a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]

This makes me want a Max Headroom sytle PPB

IT’S A PUN, A PUN

There’s some older work, specifically Heston, C., Fleischer, R., et al (1973) building off of Harrison, H. (1966) that looks at the disastrous societal consequences the unintended side effects that these food security policies can produce.

Poor introverts are supposed to rent an attic room in Lodz, the Left Bank, or Yarmouth, and go mad from the crumbling of an empire, ennui, or eldritch horror respectively.

Here, signs merely reflect other signs and any claim to reality on the part of images or signs is only of the order of other such claims. This is a regime of total equivalency, where cultural products need no longer even pretend to be real in a naïve sense, because the experiences of consumers’ lives are so predominantly artificial that even claims to reality are expected to be phrased in artificial, “hyperreal” terms. Any naïve pretension to reality as such is perceived as bereft of critical self-awareness, and thus as oversentimental.

There’s some older work, specifically Smith, W., Lawrence, F., et al (2007) building off of Matheson, R. (1954) that looks at the disastrous societal consequences the unintended side effects that these cancer cures can produce.

it’s basically what if Lemmygrad x Tumblr had a baby

Maybe he is more than a joke. Maybe he is an idea, a world-historical porcine, light itself. The joke is too small for him. He belongs to a much more elite class of Americans, the more-than-jokes. Eugene Cernan, Huck Finn, Alexander Fucking Hamilton.

If the reply to a bad take with a contextless picture of a pig defecating onto it’s own engorged testicles doesn’t constitute an inside joke then I’m afraid I’ve lost the plot.

I like’m already that sounds tits.

If we can’t be funny it’s not my revolution.

Hot take, PPB wasn’t funny on /r/chapotraphouse and it’s never going to be funny.

It has given rise to some funny reactions, but to say PPB is funny because someone freaks out at it is a tail wags dog sorta thing.

What if we banned posting?

Yeah that’s a bad take from a doofus, but the original comment seemed to take issue with the statement in a vacuum.

I disagree, for the reasons outlined below. You can be actively pro-choice and pro-trans rights without being personally involved with and invested in every particular manifestation of those rights.

Read a poem scrub

C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre: c’est poster

We must be active, vocal, unwavering, and have no bounds in our support towards vulnerable groups. Like our women and trans comrades.

Absolutely in terms of supports of rights for the groups, but we must be fundamentally deflationary about the effects any particular, individual manifestation of those rights has on other people. If an individuals particular exercise of bodily autonomy is taken to have meaningful practical impacts on others, it becomes fair game for moral and political interference, such as the (lack of a) right to curl my finger around the trigger of an SKS and fire it into the air.

I think there’s something of a conflation going on between supporting the groups right to exercise bodily autonomy, which is a moral obligation as a leftist, and the obligation to be invested in any particular expression of that bodily autonomy. If we hold to the latter we’re implicitly giving other people a veto over other people’s expression of gender identity, which is bad.

To wit, I can defend the right to abortion, but I am in no position to tell any woman they should or should not get an abortion. I can help them understand their choice and it’s consequences, but I have no right normatively to tell them how they should exercise that choice.

I don’t understand how to read that other than as a defense of bodily autonomy. In the same way that I’m not invested in any specific individuals decision to get an abortion or not, while still defending and supporting the right to an abortion.

> be me

> year is 2053

> mechaBernie’s envelopment of the capital is nearly complete

> President Buttigieg vows to calmly and civilly fight to the bitter end

> Kissinger has flown back to his 1950’s moon base.

> Steiner doesn’t attack

> 253rd Mechanized Posting division overruns Discourse positions in San Francisico Bay Area

> Get back to rear area after 36 hours of heavy fighting

> sit down to eat some rich

> Holy shit this guy tastes just like veal.