I'm 12 and what is this?

Things and stuff. Canada, eh?

[galdalou]

[herpderphurr]

@k07278

[gif87a-com]

[klubbhead]

Please unmute this

[waywardexpressions]

I wasn’t sure what I was expecting, but it wasn’t this 

[feedmecomicart]

I KNOW HOW MY FILTHY MUTANT ABILITIES UPSET YOU, SCHMIDT. DON’T WORRY–

–YOU WILL DIE PURE. NO MAGNETISM 

JUST FISTS.

[harleyismyhero-deactivated20190]

reblog Magneto punching a Nazi

you won’t get anything for it, except for a kickass photoset of Magneto punching a Nazi on your blog

[inactive9489389381-deactivated2]

yeah No

[proto-homo]

White people love them some racists

[clairedearing]

[herpderphurr]

Nah. That little shit can wrap his car around a tree for all I care.

[lynati]

Unsourced screencap making the rounds on Facebook.

[aki-anyway]

When someone says these days sexism and misogyny don’t exist anymore show them this.

[chase-solidago]

Let’s talk about prairie, history, and language. For communities so focused on “native plants”/”native gardening”/etc there’s so little acknowledgement or engagement with indigenous Americans and their history. 

When we talk about science, there’s a baseline assumption of objectivity. Science is Truth, something apart from messy cultural ideas. The reality is, culture and all it’s messes bleed into science, like here in ecology. We gotta be conscious of the histories we inherit in science.

[elodieunderglass]

This is so layered and gorgeous and textured and nuanced

[thesadchicken]

this episode is important (part 1)

[herpderphurr]

Such a good episode.

[herpderphurr]

Parents: damn weeds are choking our lawn again stupid dandili-

Me screaming out our sunroof: DANDILIONS 👏 ARE 👏 PURE 👏 AND 👏 SCIENTIFICALLY 👏 USEFUL 👏 LAWNS 👏 ARE 👏 STUPID 👏 OUTDATED 👏 REMNANTS 👏 OF 👏 CLASSISM 👏 AND 👏 COLONIALISM 👏 AND 👏 ARE 👏 ENVIRONMENTALLY 👏 HARMFUL 👏

[mooseblogtimes]

[gold]

IM DYING

[cantpronouncefromtivoli]

This is singlehandedly the best thing I’ve ever seen on this website

[left-reminders]

[theyatemytailorr]

never in my life did I think that toilet doors would make me so angry

[chongotheartist]

[ballerinaghost-deactivated20190]

I reblog every time for the cartoon lmao

[the-movemnt-deactivated20170912]

Netflix has renewed ‘Dear White People’ for a second season

follow @the-movemnt

[igotsthebassthatboomboombooms]

Of course it did. Netflix know whats good.

[onfourandthem-deactivated202202]

yessssssssss

[herpderphurr]

Awesome

[cheruowo-deactivated20200509]

ancient person: I love this person of the same sex. we are romantically involved. I would do anything for them. gayly.

historians: f :)) is for friends :)))) who do stuff together :)))))))

[historicity-was-already-taken]

Not really. There’s a large and ever-growing group of historians studying the history of sexuality, and it’s now a large enough area of inquiry/analysis that it’s studied as both a subfield in nearly all major historical fields, and as its own distinct field. Many of the historians doing this vital work are LGBT themselves. Start with Margot Canaday and George Chauncey for US. And next time, do your research before dragging entire subfields worth of scholars.

[lgbtincomics]

Throwback to that one time Diana officiated a marriage (Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman #48)

[left-reminders]

Questions; how do you react to the argument against FALC saying that the masses need labor to stay sharp, prevent laziness in society, etc? Some people find joy or purpose in labor, how would they be able to continue that? Also, how would a democratic govt remain efficient in high-stress situations? Finally; not everything can be automated. How would a communist society react to some people working and some not?

1. Marx anticipated precisely that – and he argued that communism would eliminate most necessary work, thus freeing people up to participate in activities and labor they actually enjoy doing. People who want to build stuff for themselves or others, do acts of service, grow food, etc., would be free to do so; they just wouldn’t be compelled to work with the threat of starvation as under capitalism. The original argument you’re making is a Really Bad One™, I’m sorry – you’re basically saying that scant necessary labor in society is a bad thing because it’ll make people lazy and for some reason they won’t want to do the things they enjoy doing? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

2. I wouldn’t really be able to give you a super in-depth answer on how a socialist/communist society would deal with high-stress situations. A delegate system of deferred responsibility in most avenues of social life could still be feasibly used to tackle high-stress situations. But emergency measures would most likely vary across communities and regions, similar to how they already vary under capitalism. (Your question definitely has an anti-democratic vibe to it, but at least you acknowledge that socialism/communism is democracy to its logical conclusion, rather than some other reactionary McCarthite narrative.)

3. True, not everything can be automated. But assuming that “some people will work while others don’t” is kind of a faulty premise to start at. Moving towards communism would probably result in a kind of “divvying-up” of work overall. Like, say, a town hall would post jobs that need to be done in communities over the course of a given week, and people would alternate and do them. You wouldn’t be defined by a single career in most cases. (Tying into Point 1, people would start to be largely defined by their passions and individualized traits.) (Research and medical and things of that ilk would require more commitment, but automation could still ease the burdens for people entering those fields.) With democratized automation, people end up with super short shifts when the work is divvied up. Some will inevitably end up working more than others, sure, but if the argument is that socialism will lead to a class of toiling workers and a class of non-working layabouts, then you should probably know that we already have that under capitalism – in the form of the all-producing working class and the parasitic ruling class, respectively. We declare wellbeing for all, and then communities can divvy up their work as they see fit.

-Daividh

[marxistbarbie-deactivated202109]

the people in grenfell died because they were poor. 

the people in grenfell died because their landlord chose to spend money on flammable cladding because rich tenants in nearby penthouses didn’t like the ugly council building ruining their view. 

the people in grenfell died because their landlord chose not to spend money on a centralised fire system or sprinklers or an additional fire escape. 

the people in grenfell died because the tories voted against a law that would force landlords to make their buildings inhabitable and safe for their tenants. 

the people in grenfell died because of the privatisation of social housing. 

the people in grenfell burnt to death with their children in their arms because they were poor.