• Bishop_Owl [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    14 hours ago

    Anti-natalism isn’t the problem here, it’s lack of understanding. What does blowing up a fertility clinic really accomplish in the long run.

    I say this as an anti-natalist with a pro-mortalist lean. All this person did was increase suffering in the world, for no reason.

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      There are bad actors in every group, but the vast majority of these people (i.e. antinatalists) do not engage in acts of violence.

      Painting them with this brush would be like pointing at parents who abuse their children and then saying that all parents abuse their children. It’s obvious bullshit.

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    15 hours ago

    First Anime-American suicide bomber

    I read this whole thing and the words “despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil” crashed through the roof and destroyed my fish tank.

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    I’m not a psycho, but…

    A true nihilist would have just killed himself and been done with it. Instead overdose of liberalism and hyper individualism makes people just not want to live, but also make a show of murdering other people, because the “show” puts them and their ego on the center stage.

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    This is what happens when a culture doesn’t understand happiness isn’t the end goal of life. Consumerism which promotes idea of earning your happiness through constant self-improvement has its logical conclusion in this idea that all which isn’t happy or striving for happiness through consumption is wasted. This is functionally same ideology as those social media life coaches selling the hustle grindset.

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    21 hours ago

    right wing ideology repackaged into faux concern about the suffering of other people. Could have done a Luigi or Rodney L Hinton but noo, why would you do something that benefits society and maybe improves material conditions or sends a message to the rich elite / their cronies.

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    16 hours ago

    I just found out what “elifism” (life spelled backwards) was a few days ago, when somebody mentioned it on the collapse subreddit, now this happens, how weird.

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    This needs a CW for the ableism buried way deep in the middle of this weird ass manifesto. And many other things actually

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      17 hours ago

      Anarchism has cool branding. If you’re already just grabbing ideologies at random to combine, why not go for the one with the coolest logo?

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          All of it. Anarchism is much more accessible by osmosis than most other leftist philosophies, because it doesn’t have the same level of propaganda levied against it that communism does. The anti-anarchist propaganda focuses mainly on it being a “DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DOOOOOOO!” kind of “philosophy” which is appealing to impotent manchildren and edgy teenagers. Some of those people then actually read anarchist theory and realise it isn’t about that at all, but a lot of them, like libertarians, just want an excuse to be a spoilt brat of a human being who wants everything handed to them and a bastardized version of anarchism is a quick and easy way to do that.

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          Let’s not shit on the anarchists too much. We marxists also got plenty of fucking wierdos and patsocs and other kinds of morons. This is mostly just the consequence of the terminal lack of rigorous materialism in the thinking of western populations.

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            I think “If” is the operative word there. Lots of self-styled rebels who’ve never read a word of Bookchin think anarchy just means “I can hurt anyone I want and there’s no one to stop me.”

            Being an ML myself, I have my own criticisms of anarchism, but I still think it deserves better than to be perverted by antisocial chuds.