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The system is rigged. The advantages for the wealthy are immediate and endless.

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Why do we say that capitalism must be “dismantled”?

You’ll hear phrases like “Smash the state!” “Eat the rich!” and “Smash capitalism!”

And, yes, of course, but… :)

However relevant those sayings are, our work must be careful, highly organized and above all planned.

Because capitalism and all of its associated systems are not discrete, abstracted entities we can attack independently.

It is a structure, like a complicated machine with many thousands of working parts…

And right now it is connected to absolutely everything.

If we do this… [picks up huge hammer and smashes the machine]

Then a lot of vulnerable people will die.

The machine was built and improved and redesigned and patched over the course of generations. It is very good at its intended purpose, which is ultimately to generate profit.

Every human being alive today relies on the byproducts of the machine to survive, without exception.

The machine’s engineers want it to keep working like it does. In fact, they want to optimise it.

That will kill all remaining life on Earth.

So, we must destroy the machine, quickly and carefully

We must examine its deadly programs and mechanics and replace them with alternatives we built together.

The engineers don’t want us tampering with the machine.

However, we make it run…

So we can make it STOP. Together.

How will YOU help us to safely dismantle the machine?

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"I don't want to read this" is totally valid.

"This is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't want to read this because it is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

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Why is testosterone a controlled substance grow up like who cares

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For anyone who needs to translate the idea of 'don't appropriate Jewish holy days if you aren't Jewish' into an atheistic perspective, here's my best shot:

Appropriation is disrespectful on a cultural level. Being disrespectful is an asshole thing to do. Don't be an asshole.

There are times when people have used religion to claim ownership of practices and beliefs that they are not entitled to take, but that's not holy days. That's things like the right to bodily autonomy and right to life.

You're free to do whatever you want because nothing is true and everything is permitted, but that's a reminder to not be an asshole, not an entitlement to take whatever you want. Taking something someone else considers holy and using it for your own ends without participating in that culture or seeking any kind of solidarity with the people of that culture is disrespectful and insulting.

And so. As with many things, it comes back to that simple rule: Don't be an asshole.

If you are a Christian that wants to host a Passover seder this year:

1) Don’t. It’s appropriative and gross.

2) Still don’t.

3) Jesus never participated in the type of seder that Jews have today. He lived (if he existed as described in your Christian holy books) during the Second Temple Era of Judaism, when worship was Temple-focused and ritual sacrifice was a key facet of the holiday. The modern seder takes most of its traditions from rabbinic Judaism, which was not the Judaism of Jesus.

4) Don’t do it. Don’t. No, there is no good reason for you to do it.

5) Given the Christian antisemitic violence traditionally inflicted on the Jews during this time of year (the lead up to Easter), it is EXTRA awful for Christians to try and appropriate our traditions related to Passover.

6) Don’t. Pesach is our holiday, and our religion is a semi-closed practice. Don’t appropriate our stuff. Don’t make our stuff about Jesus.

7) There are no exceptions to the rule that Christians should not host Passover seders.

Hope this helps.

#Nothing is true. We arrive at conclusions through observation and reason not unquestionable truths. #Everything is permitted. You're an autonomous entity free to act as you will. And so it is your responsibility to act with wisdom.

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It's called homophobia because it's rooted in fear of the other. People who are disgusted by gay folks are expressing fear. People who can't agree with the concept are expressing fear. If they weren't afraid, they'd have no reason to care about who someone else has sex with or loves.

This goes the same for all kinds of bigotry. It's all based on fear.

Bigotry is always about fearful people who don't know how to control their own fear.

My most controversial opinion is that the term homophobia isn’t particularly applicable to people who are against homosexual relationships, because it implies that they’re afraid of the gays, while they might either be just disgusted or just can’t agree with the concept 🤷

Ohhh so you guys aren't homophobic, you're simply disgusted by their existence and way of living! And here I thought you were just bigots, silly me! Fucking moron.

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There's also overlap from a parallel term for globalism that emerged in the US in the 80s, largely due to new economic attitudes being espoused by strongly pro-corporate neoconservatives.

Globalism as an economic idea refers to the corporate control and hyperspecialization of national markets, in which companies push countries to specialize in exporting only a few goods (particularly food) and rely on imports from other specialized markets to make up any shortfalls in local supply.

The idea was sold on the basis that it would greatly improve productivity without telling people it would also give corporations an unprecedented ability to manipulate national economies.

If someone talks about globalism being about the economy and they need to mention Jewish people or immigration or basically anything but this specific criticism of corporate control of national markets, they're probably using it as a smokescreen for their antisemitism.

obviously no bigotry is logical (all of them just foil to whatever the bigot needs them to be) but of all the illogical things I just don't get how "globalist" is an insult

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Some of you don't have firm principles that transcend ideology, and it shows.

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"voting is useless and ineffectual" is one of the most insidious lies I see constantly getting plastered on this site and on twitter. please think critically about what groups of people want young people not to exercise political power and why. please think critically about what groups are trying to pass laws that make it harder to vote and what they have to gain by convincing people that voting does nothing. please think critically about who benefits from convincing overwhelmingly left-leaning young people not show up at polls.

please just fucking think about the things you parrot online and whether the ideas you're repeating are actually logical or sound. the far-right is known infiltrating communities and using psyop tactics and a lot of the big popular "leftists" online sow doomerism on purpose because they do not have your interests at heart.

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Shout out to all the Black ppl that can no longer participate directly in the fandom they love because of the stresses of racism 👍🏾 you contain multitudes of value and I'm sorry that the color of your skin and the power of your voice makes people not want to acknowledge that.

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This is similar to the function that jump scares provide in horror films.

When a jump scare hits, it serves as a quick scare that allows the audience to release the tension they've been holding, assuming that the film has been doing a good job of setting atmosphere and building that tension. It's a release and it helps manage the pacing of the film.

When jump scares are underused, a horror film tends to be an utter slog of unrelenting tension. A hard watch. When jump scares are overused, they make the whole experience feel cheap, all breadsticks and no entree.

If jump scares are used with skill, they make the film more watchable (because you're not constantly tense the entire time) and let you sink into appreciating the atmosphere and fright of the story itself, along with the catharsis that comes when the fear is finally confronted.

Humorlessness is one of the reasons Denis Villeneuve isn't a great director. He makes very beautiful and well-crafted films, but his storytelling always leaves me wanting.

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I really think people have forgotten just how bad things were under the Trump Administration. Literally every day there was news about some service being cut or someone terrible appointed somewhere they shouldn't be or what have you. He constantly flirted with WW3 and military dictatorship. It was such a blur of badness that there aren't big standouts for people to point to to make him "the XYZ president." it was everything. all the time. Why do we not remember this.

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i know that a lot of people already know this, and that this may come across as condescending to those who do, but it has become increasingly clear to me that many people, particularly younger people, don't understand this but—

purity culture is more then just thinking sex is bad and evil and gross

purity culture is the belief that you can be corrupted, that there is an level of purity that can be tarnished by thinking or doing something deemed sinful or icky and that once you lose that purity, you are lesser then those who have not been "tainted". it's the belief that seeing, thinking, or doing something inherently nonharmful to others will fundamental change you in a negative way

purity culture is watching gory horror movies and being told that you are disgusting for finding it interesting to watch

purity culture is being told that violence in books, movies, games, etcetera will make you violent

purity culture is being told that wanting to hurt someone makes you bad, darkens your heart, whatever, even if they hurt you first, even if you have no plans to ever act on that desire

purity culture is being told to forgive your abuser, rapist, or even just people who have slighted and hurt you or else you will never fully heal, or that it makes you in someway bad too, or even just as bad as them

purity culture is being told that hating someone is equally to killing them, or wanting to kill them

purity culture is when people have intrusive thoughts that scare and harm them that make you uncomfortable, possibly even triggered, and telling them that they secretly want to do, have, etcetera, those things or else they wouldn't be thinking about it

purity culture is being told not to curse because it makes your mouth filthy, makes your heart filthy, makes you mean and bad and unpleasant

purity culture is being told that jealousy, anger, rage, disgust, and other stigmatized emotions are "bad" or "unhealthy" emotions

purity culture is refusing to let youths or even teenagers read or watch potential upsetting books, shows, movies, games, comics, etcetera out of fear they will act them out, become violent, possessed, unruly, etcetera

purity culture is being told that writing, drawing, or just in general making something dark and uncomfortable makes you gross and evil

purity culture is telling you that you have to portray bad things as bad or else people won't under that it's still bad, that it will normalize this bad thing, that people can be corrupted by it because they can't think for themselves whether this bad thing you portrayed as good is not actually good

purity culture is thinking bad things done for good reasons is just as bad as bad things done for bad reasons, like a mother stealing baby formula to keep her child alive versus someone stealing your pet because they wanted it are equally wrong

purity culture is being told that drinking, smoking, being addicted to drugs, unemployed, homeless, makes you lesser and filthy and corrupts you

purity culture is believing that someone wanting to do something bad, but choosing not to do it because they know it's bad, still makes them bad because they still want to do it

purity culture is thinking people getting tattoos, dying their hair, piercing, wearing make up, getting cosmetic surgeries secretly hate themselves and are disrespecting themselves

purity culture is so much more then just sex. it expands so much further then just christian/religious people and communities

purity culture is doing something bad, and when you try to seek atonement or correct the mistake, that it is unforgivable and will alway be a blight on you, even if others can "learn to look past it"

if you think that someone thinking or do something that does not cause any inherent harm makes them lesser, makes them bad, makes them gross, corrupts them or can lead them to corrupting others, you are pushing purity culture

this is coming from a women raised in an extremely sex negative christian household who spent years hating herself and her body due to sex based purity culture being pushed onto her from the age of six due to early puberty by the way, so don't try to gate keep purity culture on this post as only a religious and or sexual thing