well that’s upsetting

Also hardly an expert but yeah to my knowledge that ring is a reference to “the story of O”, so… Pretty blatant d/s imagery.

ewwwww

baby Jesus

3rd century

Ummmm

media personality that explains Marxism to the masses in a digestible way

If that’s his role then, given how badly he misrepresents theory, he should pack it in. Seriously, twisting Lenin to justify voting democrat? That’s pretty egregious.

This policy of cruelty does not speak for the people of the United States

Yet somehow the US keeps doing it and their people largely don’t give a shit. Once again I desperately wish American citizens would notice what they are.

Holy shit the comments there are amazing

Yeah, the most likely reason she’s moving on so quick despite the fact it has a chance (however small) of disrupting her grift is that he was actually really fucking awful to her, imo. Can’t stand to keep looking at the dude even for the sake of keeping the cash rolling in.

It’s pretty usual for humans not to be perfectly symmetrical, even outside of the actually asymmetrical stuff like heart and liver location. Apparently our feet are often different by up to half a shoe size.

Probably most people wouldn’t have different enough sized hands to not be able to swap but I would be willing to bet your situation isn’t particularly unusual.

Gay marriage was won FROM the democrats, not BY the democrats. Sure, they were the ones who finally relented. So what? That makes them slightly less bad than the Republicans in that one instance.

What really bought this home for me is that in Australia it was the NLP under Turnbull who passed marriage equality, our right wing conservative party, after a postal survey (they promised a referendum but they’re fucking cowards and backed down on that) showed something like 70% support and made it clear their position was untenable. They didn’t want to do it. They had multiple MPs walk out of the room and refuse to even be present for the vote iirc. But they were forced to. Same with the democrats. They were talking about how it’s “not the time” right up until it was made abundantly clear they couldn’t hold off any longer. But they didn’t WANT to pass marriage equality. It was forced on them. Won from them. Not won BY them.

…Alec Steele? Never thought about it but he is, isn’t he

Apparently measles is so contagious it requires a 95% vaccination rate to attain herd immunity. These people are really fucking shit up.

Yes, and it’s completely fucked.

I know it’s complicated but the fact it’s not china stepping up in these situations is incredibly disappointing to me. That, and their tolerance of billionaires, is really fucked up.

Pity he’s a massive POS:( At this point I don’t think I could bring myself to buy Thorn of Emberlain even if he ever finishes it.

Over the last year or so I have read The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin. The Dispossessed in particular describes a communist society - like, an actual stateless, classless, moneyless society - and is really very moving and insightful imo. Le Guin’s background was in anthropology iirc so she had some really fascinating things to say about people and culture, even if I don’t agree with all of her politics (she was an anarcho-syndicalist).

I mention it because I had been struggling to get back into reading but both of those books absolutely captivated me, again especially The Dispossessed. She really looked unflinchingly at what she saw as the challenges and potential shortcomings of her theoretical communist society which is really compelling and made it feel very real.

I also read “Coming of Age in Karhide”, which is a short story in the same setting as tLHoD that examines gender through the eyes of a human society that was genetically modified in the distant past to eliminate all sexual dimorphism, to the point that they are serially dioecious (all individuals can produce both sets of gametes and carry young, just not at the same time) and that was interesting, to say the least, although potential trigger warning as it’s extremely about Gender and I don’t think I’m well positioned to notice stuff that other people might find disturbing in that context.

The modern Japanese people aren’t indigenous to Japan - the Ainu are and probably some other groups, plus the Ryukyuan people of Okinawa and the other Ryukyu islands. I don’t know if they’re technically settler-colonial in a Marxist sense, but I assume that’s what the other commenter is talking about

That sort of post is literally what stupidpol is for, it’s exactly why r/cth shat all over them whenever the topic arose.

As always, what these western, “anti-tankie” “communists” actually have a problem with is any communist actually being successful.

They explicitly called themselves vanguardist. That is the specific aspect of Marxism-Leninism that people who complain about “tankies” describe as

advocat(ing) … for invading neighboring communities and forcing them to accept their form of socialism at gun point.

Again, if I gave you a bunch of anonymized quotes, one from a principled member of the BPP and the other from “tankies”, you would not in a million years be able to pick out the panther, because they are exactly the kind of people who get smeared as “tankies”. It’s also very telling that you talk about a “definition of tankie” but didn’t actually give one, despite the lack of a definition being explicitly what we are talking about.