i remember hearing that thrown around on the subreddit but i never saw it defined anywhere and google didn't really help

  • bananon [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    So sexual pathology is a mental illness where you feel intense sexual attraction to generally weird and sometimes nonsexual things.

    “All politics is sexual pathology” is a tongue in cheek analysis of how peoples’ relationship to politics funnily have a sexual connection. Think Ben Shapiro and AOC’s feet, the sexualization of Biden by liberals and Trump by conservatives, or how the fascist’s desire for an authoritarian government is really just their desire to be dommed by the state.

    It’s a joke and hyperbolic for the sake of comedy, but it still exists. We use it to dunk on conservatives, but I think it even happens for leftists. Communists have made Lenin fancams, there’s that picture of hot Stalin, and I personally think being a communist is an attractive trait in a partner.

    • Claus [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      This. It's not enough to be engaged with politics for some people. They need to turn it all into Freudian sexual fantasies.

      This also includes things Ben Garrison getting horny for anyone and everyone.

          • JuneFall [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            We can gladly acknowledge Stalin's role in defeating Fascism and such, though your joke is more /r/redscare :reddit-logo: material. Stalin was patriarchial in his individual sphere and not the feminist ideal the soviet union could've been, even when the material conditions after 1917 were much better for women than before.

            • blobjim [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              I heard his wife committed suicide and stuff but I haven't heard about him actual beating anyone, although maybe it's just inferred? People can make up almost anything about Stalin and have it passed off as historical "common sense". A lot of these claims about him have very few actual accounts or primary document type material. For example, we know he was homophobic because there was a communique where he basically stated as much. Is there anything similar in terms of his relationship to family or any other hints? Perhaps his wife committing suicide is a big enough tell though either way.

              • sam5673 [none/use name]
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                3 years ago

                He was pretty abusive to his sons. Stalin was a very good economist and ran the country well but on a personal level he was not nice which doesn't make him wrong about managing the economy or state.

                • spectre [he/him]
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                  3 years ago

                  Stalin really does not seem like a "nice guy" at all by all impressions I get. Lenin and many other Bolsheviks as well. It's a big reason that they were such effective politicians, but it's definitely a two edged sword.

            • sam5673 [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              It's not that surprising tbh he had an abusive father, came from a cultural background where that was common etc... it's like how there was prejudice in soviet Russia against homosexuals and Roma because they were both part of the cultural background where that was common.

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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      3 years ago

      I personally think being a communist is an attractive trait in a partner.

      This is a fairly objective, universal truth.

    • MathVelazquez [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Has Ben Shapiro actually said anything about AOC's feet? I thought that was a bit because he wanted to debate her so bad.