sorry sorry basically a lot of people can get into left-of-center politics out of compassion for others, and things like “equality/equity”, “human rights”, “(social) justice” seem like good orienting principles to genuinely help people. but theoretically (i believe) those are dead-ends

and will eventually be a barrier to achieving meaningful change. so staying committed to those kinds of values can keep people trapped at a poor level of analysis, but thinking your way out of your own foundations is really tricky

yea i generally like bruenig for cutting through the bullshit on things like this. not a fan of egalitarianism and “equity” discourse is an odd way to inject mangled contextualism into a moribund project

it’s hard because a lot of the moral and sympathetic intuitions that lead people to be interested in “the left” actually end up being a massive hurdle if you want to make any significant progress, both theoretically and practically

this is engels’ gothakritik. both marx and engels disliked equality as a political virtue, and a frequent rhetorical tactic of theirs was to reference equality and identity - that no two things could be equal *in all respects*, lest they be one and the same thing

this was to make the point that there is no equality in the abstract, there is only equality on particular dimensions, and that achieving equality in one respect will likely cause an inequality in another respect.

i feel like their point is often misinterpreted (ex. article). they aren’t saying “you can never describe any two things as equal in some ways” but rather that it’s most obfuscating than helpful, and will lead you into theoretical moralistic knots while in reality the demands are quite concrete

“abolition of wages” is more enlightening, clear, and less co-optable than “equality of classes” or “fairness” or whatever other bourgeois virtue

my third favorite exchange is: “you have two older brothers” “yes and i believe both women are my same age”

“i believe in equality… i believe everyone is the same age”

engels thought all of his opponents were katie in disguise

i kept getting this earlier today too, glad i’m not the alone ig lol

a long time ago kasey blocked me on twitter because i was all up in her shit and she had to be mindful of it you could do the same thing i spose

lucky

alice found it while repeatedly falling over herself on the api

seitan is so goated

nope it’s completely useless, it has to be repetition afaik

i discovered this while failing to make an arbitrary link lol. i accidentally swapped around byteEnd and byeStart values and for some reason it looks like this in the client lol "index": { "byteEnd": 0, "byteStart": 300 }

this is an example post with example text that exceeds three hundred characters. however, it actually does not exceed three hundred characters. if you click the reply button you will see a shortened version of this post (i believe it should be half the length actually). take a look at what i found!!this is an example post with example text that exceeds three hundred characters. however, it actually does not exceed three hundred characters. if you click the reply button you will see a shortened version of this post (i believe it should be half the length actually). take a look at what i found!!

@witchy.mom lol

OH IM A DOUBLE MORON OMFG

@soap.kawaii.social you're seeing this right, like if you click reply you can see the actual text value. i'm aware this is a solved problem and i'm simply doing it wrong but i don't understand how it broke in such a way lol

HUH?

to be honest i was expecting it not to make a link in the first place, but somehow it did and just the start/end index is screwy?

ohhhh wait duh i'm a moron, lmao

school shooter gifted&talented vi goes so hard

@soap.kawaii.social i just watched 5 drowneds spawn on top of this thing, light on fire, and die

>community college in middle school 🤨

god damnit i was trying to do something funny and edit my post but i forgot i had a dumbass blob and everything got fucked and now the cid is desynced rip

good link: https://minecraft.wiki/w/Cape

yknow close enough i'll take it 😭😭😭

yes but its funnier if i say strict low standards (in fact its the whole point the paradoxical statement) in other words: it's dialectical you see

erm...

i have obnoxiously strict low standards

im so sorry chat....

leggings is trying too hard because i know its still out of your range for now but its chill

i'm like the opposite of the redpill guys: "i want a LOW VALUE woman with NO LIFE GOALS and NO AMBITION!! i want her to pursue HER OWN INTERESTS agnostic to what i think!!! (so that she doesn't bother me)! i hope she IS NOT LOYAL and that she ARGUES AND DISAGREES WITH ME!!"

yea i suppose it would be more accurate to say that comfy is the one mode of existence where i won't actively hate a person, but that just brings them up to neutral evaluation. no positive points to be gained, only debuffs if comfy not present

scat 😋🥴🤤🥺

i'll never be cooler than when i was riding a schoolbus on a saturday to a cross-country competition in middle school listening to NoCopyrightSounds on an iPod Touch i borrowed from my dad

also Monstercat and Ninety9Lives, all the classics

and iirc the "ipod touch" was actually an iPhone 3 that just no longer had a phone plan lol

it is authentic shit! what the fuck are you talking about 😭 i love you i love you

THANK YOU!!!! 🙏🙏🙏

as an american i have to say i respect them for banning tiktok, even if just in the micro-state of erisland (population: 1)

the perfectly believable lie... it's genius... diza im keeping my eye on you

it's unoriginal and trite but nonetheless oppressively true that the hegemonic dominance of christian moralist intuitions are stultifying and inescapable anywhere you go, even now

oh yeah? then why don't you have the minecraft tiktok cape

@dbw.kawaii.social why did you put parental controls on @eris.pet and stop it from using tiktok

also men don't get credit for being comfy because they look like shit by default so its not impressive