SunriseParabellum [he/him]

“I think both things are bad!”

“Do you spend a roughly equal amount of time complaining about both of them?”

“Well… no…”

Also, I’m pretty sure the image on the right is more than 1600 calories.

UBI without some sort of partner program to de-commodity the things humans need to live (food, shelter, healthcare) and eventually things we need to live a decent life (education, recreation) would likely lead to a situation like in The Expanse where the “basic income” is truly basic, just enough to live off ramen noodle and rent a crap studio. What jobs there were would be hotly competed over since everyone wants more to life than microwaved noodles and playing the first Halo on a 20 year old Xbox.

This may sound a bit weird, but it’s a random thought I’ve had, does anyone ever feel like memes like this almost make us leftists come off a bit too idealistic and romantic?

Lemme clarify where I’m coming from here. As I get older, I’m in mg 30s now, I’ve come to the realization a lot of people don’t want the life of a bohemian artist who’s traveling constantly and does six different types of creative hobby. A lot of people want a kinda boring stable life with a house, a job that’s rewarding but not too physically or mentally taxing, enough time off to take a nice vacation once or twice a year, and the resources to keep them and their family comfortable. I guess I say this cuz this is increasingly how I feel as I get older. Add this to the fact that I don’t think FALGSC is coming anytime soon, if Mecha Lenin pulled off the perfect revolution today we’d still probably have a few generation of people needing to pull 9-5s before we got to the point we could all be space traveling poets like in Star Trek so maybe don’t oversell what we can deliver to people alive now? Focus on shit an actual socialist government could achieve in our lifetimes, like public housing, more vacation time, free healthcare?

Some days are a good day to die, some days are a good day to get EGGs

The problem is who gets to decide what’s acceptable and what isn’t?

Yeah! Who gets to decide if it’s acceptable for me to take a shit on the floor at Arby’s? Who died and made you God Arby’s manager?

I agree

Real clever of Putler to plant that old as fuck Nazi collaborator in Canada. Really dedicated to the long game he is!

Incel was probably too extreme of a comparison. My point is, while socialism would perhaps make it easier for individuals to confront these problems, a lot of the leg work to actually improve their situation still falls on the individual. I may have an easier time working on not being a basement dwelling troglodyte under socialism but i still would have to do the bulk of the work myself.

Okay, I’m gonna be the bad guy here and use this post to say something I’ve been wanting to say: I think a lot of online leftists are a bit too optimistic about how much socialism will fix interpersonal problems.

Oh don’t get me wrong, I’m sure abolishing capitalism will be an overall net positive for humans mental health. But I see a lot of people here assume that they’d have totally awesome social and love lives if it weren’t for capitalism still being a thing and I can’t help but roll my eyes a bit, it strike me a bit like incel logic, or basement dwelling AnCaps who think they’d totally be John Galts of industry if it weren’t for taxes.

Again, socialism would likely help, but you can still be an awkward and/or maladjusted weirdo who can’t talk to girls under socialism. I’d rather be a friendless weirdo in a society where I also don’t have to deal with the stresses of looming poverty over my head, and yeah maybe I’d have an easier time making friends if I had more time off and lived in a city with better PT. But I think a lot of the bullshit that makes me an anti-social dork wouldn’t be automatically improved by me living in a dictatorship of the proletariat.

As for dating and romance, again capitalism sure ain’t helping, but I also think there’s a lot less material incentive to get in a relationship these days and as a result a lot of people are finding they’re happier single and independent than in a mediocre relationship. The boomer phenomenon of married couples who fucking hate each other but stay together out of fear of “being alone” inspired a lot of younger people to try and learn how to be okay with being alone so they wouldn’t end up finding boomer “I hate my wife” comedy funny. Again maybe socialism would make it easier for people to network and find relationships that actually work for them, but I think some of it is also just an evolution of how humans feel about family building and cohabitation.

It’s better citations than you fucking Libs can ever provide

Those dudes couldn’t get cooler looking balaclavas?

Sounds like one of those ethno-nationalist anarchists, if you’re gonna find them anywhere it’s twitter

Where did they claim to be a leftist?

I followed a fair amount of Chinese speaking leftists on the bird site at the time and none of them ever used it so yeah, I thought he was fairly unique in that regard.

He was the only person I ever saw use the term.

What on earth caused you to have such a dramatic reaction to what I said?

Yeah I think that was his name. He went on a weird anti-furry rant like a year ago for some reason.

I thought it was just that one Taiwanese rapper who got banned from Twitter

I’m only sexually attracted to people I find repulsive

They’re really just a humanitarian org. Post apocalyptic Doctors Without Borders. The only real radical thing about them is that they do seem to try and help communities build up infrastructures to help themselves, which makes them more based than real world humanitarian orgs, but they have no ability nor desire to actually organize people to affect large scale political change and advance society.