For me, it kept a lot of the worst of the idiots away from places like reddit.

As soon as xitter got bad, lots of them left. You see, those kinds of weaponsied, unhigned right wingers are so repulsive to be around, they can’t even stand each other. More so, they dont even want to have a conversation or an exchange of ideas. They literally just want to rant at people, parroting the lines they read somewhere else at anyone they think disagrees with them.

If everyone agrees with you, you have no one to rant at.

If only there was some kind of proven road map where countries who has been dominated by their ruling elite using the two party trick went on to form a kind of labour movement that forced a third choice on the ruling class…

Honestly, i think the reason is that just the right amount of alcohol dependency is amazing for capitalism. Dont get me wrong, I’m not judging anyone. I understand and I enjoy a drink myself. I just think we need to be honest with ourselves about it.

It keeps you consuming and it makes you forget all the bullshit you had to put up with all day. It dulls your your problem solving, your creativity and (most importantly) your empathy, so supervisors, middle managers, department managers and execs are less disinclined not to beat down on those below them.

I’m not saying its some grand conspiracy. I’m saying, those in power have known exactly the right drugs to administer to the masses in order to placate them. The Romans knew to give wine and not cannabis. The British army knew to give rum & brandy but not weed.

In fact, all of them were legal. Then, capitalism really took off and, totally unrelated in sure, every drug other than alcohol suddenly became illegal.

Of course I beleive in you. If you didn’t already know that, then I’m sorry for letting you down.

Instead, how about afterwards I give you a hug and we work on helping you beleive in yourself?

Nice try but all I did was play you at you own game, for which you called me a troll without a hint of irony or self awareness.

You won’t quote them because that wasn’t what was said and you can’t defend the ridiculouly sunderstanded nonsense you came out with. So, you choose to run away instead.

You made yourself look like a clown right there. If that’s not what you meant to do, you should do different things in the future.

Well, you answered while evading you own answer. I don’t remember saying that you did any of those thing. Perhaps you could remind me of when I did?

What answer do you want there? What would make you be happy about what was said? You clearly have a problem here. So, why woman or man up and state it?

Can you quote where I said your question was an attack on positive masculinity? Its just that, without that, ita going to look like a terribly bad faith and desperate twisting of something that wasn’t close to what was said.

The blessed emperor, in his divine wisdom, cares not for your gender.

All are welcome to die for the glory of the imperium.

Sure, in fact, I’m about to have a kid very soon.

Oh wow great. You know what it’ll be yet?

Well of course, they’ll be a wage slave, just like their parents.

Also, they see the levy charged to them by their country for using its stuff to make money as bad, despite all the schools, roads etc that it pays for.

However, they see the levy changed to them by the shareholders of the company they work for using their stuff to make money as good, despite it giving them nothing in return.

Imo, the greatest piece of mass brainwashing in history.

As did I. So, I’m not sure how you could have a problem with someone else doing the same. Yet here you are.

Either there are no inherently masculine and feminine virtues or the best we have are social constructs that fall short of what we want and picking at people for attempting to present a positive version of masculinity that isn’t just fighting or dominating isn’t helping anyone.

It seems like you see the problem too. I hope you’re able to give the above commenter a break, due to that.

What would you say was a positive feminine trait?

The ground floor can’t be the first floor, silly. The ground already existed, before they made the building. You don’t magically go up a floor just because there’s a roof over your head.

Youre still on the ground, not the first floor above the ground. You guys are wild.

Yes, the ground floor is a floor: the ground floor. Also, we do call the first floor the first floor…

No, no…God no.

I meant the left have to compromise with me.

You ran out of rum didn’t you James?

It’ll probably react badly with all the heroin and barbs they take out there

To me, the most influential contribution in the last few decades would be “Capitalist realism: is there any alternative?”

Its very heavily influenced by Marx but it’s more like a philosophical intervention where I would see das kapital as more of a historical intervention. As in “erm no, this is the story of how we got here” (das kapital). Although, there’s plenty of philosophy of course. Its only about 5 pages long and there’s free readings of it on YouTube.

Although, imo, the real origin story of capitalism covered in das kapital, on a national scale, is something everyone should be much more aware of.

And it ain’t what it ain’t.

“Well, that’s just how it is”

Person attempting to justify an injustice they also suffer, without even a thought about whether it being “how it is” might actually be connected to all the people saying dumb stuff like “Well, that’s just how it is.”