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 No.151776[Reply]

Leftychad dance party.
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 No.157175[Reply]

I was working in psych in the 90s and that’s when tattoos exploded on the scene, in a huge way, people were getting them on their face even. I was working with women who had Borderline Personality Disorder and they LOVED tattoos because of the pain and self-mutilation aspect.

I started asking average people about why they got their tats, what they meant, and so on. Studies started cropping up, and they proposed what I thought about the topic. There’s a phrase, “wearing you heart on your sleeve” which can have good and bad meanings, but I’ll go with the bad, it means you’re a shallow person who projects shallow emotion. A person with serious feelings and passions can’t wear them on his sleeve, and typically restrains them to maintain dignity, so you cannot tell the passions he has.

The most interesting study I read indicated that people get the EXACT OPPOSITE tattoo from what they are feeling. People who are depressed and negative will get positive tats, like a bird or teddy bear. People who are scared will get “macho” tats like devils, skulls, etc. They are doing some shallow false advertising to project the opposite of who they really are. That’s because tattoos are driven by ANXIETY and that goes with self-mutilation behavior, pain reduces anxiety.

The other type of tat, the tribute tat, like a picture of Jesus, your dead kid, live kid, etc indicates the same thing. You feel little toward the person, god, etc and need to advertise you have great feeling, because you don’t.

I agree with all of that and have asked people about it. Usually their reasons are much like I explained, or an “I dunno” then, “Maybe I shouldn’t have…” because their decisions are shallow and nervous. Certainly not the worse qualities in the world, but as we know, tats have sigma, they mark your body, and are very expensive to remove. Also, if the person is sad, stuck, and confused in life it’s way better to unstick yourself through making meaningful relationships than getting a picture of a Devil Chicken on your chest.

I feel bad for all the “trump stamp” girls I’ve met. Almost universally, they explained they wanted the guys they had sex with to look at the design during doggy style and remember who they were. How helnously sad and pathetic is that! It literally makes my heart, literally, hurt thinking about it.

Some really nice looking girls told me that.

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 No.157183

>I feel bad for all the “trump stamp” girls I’ve met. Almost universally, they explained they wanted the guys they had sex with to look at the design during doggy style and remember who they were. How helnously sad and pathetic is that! It literally makes my heart, literally, hurt thinking about it.

Hey man, it works.
Alot of those guys remember their past fucks by bodily features.

>The other type of tat, the tribute tat, like a picture of Jesus, your dead kid, live kid, etc indicates the same thing. You feel little toward the person, god, etc and need to advertise you have great feeling, because you don’t.


Iconography is popular tattoo patterning
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 No.157185

>>157183
>Iconography is popular tattoo patterning
human wallpaper response
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 No.157186

what would you consider a genuinely good tattoo
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 No.157187

>>157186
The only good ‘tattoo’ is the callus on your hands from seizing the means. tattoos are consumerist vanity
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 No.157191

>>157187
are all consumerist vanities not worthy of any amount of appreciation?


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 No.157016[Reply]

How does society work/why does status quo exist?Ok, so I asked this like a couple of months before, but I don't think I got the solid answer that would satisfy me…
Where does the power come from? How is it "set in stone" that the person x has position y/level of authority z/can rule w group of people? I mean, anyone can write anything on a piece of paper and its not like it has some magic power that forces people to act the way they do right? Then how doesn't the whole system fall apart? How does the whole social hierarchy keeps itself together?
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 No.157017

>Where does the power come from?
This'll blow your mind, but it comes from you.
Everything is technically bottom-up. All the power is inherently built on top of productive economic power and local organization. However, there's an effort to obfuscate this, because if people don't understand that the power of bosses, presidents, etc. comes from their own actions, then they will not possess the inherent intuition that, by withholding labor, they can stop things which they object to. Part of this obfuscation is accomplished simply through the shady business of wage labor, where workers are not expected to know exactly what the difference is between the revenue they generate and the cut of it they get in wages; the worker's contribution is inherently obscured, left to bosses and middle-managers to observe objectively. Another, more obviously deliberate aspect of the obfuscation are the various distractions: the idpol, the propaganda, the narratives pushed which demonize certain types of organization (unionization, nationalization of industry, public services, etc.) while promoting or obscuring the existence of other kinds (incorporation, monopolization, privatization, etc.), etc. The idea which is instilled into workers is that everyone is just naturally supposed to exist in competition; and yet, as this idea is promoted, those with major financial and political power largely seek to do the opposite, and aim to maximize their power to collude with one another without interference while opposing the power of workers, who produce the wealth of those at the top but keep less of that wealth themselves, to do the same. This makes an already uneven dynamic even more skewed in favor of the capitalists, since worker organization is really the only way for the common man to reclaim power which he himself generates.

This society, as it exists, would collapse the moment that people stop getting up every day to recreate it. Those who benefit from this status quo have organized and consolidated power to prevent that, and to prevent the ascendancy of any competing forms of organization, and to subvert them where they emerge so that they do not fully wield the power they have. The job of ordinary people is to organize harder and more militantly, to consolidate any material collective wealth and power that they have, and to build. People are creatures which organize naturallPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.157020

I'm going to provide an account that attempts to flip >>157017 on its head.
Power is a mirage. When I use the word "mirage", I am being very specific here on two points, but I'm also missing one. First, it means the thing which looks like it's distorted is actually the product of the distortion. Second, the thing is actually intangible, yet it still has real effects - so long as people believe that it's real and act according to that belief. But the key to power is that belief can function even if someone consciously knows that it's all bullshit, because that belief can be delegated and externalized.
Let's go back to feudal times. Did the peasants actually believe that the king had the right to rule because he was anointed by God? For the most part, no. Did the king himself believe in his divine right to rule? If he did, then he was considered a madman, because God (or at least the kind that anoints kings) obviously doesn't exist. Does the king get his power from his crown, or his scepter, or his throne? Of course not, those are just gaudy ornaments.
But then why even bother with the image of the king, anointed by divine right, wearing his crown and wielding his scepter as he sits on the throne? Why stamp every coin and bill with his face? Why bother with all these priests and popes and prophets? Because power flows from the whole structure of belief and all the fetishes of externalized belief which shape the form of this mirage.
From the perspective of the state, it is true that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun, but someone has to aim that gun (or aim a gun at someone else aiming that gun). They must be granted the authority to aim a gun, and that authority must be felt. It can be felt as a result of all the stories and symbols that must accompany it. Of course real people and real things are involved in the reproduction of that power structure, but simply killing those people and blowing up those things won't get rid of it. It has a life of its own.
The material effect of belief is so powerful that entire societies are sustained by it, and collapse without it. In the introduction to Towards a New Socialism, Paul Cockshott explains that the critical flaw of the socialist mode production in the USSR is that it relied upon Stalin's cult of personality as its mechanism of surplus extraction (which emerged out of a lack of democratic lePost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.157178

>>157017
This was already at least alluded to in the previous messages and isn't, or at least shouldn't be some new revelation. Hence I suggested robert greene's laws of power since that illustrated the dynamic of a leader or head figure being allowed there by the people beneath them. Since when the aristocracy objects then the king won't be a kind no more, as it frequently has happened throughout history.
But not only that but is also simplistic and incomplete. The criticism to your post can already be found in prior replies here.

>This society, as it exists, would collapse the moment that people stop getting up every day to recreate it.

And that's the issue here. People don't want that to happen. Even the lowest ranked crew member unless driven to suicidal tendencies, won't want to punch a hole into the ship's hull since it will sink with them. Same with a system that's putting them at a disadvantage but still provides more of an advantage than the alternative of letting it collapse. If a strike drives a company to ruin then even their union won't save them being unemployed and unable to pay their mortgage, bills and food.
Now you might respond with something like "but what about UBI"? The problem with such a scheme is that it can easily become dysfunctional and without enough people providing their labor to sustain that system it will collapse and the consequences of that are even worse. It's a real dilemma which you need to recognize.
The solution to that is really not as straight forward as you are stating.

>At the highest levels of centralized power, this is essentially an addiction

This you appear to be right with. It's interesting to look into how our dopaminergic system works with that in mind. And what makes me bring this conversation back that the label of the system doesn't matter. Capitalism, shmapitalism, you will always end up with a societal lid of people who are in the trues biological sense of the word addicted to maximizing their influence and power. And to actually define power, which was at least part of OP's question, it's the pull they can exert by the network of other people that they have a mutually beneficial relationship with.
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 No.157161[Reply]

The Occupy thing disgusted me because the poor people had a point, about student loans, then they camp out like hippies and beg the oppressors to listen. Why the f@ck would that ever work?

France is an even better example of that where they dragged the rich out into the streets and killed them.

Gandhi was clearly great and nonviolence would be awesome, but he had a huge number of people indoctrinated into a way of thinking behind him. So, he could get like 50k people to show up and they all knew what he meant, and they would insert themselves into situations to frustrate the British. Most societies, especially in the West, have nothing like that and so you can't do it.

those who were born of poor families told their whole life to go to school, become slaves and work till the day they die, but somewhere along the lines, some of those 'slaves' wake up. Most of them too scared to act against this corruption, since they have no means of fighting the top of the pyramid (no money, no outside help, no gun, etc).

every time the rich push people until they get slaughtered. It happens over and over because sociopaths don't know when to quit.

how we accelerate the incoming slaughter?
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 No.157176

>>157173
Your cognitive dissonance is showing, three-letter bitch
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 No.157179

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_anti-war_protests#Effect

This also applies to antiwar/antiimperialism as the largest antiwar protests in history didn't stop the Iraq War. But the Rice Farmers in the Vietnam War managed to win fighting and utilizing the confusion of the jungle on the American Army People.

On this forsaken planet, there exists people who somehow manage to magically combine Anticapitalism & Poofterism like that Glasses guy with a persecution fetish, he didn't shut up about "years of struggle" "glorious death" "channeling energy" "real world" "gutter" "in combat" "childish distractions" "attempted suicides" "noble death" "sacrifices" while looking like Milhouse.

Milhouse and the OP use similar words; to the UNTRAINED EYE; NOMINALLY similar; but not really doe.

Milhouse actually has the same worldview as the useless hippies and sees everything as emotional/theatrical movie.
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 No.157180

>>157176
But that person replying was literally just paraphrasing OP sarcastically.
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 No.157181

>>157180

Number 157173 is actually the three letter bitch,
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 No.157182

>>157181
You're calling ME the three letter bitch?!!
You're the three letter bitch you Muff Cabbage Whore!!! [MCW]


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 No.157120[Reply]

How well do you treat your wife, /b/?
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 No.157141

Bold of you to assume I'm appealing to women
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 No.157147

I love her and give her kisses and cuddles every single day! UwU
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 No.157148

I am having wonderful & beautiful sex w my tradcath Pax Christi wife rn
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 No.157159

>>157148
LOVE IT god bless you both.
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 No.157160

fux me outta his body (cause hes a guardian angel) LOVE HIM SM.


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 No.157150[Reply]

>Incorrect or expired captcha
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 No.157151

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Tor users be like:


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 No.157067[Reply]

There is no external army here to shatter the state, and there never will be. The two oceans provide impenetrable insulation against invasion, to such an extent that a foreign invasion is not just farfetched, it is impossible. It would be easier to eat the sun than to move millions of troops and all their supplies across the vastness of the ocean to invade America. Even a basic understanding of military strategy and history would reveal this to be true. It simply cannot be done. Protected from foreign pressure, American capital has become a complete hegemon, able to loot the entire world at will and use the superprofits generated from imperialism both to prevent any dissent by buying off the otherwise restive sections of the proletariat and to build a state apparatus that maintains an iron grip on the populace through an inescapable surveillance and propaganda panopticon. There will be and can be no mass movement in America like there was in Russia and China until America, as in, the central government, is either seriously diminished or destroyed. Since that cannot happen through an external force, it must be done internally
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 No.157072

>>157071
>Wrong.
Okay well I've heard this enough times in the wild that I think it's a common sentiment. You haven't heard people say something to that effect?

>That sounds like an excuse to me.

It's not an excuse, material conditions have to change for social change to happen. Other than some natural disaster or war (which ITT we are ruling out because OP said it won't come to America), I can't think of any catalyst for something to happen.

On the other hand if the influx of profits from exploited countries is cut off, I think that will create conditions for systemic change.
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 No.157079

The only way to conquer the American people is by controlling the media.civil war doesn't make sense in the us because the divide isn't regional, it's urban vs rural which happens in every state. at most you would have mini conflicts followed by new normal stability
The american identity is basically 'I'll do anything for money, it doesn't have to be much' case in point: both parties. They really don't stand for anything other than 'fuck you, I've got mine'. While the posible exceptions are a few renegades here and there it's too late, the entire society is poisoned with this idea that everything is for sale.

The difference between a prostitute and a whore is that a whore will sell its priciples and the US is second only to Russia in how many of it's citizens are whores.
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 No.157094

unfortunately, western """leftists""" are the saddest motherfuckers on the planet and will come up with any bullshit retard excuse to not do anything ever
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 No.157145

>>157072
>Okay well I've heard this enough times in the wild that I think it's a common sentiment. You haven't heard people say something to that effect?
Idk I mostly hear people say that on the internet, and I think there's an active psyop to make it seem like a more common sentiment than it actually is.
The people who are dissuaded by the militarized police are generally people who would do nothing even without militarized police.

>It's not an excuse, material conditions have to change for social change to happen. Other than some natural disaster or war (which ITT we are ruling out because OP said it won't come to America), I can't think of any catalyst for something to happen.

Organize, arm, etc. Don't just wait for stuff to happen, that's part of the problem.
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 No.157146

>>157079
>The only way to conquer the American people is by controlling the media.
Reeks of "I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas."

>civil war doesn't make sense in the us because the divide isn't regional, it's urban vs rural which happens in every state. at most you would have mini conflicts followed by new normal stability

The urban/rural divide itself is false - it's a product of internal divide-and-rule propaganda, genuinely fake. The actual overarching divide is along class lines and, in spite of what some people online will claim, the rural/urban "divide" doesn't actually reflect this. A war which upended the state of things in the US would necessarily be carried out without consideration for false rural/urban divides by groups commonly opposed to the existing American state.


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 No.157132[Reply]

I'm dealing with a real life situation that's made me re-evaluate how most people think about sex and 'rights' of sex. Basically: my friend of 13 years was seeing this girl (having casual sex with) for about 3 weeks, developed unreciprocated romantic feelings, and was then broken up with. They broke up in mid December. Around April he got the impression he might have a chance of getting back together with her and started bringing me with him to go see her and her friends. I got along with that group of friends far better than he and he decided to stop seeing them as much, said to me he didn't want to try and get back with this girl anymore, but made an offhand comment basically along the lines that he would be mad if anyone had sex with her (I thought this was a joke). A bit over a week ago me and this girl confessed to one another we had romantic inclinations towards one another. The day after we had (very good) sex. The day after that we both left the country and probably won't see one another for 3 months. My friend though found out we had sex and has decided he no longer wants to be friends anymore and is denying my requests to speak with him in person.

This whole situation has me thoroughly puzzled. On the one hand, I can understand someone being upset i.e. sad that someone they thought of romantically has moved on, and that those feelings might be compounded by it being a friend that was moved on to. On the other, I can't imagine being so angry that one would end a 13 year friendship over it. Either way though, it seems to me to imply a weird 'possessive' attitude over another human being such that sex is something someone has rights to and others do not. I find this attitude to be really gross honestly, it's a weird pathological objectification imo. To be fair, I am autistic and often misunderstand these value systems many people seem to hold dear. Can anyone help me understand the dynamics of what's going on here? My other friends seem to universally think I'm an asshole, with only two exceptions.
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 No.157133

Now you understand how I feel about society trying to police youth sexuality
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 No.157135

where do u live (urban/rural/etc not actual location)
what class are ur friends
are any of them partnered

fyi i dont think ur the asshole but i also dont think this is a possessiveness thing per se


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 No.157080[Reply]

>please raise wages
>inflation, fuck it my bag cant deflate
in the future mega rich techno fascists will rule over impoverished cattle. Literally every single job, trade or white collar, will be done by AI or technology controlled by these corporations. The only job that still exists for the cattle is prostitution. The incel epidemic will reach unseen levels. Some women will be able to elevate themselves above the poor masses and have a special status because they can leverage non-synthetic "love" as the only thing these corporations cannot provide

lol making it even more irrational for wagies to keep slaving and reducing incentives to nearly 0. They rather get killed than survive and deflate. All okay with it
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 No.157085

I know I've been beating this dead horse for weeks now, it's just that the Left really fucking sucks at internet propaganda.
Somehow the Right managed to turn Gamergate into a Great Replacement issue and pushed Trump into the whitehouse purely off the energy of mad gamers scared transgender feminists will take their games away. Now the next generation after Zoomers are addicted to watching Andrew Tate and think the only way to "make it" in America is a crypto AI scam. How did the Left fail so hard that we couldn't counter this messaging at all?

've noticed there's a trend with the American left to have these kneejerk reactions to whatever the right says on issues that have nuances. Basically whatever right wingers say is bad must be good or isn't real, like pornography addiction. With the latter I cannot tell you how many times I've encountered leftists who firmly believe that porn addiction isn't real.

There's LITERALLY white boomers in fucking appalachia that are more concerned with trans people in bathrooms than the fact their children are being diagnosed with cancer from the toxic sludge corporations are pumping into their water supply. These people have completely divorced politics from real world issues. The Right has successfully removed any kind of materialist context and replaced it with random Twitter drama turning into national issues. Meanwhile where is the American Left…? Why is there like no one at all that can counter this?

The left does not like to propagandize because it does not like to do absolutely anything.

Everything is deemed unecessary, liberal or "immature". When people point out that the rightoids propagandize like crazy then its shrugged off by saying "w-well they have the state supporting them and the glowie and uhhh anyway for that reason its pointless to do anything and we should simply allow them to do as they please because we were going to lose the propaganda war anyway, ugh youre such an immature liberal"
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 No.157087

>>157085
>Somehow the Right managed to turn Gamergate into a Great Replacement issue and pushed Trump into the whitehouse purely off the energy of mad gamers scared transgender feminists will take their games away.
What year are you writing this from? It was never true.
In 2016 Trump got like 3 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton and it was still mostly just the usual GOP voters and a some people in the rust belt and elsewhere who switched from D to R because of actual economic issues.
In 2024, Gamergate was less than irrelevant and Trump was running against a genocidal man with visible dementia and a shit economy, and then the DNC switched him out for someone with the exact same policies who had helped cover up Biden's senility.

I agree with most of the rest of your post, so maybe it's silly of me to quibble with that one bit.
The right does have institutional support, and that's a major fact in how the left got fucked up so hard, but it's also not a good excuse either. None of those things are good excuses. For as stacked as things are against the left (and getting worse all the time), the left could be doing a thousand times better than it is if American leftists were willing to take risks. I think there's also something to be said for how often people who see themselves as being on America's left… still fall into the trap of getting bogged down in stupid culture war issues. Culturally, some people are more "socially liberal" or "socially conservative"… but neither of those things is class politics, so trying to condition participation in the entire workers' movement on unanimous agreements about that stuff is obviously a bad idea and a distraction.

The American left desperately needs to take drastic action now and stop being so complacent and cowardly.
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 No.157088

>>157087
*major factor
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 No.157134

>>157085
>Basically whatever right wingers say is bad must be good or isn't real, like pornography addiction. With the latter I cannot tell you how many times I've encountered leftists who firmly believe that porn addiction isn't real.

Why are you imageboard users so morally obsessed with sex and porn?

>>157087
>In 2024, Gamergate was less than irrelevant and Trump was running against a genocidal man with visible dementia and a shit economy, and then the DNC switched him out for someone with the exact same policies who had helped cover up Biden's senility.

Irony is, Trump has the same flaws as Biden


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 No.157103[Reply]

Soyciety treated me like trash as a kid and when I tried to anhero they fucked me over even worse, therefore I have decided to contribute nothing to it.
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 No.157104

I wonder why…..
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