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[–] [email protected] 98 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Me the ultimate leftist going down on my sister just as Marx intended

[–] [email protected] 71 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The "oral with your sister" / "anal with your father" schism is tearing leftism apart.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago

That's right, I'm a Marxist-Mullenist, being gay with your dad is a prelude to the revolution

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Cannibalism as a widespread cultural practice is actually super fucking rare outside of England.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

One of the funniest bits of projection ever. Victorians were coming up with all kinds of crazy ways to eat mummies and shit, and all of western society memory-holed it.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Let's not forget their fondness of powdered Irish skulls.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

First I'm hearing about it. Where did you find out about that?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Aren't all Christians cannibals? Don't they believe they're eating the body of Christ? Sorry I don't fully understand transubstantiation.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Only Catholic dogma still believe that it literally turns into the flesh and blood of Christ. Protestants generally acknowledge it as a symbol, not the real deal.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Everything indigenous groups have ever done is good, actually. I am very smart.

Ritual human sacrifice to appease the gods? Not actually that bad! Kill the krakkka inside your head.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean, it wasn't that bad compared to the scale of human sacrifice in Europe at the time, yes I am including executions in this metric

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

.Europeans are also indigenous to Europe.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I thought Yakub created them in a lab in Africa?

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Are these people feds?

Because they're overdoing it, the left cannot be character assassinated any further.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago

Regardless of whether or not these people are feds, I think this kind of shit is a reasonable argument for the need to have a centralized party or parties that have the power to censure or expell members.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago

fedposting. Not us this time!

[–] [email protected] 62 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Prion diseases eating good off this

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 11 months ago (7 children)

On top of everything else saying native Americans were cannibals is uniquely offensive.

The whole idea of wendigos is its what happens to you if you consume human flesh.

Entire villages committed mass suicide before winters if they didn't have enough food so no one would have to resort to cannibalism.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago (2 children)

There have been some indigenous cultures that genuinely practiced cannibalism such as the Wari', but to imply it was commonplace is not only incorrect but also doing the work of (ironically cannibalistic) European colonizers.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (2 children)

thinking back to a shipwreck i read about where the survivors decided to take a longer route to safety bc they thought the closest inhabited island was filled with scary cannibals

you'll never guess what happened next~

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Papists do weekly ritual cannibalism according to their own doctrine

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (18 children)

The W* (which is how you should refer to it because invoking it's name is frowned upon) isn't just some monster horror story. In my tribe and others it is a cannibalistic spirit that may possess you if invoked. That being said there are several tribes where folks do eat their ancestors as a part of their funeral practices.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Really wishing it never got picked up by the internet spoopy creepypasta culture and turned into some zombie deer thing.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah its origin is probably closer to an uncanny valley "thing looks human but doesn't act human and is dangerous."

There's usually a kernel of truth in a lot of the old indigenous legends and stories. These become traditions and rituals over time but likely started as practices to guard against actual dangers. Like funerary practices. If you go with exposure you don't leave the body near where you live. Or you bury the dead. You might do this to "respect the spirits" but it also prevents disease and/or attracting undesired animals to your location.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (4 children)

cannibalism has factually been practiced by many groups, including some indigenous to the americas. limiting it to US-occupied peoples i can't think of any examples, but that isn't what the OP asserted.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 11 months ago

Getting prion diseases to own the leftists.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I will not eat the people.

I will not fuck the sister.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 11 months ago

What are you a lib

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

seems like the thread is agreeing that eating people and fucking family members is indeed bad

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago (19 children)

i think cannibalism is a fine barometer of cultural relativism and lingering western chauvinism. to take the most charitable approach to op1, 'ritual cannibalism to honor the dead' is quite different from the consumption of enemies or strangers--for which our objection would be the violation of those non-consensual victims' consent or rights. but the Fore community in which Kuru famously spread did not practice that, theirs was the consumption of family/community members after natural death. i can't format an objection to that, besides the associated healthrisk---which modern medicine could probably prevent if applied to the problem. the Kuru outbreak actually killed that tradition so it's kind of academic to debate, but i think it's important examine knee-jerk demonization of foreign ritual on honest terms, and to apply a consistent standard to all sorts.

for a more practical question: should a religious practitioner be permitted to fast to death? a voluntary religiously-motivated suicide gets very different billing based on the context, and whether that's justified should be examined. maybe one is permissive of a fasting death or a self-immolation, but not an allegedly voluntary sacrifice, or a jonestown? what are the limits to religious freedom and bodily autonomy, and are those informed by a christian socialization or a materialist basis?

endnote: no, lol to the incest. my actual stance on religion is full abolition before someone twists this into support for mostly dead religions, this is about racist and chauvinistic attitudes that socialists are not automatically immune from

[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

the Kuru outbreak actually killed that tradition so it's kind of academic to debate

Seems to me that this is the answer to the question in most cases. Historically, some cultures practiced cannibalism but most have stopped and I don't know of any active movements to bring back that practice. There's an ethnocentric tendency to think of mainstream culture as one which evolves over time but minority cultures are static traditionalist museum pieces. That couldn't be further from the truth - minority cultures change in response to new conditions and information too.

I would go even so far as to argue that using indigenous cultures to try to justify cannibalism is engaging in the "noble savage" trope.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago

(cw: cannibalism of stick figures)

[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago

You aren't a true leftist unless you're part of an elaborate Aristocrats joke

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago

Terminal stage "DONT TELL ME WHAT TO DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" no-veggies-at-dinner-no-bedtimes ideology. hypersus

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do we even have a rule about links any longer?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Hilariously, /r/tankiejerk also complained about this post.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Guessing this is all actually about that incest cannibal coffin game.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

I do not know if the culturalist opponents of the real world and its evolutionary trends, understood as Americanization by some and Westernization by others, can be described as rational. Confronted by the threat of Americanization, some defend unique "cultural values"...This is a dangerous situation, and the danger is enhanced by adherence to the principle of irresponsibility. It is dangerous because the (capitalist) system has reached a stage characterized by the monstrous power of its destructive capacities. As I said above, the system is capable of destroying human beings, nature, and whole societies.

  • Samir Amin, Eurocentrism.

They certainly aren't rational here...

If you start from a culturalist critique and not a materialistic one, this is what happens.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (5 children)

From the title I assumed this would be about Andy & Leyley.

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