kalec

he/they | 21 | white american | minors dnf (current moots/followers allowed)

[phobic-human]

The people of Cuba will not be broken! USSR, 1960.

[segamascott]

[severalowls]

fuck people who reblog posts which contradict each other. no! be explicitly clear

[satyriconmp3]

admire folks who reblog posts which contradict eachother. exactly! keep em guessing

[eroscestlavie]

normally I would not just screenshot myself and post it here but it’s Friday and I’m feeling lazy

[teathattast]

[bunjywunjy]

[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

My son's tattoo hurt me deeply

When Tess Morgan's son came home with a tattoo, she was griefstricken. She knew her reaction was OTT (he's 21) but it signalled a change in their relationship

This is gold this, absolute gold, the most over the top melodramatic hysterical ridiculous thing I’ve ever read

[brawlcloud]

This is actually so interesting to read- it’s from 2012 but its full of the same anxieties, even some of the same phrasing that many of the guardian’s later pieces on transness use. really hammers home how much of the terfism that emerged in the late 10s was middle class mothers angry at a loss of control over their adult children- whether that be their bodies or their friends or their opinions- and making that everyone’s problem because they have the power to do so

[monkey-cat-vivi]

He says, “I’m still the same person.”

I look at him, sitting there, my 21-year-old son. I feel I’m being interviewed for a job I don’t even want. I say, “But you’re not. You’re different. I will never look at you in the same way again. It’s a visceral feeling. Maybe because I’m your mother. All those years of looking after your body – taking you to the dentist and making you drink milk and worrying about green leafy vegetables and sunscreen and cancer from mobile phones. And then you let some stranger inject ink under your skin. To me, it seems like self-mutilation. If you’d lost your arm in a car accident, I would have understood. I would have done everything to make you feel better. But this – this is desecration. And I hate it.”

[quasi-normalcy]

Also just the classism of her associating tattoos with “vest tops, dogs on chains, broken beer glasses”; like, just say you hate poor people

[al-murchanski]

it’s never good news, huh?

[cwyreads]

Degrowth demands two things: the first is abandoning GDP as the sole measure of progress, and the second is to distinguish between what is unnecessary and what is necessary, to reduce what is unnecessary and increase what is necessary. In order to transition to a degrowth society, we need to plan carefully, because we cannot simply reduce everything at the same time—nor can we increase everything at the same time, because it wastes energy and resources that are very limited. It’s a matter of focusing on the use-value dimension of production, rather than relying on the price mechanism for the allocation and distribution of products. The issue is how we do that. These decisions cannot be made by bureaucrats or politicians. So, we need a more democratic way of managing and deciding what we need—and need to increase—and what we don’t need and must reduce. A new socialist calculation debate needs to take place. It is hard to imagine abolishing the market all at once. What is the right balance between a market and non-market kind of system? We also have new computing technologies. But it’s dangerous to depend on those kinds of algorithmic mechanisms alone. So it’s a matter of finding the right balance.

— Kōhei Saitō, "Greening Marx in Japan." New Left Review, no. 145, 2024, p. 8-9. Breaks added for readability.

[psychotrenny]

The greatest strength of Marxism is that it does more than simply recognise injustice in society. We have records of people criticising social inequality for as long as writing has been practiced beyond the highest elites, and it's almost certain that an unrecorded history goes back much further. It's not very hard to see people being abused on a systemic level, looking upon the suffering of slaves and serfs, and go "Huh. That's not good. It would be nice if that didn't happen". Instead, Marxism's allows us to meaningfully understand why things are like this. It's a scientific ideology that, when applied correctly, empowers people to analyse the factors of the past that produced the present and from there plan ways to create a new future. A method to go beyond "this is bad" to "this is why it's happening" then to "this is how we can stop it".

Because almost every student of revolution agrees that people don't rebel just because they're oppressed. They rebel because they think that's the path to a better life or at least a better death; rebellion can be a product of optimistic faith in victory or pessimistic acceptance that a death in defiance is better than life in obedience. And the latter motivation only really matters to the lowest of the low with nothing left to lose. It's a fact so obviously true that even a Liberal may stumble upon it, as the following excerpt demonstrates. It's an interesting example of a Liberal conclusion that inadvertently supports a Marxist response, explaining why Marxism's active and scientific approach is necessary for inspiring action among the diversity of groups that comprise the masses

Only if worthwhile opportunities for successful action present themselves will large groups, consisting of ordinary people with other responsibilities and values to protect, expend -possibly at some risk to themselves-time, effort, and/or money in pursuit of satisfaction... All the misery in the world may not motivate a group to act against an authority it cannot defeat; even the most acute sense of injustice may not move large numbers of people to act together in a hopeless cause

Harvey Waterman (1981). Reasons and Reason: Collective Political Activity in Comparative and Historical Perspective. World Politics Volume 33 Issue 4

[rainbowsconnect]

[astriloquum]

[perryshmirtz-screenshots]

[notahorseindisguise]

everytime i wear an outfit like this i think about this tweet

[adhdoofenshmirtz]

which you prefer?

platypus perry

human perry

Voting ended onJun 4

[funeral]

Finally, when shame has been completely internalized, nothing about you is okay. You feel flawed and inferior; you have the sense of being a failure. There is no way you can share your inner self because you are an object of contempt to yourself. When you are contemptible to yourself, you are no longer in you. To feel shame is to feel seen in an exposed and diminished way. When you're an object to yourself, you turn your eyes inward, watching and scrutinizing every minute detail of behavior. This internal critical observation is excruciating. It generates a tormenting self-consciousness which Kaufman describes as, "creating a binding and paralyzing effect upon the self." This paralyzing internal monitoring causes withdrawal, passivity and inaction.

John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You

[leshermes]

June 1st is TOMORROW. It means that GAY PEOPLE will exist, but only for ONE MONTH. Do not forget to buy your tickets to see them NOW, or else you will have to wait AN ENTIRE YEAR to be able to meet them AGAIN.