Thank you for running TankieTube! I'm wondering, could we save you on costs by deleting old movies from watch parties, or is storage not a big part of the ongoing cost? If deleting old movie night films would help, perhaps we can organize a way to redistribute / decentralize it.
They're desperate and will try anything out of desperation. I find it really tragic rather than funny, personally.
For real, higher in this very thread another user and I talk about this exact sort of thing.
But apparently it's colonialist western chauvinism to demand double blind studies and evidence that something actually works
That's magical thinking o_O
And that really captures one of the biggest problems I have with Anarchists, at least the ones I see in America:clinging to magical thinking in the face of material evidence to the contrary. I think it's probably simultaneously their greatest weakness and their greatest strength, and a contributing factor in why they take up so much oxygen in the American Left. Magical thinking is more alluring and comforting than material analysis, and that's perfect for a populace that has been trained since birth to ignore material reality and instead take everything on faith (in American Christianity, in American propaganda, in american "news"). Talking with them and reading their texts, so much of the language and rhetoric feels like it's trying to weave a spell that will draw the reader into this magical mindset.
The good: faith in the dream makes true believers die-hard to the end. Faith and comfort attract people who are disaffected with the institutions that betrayed their faith, but still need the comfort of belief.
The bad: it becomes taboo to ground arguments in reality. It creates a fertile space for wacky things like " you can cure type II diabetes with a raw vegan diet" to fester, and people get offended if I lovingly try to pull their heads out of their asses so they can see reality. Magical thinking is the most sacred of all anarchist tenets, because without it how can you go on fighting? (The answer of course is that I can fight on without magical thinking, and it's a skill issue if they can't).
I read part of the Crimethinc book Expect Resistance years ago and my experience was basically this:
read a page waow they capture the feelings of agony and alienation from capitalism so well! This is so wise and poignant! And they dream of a better world! This is profound!
read next page wtf this is the stupidest shit I've ever read Back and forth, back and forth.
I feel bad saying all this because despite my personal ruptures with anarchists, one of my best remaining friends is himself a committed anarchist who also seems very grounded in material analysis (and told me to read Mao because Mao has a lot of very wise lessons for organizers). So #notallanarchists but many I guess.
Picture Stalin as (someone he is nothing like, whom kkkontrapoints shilled for). Now picture (ethnic minority who waged war against fascists and nazis) as (settler-colonial nazi). Doesn't look so much like the (term that was made up by Nazis to promote the double-genocide theory in order to do Holocaust denial and anticommunism) was caused by (something that was a contributing factor but nobody calls the sole cause so this is really a strawman), does it?
The most cancellable thing I know about Ozzy is that he married this Zionazi
"repper"?
I also was thinking yesterday that I suspect it too! Here's hoping that she gets to undergo the " most depressed dead-inside man to vibrant happy woman pipeline" sooner than later
Baffled at the people in that thread who are basically arguing that Communists are not Communists
I watched the video of some trans women looksmaxxmogging him the other day and it was funny, but I generally just feel bad for the guy. He had no joy, no amusement, no ability to appreciate the absurdity of the whole encounter. He just looks miserable. I don't follow him much but what glimpses I've caught portray deep misery . I'm sure he's a terrible person but it's still pretty unsettling to behold
I hate my insurance company. They unironically believe:
The myth of consent:
Doctor: I consent (it's time to up your hormones!)
Me: I consent
Insurance: isn't there someone you forgot to ask? (How dare you try to use insurance? Didn't you know you're supposed to just pay premiums and then never get healthcare so that we can get filthy rich?)
Luigi take the wheel
I actually flinched when I saw her face, the face of smug chastisement for caring about people's lives, the face of terror. I flinched, and then had to make art to cope with the fear she struck in my three hearts
This is from Smiling Friends S01E01. I think the character's name is Allan. I think this would go well with beanis-on-the-cross.
CW for show if you are curious
Major CWs for suicidality if you do watch it. Someone recommended it to me without any CWs and I was a little shook but also it was a funny episode.
I wish death upon Europeans who mald about immigrants and refugees "invading" Europe. People have to flee there in large numbers because of colonialism and empire, dipshits.