/siberia/ - Off-topic

>>817861
You will never be Russian, stop pretending to be one

>>817877
Man you really have nothing but diluted Pattonite drivel. Kek

what did chihuahua mean by this

Random chug and leftychug memes

gas comes from ass

Power seekers - Stalinists, SocDems
Truth seekers - Anarchists, Leftcoms

I do not seek power or truth, only burritos.

i want to touch a grass pokémon's grass bush

nein

>>818718
trvke alert!!

>>818589
>>818609
>>818718
>>818738
comrades

>>818663
Considering how hot it is in the valley right now, this sounds very refreshing.

>>818663
Obligatory supplementary material.

The androgynous urge to become a coconut Karums is upon me, draugi! >-<

>>818713
You will always be a coconut in my heart.

>>818719
thank you anon! :-D

>>818654
>nobody asked the fetus if it wants to die.
nobody asked the fetus if it wants to live.

"I don't wanna die; I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all" - Freddie Mercury

"To be or not to be, that is the question." - Shakespeare

It's a contradiction. A being which does not yet exist cannot consent to come into existence, but it also cannot reject existence until it develops to a stage where it is capable of comprehending existence in its fullness enough to reject existing… but we never comprehend existence in its fullness, because we are beings of limited measure. We can only comprehend our limited experiences, which may be unusually torturous and drive us to suicide. This is why Voltaire said always wait another week before killing yourself, the feeling might pass.

>>818541
based and true comic btw

When you want to ban abortions just because of your only experience, that's generalising abortion clinics as slaughter houses - therefore most people don't give a shit what you say because you're overdramaticising everything. It's like lobbying against communism just because you had a bad experience sharing with others.

>>818654
Trolling or the drugs finally destroyed your brain ?

>>818654
>inb4 old testament jews had legal abortion if the child was a bastard
>inb4 a response to my post
Yeah no shit.

Did they have to call a locksmith or did they have a spare key? If it's the latter, that's just bullshit.

>>818677
The latter. It's bullshit.

I resonate deeply. Except I was actually locked up for a crime. In normal life i get anxiety episodes that are so severe that i feel physically ill and break down crying. (Usually over obscure things that are not actual threats due to having OCD) but when i waa actually arrested (beaten mildly in the process) and taken to jail, i was genuinely shocked how calmly and level headedly I reacted. My voice didnt stutter, my breathing was calm and i was locked the fuck in. I got used to prison within 72 hours and had zero fear over my incoming trial and how long ill get. Like my brain was just straight up at peace about my fate from the moment the door shut. Later got transfered to a high security mental institution within the prison complex, but the whole 16 month ordeal was bizzarely "acceptable" for me. A lot of crazy shit happened to me there but my mind kinda just said "ok whatever" and the only anxiety episode I had was 10 days before I was due to get out due to starting to think about "what next"?. From the comission of the crime, to the arrest, to the lockup, everything was so "natural" to me that I still dont get it. And i am out now, and am still a guy that cant talk to people due to social anxiety and get panic attacks over potentially having chosen the wrong college degree.

>>818694
When I was arrested I was in Jail for 3 days but only because they had bad paperwork and I was retarded not giving my name to them. But for the entire time I alternated between screaming at them, singing revolutionary songs, and staring at the wall hallucinating because I had nothing else to do. The most fun thing was getting to fuck with the plain clothes detective people. They offered me food once and I told them I couldn't eat it because it wasn't halal if pigs had touched it (of course I'm an atheist and I ate food all the rest of the times).

>>818711
Why were you arrested?

>>818629
Autism

They also have NEETs and welfare

They aren't communist, but ants, bees and termites are the only animals other than humans which do labour. Ants have it the best out of any insect tbh, they live for a long time, always have food, and have loads of friends to have fun with. There will be ant communism when they are uplifted.

>>818287
Not really, it's not like they all share the same thoughts. There are often splits in hives.

>>818452
It's the normal ants who have most of the real power, if they don't like a queen they will just kill her. Not saying the queen also doesn't have a lot of power (she can dictate how the colony is made up based on assigning different purposes to different younglings).

>>818290
That isn't a male ant tho, and neither is it auygh-laying queen. That is probably a worker using her stinger.

>>818452
Termites aren't really distant cousins. Termites are related to cockroaches, not to ants. Ants and bees are just wasps really.

>>818623
There are actually a lot of examples of ants working with others outside of their immediate family, or even across species (though only through 'slavery'). Out of any animal other than human I think ants would have the easiest time understanding "universal rights". Remember humans didn't have human rights until recently, before then we had citizenship only for the people in one country.

>>818636
That's what I figured. Okay I love you.

>>818643
>ants, bees and termites are the only animals other than humans which do labour.
Naked molerats, beavers, wasps, some aphids and beetles, probably a bunch of other stuff we don't know about. Nitpicking I know, but I like correcting you.

>>818526
George Fitzhugh: exists
This image:

>>818565
>George Fitzhugh
QRD

>>818566
Shays pet """"philosopher""""

>>818567
that's not a quickrundown, that's a reference to an even more esoteric person

Slavery is primitive capitalism.
You need to give the slaves something to work with before you enslave them again. This time, their minds.

>>818520
This is true as it goes, but then it makes the work of communists mostly pointless. Go out and get a bourgeois economics degree and push capitalism to its final conclusion. All minor reforms (of the sort Utopian socialists would hit on, or that "AES" regimes might implement while clearly still pushing through the capitalist stage in practice) can take the form of policy papers and lobbying groups, all major reforms and visions of communism in the here and now are "Here's How Society Should Be Organized, Please Implement It For Me.pdf" and can be overlooked except as idealistic visions.

This sounds like a bad faith suggestion but I am increasingly coming to the belief that this is the correct path. At least in theory, obviously in practice "communists endorse Abundance Liberalism" is one of the lamest sentences in the world. since actually-existing communism is mostly LARPers and poseurs, this is really a question of how a communist should orient himself - ostensibly as a lib but with a longer term vision - than what communists should do in aggregate. Useless communists can only hurt themselves and liberals by trying to pair the two openly.

>>818520
>Existing modes of production didn't need anyone to write a full "Here's How Society Should Be Organized" document for everyone to follow before they could exist
Because their whole point wasnt establishing political control over economic activity. Not to mention, revolutions need a vision of society to be established.

>they emerged slowly from historical circumstances
Passive voice obscures the fact things dont just emerge on their own, they were made by conscious effort of people existing within those historical circumstances.

>>818470
I don't completely disagree with this tbh. Because like, say what you will if you're a parent anti-campist neoleftcom and you screech about muh red fascism or whatever… They had full blown revolutions and the communist party dictatorship over their economies makes it so these "social democratic" redestributive policies are cemented. They never have to fight against their mortal enemies in a stupid fucking election cycle every 4 years just to keep basic shit like this.

So yeah, if a bloody revolution is what it takes just to get basic improvements for workers quality of life and compensation/actual universal social programs, then we in the west are fucked. Which is also why it's retarded to be a LARPing anti-social-democrat USSR worshipping, WW2 obsessed "communist" who never participated in mainstream politics out of some accidental reinvention of the wheel in regards to Kantian ethics, because… You're literally getting nothing done but patting yourself on the back because you aren't commiting any sins (autistic for deontological precepts and a refusal to embrace gray areas).

>>818586
>Conscious effort
Muh great man theory…

But seriously you can't just expect that the problem with communist endeavors of the past were felled by a LACK of effort, there has to be a degree to which the thing you're trying to do is feasible within the confines of the human social essence, whatever that may be. At some point, you need to try and find an economic and political program that makes decisions and production *easier* than capitalism, or else all you have is moralism which no one, especially not the masses, gives a flying fuck about, even if it means their "liberation" and "freedom".

>>818610
Election cycles are only rarely a mortal issue. Most of the time changes in ideas take place across the party system, for better or for worse. (e.g. during the postwar keynesian period even parties of the right oversaw welfare states, during the present period even parties of the left oversee blackest "right populist" reaction.) Even in China (the most successful and smartest of the "AES" regimes) you see welfarism wax and wane over time.

>>818611
Those regimes made a lot of effort, but a lot of it was utterly misplaced. e.g. vast human effort directed into trying to avoid trade-offs rather than analyse them properly / "Hurrah planning"

The real distinction here is whether your economic and political program needs to rearrange the totality of society, or just some tractable piece of it. It isn't great man theory to say that the Starbucks union guys' efforts have been better placed than all the efforts of LARPers combined.