In this context aesthetic means “aesthetic[ly in line with me/the situation]”. It means big mood, but for style.

I see where they’re coming from. It’s a common demand straight men make of women while our culture sees body hair as very masculine rather than the biological element where testosterone is one if several reasons a person may have very thick body hair. And there’s a hypervigilance at times when it comes to cis partners of trans people because enough members of our community have been burned, especially those who date chasers.

That said, having known my fair share of gay men, yeah I wouldn’t jump to transphobia. Especially if you’re kinda twinky.

For some reason a Lucy Parsons quote came to me while reading this:

Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination.

Now, I don’t agree with her there per se, but if these people want the poor and infirm dead well then maybe the Haymarket widow has a point

It’s also important to note that each of the Apostles literally did it. They abandoned their property and families (some were married with children) and they followed him. The command to sell everything, give the money to the poor, and follow him is something this man could see was possible because 12 people there had done it.

If anything I’d say your example is less that religion is inherently a tool of the state, but more that if you gain enough influence without destroying it the state you oppose will teach your corpse to dance.

Yeah I’ve met some priests, monks and nuns, some had even taken a vow of poverty. Non-ordained Christians? Of course not, who has?

Because I’m not interested in having a profile picture and idk even what it would be

You’re not a bad person, she’s more correct, but this is a change in language in process. The bad person thing is to lash out against others doing it as some have.

Also, good on you for actually listening to gentle correction from a friend. That’s something a lot of people struggle with and lash out against

Exactly, the experience of religion is felt internally and through community. As someone who went Christian -> atheist -> pagan, I can say I do understand both sides. Atheists are right to say that without evidence religion shouldn’t have any power over non-believers. Religious people are right to say that for some people religion serves a role that would be missed without it.

On issues of religion, even as someone who’s been pagan longer than she was an atheist I generally side with the atheists. I grew up watching Christians try to prove Christianity despite our denomination (catholicism) having the doctrine of non-overlapping magesteria, which basically says that anything science can prove belongs to science and where religion contradicts it must be taken as metaphor or flowery language. I’m far better served by freedom from religion than freedom to use religion as a cudgel, just as all minority religions are.

Yeah Chicago bar pizza is excellent. Also the Midwest as a whole likes square cut thin crust pizzas as local treats. Except Michigan where Detroit style is deep dish but for some reason it’s considered cooler

Yeah I just don’t want to be observed while I work. It distracts me. This is true even though I don’t work from home. Maybe this is part of my cptsd, but either way, I find myself far more productive when I’m able to work behind closed doors

Nah, it’s more like the yeah at the end of a sentence, yeah? We don’t use it as much because fuck you if you disagree with me. But yeah, we also will just add a question mark with no word.

Yeah ultimately CivEs get to withhold a signature and if they don’t sign it’s illegal to build. Software doesn’t need a PE

It’s both. Popular fronts are a thing, and Spanish Republican style coalitions are incredibly powerful tools. Political pluralism within leftist movements is healthy when we let it be healthy. The CIA, FBI, and various governments and reactionary groups have engaged in psyops against this for decades.

But these divisions are real and they come from real ideological differences and hurt. The CIA didn’t force the red army to fire on the black armies, it didn’t force the blunder of ideology at Kronstadt, it didn’t force the betrayal in Spain. And it also didn’t force anarchists to have issues controlling their people or implementing their goals. It didn’t force the syndicalists to fuck up in South America and Berlin. And it didn’t force the USSR and CCP to nearly go to war with each other.

What they did do however is project Gladius, COINTELPRO, operation condor, and various other anti left programs. They made damn sure Fred Hampton died and they made sure the Black Panthers couldn’t trust each other enough to be effective. They also made sure the inner cities were filled with crack to destroy black anti capitalist organizing.

And here’s where you get the mix. Anarchists already don’t trust MLs, because of the aforementioned betrayals and disorganization, then you get government campaigns working to ensure that trust remains broken and that the culture becomes one in which cooperation is anathema. And the trots are kept distrustful of the MLs and the anarchists. MLs are encouraged to keep thinking of themselves as the only real socialists except MLMs. It’s similar to the Russian campaigns between democrats and republicans, both already didn’t like each other and the goal is to keep picking at the wounds and encouraging off putting behaviors.

Be someone you want to date. Then date yourself. I hear of a beautiful pool that nobody but me seems to really see the beauty in

Yes, though if you can’t find a dragon you can check fetlife for local kink events and you’ll find some options

I found one at a dungeon by treating her like a human being i was interested in

If you don’t have the money you get debt. At some point in a hospital visit a person swings by to get your financial information. They can’t refuse care, but they can demand your info.

If you can’t pay your bill that’s totally ok, it’ll sit there waiting as debt collectors hound you every few days. Or you can reach out to a hospital run charity program to prove you’re sufficiently poor and get a reduced cost payment plan.

It’s dystopian, yes, but more in the “a lot of Americans go into medical bankruptcy” way than the “you’re forced to give birth out back” way.

Yeah it’s not enough to heat up the air enough to arc, likely because the vast majority of it is going through the conductive wire it’s supposed to be

Nah I’m an American and didn’t think of Kenyan but seeing it mentioned and yeah they’ve got gorgeous accents.