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theyre adding being a rambunctious lil scamp to the dsm-v and unfortunately that means theyre putting me down. good bye

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Is hating Nietzsche and not tolerating his works a red flag?

Not really, I get it because he did genuinely influence fascism quite a bit. It’s just he was not a reactionary and he was not quite a fascist because he was too suspicious of mass politics, nationalism, and scientific racism. He was still racist and misogynist but in other ways.

Personally I engage with him and others like him that most communists probably wouldn’t touch with a 10 foot pole like Oswald Spengler because I think they’re useful as critics of bourgeois modernity but fail as critics because of fatalist elements in their thinking. With Nietzsche he pretty much assumed class society could never be overcome so he imagined an ethics and society based on the perfecting of class society to create a caste of innocent people completely separated from the process of class exploitation and struggle who would use the resources from exploitation to become something beyond human and cultivate their powers as ends in themselves. Marx was aiming for a very similar kind of individual, but believed that kind of individual could be cultivated on a social scale through communism. Communists already noticed this in the 1890s.

There’s also other historical and biographical facts that create weird resonances between Nietzsche and Marx. Both started to develop independently when they became critics of Young Hegelianism and True Socialism, Marx focusing on Bauer/Hess/Feuerbach and Nietzsche focusing on Wagner, who was influenced heavily by Feuerbach, Proudhon, and Bakunin, and later Nietzsche also challenged the very same Bauer. Much of The Antichrist is Nietzsche using Bauer’s own system to undermine his attempt at creating an antisemitic Greco-Christian-Germanic neo-Stoicism. Marx did something extremely similar in On the Jewish Question. If you read Nietzsche’s critique of the mainstream of German socialism he was also targeting people Marx and Engels had criticized at different points as well like Eugen Dühring, and he even described capitalism as “impersonal slavery” which is very close to Marx’s own description of capitalism.

All this is to say that even if Nietzsche had heavy reactionary elements, he can still be useful to communists who know how to use him critically. I mean Marx and Engels took Carlyle’s ideas as one starting off point to critique political economy, and Carlyle was hardcore pro-slavery and much more of a proto-fascist than Nietzsche was

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it's genuinely wild that content moderation at scale is an unsolvable problem under capitalism.

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Today is october 7th officially marking 365 days, 1 year, of the most well recorded genocide in history; of an occupation of a people which has been ongoing for 76 years. An entire year of constant israeli bombardment. Hundreds of thousands killed and missing. All the while, the people with the most power to stop the genocide continue to support and defend the politicians carrying out the slaughter.

Yet, it is also a year since the Palestinian resistance definitively proved to the world that israel is not only not the all-knowing state entity many believed nor that they were invincible or undefeatable. Over the course of the year, the resistance and its allies in Lebanon and Yemen have handed out defeats to not just israel but the west lead by the united states as well proving that those institutions and militaries are not invincible.

In israel itself, tens of thousands of bsuinesses are closing or have closed; its ports are under blockade; the settlers are fighting amongst themselves or leaving; it is a settler colony beginning to buckle under the simultaneousforces of its internal contradictions and of the Palestinian resistance. No doubt the struggle for liberation and against settler colonialism will continue until all the contradictions are resolved just as it were it rhodesia and south africa.

May we see a free Palestine in our lifetimes.

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How long before we go from calling people “psyops” to just calling them “anti-American” because let’s be honest that’s what these people mean

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sprinkling lead on my food like seasoning. throwing a small cube of lead in my soup. taking a gummy lead supplement every morning. injecting pure lead into my veins. it's medicinal. you know what they say, "a lead a day keeps the radiation away"

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[reasonable, nuanced, centrist voice] actually smoking is bad for you unless you're pregnant

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there should be an oscar just for saying something this beautiful and true in a movie

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the lesbian tide, 1971. Homophobic dog spans the ages

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walking up to a gay couple: ok so which of you is the signifier and which is the signified

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