/siberia/ - Off-topic

>>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.

>ponies
Was really into MLP in middle-through-highschool. Now that I'm a furry I still see the fandom pretty regularly but I feel a bit detached from it due to burning out on the show around season 6. Might pick it back up some time.
>horses
Silly creatures. I see short form videos of people desensitizing them to spooky stimuli by bonking them with pool noodles. I have this image >>818172 as my desktop wallpaper.
>umamusume
I'm not that into it but think the designs are fun, looking into it is how I discovered said pool noodle desensitization videos.

>>818164
I cannot imagine a worse thing to model your community off of than /mlp/

>>818568
>I cannot imagine a worse thing to model your community off of than /mlp/
soyjaks?

>>818568
Why?

>>818627
Retard

>>818625
Excellent point.

The Japanese think that gaijins are cattle.

Meximutt was right about Japan.

>>812610
Most artists still on twitter are just crossposting unless they have a vtuber oshi that hasn't made a misskey yet.

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>>812507
They've been doing that for a couple years now, it's not hard to find a bunch of Japs seething that gaijin pirating their shit is like desecrating a corpse.
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>>812511
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What is the difference between this thread and "[ethnic group] hate thread" posts on /pol/

normal autism levels:
B==D

This thread's autism levels:
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>>812050
>B==D
Dick and balls hasn't been an accepted metric for autism levels for years, update your research methods.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ggq-lwuNE8
There's a reason any successful peasant revolt happened after the widespread adoption of the firearm.
God created men, Samuel Colt made them equal. Replace Samuel Colt with some Chinese alchemist in the 11th century.

>>808072
Just a simple club is enough to knock these guys the fuck out.

Lancelot was only interested in Arthur's wife. His only child was born out of rape when some lady used magic to look like Arthur's wife to get Lancelot to sleep with her.

>>816976
This is a really good one

>>816900
A picture of my cat with a beer (I didn’t give him any, he just liked the cold can)

EVIL ASS KHMER ROUGE CAT😱 HE IS COMING TO TAKE YOUR GLASSES!!!👓

>>817685
Why he look like an old chinese master, can he teach kung fu?

>>818466
Not Chinese, but 16 years old!

>>818363
nigeria has strong labour unions yet working conditions are worse than the USA where the average worker views them as corrupt institutions
this is just cope and fails to explain the international division of labour

>>818388
Clearly theyre not very strong lmao

I have a suggestion

>>818360
I've always wanted to turn this cutscene into Stalin throwing Trotsky into a volcano only to find him alive 20 years later

>>818378
the golden age of gaming was playing on the couch with controllers. If you can't make your sibling so mad they throw their controller and try to fight you IRL, what's the point?

>Thoughts?
As always, Unlimited Holocaust upon the bourgeoisie.

Elon stands for free sbeetch doe

xcancel is down too. which is a shame because I will never log into twitter and downloading from xcancel was the only way I was able to share videos of the palestinian genocide with news-watching normies

twstalker.com

Heh..

you say bibisi, but i say bibiNO

>>818478
so bitter

Post some hot character fanart

i haven't watched it yet. do you watch it for the story or for the goon material, nakamrade???

>>818487
both But im not really attracted to the trans characters just the hot lesbians.

like Charlie and Vaggie and especially Velvette

I don't like Angel Dust.

Extremely corny show with terrible jokes but I agree that Vivzie just seems like a normal Tumblr girl who gets treated like the Antichrist

>>818446
it's an acronym, not a word, and it's not bourgeois, it has no class content, it only has identitarian content. Like the word "Christian" only refers to someone's religious identity, they may be of any class. Same thing here.
>>818447
that's not a pride movement, that's just solidarity between LGBTQIA proletarians. It is actually a perfect example of pro-solidarity anti-pride. What use is identitarian "pride?" We should have pride in our accomplishments, but identity is not an accomplishment. It is not a bad thing either. Nobody's bad for being LGBTQIA, but it shouldn't be seen as a pride worthy accomplishment. It can definitely be seen as marginalized, and worthy of solidarity on that basis, and part of the class struggle to the extent that there are LGBTQIA workers, but really there is no "pride" needed. I don't even understand the use of "proletarian pride" I am very anti-pride because it has no real positive content for any liberation struggle. The struggle is for liberation, not for "pride"

>>818496
>I don't get it, but why can't we just say "sexual minorities" instead of "LGBTABCD123+++"?
because asexual and nonbinary people aren't really sexual minorities. if anything they reject being part of sexual categories. and intersex people are actually just biologically rare, but it isn't a sexuality either. And if you just say "sexual minorities" reactionaries get to counter with "ummm pedophiles are sexual minorities are you including them?" and other bad faith arguments… but they were gonna do that anyway.

>>818496
Obvious and simple reason: because people have already standardised on LGBT or variations thereof. the important thing about a standard is that it's a standard, not necessarily that it's the best one.
More complicated reason I explain purely because I find it interesting: As a general rule people don't like to say "sex" if they can avoid it.
(hence the general drift from "sex" to "gender" even independent of rising awareness of transgenderism, and the shift from "transsexual" to "transgender", and of course "gay/lesbian/LGBT" beating "homosexual/homosexuality", though in that case aided by the alternatives also being shorter and snappier.)
You could fix that by making an acronym, but SM is too close to S&M and any other set of words you grab will run into problem one: we already have a standard acronym.

As to the point of the other post: French terms generally sound posh in English, while Germanic ones sound common. If we're going to penalise words for sounding "bourgeois", lots of French-derived terms (including "bourgeois" itself) will have to be "out-rooted".

>>818502
The point of pride is surely to emphasise that something isn't shameful when there's an underlying presupposition that it is. e.g. if someone is in the closet out of shame, it's useful to see other people with functioning lives go "not only am I gay, not only am I not ashamed of being gay, I'm proud of being gay". The pride is more stated and signalled than necessarily felt.
(In a more progressive society where that's as silly as Victorian prudishness, it'd just be something of an artefact title.)

>>818503
Did I not express myself clearly? "Sexual" also refers to SEX (gender). How can an interSEX be excluded from that term?
>And if you just say "sexual minorities" reactionaries get to counter with "ummm pedophiles are sexual minorities are you including them?"
To begin with, I don't understand why you want to include people with libido issues (asexuals) in the category of sexual minorities, even if the roots are the same. I’m not a moralfag, but I don't think paraphilias (aka fetishes aka kinks) belong under the umbrella of sexual minorities.

>>818507
Your mind should be put in a jar and studied.