btbt [he/him]

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Joined 4 years ago
Cake day: July 25th, 2020
  • btbt [he/him]toSlop.•[CW: homophobia, misogyny] They sure do hate women, huh?
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    2 days ago

    Shaun’s video on the dumbass Stellar Blade drama from Twitter made me realize that a bunch of people have brainworms that stem from the fact that they feel a desperate need to have the entire universe revolve around them.

    The horny men that make these types of posts complaining about the lack of video game women to jack off to are angry because they don’t want to acknowledge that horny losers aren’t the only demographic that games are marketed towards, because, at the end of the day, their problems come down to the fact that they are disturbed by the mere idea that they and people like them are not the only types of people who exist. The fact that, in the micro, their beloved video games and, in the macro, mainstream culture as a whole do not fit their preferences with scientific precision is a constant reminder of that fact and the reason they always act like the spoiled children they want society to treat them as.

    Maybe if we locked these people in a capsule by themselves and shot them into space, they would be happy because they would finally be provided a reality where, in a sense, they are the only living beings, where they could finally be as lonely as they’ve always wanted to be.

  • btbt [he/him]tochat•Liberals plastering Ukrainian flags in their names/bio etc always feels so hollow.
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    3 days ago

    Even if the people with Palestinian flags in their bios and handles aren’t well educated on the history of the conflict, what separates them from the Azov libs is that they’re able to look past the official state sponsored narrative of the US. They have the morals and conviction to know where to stand on the IOF genocide despite our media doing everything it can to prop up the American-controlled puppet state in the Levant.

    Ukraine is much easier for libs to support because they have massive Western backing and thus get all the positive propaganda they could ever need in the States. It’s hard to take Ukraine flag people as seriously as Palestine supporters because the former have made an identity out of pretending to be transgressive, independent thinkers by supporting exactly what the capitalist establishment has told them to, it’s just so fucking grating

  • btbt [he/him]totheory•Apropos of nothing, a reading group! Lenin: Revolutionary Adventurism
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    16 days ago

    Maybe I'm talking out of my ass, but I could see adventurism in the US being beneficial strictly in the sense that it might highlight the damage that is caused by capitalists, assuming that everything goes right after the fact. In a settler colony where certain groups of workers are made to feel as though they are closer to being the oppressor than being a member of the oppressed through systemic racism and meagre concessions, one where a lot of people are unable to identify why their lives keep getting worse and feel a sense of hopelessness, dramatic acts like this one, which has resulted in both widespread discussion of the shooter's motives and the sharing of negative experiences with the American healthcare system across the Internet, could serve to help people see that the capitalist class is waging a class war upon them, giving them both a better understanding of their problems and a clearer picture of how they could be alleviated. I think that America differs from early 20th century tsarist Russia in this sense, as Lenin mentions that the Russian proletariat had already begun to take action by then, which is very much not the case here.

    However, I am worried that trying to use means of direct and public violence like executions of CEOs won't actually galvanize Americans to do something about the class war being waged upon them, since, as mentioned above, a good portion of the American working class is massively privileged and propagandized compared to, for instance, members of the working class in the Global South. As such, they would be too comfortable or too reactionary to be motivated to take action, which would make acts of adventurism pointless since, as Lenin correctly explains, violent acts against individual figures do not cause shifts in power in and of themselves. Would love to know everyone's thoughts!