2 Firm Statue Returns Every Blow

"You must be so hot that even if your enemy should strike your head off, you shall continue to decapitate ten more men."

- Meti's 7th precept

[2 Firm Statue Returns Every Blow @InsecureCreator]

I always hope that talking about something good will cause people to read it but if I could make you read on thing it would be this.

"Kill Six Billion Demons" by @Orbitaldropkick

'Reach heaven trough violence'
https://t.co/GG7GAmaxoM

[2 Firm Statue Returns Every Blow @InsecureCreator]

Instead of investigating how behaviour is shaped by socio-economic systems and class position he just defaults to "trying to gain power over people is just human nature" and "landlords are just evil" and slopulists just lap it up.

[2 Firm Statue Returns Every Blow @InsecureCreator]

So funny how this guy eventually ends up saying "actually making a profit doesn't matter the landlords just care about having power over people" completely seriously, not even the most naive anarchist thinks about social systems like this.

[Alain Beidou @avispartan1]

Liberal economics tells us this isn't possible because the landlords will compete with each other to lower prices, in reality landlords aren't stupid enough to start self-ruinous price wars and instinctively understand that the tenants are the enemy!

[2 Firm Statue Returns Every Blow @InsecureCreator]

You explained why morality appears not why killing animals is bad, neutral or good. If anything this understanding should lead you to deny the existance of any (objective) moral thruth so why not say that from the start?

[2 Firm Statue Returns Every Blow @InsecureCreator]

I think its very silly to say "I will defend a moral claim" (carnism is permissible) only to then give an acount of morality as a feature of human social life (a correct analysis) but not realise that this understading of the phenomenon doesn't produce any moral vedicts.

[Anon @Greynxgga69]

The histories of all particular animals (including humans) are manifestations of natural history, but the histories of non-human animals do not have logics distinguishable from their basic biological and environmental content. Human history, by contrast, cannot be explained in biophysical terms.

You cannot rigorously explain the distinctions between human social forms by looking strictly at environmental contexts, our tool use, or the structure of the human body, nor can you explain the granularities of an individual humans psychology by pointing to selection pressures and instincts.

This is because human history is characterized by complex forms of social practice that enable the continuous and cross-generational development of social consciousness, which then stamps the resultant social practices with normative content.

Of course, that isn’t to say that the norms and standards baked into social practices are consolidated in a harmonious or uncontested form; all preceding history - the history of class societies - has been defined by struggles, which have resulted in more or less spontaneous reconfigurations of the moral consciousness of society, but this process never terminates in social amorality or the absolute submission of the dominated classes to the morality of the ruling class.

Rather, a one-sided stability prevails, where the ruling classes and state authorities actively fight efforts to renegotiate the moral obligations of their subjects with whatever means they have at their disposal, and in times of revolution the intellectual and moral traditions of the old society perish alongside the forms of production and class dynamics that underpinned them.

So, human social life is stamped with its own normative content grounded in social practice, and the form this assumes is dictated by the forms of social unity/antagonism that prevail in a given conjuncture.

The condition for being *inside* of this process as an agent, is being able to both think and act in ways that directly reflect/are reflected into the nexus of social traditions and struggles which define human societies at any given point in time. Even the most intellectually stunted human being is a part of society as a subject, because they are nothing but a modality of the general socio-historical context that birthed them.

Animals, however, cannot participate in human society that way, because they are lack the reflexive practice/consciousness that is essential to understanding what humanity does as a species. Being is doing, and what we do is not what they do. Animals, consequently, cannot be considered social subjects, which also excludes them from any independent qualification as moral subjects, since moral teems are specific categories for social regulation.

And so, animals only demand moral consideration inasmuch as we collectively act as their custodians, and in the process condition the animals under consideration to occupy various social roles, roles which often come with different degrees of implied anthropomorphism that amplify or reduce the moral gravity of harming them in one form or another.

We have obligations to animals the same way we have obligations to protect the graves and bodies of the dead; neither are human beings, but they are both morally significant because of their specific connections to human social being, and this is ultimately what makes our obligations concerning them important as well.

A person killing a house-pet would be wrong because it is a violation of the social bonds and obligations that have been cultivated between humanity and the animals we have domesticated, but hunting and the slaughter of livestock is permissible because neither of these *must* by necessity reflect or create damage to the integrity of any given social body.

This is ultimately why I find most common cases for veganism unconvincing. If you think Im wrong please explain

[2 Firm Statue Returns Every Blow @InsecureCreator]

If you think anarchism is at all compatible with ideas of nation or race you are either just a racist larping as anti-domination or profoundly stupid, any project of ethnic purity must use violence to keep outsiders away. We are for international solidarity and against borders.

[2 Firm Statue Returns Every Blow @InsecureCreator]

@DiodLeAnarchist Caring at all about european descent gives the game away, we don't have to do this stupid "let's hear everyone out" bullshit. Also if you don't see how groups based on racial exclusion have to enforce territorial boundries to maintain purity you are an idiot.

[2 Firm Statue Returns Every Blow @InsecureCreator]

Oh ok this guy is just an idiot trying to paste whatever edgy ideas he comes across together, soon he'll drop the leftwing larp and just become a fascist.

[Diod the Anarchist :) 🌲 @DiodLeAnarchist]

What is the difference between a 16 year old who reads Lenin, another who reads Evola, and one who reads Malatesta? Nothing. We are European descended, young, intellectually curious radicals online who SHOULD be talking to one another to accomplish shared, select goals.

[2 Firm Statue Returns Every Blow @InsecureCreator]

This idiot truly doesn't understand that every ideology of exclusion eventually turns into the defense of the ingroups territory claims, your homogeneous free association would need to enforce borders the instant it comes into being.

[Diod the Anarchist :) 🌲 @DiodLeAnarchist]

@AnarchistRyte Yeah, why not?

Free association. One anarchist society can be ethnically homogeneous and the other can be mixed. Who cares.

[2 Firm Statue Returns Every Blow @InsecureCreator]

Ahab can't kill the whale because that would ruin the theme of obsession at the heart of the story.
David beats Goliath not with his "battle IQ" but because the story wants to tell the people of Israel that even their most powerful enemies will fall if they have faith.

[2 Firm Statue Returns Every Blow @InsecureCreator]

Ironically the real world DOES have "powerscaling" (a consistent logic that makes comparing different agents capacities possible) but stories should only care about it when maintaining consistency is important for a successful commentary on these real world things.

[2 Firm Statue Returns Every Blow @InsecureCreator]

I'm using an action heavy comic to show this point doesn't just apply to stories where conflict is limited to interpersonal relationships (although maybe they'd call Darcy changing Elizabeths perception of him over the course of the story an "emotional feat" idk)

[2 Firm Statue Returns Every Blow @InsecureCreator]

The only thing I have to say on the subject is that even if you redefine "powerscaling" as "consitent in-world logic" it still doesn't really matter.
I only care if the emotional experience and thematic/dramatic arc is well crafted, stories aren't statsheets.

[2 Firm Statue Returns Every Blow @InsecureCreator]

Mammons exact size doesn't matter. He's big because he represents the endless pursuit of wealth for it's own sake, his dementia sybolizes how this accumulation comes to replace all other personal goals/desires and leaves you empty.

[2 Firm Statue Returns Every Blow @InsecureCreator]

Rightwingers are so stupid they think a fictional setting some guys just made up has anything to de with real politics and "human nature". The 'rules' of the fiction can be anything and they are decide by what's cool not that the refect actual reality.

[Charza Kitsune @ChaosCharza]

I feel posting this here is relevant.

[2 Firm Statue Returns Every Blow @InsecureCreator]

Beastmode! The fact that in nature both killing and compassion are ways to survive has no inherent moral value. If we could change the ecosystem to be purely cooperative between sentient beings I see no reason we shouldn't.

[MercurialMarc² @Mercurial_Marc2]

Sheltered/Spoiled/Internet whites when they see nature: "I GOTTA INTERFERE!!! EVERY LIFE MATTERS EQUALLY!!! DEATH IS EVIL AND WRONG AND BAD!!! THEY ALL NEED TO LIVE!!!! I WILL DO MY PART!!! I'm also a COMPLETE FUCKING DUMBASS."

[2 Firm Statue Returns Every Blow @InsecureCreator]

3 homeless bums arguing about who has the most money. The people in all three groups have to be honest with themselves about the state of the workers movement rn, maybe some reflection about the task at hand would slightly improve things.

[Leon V 🏴‍☠️ @AshesOfModern]

Leftcom and Maoist infighting seems to be different sects of westoids arguing of who is more useless. Frankly you’re both mogged by the anarchists in terms of meaningful action done this century.

[2 Firm Statue Returns Every Blow @InsecureCreator]

These fucking Goyim man.
Their happiness is decided by games that got sucked into the culture war doing well, actual slop addicted cattle. Please develop personal aspirations and relationships so your life has meaning outside gaming sales figures.

[Noir 浮世 @madcap412]

Happy Friday everyone 🔥

- Mixtape flopped, it got mocked online, and radicalized gamers
- Saros was confirmed as a failure, and Housemarque is cooked
- Gamergate is back
- Windrose sold 2 million copies in one month
- Pragmata sold 2 million copies and is now an IP for Capcom
- Star Fox is back, and furries got reminded that Fox is a toxic masculinity icon, actually🔥
- Hilary Duff on Sports Illustrated is pushing the male gaze even more
- Marathon flopped
- Everyone agrees that The Boys is pure slop and is actually making the villains look cooler
- Aphelion and Directive 8020 both flopped
- Elon Musk and everyone are making fun of the Odyssey's horrible casting choices
- America/China summit ran only by dudes

The weekend is here, and I'm playing Pragmata, Crimson Desert, and Monster Hunter Stories 3

Life is good 😌

[2 Firm Statue Returns Every Blow @InsecureCreator]

@MattCrossin @crabcollective5 I ask because the problem of a single/small group of dissenter(s) blocking the decision process is always an abstract possibility but much more likely to happen if there is a disconnect between members about what the association is supposed to accomplish.

[2 Firm Statue Returns Every Blow @InsecureCreator]

@MattCrossin @crabcollective5 I see why that could be a major issue, could you explain a bit more of what the objective of this org is and what kinds of disagreements would produce this kind of halting when using consensus.