MechanizedPossum [she/her]

I’m actually quite happy irl. I get super angry on here, but somehow, this is about the only site that gets me in a foul mood without me taking that mood back into real life situations. I wouldn’t be here otherwise, i’m really strict about which content i expose myself to since i’ve learned how much it can fuck with me.

If you want to apply the first point, you probably need to make an account on an instance that isn’t hexbear, lemmygrad or maybe even .ml

“We’re still ahead of Tories in the polls! Crank the austerity torture up to 11!”

Either fart or running away from smth real quick

badism- worseism

finally a correct simulation of us bourgeois democracy

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Keine Tankies oder Glorifizierung von „sozialistischen“ Diktaturen.

All the mistakes of Weimar era SPD antifascism. The first time as tragedy, the second time as LARP.

Its not so much about swearing off religion as it is swearing off idealism which is necessary.

Exactly, and this also means swearing off reddit atheism, which posits a fundamentally idea-driven functioning of hierarchies when it puts the blame for hierarchies on religious dogma.

The Marxist critique of religion has always understood religiosity as a reaction to unbearable material conditions. “Opiate of the masses” means self-medication of pain caused by fundamentally hurtful circumstances, and it is these agonizing circumstances, not the painkillers, that deserve the most attention.

Yeah, i feel that. I mean, i lack the experience from a PoC standpoint because i’m painfully alman, but i notice mysogyny and transphobia in leftist circles a lot, although that’s not universally the case. When i talk to younger comrades, they are pretty damn good on the intersectionality thing from my personal experience, but older white cis dudes are often slow on the uptake when it comes to these things.

Feel free to DM me, but i likely won’t be much help when it comes to organizing due to opsec reasons, all the orgs i have contact with are local and i don’t want to disclose where i live. Still glad to help out with general info.

That’s actually what they do. Or they blame the unemployed for being too boorish and uneducated and voting nazi (even though the main target demographic for both historical and contemporary fascists in Germany are petit bourgeoise and class collaborationist workers scared of losing wealth and status).

When you tell capitalists that facism is the most brutal and chauvinist elements of the bourgeoisie trying to uphold capitalism in crisis by open violence, their only suggestion for effective antifascim is

Be grateful the very idea of “Germany” wasn’t razed to the ground and scattered to the wind after your dear leader escorted himself off the premises.

As a German, i’m actually kinda pissed at the allies for missing that historic opportunity.

cinephiles

A more proper term for connoisseurs refined enough to fully appreciate the Œuvre of auteur filmmakers like monsieur Diesél is actually cineáste.

oligatory new type of bottom surgery just dropped comment

pls stop trying to get me back into ironic heterosexuality

Yes, this was most likely deliberate. Since the days of the old sub, this community was a thinly veiled front for the bidet lobby (aka Big Buttwasher), and as we all know, not having poop on your butt is a Maoist thing.

Germans didn’t just try to colonize it, but genocided hundreds of thousands of people there and the best agricultural land is still owned by settlers until this day and demanded as restitutions by the descendents of the genocide survivors, which may or may not be a reason why German think tanks are running anti-postcolonialism psyops.

TIL not having a doodoo ass makes you an ultra

a Freudo-Marxist school that overlapped with the Frankfurt School

The only reason i’m not already smelling the revisionism of that approach is that i just made a very strong and delicious coffee.

Psychology nowadays is an empirical, clinical science that has very little regard for the works of Freud (and Jung as well, who is even more openly esoteric and full of quackery), and i’m glad about them discarding such holdovers. Understanding Freud is still useful in the humanities due to his outsized cultural impact, but that should be understood as an analysis of a deeply unscientific branch of pop culture, not as something that allows you to analyze the workings of the human mind, let alone other people’s mental illnesses. When you understand Marxism as a scientific approach towards economic and political theory that changes and adapts with new evidence, it is advisable to disregard Freud’s writings, as his theories are not replicable, and have a marked tendency to produce a mysogynist, homophobic and transphobic bias that has led to all kinds of stigmatizing, persecutory concepts like paraphilia theory, a general openness to conversion “therapy” and later outcroppings of academic transphobia like the AGP and tr*nsvestitic fetishism discourses. While Freud himself wasn’t outstandingly homophobic for his time and for the psychiatric community back then, he still developed a treatment approach that relies heavily on the therapist enforcing their own biases on their patients, openly encouraging to question and disregard their accounts whenever possible, and this makes Freudian psychotherapy inherently gaslighty and risky for queer, especially trans patients. From first- and especially ample second hand experience within the queer communities i’m active in, i’ve just heard too many accounts of boundary-violating, invalidating and traumatizing sessions. Psychoanalysis is not up to today’s standards of clinical care, and from a philosophocal standpoint is deeply rooted in a universalist liberal idealism, which is inherently at odds with a genuine Marxist approach.