Kulturkampf

[Ethan]

I googled "Dutch style penitentiary" and it's basically a normal prison cell with an Ikea desk and a CRT TV. 


Abolish prison = Normal prison + retro video games.

[NekoFever]

The superior TV technology. Truly prisoners are coddled.

[HaughtyFrank]

[killamajig]

There is some truth to this. It's kind of funny that no one really thought about what happens after you break the stereotype so they just continue breaking the same stereotype

[Alpacx]

[benji]

There is some truth to this. It's kind of funny that no one really thought about what happens after you break the stereotype so they just continue breaking the same stereotype

I've wondered how often you show all this stereotype-breaking stuff to little girls and they just completely reject it

"I don't want to go on a big adventure, I want to look at cute guys and raise a baby"

like genuinely, has the rhetoric worked on anyone? are there now throngs of girls out there who refuse to go anywhere near the barbie aisle in the store, and demand a toy monster truck and a plastic sword?

Referring back to my post about the belief that everything is imposed systems, there's often a refusal to understand that many stereotypes don't come from nowhere. That bigots just made them up and spread them around until people accidentally started believing them. The problem with stereotypes is assuming that it applies to all individuals not that they may be accurate to characterize a group that matches it. A lot of these progressives operate on the belief that if anyone conforms to the stereotype it's a problem and people need to be changed to eliminate the stereotype. That's not possible so the fall back is to simply insist that nobody be allowed to voice any about groups they like.

Except this defangs their "critique" so they have to continue an endless war against hypothetical ones they insist that nefarious forces out there hold and continue to impose on us. Even when it's near impossible to demonstrate this is actually the case.

And since it's all ad hoc, and to go back to another earlier post, you basically have people pretending they need to push this "women can be anything they want" anti-stereotype against a culture that has long since abandoned the opposite at the same time they make it off limits to apply this towards any culture that continues to enforce limited and specific women's roles because Westerners are only allowed to criticize Western culture or else it's colonialism.

One reason the trans = misogyny stuff so clearly does not get traction is because people don't actively realize how much the West has broken a lot of those gender things purely by casual acceptance even as it's all around them, similarly how same sex marriage went from the most important thing to where Obama had to pretend to be against it to majority accepted by Republicans. Now we're reintroducing those bigotries under the guise of fighting against stereotypes people remember but haven't actually strongly held for a while because everyone interprets social change purely through the lens of the Civil Rights Movement vs. Massive Resistance. The "good guys" would never traffic in harmful stereotypes themselves, even though they always have. Abject racists who didn't believe Black people could live in American society and against race-mixing were also against slavery and for civil rights. If you assume the good guys aka progressives are simply free of bias/stereotypes/bigotry then it's not going to occur to you that trans people are people trying to literally reify harmful misogynist stereotypes and impose them onto a culture voluntarily moving away from them. That's something only a "conservative" trying to hold back civil rights would do. 

The abolitionists who considered Black people to be literal equals were such a niche that they never could have abolished slavery, especially not when it was abolished, yet slavery still got abolished well before hardcore white supremacy ceased being the dominant belief. Social change isn't achieved via millenarianist prophecy, no matter how many "experts" insist it solely is.

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[TylenolJones]

Fuck, he knows. 

[Nintex]

MESSAGE FROM TRUMP

[benji]

 

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[HaughtyFrank]

"Elections kill leftist movements"

Being proudly against elections is a new one

[simiansmarts]

Fuck, he knows. 

I'm sure there's a good reason this admin is using nigerian prince level scam tactics to swindle old people...

[benji]

Parenti is maybe most famous for arguing that everything the Soviets did to their own population was justified to defend itself from the capitalist threat and that Milsoevic was framed for genocide due to daring to stand up against Western imperialism.

The election one is actually an old one, there was a large strain of the left who believed that submitting to elections inherently reduced the revolutionary potential and thus automatically pushed any left-wing group to the right. See Reformism and later, social fascism. As a result, the only way to maintain ones leftism was to only pursue the violent revolutionary overthrow of society.

I've seen better ones so I can't give this "in this house" sign higher than a 7/10.

[benji]

[Alpacx]

Gemini's image generation is pretty good. I expected gibberish text.
   

[Nintex]

Amen thank you Jesus and President Trump  

[HaughtyFrank]

[Nintex]

Sometimes I wonder what the normies are doing through all "this" and the answer is always both depressing and obvious

[Uncle]

Gemini's image generation is pretty good. I expected gibberish text.

   

[Alpacx]

[benji]

The reflecting pool saga has been great.

First it was painted with some bright blue and people on the left started saying that it'll look horrible and like some cheap swimming pool, then the pool was finished and it started reflecting normally and then the people on the right went on a big "told you so!" and how only Trump could have accomplished this (amusingly some on the left also claimed that the reflection in photographs had to be AI) and then came the final twist, the prestige if you will, and the algae returned with a vengeance and the whole pool is now green like Mountain Dew.

I'm most in love with the idea that there's this vast criminal conspiracy funded by Soros' unlimited money and their big terrorist plot was to do something that the workers took care of a couple hours later by just pouring in some stuff they probably had in a maintenance shed somewhere.

This is how terrible things are these days, we can't even get our criminal terrorist conspiracies to drop any bodies. It's all just petty shit because the cruelty is the point.

Well, don't you smug libs look dumb now making fun of this terrorist attack on our poll:

[HaughtyFrank]

[Potato]

Wolverine...art...lol

[killamajig]

Realized there's probably fun in the replies:

The reflecting pool saga has been great.

First it was painted with some bright blue and people on the left started saying that it'll look horrible and like some cheap swimming pool, then the pool was finished and it started reflecting normally and then the people on the right went on a big "told you so!" and how only Trump could have accomplished this (amusingly some on the left also claimed that the reflection in photographs had to be AI) and then came the final twist, the prestige if you will, and the algae returned with a vengeance and the whole pool is now green like Mountain Dew.