It's funny how I was never a Marxist even when I was in the left, but I learned what "Malthusianism" means in Marxism better than @mrsmcgee16's critics. (from EMJ's "Libido Dominandi," wrt Alexandra Kollontai's drive to legalize abortion and the anti-Malthusians who fought it)
Stalinists: "So, if human labour is the source of value, how could there ever be "unnecessary" people in a socialist polity?"
Abortionist and euthanasist 🏴s: "Because I hate my parents and love casual sex."
And damn, she's gone again. Aimee Terese and Orcbrand should start a "Jack's most wanted" gang.
But anyway, the point is that these Jacobin "communists" are playing a shell game. Demanding reduced population to deal with climate change assumes either that human labour can't stop it (so why do anything?) or that LTV is wrong. (I'm which case, why claim to be communist?)
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Once you understand this, the correct question to here isn't "why do you think a blog post will inspire murders?" but "what, exactly, do the people who pay you get out of you believing this story?"
Well, that and "how many women have you raped?" since he's a male feminist.
.@KatzOnEarth, of course, can't understand the substance of Tracey's critique. As a journalist, he can conceive of a separation between the concepts of writing, propaganda, and emotional manipulation no more than a Roman pleb could conceive of a separation between church & state.
Every day I learn a new reason to hate this country.
Most people know about Canada inventing multiculturalism and spreading our shitty musicians, but there's a whole hidden substrate of ways we've made the world worse.
And, while I'm at it, reposting this from the Telegram where I quoted a (since changed 🤔) wiki article explaining how Canada is responsible for Mindgeek, the porn industry's equivalent to Standard Oil.
One of the things you don't realize until you have to research the genealogy of superhero stories is how literally all of American pop culture is descended from the Barsoom series. John Carter of Mars should unironically be taught in English classes.
It's weird because you'd think (like I did, going in) that Superman would've been mostly a take on Doc Savage. (The "man of tomorrow/man of bronze" epithets alone...) but no, almost everything derives from John Carter. (albeit indirectly through Flash Gordon in some cases)
And not just sci-fi and capeshit. For example: Burroughs has a good case to make for having invented what's basically the "orc" fantasy archetype with the Green Martians. He's at Marie Corelli magnitudes of influence, but barely any more people know about it. Surreal.
An interesting exercise for an aspiring film critic: "The Empire Strikes Back is the only good Star Wars movie. Explain why this is, both in terms of its merits and its sisters' flaws."
My answer: ESB is the closest that Star Wars gets to making the Jedi way seem as mystical as we're repeatedly told it is. The cave sequence was the height of Star Wars. 1/2
The rest of the films treat the Force either as hippies see Buddhism (original trilogy), as litRPG books treat magic (prequels) or as wineaunt-run writers' workshops treat talent. (sequels) 1/2
The $2K thing was the most childish lie and anyone could've seen it. Getting you fired for unorthodox opinions is one of their strongest tools and they weren't going to sabotage that with mincome, however temporary. (which is also why Trump COULD lol)
This is also why Dems will never give you a real public option fir health care, by the way. The only reason that exists in Europe and Canada is because we can outright jail you for hate speech so we don't need to bother with indirect threats to your livelihood.
"What about welfare?" That's conditional on you participating in and following the incentives of the system, it isn't just the government paying you $2000 to fuck off. (which is exactly why liberals opposed it when libertarians proposed to convert the former to the latter)