bestmiaou

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[–] bestmiaou@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 week ago

have you met many quants? a large number of them are like that, in much the same way that crypto currency people are (in fact, i think the crypto people are like that because they are poorly copying the quants).

[–] bestmiaou@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

usually the bits here are somewhat over the top, but this is a very modest proposal.

[–] bestmiaou@lemmygrad.ml 48 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

apologies for not memeing on this, but the parallel that immediately comes to mind is when Kavanaugh was getting confirmed, he said that Roe v Wade was "settled law". she is absolutely going to enact some anti-trans bullshit.

[–] bestmiaou@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

here is a partial critique i read of whipping girl many years ago which has stuck with me Deconstructing Whipping Girl By b. binaohan

these issues that you highlight seem strongly tied to Serano's bioessentialist understanding of gender, which (iirc) is whatever in-born tendencies that you have one way or another. once you start trying to find gender in biology, you quickly end up reproducing the biologization of gender that is the basis of modern era misogyny because gender was one of the driving ideologies that shaped the biological study in the first place.

once you make that connection, it becomes more clear where the "binary-phobia" stuff comes from. it's literally just a reformulation of colonial era justification of eradicating native genders that the colonizers didn't like. and to get out ahead of the obvious misreading, white non-binary people in the US/europe are not colonized. capital would just generally prefer to be able to easily sort everyone into 2 easily distinguishable categories with pre-defined social positions.

[–] bestmiaou@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

i'm so tired of libs (especially "leftists") saying things like this are a win, or even that this is a "pretty significant shift in the status quo" (literally quoting one of them) because they might consider restricting arm transfers. another one i saw mentioned potential domestic military raids as a reason not to vote for Trump. the american left is fucking cooked. willing to vote for a genocide to save themselves is pure cowardice.

[–] bestmiaou@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 4 weeks ago

the process, in brief, goes something like this:

  1. you write something (if this is the first time through this sequence for this work, it will definitely be bad. that's ok and expected)
  2. analyze that, which will reveal some significant flaws
  3. figure out some ways that may help with those flaws
  4. go back to step one with your improved understanding

this can be very frustrating to begin with, but after a few tries you will start to see some improvement, and maybe even something you actually like.

[–] bestmiaou@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago
[–] bestmiaou@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago

unfotunately, you have once again overestimated the morons. i know at least one who responded to this with "she's being quoted out of context".

[–] bestmiaou@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 1 month ago

this is how you get no-call/no-shows

 

there's a guy that i'm mutuals with on other social media who's on the young side, like just out of college, and he's figuring out what he thinks about politics. he's pretty smart and hangs around cool marxist(-leninist) people, but he's definitely trying to figure out stuff on his own, which is really cool and he's critically engaging with stuff well.

however, it seems like he's seen a lot of patsocs and ACP members bring up weird corners of Marx's writing to try to justify their positions. the particular case he brought up recently was about an ACP guy on twitter using the productive vs unproductive labor distinction to call baristas (you know, people who make coffee for usually really low wages) enemies of the working class because they are unproductive labor. my friend was worried that this kind of weird nonsense argument was necessary for marxists in general. me and some other people explained that no, the ACP guys are picking weird bits of Marx to try to justify their reactionary bullshit and we actually mostly focus on class and not this other stuff. so like no harm done here, but it makes me wonder how often those kind of things go unchallenged in other people's experience.

[–] bestmiaou@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

i think the way they want it to be understood is "if elected, i will so thoroughly address all of the issues you care about that you don't have to vote on them again", which is kind of reasonable until you try working out how that would happen

[–] bestmiaou@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 3 months ago (5 children)

clearly foreign adversaries are trying to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids

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