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i predict i will get another community guideline strike in the next few days, just in time to keep my account from being clean

it’s been dunked on plenty already but this is just really stupid. entirely devoid of real analysis, it’s just more “inequality le bad” and “poly people can be unhappy sometimes :o”
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wow nice you figured out that authenticity is stupid, and that patriarchal husbands are pieces of shit. slow clap for the genius please. no differentiation of different styles of poly, and not even significant analysis of who the “elite” is supposed to comprise
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even if polyamory was just a way for the ruling class to “have their cake and eat it too”, why is this bad? and it’s hilarious how we get a token disabled poly throwaway hero as an example at the end too - a better subtitle for this article would have been “poor good rich bad”
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i’m all here for political critiques of polyamory, one of my fav articles is “Polyamory is Gay Marriage for Straight People”. but that’s because they’re not morons and actually engage in the subject matter with differentiation, specificity, and proper categorial analysis
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i dont wholeheartedly endorse the article ofc, but its infinitely more generative than this drivel
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oh i should also be clear that it seems like Molly’s relationships both in and out of her marriage were unfulfilling, but again this doesn’t speak much to anything and can be entirely explained through bog standard feminist analysis. “therapeutic libertarianism” is not an enlightening concept
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also worth reminding ourselves that there are other ways to be critical of the ideals espoused by vulgar polyamory: Freedom as absence of constraints is perhaps a reasonable aspiration for slaves, but not for others. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, § 260.
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obviously this is not to say that constraints are good categorically, or an endorsement of monog-patriarchal relationship norms by any means. what it does mean is that too fanatical a focus on freedom indicates a rather naive and immature stage of poly. better conditions give rise to higher ideals.


goal for tonight: do not spiral do not spiral do not spiral

can i offer you a picrew in these trying times
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whoever invented small talk over a meal is getting sent to the gulag
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the guy in question
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seriously tho i’m fucking exhausted this feels like shit

i have ambivalent and melancholy associations with early tøp and walking around my home town in autumn. i feel small today so it’s fitting i’m drawn to them right now.
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the tracks are bad but it’s kinda irrelevant

omg this looks incredible what book is this?

i havent felt able to message people because it feels like it requires undivided attention that i don’t really have any more
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maybe it’s also just that my social needs have been satiated and there doesn’t feel like a point
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it just takes a lot of focus and energy and effort for me to pull off and i’m not really benefitting from it. lol i’ve had to put it on my to do list and schedule it out like a chore

in bed with her oscillating between dream sleep and marginally awake and i can’t tell if im talking to the real girl or dream girl at any given moment. and then i realize its been dream girl the whole time and ive just been talking to myself
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this is like the third time this has happened and it always makes me feel lonely

yesterday i got three audible books. downloaded, de-drm’ed, started torrents, and then promptly changed tasks instead of actually listening to them =v=

peak pseud vaush viewer commenter
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for the first time in as long as i can remember, i can earnestly say that a social interaction tangibly revitalized me

i forgot scents could be so comforting

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daytime downtown during the semester is depressingly active

😭😭😭 discourse cycle has circled the drain so long the graphic designers got involved
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- equality sux - “male privilege” is a confused and analytically bankrupt reformist concept - the whole conversation is abstracted so far that it’s unclear what we’re even speaking in reference to, which is fantastic bc everyone can project their own meaning and keep discourse going :D
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it’s also fascinating how de-personalized the chart is. it’s as if the man and woman have no relation to one another, and this abstract patriarchy has arbitrarily chosen to make women worse off. through what means? who knows!
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6 months ago me was spittin (the cutoff * continues “… are more complex than this”)

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John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy, pg. 87
To Plato, experience meant enslavement to the past, to custom. Experience was almost equivalent to established customs formed not by reason or under intelligent control but by repetition and blind rule of thumb. Only reason can lift us above subjection to the accidents of the past. When we come to Bacon and his successors, we discover a curious reversal. Reason and its bodyguard of general notions is now the conservative, mind-enslaving factor. Experience is the liberating power. Experience means the new, that which calls us away from adherence to the past, that which reveals novel facts and truths. Faith in experience produces not devotion to custom but endeavor for progress. This difference in temper is the more significant because it was so unconsciously taken for granted. Some concrete and vital change must have occurred in actual experience as that is lived. For, after all, the thought of experience follows after and is modeled upon

i promise you i am never going to use prodigious in a sentence

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state mandated skincare for boys (a temporary measure until we abolish boys in 2035)

angrily muttering “kill yourself” to the gas pump that started playing an advertisement at me before realizing the person that just got out of their car 2 feet from me might think it’s directed at them

enhancement in man up to now? That tension of a soul in misery which develops its strength, its trembling when confronted with great destruction, its inventiveness and courage in bearing, holding out against, interpreting, and using unhappiness, and whatever has been
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conferred upon it by way of profundity, secrecy, masks, spirit, cunning, and greatness—has that not been given to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering? -N
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4/ I have an image of objective happiness and objective despair, and I would say that for as long as people are unencumbered as they are now, and are not expected to take on full responsibility and full self-determination,
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then for just as long their welfare and happiness in this world will be an illusion. And it will be an illusion that will one day burst. And when it bursts it will have dreadful consequences. -A
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5/ Interestingly, I am a critic of relief while you are a proponent of relief: the distress that drives people to seek out such forms of relief is precisely the distress that is put on them by the institutions – that is,
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from the arrangement of the world that is alien to them and omnipotent over them. And that seems to me to be an ur-phenomenon of anthropology today, that people flee precisely to the power that is causing them the harm they are suffering from. -A
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6/ Suffering is not an evil in itself; it becomes evil only when it is not endured consciously or when it exceeds our capacities for comprehension or endurance. -N