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It's an extremely prominent and recognizable strain of left wing thought.

We're both arguing past each other. The person who started the thread who wondering if they're a bad person for not reading theory is who I responded to by saying that not everybody has to be at the vanguard. You then took offense that I made a distinction between the vanguard and proletarian mass before pulling a hard U-turn and making a clear distinction between the vanguard and proletarian mass by arguing that they are the ones whose actions are revolutionary regardless of whether there is a revolution. Up until this point we largely agree but you seem to be chafing at the lack of sugar coating on my part. I don't need that to be committed, do you need that?

I disagree about democracy. Democratic elements are very socialist, but the principles of democracy as an overriding governmental structure are anti-socialist. Take the recent Venezuelan elections, I don't give a shit even if Maduro rigged the election, sustaining the revolution is always more important than democracy. The state obviously has to find a way to respond to the discontentment but allowing reaction to vote its way back in to power can not be allowed.

I'm 100% in favor of vanguardism but ideology doesn't cloud my perception of what it is. My original sentiment was that not everybody is the leader of the revolution, not even most people, not even many people, but everybody is still a revolutionary.

When left libertarians argue that communism is authoritarian do you argue that it's not and that it's actually democratic and blah blah blah or do you say yes, authority is required to maintain a socialist state in the face of reaction? All the guys whose names get letters tagged onto Marxism got that, and all the guys that nobody's heard of who thought differently got killed or subverted.

The first among equals as it were. Let's put it this way, artists and ditch diggers are equally important in a socialist society but for some reason everyone wants to be artists.

Harry Potter

And yes, the permaban was worth it.

Everybody thinks they're the vanguard, nobody thinks they're the proletariat. We need a whole hell of a lot more of one than the other.

I'm struggling on where to begin explaining the cataclysmic difference between the effects on children and young people of COVID at any stage of its evolution and a human-to-human capable H5N1 strain, but it's really really fucking different.

Yeah, I did post a little about my spectrum traits being super bothered by the conflation of gossip and whatever the old comms were. It feels like incredibly imprecise use of language to try to claim that it's a 1:1 replacement name but at least I understand where that comes from and can accept that it doesn't bug most people like it bugs me.

Maybe it's that this is more interesting to me than the election shit or whatever fucking mod seppuku is going on everywhere, but this has captivated my attention. Obviously focusing on middle English terminology is way more eurocentric than this site should strive for and anybody who thinks that Britain in 1000 AD was anything but deeply patriarchal is fooling themselves. Regardless of how socially beneficial the activity was, it's extremely difficult to imagine that the term used to describe [thing women do] from that place as being a positive one.

I'm very curious about the deeper origins of the word 'gossip' as well as the analysis of the similar act that it described/describes in other cultures around the world. I'm sure Eastern traditions are similar because this is a deeply human practice but I wonder what the social connotations are around it historically and at present. I'm sure there are also significant differences in how it's viewed in African and indigenous American traditions as well. Maybe by the time I'm done looking at all that I'll come back here and everything will settle back into posts of toothpaste tubes shitting out piles of beanis

I wrote and deleted like 5 posts musing on this subject trying to approach it from a neutral perspective but ultimately decided that it would be too concern trolly coming from a saltine man. I have a hard time believing that the term gossip was every truly a positive term and as I tried to look into the details the sources were all very 'trust me bro.'

In a similar vein I'm kind of curious to hear black opinions about the name dunk tank. I feel like dunking is one of the safest ways to conjure empowering black imagery, even directly over white people, that the racism archeology required to bring up the problematic usage of the word doesn't override the positive imagery associated with dunking (which I have to assume that 99+% of people were imagining when they saw that comm).

This is all with the caveat that I don't actually give a shit about changing the name of the comms or anything, they're all arbitrary placeholders whose significance is an artificial construct of the people interacting with them (very similar to gender). That said, however, I am now heavily invested in slop. Do not change slop. I don't care if it turns out that the word was invented by Hitler time traveling to collaborate with King Leopold to create the most effective racial slur ever, I will burn this fucking place to the ground if it gets changed.

Absolutely unfortunately, H5N1 tends to have the highest mortality rates amongst the youngest brackets and the lowest mortality amongst the oldest brackets. But I can tell you what, if kids start dying it might be hard to stop parents from Christopher Dornering^Steven Paddock Congress.

Human beings aren't all that special but biology is infinitely special. We have absolutely no fucking clue how consciousness works, how could we possibly hope to simulate it with a completely different mechanism?

Francis Fuckyomama