formerly @patternscreamr (RIP). here be dragons - no CWs/TWs! 21 yrs old. minors and pro- or neutral-c dni. i love my sheep @AliceArcadian. PFP by @ghosttundra
what?? the line isn't just drawn at sports?? they'll concede stuff as basic as trans healthcare?? no no no this cant be right.. my favorite centrist lib assured me...
well, at least if we let THIS concession slide it'll be the last one he makes, right? can Matt Yglesias confirm?
the reason moby-dick remains such a vital piece of human art is that it addresses what is probably one of humanity's greatest collective atrocities, the genocide of the whales, with an ambivalence it cannot itself fully articulate. melville is distraught, but he can't explain why
@essasolex@fopgirl67@EliseMeertens@robotfucker67 family as a whole, and obviously the Marxist position is that families as concrete units of organization have existed since the very beginning of class society.
@essasolex@fopgirl67@EliseMeertens@robotfucker67 Pedophilic disorder is something that clearly just naturally exists in humans is largely separate from societal norms and mores, and child sexual abuse isn’t necessarily bourgeois, though it’s current manifestations could be called such, because it’s more-so a byproduct of the -
@essasolex@fopgirl67@EliseMeertens@robotfucker67 Pedophilia existed before capitalism though. Ancient Greece, for example, very famously had an entire socially sanctioned system of homosexual sex with prepubescent boys (pederasty)
@robotfucker67 People keep saying “the bourgeoisie love pedophilia” but honestly that isn’t true. They just love sexual abuse, and children just happen to be a very large and easily exploited underclass ripe for it
@ReubenR11664297@hushhushlizzy@shanesmith336@Preslavets It isn’t really a human in any sense that matters though. It’s not conscious, it can’t feel anything, it’s genuinely more immoral to kill a cow for food than it is to perform an abortion lol
In fact, I’d argue that you should actively *try* to watch things that you think are embarrassing to watch at least some of the time. You might end up liking them, or at least finding some value in them.
This is a really shallow way to approach art honestly. Other people shouldn’t have the final say when it comes to whether you watch something, just whether you personally enjoy it or not
honestly with every passing year “we elected a Black man named ‘Barrack Hussein Obama’ president and he was one of the most popular politicians of all time for most of it” becomes more of a “past is a foreign country” situation