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It's the dunk tank.

This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.

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I would be real disappointed if that was true

Also, why are pronouns bad when we do it?

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (7 children)

i was browsing blahaj to see what the aftermath of defederation was like. reading the thread this came from made me so angry i had to just stop

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yeah, those shitlibs really drove my brain cells to the brink of death in such an intense way that it awoke me from my 2 year old slumber. No more lurking, only dunking from now on. knifecat

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

sorry to hear about your 2 year old, hope you were able to get them back to sleep

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Did I stutter? No more sleep, only dunk! That includes the younglings. ! baby-matt

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Oh trust me, I’m not a hero. It’s gonna get... uhm... messy. i-do

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

first time I've ever seen them posting theory of any kind and it's to something by ziq sus-lovecraft

edit- no shade to my anarchist comrades, ziq is obnoxious

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago

that's not theory, that's just radlib ranting posted to the anarchist library

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Wait thinking Johns are gross is being detached from reality now? Really? Have any of these people actually talked to anyone in real life? Even fucking dudebros hate on Johns and call them simps lmao. Like I'm telling you, you're not going to find much support for this in the real world. There's a reason men don't solicit sex workers in public and tell their wives about it.

There's a reason sex work models in some countries make "selling" legal but "buying" illegal. It's a real thing in the real world.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They picked probably the worst possible example to prove how disconnected we are. Shoulda gone with the rock stacking struggle sesh smh

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Yeah there's so many things they could have focused on, like outdoor cats vs indoor cats, rock stacking, our extremely weird in jokes, but they chose the one thing, which isn't even a general position on here, just the opinion of one user, in which their views line up with societies general outlook.

Has real "I'm pro sex work because I want to have sex with these women" vibes.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Painting the commodification of sex as emancipatory is peak radlib shit.

Real "touch grass" moment. 90% of people understand that decent humans do not enjoy coerced intimacy.

I like to point people to the "reviews" left by german johns or this essay by Esperanza Fonseca.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Those "reviews" are vomit inducing 🤮

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

society’s general outlook is anti sex work. considering johns as rapists is basic solidarity w sex workers

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Didn't we just have an anti-SWERF struggle session a couple months ago? I thought the consensus was that sex has already been commodified and that sex work is no more "selling your body" than coal mining or any of a number of other jobs is, and that if you're taking particular offense to sex work you should seriously reconsider whether that energy is coming from a sexist slut-shaming puritanical place or truly from your leftist values.

I didn't take any particular stance on the issue because I'm neither sex worker, nor john, nor a woman. I guess I'm saying this partly to restate the strict anti-SWERF hexbear line, and partly to clarify my own understanding, not to attack you personally because I don't think you've said anything necessarily incompatible with this, but it could be taken that way.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

In a later comment in this thread I clarified with

which isn't even a general position on here, just the opinion of one user.

I am aware we are anti swerf, but I'm not aware of the specifics of the general site position or anyone else's thoughts on the matter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

this is the take SamPond at blahaj was mad at. being anti john isnt SWERF shit. being anti john is abt having solidarity with sex workers. sex workers are indeed workers as much as coal miners are. pimps and johns, however, are akin to coal mine owners in this analogy. johns are not mere consumers, they are directly exploiting the labor of sex workers.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The first paragraph is very:

If you are not a liberal at 25, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at 35 you have no brain.

Which has been a pet peeve of mine for a while. I think usually because they don't give any reasoning or explanation. It's just "you don't understand the world yet", then explain it to me!

I feel like the intent has to be just to dismiss young people's views as being out of touch, without offering anything better.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was a libertarian at 25 and i'm a communist at 40, their truism sucks and is wrong

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

Same, also with having kids still only drove me further left.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was conservative at 10, libertarian at 12, social democrat at 15, anarchist at 25, and Marxist-Leninist at 30.

Why would I become more conservative when capital is making the world more shit every year of my life lol

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I am old enough to remember the GDR in colour. With decades of political work and working mostly for our lower precarious third. Yet somehow I am a 20 year old who gets money from his parents(?) - I wish! Having a body that doesn't hurt would be amazing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I hope they're all in their early 20s or teens because otherwise this gets much sadder

When I was born Reagan was still president harold-manic