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Intelligence isn't real. Locking in isn't real. Manifesting isn't real. Tryharding isn't real. Nobody has a divine feminine, or a love language, or a humoral temperament. Men aren't real. Women aren't real. The club is a projection. The world is not a hologram. There are no afterlives, sacred frequencies, or psychological archetypes. Your body is a temple but like, one of those Sumerian ones that was mainly for storing grain. Epicurus was right. Get it twisted and always be twisting it.

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A personal painting from a year and a half ago

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I am That I am (a furry)

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I get that this is mostly a me thing but seeing so many posts making fun of "holy blood cannibalism pomegranate deer" style writing just makes me sad ;-; . guys that's a lot of people's first stab at poetry that's hobby art that's a vulnerable thing to post those are passion projects...

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fuck yesssss they just gavwe me early access to all of the future grief i could possibly imagine for myself 😍

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'quinta de regaleira, antónio casrvalho monteiro, sintra, portugal, ca. 1892-1910' in my house, my paradise: the construction of the ideal domestic universe - gustau gili galfetti (1999)

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Im sorry for being a massive massive bitch it will happen again ):

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Esther Sarto (Danish, 1992) - Night in the Red Room (2017)

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Not Well In The Head Wednesday

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new propaganda campaign just dropped (now an actual print!)

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REMEMBER:

if you don't understand the post at a glance it's because op wrote it wrong and needs your help

if the post doesn't contain all the contextualising information you need to understand it, op is gaslighting you

if you haven't experienced the phenomenon the post describes, op is making it up for clout

if you haven't encountered the type of person the post describes, they're a strawman that doesn't exist

if the post doesn't address a topic you'd prefer to talk about, it's a distraction, missing the point, and talking over you

if the post makes a good point, it is your duty to contribute to human enlightenment by nitpicking it to be more correct

and most importantly:

every online conversation is a competition and you must win

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REGIME 🗽🗽🗽🗽

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i like my men trapped in prisons of their own creation

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this infight about black americans refusing to admit they benefit from american privilege is so frustrating. i generally agree with what the "other" side is saying because they absolutely did bully that korean woman off the site and she wasn't """antiblack"'' but i feel like half the detractors are seconds away from saying racism doesnt exist

I didn’t see the details of the original argument so I won’t comment on that but I will say that those who are keeping it going are using the idea of “bourgeois nations” and “proletarian nations” to both conflate Black Americans with the “bourgeois nation” U.S. as the same as any other imperial citizen yet also to single them specifically out for some mysterious reason.

There’s something that Du Bois + the 80s and 90s Panthers would point out that I started to notice too, that when we talk about Black people in the U.S., we’re also talking about a people who have been the most consistent embodiment of a proletariat in the U.S. This goes back to the beginnings of the white republic, where leaders like Thomas Jefferson were openly talking about wanting to avoid the class struggles of Europe and instead confine that into the racialized form of chattel slavery.

Even European Marxists started to notice the fact that Black people are a racialized analogue to the European proletariat, you can find that recognition in the writings of Amadeo Bordiga, Mario Tronti, and the Situationist International. You can’t seriously think about an independent proletarian political strategy for the U.S. without recognizing that Black people have always been the face of the class-conscious proletariat here.

The proletariat, because they own nothing but their ability to work, can in fact tend to be selfish when they don’t see any means to struggle alongside each other for their own needs. That’s just how people as a whole work, they’ll pursue their own things no matter what. Sometimes that translates to joining the military, whether those who join have other options or not. Unless there is a collective, politicized campaign of the class against participating in the imperialist state, this is going to happen.

And the Korean War out of any war was a very famous example of Black and brown proletarians being thrown to the front lines as cannon fodder, because as with any proletarian life the state considered them to exist only for work (in this case a genocidal imperial-racial war). Proletarians are not stupid, they knew what was happening. Many of them accepted it, just as they had learned to accept the rule of imperialist capital at home and the everyday death that comes with it.

Others defected to the Korean People’s Army, like Clarence Adams, and preceded the generation of (overwhelmingly Black) drafted proletarians who would refuse to fire on Liberation Army of South Vietnam soldiers and would frag and kill their superiors. This phenomenon is specifically why the U.S. Army focuses on recruiting military families and petit-bourgeoisie now.

So when we talk about Black people, we are also talking about the proletariat. If someone is dismissive of Black people, and acts as if they’re useless, narrow minded, and selfish, they’re being both racist and adopting the main political assumption of bourgeois society—that those who have no choice but to starve or to work for a living can’t govern their world, and are incapable of any concern for ethics. That proletarians only follow around whoever throws them shiny scraps.

And this theory of “proletarian” and “bourgeois nations” is nothing but a means to justify racism and smothering class struggle, so that the national bourgeoisie of the Global South can pretend as if it’s vicariously proletarian through its nationalism and like the Black proletarians of the U.S. are vicariously bourgeois through their citizenship. They only want an excuse to single out Black people, because they’re resentful nationalists and not internationalists

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When your grandma has BPD #bpdgrandma

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I would make such a good emotional vampire