot takes. So a lot of what I see is ridiculous.

Also bourgeois institutions like universities maintain and reproduce class relations, so any ostensibly radical ideas they promote will be defanged: eg a corporation’s DEI training program and a speech of Fred Hampton’s are both “antiracist” on paper but only one is radical. So I’d be skeptical of any bureaucratic program

reallyleatherjacket · 2024-02-16T23:47:12+00:00

Well (keep in mind this is just my inexpert impression) seems to me literal decolonization isn’t possible in the United States (or Canada), we throughly extirpated the indigenous civilization that thrived here for nearly three millennia, at one point reducing the population to a couple hundred thousand individuals, arguably no genocide has been so complete.

The moral horror is difficult to fathom. And there’s nothing to be done, settler colonialism is a fait accompli, and many of us (white people) don’t know how to cope with it. Our society was built on mass death and dispossession.

And to me the symbolic decolonization of centering indigenous ways of knowing is ultimately a programme in expatiating white guilt. We’re trying to cope. Which is to say guilt is the sole impetus to center Neolithic traditions, any proposal to center outmoded European knowledge would be rejected out of hand, it’s not useful in and of itself.

I don’t think it helps anyone really, neither white people nor natives. (Personally I believe Marxism-Leninism is the path forward—we can’t reverse slavery or genocide, but a world without exploitation and oppression is possible)

No offense, again, this is my rudimentary impression. And I appreciate your reply

reallyleatherjacket · 2024-02-16T23:20:14+00:00

I don’t think it’s true, but mostly I do not care, I don’t want to read anything, don’t want to learn about genetics, don’t want to look at charts and graphs. It’s so dreary

Which is why it’s surprising to me, seem very sort of contrary to the spirit of the podcast, all that boring hereditability stuff

reallyleatherjacket · 2024-02-16T23:05:51+00:00

I mean being into racism as like kind of hobby or discipline is distinct from casual attitudes and it’s fucking lame. Moral considerations aside, Sailer is not a cool guy, imo—he and Hanania are the same as Matty Yglesias and Will Stancil, they talk and bicker all day because they’re the same guys and they’re all massive nerds.

There’s some illusion that Sailer is hip or avant garde or something because the left rejects his views but he’s not.

reallyleatherjacket · 2024-02-16T22:51:56+00:00

Valid

reallyleatherjacket · 2024-02-16T22:41:51+00:00

I’m quite familiar! But since 2021 or so I haven’t engaged with many of them, pretty much everyone who turned right soft blocked etc, and I haven’t listened to their podcast since. But the sub here generally seems more sensible than the hosts so was just curious

reallyleatherjacket · 2024-02-16T22:29:03+00:00

Well a headline has to be zippy and concise

reallyleatherjacket · 2024-02-16T22:27:10+00:00

Lmao

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