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southern queer, counter-cartographer, warrior poet, cyberpunk lowlife, autonomist dreamer

[thisobscuredesireforbeauty]

WMDOLL factory in Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, China. Source

[newlyy]

arguments about what sex dolls mean for women can seem kind of removed and theoretical, but that third picture of female bodies hanging in plastic sacks makes the issues with it apparent and immediate. 

[demonius-darkblade]

[higher-order]

Some of my favourite requiem chasubles. We never see priests wearing anything like this anymore. Memento mori!

[alienpapacy]

human existence is so corny. you’re engaging with symbols and signs? LMAO. “im existing and participating in symbols” dumb as fuck

[cake-and-roses]

Let’s talk about why conservatives are utterly useless and any time you spend on discourse with them is time poorly wasted.

This isn’t some ideological point of mine that is axiomatic. It’s a matter of practicality; conservatives are just not worth any time for discussion. Their ideas should be laughed away, because they’re absurd individuals.

Conservatism, by definition, categorically rejects any sort of materialistic analysis of society. Virtually no conservative is capable of engaging with it, and those who do acknowledge but reject it, instead pull really dumb arguments about personal responsibility and “I feel like I’m an individual because I don’t personally experience any class-based oppression or disadvantage.” 

People who aren’t capable of analyzing society as group based, or concepts as socially constructed, are never going to have any remotely intelligent political thought in their lives. We know that society has classes. We know these classes are antagonists. We know certain rights and privileges arise from these class antagonisms as power dynamics develop. It is so beyond utterly absurd to reject any of these notions. All of history points to them, all of practical everyday life points to them, literally every single thing points to them.

Yet conservatives, almost unanimously, reject these notions. “Everybody should just take care of themselves” is the pinnacle of an emotional argument; it has no bearing on practical reality. People don’t exist in vacuums unaffected by the pressures around them.

And, by definition, if a conservative would recognize these extremely basic observable concepts, they would pretty much become a liberal, at least. If you recognize varying power dynamics and privileges, then you’re obviously going to act to prevent them and equalize the playing field if you have any degree of empathy or humanity. If you recognize these but don’t act to equalize them, then you’re literally just a fascist or a supremacist of some sort. “Black people are institutionally disadvantages but that’s okay because fuck them” isn’t an argument you can make while claiming to be a moderate conservative.

So what is conservatism? It’s literally ignorance, or perhaps intellectual dishonesty, and little more. Conservatism is the incapability of grasping an extremely basic fact of reality - that people are deterministic to at least some extent. With that understood, they are a complete waste of time. Liberals can defend capitalism, fascists can defend race realism, conservatives are morons with no values who haven’t yet realized they’re fascists, or who haven’t thought their arguments through well enough to realize they’re liberals.

[cake-and-roses]

Oh hey, it’s relevant again.

[dwnsy]

Frida Kahlo (1907.07.06-1954.07.13)

[lizardtitties]

This is the first time I’ve seen this picture and it’s so fucking powerful for me.

[blankbody]

[1-800-bug-zone]

those are its veins

[cycomu]

[humansoflatecapitalism]

[mcgovern-wallawalla]

Decorating and Home Improvement Guide | Good Housekeeping ©1977

[lizzytwitch]

Anni Albers

[lesbiskammerat]

love those old soviet posters that are just advertising like, an activity. not some “go to mike’s hardware for the BEST deals around!” just “hey, you can learn stuff at libraries” or “consider going for a hike in the countryside” big kin

[foxpurr]

I’d love some examples!!

[sovietshopaholic]

Caring for birds will increase your fruit harvest!

What are you interested in? The library has many books to match your interests.

Tourism is the best relaxation!

Vitamin C. Vitamins help you to become healthy and strong

Fresh air strengthens health and improves quality of education! (Soviet classroom design, from my personal experience, includes big windows that let in a lot of air and sunshine)

[mayothompson]

[la-laborista-republiko]

[mapsontheweb]

Studies show that wealthier neighborhoods — which often have a lot of trees, yards and parks — are cooler than poorer neighborhoods.

[marinatedolive]

[chrisdornerfanclub]

I think the thing that irritates me about a certain type of Leninist is their egotistical obsession with their own intellectual superiority (because they read Lenin or whatever) while seemingly being incapable of applying the tools of Marxism to any currently (or past) existing socialist state. It just leads to these bizarre ahistorical moments like claiming “loans are not inherently exploitative.” The history of class struggle would like to disagree with you.