defaton [they/them]

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Cake day: May 22nd, 2021

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  • I managed to pencil in my life between working 40 hours a week and schooling 40 hours a week. Slept 4-6 hours a night and got a couple hours to socialize or relax! It worked out great! I flunked out after a couple semesters because my body basically shut down for a week straight but it was fun while it lasted. Totally not bitter about still owing money for that experience, nope







  • On a more practical level, trying to do some sort of tough love treatment on someone you’ve never met and know nothing about is performative nonsense. That’s not how that works and even if it was, it’s not motivating for everyone.

    And for the record, I think people majorly underestimate the sort of skills and activities which can be funneled into leftist organizing. But you don’t phrase that as telling someone exactly what you think they can do. That’s just super presumptuous and rude. I usually talk about my own struggles with this very question and if it’s relatable, people will pick up on it. For contrast, how you read your last comment as anything but condescending is beyond me, which is weird because it doesn’t seem like that was your intent.



  • michael flynn is a thot. he’s a freaking nasty hoe. he looks good. i’d love michael flynn to bust my pussy open and tell me about the islamic designs on the world. if a guy shows up with a fucking clenched jaw and a copy of gorilla mindset he can hit my backwalls any fucking time of day dude. if a guy’s like ‘i got fired from two federal level intelligence position because im really stupid’ im like ‘take a fucking caterpillar bulldozer to my pussy like its the west bank dude’.






  • defaton [they/them]tochapotraphouse*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 years ago

    One of my favorite things is watching breadtubers interview Zizek. Because they’ve got all this production with their bi lighting and $200 microphones and cat girl headphones and Zizek is clearly doing an impromptu zoom call from his living room via his cell phone mic and his energy is glorious. Whatever ADHD is, Zizek has 3 of them. No one knows how to interview this madman without him completely taking over


  • defaton [they/them]tochapotraphouse*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 years ago

    The psychology’s a little more complicated. What you’re talking about leads to the idea that labor should be compensated less if it’s enjoyable, which is bullshit. Labor is labor. Some people would gladly work for free (open source software, volunteers at charities, retired folks looking for something to do, etc), but would be offended if you offered them a low compensation. Because working “for free”, they’re getting some sort of non-monetary value out of their work, whereas offering to pay them a low wage implies that you think their work is worth that little amount, which is itself worth less than the intrinsic motivation. There’s a valley of productivity where a lot of people would actually probably work more without austerity capitalism, but how they allocate that labor would likely change to not benefit the owning class. In other words, wages are not about motivation. They are about allocation.