GarbageShoot [he/him]

Anti-Material Rifle but the term “material” is being used in the metaphysical sense

Extremely and the horniness doesn’t help

It might be worth interrogating the connection between aesthetic values and other values, as in Society of the Spectacle in its real meaning and not the flanderized “wot if e’erywun wah jus’ wa’chin’ the telly?” version. Gender is overwhelmingly what makes what we view as gendered presentations appealing, and this is demonstrated by the way that it varies across cultural differences in what gendered presentation is. To use a very obvious example, I would fully expect wearing a skirt to make a transmasc person here and now feel potentially dysphoric, but in medieval Scotland transmasc people were generally probably quite happy to wear kilts in the situations they could get away with doing so. Why? It’s just a slightly different arrangement of cloth! Because it is a signifier for a certain position in a certain framework of social values, not just aesthetic ones.

Please don’t be such a redditor

this is blatantly untrue unless you mean it in a hegemonic or ideological, and not aesthetic way. If you DO mean it in an aesthetic way than what do you think transmasc people are supposed to do? Die?

I don’t give a shit about aesthetics, but I think it’s good to remember that MLs, too, believe in the saying that “So long as there is a state, there is no freedom, and we can only talk about ‘freedom’ existing insofar as there is no state” and yet also advocate for the creation of new states at the same time as seeking the liberation of the human race. Statehood cannot simply be abolished in one stroke, it must be systematically destroyed, and the system doing the destruction is itself a state, and that state tends towards its last action being the completion its own destruction.

Something similar can be said for gender. There is no contradiction between holding gender as being fundamentally backwards and yet acknowledging that we live in a gendered world where people – for reasons other than having an inborn gender, as gender is socially constructed – need to cope in different ways, cis and trans identities included. Eventually, there should be no gender and therefore no cis or trans people, but that doesn’t mean telling all of humanity right now to cleanse the entirety of gender from their minds or die.

Most workers are men though.

No, they are very slightly under half, not that it matters to the rest of your comment.

Guevara eventually fell into idealism, which is a large part of why he died in relative isolation at the hands of a Nazi death squad in Bolivia instead of as a nation-builder in Cuba. Prior to his leaving Cuba, you are right.

The properly revolutionary version of all ideology, religious or secular, is revolutionary to the extent that it promotes pro-social values and reactionary to the extent that it promotes anti-social values, relative to previous iterations. Socialist masculinity and socialist femininity (beyond the extent to which they correspond to sex/hormones/whatever) are only different from each other as an artifact of the backwards social values they are derived from and trend forward in the future in the direction of being identical. As strength in men is good, strength in women is good. As cowardice in men is bad, cowardice in women is bad, etc.

Socialist masculinity also shares a similar relationship with socialist Confucianism, socialist Cheondoism, socialist Christianity, socialist Dharma, etc. These are all systems of values created in old societies based on old relations and are, to some extent, backwards. The job of the socialist, who cannot simply declare the age of Christ over and the age of Marx its replacement (at least not in an enduring and effective way), must seek to elevate the aspects of (say) Christianity that are pro-social, reinterpret those that can be reconciled with being pro-social, and criticize those that are irreconcilable with being pro-social (making these determinations by appropriately exhaustive investigation). In this way, to borrow a certain reactionary’s phrase, there should be a “revaluation of all values” towards sociality until the only distinction between them is a cultural affectation.

You don’t want to hear his gay bars

Patter songs usually have pitch. Shabibo is just talking with barely a hint of rhythmic articulation.

He also attacked it on flimsy theoretical grounds for “not having” melody and harmony despite, you know, the vast majority of rap having those in the instrumental

You definitely have the main idea with the panopticon. I think someone more well-read than I could probably make really interesting points about how, in the original form one has an imagined cop in their head constantly enforcing externally-established rules, and this new version has an imagined cop constantly enforcing imagined rules of imagined scope. The notice for what is banned is replaced by a rumor-mill and the occasional high-profile case where “what tripped the censor?” still remains unclear and manual flagging sullies even this very messy sampling method.

I don’t really know that much about the STASI, but it’s not like West Berlin wasn’t also heavily surveilling its denizens, and deaths in East Berlin get wildly overstated to the point of being a farce. That’s probably something gone over in “STASI State or Socialist Paradise?” but I haven’t gotten to it yet.

MSM makes money directly on corporate advertising and indirectly on high-profile establishment figures being regularly willing to do interviews and such. Being inhospitable to the status quo would imperil both of those things. There’s the last part done for you.

That one is just longstanding AAVE, “do be” is a present progressive meaning something like “has been frequently known to be”. “He do be working” therefore is like “He has been working a lot lately”.

In the original Japanese, there are some real instances of “sent to the shadow realm”, but many more of death, so the 4kidz dub changed it wherever possible to something sending you to the shadow realm instead of killing you, and left it ambiguous in most of the remaining cases.

It’s funny how it resembles a heightened version of what people accuse the USSR, PRC, and DPRK of. In gommunist chyna, citizens don’t know what they aren’t allowed to discuss or what words they aren’t allowed to use, so they speak in a contorted code to get past censors [who might not even care] when there is a rumor of a topic or word being forbidden. It’s like a panopticon where you don’t only not know when you are being watched, but you also don’t know what is being watched for.

Who refers to their uncle/aunt by their surname?

That one Bond movie has a really iconic action sequence with it and it was used to good effect for gags in Loony Toons, so I think it’s mainly imitating those though idk

Admittedly I’ve never snowboarded, but it was my understanding that steering was only a little bit harder, and even then failing to steer you’ll probably just wipe out (because the added difficulty is how it impacts balance, along with the asymmetry) whereas failing to steer on skis might leave you accelerating forward.

You clearly don’t have an adequate appreciation for how bad golf is if you think this is an appropriate comparison