crushedoranges
Can Marx explain the used panties market?
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crushedoranges
Can Marx explain the used panties market?
3d ago
I refuse to accept responsibility for Khalistan. Khalistan happened because stupid Indian politicians commanded their army stormed their holy of holies. India has exported this problem to my country. This does not please me. Just because white people are stupid enough to let the problem does not make me any happier - or more willing to accept the blame.
If you invite a guest into your house, and they have recently come from a fight, and wish to continue it, the host can ask them to leave, and not get involved. This is common sense. No, I don't have to become a citizen of the world. No, I don't have to accept tribal fighting from Bumfuckistan or grudges from the Actual Country They're Loyal To. They can go and sing their song of letting their brother, their cousin, their uncle, their entire Bollywood backup dancer squad into other people's countries.
If they are a net benefit to the people who are here, and cause no trouble? Good. If not, kick them out! That is a good opinion, a universal opinion. I don't need statistics to back that one up. For the same reason you don't want infinity Muslims in India, I don't want infinity Indians in my country. If that is not sufficient to clear things up, others will explain in my stead.
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Can Marx explain the used panties market?
3d ago
To be blunt to the point of ungraciousness, I do not care. What I mean is that I really don't care about old world ethnic grievances coming to the new. India sending assassins through their embassies to deal with their separatists is, definitionally, not what a model minority gets up to. I don't get into knife fights with Japanese or mainland Chinese or Koreans in Canada. I come to this country, founded by Anglos, and I cause no trouble. I speak their language and respect their values.
And that is not what the Indians are doing.
When Indians show up to fight with the Pakistanis on the streets of London, one must think of the native Britons, who think to themselves: how the hell is this my problem? I am forced to have a opinion on Khalistan, on Kashmir, because loud and rude foreigners come over and make it my problem in Canada. Indians are not a model minority. I'm not demonizing them. They bring trouble to the country I was born in. As an Chinese-Canadian, my opinion of them is very low for good reason. If they want to be a model minority, they can change how they goddamn behave.
crushedoranges
Can Marx explain the used panties market?
3d ago
Model minorities don't systematically exploit food banks or run trucks into school buses filled with hockey players or come on student visas for fake degrees while working minimum wage jobs. To be blunt: Indians may have been a model minority thirty years ago, when only the best Western-educated rich ones could make it through the filter. But not now. Gujurati and Punjabi hick shudras are just as awful as any unwesternized rural peasant can be and pretending that they're all Oxford-educated brahmins is a lie too big to swallow.
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Can Marx explain the used panties market?
7d ago
They could be, but you'd be surprised how many conspiracies and wrongdoings that occur and then unravel because someone couldn't be arsed to cover their bare asses in the wind. People who have power aren't always the ones who construct elaborate schemes to conceal themselves: sometimes, they're just dumbasses who put all of the incriminating evidence on a laptop and hand it over to a PC repair shop and don't even bother to pick it up because they just buy a new one.
Cough, cough.
crushedoranges
Can Marx explain the used panties market?
10d ago
My impression is that barring some sort of state of emergency or legislation regarding the matter, the federal government can't nationalize state national guardsmen over extended periods of time. But if the relevant individuals wish to volunteer to remain the feds can keep on paying them, so as long as the state consents to it. It was a sweet gig for one hundred and sixty people who got OT pay and expenses reimbursed in DC - right up until now.
Two National Guardsman shot in DC.
Situation is still developing... conflicting reports about deaths. Trump has already requested 500 more guardsmen to be deployed in the capital. I'm afraid that any commentary on my part will be pure speculation: I'll edit this OP as more information comes to light. Apologies for the shortness of this initial post.
I would expect ICE to be shot at, especially during active operations: but the National Guard? They're literally doing nothing but stand around. They're dads and uncles pulling overtime shifts away from their real jobs, not stormtroopers. I'm highly suspecting some sort of mental illness or dumb radicalization, but I'll refrain on coming to conclusions for now.
Edit 1: Suspect has been identified as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a Afghan national evacuated back in 2021.
Edit 2: Speculatively, a linkedin profile of the same name seems to point him as being connected to a bunch of American NGOs. I'm always skeptical of these - the world is big enough for strangers to have the same names - but the face on the profile seems to match the suspect.
Or perhaps I don't have an eye for Afghans, and they all look the same to me.
crushedoranges
Can Marx explain the used panties market?
12d ago
Because it's a non-argument: or rather, you're forgoing your opportunity to make an argument with an appeal to violence. Honestly, advocating others to fedpost on your behalf on social media is a cowardly and self-defeating act. A real chad just goes out and does things, you know?
crushedoranges
Can Marx explain the used panties market?
13d ago
For the first time in decades Christianity has the aesthetics of cool. Rather than try and stuff progressivism into the skinsuit of the Church, why not embrace it?
Sure, their faith is superficial, but I came into my faith for similarly superificial reasons. I wish to be strong, I wish to be valiant: I wish to be a knight in the service of God to slay dragons. That same motivation that converted the warrior pagans of the Franks, Germans and Visigoths is born again. Is that so wrong?
crushedoranges
Can Marx explain the used panties market?
15d ago
I don't like the gropyers. Nick Fuentes is a Mexican gayhomo larping as a whitenat.
But philosemeticism has clearly run its course in the West. The left discarded race blind meritocracy. Now, the right has too. You can't unring that bell. Saying "Jews have a disproportionate amount of influence in the halls of power compared to their population" can't be taboo if everyone is running around saying that about the whites. If Con. Inc demands its audience stop noticing, they'll be ignored. You can't be a nationalist for America and be a Zionist at the same time. You won't fool anyone.
Yes, that means you, Ben Shapiro.
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Can Marx explain the used panties market?
17d ago
In the very first episode of Avatar we see the end stage of male disposability: a 13-year old boy trying to train six year olds to be fighters against an industrial war machine. Sokka is brave: insanely brave. He's the butt of the joke for a lot of the series but that first impression sticks with you. An entire fire nation dreadnought shows up on his shores and he puts on his war paint and boomerang and goes to fight them. But there's not a fight. He's not even worth the effort of killing.
That is very, very bleak.
The Southern Water Tribe doesn't have any men left, and he's fighting against wizards with magic powers who have industrial technology. Sokka and Aang fight because literally anyone else that could is either in a gulag or genocided: meanwhile, the Fire Nation girlbosses fight because it's a flex and they can afford wasting resources like that.
crushedoranges
Can Marx explain the used panties market?
21d ago
Finlandization. It's a dirty word.
But it's the pragmatic equilibrium when you got a large land border with a belligerent neighbor.
Was it humiliating for the Finns to have to give up Karelia and the north? Yes.
But to hold on to those territories would have cost even more.
If the West isn't willing to intervene to return the oblasts and Crimea, then every day spent fighting now is a waste. Russia lacks the ability to threaten the entirety of its sovereignty, but has more than enough to hold on to what it has already gained. It's easy for politicians to spout rhetoric over not surrendering one inch of ground, but young men pay the price for that kind of talk. They're conscripting the 21-year olds now: how much of Ukraine's seed corn will be eaten?
If this war goes on long enough, you might as well start giving conscription papers to the elementary schools and maternity wards. The fighting has gone on for twelve years and there is still no political settlement. The land is important, yes. But the Ukrainian people are even more important. If there is to be a demographic future for the nation (for Russia, too!) peace sooner is better.
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Can Marx explain the used panties market?
21d ago
What I hate about this war is that both sides are doing the same, Soviet-style propaganda of shamelessly lying while asserting that they are the clear-sighted purveyors of truth and their enemies are a cesspit of vile and false lies. "Our Great Victory In Novishitburg in Mud Province", "Our Tactical Retreat In Pigachevsky Village", and so on are trumpeted as imminent collapses of the enemy when the relative movement is what, a hundred meters?
The truth - that the line is static and depressingly high casualty - is unsexy and unnewsworthy. That both sides are corrupt shitholes who are willing to grind up their young men into a fine meat paste rather than make a peace. Leave me out of it, or, at the very least, stop telling me about it.
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Can Marx explain the used panties market?
22d ago
Introducing GrokProxy: a on-demand AI art service that will gamer up the babes in your trading card game and print them out to order.
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Can Marx explain the used panties market?
23d ago
There's the academic subject of dueling, which has rules and codes of conducts strictly observed by teachers. And there's wizard-war, where all participants are thinking of creative ways to kill each other.
Harry may be younger and less academically experienced than his peers, but at that point he's fought a giant spider, a troll, an evil tree, a basilisk, a board of animated chessmen, death eaters and several incarnations of Voldemort. That is probably more danger than most adults experience in their lifetimes. He has experience of adults trying to kill him (in fact, he's famous for it) with magic and that is probably something that cannot be taught, only experienced. I don't think he was teaching them magic: I think he was teaching his comparatively sheltered compatriots how to fight, ala Wolverines.
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Can Marx explain the used panties market?
24d ago
You can't expect me to resist, no more than Don Quixote can resist riding into action when a Dutch Waterwheel-And-Windmill Poldering Society has their yearly convention at La Mancha. I hear hoofbeats...
It's really not hard to understand. The orderly manhandling the self-proclaimed Christ isn't anti-Christian: he's handling a schizoaffective person. He may not like actual Christians or the mentally ill, but that's irrelevant to the situation at hand, that his patient is severely disturbed. He doesn't have to enable that delusion. It will make the situation worse.
Similarly...
People don't like ugly people (prettyism). People don't like the mentally ill (ableism). People don't like autistics (normies get out, ree?) The primary contention is that MtF trans are alleging misogyny and denial of the femininity, and conflate the three as 'anti-trans'. And you are doing it, right now. It's perfectly fine for people to discriminate against trans people who don't pass for those reason. I'm not a liberal, or a white woman. I don't have to be nice. If a woman doesn't look or act like a woman, you don't have to accept her as one. This is, so as far as I know, the status quo for men. Is this not equal treatment? Do men not have similar performative efforts for their masculinity?
I don't have to take their claims of femininity seriously when their aesthetics and demeanor are terrible. There is a reason why the Bailey Jays of the world disappear into the ranks of the feminine gender and the Chris-Chans do not. And so, I can only evaluate them on what can be objectively observed: that those who lack the appearance of women and the behavior of women are not women - no matter how many good-thinking liberals would tell me otherwise.
Am I transphobic? No. That category I refuse to accept. But what I am definitely is not liking the ugly, the autistic, and the mentally ill. I wouldn't go as far as hating them, but I don't think that my attitude would change much if I suddenly started treating them as ugly, autistic, mentally ill women instead. In that respect, I am egalitarian in my discrimination.
No, it's not contradictory at all.
They have a (delusional) persecution complex related to their dysphoria. They believe the world is out to get them and deny their innate female nature.
But what is actually happening is that the majority of trans individuals are mentally ill men, who are obvious fetishists/have no hope of passing/who were autistic to begin with. This is a perfectly reasonable set of criteria to discriminate against. They want to be treated like women, identified as women.
But they're ugly women. Ugly women with penises. Most tend to call those kind of women 'men'. To come to any other conclusion is fantasy.
And because of this obvious fact, these individuals demand as much social deference and privilege as possible to prevent their soap bubble self-identification from popping. The oppression they are experiencing is coming from inside of their own heads - not from meany transphobes, but that internal voice that is screaming they are living a life of deception, aspiring to something they cannot have.
They are no more persecuted for their self identity then the man who thinks he's Jesus, or that lizardpeople are the world elite.
crushedoranges
Can Marx explain the used panties market?
25d ago
They'd be fools not to pay the Pakistanis in their own coin. The more resources tied down in counterinsurgency, the less manpower Pakistan has to point at India. The terrorists in Pakistan are, of themselves, Afghans who the Pakistanis paid to cause trouble. Now that the Americans are out, they go back into Pakistan to cause trouble. How wonderfully shortsighted of their government.
Given Pakistan's cross-border support of terrorism in Kashmir, there's really no reason for the Indians not to do the same. (Well, there are plenty of reasons. Moral ones. But we're talking geopolitics.) Let's just say that it would be a surprise if India wasn't supporting them.
crushedoranges
Can Marx explain the used panties market?
26d ago
If Schumer didn't like it so much then he could have whipped the senators into not voting for it. Trivial parliamentary politics doesn't deceive anyway - he's clearly the leader of the moderates! That he didn't have the courage to vote on it himself and is hiding behind his fellows makes him more wicked imo.
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Can Marx explain the used panties market?
26d ago
With no provision to extend COVID-era ACA subsidies, merely a vote, it has the appearance and character of a Democrat loss. The usual suspects on Reddit are crying foul of cowardice.
But could it have ended any other way? The Democrats are obliged to government unions, who weren't being paid: and to the urban poor, who weren't getting SNAP. Two massive interests within their base were being sacrificed for the benefit of... four million recipients? The math never added up.
You could say that the Republicans were heartless, but they have come out of it looking like fighters and winners, while the Democrats have capitulated to 'fascists'. The midterms will still probably be a Dem victory, but this act by Schumer and the moderates will not be something the #resistance will be likely to forget anytime soon.
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Can Marx explain the used panties market?
29d ago
None of your excerpts of scandalous things he said has degraded my opinion of him: he seems to be a cool bloke. Imagine on all the discoveries we missed out on because cool blokes like him were filtered out of the researcher track by useless know-nothing neo-Lysenkoists who valued political conformity over intelligence and curiosity.
crushedoranges
Can Marx explain the used panties market?
29d ago
I'm sure this rates as a 'hot dog' in your suffragettist tea parties, sweetheart, but you should really take a pep pill and cool off your overheating uterus. Nothing to fear, darling. Your position won't be diminished by your absence. A good-thinking man will be found to argue for your intellectual position who can voice it properly with manner and decorum and a minimum of hysteria.
crushedoranges
Can Marx explain the used panties market?
30d ago
I never considered the fact that Mandami was lying about the totality of his platform to get elected and he'd govern like any other neoliberal. If that's what you mean by 'be more pragmatic', then yes, that was not in the scope of possibilities I was thinking about. But unlike the other DSA dogcatcher positions, he's made big promises that require big money and big buy-in from the institutions, and there's no way to 'pragmatically' magic up billions of dollars or defy the laws of supply and demand, so I don't know what you're going on about.
crushedoranges
Can Marx explain the used panties market?
30d ago
The leftist project to make schools, hospitals, churches, courtrooms, home depot parking lots, and anywhere else illegal aliens may go sanctuaries - in the medievalist sense of the term - is obvious nonsense. Do they want open borders or not? The Right isn't Charlie Brown, where you can falsely claim to be rule-of-law but decline to enforce immigration ones because of 'reasons'. It's blindingly obvious they're objecting to the enforcement in comparison to... what? A claw machine from the sky? Asking nicely?
The football has been pulled too many times.
A smart partisan would have found all sorts of technical excuses to give the paper a low grade: certainly, there would be a pretext for it. But a zero is so transparently unwarranted that it became blatantly obvious that it is discrimination. The professor in question would have gotten away with it, if it was merely a year ago. But it is now, and universities can no longer cover for such behavior under the chud-occupied bureaucracy.
You think that being so schooled in civil rights history, academics could detect an obvious Rosa Parks coming their way. But clearly, the intellectual standards at the academy have been slipping broadly as to fall for such an trap. Progressives are ill-suited to holding institutional power because they cannot imagine themselves holding it - it is antithetical to their whole ethos. So when when they do, they act clumsily and overtly, smugly confident that there will be no consequences for unsubtle tyranny. They are wrong, and this is a consequence long overdue.
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