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Why did you ban anime catgirls Heuard
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babyhueypnewton posted:

Having said that through months of posting nothing but orthodox Marxism-Leninism I was given modship of that place as a joke and also as part of a political struggle. Kind of like when I was made a mod here years ago as a joke and now this forum is Marxist-Leninist and posts all Grover Furr all the time. Communism always wins 😎 so yeah if you want to be unbanned tell me your username. Might as well use this minor bit of power for the 'zzone homies

thanks, but it's really not important, I actually don't post anything political on reddit outside of occasionally asking liberals if they can tell me a real substantive reason to care about russia & reminding people that Maduro and Yanukovych were elected

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as im on sick pension due to mental health issues and my father having schizoaffective disorder maybe ill chime in a bit.

all slurs really exist in the sense of the audiences known motivations behind using them. im not going in to the whole silly notion of public vs private when discussing these but a marxist-lenninist subreddit should really practice criticism and discussion instead of exclusion on these matters unless they could discern from the posting history that the personn is harboring actual vile motivations behind the slur usage ("brocialists").

I havent really ever been offennded by slurs branding negative subjects as crazy, dumb, or w/e even though I think these do contribute to the stigmatization of mental illnesses but I cant really separate them from the economic modes of production instead of purely superstructural dead weight shit.

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I'm putting the next person to express a sincere opinion regarding subreddit moderation under revolutionary arrest
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just feel like pointing out that one of the best ways that the communists gained power in spain was by making sure that all the major posts were held by communists, so they had an inordinate amount of power despite their low numbers. now we've got modship in both reddit and somethingawful. communism will win!
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swampman posted:

Thanks to this thread I learned that Crazy Horse's name Thašuka Witko translates more accurately to "His Horse Is Crazy," which well illustrates how our "arbitrary" standards of horse sanity serve power.


it wasnt even that. it was 'his horses are spirited' meaning he was a good horse trainer. according to russell means anyway

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It translates to "The Deals I'm Offering On These Horses Are Crazy" Which implies that he himself may be crazy, to offer deals that good. This interpretation is further backed up by his series of horse lot commercials where he's in a straight jacket, laughing over a folder labeled LOW, LOW PRICES, performing the sacred "ghost dance" to secure free hotdogs (or as Natives call them, maize) for the first 100 guests, etc.
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Should leftists care about turntablism?

Rewind!
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i find it all completely insincere because people actually do consider these things bad, i'm talking about the neurotics who tell you not to use certain words. their very happiness in life is predicated on these exclusionary hierarchies. you can see this if you just take a small look into the lives of the people who say these things. also overtures towards respectability are almost always racist imo

but lets look at it another way. on the one hand they say it's not bad to be retarded, but on the other hand how many genuinely retarded people will carry out revolution? if revolution is good then retardation is bad, not bad as in evil but bad as in we would choose the alternative where it mattered

my response is that socialists aren't actually 'moral' so none of these prescriptions matter. take the case of animals, the proletariat is reactionary towards animal liberation and rightly so. human beings are ableist towards animals because the entire basis of animal oppression is they are not able to oppose us, they are weak and we are strong and they are tasty. it's not going to be another way and even if you want it to it would never be another way so long as it benefits the people to oppress animals

the whole thing really is ridiculous. how many severely autistic people do you ever find in these peoples cliques? i know many autistic people who simply can't follow what's required of them when it comes to world view and word usage and thus are heavily shunned for perhaps being problematic when they struggle to be otherwise

lets finish with that controversial engels quote

The next world war will result in the disappearance from the face of the earth not only of reactionary classes and dynasties, but also of entire reactionary peoples. And that, too, is a step forward
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the great autists vs retards debate
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roseweird posted:

wtfh is this lol



a completed IFAP intake form

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Of course being "retarded" or whatever is bad, that's why those things are called "mental illnesses" and "disabilities". The point is when you use that as an insult you play into the idea that it's somehow something to be ashamed of, or that these people are less deserving of basic human respect, etc. It's not about pretending that these things are good, it's about not being an asshole who acts superior to people whose material conditions of existence are worse than yours because of biology/trauma/whatever.

Communists should probably care about ableism because if there's anyone who stands to benefit from "from each according to their ability to each according to their needs", it's people with disabilities and special needs.
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roseweird posted:

well i will be earnest anyway: i think that socialists must have a love of humanity that, with regard to the severely disabled must be more than pity and less than reification of identity. there is a difference between the value of all human life and the goodness of individual human traits. but really the truth is that differences in ability of people who live in our age miniscule compared to the gap between any of us at all and the humanity of the future that we must strive to create.



Reach for the stars 🌠

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but lets look at it another way,
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yes to the op question.but ppl are Reddit are usually stupid not crazy so it's ok.

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