Allrighty

30488 pts · February 7, 2016


What this is really describing is that inexperienced women are more vulnerable to manipulative arseholes, before they learn to recognise red flags and realise what they actually want out of a relationship. Unfortunately, the Nice Guy draws the conclusion that it pays to be a manipulative arsehole, because they get what he wants (access to vulnerable young women).

11 hours ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Looks to be the one!

12 hours ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm missing Nuremberg trials for the entire regime, top to bottom.

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

History does not repeat but it does rhyme... the Confederates, the nazis, and now MAGA. All filled with romanticised notions of warfare that make them far too eager to rush into battle.

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I won't tell you not to vote; I'm telling you that if the Democratic Party doesn't get its shit together and continues to field moderate centrist candidates, your vote won't really matter all that much. The corporate Democrats contributed to the circumstances that gave rise to Trump, and only a radical break with the current course can take the wind out from under the wings of the fascist eagle.

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Exploitation ≠ work. Work without exploitation means full compensation for all the value created.

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Socialism begins at anti-capitalism.

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He's right, he's not radical. That people call him that probably has more to do with the name.

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Capitalism builds for market value; a post-capitalist society would likely see a newfound appreciation for traditional architecture and building methods.

1 week ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I remember one episode in particular, a carpenter or something, who was determined to build his house by hand, using materials gathered from the plot of land he had (as much out of principle as a lack of means, I believe). It took him years, and was a continuous work in process, but it was this gorgeous and unique house built around natural tree shapes, carved wood, and traditional joints. Even a pully system to open doors.

1 week ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Yes, yes, it's all corrupt, top to bottom, and they'll probably get away with it. Burn the whole thing down; nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's the most common position among communists today, I would say; and many of them speak of "socialism-communism" as an inseparable unit.

2 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

AI image generation is a form of commodity fetishism, in the Marxist sense. Commodity fetishism is when people treat commodities as if they have some inherent value, rather than becoming valuable because there is a use for them. People who use AI think the point of being an artist, the value of creative work, is having the end product. And, commercially speaking, that's great for commodification. Endless products, no workers.

2 weeks ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Debunked? You spit on the memory of countless lives lost at sea!

3 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Eh, it's usually clear enough from context...

3 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

These are called "backronyms", in which a word is retroactively interpreted as an acronym, often serving as a humorous folk etymology.

3 weeks ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Meanwhile, in the USSR, people could afford to eat out almost every day because the state owned all restaurants and ran them at a loss.

3 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"Hey millennial, how does it feel to have been robbed of this standard of living?"

3 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Somebody went and named theirs "Honesty Bookshop", implicitly damning the other 25 (although "Murder and Mayhem" wasn't helping its case to begin with)

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

How many more do we need before we recognise that Republicans are utterly incompatible with a democratic society?

1 month ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

#3 This is the leading cause of conservatism

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well, it was circulating on 4chan for years before, but this guy tried to introduce legislation to formally establish the term as grounds for jailing people.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Same way many Tolkien scholars believe the man would've loathed the Jackson adaptations (and I believe Christopher Tolkien wasn't too enamoured with them either). Also in Emily Wilson's case, her translation was also specifically mentioned as an influence on Nolan's movie, so she has some cause for dissatisfaction.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Glad that we've left r/atheism far enough behind us that I'm seeing these in the wild again.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Marxists distinguish between "private property" - the means of production being held in private hands even though they produce things for everyone - and "personal property" - stuff you have and hold for your own use. Communists want to get rid of the former. Capitalists want to get rid of the latter.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Please, with the advances we made in predictive algorithms in the decades since the dissolution of the USSR, we could provide for everyone. If Amazon can micro-target personalised coffee mugs to people, why couldn't it be used for good? Multinational corporations are already managing massive internal economies from a central board. The idea that a planned economy is doomed to fail rather than merely infeasible with 20th century tech is capitalist propaganda.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Also forgot the "no one should be poor" under communism as well.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Communism is the clear winner.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Deport him? Why would you do that? That puts him beyond the reach of the guillotines!

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You know, it struck me that there have been four general elections in Norway since 2011. Four elections in which 77 fewer people were able to vote for the left. I know it's not much in the grand scheme of things, but it still doesn't feel fair, democratically speaking. The law can punish the killer, but it cannot correct the outcomes of every election for a lifetime afterwards. Essentially, they kill us, and they're politically rewarded. And this isn't the only time.

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