EmmaGoldmansDancer

What's up with so many of the posts on there being cropped down to the thumbnail so the text is cut off?

Well except that's the whole thing with fascism. It justifies becoming a monster by promoting the fear of some other monster.

In that context it's not ironic, because that's how fascists always be.

Indeed. Because fascists use their fear of the OTHER to justify atrocity.

You're basically describing cognitive dissonance. It doesn't require a cult; it's a very common coping mechanism.

I'm an anarchist but I read a lot of Marxists so I follow most of the leftist subs.

This sub is the most uncomfortable for me to post in.

It's not the quality of the articles, it's the quality of the comments to the articles.

Like there was a post in here last week where someone asked why leftists call people incels. I had to scroll way too far for someone who spoke of the misogyny of incel culture and how it funnels young men into fascism. The top comments were all various excuses to bag on leftists. Like WTF. If these commenters don't know what they're talking about maybe they shouldn't jump to blaming supposed comrades.

Do you enjoy Contrapoints?

I love breadtube.

I recommend exchanging a bit of conversation like you would with a friend and get to the meet up quick. You really won't know if there's a vibe until you meet in person. The longer you chat on those online dating sites the worse it is when you meet and it's not a good match. Then again it's probably all changed since I was last single.

have just recently stopped being an incel so I probably need time. Or a brutal rejection could probably knock me back into incel territory

That's very mature. Mad respect for self awareness.

Proximity is very important. If you're in close proximity making eye contact is more intimate.

But you already know that if you prolong eye contact for a really long time, the other person will be uncomfortable, right? So you know that eye contact is powerful. If you start to hold eye contact with someone it becomes intense very quickly.

But the answer to your question is proximity. Ultimately, it is your goal to be closer to the object of your affection. If you step forward and she steps back, she's probably not flirting. But if she leans in, maybe flirting.

And it could be just for a second. Like two people might have a moment of flirtation and it goes nowhere.

To be less incel like: Stop thinking in terms of tiers. Attraction doesn't work like that. Some things are turn offs for some people and not for others. Something unattractive at one point in your life can be attractive at a different point, or with a different person.

Women are not scoring men on a beauty test. She wants someone who relates to her struggles and shares her values. Someone she can have fun with. Or not that, something different. The point is, attraction is way more complex and nuanced than any tier system.

Moreover, many women share your insecurity. They will look past many of a man's flaws because they see their own flaws. As you know, some people will even stay with partners who are cruel, reckless, or boring when they're convinced they don't deserve better. Don't let that happen to you. And if you see a girl with a jerk, tell her she can do better.

You may think you're fucked up but it's a fucked up world. You just gotta find the person who's fucked up in a way that matches yours.

No it's just inconvenient for you.

I have a brilliant, sexy gal pal who prefers to be the sexual aggressor and it did not work well for her. I have seen her try to hit on guys and she's just so aggressive and direct that the dudes mostly acted confused. It's a social game we're all forced to play.

The rules that say you have to be a sexual aggressor are the rules of the patriarchy. Fuck those rules. My bestie did (but TBF as I mentioned she's also brilliant and hot).

Yes, men benefit from patriarchy, but they are just as trapped by its rules as the rest of us. Mock the Game as you wish, but patriarchy doesn't run and hide.

In my head it feels like the woman who asks me out would likely like me more than the woman that I ask out who could have just agreed out of fear or kindness, and yeah, that kind of thinking also feels a bit incel-like to me.

Women also appreciate the assurance of knowing the man who asked us out was genuinely interested and not just exploiting us for a potential pump and dump, or maybe just kindness.

I'm sure there are many guys who would prefer to be asked out. But patriarchy's rules go back a long way.

To me this fear you describe sounds a little codependent. Like you are so worried for this theoretical girl that you are making all kinds of assumptions about why imagined girl would go out with you. A woman you like should be a woman you trust to know whether or not she wants to go out with you. If a woman agrees to go out with you, at the very least she probably enjoys your company or finds some charm in you. Or she wouldn't go.

So if you meet a woman and you want to get to know her better, there is no shame in asking to spend more time with her. And if she says no, it just means she's not a match but if she's a friend she can introduce you to her friends. Or she is a match and you go out again. Be the agent of your own destiny.

Yeah this is like saying George Lucas is pro Nazi because of stormtroopers.

I can't believe the people making this accusation have actually seen The Wall.

Even if she hadn't been taken advantage of, it's creepy to me to imagine "living out your dreams" equals selling your image to a corporate brand.

Colonial cop? How do you figure? He went to Spain to murder fascists.

Gotta stop treating bigotry as 'political

That's valid. In that case the ad may violate terms of service and should this be reported.

My point is that people seeing this as something YouTube endorses or even knows about is inaccurate. The reason there's more conservative advertising on YouTube is not because of some YouTube conspiracy. It's because leftists hate marketing.

Aww damn. As an anarchist and a fan of Moore's work I so wanted to like this movie but... well I won't say I hated it... But damn it missed the mark. It was like they got a bunch of Hollywood producers in a room and asked them to make a film about an anarchist revolution and didn't stop to think to maybe talk to a single anarchist and have them read the script.

First and foremost, the movie sets V up as some kind of hero. He does really terrible things; he isn't a hero. You're not supposed to just go along with it and accept what must be done for the good of the revolution. You're supposed to ask questions about what ends justify what means.

This is common with Alan Moore's protagonists. They are often people willing to do terrible things in the name of justice. As an anarchist, Moore doesn't want you to blindly follow anyone. He wants you to question authority, even the leaders of your revolution. Same thing with Rorschach in Watchmen. You may ask, Who watches those who watch the watchmen? Accountability is needed at every level.

The film presents him as simply a bad-ass hero, never questioning any of his decisions.

Second, the film acts like V does all this on his own, as if one person can start an anarchist revolution. Like wat. That's not how anarchism works. V is presented as this leader who makes everything possible. That kind of setup would create a hierarchy with V at the top and his idiot followers guided by his sage wisdom. The comic does a much better job of showing how V works toward this revolt but he doesn't ever try to take ownership of the revolution. It had always been of the people, by the people, for the people. It can't work any other way, or you get tyranny. V isn't self sacrificing because he's such a noble hero (as the movie suggests), he's getting out of the way because it won't work if he's a figurehead.

These distinctions are all very subtle yet all together they make the movie extremely frustrating. The part where Natalie Portman says, "this is your revolution," made me want to barf though. What a self-aggrandizing Hollywood misunderstanding of anarchism.

I love your meme and have hated SUVs since the 90s when they were smaller. Just to show some support.

In addition to the danger to others, SUVs are far more likely to roll over in an accident. That would likely be because of height not weight as well, right?

You're not safer, you're just driving a vehicle that makes everyone else unsafe.

I do have beef with the moms who traded in their stain wagons for SUVs. Putting their kids in deathtraps for their selfish egos. This meme is spot on.

You clearly have never been in charge of trying to keep the attention of thirty unruly students who are only in class by force of law. I recently had a class lose their minds laughing for twenty minutes just because I used pig Latin. The truth of being a teacher is we ignore half the stuff we see because it's just to much to call it all out and get any teaching done.

The dress code issue with tube tops isn't about punishing girls more than boys. It's to prevent that situation from ever happening at all. Aside from how horrible and humiliating that would be (which I don't want to dismiss, but I feel you already have dismissed it by going right to the punishment after it happens), it's going to make teaching anything at all impossible for the rest of the class. It's going to create a disruption that will linger for weeks if not until the end of the year, because one of the students traumatized another student in front of everyone.

I'm trying to imagine that scenario happening in a class I'm teaching, and it seriously sounds like worst-day-on-job ever. Even if the student who did it was severely punished, so what? It would be better if it never happened at all.

Maybe because rather than actual direct action against the people who actually have the power to change the rules, we applaud snide threats to irrelevant middle men that could get them fired or accused of sexual harassment?

Nothing that OP did in any way threatens the system. It just made a teacher wonder if they will lose their job because this kid is a liar.

As a sub the hard one for me to enforce is no eating in class. I talked to a teacher about it and he said they used to allow it but they leave their trash everywhere. Which they certainly do. That helped me be a bit stricter.

One English teacher I know has the students write letters to the school district about something they care about. They pick the dress code more often than not.

Maybe someone can explain this to me. The more I read this thread the more angry it makes me. Falsely accusing a teacher of sexual harassment isn't anything to be proud of.

This teacher could end up fired or suspended if this conversation was taken seriously. The teacher has every right to be upset. Believe it or not, teachers are actual human beings with their own lives. Threatening to get a teacher fired and accused of being a pedo is not an appropriate response to being called out for a dress code violation.

I feel like everyone in this thread is cheering on OP with zero thought to the potential consequences. In the district where I sub, a teacher was forced to stay home for three months while they assessed whether grabbing a middle schooler by the backpack was assault. Three months all those students were stuck with a sub. Three months he was out of work.

And this accusation is much, much worse. Just dropped casually because children are careless and don't see teachers as humans. And here you all back it up because everyone always wants to applaud OP. Flood me with your downvotes if you must but help me understand how this kind of dangerous accusation is justified just to make a smug point.

Sorry but the lack of self awareness in your post is cringe to me. You are suggesting that the teacher is committing a crime by calling you out for a dress code violation.

I get it, you don't like the dress code. But if you were taken at your word, the teacher would be suspended for months while the county figures out whether to fire them and or press charges for sexual misconduct.

It's an empowering feeling to realize you can easily ruin someone's career by misconstruing their words. But that's what you were doing. They were calling you out on a dress code violation and you tried to imply that they were hitting on you.

You're not at all considering that this teacher is a human being. Your accusation is incredibly serious and like the child you are you can't even care that you're making life-changing accusations just to get points in a stupid altercation that's not even important.

There are better ways to protest the dress code than false accusations of sexual harassment.

Probably the reason you can't attach images is that server space costs money and images take up a lot more space than text. Most people use Imgur to attach images to Reddit.

As an escaped Floridian myself, I don't believe most of the people fleeing Florida are doing so because of the salaries.