>>2651901late-stage contrarianism
he is a lackey of richard spencer who feeds him all these takes btw
>>2651615Hearing Matt on post-stroke episodes is kinda sad. Sometimes he'll say something coherent, other times he'll jump in with a complete non sequitur that doesn't make sense and Will and Felix just have to pretend he said something really smart and funny.
>>2651861That was actually a pretty good segment of Letterman.
>>2651933She is a major victim of sexism and unironically islamophobia. People ruthlessly attack her over literally nothing, she is just an ML, as good or bad as any ML.
>>2652021Muslimophobia. Islam is a religion.
>>2652003>>2651861soberoids can't into kino
>>2651861>After Pekar's death, Letterman reflected in 2017 that "He was great…. He would just go after stuff. He … would go after me, he would go after the network, he would go after everything, in a very committed way. It wasn’t a gag, it wasn’t an act, he would really go to work on you…. [Pekar] was anti-establishment in a way that you don’t see guys like that anymore. And that used to really upset me, because I just thought 'Come on Harvey, don’t do this to us, just play the game, blah blah blah blah.'… I’m a completely different person now. And I would be so much more better equipped to view the immediate surroundings of that show now, than I was [then]…. Now, jeez, I wish I could have had Harvey on every night." >>2652021No Shea not, she's a content creator
>>2652039West is greater evil.
>>2652039It was only 20 years ago that women getting drugged and raped at any hs or college social gathering was just something so commonplace people talked about it as a matter of fact
>>2652039>the genocide […] of womenmore buzzword salad
>>2651861He was drunk but dropping trukes.
>>2652039Retarded contrarianism. The West's treatment of women is nowhere near as good as it should be, but the de jure enforcement of patriarchal norms in Islamic theocracies is obviously historically regressive compared to the de facto oppression of women under liberalism.
>>2652041"Greater/lesser evil" thinking only applies when deciding who to support during a conflict. You can support Iran as a lesser evil while also talking about its flaws honestly.
>>2652039It's a nuanced thing where women are treated better in some ways and worse in other ways, but nuance is dead I guess.
>>2651933I purposefully avoid her because I'll fall in love.
>>2652039Why is it impossible to just admit women are treated like shit basically everywhere on Earth?
Trying to compare pedo rape islands and constant sexualisation vs honor killings and prison for not wearing a hijab correctly is stupid
>>2652136Give me three ways that women are treated better in Iran versus the United States. I would love to hear your examples truly
>>2652154Small people love making everything a team sport. I don't really know why this is the case, but it's something I've found to generally be true.
>>2652136>>2652155This uygha is going to bring up Iran paying for MtF transition surgeries, guarantee it
>>2652155They have better abortion rights than in the USA, for one.
>>2652180Sure, that too.
Not even a natcap cuck but I'm pretty certain the US has a higher femicide rate than Iran simply for being
the United States as well as Asian countries in general being less homicidal than the Americas broadly.
Yep lol - Burgerreich outdoes Iran in both homicide rate and femicide rate, and that's according to "western" statistical institutions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide_rate>US: 5.763>Iran: 2.421https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femicide>US: 2.9>Iran: 1.1
>Sources: https://data.unodc.org/datareport/hom-victimhttps://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/femicide-rates-by-countryYou can never trust antiimperialists, who need to pretend like all states which become targets of imperialism are more morally rightous than the imperialist states. They often turn into insane neocons later in life, once the cognitiv dissonance becomes unbearable. Many such cases in the past.
January 17th 1961. Belgium and other European capitalists conspired to kill a revolutionary, pan-African leader, shifting history forever.
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https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSvAKNUwCtXrPiF0JsmsdT7tMNdDGRz-Whttps://houdinimagazine.com/playlists>>2652295Campism is a Trot concept, so it tracks.
>>2652295>morallyWell it's that outlook, innit? If it's all the same, if it's all PR and idealism eventually one gets disillusioned or… good at the game, cynical. At that point, may as well join the winning team and reap the benefits. If its just words and vibes, some words and vibes pay better than others.
>>2651933>she has some sort of taxidermy fetishSome people are just freaked out by taxidermy because of horror movies. This has happened to a few hobbies over the years. Doll making, miniature houses and even hunting are now seen as "creepy."
>>2652053Not sure how common it actually was. It did happen but a large part of the story was religious conservatives hyping up crimes in order to convince young women never to do drugs, go to parties and have sex. Feminists jumped on the narrative for their own ends.
>>2652295I have never seen this happening. I don't think you know what neo-conservatism means. I have however observed many so called anti-campists turn into rabid neo-cons that cheered on American interventions falling for the le human rights meme.
>>2652295>They often turn into insane neocons later in lifeExamples?
>>2652295I get your point that there's so many annoying and intellectually disabled campists who believe anyone who was suffered at all because of the west ever in history is therefore eternally morally infallible.
You end up with the type of clownery you sometimes see here and on xitter where people defend the Taliban as "AES".
That said anti imperialism is the correct stance. One should be anti imperialist without being a campist. For some reason far too many people can't handle this distinction.
And the leftist to neocon pipeline was exclusively a trotskyite thing rather than a anti imperialist thing as far as I'm aware.
>>2652460NTA anon but if he's referring to the Trot to Neocon pipeline some more famous examples include Irving Kristol, Sidney Hook, James Burnham, Christopher Hitchens.
>>2652039This person is right. It is much better to be in Iran, where women belong to a functional society with purpose greater than themselves, than in dissolute capitalist West where you become nothing but a GDP producing prole robot
>>2652197Absolutely no. In the decadent warmongering west abortion is an expression of alienated individualism, and you can get an abortion on demand. (Le my body my choice). In Iran abortion is a purely medical option to save women from potentially fatal pregnancies. You dont need to appeal the West and its bourgeois framework of prioritizing individual narcissism above everything
>>2652583This also applies to gender reassignment surgery in Iran. You only get that if you suffer from gender dysphoria. An AGP who gets aroused at the idea of him being a woman don't get to divert resources from someone who actually suffers from gender dysphoria just because they have more money and the system bends over backward to satiate their individual perversions at the expense of disabled persons
>>2652583>In the decadent warmongering west abortion is an expression of alienated individualism, and you can get an abortion on demand. (Le my body my choice).Have you been living under a rock? They're forcing women to die from unsalvagable pregnancies because doctors aren't allowed to risk damaging the fetus.
>In Iran abortion is a purely medical option to save women from potentially fatal pregnancies.Also not true, they allow abortions in situations of rape as well (which they don't in America anymore).
If you're gonna larp, at least try.
>>2652717>>2652685The League of Extraordinary Tossers
>>2652705Ok you're really shitting me here. Yes, rape as well. My fucking point is that the Western ideal about "my body my choice" is not present in Iran because THAT IS NOW HOW PEOPLE SEE IT THERE.
>Umm you don't mention about abortion in case of incest so you're larpingShut the fuck up bitch thats not what i mean, and you know thats now what i mean when i made that post. Dont play word games so you can avoid my main point
>>2652794>>2652583Iranian bourgeois and especially their children don't agree with you. They are all about decadence.
>>2652799Yes that's why they all went to fucking Canada and larps as based anti imperialists there who pretended that the Islamic system is no degenerating and that there is no rejuvenation needed to save the state. At this point i'd prefer NIAC to take over because they at least present the possibility of reforming the state without collapsing it
>>2652774This year in the magazine we have plans to feature a variety of women as models. Of course the large majority of the internet left doesn't have any love for sex workers of any sort, and has a very puritan view of sexuality that I've always thought is alien to the reality of the masses, or atleast those engaged in alternative lifestyles. A lot of it is madonna/whore complex driven, and despite claims otherwise, many are restricted by their protestant christian views on these topics, even if they don't or never did identify as such, the superstructure still influences.
I want to create a strong juxaposition between the inceldom of the right wing, the redpill "men going their own way" misogyny that ultimately alienates young men from the very thing they seek with a sex positive narrative that says "look at the life style you could have if you had some fucking principles". I have never really liked the puritan outlook the online left has on social workers (read: you can get banned from the deprogram subreddit if you are one). Literally have been approached by numerous women about being in the magazine, all ideologically aligned women mind you, and I've consistently made the editorial choice to turn this down. I've always been afraid of allegations of "working for the male gaze" or "male chauvism" in regards to doing that, while also fearing the backlash from the online left for having that sort of content in the magazine.
But I know a few women who would love to do that sort of thing for the magazine, and my literal editorial partner is a lesbian woman telling me that its a good idea, so you know, fuck it, let's do it. Being a rightoid is so uncool.
>>2652587you say that as if hormones and like two surgeries at worst would kill any medical system
also there aren't that many fetishists in the first place to "steal" surgeons away from the diseased,it's a non-problem unless you have evidence (or you just meant it hypothetically)
>>2652811Well, gender dysphoria isn't just a "one surgery and done" situation. It requires continuous observation with an endocrinologist and a therapist. Doubly so if it is with a minor who suffers from gender dysphoria. When a non-dysphoric trans person transition you are not only taking hormones but also this intensive psychiatric and professional support. This is not to mention other, non trans patients who also need hormone therapy, i.e women who suffers from severe and unhealthy menopause.
Look, i know i was getting too much in original reply. Obviously the Islamic Republic's system is not perfect and i do not think we should emulate the Taliban or Savonarola's social model. There is no problem with satisfying your individual fetishes or desires, and it many cases these are necessary to stabilize communal harmony.
But i draw the line when your individual preferences are taking priorities from people who actually need it. And this is the problem with the West's approach to identity: "umm you are whoever you say you are sweetie" no, i respectfully disagree. I think if you want to transition because of some sexual fetish you are not as valid as someone actually suffering from crippling, life disabling gender dysphoria
>>2652809I wonder what the sentiment among the youth is actually like for these topics. In my experience everyone is just overworked and severely isolated. The whole "alt" thing feels like it's been mined out by corporations directly and through "content creators". You have the metrics so it's probably working out so far but it just feels hollow to me.
>I have never really liked the puritan outlook the online left has on s(exu)al workersYou have to take into account that a big part of the English-speaking Internet is not from English-speaking countries, I'd imagine most people in the deprogram subreddit are foreign. Prostitution in imperialized countries is forced by imperialsm and the destruction it creates in the economy, the beneficiaries are always the local compador rich, sex traffickers and western passport bros who are a very right-wing community. The context is very different. It happened in my country, and my experience and experiences of the people I spoke to always support the image created by Engels in Origins of the Family. So I don't support prostitution and most people from imperialized countries probably don't either.
You are free not to care about that since material conditions in the imperial core are different but it is something you have to take into account when you interact with left-wing people online.
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