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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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quoms

the state’s monopoly on legitimate violence against its own citizens is a ‘common good’ with respect to the capitalist class, in the same way that roads and schools are common goods with respect to the rest of society… as neoliberalism slowly strips away the functions and capacities of the state in order to sell them for scrap, what remains untouched by the ravages of privatisation is nothing else but the coercive monopoly. when better than the present to serve as a police officer?

argumate

I suspect that the past was a better time to serve as a police officer, and it’s unlikely to get better in the future.

mitigatedchaos

It has already begun with Libertarian/Capitalist plans to “make the perpetrators of crime responsible for paying its costs” as city budgets have declined, resulting in police forces bringing back debtors’ prisons and getting a significant part of their revenue from fines, which is partly responsible for terrible racialized police relations in many US communities (even though many US police forces are multiracial).

Because, y'know, having a justice system that actually works isn’t a public good, right? People are ‘totes atomic yo.

The Left could maybe have put a stop to this… but the problem is that since they have embraced Globalism, you can’t have a sturdy social safety net and mass immigration, because it incentivizes people to migrate to go on your welfare system. It also gives you a disadvantage in the global marketplace over countries that are willing to be crueler for money. The natural tendency of Globalism is towards atomized global capitalism in which the wages of all across the world will be equalized and social protections will not exist.

You could do some things to fix this - in one nation, where the benefit of the people of the nation was considered valuable rather than oppressive.

Source: quoms politics
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Man: *says something a little misogynistic*

Feminist Man: yeah well you wouldn’t be saying that if you just got some pussy, you fucking faggot-

in-all-conscience

I can’t tell if this is a pro-feminist post or an anti-feminist post.

argumate

it is exactly what it appears to be: pointing out that people repeat messages that claim to be feminist, but which reinforce the traditional patriarchal world-view, and indeed only make sense at all in terms of that world-view.

whether you interpret that as a a criticism of feminist ideology, or a criticism of people who claim to be feminist but aren’t really, or a criticism of the way that every ideology that gains any status at all is quickly subverted and repackaged as a harmless commodity, is entirely up to you.

I just think it’s annoying for people to go around saying the opposite of what they claim to mean, because I am a huge dork.

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argumate

yesterday I was thinking about how our only solutions for low-level pain relief are basically paracetamol and ibuprofen, which haven’t changed for over 50 years; so much for tech progress.

then I heard a breathless advertisement for a revolution in pain relief! …it was a tablet that combines paracetamol and ibuprofen.

at this point it seems likely that the biggest advance in pain management in the 21st century will be legalizing weed.

mitigatedchaos

Nah, there’s some combination of chemicals in the research pipeline that eliminates physical pain entirely.  Of course, then you get the same problems as those guys who are congenitally unable to feel pain, but that’s probably a step up for many of the chronic pain cases.

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thathopeyetlives

Pope Francis is meeting with Trump.

Hopefully he is the man who can break his pride. Perhaps it is for this that he was born, that he became a hierarch.

wirehead-wannabe

Doubtful, but at least we’ll probably get some good memes

mitigatedchaos

“The ratings!”  Trump declared, “the ratings are incredible!”

5% probability it’s the goal of the entire Meme-American Presidency.

Source: thathopeyetlives shtpost predictions
wirehead-wannabe

Anonymous asked:

The blood of Manchester is on the hands of open border globalists like yourself.

wirehead-wannabe answered:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/23/manchester-arena-attacker-named-salman-abedi-suicide-attack-ariana-grande

Native born

mitigatedchaos

(Not the Anon.) You’re supposed to be smarter than this, WW. Second- or third-generation radicalization under foreign religions with a long history of violence is the opposite of proof that mass migration of followers of such religions is safe. :/

Anonymous asked:

I'm a liberal. Here, anonymously, free of the Dictatorless Dystopia and threat of social punishment, I can exclusively confirm you guys come off as huge jerks.

Is this about MRAs?

Anon-kun, honey, I am not an MRA.  I am an MRA sympathizer and Feminism sympathizer.

And as for the MRAs, of course they will come off as jerks - their ability to get any resources has been made dependent on showing that men have it as bad/worse than women, because they are constantly shut down for “WELL WOMEN HAVE IT WORSE” which implicitly ends with a very sexist “therefore your problems don’t matter and no resources should be devoted to addressing them.”  (And resources have been denied IRL from attempts to address those problems.)

Look, you can either have a movement which actually attempts to resolve all gender issues for real and does not dismiss them because they are coming from “oppressors,” accurately realizing just how bound up together the knot of gender is, or you can have a movement which focuses exclusively on the issues of women.  You can’t have both.  You tried to have both, and that’s what got you MRAs.

I would also like to suggest cutting back on some of the demonization.  For instance, there was an “MRAs Hate Mad Max: Fury Road!” article circulating about. I went looking in places where I previously saw MRAs gather, and they were all baffled by it, because none of them hated Fury Road.  

The group that would have disliked it are the r/theredpill types (warning: r/theredpill has lots of actual misogyny, I cannot stand to read it), who are not the same group, but which there is a propaganda advantage to conflating with MRAs, who threaten feminism’s monopoly on the non-trad gender discourse.

A majority of MRAs could still be demobilized if Feminism were BETTER.  That won’t happen, because Feminism not being better is how MRAs came to exist in the first place, and the forces that caused that haven’t been corrected, so in fact we’re just going to see more MRAs created.

Yes, that’s right, Anon-dear.  More MRAs.

As for GamerGate - have you ever heard of something called the GNAA?  Professional troll groups were trollin’ like there was no tomorrow, and GGers were also receiving death threats, questionable mail, etc.  The whole thing didn’t really explode until all the “LOL GAMERS ARE DEAD” articles came out.

Might I suggest not engaging in an attempted cultural takeover that involves kicking the original demographic out of their own subculture, which is exactly what those articles were.  Everyone knows that if the target weren’t predominantly white, low-status males that wouldn’t have flown.  

The transition of GGers to further right-wing has been interpreted as evidence that they were vile oppressors all along, but actually the causality is the other way around.  An opening was created for them to become disillusioned and more right-wing by the situation, the callouts, what many felt was a misrepresentation of themselves in the MSM, and so on.  

There are two other groups this anon could be about.

Nationalists - Who, like the bean counters that keep corporations afloat, will always be perceived as villains by some because they are the ones on whom responsibility for buzzkilling various liberal projects falls.

Rationalists - I don’t really qualify as one, though I probably qualify as -adjacent.

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