renownedballoonthief

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[–] renownedballoonthief@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle is a fun and cute show if you're looking for something like that.

It seems the person in question didn't report this income and therefore didn't pay taxes on it.

[–] renownedballoonthief@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Reminds me of the joke about a man that dies in a flood waiting for good to save him while turning down any actual rescuers.

Meat eaters: if you need a sign from God or fate or whatever to start being vegan, here's yet another one. Try not to drown before you change your mind.

I feel like your completely glossing over the whole increased risk of rape and violence aspect that prostitution involves compared to wage labor.

[–] renownedballoonthief@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 11 months ago

Example #732 of why ethnonationalism is bad.

[–] renownedballoonthief@lemmygrad.ml -2 points 11 months ago

I feel like you're ignoring the reality that the prostitution industry avoids formal recognition by its very nature. Clients want to stay anonymous, pimps want to stay underground, and many prostitutes want to remain under the radar. Formal recognition is a necessary prerequisite for regulation and labor law.

[–] renownedballoonthief@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do you plan on this being a lifelong career for you? Why or why not?

[–] renownedballoonthief@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

This is such a lib take that it pains me to read it. The whole post is worth a read, btw.

https://proletarianfeminist.medium.com/the-problem-with-the-phrase-sex-work-is-work-bdac613eb2f0

Such a complete misunderstanding of the industry is the result of a flattening of distinctions between all work and a misunderstanding of Marxist theory. Wage labor is exploitative because of the surplus value extracted from the workers' labor. Prostitution is sexual exploitation because it feeds off of extreme vulnerability to maintain a class of prostitutes, coerces sex through money and power, and exposes those women to high amounts of rape and violence. Not all work involves coercive sex, not all work comes with the high risk of rape and male violence in whatever legal context it operates under. Not all work puts the body and it’s component parts on the market to be bought, sold, and rented at will to the highest bidder.

I encourage you and everyone else to read this 1999 article from Palestinian activist Edward Said about why a one state solution is the only viable path to peace.

[–] renownedballoonthief@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The arm rest seamlessly and senselessly blends into the rest of the couch.

Why is it so difficult for you to believe that some people might value their own lives over nationalism or the wishes of the ruling elite class? Y'all are so bloodthirsty that you would criticize any Ukranian that dare to try to live instead of wholeheartedly volunteering to be thrown into a meat grinder.

 

The Upton Sinclair classic is filled with labor relations, leftist struggle sessions, and disproving American imperial propaganda, but we get a movie about mean oil man doing mean things. What a travesty and an erasure of Sinclair's message. The man could layer irony on so thick that it would make Chapos jealous. Has anyone here read the book, and, if so, what are your favorite passages? Mine is:

Someone mentioned another stunt of the returned soldiers—their setting up a censorship of moving pictures. One Angel City theatre had started to show a German film, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” and this Hun invasion had so outraged the Legion men, they had put on their uniforms and blockaded the theatre, and beaten up the people who tried to get in. Tommy Paley laughed—the courage of each of those veterans had been fortified by a five-dollar bill, contributed by the association of motion picture producers! They didn’t want foreign films that set them too high a standard!

Then Schmolsky. He was too fat to comprehend such a thing as irony, and he remarked that the directors were mighty damn right. Schmolsky, a Jew from Ruthenia, or Rumelia, or Roumania, or some such country, said that we didn’t want no foreign films breaking in on our production schedules. An hour or so later Bunny heard him telling how the Hollywood films were sweeping the German market—it wouldn’t be three years before we’d own this business. “Vae victis!” remarked Bunny; and Schmolsky looked at him, puzzled, and said, “Huh?”

Vae victis, indeed. The entire text can be found here for free:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70379

 

Selling off the collective inheritance of the Ukrainian people to the lowest bidding Western scum.

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