axont [she/her, comrade/them]

Just now? Am I somehow posting in the 1960s?

This is incredibly charming

I think this species of snail is assymetrical, which means maybe their genitals are on the right side of their body. But a snail that coils like Jeremy has their symmetry flipped and their genitals are on the left. So Jeremy wouldn’t be able to reproduce with a typical right coiling snail because their organs don’t align. So yeah all three snails coil to the left because that’s a rare trait and needed for mating

Looking back at it I find the whole “fight” between anarchism and marxism-leninism to be very silly, but since I think that China and Hamas are actually doing useful work, this automatically makes me incompatible with many anarchists.

Yeah thus should be the main crux of things. There haven’t been real conflicts between anarchists and ML organizations outside of internet posting for decades now. The closest thing I can thing is during the Burkina-Faso revolution, some of the trade unions that called themselves anarcho-syndicalists were also allying themselves with the French government.

There’s just no real conflict otherwise. I’ve done organizations in both anarchist and ML orgs and it’s 99% identical. Maybe ML groups are more willing to endorse someone in an electoral race, maybe an anarchist group will be more willing to do something like petty theft from a grocery store or squatting. That’s been the only real difference I’ve noticed in tactics is that an ML group will usually try to stay above board and anarchist groups will commit crimes if necessary.

Otherwise there was never any real conflict. The people who comprised these movements came from largely identical political interests.

I became a Marxist in like 2003. I wish there had been podcasts and stuff back then. The best we had were just IRC channels full of very elderly Trots calling one another revisionists.

Kim Kitsuragi

Did Hitler’s genes kill Rosa Luxemburg? Did Hitler’s evil chromosomes send German colonizers to Tanzania in 1884 when Hitler was negative five years old? Maybe the preconditions of fascism need more than a single person’s DNA but more research is required.

There’s an obsession with painting Hitler as a unique figure whose rise to power and fascist crimes were the result of a confluence of personality disorders, family history, his experiences in WW1. It’s mainly a liberal thing because they really need the history of fascism to be the history of singular evil figures, rather than the result of imperialist capitalism eating itself. It would be very useful for the liberal world order to place blame on genetics or individual psychology for the machinations of history. Rather than the consequences of things like economic conditions, imperialism, class struggle, etc

So yeah you’ve got it right. For the longest time blame was placed on Hitler’s supposedly hypnotizing public speaking skills. I guess now extrapolating his gene sequence is supposed to shed light on if being evil or fascist is hereditary, which itself sounds like eugenics

Hey hey this is innacurate to link us to Stalin

we work for George Soros too

I prefer the country that hasn’t invaded anyone in 50 years over the country that’s launched an invasion every 18 months

furthermore it’s a moot question to ask this of a vegan because vegans often see animals as deserving rights on the level of humans, or at least I believe this based on my personal morals. So it’s like asking why I simply don’t eat human corpses. Or to make the analogy even more horrible, why I don’t eat the corpses of executed prisoners.

I hear stuff like this so often as a vegan. I get asked why I don’t wear leather, since the animal was already killed for its meat, so I might as well make use of its skin. Just yesterday I got asked why I won’t consume dairy because “the cows like being milked. It hurts the cow if they’re not milked.”

God forbid I try my best to reduce animal suffering. I know it’s not going to amount to a lot if I’m just an individual making consumer decisions, which is why I don’t treat veganism like that. It’s not a diet or a clothing style, it’s a demand for the end of animal suffering. And to that end I’ll try my best even if it makes my life personally difficult or annoying.

The only way I’ve been able to explain veganism to carnists is to ask them if they’d eat a dead baby, or wear their dead mother’s skin. But even that’s not very effective. I don’t know how to explain that animals are living beings who deserve life and dignity, same as humans. Because part of the problem I run into is needing to explain that humans deserve life and dignity. It’s hard explaining to a typical American carnist that cows shouldn’t be forcefully bred or used as a milk production factory when the same person believes homeless people all deserve to die.

Yeah apparently there’s metallic nitrogen in the Earth’s core

yeah i have a bachelor’s in chemistry and I remember a professor earnestly saying the phrase “metallic phase nitrogen” and I think I went home and stared at the ceiling for an hour

Trump’s goal is to line the pockets of the American wealthy, in whatever fashion that manifests, and to continue American military dominance. That’s the goal of any president

If Trump’s goal were to harm the US empire there are way better ways of doing it and he’s not doing any of it. In reality what you’re witnessing is US imperial decline, regardless of who is administering it, and this is beyond simply Trump. With any luck the decline of the US can’t come fast enough. Hopefully soon the world will be liberated of the Great Satan’s hegemony, inshallah.

It’s telesur, what do you mean?

The greatest measurable increase in life expectancy and quality of life happened in China during the second half of the 20th century, during which it developed from backwater feudalism to centrally planned socialism.

The greatest measurable reduction in life expectancy and quality of life occured in former Soviet countries in the 1990s, where they devolved from centrally planned socialism to internationally financed capitalism.

This is why liberals claim capitalism isn’t a specific material circumstance, but an abstract set of values, or simply when trade exists. They want to make it seem like capitalism is an intractable part of human existence that’s existed for as long as we have. One time I was talking to a guy who didn’t seem to be joking who told me capitalism began when the universe did, because chemicals trade electrons.

He seems to be using the word Israel in the very old fashioned way of saying it, which would mean people who worship the God of Abraham. It can also refer to Judaism broadly in that sense.

This guy seems to have believed Christianity is a divergent, but identical faith to Judaism but has been led astray by Christian pastors.

It’s vitally important to know which browser is preferred by the guy who says slurs to an audience of children