/b/ - Siberia

Should gambling be illegal? Will gambling be legal under socialism? Do you gamble?

Do you feel more tired, slow, fatigued, depressed?
What are some changes you've noticed besides the physical, changes in your lifestyle or way of thinking?

Thoughts on Yukio Mishima?
What about his position of being pro-violence?

Thread inspired by the headlight click beetle.

Post cool animals, bonus points if they have weird powers or cool designs or I haven't heard of them before.

1. CIA hits Matt Christman with an autofellatio gun, leaving him permanently crippled
2. Their 'guy' Alex steps in to take his place. Smooth talking sarcastic Bill Murray type (fed).
3. """Alex""" keeps tabs on the Chapos & their audience, examining & subtly modifying the material, always ready to sneak in coded messages to CIA sleeper agents.

Doesn't it seem odd to you?
I noticed that even when his jokes are funny, the other Chapos laugh kind of nervously. His delivery is almost too good, like he was tailor made to be appealing, unlike Matt, who was very smart, but sounded like a big fat dorky homo. What do you guys think?

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/16/magazine/unspeakable-conversations.html

This article was one of my favorite class readings in my undergrad Communication Ethics class way back in 2013. When I read it Peter Singer's ideas at the time outraged me, but living through my own experience as an autistic adult, and seeing my mom martyr herself to be a slave for my even more disabled brother has changed my perspective. My argument is simple: pre-natal testing for disabilities should be mandatory, and any fetus found to be possibly disabled should be subjected to a state mandated abortion.

My brother lives with Level 2 autism and severe mental illness. At the height of his illness he was a zombie and couldn't even wipe his own ass he had gained so much weight. While he is thankfully now living his best life, my mom continues to infantilize him, washing and wiping his ass and balls daily. She is at the point where she feels like she will have a heart attack if things don't change, but she also refuses to put him in a group home or even just re-teach him to be more independent. She thinks if she doesn't do everything for him that he will literally die.

Now these are consequences of capitalism, but even in a perfect socialist society that was compassionate to the disabled, we would still have a lower quality of life and be at a disadvantage than our neurotypical and/or able bodied peers. Severe OCD, anxiety, and ASD led me to give up on a lot of my career goals and dreams. I now work a simple wfh job doing the same daily repetitive tasks. If I didn't have these disabilities, I would be able to live on my own and probably could have become a filmmaker, public historian, archivist, etc. I'm really sick of disability activists saying we shouldn't try to cure disability, and hysterically claiming pre-natal testing is eugenics.

this year in US politics at least has for me confirmed how prescient Marx's "first as a tragedy, then as a farce" statement is in describing fascism. we're at a point of being many layers removed from there even being any coherent image of nationalism for the far-right to latch onto because we no longer live in a world broadly where geographic borders mean anything, but unfortunately there's still enough of a reserve of temporarily-embarrassed small business owners who were fucked over in the 2000s by the contradictions in capital leading to a decline in the neoliberal western imperial core having any relevance or viability through anything other than the increasingly naked and incompetent exercise of brute force on a third world that has increasingly developed its productive forces. these petit-bourg types who form the base of fascist movements only latch onto an image of nationalism because they've seen it in media and feel justified to be bad now, like it's very obvious that none of them actually believe in any of this shit and that it's all a big cope about how the old world is dying.

it's odd today because right-parties say stuff that is kind of fascist, I see it most of all in the U.S. with Homeland Security and ICE, especially this weird HOI IV mod-inspired aesthetic that they put out on social media. But then Mamdani wins (he's also a "socialist") and then he meets Trump in the White House and they have a "productive conversation about lowering the cost of living for New Yorkers." It still falls back on that technocratic, apolitical and non-ideological framework when they do "politics."

It throws people who read a lot of ideology into these people for a spin. A lot of younger people change ideology so often because it's all memes. You change your ideology when the memes become cringe. Look at the ideologies adopted by 99 percent of people on any side. Marxist-Leninist. Catholic Integralist. Leftcom (Italian), Leftcom (Dutch-German), l/r/e/u/acc. Classical Fascist. NatSoc. SocDem. SocLib. AnCom. AnCap. It's hard to discern the actual positions between them that's either not that far removed from the center-left or center-right, or if edgier than that is not just contrarianism.

unfortunately it's also happening at enough of a pivotal point in history that the extinction burst fascist tantrum could succeed in dragging the rest of the world down with it.

All around the world, people have devised delicious concoctions throughout the centuries… pies, cakes, cookies, pastries, dumplings, and all sorts of exciting delicious baked goods, traditional and contemporary. Here's a thread for posting about the cooking traditions and culture of the world!

But especially desserts.

All these soyjaks, pepes, and other memes are made specifically to instill right-wing views in children and to remove the stigma around violence. They’re drawn cartoon characters, often looking cute, kind or cool — perfect for attracting teenagers or even kids.
First they joke about trans people committing suicide because it’s “funny”, then it turns into their actual views, and they go vote for Trump just to make things worse for those “transhumanists.”
The same goes for TND, Hyperborea, and other Nazi-related memes.

Your toughts on Tito?